The Music Court

At long last I have (somewhat) returned. Here’s the scoop on my technological delinquency situation. My HP laptop (which had all my saved pictures and my photo-editing software) is completely FUBAR. Done. Kaput. I removed the hard drive and am waiting for a SerialATA/USB2 adaptor to come in the mail so I can retrieve my saved work. My Asus netbook has been completely wiped clean and is now running Fedora instead of XP. It works, sometimes, but is crushingly slow, and photo-editing doesn’t seem to like running on low-end hardware. So the Visual Music itself is still on hiatus, but I can at least make posts as I see fit.

Now on to the point. I’m gonna make something kinda like a VM here, using only words. The answer is a lyric, and is today’s Lyric of the Day. It’s a pretty obscure song, so dont be surprised if you don’t get.

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Given...
p iff q
(r^s) -> p

Assume...
There exists x : p = 1

Let...
r= love (out)
s= love (in)

Find x such that q = 1

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The answer to that is from Bright Eyes’ song “Method Acting,” and is my single favorite line in any song I’ve ever heard. That line is as follows:

“We’ve got a problem with no solution but to love, and to be loved.”

This is a theme that comes up in several of Bright Eyes’ songs. While most of the lyrics are very existential and depressing, they always have hidden behind them a ray of hope. Even in this crappy world where soldiers kill, lovers leave, and children cry, there is a way out; a solution. People bicker amongst themselves about the meaning of life, and why we’re all here. This is the answer. The grand experiment of human interaction has this one true goal. Love. There is no evil that cannot be vanquished, and no hardship that cannot be overcome. To borrow some lyrics from another of Bright Eyes’ songs, Bowl of Oranges…

“I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health, I said ‘There’s nothing that I can do for you you can’t do for yourself.’ He said ‘Oh, yes you can, just hold my hand. I think that that would help.’ So I sat with him a while and I asked him how he felt. He said ‘I think I’m cured. No, in fact, I’m sure of it. Thank you, stranger, for your therapeutic smile.”