amazing amazing amazing.
so much beauty in this. jónsi's new solo work Go is sounding incredible so far, must see it when he comes round to this continent (hopefully). I want to dance and cry and laugh and jump up and down when I hear it... I've loved sigur ros a lot for a while but decided to really look into some of their projects closely and am so surprised that I never actually grasped until now how beautiful it all is and how I feel like he's creating the world like I've personally always wished it would be. where man is aware of his inseperable link with nature... now that may not be what the projects intend but that's cetainly what I get from it all.

a youtube comment made me think (what!? major paradox there)... "Ironic, how some of the most beautiful music makes everyone think about death." it's sort of true isn't it... but maybe it's more to do with the fact that awareness of death means there is a greater awareness of life. I read Sogyal Rinpoche's Tibetan Book of Living and Dying some months ago and he mentions this a lot, and that our western society is failing to grasp life by neglecting our own death and we are suffering more because of it. I wonder about my own stance in this... I wonder about how much it overwhelms me sometimes that life is so beautiful and it's all around me all the time and I am part of it... I wonder about what paradise is like... can it only be reached through art? I wonder about what it would be like to live with birds and animals in a harmony that does not involve predatory relationships... I say wonder rather than think because I try not to think so much anymore, I cannot be left with myself for too long, everything becomes so egocentric and I find that distracting and weary. and wondering can be like dreaming. and you wake up and the world is so full of life. how fortunate are we...

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