pandora... its not a box

Unless it's a jukebox.

I love Pandora.
Like love love Pandora.
If I was in high school it'd be that girl that I didn't just like, but like really liked (that whole you like her like her); though, I would never have the guts to ask out, because she is just waayyy too hot for me.  Incidentally, that's pretty much how high school was come to think of it...

Anyways, I have a station that is custom tailored to me, which of course is the beauty of Pandora.  It was inspired by Paul Simon, The Weepies and Vampire Weekend. 

Yeah I know... it's the most odd conglomeration of musical interests, but that's why its great!  It's not just one type of music, it moves from old folksy and rock stuff, to acoustic stuff , to whatever Vampire Weekend is, to euro electronic rock?, to new folk stuff and acoustic blues stuff.  Oh its great... you have no idea!  I also have seeds (meaning something that it pulls from to come up with a song to play) for African music too.... so its pretty amazing.

Some of the artists that come up who I super enjoy are
Phoenix, specifically stuff from their album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Temper Trap
Regina Spektor
MGMT
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes
Derby
Gene Dante and the Future Scarlet
Oh and of course Mumford and Sons, I'm not gonna disguise it at all, they are absolutely my favorite artists right now.  Their album Sigh No More is, in my opinion, the most amazing album in the last 20 years...
Ok I am caught up in the moment...  It is right now, however, the album that I keep on repeat.  Their songs, aside from being awesome, good ole, foot-stompin' acoustic stuff have a transcendental quality to it.  The lyrics just capture something higher above me and deeper within me; lets just say I identify with them...

There are also numerous others musicians that I enjoy... like a lot so I won't go into listing all of them.


No huge thought for today... "Thank God," I'm sure many people are thinking.  Just thought I'd fill in on my musical interests of the moment!

below par...

I'm a terrible writer.
Well, at least as it stands I'm a terrible writer; that's what Candler has shown me at least.  I think it's reflected in a lot of my posts on here as well.  The common critique that I get on tests and papers in class is my lack of ability to write cohesively.  I can structure an argument fairly well, at least when I spend time trying to develop it.  I can argue for it well also, but what I cannot do is make it sound fluid or pretty, which then actually makes it seems as if I can't argue for it.

sometimes hobbies gotta die

One thing that I have realized lately is that I'm too busy.  I will refrain from taking more than 12 hours a semester all at once from now on.  I will get a August and January term in and then have 12 hours for the semester so I can get my 15/semester total.  Of course I have not withdrawn from my classes now; call me stubborn or call me stupid and I'd agree.
The other thing I realized... sometimes your hobby just gotta die.  It's blogging and working out for me, for instance.  Because I am just so busy, I can't handle, much less think about, spending time doing things other than studying all week and spending time with Alison on the weekend. Were I single I would just have a free weekend.  It's all about getting priorities straight, what are the essentials and what are the nonessentials?

It hurts too, I love blogging; I literally have a list of 5 thoughts/ideas, that I want to work through on this blog and that's been adding up since the first day of class, and I really wanna work out, ya know for the honeymoon... and well I think that's enough justification in itself, but I would also like to be healthy as well.  It makes me wonder what next semester will look like when not only will classes are essential, but so is my wife.  I certainly hope I don't cut into either of those.  I think I'd much rather lose sleeping and eating...

But I guess this is my thought for now...  I am gonna start studying for my Old Testament class.
If you want some good musings I myself have a personal fondness for www.donmilleris.com and www.qideas.org

fear cubed

I guess this might be a final thought on fear… but who knows; at least it’s the final one thus far.

Why am I not fearful about more things?  I mean I know what I am scared of and have admitted as such to myself and I also know what I am scared of and have not admitted to myself, but what really has got me at the moment is: why am I not fearful of these things that  I should be fearful of?

 I won’t get into the details of what those things should be.