looking forward

i'm reading a book of essays by Nick Hornby. it's called Songbook. i like it a lot so far. he captures how i feel about music - art in general, i guess, but especially music. it is pleasing to me that even when similarities in musical taste are put aside, the qualities of appreciation can be parallel.

here're two short quotes from a short essay about rufus wainwright.

"I try not to believe in God, of course, but sometimes things happen in music, in songs, that bring me up short, make me do a double take. When things add up to more than the sum of their parts, when the effects achieved are inexplicable, then atheists like me start to get into difficult territory."

"I'm not sure what difference it makes to me, this occasional vision of the Divine in the music I love ... All I can say is that I can hear things that aren't there, see and feel things I can't normally see and feel, and start to realize that , yes, there is such a thing as an immortal soul, or, at the very least, a unifying consciousness, that our lives are short but they have meaning."

in this vein, i'm really looking forward to the weakerthans tonight. i could truly use a brush with the divine right about now.
(NO PRESSURE BOYS)