I neglected to post a note about this prior to leaving, but I’ll be in Arkansas until the 27th, celebrating Christmas with my extended family. I’m currently writing from Little Rock, where the joys of DSL (and Tivo!) still exist, but we’ll be driving to The Middle Of Nowhere, Twenty Miles From Any Form Of Civilization™ shortly. Dial-up does exist there, but I don’t know if I’ll have the permission or the patience for it, so… just expect not to hear anything for awhile.
In the meantime, I will continue enjoying Pride and Prejudice.
The last final has been turned in, so my semester is officially over. I think the big highlight of the day (academically, anyway) was getting stopped in the stairwell by my Flight and Orbital Mechanics instructor, who happily informed me that I had the highest score in the class on our final. I’m pretty floored by that, actually, because I spent more time finishing up projects and homework than studying for that final in the 36 hours leading up to the final.
The end of classes and finals, of course, means that I now have some time to do things that I want to do, and, chief among those things, is spend some quality time on the code behind S-S.net and this blog. I’ve been fooling around with designs for both for months now, and I may actually have a chance to implement them over break.
Continue reading ‘Time For Changes’
In more Frames news, Ross of Broken Sounds has posted the results of his interview with Glen Hansard:
Fans will know that Frames concerts are peppered with verbal interludes of Glen spinning tales about the inspiration behind his songs. This works both as entertainment and as an insight into the songwriting craft. If pressed further on the subject, however, Glen is entertainingly elusive. “I wouldn’t be able to tell you what informs my lyrics even though I write them,” he laughs. “I was watching a Bruce Springsteen DVD recently, and he was asked a question about the meaning behind one of his songs. He said, “Now, was I thinking that when I wrote it? Not at all. Was I feeling it? Every bit of it”.” #
On a personal note:
It is this openness and abundance of affection for his audience that continues to attract new listeners to The Frames. One fan recently wrote on a music website that the appeal behind the band’s majestic yet intimate live performances was that, in spite of the adulation he receives, Glen remains human and down-to-earth. “That’s good to know,” Glen says, sounding genuinely flattered. “What other option is there? What else can one do? If you are not singing about human, then you are lying.”
That fan would be me.
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