Why I Heart thesixtyone

Check out this piece of brilliance from Matthew Bridgman, one of the many underrated talents on this gem of a music experience:

"99.9% of my music is inspired by metaphor, by the feeling that everything is connected. Writing lyrics, for me, is like following the stitches on a baseball. No, I don't spend much of my time doing exactly that; allow me the illustration. At first glance, it's not apparent that the stitches connect at all, but as you follow them, you begin to get that feeling of "I think I've been here before". Not in a ho-hum, disenchanting sort of way, but in a way that feels like coming home - all within an idea. And if that one idea should happen to be True (that is, free of denial, pretense, or prejudiced fabrication) it hovers at the port of eternity, waiting to take you deeper into the sphere of that which is Universally True."

He goes on to say that if you aren't completely lost by that, "we should hang out more often."

Um... yes please. And if I hung out with Mr. Bridgman, I'd tell him that this hovering "at the port of eternity" is truer than he knows. Creation echos its creator, bears the mark of the hands that formed it, imitates it in character. That familiar feeling is your true home.

Maybe he does get that. If so, I hope he keeps sharing that Truth.

And once you DO sign up for thesixtyone, make sure you say that you were referred by LetterZ.

-Katie