December 2009
28 posts
great minds and four strings
Albert Einstein
Sherlock Holmes
Hmmm…
home
Home is an easy place to take for granted.
With that said, home can be many things.
This is how the New Oxford American Dictionary defines it:
home |hōm|
noun
1 the place where one lives permanently, esp. as a member of a family or household
Home can literally be the place we dwell in.
The place we grew up; the roads we travel on; the spots we keep coming back to.
We thrive...
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
songs
Songs have traditionally been written about or for the girl/guy, because of the girl/guy, or inspired by the girl/guy.
You’re in a cage if you’re hearing this and only this all the time.
There’s more than that to sing about.
There’s more than the girls/guys you crush on.
There’s more than the money you spend on yourself or them.
There’s the soul to sing...
speech and action
We’ve become a society where words have lost significant meaning. Our actions seldom reflect the good we hear or the good we claim to do.
We go to church and hear the word; we walk back out and forget to live it.
We write and sing songs that don’t face reality; songs that exalt carnal pleasures and material wants, ignorant of social injustice and the human condition.
We leave each...
The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It’s a lot harder to create a...
– Jonathan Foreman
my top 10 of 2009
These are my personal top 10 albums of ‘09
1. Hello Hurricane- Switchfoot
2. Away We Go (Soundtrack)- Alexi Murdoch
3. Fiction Family- Fiction Family
4. Noble Beast- Andrew Bird
5. Declaration of Dependence- Kings of Convenience
6. Heartbeat Radio- Sondre Lerche
7. [e]motion/[e]nergy- Epik High
8. Black Swan- Athlete
9. Merriweather Post Pavillion- Animal...