Currently Listening The Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras from the Illinois Album By Sufjan Stevens chicago (contemporary adult version) see related

God's Grandeur

so it's been about 8 or so months since i last wrote on this thing...sorry. life's as dandy as ever

here's a wonderful poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins you should read

7. God’s Grandeur

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.   It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;   It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;         5   And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;   And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.   And for all this, nature is never spent;   There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;         10 And though the last lights off the black West went   Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent   World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Currently Listening Turn On the Bright Lights By Interpol NYC see related

Is beauty arbitrary?

Currently Listening Red House Painters 1 By Red House Painters see related

WHAT IS ART?

...when you think of art, what do you immediately think of?

...when you think of art that you don't think should be called art, what do you think of?

Currently Listening Some Cities By Doves see related

i ain't saying she's a pole-digga....but i sure is

what's the most theraputic thing you do?

mine's is digging holes in mudd (a.k.a which means "also known as" which really doesn't apply to this specific thing = pole-diggah nelly)

Currently Listening Seven Swans By Sufjan Stevens see related

if you could enter in and win ONE competition/Contest/ Whatever what would it be and why?

examples : Tour de France , Beard-growing contest, strongman competition, etc...