song: arcade fire – no cars go
i guess the lehigh river, like this song, reminds me of being a kid…
rope swings are awesome.
Tags: lehigh canal, lehigh river, pile of nonsense, rambling, rope swings!, useless drivel
i am convinced that yesterday did not happen.
i can’t even begin to convince myself otherwise. it was too perfect and epic a day to have been real. more…
Tags: enter the haggis, music, philly folk, rambling, the decemberists, why music = life
i’m just super-excited for folk fest on saturday.
enter the haggis and the decemberists at the same festival on the same day… the world might just explode the moment brian buchanan meets colin meloy! (omg… the thought of that is nearly as epic, if not more epic!, as the recent 2/5ths of eth + STEVEN PAGE!! photo..)
today was really chill. i made music all day… my fiddling’s really gotten better the past few months… funny how having the time to play and have fun has made me a more comfy player… i’ve been playing violin for over ten years now… about time my bowing stopped sucking and i had fun with it again.
i saw a stork. no lie. by burnside plantation at ink pond. that place they keep the new police horses. i didn’t know we even had storks (or some giant-necked birds) in bethlehem.
then i played a concert at the rose garden while thouroughly drunk and phelpsed out. it was my best playing of the summer. i had fun!
oh! and new layout!! still working out the kinks on it… but yea! shiny!!
also… i hate drama. keep me out of it for my sanity, please?
i’ve not caused any for a while, so don’t drag me in by association… please? pretty please??
good night… (maybe)
song of the moment being: radiohead – optimistic
probably my favorite radiohead song. it haunts me.
so it’s been a drone of a couple of weeks. i’ve pretty much been going to work, then rehearsal/concert , then either bar/club or straight to bed. yea. i’m starting to not like this fling at all… except for maybe the nice paychecks and awesome people of it. (gawwwd i love the htown pool guard staff!)
my life HURTS because having a moment to make music has just not been there. sometimes, like this morning, i got a solid hour to play something… might not be much, but i’d probably go insane if i didn’t have that moment. so i picked out songs on piano. i’m getting kind of decent with using my hands on that instrument. the only real challenge is not being able to feel my way around with my lips and mouth, i guess. i’m trying to pick out the left hand of enter the haggis’s barfly, but i suck at picking out more than one hand at a time hahahaaa more…
Tags: lehigh canal, life, music, rambling
cleaned this up from an old entry from about a month or so ago that i’ve been adding bits and pieces on for a while before then… just because i’ve got this song on my mind again… it comes and goes. 
just made this a bit more coherent, i guess… and i guess you should know that i’m coming from a bastardized queer feminist perspective… and that really creeps its way into any thought i ever do…. so excuse me for that, if it becomes really incoherent. haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YZVAeXy7ig
This song has been HAUNTING me all day… Sometimes I have days when a song is the difference between it being a complete pile of shit and somewhat bareable. Today, it was “Icarus”…. an earlier Enter the Haggis song.
Mostly because this song is influenced by a mythology aspect… Most people do not know that I really enjoy reading and studying religious texts (mythology included, althought it is not something I care for the most)… It has been a hobby of mine for YEARS…. and, perhaps ironically, I consider myself an agnostic with very strong atheistic leanings. I generally do not believe in a ‘divine’ being… a god, if you wish… but I honestly don’t care enough to spend my life searching for this ‘god’ that I could care less about and don’t believe in. I guess you could say that I am faithless, yet my lack of belief is faith in itself. (faith as in, belief that is not based in proof. in this case, because there is no proof in either direction. Gosh I love language… despite that this one is not the one I usually think in…)
Jon jokes that this is the source of my excessive drinking, but I beg to differ.
It is the institution that I am completely against.
Organized religion kills like nothing else does. It does what it preaches against… It hates…. It kills. And I am a pacifist. Organized religion is the death and hurt that I am opposed to. (And I am the ignorant one?)
Yet, I am no less fascinated by these texts, despite this ‘lack of belief’.
more…
Tags: enter the haggis, icarus, music, rambling