This weekend I was thrilled when the opening notes began for the processional of a friend's wedding. I recognized it immediately as my favorite track from the post-rock group Explosions in the Sky's album, The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place. The song in question, "Your Hand in Mine," is the final track of the album, and one of my favorite songs. I' ( Read more... )

Hey everyone! As most of us college-aged people are aware, spring break begins this weekend (and for some lazy folk, just a tad earlier than that :)). Having spent comparatively little time as a full-time, sometimes-resident college student, I've only experienced one spring break thus far, last year, and I don't believe I did anything. Not ( Read more... )

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..sorry, I'm sitting here rocking to Sonya Kitchell's "For Every Drop," from Paste Magazine's monthly New Music Sampler CD. I checked out clips of her singing live on YouTube, and this is really the only girl I've seen who drops my jaw when she opens her mouth to sing. Paste describes her voice as "smoky" and "preternaturally restrained," and it ( Read more... )

I am entranced by music and worthless to the world ( Read more... )

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A lot of times, at least for me, the music I listen to sounds far-fetched from real life. Could this person have really experienced this vast panorama of relationships? you wonder. It just doesn't sound like music that describes your life, and you suspect that if you met the person singing, you wouldn't relate to him or her.

Not so with Wilco's Sky ( Read more... )

Not much to say except that I wanted to try out this new format :) For Lost geeks, go check out all my new icons - I have a pretty sweet (and funny) one about Kate and Ben.

I went to an open-air Shakespeare production last night, and had a "rollicking good time," as my classics professor might say (and then start cackling to himself). I very much ( Read more... )

Behold, my latest work of creative writing.

~Wherein It Is Cold And We Do Not Know Each Other Well~

"Hey there Micah," Dara greeted him as he slid into the car, bundled up against the Nebraska cold.

"How are you?" I asked.

"Fair," he responded. "And you?"

"Fair," I answered back with a smile.

"Did we have an assignment in group tonight?" Dara wondered ( Read more... )

You know, I've wondered if this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR8D1gMmuko

was really ever floating around on YouTube somewhere, only I had no clue how to search for it. Imagine my surprise when I simply type in "reading rainbow," looking for a rendition of the theme song for a friend, and this clip pops up on the first page - described as "probably ( Read more... )

Okay, peeps. Something has arisen which demands my immediate attention. Tell me: HOW BAD IS IT?

Poll are you a freak

It's everywhere. It's taking over the world. People are talking about it, squealing over their new-found love at small group last night. Giant boxes of it are for sale in the middle of the bookstore. It's making headlines on Google. Visiting a friend, I ( Read more... )