digging for fire {blog name change!}

I've been wanting to come up with a new blog name for quite some time because I got bored with "here & now" -- I started hearing it everywhere and realized I want something different. I may still play around with the header for a bit but the name is here to stay.

digging for fire is the new name. I pulled it from a song by one of my all-time favorite bands, The Pixies:



there is this old woman
she lives down the road
you can often find her
kneeling inside of her hole
and i often ask her
"are you looking for the mother load?"
huh?
no.
no my child, this is not my desire
and then she said

i'm digging for fire [4x]

there is this old man 
who spent so much of his life sleeping
that he is able to keep awake for the rest of his years
he resides
on a beach
in a town
where i am going to live
and i often ask him
"are you looking for the mother load?"
huh?
no.
no my child, this is not my desire
and then he said

i'm digging for fire [4x]

Bluegrass + Winona + Song from Fight Club!

The Trampled by Turtles show that we went to in Winona last weekend was AMAZING. The room was filled with so much energy, and that's because those guys are incredibly talented. I danced for pretty much a straight 1 1/2 hours, since they move from one fast-paced song to the next without much of a break. They don't allow you to stop moving! It was awesome. I didn't take a video or anything (because that would have required me to stand still for too long), but I did get a decent photo:
The guy in the overalls on the far left has amazingly fast fingers. Oh, and I almost forgot, they covered one song during the show - "Where is mind?" by the Pixies! This is the end song of Fight Club, and a song that a college roommate (and best friend) and I have been obsessed with since I can remember. Of course, I had to call her and hold up the phone. Ironic, that they would cover just that song. Well, in their encore, they did some Charlie Parr songs, but he is another bluegrass artist also from Duluth, Minn., and the band actually knows him. Anyway, it was a great night.

"Where is my mind?"

If you have not heard this song (the title of my post) by the Pixies, you should go get your hands (ears, I suppose) on it now. It was one of my top most-listened to songs through college, appropriately. And a particular college roomie and I have been obsessed with it since we first heard it.

Most people know it as the song from the end of the movie Fight Club, which, if you haven't seen it, you should also get your hands on right about now. I actually just saw it for the first time last week, and the end scene is the best end scene I've ever seen. Of course, my previous obsession with the song probably has something to do with that, but either way, it's beautiful. If you haven't seen Fight Club but plan on it, don't watch the clip below. Trust me, you'll want to save your first time for the real thing (ha, that sentence could be read in any number of interesting ways). If you have seen it and love it as much as I do, indulge yourself:



Also, lately my mind has not been here, on my blog - but all for good reasons:

1) I can only handle so much news and politics reading at one time. I had to take a break. If you've been a reader for a while, you may have noticed this pattern - every once in a while, I go on a little break. If I don't give myself breaks from the world, I will be too depressed to properly function.

2)I started my job as an online adjunct teaching assistant - I have 60 papers to grade this week. And the next. And the next. And the next. Wow.

3) Little Ms. Evelyn Jane is down to naps that are just a little over an hour long - that hour flies by!

Don't worry, I'm not making excuses for myself or you - after all, this is my blog and I can post as little or much as I like. I am just explaining so you know I am still here - and so I know I am still here. If that makes sense.

As always, thanks for reading.