pandora is amazing. thank you.
sincerely,
reid
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Today, a new Co-Cathedral is dedicated. Laudate Dominum!
Photos from the Houston Chronicle's coverage of the building and dedication of St. Mary's Co-Cathedral
If I may be so bold, this reminds me of Santa Maria del Fiore, or the "Duomo Cathedral" in Florence. Not so much in architecture or scale, but in the "closeness" of the church to the community. In Florence, even though the Duomo is overwhelming in size, you still stumble upon it because it is buried deep within the city. You can get a sense that the Church was very much a part of the Florentine life, then and now, for better or for worse. The same seems to go for the brand new co-cathedral in houston. While completely apart from the rat race of downtown houston, these pictures illustrate that Sacred Heart is at the same time in the heart of the city. whew!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Bush to be nominated for...a peace prize?
Nobel nomination for Bush and Blair
I'm on the fence as to whether this is an April Fool's joke or not. It's coming from the BBC, but I found the link posted on wonkette shortly after midnite this morning. We all know the internet is silly on april first. I guess it's real though, albeit strange. The timing of the headline is unfortunate. Stranger things have happened.
Monday, March 31, 2008
This is not a joke
The empire records soundtrack is one of the best albums ever made.
Empire records scored a mere 13% on rotten tomatoes. The movie is really good. To say otherwise would be to betray everything that I have ever come to know and love about nostalgia. Maybe the window is different for every individual in my generation, but there was a period roughly between 1994-1998 that everything i absorbed is amazing to me. Things that are punchlines now; silverchair and bush's first two albums, doug and boy meets world, independence day! This stuff formed me, no matter how hard I will ever try to deviate from it.
So the soundtrack. So 1995 that it hurts. I actually only bought it about a year ago. A reason i didn't buy it back in the day, ironically, is because bands like the gin blossoms and toad the wet sprocket were punchlines to me and my friends. Now the gin blossoms sound so dated that they are one of my "go-to" bands for mid 90's nostalgia. I suggest you revisit your own nostalgic window and rediscover the bands you used to make fun of as well. You might find that for whatever reasons, what used to not be cool to you is exactly what you crave now. the gin blossoms for me were "safe" alternative music, a little too much classic rock and not enough eccentricity . Now i am considering downloading their entire catalog simply to have something to play in the background while i read.
post your nostalgic guilty pleasures in my comments section.
Empire records scored a mere 13% on rotten tomatoes. The movie is really good. To say otherwise would be to betray everything that I have ever come to know and love about nostalgia. Maybe the window is different for every individual in my generation, but there was a period roughly between 1994-1998 that everything i absorbed is amazing to me. Things that are punchlines now; silverchair and bush's first two albums, doug and boy meets world, independence day! This stuff formed me, no matter how hard I will ever try to deviate from it.
So the soundtrack. So 1995 that it hurts. I actually only bought it about a year ago. A reason i didn't buy it back in the day, ironically, is because bands like the gin blossoms and toad the wet sprocket were punchlines to me and my friends. Now the gin blossoms sound so dated that they are one of my "go-to" bands for mid 90's nostalgia. I suggest you revisit your own nostalgic window and rediscover the bands you used to make fun of as well. You might find that for whatever reasons, what used to not be cool to you is exactly what you crave now. the gin blossoms for me were "safe" alternative music, a little too much classic rock and not enough eccentricity . Now i am considering downloading their entire catalog simply to have something to play in the background while i read.
post your nostalgic guilty pleasures in my comments section.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
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