Musical Moments #3

Right, so under most circumstances I will not do track-by-track reviews of albums. I simply have too much to say about songs.

EPs, however, are another story entirely. Thus, this week I will go through a few of the EPs that might have slipped your musical radar.
The reviews will be sparse in content. I am not going through every riff or every harmony. If you want more detail, go listen yourself. That is kind of the point of these things, after all - to whet your appetite enough to go find some awesome music on your own.

I find it kinda funny

Yes, I also find it kinda sad.

Today I'm referring to the massive set of storms that wound through the Plains last night. I find it kinda funny and sad because it occurred on the 100th anniversary of the Titanic - a fantastic example of man's hubris.

There's No (Some) Comfort in the Truth

Truth is simultaneously one of the most potentially healing and damaging forces that exists.

I find comfort in that. Hope can leave, love (so it would appear) can leave, faith can be tested and found wanting, and these absences would result in a complete lack of solace.

Truth, though? If you cling to it and accept the pain it will cause, it cannot be taken from you.

- C

Maybe I'll expand on that later, maybe I won't...suppose this makes me a bit jaded, doesn't it?

Public Servants

I got harassed by a police officer again tonight. Walked up about a foot from my face and yelled at me, "STEP AWAY!" because his partner had basically whispered it outside a loud club.

Was I drunk? No. Was I disorderly? No. Was I interfering with their attempt to shakedown another patron of this club? No.

April Fool

Time passes, wounds close, scars set in, and you're left with memory.
It's always memory, isn't it? The brain has that unique capacity to interrupt a perfectly good day with something that cripples you like a bullet to the stomach.

It isn't as bad as it used to be, I admit. But it is also April.
27 days, 16 hours, 30 minutes. Then I can wrest myself out of the grip of the past.

In the meantime, I'll say simply this:

Telling you that I was happy for your new relationship remains, and will remain for a very long time, the most difficult thing I have ever done.

...and I will not lie for the sake of another human being ever again.

- C

Musical Moments #2

Okay, I totally went to this concert -last- Saturday...but I didn't really feel like writing up my thoughts on it until now.

Musical Moments #1

Right, so reasonably often I find myself on a music binge. I'm stuck on this one song, this one album, this one artist. Other times I'm going for a variety pack, listening to everything I can get my hands on for a week or so.

I've always thought to myself, I should keep track of those moments. I can get hidden gems stuck in my library and lost there for years before I rediscover them.