Sad Songs and Waltzes

I was doing my traditional Friday Cleaning, you know the swiff and mop cleaning when I began to think about sad songs about funerals. Kinda morbid and weird, but here's the list I came up with. Any one out there have more ideas?

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

The Ballad of Curtis Lowe - Lynryd Skynyrd

Casimir Pulowski Day - Sufjan Stevens

November Rain - Guns - n - Roses

Funeral For Friend - Elton John

At your Funeral - Saves the Day

Currently Listening to:

The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing

Currently Reading:

The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus - John Cross

Deception Point - Dan Brown

Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

Some News

I woke up this morning thinking it was Friday. It lasted all morning until I was eatting breakfast(which in retrospect wasnt very long), but upon my first awake to the dozing laying in bed stage to the actually getting up stage to the shower stage to the dressing and then eatting sage it was friday. About halfway through my bowl of Frosted Flakes it hit me. My arms flung in the air as if in protest to Thursday knocking off my box of Frosted Flakes which fell on the floor spilling everywhere. A crude welcome to Thursday! Blah! For a moment looking at my Frosted Flakes I thought... recycle? Then decided against it and threw them away. 

In other news for those of you wanting a high maintenance, expensive, glow-in-the-dark pet for Christmas look your wait is over! Scientists in Japan have created "Pocket Monkeys" which glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet light. The best news...they are REAL monkeys. Here's what the news article said

Quite apart from their glow-in-the-dark capabilities, the transgenic marmosets are also handier and more portable than ordinary experimental monkeys. At around 20cm tall, they are easily transported in a lab-coat pocket. The palmtop primates are "less expensive to handle and house" than regular lab chimps and so forth, according to Science magazine.

VERY interesting! 

Also remember Cameron Frye's house in Ferris Bueller's Day Off? The one that was all glass and had the red ferrari? Remember how you always wanted to live there? (me either) Well now you can because it's for sale! 

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/05/ferris-bueller.html

That's all my news for today. 

David 

Foiled Again

Well yesterday I was very excited because I thought I had won a contest for a $250 Amazon gift card. Well I couldn't help but be so excited that I actually began looking at Amazon.com to find things that I wanted that I might buy. Well alas, I don't think I won, and now I know of several things I want from Amazon but with no winnings to buy them. Oh well.

There is an album I have been listening to the Decemberists album "The Hazards of Love." The whole album is one complete story complete with different voices! If you wanted to listen to it, you might be able to find the album in 2 parts at this site. I will now attempt to tell you the story of William and Margaret. (In chronological order for ease of understanding)

There was once a boy named William who when he was born put into a clay basket and sent down the Annan River. The Annan river is one serious river! It was super deep, and had raging waters! William was saved by the Evil Queen. In an attempt to make him her own, she made him to be a fawn during the day and a man during the night. Well one day our heroine Margaret goes for a ride and comes across the fawn (William). It was late evening and when she went to go check on it the fawn turned into William! Margaret and William instantly fell in love. Well the evening draws to an end and Margaret goes back home only to realize that she is pregnant. When she begins to show she goes back into the forest to find William. When she does they spend the night again and William goes to his mother (the queen) and asks for her permission to spend the rest of his nights with his one true love Margaret. The Queen then is VERY upset, and says something like: This is how I am repaid!? I saved you from the raging Annan Waters and you want to just ditch me? So William changes his tactics and asks the queen if he can just spend one more night with her. The Queen agrees to this, knowing that William is going to try to take off with Margaret. Enter the Rake. The Rake is a man who got married at the age of 21 and LOVED it until his wife started having tons of babies! On the 4th child however, the wife and the child died. In order to "regain" his old life the Rake decides to kill all of his other children in various ways. The Queen goes to the Rake and says that she can be his as long as they go across the Annan Waters and never return. The Rake of course agrees and the Queen carries the Rake and the captive Margaret across Annan Waters. William however realizing something is amiss begins to track the Rake and his true love. He gets to Annan Waters and realizes he can't cross. He then pleads with the waters asking them to allow him to cross to save his own true love. He says that if they calm they could have his bones on his return. As William is sailing across Annan Waters the Rake is about to have his way with Margaret when all of a sudden his children come back to life to taunt and haunt him! William arrives just in time to save Margaret and escape with her! They get back in the boat and halfway across they start to sink. William in one of his finest moments...the last moments of their lives says to his true love: "Let's be married here today, these rushing waves to bear our witness. And we will lie like river stones rolling only where it takes us. With this long last rush of air we'll speak our vows in starry whisper. And when the saves came crashing down he closed his eyes and softly kissed her.

The End.

Wow. Don't you want to listen to that now!? Seriously it's beautiful.

Who's the demon in Angels in Demons?

The answer to that question is: Ron Howard. I just got back from seeing Angels and Demons, which in my opinion is a phenomenal book, it is NOT however a phenomenal movie. I have not been as disappointed in a movie since I saw The Lost World. What are the rules with taking liberties with another artist's work? What does Dan Brown think about it? I mean there are HUGE fundamental building blocks of the story that are not even mentioned in the movie. I need to do some research on the worst film adaptations for great books. If I find something good I'll post it here. Has anyone out there seen it and read it? Let me know! Oh wait, no one reads this blog..nevermind

David

Change of thought

I find it very interesting how my thoughts have changed about things from when I was in Bibleschool. Particularly finances. Today I checked my finances and was concerned that I "only had a several hundred dollars," as opposed to when I was in Bible school it was a "Wow! I have several hundred dollars!" Also I have noticed a change in movie habits. Things that didnt' bother me now do. For better or for worse, I'm not sure that I can ever enjoy Pulp Fiction again, or I heart Huckabees etc...But alas, I am better for it and what a blessing it is to be able to see growth. BTW this is just growth in 2 small areas ok, I can see growth in my time at the BI in hundreds of ways! Just a little update I thought was interesting.

David

PS. Last night I was reading and was doing some thinking about Adam and had 2 interesting thoughts. 

1.) If Adam and Eve had children while in heaven, they would have been born without the sin nature. Once Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, would their children have been banned from Eden as well? I'm actually leaning toward the fact that they didn't have any children before the Fall. 

2.) Adam lived for 930 years. Lets think about this. If Adam died this year, that means he would have been born in 1079! He would have been alive through some Crusades, the dark ages, the discovery of the "new world" (now called: home) Colonization of America, the Renaissance, America's independence, the French and Indian war, the civil war, WWI, WWII, the invention of cars, the re-institution of Israel, the Civil rights movement, the invention of the computer, and lastly, the election of America's first bi-racial president. That seems like it could be a pretty full life. 

I know, I just posted some Married to the Sea yesterday, this is the last one I promise, just wanted to pass it along. 

5/13

Today was eventful. It was one of those days where you think you are waking up a little bit before your alarm goes off, only to look at the clock and realize you're ALREADY an hour late for work. Oh well. After an actually busy day of work, I went to Chapel Hill to pick up my new reciever! See attached photos. I came home and did some "other shopping" and was able to listen to some of my favorite songs in a warm crisp beautiful tone. Right now I'm listening to the Eagles. Their smooth voices are even smoother. In fact, this album covers songs that came out between 1971-1975, my new receiver was made in the mid 70's and my Marantz speakers are mid 70's as well. I'm just realizing that my entire audio setup is a flashback. Awesome.

Daily Listens:

The Busy World: Envelopes and other things that need addressing

The Eagles: Greatest Hits Volume 1

Yeah Yeah Yeah's: Show Your Bones

Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxrot.

Here's the Stereo:

Also I saw this Car today. wow. 1968 Triumph TR 250

They wanted 27,900 for it. Worth it? Not sure. Awesome? Definitely.

See you tomorrow Michigan. Holla at a Michigander.