I’ve been away for a while. Between moving and starting a new job, I’ve had my hands full over the past couple months. Hopefully I’ll be able to reestablish a regular publishing schedule. Fortunately, I stumbled back into writing organically. After what felt like almost two months of non-stop on-the-go, I finally found myself in that old, familiar position: sitting on a Sunday with nothing to do.
It was one of those long, sunny days in late August – you know them. The weekend festivities were decidedly over, and with the sounds of sports programming somewhere in the background, I lazed in my room. In this kind of Sunday afternoon the hours drag on as the sun seems to sit on the pine trees out your window. School starts the next day, but everyone tries to suppress this knowledge just below the level of speaking awareness. It was the kind of boring Sunday ripe for escape; for The Legend of Zelda and music by The Sword. Continue reading Rock Escapism and Summer Days: The Sword’s “High Country”