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Elbow

Steel/Slidegitarr är alltid bra

ingelsmars 15, 2024Musik

Detta kan nog vara den bästa i modern tappning av lite Slidegitarr och lite bröl kan bli och dessutom beviset på att man är ”äldre och vis” när att man länkar till en video som är inspelad för drygt 10 år sedan. Elbow är dock ett inihelvete bra band som nästan ingen vet om här…Read more

For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. But we know too much to content ourselves with surviving, reproducing, dying—and nothing else. We know we are alive and know we will die. We also know we will suffer during our lives before suffering—slowly or quickly—as we draw near to death. This is the knowledge we “enjoy” as the most intelligent organisms to gush from the womb of nature. And being so, we feel shortchanged if there is nothing else for us than to survive, reproduce, and die. We want there to be more to it than that, or to think there is. This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are— hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.