What you are currently viewing, if you clicked on the youtube video, is Massive Attack's Karmacoma, featuring Tricky. This is song is an example of trip-hop, and probably one of the first "electronic" songs that I really loved. When I was fourteen I first heard this song in a bar in mexico three summers ago, while a canadian explained to me why it wasn't okay that there was this one girl on the homestay who would speak english at the dinner table. Anyway, the point is the song stuck with me, and after that I was so interested in trip-hop that I wrote a six page paper in eigth grade reviewing Massive Attack's, Portishead's, and Tricky 's biggest album. In the day to day, though, music hasn't been a particularly large influence on or part of my life. I'm not the kind of person who needs to turn on music as soon as I get home or who's disturbed by silence. To be honest, I often find that I can't do much else when I'm listening. If music is playing I feel like I should be paying attention, and usually the music that I listen to is pretty lyric focused. Bob Dylan and The Decemberists both play excellent music, but to not pay attention to their lyrics would be, for me, almost a waste of time. http://villageofjoy.com/20-unusual-churches-part-i/
the image above can be found on that website, along with a brief explanation.
Another incredible example of the power of architecture can be seen in the construction currently going on in Dubai. There are hundreds of incredible buildings that are going up seemingly overnight. Though the funding has dried up with the financial crisis, the plans that they have are unreal. Check 'em out at this great website: http://www.dubai-architecture.info/LIST-MAIN.htm
signing off
-Jonah
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