I've been driven back to music as my most favoritest refuge....

This began as a very short post. And it has evolved into an omnibus of various thoughts...

Music has reclaimed me recently.

I went a few random local shows, and I realized how much I missed it. Then I popped in Ozma's Crossing over the Borderline into my car CD player on full blast on the way to the clinic, and spent 30 minutes remembering how I used to feel about music...the way it sends shocks down my legs so they can't stop bouncing, the way the energy pours back into me, and how it felt to not think about the law, or a career, or fucking Harvard Law School and just make a total fool of myself rocking out to Joanna Newsom at full blast in a predominantly black, low-income neighborhood. (My subwoofer kicks their shitty hip hop's subwoofer's ass. Even if it is only projecting the sound of a harp and harpy.) (That's for you AJ. The harpy bit.)

I go through periodic cycles where I return to certain artists in massive storms of immersion, for example Bjork, Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, the Beatles, and the like...but I don't think I've ever actually phased out of music completely until I got into law school. So I've decided to take that back too.

(Incidentally, I've also begun re-reading Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet", which always somehow manages to slap me in the face, one way or the other. Good stuff.)

try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms...Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you ecause you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. Perhaps you do carry within yourself the possibility of shaping and forming as a particularly happy and pure way of living; train yourself to it - but take whatever comes with great trust, and if only it comes out of your own will, out of some need of your inmost being, take it upon your self and hate nothing.

Anyway....

For the one or two of you who may actually care, I've decided to post Bjork's two performances on SNL from some recent episode, in tribute to my return to this wonderful little world. At this point, slightly more accessible than Medulla, but still probably less accessible than Homogenic or Post. Of course, this doesn't say much...since the first time I bought a Bjork CD on a whim, I hated it so much and got so fed up that I threw it across the room. (It was 6 months later when I found it under the couch...It must have burned a groove into my mind because I felt the melodies and emotions settle into comfortable and ecstatic corners, and the rest is history.)

I did, however, forget how incredibly weird Bjork is on stage. And how she simply simply cannot dance. In fact being so bad that you could almost say she dances well.






And for those of you who find this too inaccessible, or too boring to even consider clicking...or who would like a little more of a classic Bjork experience, here's her video for Bachelorette: a Fractal illustrated into life, a mirror's reflection of a mirror.



Or we could just go with a solid, universally loved song...accompanied by two Bjork robots making out. It's really quite incredible. Albeit incredibly bizarre.




And finally, this is the song that has hypnotized me for the past few weeks. I can't figure out why, though I don't think the song really hits til after 2:30. Though I certainly recommend that if you want to listen to it, you do NOT watch the video. Completely kills it. In fact, just don't look at it. It's just plain silly. In fact it's humiliating to associate myself with this video.



Cheers!

My music rotation since Monday:
--Imogen Heap
--Damien Rice
--Joanna Newsom
--Coheed and Cambria
--Jack's Mannequin
--The bird and the bee
--Inara George
--Muse
--The Everyday Visuals
--Rodrigo Y Gabriela
--Regina Spektor

Please make suggestions! I'm on my way to tracking down Pere Ubu and Silversun Pickups. I love the fact that all of these artists, with a few exceptions, are easily accessible in small concert venues at almost a non-stop rate. That's the good stuff.

And as you can guess from the length of this unnecessary post....exams are around the corner....Good luck to you law students!