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Röyksopp "What Else Is There?"

It's hard for me to go through Lent and not gravitate back towards the writings of the existentialists. Camus, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche are the most influential upon me. Like your typical angst-ridden teen, I discovered them while in high school. A friend liked Camus' "The Stranger" and I was intrigued. And I wanted to learn

"We Sing In Time" The Lonely Forest

Ash Wednesday is sexy. At least, in comparison to the rest of Lent. We've gone through the excess of Tuesday and have become painfully self-aware on Wednesday. We've all felt very communal and together and we've gotten over our hangovers and we've washed our faces and now everything has the potential to go back to

Last night, I spent two hours standing in Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street subway station reminding complete strangers of their mortality. Each Ash Wednesday, a small band of St. Lydia's community offers ashes to the people passing by. Last year, it was in Union Square (when I first saw them, but did not know who they