neurological dryer lint

the new anberlin comes out today, i'm hyped. although i was listening to preview tracks on iTMS and they're all fuzzy and crappy, like they made a bad rip. the premier online music store needs to not do that.

also noticed an interesting 90's one-hit-wonders collection they have... made me laugh looking through it. they have some very bad judgement calls on there (calling the bosstones a one-hit wonder is just plain foolish, they had like three other singles off let's face it and pay attention) and some ridiculous bands that deserved their spot on the list... remember cornershop? frickin brimful of asha that made me want to impale myself on a metal pipe? i remember when people were calling them the next oasis, they were gonna be so revolutionary... and primitive radio gods... haha.. but you put reel big fish (who i happen to loathe) or nada surf (a band far, far better than their only popular song, ahem, popular, i hear them all the time on ethel47) or vertical horizon or blind melon, bands that put out multiple albums and had a following and had talent, heck, even hanson falls into that category... you put them on there with frickin OMC or Eiffel 65 or right said fred... it's just sickening.

oh and dead poets society was absolutely brilliant. it'd been so long since i watched it that i forgot how powerful and truthful it was.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse." That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
- John Keating