#Fiery Furnaces

[foxingpeculiar]

Does Tumblr know about this record (Rehearing My Choir [2005] by The Fiery Furnaces)? Cos I feel like it’d do numbers on here.

The band is a pair of siblings. For this album, they recruited their grandmother, a long-time choir director in Chicago, to tell a musical, fantastical autobiography about growing up in the city as an immigrant in the mid 20th century, with Eleanor (the usual singer) as her younger self and she herself narrating from the present.

This song involves tracking down the ingredients for a folk curse to put on her husband’s lover. It’s like 10 minutes long. It’s amazing.

It’s one of my favorite pieces of art, honestly, and I should own it on vinyl.

[thomaswaynewolf]

[rpfofficial]

everyone reply with the rawest bruce springsteen lyrics ie his lyrics that most make you think "holyyyyy shiiiitttttt"

[rabbitcruiser]

The Arches National Park was originally named a national monument on April 12, 1929.

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick: The Fiery Furnaces Blueberry Boat

Twenty years after its release, the Friedberger siblings' magnum opus remains a bewildering delight, filled with ambling stories, cryptic wordplay, and dazzling sonic twists delivered with equal parts majesty and mischief.

- Heather Phares

[zing-zing-2012]

Fire Insurance?

Your Memories

[artandthebible]

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego

Artist: Simeon Solomon (British, 1840-1905)

Date: 1863

Medium: Watercolour Heightened With White And Gum Arabic

Who Were Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?

The first time we read about these young men, we meet King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who besieged Jerusalem. He immediately started to take notice of the people living in his new territory: “Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king’s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace” (Daniel 1:3–4). Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, along with Daniel, were selected as meeting that criteria.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were eventually appointed “administrators over the province of Babylon, while Daniel himself remained at the royal court” (Daniel 2:49). It didn’t take long for these young men to be tested. King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden idol and commanded everyone to bow down to it (Daniel 3:1–5). The dire consequences of not obeying this command were that the violator would “immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace” (Daniel 3:6). The time had come for these three young men to choose whom they were going to obey: King Nebuchadnezzar or the One True God.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow to the golden image. When questioned as to why they had failed to comply with the king’s order, they replied, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up” (Daniel 3:16–18). The die had been cast. A furious Nebuchadnezzar immediately ordered the three young men to be thrown into the fiery furnace and, as an added measure of wrath, for it to be heated “seven times hotter than usual” (Daniel 3:20). The king wanted to make a public example of how disobedience would be dealt with under his reign.

When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown into the furnace, the king expected to see a quick and painful death for these young men. But he was stunned to see them walking around in the furnace, unharmed—and someone else was in the furnace with them: “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods” (Daniel 3:25). The king, although antagonistic toward the God of Israel, immediately recognized the supernatural nature of miracle before him. Nebuchadnezzar called the three Hebrew men out of the furnace, praised their God, and honored them, declaring, “No other god can save in this way” (Daniel 3:29).

[comme-des-chatons]

In Chicago for the very first time, riding the blue line towards Forest Park, listening to this life changing album that I haven’t listened to in too long

[wickedzeevyln]

Paper

Lost in an ever shifting water-colored dune dyed with the last drops of a golden summer smelted in the sun’s furnace, a dream swallowed by a dream, you are. When this body shrivel into weariness but the thoughts must wander on, they clamber onto the sustained note of a night’s song to find you garbed in a dress of snow garnished with lilacs for the sight to feast. On and on, you lingered. When…

[fieriframes]

[Heart is a furnace Full of love that is just, and earnest.]

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

wall painting of the Three Youths in the Fiery Furnace from Faras cathedral

[orangetalc]

goofing off during a work meeting

[thomaswaynewolf]

[fangomusic]

Nine Albums: Progressive Pop

Kate Bush, Hounds of Love Björk, Homogenic Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca Supertramp, Breakfast in America Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz Super Furry Animals, Rings Around the World Serge Gainsbourg, L'homme à tête de chou The Fiery Furnaces, Blueberry Boat Julia Holter, Aviary

[rabbitcruiser]

Fiery Furnace, Arches National Park (No. 5)

People have come to the area that is now Arches National Park for thousands of years. The earliest visitors weren't just sight-seeing, though. Hunter-gatherers migrated into the area about 10,000 years ago at the end of an Ice Age. As they explored Courthouse Wash and the Salt Valley area, they found pockets of chert and chalcedony: two forms of microcrystalline quartz perfect for making stone tools. Chipping or knapping these rocks into dart points, knives, and scrapers, they created debris piles that are still visible to the trained eye.

Then, roughly two thousand years ago, the nomadic hunters and gatherers began cultivating certain plants and settled the Four Corners region. These early agriculturalists, known as ancestral Puebloans, raised domesticated maize, beans, and squash, and lived in villages like those preserved at Mesa Verde National Park. Evidence shows that farming climaxed between 500 CE and 1300 CE. A change in climate that made farming more difficult may have been a driving factor in a decline in farming.

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[justana0kguy]

2023 JULY 30 Sunday

"Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth."

~ Matthew 13:49-50