August 17
James and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary! We didn't do much to celebrate it, but that's beside the point. I can't believe three years can go by so quickly and so happily. Here's to another 3 (or maybe even more)!
8 years ago
Friday, September 14, 2007
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Well, at least you didn't completely forget about your anniversary (like we did last year)! Maybe that's just what happens at the 7 year mark. See what you get to look forward to!
Congrats Guys... It fells like it was yesterday
We celebrated our 10 year anniversary today. It's crazy how fast the time goes, huh? By the way, I'm really impressed with how much blogging you have done in the last few days. Does that mean you have internet again? Yay!!!
Beautiful!
But I must disagree with James on the subject of "The Crane Wife." That album is a major literary achievement. But you have to take it as a whole: the pictures, the songs, (in order) and all the unspoken implications in between. Listen to it again with the idea that it encapsulates the experience of the civil war, or any war, with all the heartbreak and mayhem that war entails. The three "crane wife" songs (obviously out of order) are the sweet seasoning. In the first, a very lonely man lets his care of an injured bird replace the affection he should be giving a woman. In the second, he gets the woman, and ruins her. In the third, the experiences with the bird and with the woman merge, each informing the other, and healing begins. The third is first so that the theme of healing and moving on can book end the whole construction--as Sons and Daughters, a song that makes you cry and smile at the same time when you've been on the journey the album intended, gives us the societal version to match the very personal one at the beginning.
It's unparalleled in American music from a story telling standpoint.
Yes, Picaresque was amazing.
Have you heard The Tain? I just thought the music was great until I learned that the 20 minute song (in six parts) was a reworking of an ancient Celtic myth.
Anyway . . .
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