Song of the day: Andrew Bird - Measuring Cups - and part of the story why this site was named for brothers Grimm and Gorey.

Song: http://www.protectiveheat.com/music/Andrew_Bird_measuring_cups.mp3

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsforall.com/display/lyric/2130919561/2147414516/Andrew+Bird/Measuring+Cups/

Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oor9vc-UfGY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuKtKxdX0p4
(didn't realize he was so sickly skinny!)


Not necessarily my favourite song on the album, as it's so good, but yeah, obviously up there...


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Over-analysis here!: Section 1

"
get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game
come to the front of the class and we'll measure your brain
we'll give you a complex, and we'll give it a name

get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game
can't have the cream when the crop and the cream are the same
liquid or gas no more than the glass will contain
"

Watching a Dutch interview with him (which I'll post here as soon as I figure out how to rip the streaming video - I'll post instructions for that as well... ) in which he describes a hierarchy and constant "labeling" while at school and away... an institutionalizing. Quantifying aptitudes in society within distinct parameters... a rationalization, characterization, numeration (?) of what people see before them.




"
when you talk about the hand of glory
a tale that's rather grim and gory
is it just another children's story that's been de-clawed?
when the tales of brothers Grimm and Gorey have been outlawed
"

Hand of Glory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_of_Glory Very brothers Grimm and Gorey-esque...



The Grimm and Gorey is further detailed in the following section...



"
I think they're gonna make you start over
You don't want to start over
Put your backpack on your shoulder
Be the good little soldier
Take your places now
'Cause we're all predisposed
"

Literal sense, starting over a grade. No one wants to start over. I'm reminded of a saying my friend often uses... "Step up". Sometimes you have to put your backpack on your shoulder and march on. Now, I think he most likely means this in the opposite sense, again attacking convention... being soldier like, listening and following orders, status quo measuring cups.

"
Put your backpack on your shoulder
Be the good little soldier
It's no different when your older
You're predisposed
That's all for questions now
The case is closed!
"

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I was discussing with someone recently that the world is bound by rationality, even at the sake of feeling. This is how you're supposed to do this, this is how you get over that, shutdown, 'de-clawed', 'outlawed', 'case is closed!', etc... A strategy for being able to organize, and theoretically to try to feel better with organized thoughts...

Why not just feel; what's wrong with that? Discuss, talk, listen to feelings, I think, and that will bring on other feelings, and ultimately, when feelings are involved it's not a rational decision most of the time, so why approach it like that?! Lists of positives and negatives.. hate them. Ultimately, some pros or cons have higher weighting than others, so then what? A weighted matrix? How does one stay objective giving something a higher weighting? Ultimately, it comes down to feeling(s)! One can't categorize everything.



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Now, brothers Grimm and Gorey: Section 2




Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html
http://myweb.dal.ca/barkerb/fairies/grimm/

http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/421397/edward_gorey_a_biography_of_the_late.html?cat=38

The Gashlycrumb Tinies: http://www.lesko.net/gorey/gashlycrumb.html



Grimm's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law
"Grimm's law was the first non-trivial systematic sound change to be discovered in linguistics; its formulation was a turning point in the development of linguistics, enabling the introduction of a rigorous methodology to historical linguistic research."

- which I think is appropriate given how Andrew Bird writes his albums.




Further interest in Grimm and Gorey? I now have an answer to when a loved one will roll on their side, try to fall asleep or just take a nap, and ask me to tell them a bedtime story - a theme for me to this blog.