It's been a while. I should be studying for my Economics of Environmental Protection (FRS somethingorother) midterm, but I'm not exactly sure how, and in any case, you've been on my mind.
I do intend to be more committed to this blog, and to my sister's advice on how to get it an actual readership. My excuse for putting this off is school, which occupies a lot of my attention. Hopefully my grand plan will find its fruition this summer. For now, since the only comments I've gotten from outside of my circle have remarked on my musical tastes, I thought I'd write on that note.
Until recently, I have been completely out of the environmental music loop. For a while I had listened to and adored the song "Dashboard" by Modest Mouse without really knowing what it was getting at. (All right, so I clearly wasn't listening closely enough.) I was saved by songmeanings.net. Apparently the entire album is Earth-themed. Cool, right?
Again, more recently, the Internet (Pandora this time) presented me with Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know." The song reminds me, almost to a T, of an actual place in my own memory, which is charming; likewise, it reminds me of the ways in which that place engendered in me a love of nature.
I get wrapped up in the idea of being an environmental loudmouth, and I forget that so many people are several steps ahead of me - making records, blogging, winning Oscars, et cetera. In my "Ideas" file is written "something not entirely egotistical." I guess - the prior blog entry to the contrary - I should get on that.
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Can't see my reply, so I am reposting this >> You might like to hear Laura Michelle Kelly's version of "Somewhere only we know" ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCfH22_xJbc
Hi how are you? I like your blog and would like to become friends are you up to it?
Come and visit my site sometime, and please comment. If you do, I will do the same thanks,
and take care.
Jesse
Hello! I was very happy to see you on my blog :3 It seems you haven't updated yours in sometime but I figured I'll comment anyways(perhaps it'll kick you into posting again).
Anyways, Modest Mouse is a very strange band. Sometimes I absolutely love them but I have a hard time getting into an album as a whole. Could be my own fault though.
But Keane... That song. The first time I heard it, it must have been when it first first came out... Goodness.... How many years ago. Four? It was at the beginning of my three year relationship that ended a year ago. So must have been four. It just struck me as so beautiful. I'm sheepish to say, I think I cried.
As for the soul and evolution, having it bee the same thing never even occured to me. I think that has something to do with being forced to go to CCD(catholic ick. Anyways, the necessity for the idea of something greater comes from the fact that humans feel the need to know how everything works. So they need something to explain it. Which comes from our minds being able to think at that level. So evolutionary necessity sounds about right to me.
Did I make any sense?
I've been reading your blog, and I think you have an awesome personality. Plus, your name rocks too. ;)
--Erin
Well...Leonard Cohen is coming to Seattle and I have my ticket. I just wish they's allow cameras so I could post a picture on the blog.
I'm happy you all are reading my blog! I promise I'll start posting again soon - a lot of my environmental ramblings have begun to leak onto my personal blog, but I can certainly relocate them here.
I am amazed, in a way, at how much and how little I've changed - and how right I was. The green evolution is pressing at the seams of the status quo. They have to burst. They must burst.
And I still haven't listened to a significant amount of Modest Mouse or Keane other than those two songs. Sigh. :P
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