It's time for my top songs of 2009, only a month and a bit late!
So for your listening pleasure and without any significant explanation, here are a list of ten songs that I've enjoyed through the year 2009. ( With links to listen where I could find them)
- Through and Through and Through, Joel Plasket
- Click Click Click Click, Bishop Allen
- Scythian Empires, Andrew Bird
- There's an Arc, Hey Rosetta!
- Black Day in December, Said The Whale
- Hockey Teeth, Bahamas
- Oh, The Boss is Coming, The Arkells
- The Bridge, Elliot Brood
- Melody Day, Caribou
- In The Morning, Junior Boys
There you go, ten beauties to tickle your ears.
I don't normally even have TV, but since we moved into the new house, we've got a free tv AND free cable (Thanks Shaw for leaving that on) and the timing couldn't be better. As far as I'm concerned Olympics make for great TV. All the great emotions are there joy (two golds already), suspense (silver in Men's bordercross), buffoonery (sorry men's figure skating, I just can't take the outfits seriously.. I have no doubt that you are awesome athletes, but the outfits. ai ya ai) and many others.
So, the channel has been pretty much locked on channel 9 (CTV in Victoria) while I'm at home, luckily I'm working otherwise this would really be a time of irony sittingm getting out of shape, doing an overly common activity, as I watch people who are in great shape doing amazingly strenuous and astounding activities. Good thing it only lasts for a couple weeks. I still have plenty of work to do around the house that is currently being delayed.
Today is Ash Wednesday, which for the liturgically savvy is completely obvious and expected, but for me, I often find that Lent creeps up on me and I end up waking up to the fact that it is happening when it is already half ways over. Not this year. This year I'm on it. Lent is a time of preparation for Christians leading up to Easter. One common way to prepare is to give up something for the forty days leading up to Easter.
I tend to feel a bit cheesy about the things that I've given up in the past. Giving up a food or drink seems like a common choice, but it doesn't seem like there is a particular food that really has a hold on me (except maybe museli, but museli is healthy for crying out loud, I can't give up something that is healthy!) . I started thinking about what is the most valuable commodity in my life right now. What is the thing that I never seem to have enough of. Looking at it from that direction, I realized pretty quickly that my most valuable asset these days is time. Never seem to have enough time. So, for Lent I'm choosing to give up a couple habits that make up 20 minutes of my morning habit. Checking facebook and twitter. Pretty much every morning I sink 10 minutes into each of them, and I can't help but wonder if my mental and spiritual state of being is really any better for it, I have a hunch the time could be reclaimed and better spent.
No intent to swear off these things completely, maybe twitter seeing as I really only have a couple real friends active there, but just to eliminate checking on these time sinks as a part of my morning routine. I'm tempted to feel like this is once again a cheesy thing to give up for Lent, but... I really do feel like right now, time is my most valuable commodity, so freeing some of it up and devoting it to a higher calling seems like a suitable move for Lent.