Not my own.

I picked up (er, downloaded. off iTunes!) Owl City’s new album, Ocean Eyes, Tuesday morning at 12:01am. Yes, I stayed up and waited. I can safely say that if you’ve enjoyed any of Owl City’s previous airy, expansive melodies about the mystical tides and oceans from landlocked Minnesota, you’re going to love Ocean Eyes.

Plenty of happy, get-up-and-dance songs like Rainbow Veins and Hello Seattle (actually, Hello Seattle is on the new album. Twice. That’s how good it is.) from their old albums show their faces in Cave In and Dental Care (a happy, upbeat song about going to the dentist!). But there’s a good, sobering dose of reality too.

Track 7, a slow, heartfelt song entitled Meteor Shower. It’s a very quick song, lasting only 2 minutes 14 seconds, and everyone I’ve talked to about it says it ends much too soon. But it’s clearly the standout powerful and solemn track on an otherwise uplifting CD. The lyrics go,

I can finally see,
That you’re right there beside me,

I am my not own,
For I have been made new,
Please don’t let me go,
I desperately need you (x2)

And I was immediately reminded of 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (I had to look it up… I’m not that good):

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

And of 2 Corinthians 5:17:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

If Christ has truly paid the price for my sin and spared me from death, then I am truly not my own any longer; I cannot live for myself. I owe my life to Him who has redeemed for me, and I live for him. I exist to bring Him glory.

I am a new creation. I do not live for myself or for the world any longer, but only for Him.

And we very so desperately need God if we’re living for Him and only Him.

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Five songs, a stream of consciousness, and of course, more Owl City…

Taking a page out of her playbook, and the fact that I haven’t posted anything (due to the increase in my rate of tweeting), I’m going to list 5 songs that are in my head, that I can identify with, or that are otherwise plain awesome.

Owl City – Strawberry Avalanche

Parachute – She is Love (acoustic)

Taylor Swift – Breathe

John Mayer – Dreaming with a Broken Heart

you know, I ran out of songs. well, I encourage you to digest those four for now. And if you happen to like them all, then perhaps we need to have a chat.

<stream-of-consciousness>

It seems that every time I look at the clock, it’s 12:34am. Maybe I should go to sleep earlier.

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Owl City, live in Boston.

so i went to go see Owl City on Tuesday. and I know a bunch of my readership was in finals. so I thought of you when I recorded these.

• On The Wing
• The Saltwater Room
• Dear Vienna
• Fuzzy Blue Lights

And I found someone else at the concert apparently:

• Rainbow Veins (2:32 of it)
  
• Hello Seattle (0:36 of it)

Filed under: music, boston, live, music, owl city

Music rave: Owl City (if you like Postal Service…)

No, this is not a rave in the party/event sense replete with alcohol, seizure-inducing strobe lights, and illicit drug use. But if you like the Postal Service (which is apparently more mainstream than I thought)… I think you should give this guy a listen =)

Owl City – The Saltwater Room (last.fm; pandora)

time together is just never enough
when we’re apart what are you thinking of?
what will it take to make or break this hint of love?
tell me darling do you ever wish we’d fall in love?
all the time, all the time…

EDIT: It has come to my attention that I know at least TWO! people who are now addicted to this song. <3. Others you can check out:

• On The Wing
• Rainbow Veins
• The Technicolor Phase
• Designer Skyline
• Panda Bear
• Fuzzy Blue Lights

Filed under: music, electronica, indie, indietronica, owl city, the postal service