I can be changed by what happens to me. I refuse to be reduced by it.- Maya Angelou
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Aphorism of the Day
Words to live by:
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Bands I Feel I Should Like Better
Exhibit A: Arctic Monkeys. I listened to Humbug for a while, and even really liked Crying Lightening, but overall the band just doesn't do it for me, even though I really like what they're trying to do. My current thinking is that the lyrics are too personalized and cryptic to serve the cypher purpose of most rock lyrics. What do you think?
You can hear their latest "Don't Sit Down 'Cause I Moved Your Chair" here.
You can hear their latest "Don't Sit Down 'Cause I Moved Your Chair" here.
Song of the Day
Can't get Sugar and Spice's version of "Slice Me Nice" out of my head. It's a wonderful slice of electronic pop, and I love everything about it except for the chorus. I mean: really? I didn't realize that people still sung out spelling... thought that went out of fashion when people realized that you just can't top Hall & Oates "Method of Modern Love"...
Update: Hunter's been walking around the house singing "Slice Me Nice." The poor guy. He's going to grow up with my pop music tendencies!
Update: Hunter's been walking around the house singing "Slice Me Nice." The poor guy. He's going to grow up with my pop music tendencies!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Sights from a Run
I’ve been a bit melancholy lately, so take this post with a grain of salt, but there were two sad sights from my lunch run today that only encouraged my mood:
1. A flattened full-size turtle (or tortoise?) on Route 30. They’re such beautiful creatures that it’s hard to see one squashed after a losing confrontation with a semi. Apparently he was just trying to go from one wetlands to another – alas, Route 30 was in his way.
2. The remnants of a burned out house, with an exposed upper story. Burned out buildings are always a bit eerie, but this one had a lonely scorched chimney standing sentinel over the rest of the charred structure.
1. A flattened full-size turtle (or tortoise?) on Route 30. They’re such beautiful creatures that it’s hard to see one squashed after a losing confrontation with a semi. Apparently he was just trying to go from one wetlands to another – alas, Route 30 was in his way.
2. The remnants of a burned out house, with an exposed upper story. Burned out buildings are always a bit eerie, but this one had a lonely scorched chimney standing sentinel over the rest of the charred structure.
Quote of the Day
And Polo said: "The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: Accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
- Italo Calvino, from Invisible Cities
- Italo Calvino, from Invisible Cities
Monday, May 2, 2011
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