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Yup! That's usually about how far I have to travel. It was about a 2.5-3 hr drive for us. It was hands down one of the greatest shows I've ever been to. I've been listening to them for years but never got the chance to see them play. I was not let down at all! There is this great record shop down the street from 506 that we went to called CD Alley. Did you happen to check that place out? And that would awesome if you could keep an eye out for me on that Gifts record. In January, I emailed Lindsay and Joel about a possible repress of From Fathoms and was ecstatic by the response. "Absolutely, it's one of our favorite records we've ever released. I believe the band wants to get it remixed & remastered before any represses take place Hopefully we can get to it sometime this year!"

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This seems oddly familiar...I feel like maybe I might have helped a guy who had a similar aet-up organize his collection...

I'd make sure the Sony is level... Balancing between two tables can be tricky.

(a few late Christmas Presents) In this week, still waiting on Koi No Yokan :/

I was going to put this in the poetry thread, but I thought that it wouldn’t hurt to have a separate thread.
 
I teach 3rd grade in a high poverty urban area. In my classroom I teach the kids the craft of poetry, even though it is not a part of our curriculum. I feel it’s an important avenue for them to express their views and to realize how powerful they can be with their words.  This allows even the lowest achieving students to realize success because the focus is on expression rather than mechanics or correct grammar.
One of the experiments I started doing was to play them music by Explosions In The Sky while they were writing. I’d give them the title and let them use the music to influence their writing. Through the years I have collected some good ones and decided to make an anthology of these titles to give to the band. This is the email I got from them:
 
Hey there,
 
This is Chris, the drummer from Explosions in the Sky. Sorry it's taken so long to send you a message, but we just got back from tour recently and there are always a million things to catch up on once we're home. Anyway, I just wanted to thank for giving us the copy of The Season of the Waterfall. We all read the poems and were deeply moved. Not even sure what to say other than that i'm glad that there are people like you helping out and doing things like this. Reading them was not easy. They were beautiful but also incredibly heartbreaking. If there is some way for us to help out, please let me know. Even if its something dumb like sending you a bunch of CDs or something to give to your class. I'm not really sure 3rd and 4th graders would have any interest in meandering, long winded instrumental rock music, but I can't really think of anything else.
 
A lot of people have given us stuff over the years but nothing has compared to this collection of poems. Not even close.
 
Thank you.
 
Sincerely,
Chris
explosions in the sky
 
 
Here are some of the poems. Please keep in mind that I teach them the craft, give them the tools, but this is 100% their writing. I wish I could take credit for what they write, even sometimes steal some of the lines for my own lyrics. I’ve had mothers and fathers in tears as they read their child’s poems.
It amazes me every time I read a new one. These are all using titles from EITS songs.
 
 
The Birth and Death of the Day
 
Death is in the sky and
Light is in the ground.
When people say be gone death
death stays.
It never went and now
it disappeared like fallen warriors.
Light has come back
to the sky.
 
-Jorge
 
 
Our Last Days As Children
 
We used to go to the park together then it was time
to grow up. You are a fashion designer and I
am a doctor. We get off work at 3:00 and see
each other at the buffet and eat and talk about when
we were little and remember times like
when we ate chocolate mint ice cream on Saturdays,
when we played with each other,
when we were friends forever
when we played Bratz and you used to be
Sasha and I would be Cloe,
when we went to each other’s houses and watched
Disney movies,
When we used to talk about ourselves and what
colors we liked. You liked red and I liked pink.
When we played dodgeball and we would be
on the same team and we would run or jump so
we wouldn’t get out, but we would catch the
ball and get other people out,
when we painted each other’s nails,
when we colored each other’s drawings.
when we played soccer and we would win,
during recess we would play four square and
you would be in the A square and I would be in B.
After we talk we start to cry. I miss those things.
 
-Lilibeth
 
 
The Only Moment We Were Alone
 
I feel dead
dead like nothing
People just pass by like
Nothing
Ghosts being nothing
Laying down being a jerk
Biting ghosts one at a time
Water from
God biting water forever.
-Juan

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Represent Jake. Represent.
 

Represent Jake. Represent.
 

Represent Jake. Represent.
 

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One day...

Watch out for Fireworks, I've had two copies of that record for Hot Topic that had skips in them.