At the Bottom of Everything

Top 10 Albums of 2008

2008-12-19T08:50:00.000-08:00

Here they are folks, after many, many listens...it gets kind of murky because some of these were digitally released in 2007 but I didn't hear them until 2008 so that's where they're going!

MGMT

Oracular Spectacular

TV On The Radio

Dear Science,

Bon Iver

For Emma, Forever Ago

Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst

Kings of Leon

Only By the Night

David Byrne and Brian Eno

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Fleet Foxes

Sun Giant EP/Fleet Foxes

The Walkmen

You & Me

Hot Chip

Made in the Dark

The Dodos

Visitor

Transforming People

2008-03-06T09:00:00.000-08:00

I found this excerpt from T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party in my horoscope this Saturday while taking the train out to Long Island. Normally I don't read horoscopes because they are so generic but this one was very specific and it really nailed down what is going on between myself and her since we've moved back to NY. It reminded me that change is imminent, whether it be in a relationship, an organization, internal, external, on purpose or through circumstances beyond our control, it can't be avoided. If it's recognized then it can be healthy but if the changes are ignored then everything falls apart. Here it is.

"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger."

Come Run the 10K Rat Race to Godliness with me!

2008-02-13T14:28:00.001-08:00

I found this list on a website for a communal living place in Eugene, OR. I feel that this statement of religious beliefs gets to the heart of what religion and community is and should be about. If you ever feel like dropping out of the rat race, check out a place like this. I know I may someday...

It's called the Heliotrope Community

1.There is one God, the eternal, the only being; God is one with the universe; nothing else exists but God.

2.There is only one family and one race and each person is entitled to share equitably in the gifts of the creation.

3.There is one holy book, the sacred manuscript of nature/creation, the only scripture which can enlighten the reader, and it is written in our hearts and minds.

4.There is one religion, that which fulfills the life purpose of all souls while they live and serve in harmony with every other soul.

5.There is one law, the law of love, which is manifested through service to all other living beings.

6.There is one moral principle, the love which springs forth from self-discipline for the sake of others, and blooms in deeds of kindness.

7.There is one object of praise, the one creation which uplifts the heart of its worshippers.

8.There is one truth, the true knowledge of our oneness, within and without, which is the essence of all wisdom, and which always seeks to edify.

Because we are one with God, we are also one with each other. Whatever harms any of us, harms us all. Whatever lowers one of us, lowers us all. Therefore we endeavor:

•To eliminate hierarchy in relationships between people.

•To practice non-violence in our personal and interpersonal lives.

•To respect and preserve the natural environment for the use of our own and other species, now and in the future.

•To confront and defeat classism, racism, ageism, sexism, and other forms of oppression both in ourselves and in other people.

•To hold all things common, sharing all that we are, and have, and can produce with, and for each other.

And Everyone Cried

2008-02-01T14:22:00.000-08:00

He's got a sunny disposition
When the drink's alright
Off his rocker
Head's screwed on too tight
He can't let go of something
Holds on, it makes him king

Of a world that's made up in his head
a suffocated, dreary, sad sad swamp
Where nothing is borne, only dies
And everyone cried

Blue light flickers in the windows tonight
Life is ok but not quite right
Can't let go of the dream
Holds on to that scene

Of a world that's made up in someone else's head
it's picture perfect, clean, the credits roll at the end
Where nothing is felt, only read