This is a Blog: March 2011

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Take a look at this picture of [Philosoraptor]. Do you see how he's saying to himself, "I have not yet but till this very moment truly lived"?

*If my placement of the question mark after the quotation mark bothered you, please read the following paragraph. If it didn't bother you, skip the next paragraph and pretend like I never interrupted you.

Oh, wow, random tangent, please open up a blank folder in your brain and set that last thought aside for a moment. Do you see what I did there? Do you see that closing quotation mark followed by a question mark. That is the only correct way to punctuate the sentence I just composed. The concept in this: The sentence I composed was a question, but the quotation was a statement. Therefore, the question mark, which belongs to the sentence as a whole and not to the quotation, belongs outside the quotations marks. The other rule that must be followed is that each closing quotation mark gets exactly one punctuation, so the quotation doesn't get a period even though it is a statement. Please start doing this everyone.

Alright, back on track. Did you study [Philosoraptor]'s face? Did you grab a hold of that emotion? alright, with that in mind I have a request of all my loyal followers (all six of you).

I'm putting together a list of music that--for lack of a better title--I've called "my list of emotion-inducing music." I'm not talking about any emotion though, I'm talking about music that induces that emotion. That once you finish the song you ask yourself, "wow, why have I refused to embrace the beauty in life until just now?"

Obviously a list of this type would be fairly subjective, but I think there is a certain degree of objectivity to really touching music. So this is where you come in. In whatever way possible, let me know some of your favorite emotion-inducing songs, and see if they find their way onto the list (obviously it's my list, so no matter how great a song is I reserve the right not to ad it). But who knows, you might turn me on to a new song or artist that has yet to change my life.

I'm hesitant to post the list, because so far it's the culmination of about 15 minutes of brainstorming, and is therefore nowhere near inclusive.

But what the heck, here it is so far. I wanted to avoid it turning into a "look how hip I am" list so I included anything that came to mind no matter how overplayed or well-known it is. If you haven't heard some of them and want to listen, the asterisks (*) indicate the songs that I know for sure have at least one swear word in them, you have been warned:

The List:

Arcade Fire -

Bon Iver -

The Bravery -

Colin Hay -

Coldplay -

Death Cab for Cutie -

Death Cab for Cutie

The Decemberists -

Joshua Radin -

Lucy Schwartz -

Mumford & Sons -

Noah & the Whale -

Oasis -

Regina Spektor -

Snow Patrol -

The Weepies -

William Fitzsimmons -

Waiting for My Real Life to Begin

Fix You

I Will Follow You into the Dark

What Sarah Said

Marching Bands of Manhattan

The World Spins Madly On

Song of the Sparrow

Since this is so subjective, I'm going to create a secondary list of the songs contributed by others, if you say one that happens to be one of mine that I didn't ad, I'll probably just steal it, otherwise it'll be on the list bellow.

The List (According to others):
I reserve the right to be creative

Billy Ray Cyrus -

Cursive -

The Format -

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole -

Less than Jake -
Leeland

Mewithoutyou -

Panda Bear -

The Postal Service -

The Real Tuesday Weld -

Sigur Ros -

Styx -