Can you spot the theme of embeddedness?

I was going to upload pictures from graduation today, but it appears I have misplaced my flash drive. Stink. However, I was meandering on the web and stumbled upon some potential for much wasted time: lots of music videos by some favorite artists.

Broken Social Scene is one of those bands that just do everything so freaking well. Their music is mostly flawless, their artwork is stimulating, and of course their videos are unique. Here's one of my favorite songs ("Fire Eye'd Boy"), accompanied by a seriously funny yet well-produced video.


There are a few out there who will roll their eyes at this one. I understand this. But it does not reduce my love for Every Time I Die. This is certainly one of my favorite songs by them and the video is pretty cute. If you don't like screaming, clapping, the occasional potty word, or ingenious lyrics and phenominal instrumentation, this one is not for you.


One more that is probably the best music video I have ever observed is by the very innovative band Efterklang. Dang, they are good. And definately European. Judge for yourself (note: if you hate that CD skipping sound, you may not like them. They are one of those abstract bands that turn annoying sounds into art).




These are really great videos that I just thought everyone should enjoy. On a side-note, perhaps a post-it note that could go ignored despite its neon flare, I have been thoroughly enjoying my summer-reading. I have added Henri Nouwen's Reaching Out to my list. This one is more to satisfy the soul, mostly "before-bed" reading. Yet I have been juggling all three quite well and each provides insight in such different ways. I was reading Evolving Self last night - the densest of the three - and a question for Mr. Kegan emerged from his dissertation on subject-object relations (one of the many foundations for his theory of development): How does God relate to our subject-object relations? Kegan espouses that the object is mostly in motion (ob + ject = "thrown away from"). And so, "'Object relations,' by this reasoning, might be expected to have to do with our relations to that which some motion has made separate or distinct from us, our relations to that which has been thrown from us, or the experience of this throwing itself" (76). This process of removing object from subject (differentiation), or a move out of embeddedness, allows for a stance to observe the novel object (integration). Anyway, I am wondering how this affects faith development and the observation of God as object (yet subject) and how he himself "threw us" away from himself yet remains embedded in us. I'm expecting a comment from Robert Kegan.

On a much lesser note, a post-it note that has lost its stickiness, I have purchased the EP that accompanies my profile picture. A few songs are catchy and shows some branching out for my MPPA, but it is mostly a slight disappointment. Expect a review of it on da blog next week and probably on BWC in a few weeks.