Minus the Bear

Don't get me wrong, This band's lyrics are not why I listen to them. If I want "deep" lyrics I'd listen to Tool or Floyd or something like that.

My favorite thing about this band is they're ability to make me happy in a sort of melancholy way even though that's a complete contradiction it's the only way that I can describe it. As a guitarist it could be the main reason why I love this band the progressions do just the right thing to my brain for some reason. Some music in my opinion is better off not dominating your senses, I think that this song definitely falls into that category. You get to feel the song more than you have to think about the song.

I like this video because of the use of the center mirror split that lets the video play various tricks on your brain.

I've listened to a lot of music. Almost too much as a matter of fact, I continue to eat it up and spit it out. I was given the opportunity to be exposed to this band not long ago and they've stood the test of time where other music has not. This is the first song of theirs that I got to hear and it's still one of my favorite bands. The music that is created by this band feels perfect to me. When I visualize these songs they take shape as moments in my life that are made more beautiful through the eyes of music.

I believe that music is the one thing that everyone can connect with, I've yet to meet someone who was cognizant of sound that doesn't love music. It's a mean to enhance and inspire life in general. Everyone wishes to be an individual and become something special. The expirence that we have with music is sometimes the one thing in life that can make an ordinary person feel like an individual.

Webbing.

"No matter the starting point, we are led from topic to topic, every person making a contribution with ideas and observations which are unique to themselves." Cady Russell

This Idea that Cady made in her response to a quote by Susan Sontag, really stood out to me. I have often thought of how a conversation progresses through different ideas or perceptions being brought to whatever is being discussed at that instant, and how those responses can twist and contort the direction of the conversation through realization or anecdote. It seems to be a perfect mini model of how chaos and chance happen to drive everything around us and how one misplaced step, inspiring anecdote, or drifted thought can lead to what might be a life changing action or event.

Picture of a wormhole

The worm hole is a bend in space time that essentially puts any two points right next to each through a gravitational gateway. I choose this image because it encompasses in my mind the same concept of conversation. There are an infinite number of places that a conversation can go, and sometimes they don't necessarily progress to a field or subject that is directly linked to the subject before hand, therefore conversation is like a worm hole.


My comment to Drew Placek