http://dieearthdie.com Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:48:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apparently, a good sweaty night of dancing can do more than enliven the mind and energize the body. It can actually provide enough energy to power a dance club. Temple—part of Zen Complex, the Eastern-themed megaspace in San Francisco—is exploring the concept with the creation of a Piezoelectric dance floor ... http://dieearthdie.com/the-power-of-dance/ Moving to Seattle has altered a lot of things in my life—there's the new home, new friends, new appreciation of rain, and of course, a new obsession with double tall lattes. Creamy gourmet coffee is inescapable in this town, and suddenly I'm consuming more milk than I have since ... http://dieearthdie.com/strong-bones-and/ I imagine Al Gore lining up his Oscar, his Emmy, and his latest accolade, The Nobel Peace Prize, in a tight little row above the fireplace in his Nashville manse and buffing them to a golden sheen. Light sparking off the bronzes so brightly that it flitters out the door, ... http://dieearthdie.com/beyond-the-sparkle-of-alternative-energy/ Radiohead first resonated with me in 1995, when on The Bends, Thom Yorke wailed, “I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy, I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen.” It was an anthem for a generation of disgruntled twenty-somethings searching for a ... http://dieearthdie.com/gold-at-the-end-of-in-rainbows/ It's been two months of travel and adventure, goodbyes and hellos, sideways glances at the past and into the future. Fitting than that my first true night out in Seattle—the strange new home that has welcomed me with fortuitous grace—was a reminiscence of the city's history, a glimpse at it's ... http://dieearthdie.com/under-the-bridge-motel/ It's almost August, and despite the fact that I've been hanging out in wholesome farm country for almost a month, my body is desperately holding on to the sickly pastiness that seems to come only from living in New York for too many years. Now, I have never been a ... http://dieearthdie.com/sunshiny-days/ While the number of people farming in the country has dropped from 53 percent of the population in 1870 to less than 2 percent in 1990, farmers are once again moving up in America. Quite literally. Over the last few months I've come across a slew of articles on ... http://dieearthdie.com/hanging-gardens-of-new-york/ I just arrived at my parent's home in Nebraska for a month of rest before moving west to Seattle, and I'm already taking advantage of every familial comfort possible. Namely, my parent's desire to stuff me full of all the old school dinners and baked goods that I've been missing ... http://dieearthdie.com/uncomfort-food/ Ever since I moved to New York, I've been obsessed with the rotating room at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Yes, it is a cheesy tourist trap, but still, there is something sublimely perfect about dancing with octogenerians on a teeny parquet floor while sipping overpriced specialty cocktails and ... http://dieearthdie.com/you-spin-me-right-round/ I've been thinking a lot about stuff recently. Mostly because I have too much of it. I come from a family of junkers. I would call them antique dealers, but that's just not what they deal in. The obscure, the unneccessary, the disgarded; these are the things that filled my ... http://dieearthdie.com/drowning-in-the-disregarded/