There’s not much to comment on here. This is a great song. Enjoy.
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Music Monday: Coheed’s Eraser
For those of sensitive ear, this song does have a bit of language.
My least favorite Coheed album is, by far, their newest. But this particular song is quite good.
The lyrics below are particularly awesome:
Turn the clocks back to the way things were
I never wanted to be this me
Erase, eraser
Show me back then the kid before the man
I don’t think this me is who I am
Now, I like who I am and the person I’ve become and am becoming. But it’s easy to see for almost everybody who is honest with themselves that they’re incomplete as they stand and that if they could, they would have done things differently.
In relationship to being a Christian, I think it’s true to say that everybody has two ideal selves: what we want to be and what God wants us to be. To find the intellectual solid ground where these no longer contradict one another is crucial for spiritual growth. But it is just as important to take the steps to get to our understanding of our ideal self that we currently have. And like I said, most of us can find places wherein we’ve actively opposed God’s will and also our own deepest desires to find our ideal self with the choices we’ve made.
This particular song, though mostly about artistic growth I think, brought these things to mind.
Music Monday: Tear in My Heart
This is a pretty great song.
It’s essentially about how the lead singer found wholeness with his wife. She’s the “tear in my heart” sounds bad, but what he means is “my heart is my armor, she’s the tear in my heart, she’s a carver, she’s a butcher with a smile.” I think he means this in sense that whatever reservations he has about personal growth or the kind of vulnerability it takes to do courageous things are are aspects of his life that his wife helped him find. Good marriages are like this. You have a helper.
Michael Calfan: Resurrection
One of my students told me that this song would be sure to get me pumped up for morning visits to the gym.
Results may vary, but I listened to it when I dead lifted 325 Friday. But I often turn my music off for heavy lifts to make sure my focus is on form.
Also, here’s a version for nerds who like cartoons with a lot of yelling:
Will our technology kill us? or Music Monday: Go Robot
The recent Chili Peppers album is very very good. This song is one of many catchy experiments.
But this line caused me to reflect on other issues:
“I want to thank you and spank you on your silver skin, robots don’t care where I’ve been.”
Now, when Anthony Kiedis writes lyrics, it’s nearly impossible to pin down an objective meaning. But the connotation is sexual.
And lately two trends have been coming together that don’t bode well for the world:
- People staying out of the gene pool (or marriage/long term relationships all together). A good book on this trend and some of its cultural and even legal antecedents is Helen Smith’s Men on Strike. Over all, the risk/reward calculation for most men appears to make relationships unappealing in comparison to videogames, money, or one night stands.
- The invention of virtual reality porn/sex robots. The technology media will have an article about lifelike sex robots, boyfriend/girlfriend emulator programs, and sex-VR about once a month now.
A pastor once said to a group of young college guys, “sure, you can have lots of sex, but there’s always a woman attached.” The point was to use disarming language to remind people that sex involves a person. The invention of internet porn made that only true for the actors. Now, it seems, that it won’t require anybody but programmers and designers. This is a plus for people who want the pleasures of sex, but no responsibilities. The problem is that the pleasures of sex are pretty clearly meant to make us turn a blind eye to the risks and responsibilities. It appears that our technology may be about run way ahead of our biology.
So, enjoy the song, it’s pretty awesome. But stay away from romance robots. Honestly, they’re probably skynet.
Music Monday: Fly For Your Life
Enjoy this weird song and its even weirder music video (warning, there are monsters in it).