Poetry November: Edgar Allen Poe/Herman Melville

Two of favorites for a special day. If you can find the MP3 of Jeff Buckley reciting Poe’s “Ulalume” please do. It is very moving.
Ulalume
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere -
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year:
It [...]

I have had fairly limited internet access here at my grandparents house. That might not be a valid excuse, but I’ll use it. I’ve been spending most of my time helping my grandparents out, sleeping, or watching TV, so even though I have been lazily avoiding the blogosphere, I have been catching up on some [...]

Please Excuse The Lull

I know its been quiet in here for the past few days…
Yesterday morning my mom received a call that my Grandfather had a heart attack, and that he was to be operated on immediately. (Triple Bi pass!) So we left work shortly after the call, met up with my sister, and began the eleven [...]

People are always asking me why I want to go backpacking in Peru.
“Ryan, why would you do a thing like that?”….. “Why don’t you just go somewhere in Texas?”….”That’s so far away.”
Here is the answer to that question.
I think the last picture sums it up pretty nicely.

Poetry November: Ryan Adams

I think its appropriate that I post a song. After all, weren’t poems meant to be read out loud and/or sung back in the day?
Anyway this might be my favorite song of RA’s lyrically. I don’t know how much more I can expound on the matter other than I find it to be an absolutely [...]

Poetry November: Edgar Allen Poe

Outside of Sylvia Plath, Poe might be the darkest poet I am aware of, but I just can’t help but be drawn to him. But amidst his darkness, is a language so beautiful and somber, even the manliest of men cannot help but feel his sorrow.
Annabel Lee
It was many and many a year [...]

I read somewhere today that the Arrested Development movie is definitely a go. I really, really liked that show, and I hate it that it got canceled, but I was just wondering, is making a film adaption of the TV series supposed to make me feel better? (and others that feel the way I do?) [...]

Ryan Adams Covers Foo Fighters

Here you can find a cover of the Foo Fighter’s “Times Like These” by Ryan Adams.
I hope all of you know by now that I love this guy. He can’t be stopped.

Poetry November: Robert Frost

I’ll admit, I’m some what of a novice when it comes to modernist poetry. I’m more of a transcendentalist myself, but I can really dig the modernist poets. With the suggestion by Andrew, I began shuffling through some of these guys, and I came across this one by Robert Frost that I really, really like. [...]

Brandon Flowers Just Wants To Have Fun

This is why I love The Killers.