Boooring

The new background wasn't quite what I had envisioned. So we'll try something else. I don't have anything that will tile nicely, so I'm just going to go with the sepia flower theme - for now.

Remodeling

I'm trying my hand at customizing my page. The standard template is starting to wear on me. I'd like a new background the would potentially match my header image. I think I've located in the page code wear the little gif is, so I'm going to try to replace it with my own. Funny though, the only way I know how to get an image available would be to post it here. I thought I'd be able to put it in my box.net account and link to it that way, but it won't give you a link to the actual file. The link they provide sends you to a page with some java image of the gif or something. I think this'll work.

New Innocent Record

I don't feel like The Innocence Mission would mind that I posted Sufjan's version of their song, since they posted a link to the video on their website. The original version of the song is off of the record Birds of My Neighborhood. I feels like a winter record to me, so since it's summer, I would recommend their newest record, We Walked In Song, or their album Glow to you. Spin "Birds" in December as a break from the Christmas tunes. It'll speak more to you. I think and hope they'll be touring soon. They are on the top of my "See Live Before I Die" list.

The Innocence Mission Official Website

Keeping Clouds Tidy

I haven't posted in a while, but I haven't needed to until now. I stumbled upon something I had to share. I didn't believe it even though I saw it: a flying lawn mower. I watched the video and practically chuckled myself to death! I couldn't figure it out and was wondering the whole time if it was some kind of computer animated trickery. Click on the link to watch the video. The site sort of explains how it works (at least to my satisfaction) and also has some literary gems you won't find anywhere else. "Flying lawn mowers... they look just like the real thing on the ground when they're being taxied over the grass, and then after a short take-off run the mower gets airborne!"

Video

Website

Innocent Sufjan

"I'm in awe of big songs, national anthems, rock opera, the Broadway musical. But what I always come back to, after the din and drum roll, is the small song that makes careful observations about everyday life. This is what makes the music by The Innocence Mission so moving and profound. 'Lakes of Canada' creates an environment both terrifying and familiar using sensory language: incandescent bulbs and rowboats are made palpable by careful rhythms, unobtrusive rhyme schemes, and specificity of language. What is so remarkable about Karen Peris' lyrics are the economy of words, concrete nouns-fish, flashlight, laughing man-which come to life with melodies that dance around the scale like sea creatures. Panic and joy, a terrible sense of awe, the dark indentations of memory all come together at once, accompanied by the joyful strum of an acoustic guitar. This is a song in which everyday objects begin to have tremendous meaning."

-Sufjan Stevens

Update: New download link. http://www.box.net/shared/8yvrh0585h
Please post a comment if it doesn't work. I read them.

This track came from a video. Link
Asmatic Kitty is Sufjan's record label. You'll find his stuff there. Link
The Innocence Mission. They've got a website, too. Link

A Fav Sings A Fav

#50.2 - Sufjan Stevens (MusicNow) - The lakes of Canada
Uploaded by lablogotheque

I don't know the backstory to where and why this video was shot and I'm okay with that. The song Sufjan sings is The Lakes of Canada from The Innocence Mission.

$85 Apple

It took me awhile to realize that even though I don't have a digital camera at the moment, I can still take pictures. MacBooks have a built in camera, so picture taking is available to some extent. Since I received the computer so -ahem- inexpensively, it seems appropriate to post a pic to back up my story.