every direction leads me this way..

The Foo Fighters have been one of my favorite alternative for a long time. I remember seeing their "Learn to Fly" video for the first time on The Box channel, and following that, "Everlong" was the first song I had ever learned on the guitar. The Foo Fighters have been around for a
very long time and have been very definitive in keeping the 90's alternative sound alive, but
they also enjoy creating the soft acoustic / piano / folk-ish (for lack of a better word) stuff... there were bits of it in "The Colour and the Shape", they filled a whole 2nd disc with it in "In Your Honor" and they did some in the new album "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" as well. Recently, one track in particular stood out to me on this album...

Foo Fighters | Home

A couple days ago, in the midst of procrastination, confusion and disappointment, I posted on the LJ about feeling really homesick for the first time and how I just longed for something familiar. Well, we went home this weekend... and just getting off I-57 and onto I90-94....we get this beautiful
view of the Chicago skyline with the backdrop of an amazing sunset. Just as we approach this view.... the shuffle on my ipod chooses to play this song.

The song itself is just singer Dave Grohl solo on the piano, with a cello, drums, bass and guitar to join him later on in the song. But in this song, two things are different and they create this emotional, fragile atmosphere. I've never heard Dave's this vulnerable and transparent before and I've also seen his lyrics so cut out simple before, and it makes this song so beautiful.

It's amazing how detached from yourself you can feel you're taken from the one place you can call home. I felt as vulnerable as Grohl sounds in this song... as unsure of myself as his lyrics portrayed. But as soon as I saw that skyline... I felt whole again. I could feel myself coming together and I had never felt so sure to where home was.

Echoes and Patience, Silence and Grace
All of these moments, I'll never replace
No fear of my heart, no absence of faith
And all I want.. Is to be home.

(photo by VersonPhoto via interfaceLIFT)

An attempt at a modest intro.

Just somewhere to share some thoughts, observations and possibly some media. I don't necessarily want to make this a music blog where people would go to steal countless numbers of zip files or anything... but I listen to endless amounts of music. Probably 89 percent of my day has something playing in the background and there are so many songs and albums out there that give me a surreal experience and make me stop my routine and realize how beautiful sound really can be. Just this feeling puts me in a state of awe at how music has the ability to stir emotion and to put you in a state of purity and clarity. So I guess I'll be posting whatever song or artist or album I feel is keeping me in sync at a given moment and I'll hope that whoever reads and listens will be slightly enlightened as well. :D