Thursday, March 20, 2014

Levi's & Emerald Eyes: A Big Bang Ride

When scientists announce that a South Pole telescope detects ripples in space that provide a 'smoking gun' for the Big Bang Theory, the reverberations make their way into our spin studio! 



Playlist
1.  Counting Star/Timber Mash-Up -  One Republic vs Ke$ha
2.  King For A Day (Live) - Green Day
3.  Silent - Archive (Levi's & Emerald Eyes)
3.  Animals - Martin Garrix
4.  Don't Bring Me Down Remix (DJ Lucky) - Electric Light Orchestra
5.  Bigfoot - W&W
6.  Eye of the Tiger - Survivor (The original must be played in class at least once a year.)
7.  Face Down - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
8.  This is War - Thirty Seconds to Mars
9.  Enjoy the Ride - Krewella
10.  We Are The Champions - Green Day Live in Reading
Cooldown
11.  Stanford Professor learns his "Inflation Theory" (something he came up with 30 years ago) is proven to be the "smoking gun" in the Big Bang Theory! Very touching surprise.
12.  Lady - Regina Spektor (with performance by Ukraine's Got Talent)

See video open for Class Profile.

The Big Bang news made me think about forces colliding in the universe.  Coupled with Archive's video for Silent - that shows other kinds of forces colliding in our world - I found myself connecting the two with poetry.  The vulnerability and longing that defines so many pursuits - artistic and scientific - is first and foremost found in love.  Pablo Neruda at his best:

After everything,
I will love you
As if it were always before
As if, after so much waiting,
Not seeing you
And you not coming,
You were breathing close to me forever.


Close to me with your habits,
With your colour and your guitar
Just as countries unite
In school room lectures,
And two regions become blurred
And there is a river near a river
And two volcanoes grow together.


Close to you is close to me
And your absence is far from everything
And the moon is the colour of clay
In the night of quaking earth
When, in terror of the earth,
All the roots join together
And silence is heard ringing
With the music of fright.


Fear is also a street
And among its trembling stones
Tenderness somehow is able
To march with four feet
And four lips

Since without leaving the present
That is a fragile thing
We touch the sand of yesterday
And in the sea
Love reveals a repeated fury.


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