It’s that time of year again girls and boys. Time to clean the desk, the garden, and most importantly that computer of yours! I know, I know, no fun in any of that (well except the computer ). But spring is finally here and not a moment too soon. This is by far my favorite time of year. Track is well underway and all of us are looking for some more mild temperatures so we can continue running on the track. Ah, what a great feeling!

May is my favorite month for some obvious reasons (birthday? ) and for just the great weather. Nothing like taking a drive around or sitting on the front porch, or better yet going fishing (most importantly fishing ). Some great times. Nothing like enjoying a few 70-80 degree days outside. I just hope it doesn’t go too fast.

Now that I’m not in work because of track and field it’s much more enjoyable to finally remember that thing they call a weekend (What’s that?!). Got a few great things coming up including NHS induction which I most recently got accepted into (one year too late unfortunately), AP tests (which means the end and free time in Calculus and AP English. Thank God!), my birthday (Woo!), and finally Prom and camping over in good ol’ PA. Probably getting too far ahead of myself here.

That’ll conclude my second off-topic posts, which I hope put you in the mood for some lemonade and looking forward to good weather. Oh! and don’t forget to go get your free Dunkin Donuts iced-coffee tomorrow, they’re free! Eh, I’m not a coffee drinker but who cares!

Lately, I’ve had this song come across my Pandora “Chilling Music” channel called Marker in the Sand by Pearl Jam. I’ve heard it a couple of times and liked it more everytime. So I decided to download it and actually put it on my iPod. I must have listened to it 30 times in the past 2 days. I love it! It’s from their latest self-titled album Pearl Jam. The song truly is a song that feels like it can go on forever and something the band can just keep jamming to. It has a different feel to it than Pearl Jam’s usual stuff (but relative to their newest album which really differs altogether from their previous work). If you want to take a listen to it just sample it on Pandora by clicking here.

Pearl Jam is one of my favorite bands musically. I’ve listened to their older songs such as Can’t Find a Better Man, Even Flow, and Jeremy for a long time now. All of them have that classic Pearl Jam sound. This new album, however, has a new look to it musically speaking. It’s more laid back and just different overall to the feeling of the songs. I’ve started listening to Pearl Jam consistently again now that I’ve heard their new album work. Songs such as World Wide Suicide, Life Wasted, and Unemployable are all great songs off of the new album (plus Marker in the Sand).

I think it’s worth a shot to listen to some of their new stuff. I know some people don’t care for Pearl Jam while others are really fans, but for either it’s definitely worth a listen. I’d definitely give their new album 4 and a half stars.

First off, I’ll follow up on my previous post (What’s Red, Black, and White?). Hopefully, if you read the post, you decided to download the song I linked to provided by me. What did you think? What if I told you Red is a Hard Rock Christian band? I just thought I had to mention that because I am always hearing things like “Christian music is bad, slow, too ‘Godly’, etc.” Well here’s proof that Christian music can have good taste. Either way, I hope you enjoyed the song, if you want another good song by them just ask and I’ll see what I can do.

Secondly, Pandora came out with another Podcast this past Wednesday called “Pedal Point”. Like I told you previously, I have my Podcasts set to download automatically, so I had it and listened to it by Thursday. I must say, it taught me a few new things, especially the real meaning of a ‘pedal point’ within a song. If you want to listen just go to Pandora and download it here or simply set your Podcast receiver (ie iTunes) to the Pandora Podcast Series.

That would be all as far as music goes. Therefore, my only other update is to tell you that Track season has begun and that means I’ll be back in shape in no time. It looks like a good year for me as I’ll run the 100, 200, and do Long Jump again this year. This also means less time on the computer as practice is six days a week, so I’ll probably squeeze a post every weekend, or if I somehow get time during the week, I’ll post something then. That’s all for now, check back soon!

Alright, not black and white but what about red? Simple. The band Red. This band, that is new to me, was told to me by a friend of mine. He sent me over a song and I listened to it. What do you know, they’re really good!

Red is a heavy rock band who’s latest album End of Silence has a variety of hard rock singing, drums, and guitar riffs and at the same time has a softer feel with some of their other songs. Now this variety is what I like. You can rock out to a bunch of their songs and then relax with some of their other ones. I’ve been listening to their entire album the past week and I find their songs don’t go overboard with the yelling (as you might expect from a heavy rock or heavy metal band) which is something that I prefer since I don’t listen to yelling your head off songs.

Their one song that really caught my attention is Breath Into Me. This is the first song I listened to by them and I must have played it 20 times again after that because I enjoyed it so much. I really can’t explain much other than this so I decided to treat you to one of their songs. Click the link at the end of this post and download it. I’ll give you a follow up in my next post about them, so in the mean time enjoy Breath Into Me by Red.

Download Breath Into Me