I have had some wonderful opportunities in the field of electronics, but as I move away from hands-on electronics and towards product management, I see it all differently. This is especially how I’m feeling professionally. It’s more of a feeling of “ how did I get here” (thanks, Talking Heads, for never allowing me to say that phrase without singing it). I’m super grateful for all of the experiences I’ve had and the people I’ve met. Specifically, looking at and analyzing how I got to where I am today. I don’t regret anything in my life quite the opposite, actually. But as I continue to move towards my goals in life and the goals keep shifting, this has me looking backwards, not forwards. If nothing else, I hope these words introduce a bit of logolepsy into your life. And although me using new words to describe these feelings doesn’t particularly ease the description of emotions from one human to another (me to you), perhaps it will on the second pass, should I mention these feelings again. I discovered two new words, which hopefully replace the paragraphs of explanation it would normally require. It’s about my recent difficulty voicing some feelings I have encountered. Amazing how the internet works though, isn’t it? Just throw words out there and sometimes strangers pick them up. I will continue to do that as I can and will use one of the author’s inventions below. I love the bold nature of inventing words to help out the population. I should note, I’m way late to the party this site has been around and covered in the media for years now. That doesn’t make it any less awesome. This is a project to inject unique words into the common lexicon to describe…well, common feelings. Recently I encountered the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. There are even a few words that I “invented”, usually by combining latin bases I could figure out, smashing together entire words or by changing the case of a word. However, this instilled a fascination with odd words (see also: Logolepsy). After roughly 150 occasions of naming shows like this and realizing the increasing amount of time it takes to come up with each one, I decided to move away from the practice and simplify. The musical expression of such emotions is of course not unique to Nodus Tollens, but as you’ll discover today through our premiere of the complete album, the manner of expression is unusual, the emotional power of the music is penetrating, and the flow of styles and moods, both within each song and among them, is enthralling.One thing that I always loved on The Amp Hour was coming up with alliterative titles for the episodes (my favorite word is still “ ostrobogulous“, used for episode 162). As that title suggests, and as the band’s lone member Cicatrix has described, the album was created “as an emotional exorcism, and the lyrics reflect it, dealing with grief, broken relationship, and ultimately hope, each in their turn”. The title of that album, Melancholic Waters Ablaze with the Fires of Loss, is another significant clue.
That definition tells you more than you might guess about the debut album of the band who took the phrase as its name. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore - that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre - which requires you to go back and reread the chapters you had originally skimmed to get to the good parts, only to learn that all along you were supposed to choose your own adventure.
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