September 2009
3 posts
A poem I wrote for AP English that I’m kinda proud of:
Glory be to God for imagination -
For music of passion-tones and art in technicolor;
For chords that pull the heart and strokes that keep you up at night;
Finger-blisterers and brain-blisterers; the Eggman and the Walrus;
Tapestries woven from raconteurs - complex, tangled, true;
So many weapons: a pen, brush, or string.
The mic...
Storytellers
I love a band that can tell a story. That’s what intrigues me. More than catchy tunes, heavy beats, or tight riffs. If a band can tell a story with an album, that’s just so cool to me.
I first found this in Green Day’s American Idiot album. Story of this dude who is tired of his boring life and goes to the big city to live out his crazier side. Of course an album is longer, more...
Listening to the Diamond State Choir in the E-Wing. Rather soothing. Then they started chanting, “Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!”