On January 30th, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah officially releases their sophomore album, Some Loud Thunder. You can listen to it first, by clicking on my little link to the right.
It's good stuff so far.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Some Loud Thunder
On January 30th, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah officially releases their sophomore album, Some Loud Thunder. You can listen to it first, by clicking on my little link to the right.
It's good stuff so far.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Life, 007 style
Once again, it has been a while between posts, and I apologize. It is strange, I don't know it 'adult' life [postcollege] is more boring in comparison or what, but it just seems like I don't have much to 'blog' about anymore. Maybe I never really had much to 'blog' about and I am just now realizing that I should quit wasting peoples time.
Anyways, I have now been up here in NYC for over 6 months, and soon I will be moving into a new, yet to be defined, space. I've been looking for an apartment rather intensely the past week or so, with no fruit to display. I toil away at work all day and make phone calls to see apartments after work that inevietably end up being rather lackluster and only continue to discourage me in my hunt for a new dwelling.
I guess that raises another question, one that I and several of my colleagues have researched rather extensively; when I find a new apartment will I actually dwell there? So far, I have never really felt like I could call my current arrangement a home, it has just really been space that I have occupied. It could be due to a lack of interest in my part to engage my current space, or just a premenition that I knew I would not be here long, but I have always felt so temporary here. Could it even be that I feel that I am not going to be in New York for a while and that it is not my home? I have never intended on living here permenantly and have always thought of New York as a city for the young and engaging, as it is not a place that I could see myself raising a family. But I do plan on staying here for a while, and hopefully this next apartment that I inhabit will actually be one that I can live in long enough to be able to dwell in.
In other, more light-heated news, today was the first day the snow was spotted in New York this season, even if it was only a brief few minutes of flurries. It has been an unseasonably mild winter thusfar; this past weekend it was over 70 degrees!
I have been quite busy with work, and I feel very fortunate to have found a job that I enjoy going to every day. I have been involved in all aspects of the profession so far; for example today I did everything from redlining shop drawings, arrange tech support for our plotter to a site meeting w/contractors, clients and engineers. I feel that I am gaining very valuable experience at my firm and have nothing but good things to say about working here.
Over Christmas I went back to Kansas City and got to see several friends that I had not seen in a while, and missed a chance to see several that I would have liked to see. I had a nice relaxing time back, and strangely it didn't really seem as ackward as I thought that it was going to; I know that upon my return from England, where I had been away a similar time length, I had lots of adjusting to do.
One thing that I have noticed over the past seven months since graduation is the lack of critical investigation that occurs outside of the field of education. I have seen it in others and have even noticed it a little in myself, and it has begum to alarm me. The only thing that we have to negotiate this world is our intellect, and I feel that the working week and the consumer lifestyle that accomodate it are very quickly draining our last crucial resource from within. America once thrived on its individualism and ingenuity, and now it it suffocating on the smoke of its own burning flesh. Where we once used to solve problems, now we only create them. Instead of creating and thinking in our free time, we now only seem to dissolve into a puddle of our own cellulite, drowning the television remote at the base of our recliners in the process. We must remain committed to engaging the world around us and to keeping an active and sharp mind so that we can live life to its fullest, never wasting a day. I have seen too many tragedies this past year to stand idle on the sidelines, and feel that there is still so much out there to experience...
Ok, wow, sorry about that, that just sort of shot out.
Anyways, here are some pics of the past while:
A project my firm has almost completed:
A job site that I visit weekly:
A view of Manhattan from 53rd and Lex:
Crazy cloud/fog formation on the Hudson River seen from my office desk:
A little part of Astoria that I've been known to frequent:
What happens when you let women throw a party:
Anyways, I have now been up here in NYC for over 6 months, and soon I will be moving into a new, yet to be defined, space. I've been looking for an apartment rather intensely the past week or so, with no fruit to display. I toil away at work all day and make phone calls to see apartments after work that inevietably end up being rather lackluster and only continue to discourage me in my hunt for a new dwelling.
I guess that raises another question, one that I and several of my colleagues have researched rather extensively; when I find a new apartment will I actually dwell there? So far, I have never really felt like I could call my current arrangement a home, it has just really been space that I have occupied. It could be due to a lack of interest in my part to engage my current space, or just a premenition that I knew I would not be here long, but I have always felt so temporary here. Could it even be that I feel that I am not going to be in New York for a while and that it is not my home? I have never intended on living here permenantly and have always thought of New York as a city for the young and engaging, as it is not a place that I could see myself raising a family. But I do plan on staying here for a while, and hopefully this next apartment that I inhabit will actually be one that I can live in long enough to be able to dwell in.
In other, more light-heated news, today was the first day the snow was spotted in New York this season, even if it was only a brief few minutes of flurries. It has been an unseasonably mild winter thusfar; this past weekend it was over 70 degrees!
I have been quite busy with work, and I feel very fortunate to have found a job that I enjoy going to every day. I have been involved in all aspects of the profession so far; for example today I did everything from redlining shop drawings, arrange tech support for our plotter to a site meeting w/contractors, clients and engineers. I feel that I am gaining very valuable experience at my firm and have nothing but good things to say about working here.
Over Christmas I went back to Kansas City and got to see several friends that I had not seen in a while, and missed a chance to see several that I would have liked to see. I had a nice relaxing time back, and strangely it didn't really seem as ackward as I thought that it was going to; I know that upon my return from England, where I had been away a similar time length, I had lots of adjusting to do.
One thing that I have noticed over the past seven months since graduation is the lack of critical investigation that occurs outside of the field of education. I have seen it in others and have even noticed it a little in myself, and it has begum to alarm me. The only thing that we have to negotiate this world is our intellect, and I feel that the working week and the consumer lifestyle that accomodate it are very quickly draining our last crucial resource from within. America once thrived on its individualism and ingenuity, and now it it suffocating on the smoke of its own burning flesh. Where we once used to solve problems, now we only create them. Instead of creating and thinking in our free time, we now only seem to dissolve into a puddle of our own cellulite, drowning the television remote at the base of our recliners in the process. We must remain committed to engaging the world around us and to keeping an active and sharp mind so that we can live life to its fullest, never wasting a day. I have seen too many tragedies this past year to stand idle on the sidelines, and feel that there is still so much out there to experience...
Ok, wow, sorry about that, that just sort of shot out.
Anyways, here are some pics of the past while:
A project my firm has almost completed:
A job site that I visit weekly:
A view of Manhattan from 53rd and Lex:
Crazy cloud/fog formation on the Hudson River seen from my office desk:
A little part of Astoria that I've been known to frequent:
What happens when you let women throw a party:
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