it's a luscious mix of words and tricks

Quite good.

<3

Crayons!

No song can remind me I have a soul like Njósnavélin. It's so beautiful and so sad. No song I have ever heard is better than it is. No piece of music even compares. Njósnavélin speaks to your soul. If you don't like Ros, that's okay. Although it makes me wonder why I'm your friend. But you should listen to Njósnavélin at least a couple of times until you start to appreciate it, because you will.
Takk doesn't feel like Ros. I don't know what it is about it. It's not complex enough. The album is almost commercial in nature, or as close to that as Sigur Ros can be. It's too clean. It's not raw enough. Emotions are raw, and Sigur Ros is emotion. Agaetis Byrjun was genius. I want another Agaetis Byrjun. From that album my favorites are svefn-g-englar, starálfur (it feels like a new day, a new beginning. And it feels like flying), flugufrelsarinn (feels like fighting for your life, but in a subtle everyday sort of way), ný batterí (sad and hopeless, feels like suffering), hjartað hamast, viðrar vel til loftárása, ágætis byrjun (like falling in love with someone that doesn't return your feelings). I left out only two or three songs from the ten song album, but those are beautiful too.
I can't listen to more than a couple of Sigur Ros songs in a row or I feel broken. Then I listen to Material Girl to be able to function in the presense of other people and regain some of that lack of... feeling.


I'm really tired and this is all seeming so pointless. No depression, no sadness, just an observation that this is all a little ridiculous. The basis of our existence is deeply flawed, even when it is different for most us. This does not make me feel better. We are so unimportant. I wish the human race would get over its illusions of grandeur.


Still, Sigur Rós is other worldly and you should give them a listen.

Israeli soldiers walk together after leaving Lebanon, near the Israeli-Lebanon border August 14, 2006 in this picture released by the Israeli Defense Forces. Guns fell silent across southern Lebanon on Monday after a U.N.-brokered truce went into effect to end five weeks of fighting between Israel and Hizbollah that killed more than 1,250 people and wounded thousands. - REUTERS/Dan Bronfeld/IDF/Handout (ISRAEL)

I'm starting a new thing today, mainly because of Laurence's plea to try to do anything to get people to care about the world. So everyday I'm going to post a picture or more about a world event. I sincerely hope you start giving a shit.