Beautiful music is so profound. I can’t describe why even, but these sounds just make me feel like the universe is communicating something important with me. You know that when Nickel Creek musician Chris Thile and Yo-Yo Ma get together, something just absolutely unworldly is going to result. I don’t know why this particular song, but the quiet section in the middle, when the main riff starts up, with the bass after a more disjointed section… unreal. I can’t even handle it! The entire album of the Goat Rodeo Session is life-changing as well. LISTEN.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
I love this poem. It kills me every time. For me, it holds special meaning about the instability and sometimes bitter fight of life, especially when it comes to questions about meaning and existentialism.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas
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Thomas Moran was a 19th century painter who accompanied the earliest expeditions to explore the region of Wyoming now called Yellowstone. His paintings, one of which is shown above, captured the landscape and played an important (if slightly underdocumented) role in convincing Congress to establish Yellowstone as the first National Park in 1872. I personally have been visiting Yellowstone since before I was born (yes, I do mean in the womb), and can imagine no more beautiful place on earth.
Painting © Thomas Moran.
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Kevin Drum on the Debt Deal
“It’s a shit sandwich no matter how you look at it. And it’s a shit sandwich in at least two very specific ways: (1) It means we’ll continue to live in a fantasyland that says we don’t need any tax increases even though our population is aging and we’re plainly going to need higher revenues to support this demographic reality. (2) We’ll continue to live in a fantasyland that says our problems are primarily caused by discretionary spending. This is, of course, exactly the opposite of reality, which means we’re going to screw the poor and do nothing serious about the long-term deficit. Nice work, adults.”
You–only you–will have stars that can laugh.
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