Carpe Diem

Here's a really moving song (and accompanying moving music video). I'm a huge fan of the heavy sound of the band in this piece -- it brings out a lot of the emotion of the lyrics.

Avenged SevenFold's "Seize the Day"

E-mail tales

I'm getting awfully sick of spam e-mails. And I normally view them as just a nuisance. But as I was glancing through my e-mail today and deleting the spam messages, the subject line of one of the messages actually made me laugh.

It read: "you my eukaryote"

(Unfortunately, the actual message didn't expand on that theme. It was just another advertisement for top quality replica watches.)

Peace and break-ups

First, peace. I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with Finlandia, a symphonic poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece is one of my favorite classical pieces, in part because it contains a beautiful hymn section. Over the years people have written lyrics set to this hymn. My favorite classical music blog recently alerted me to particularly moving lyrics (by Lloyd Stone):

This is my song,
Oh God of all the nations,
A song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home,
the country where my heart is;
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my sacred shrine.
But other hearts in other lands are beating,
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.

My country's skies are bluer than the ocean,
And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine.
But other lands have sunlight too and clover,
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
Oh hear my song, oh God of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.

And on that note (heehee), on to break-ups. Check out this hilarious blog post: Break-ups according to theology. You'll laugh, I promise. The comments are hilarious too. :)