I doubt anyone will read this, but an FYI...

Just so no one gets the wrong idea, I'd like to clear up the title of my blog. "A Big Hard Sun" or "Hard Sun" is a song by Eddie Vedder (lead singer of Pearl Jam), originally composed and recorded by Indio in 1990. It's one of the many songs EV wrote and recorded for the movie "Into the Wild", which is in turn a movie adopted by Sean Penn from John Krakauer's book.

Quite frankly, the lyrics of the song, in addition to the tribal-yet-Rusted-Root-esque rhythm of the song itself, are captivating. They flow so well with the movie and the story being told; I can't really imagine the movie without the song, and vice versa.

Now, I'm not going to say that the movie was awesome. It was good. Could have been better. Too much desert imagery for me. Depressing. Penn could have done a better job encompassing the beauty of the American West as well; there are some shots out there, well within range of their production sites, that just can't be passed over, yet were.

Lyrics have a bit of meaning behind them too, so take a look:

When I walk beside her
I am the better man
when i look to leave her
I always stagger back again
Once I built an ivory tower
so I could worship from above
when I climb down to be set free
she took me in again

There’s a big
a big hard sun
beating on the big people
in the big hard world

When she comes to greet me
she is mercy at my feet
I see her inner charm
she just throws it back at me
Once I dug an early graveto find a better land
she just smiled and laughed at me
and took her rules back again

Once I stood to lose her
and I saw what i had done
bowed down and threw away the hours
of her garden and her sun
So I tried to want her
I turned to see her weep
40 days and 40 nights
and its still coming down on me.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UDorNilxPUY