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Sunny Day Real Estate

Here is the set list that Sunny Day played for us on Wednesday 9/23/09

Friday
Seven
Shadows
Song about an Angel
Grendel
Guitar and Video games
Iscarabaid
5/4
New Song
J'nuh
Sometimes
(small break)
In Circles
Spade and Parade
48

Can I say any highlights? It was all amazing. Personal favorites were Seven, Grendel, Guitar & Video games, Iscarabaid, In Circles, and 48.

Grendel was pretty amazing because I was not expecting it. G&VG was the only song off of How it feels to be something on, also happens to be my favorite off that album.

Wow, just wow.

Keep going SDRE.

For my fans

For my Wife

Look at how happy she is.

Shows

Something Adam Baker told me about 4 years ago just began to make sense. He was giving me a bunch of music and I was lamenting that I would never get to see some of the bands because they aren't together anymore. I was saying something like "Man, if Sunny Day ever got back together, I'd be there, no matter where, I'd be there." Adam then told me that he'd rather just go out to dinner with his friends. At first I thought, man, I'm just a way bigger Sunny Day Real Estate fan than he is. But now, after the happenings of last week, I started to understand what he was saying. I had the opportunity to go see Jeremy Enigk on a Sunday night in Minneapolis. Nealey and I were going to be able to go. It was going to be amazing. Nealey & Jeremy Enigk, how could I go wrong? However, weather had prevented us from making it up to Minneapolis to see the show. We were bummed. But, he was playing in Milwaukee on Tuesday night. I could drive right after school and get there, watch the show, sleep in the car a little on the way back, and take a personal day for Wednesday. But, Nealey was not able to go. Somehow, driving to a show by myself wasn't what the even was supposed to be.

The show is supposed to be a shared experience. Not just me. It wouldn't be what it could have been if i had gone alone. If I go to Jeremy Enigk alone, without Nealey, without Mike, its not what it is supposed to be. When I was first getting into Enigk, that was with Mike, while I was dating Nealey. The show is meant to be shared with people. So, I'm ok with not driving alone to see Enigk.

Nealey and I went to see Starflyer 59 and David Bazan, it was great. A great shared experience.

The Claims of War: Render unto Caesar

from "Learning in War-Time" (The Weight of Glory)

The war will fail to absorb our whole attention because it is a finite object and, therefore, intrinsically unfitted to support the whole attention of a human soul. In order to avoid misunderstanding I must here make a few distinctions. I believe our cause to be, as human causes go, very righteous, and I therefore believe it to be a duty to participate in this war. And every duty is a religious duty, and our obligation to perform every duty is therefore absolute. Thus we may have a duty to rescue a drowning man, and, perhaps, if we live on a dangerous coast, to learn lifesaving so as to be ready for any drowning man when he turns up. It may be our duty to lose our own lives in saving him. But if anyone devoted himself to lifesaving in the sense of giving it his total attention- so that he thought and spoke of nothing else and demanded the cessation of all other human activities until everyone had learned to swim- he would be a monomaniac. The rescue of drowning men is, then, a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for. It seems to me that all political duties (among which I include military duties) are of this kind. A man may gave to die for our county, but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.



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