Epic! (In The Non-Cliché, Genuinely-Awesome Sort Of Way)

Quite possibly the best band I have heard in a very, very long time. They have everything... the excellent vocals... infectious beat/tune... and stellar musical ability.

Check them out: Carpark North

http://www.carparknorth.dk/

http://www.myspace.com/carparknorth

Just in case you didn't get it before... these guys are friggin' awesome!

Frozen Ocean...

I can't sleep
I've lost the urge to sing
No one's left a friend
The cost of ill pretend
Where'd you go?
I need you now
I said ooh-ooh

Ten thousand miles apart
A frozen ocean joins our hearts
I can't wait to meet you when
The frozen waves meet ocean floors
You'll be standing on the shore
I can't wait to meet you then

I still dream
But what should I believe
Frozen shapes to bend
Impossible sets in
Lost again
Still alone
I said ooh-ooh

Ten thousand miles apart
A frozen ocean joins our hearts
I can't wait to meet you when
The frozen waves meet ocean floors
You'll be standing on the shore
I can't wait to meet you then

-Shiny Toy Guns

Fly...

"I hate birds... I get mad when I see them flying... and I can't."

~Anonymous

Beauty in the Broken

The human experience is truly an amazing one. (Thank you J for sharing PostSecret.) It has prompted me into much thinking about interactions with people around us. It is awe inspiring, depressing, hopeful, and sad all at the same time. Most of all, it just makes me marvel at the diversity and depth of people.

I find myself walking past people on campus and wondering what they are thinking, what feelings they are experiencing and how they are dealing with and making the most of this experience of life that we only get once.

I was sitting having coffee about half an hour ago and this person was sitting across from me... not really staring, but didn't stop looking at me for about ten minutes. I don't know if I might have looked familiar to them or something... I couldn't help but think that maybe they were wondering what I was thinking... as I was of them.

The complexity of interaction is something that has been plaguing me. We are obsessed with not insulting people or creating awkward situations, yet there are times that I really wish I could just say what I want to without having to worry about offending someone.

I see people sometimes, and think that it would be cool to be friends with them. Building a relationship takes time, I understand, but I find that people these days back off so quickly if you open up to them, and if you simply act friendly, they misread you and back off about as fast as they can. Relationships are about getting hurt, learning, adjusting, and working to make it better. Try a little tenderness, be friendly, and open yourself to the human experience. Experience interactions to the fullest; time is something that you never know how much you have left.

What do you wish would happen before the end of today?

days...weeks...years

I find myself thinking about life a lot lately. Wondering why, to what end... It all becomes depressing after a while.

I think about time a lot lately as well. Where has time gone? It feels like a decade since events that only occurred two years ago... and even at that... two years already.

Friends getting married, moving away, growing apart. I worry that I'll awake one morning and everything will be too different for me to handle, or that everything will have changed overnight.

Music keeps me grounded, music is the language of the soul.

Life

Finals are upon us, its that time of year again... and then Christmas break. Looking very forward to the time off of school, and some time off of work as well.

I still resent the gross commercialism of Christmas, though I am having a better time dealing with it this year. I shall have to see if I put a "I Hate Commercialized Christmas and This Is Why (p.II)" in the works. Stay tuned...

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Model?

I did a photo shoot for a friend taking photography at NAIT on Sunday. So much fun, and we got some pretty awesome shots too...

Maybe I should pursue the whole modelling thing... or not, I barely find the time to sleep.

Three days of classes left, whoot!