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I love these guys so much.I wrote them asking if i could meet them again when they come to Houston. I hope amiina comes with them. They usually do, one of the band memebers is married to an ammina. Ah Iceland. Such beauty seems to dwell there. It's no wonder this kind of music is birthed out of these people.
this is only a trailer but I LOVE it. Hannah plays this on the piano.
They are SO damn good and perfect on rainy days like this. I am positive they are gifts to us from G-d. They make up most of the language...but my soul receives it as if I have known a lover all of my life.
This is just nice.
I long for the day I can just travel the world. India was a hard mission trip but profound. I was 4 days shy of leaving to the Himalaya's when I broke my arm and could not go. I had this dream after my second surgery of climbing a difficult mountain in Tibet and have never forgotten that dream. If I were to list how I would like to live my life it would be to buy land in Ireland, have a little cottage with a barn to play in. Buy land in Poland because it's so damn cheap. 5 grand for 10 acres people. Yea Im sure everyone is scooping that up. My dads side of the family were German/Polish Jews. They fled Germany and I guess screwed and had kids with Polish woman. Hell I don't know. Im working on finding history sbout my Irish Polish grandma on the other side right now. I would then take off to China and work as I would have on what's called a farm. It's where little girls are dropped off at birth because the family wanted a boy. I know this..I would not leave if I were to go there. I already see it happening. I'd love those babes with all of my heart. Sigh that would be hard. Let me change plans...I would first go to Tibet hang for a month with the monks. Take photographs were your not allowed to. I did this in India. I took so many photos of temples with the camera hidden under a big coat. They though I was just fat. I had 2 cameras. A non digital rebel. and a tiny compact digital. I have them all on slides and really should convert them. It would be hundreds of dollars since I took so many. I should do a few today.
and I need to find where the digitals are come to think of it. I gave them to the medical team and they used some of the photos. What the hell? I have not seen them. I didn't care st the time. I was SO wiped out from the trip. emotionally and I smelled of curry for 3 months afterwards. I was covered in henna head to toe. Yes no one ELSE did this and I stood out. who gives a....
moving along Im trying to ride my brothers coat tails and get him to take me to Russia in September with him. Hell no it wont happen, but who am I? Dreamer. He is a Nuclear Engineer Scientist for Homefuckyouland Security. There is going to be this HUGE OF ALL MONGAS world meeting of blah blahs. It's suppose to be a big ass deal. Hey man I said "Brian lookit, I will buy you lunch if you take me, hide out and not open my mouth...just get me in. I want to take photographs. Like I would understand anything they are saying anyways. I speak Russian but so what?
That wasn't true I just wanted to say that. I speak a few words like "Excuse me sir, but do you have any grey poupon"...thats about it...OOOO and "where can I get a gallon of Vodka"
meh my brother wrote me back saying "sorry not this time around" Dangit. He gets to go everywhere and it's paid for. Plus he pulls in a fatass pay check. Plus he probably pays his bills on time. Plus he graduated from college. This helps. He mentioned his job is screwed if oBaMa is elected because he wants to "do away" with all the Nuclear programs. Literaly his department in Los Alamos will shut down.
Out of the mouth of a13 year old driving me crazy babe, my daughter quickly and without missing a beat said...
"Obama will change his mind when we start getting bombed"
man I love how kids see things. truth is I like Obama. Im very concerned about his softness towards some mind fucks in Iran but maybe he is just laying low until he wins and really see's the truth behind these idiots. I have no idea what the deal with Obama and Nuclear is about. Does anyone know?
okay so I'll finish my dreamer life of travels later. I must ramble on else where.
loves you guys. Your all precious.
my favorite cords
on a side note I'v made amends with one of my friends who loves cords.
Im happy about keeping bridges from blowing up completely.
JUL 24, 2008 07:54 PM
they really are amazing. Their music has this playful spirit to it...gleefully embracing beauty. Some other bands are more of a tragedy/beauty sound..but Sigur...there's a smile down in their songs.
I really like the second video. now I want to go to Iceland. well...I already did, but it was sort of just a notion. now it seems like a place I really want to see. Ireland would have to come first though. 
One of these days I need to go back and skip stones on the Shannon River.
the photo is great. you've been doing a lot of work with water lately. is there a reason for it? just wondering. I used to have a very developed idea of elemental influences. I used to love taking pictures of flames. still do I suppose. light and shadow in flames is very layered and threaded.
travel is my favorite thing. it's like being a new person in a new world every time you get off the train/plane/bus/car/mulecart. if I could travel nonstop, I'd do it. maybe eventually I could travel and write. not be a travel writer. I don't want to do adverts for Conde Nast...but either a novelist or journalist.
my roots pull me back towards Ireland..and oddly enough..Russia. I'd love to make it St. Petersburg, but it's an expensive trip...so I always seem to end up heading southward rather than north...which is okay. Hungary and Romania are nice too.
but yeah, I really should get back to Galway.
if you sneak me into Russia, I'll be your translator.
photoapparat= camera
strasvyuitye= hello
ya magoo sfotografeerovat vas?= May I take your photograph?
I'm a Marine and I respect Obama. I don't exactly agree with him on everything, but I think he has the right heart. He wants to be a statesman, not a saber rattler. He thinks he can solve the problems with dialogue and by being engaged. And if that doesn't work, then I'm sure he'll take it from there. He's not dumb. Neither is McCain, but McCain is from a different era and he's so rooted in his own military ethos that he can't find his way out of it.
I don't know about the nuclear program. and even as powerful as the president is, he can't just wave his hand and disband whole programs in an instant.
nice cords.
I have one pair of light grey ones, but I can't wear them in the summer...to warm. I had some OLD beat up deep brown/red ones but they were so beat up...house pants...got rid of them a while back.
shit. I remember wearing red cords, orange cords...when I was a kid. way back in the day. of course I also remember owning a pair of parachute pants.
take care.
JUL 26, 2008 08:26 AM
oh no. I haven't been to Iceland...yet. but that video makes me want to go there more. the goggles aren't the best for treasure hunting. they're very hard to see through. drawn to fire, working with fire..one has to protect one's eyes from white hot light used to melt pieces of copper together.
night vision goggles are neat. I wish I had some at home for taking photos with. reminds me. I should try out some IR film in my old Russian camera, a zenit.
and I haven't been to Ireland since I was too young to bother taking photos. went to visit my mom's great-uncle not too long after my parents got divorced....so I would have been about seven, I think.
that last photo is amazing. it really gains something from NOT being in focus. and that's the thing...it's so often fun to do things "wrong" with the camera and then the result is something unexpected and somehow organic...as in living. living breathing works encomopass an element of chance. strict attention to technical detail leads to some spectacular results, but it's controlled, contrived.
happy mistakes can make for some great photos.
