Some of you may already know but the title actually refers to a Brand New lyric from the album Deja Entendu. They have recently released an album that has furthered my points of the aforementioned preaching about the impact of media in the subject of English.
With the arrival of their new Cd The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me I was quite interested to hear about how the lyrics were documented in the album. The album itself is a question of self concept and self worth and a question of belief of a higher power. The lyrics are deep and at times dark with a lingering sense of hope, but as great as the lyrics were they were presented in a way to make them more than lyrics.
Patrons of the cd were asked to donate a dollar for unknown causes to receive a handwritten lyric booklet (mostly due to Interscope Records), but anyway even those lyric sheets were incorrect. Many phrases and words differ between the audio and the text and I think this further proves a very realistic point that there are different ways to interpret facts. The audience really has to listen to the song to get the text correct, they can read what they want but not all of what they read is true. It's pretty much a mockery of an allegory for the real world.
You can't really believe anything you read or hear and perhaps I just realized what this CD is really all about, finding things out on your own, which also leads me to think that technology also individualizes students but also making them a valuable part of the whole class. These blogs are great for students to share their minds and although each student has their own it is also great that they know they can interact and look at the rest of the class' views and perceptions of events occurring in the classroom.
I seriously suggest Brand New's newest album and Dustin Kensrue(Thrice's lead singer) solo debut.
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Brian! That is what i live for (referring to the post about the fountain and Layer cake) I had never even heard of layer cake, looks good actually (7.4 on imdb) lol i would add it onto my queue if i did not have about 45(literally) movies already. So to answer your question, i have not seen the fountain, i am awaiting for it to arrive in my mailbox and that will happen the 1st day it is released on dvd.
Brand new is actually really good. I never listened to them much because i am an anti radio person but i listened to all their albums when i drove to Boston, so good. So we are in agreement on that definately, those guys have really evolved as artists.
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