Friday Melt

So this past Wednesday evening, John and I headed off to a Lindsey Stirling concert--me with my cold head and all.  I was feeling a lot better, but I still can't smell anything, and everything tastes like cardboard (FUN!).  But, the concert was a lot of fun--even though a lot of the people there didn't seem to realize they should be "rocking out" to the music.  And I could go on a rant about people and their cell phones and trying to record things, but I'll leave it at this: I think it's terrible.  How can you enjoy and experience a concert when you're holding up your phone, blocking people's views, and trying not to move?  It seems antithetical to me to the whole idea of "going to a concert".

There.  I'm done.

That said, I figured I would share with you one of the songs that Lindsey played at the concert--albeit without John Legend to sing (though the audience did a pretty passable rendition of their own.)  The song is called "All of Me", and though I hadn't heard it before, I have decided it is a new favorite of mine.  Kind of hoping there are some anime videos out there that have this song as their background.


Now, I know I've been throwing a lot of TED Talks out there this week, but this one is by far one of my favorites thus far.  It's about a time, a forgotten memory, and a poem.


For those of you interested, here is the poem he is referring to:

Four in the Morning
Wislawa Szymborska

The hour from night to day.
The hour from side to side.
The hour for those past thirty.

The hour swept clean to the crowing of cocks.
The hour when earth betrays us.
The hour when wind blows from extinguished stars.
The hour of and-what-if-nothing-remains-after-us.

The hollow hour.
Blank, empty.
The very pit of all other hours.

No one feels good at four in the morning.
If ants feel good at four in the morning
--three cheers for the ants. And let five o'clock come
if we're to go on living.

Translated by Magus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire
 * * *
 "Four in the Morning" from Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska. Copyright © 1981
 Princeton University Press. Reprinted with the permission of Princeton University Press.

And here's that Paul Simon song.


And last, but not least, I leave you with This Week @NASA.  There's so much going on,  though I think the stories that interested me most were that of Jupiter's red spot growing smaller and the new space craft we'll be launching to study magnetic fields.  Oh, and the transfer program looks pretty awesome, too.

And that's it for this week from me.  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I'll see you all next Monday!