The universe is shaped exactly like the earth...

I've been listening to the song 3rd planet a lot lately. If you don't know, it's the first track on Modest Mouse's Moon and Antarctica. A cute boi showed me a pretty cool Bluegrass cover album of some Modest Mouse songs. There are few people who can cover Modest Mouse songs effectively but I recommend Iron Horse if you are both into Modest Mouse and bluegrass (I know, seemingly incompatible). Beyond that, you should check out Sun Kil Moon, who also did an entire album of MM covers. Mark Kozelek's While you're checking out Tiny Cities, check out his self-written albums as well. Although I had a friend who was pretty skeptical about a whole album of covers, Kozelek writes some pretty amazing music of his own as well. His new album, April, just came out and it's definitely been pretty high in my rotation for a while. I've digressed too far to make any sort of clever segue back to 3rd Planet. So yeah, back to 3rd Planet. 3rd Planet makes me think about all sorts of introspective life-type things. Yesterday after I returned from a day trip to Allerton Park in Monticello, I listened to 3rd Planet and all of a sudden, it seemed to make a lot more and a lot less sense to me. As my friends walked around in the windy, cloudy weather that marked yesterday afternoon, we entered the realm of the Sun Singer in Allerton Park. The Sun Singer basically translates to a giant Roman statue in a HUGE crop circle like area. While walking up to the Sun Singer, the clouds parted like in one of those time elapsed videos and in the past tense of the Beatles song, there came the sun. I completely exaggerated this part, it wasn't a speedy sun shower. Instead, it just kind of slowly crept up on my friends and I that this situation was too ironic not to comment on it. Regardless, situations like that really make me want to understand the world around me a lot more. Maybe that'll happen this summer but maybe not. *Shrug* I feel like as cheesy as this sounds, that's something you have to come upon naturally and can't just be predetermined.
3rd Planet reminds me why my music motto is "tune in, sound off." Talk about music you like with me, I guarantee I won't be bored.