Bright Eyes – Four Winds

A little while back, my super-hip-sister Nicole sent me a track by Bright Eyes, called “Four Winds”, from the new-ish album called Cassadaga.
Aside from this being a musically fantastic song (a little folk, a little rock, a little bluegrass/country fiddle), the lyrics are continually bowling me over with layers and layers of interesting themes. [...]

Erick Turnbull

All I can say is: holy. freakin. cow.
If you know anything about guitar, then this will probably blow your socks off…

There’s some people that are technically amazing guitarists, and there are also people that write great songs/melodies…
And then there are people like this that write technically challenging songs that are also [...]

new look

I’m not sure what I think of this new one yet…  but all I know is that I was starting to think that my old theme was a little hard to read.  I really dug the dark look, but white/gray text on a black background was just starting to wear on me.
This is basically the [...]

The Voice

Has anyone heard about this yet?
The Voice
It’s a new Bible translation…  but from what I can tell, the word “translation” doesn’t come near to doing it justice.  I think they’re calling it “a retelling of the Story”, but don’t quote me on that.  It’s not going to just be text either, apparently there’s going to [...]

integers and fractions

This is a departure from the types of things I normally talk about on here, but I don’t care cause I thought this was cool.
I was listening to the radio on the way to work (WAMC, the local public radio) and there’s this bit that they do called the Writer’s Almanac. I don’t always [...]