This should be a lively discussion…the quantity of books published in the last decade, and amount of time invested in reading them means there will be far less “shared” time with the same books as our fellow Hollow Men.
Posted on January 11th, 2010 by Tobias
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The title says it all. What are your favorites from the 2000’s?
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Tobias
Filed under: Movies, Time | 3 Comments »
Has anyone seen this? I watched it in four parts after discussing The Fantastic Mr. Fox with my sister. It’s absolutely worth the twenty minutes (even if full grown wolves don’t have blue eyes). Here’s the link to part one:
Posted on January 9th, 2010 by Ned
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"Overman would be proud," I mumbled to myself after hearing the second Elvis song in a row at 8:05 yesterday morning.
Yup, he would be ecstatic that if there was one thing carried over from my high school education, that I could recall Elvis Presley’s birthday with minimal prompting would be it. So I thought about Elvis, quite a bit, in fact. He was hard to escape yesterday, his music on the agency’s sound system all day. I think I may have been growing a bouffant hairdo during this barrage on my sanity.
Posted on January 9th, 2010 by Pete
Filed under: Beginnings & Endings, Ethics & Morality, Music, Nostalgia, Philosophical | 3 Comments »
Alright, let’s hear of your choices for the best music of the decade.
Serious contenders? Personal favorites? Guilty pleasures?
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Tobias
Filed under: Music, Time | 8 Comments »
Years, that is. It’s the anniversary of Galileo discovering Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto orbiting Jupiter.
Read more about it here and here.
Posted on January 7th, 2010 by Tobias
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This year, one of my resolutions is to be faithful in contributing to Music Thursday. Like most resolutions, I hope this one isn’t fashioned to be broken.
I’ve been listening to this song by Imogen Heap like crazy for the past couple of weeks. I thought I’d share. On the deluxe version of the album, I really like the instrumental version. It doesn’t have the emotional tenor of the vocal version, but it really converys a mood to me. For some reason this song really makes me think of being in England and living in the 80’s. At the same time. It’s kind of a strange sensation — this song causes two deeply nostalgic periods of my life to overlap that I never would have thought compatible.
I’ll let you listen now….
01 | First Train Home
02 | First Train Home (Instrumental)
Posted on January 7th, 2010 by Tobias
Filed under: Music, Nostalgia, Travel | No Comments »
Good 2010 to all of my fellow Hollow Souls.
I’ve been in a particularly reflective mood in this New Year, and I want to explore some of those reflective moments with the rest of you, if possible. It’s been a decade since the calendar flipped over to the year 2000, a lot of fears never materialized in flipping over and a lot of fears we never realized we should have materialized in the haze of the past ten years. The more I ponder it, the more I realize we’ve seen a lot.
Over the next couple of weeks, I’d like to post some conversation starters in the articles and have people contribute to the main idea with thoughts of their own.
For this one…I’d like to hear from you all about the things that have happened in the last ten years that have been memorable. They can be significant or trivial, just something worth noting.
Ten years ago, I felt like I had been in Kansas City for ages. Nursing a broken heart made things go unbearably slow, even though I had only been here about ten months. I actually remember wondering on New Year’s Day of 2000 where I would be in 2010, if I’d even be alive to be cognizant of it. Happy to say, I am.
What happened for you in this decade in the making?
Posted on January 6th, 2010 by Tobias
Filed under: Beginnings & Endings, Hollow Men, Nostalgia, Philosophical, Time | 7 Comments »
I got one. Anyone else? Care to muse and discuss? In this early stage with it, I’m finding the Kindle surprisingly readable and fun. In its way, it’s making reading "new." At the same time, I find myself gravitating toward nonfiction with it, rather than the more traditionally "literary" genres of fiction and (certainly) poetry. Maybe I’m used to seeking out information on a screen, and so nonfiction feels more comfortable in that format. In any case, it’s been an interesting Christmas gift…
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by Shotts
Filed under: Books, Holidays, Science | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 26th, 2009 by Tobias
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Recorded live at KUT studios in Austin.
kat-edmonson-christmas-time-is-here
Posted on December 24th, 2009 by J.E.
Filed under: Holidays, Music | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 17th, 2009 by Ned
Filed under: Art, Sketchbook | 3 Comments »
My apologies to all of my fine fellow Hollow Men. I am making a short reappearance, and then will probably not be on much over the next week. Steph’s finishing up her last semester of classes, and it makes it hard to do anything at the computer other than work. I look forward to getting back on and enjoying the pleasure of conversing with you all.
Until then, enjoy this, as spotted in a coffee shop:
Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Tobias
Filed under: Hollow Men, Winter | 3 Comments »
I’d love to visit some day. Be sure to scroll down and watch the video.
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/travel/06senegalmusic.html
Posted on December 6th, 2009 by J.E.
Filed under: Music, Travel | 1 Comment »
