Earth, Wind and Words

I've been away on vacation far from computers but not far from words, rock, sun, and dust.

Today I added new Idioms to Whirlword idiom site:

one gets a rise out of someone
it's a little rich for my blood
one goes the distance
one buys time

One buys time. This is how I think about my life. Rather than doing what I really want, I go to my more-than-full-time job and buy some more time for some future that may never come to pass. Still, perhaps that's what helps keep my interest in this fresh, a case of absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Unique Band from Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the liveliest places I've been. One of the indicators of that are the many great venues for live music (including Barbes) and the many great bands that call it home from Slavic Soul Party to Grizzly Bear, TV on the Radio, Joseph Arthur and Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah.
TV on the Radio has to be one of the freshest though with their vocals, lyrics, pacings, and even their images.
I'm intrigued by the image in the song Wash the Day:

Little flightless metal Birds
High above in limbless Tree
Echos from their tiny Box
Ring out into the atmosphere
Creating beauty inadvertently

and by the way the way the songs slowly fades ...