sad accordions make me feel happy

I saw The Sad Accordions play earlier tonight. I must say, I'm a fan. I cannot tell a lie.

An album is in the works and on the way, but for now take a listen to an early mix of the track The West on their myspace:

The Sad Accordions - The West

"Your heart is heavy
We won't be here forever
The night holds no pleasure
We're tangled in the whether

Your fire burns unsteady
Alight but not much better
We go it for the most part
Alone but still together"

In other music thought, the back-to-back-to-back trio of I'll Be On The Water, Running, Returning, and Afford on the Akron/Family Self-Titled album is definitely in my top five all time of back-to-back-to-back songs on an album. Such a great use of soft/loud, such great patience/pacing.

Lent

"Lent is a journey - a pilgrimage of sorts. Like most journeys worth the time, the Lenten one is not easy. The great themes of Lent represent areas of struggle and vulnerability for all people - mortality and death, temptation and resistance, repentance and holiness. But the Lenten journey is a necessary trek, one that leads us back to God, back to the basics, back to the spiritual realities of life. It calls on us to put to death the sin and indifference we have in our hearts toward God and our fellow persons. The classic location of this struggle is the desert or wilderness, the place of wandering, waiting, hunger, and temptation. The desert is also that unavoidable space between slavery and freedom, exile and homecoming - it connects the two and beckons us towards newness. This wilderness is not the end, but a part of the journey - a journey that leads the church into the darkness of Holy Week, through the god-forsakeness of Good Friday and the silence of Holy Saturday, and delivers us into the exuberance of Easter Sunday."

Ash

"Remember that dust you are, and to dust you shall return."

"Oh Lord, we are ready
For what's in store

Oh Lord, we are ready
For what's in store

Oh Lord, we are ready
Show us what comes next

Oh Lord, we are ready
For what's in store

Lead us into the night"

Henry David Thoreau...

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

Interesting thought. Is that socialist, capitalistic, or something else entirely?

Anyway (you slice it) Walden Pond is way overpriced.