Relief

I altered my blog design because the old white on black color scheme was hurting my eyes (and everyone else's, I'm sure). I'm not too happy with the lack of borders in the sidebar, but I'll tweak that later.

Stand by for a real post shortly.

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Okay, so this has nothing to do with astronomy or Santiago, but today I discovered that the song "Awakening" by Switchfoot is simply amazing. The music video is well-crafted and original, and the lyrics resonate with me at overtones that I rarely, if ever, experience. Please enjoy.



Switchfoot - "Awakening"

Face down with the L.A. curbside
Ending in the ones and zeros
Downtown was the perfect place to hide
The first star that I saw last night was a headlight
Of a man-made sky but
Man-made never made our dreams collide, collide

Here we are now with falling sky and the rain
We're awakening
Here we are now with the desperate youth and the pain
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition
You've been talking in your sleep about a dream
We're awakening

Last week saw me living for nothing but deadlines
With my deadbeat sky but
This town doesn't look the same tonight
These dreams started singing to me out of nowhere
And in all my life
I don't know that I've ever felt so alive, alive

Here we are now with falling sky and the rain
We're awakening
Here we are now with the desperate youth and pain
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition
But you've been talking in your sleep about a dream
We're awakening

I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to know that my heart's still beating
It's beating, I'm bleeding
I want to wake up kicking and screaming (I want to wake up)
I want to live like I know what I'm leaving (I want to wake up)
I want to know that my heart's still beating (I want to wake up)
It's beating, it's beating
It's beating, I'm bleeding

Here we are now with falling sky and the rain
We're awakening
Here we are now with the desperate youth and pain
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition
But you've been talk, talking in your sleep about a dream
We're awakening a dream
We're awakening, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah