A work of art in a funny act on a warm spring day.
4.17.2010
4.13.2010
Music III: i remember...
Damien Rice is in my top 5 favourite artists because he is able to bring more emotion out of me than any other musician. I suppose it's how honest he is throughout his music and they way he sings with such conviction that convinces me into believing that there is someone out there that feels pain the same way i do.
His soul is his music and his music is as raw as an uncooked piece of meat
and in the heat of his boiled emotions in his performance and his willingness to be naked in front of his audience = lights the match within me and i find myself in the same boiled state as him.
This connection, i feel, that i have with him...this constant boiled state of emotion...seems to cook this "raw piece of meat", this "soul" of mine. Nearly every one of his songs possesses the feeling of what it would be like to throw yourself in a sizzling skillet of hot oil.
The beauty with him is:
His soul is his music and his music is as raw as an uncooked piece of meat
and in the heat of his boiled emotions in his performance and his willingness to be naked in front of his audience = lights the match within me and i find myself in the same boiled state as him.
This connection, i feel, that i have with him...this constant boiled state of emotion...seems to cook this "raw piece of meat", this "soul" of mine. Nearly every one of his songs possesses the feeling of what it would be like to throw yourself in a sizzling skillet of hot oil.
The beauty with him is:
he's willing to throw himself in...
and in front of the whole world.
4.12.2010
4.11.2010
I Am From...
One of my greatest wishes is to turn back time and relive my life all again. One of the closest times that i came close to succeeding in this was in my last year of high school, when i enrolled in this course that required me to assist one of my favourite English teachers during his period one grade 9 English class.
It was a wonderful experience because i got a second look at the type of person that i used to be. I got to see how time really can change someone, and best of all, i got to re-learn the lessons that i still remembered word-for-word from the teacher that i looked up to most. But this time around, i felt like i was the one being looked up to too.
The students were assigned to write a poem entitled: "I Am From..." that i specifically remembered doing when i was their age. I decided to partake in the activity and as i read mine aloud, every one of their vulnerable little eyeballs turned to me - and watched - and listened to someone whom they perhaps wanted to be..
and in turn, to someone who wanted to be them...
It was a wonderful experience because i got a second look at the type of person that i used to be. I got to see how time really can change someone, and best of all, i got to re-learn the lessons that i still remembered word-for-word from the teacher that i looked up to most. But this time around, i felt like i was the one being looked up to too.
The students were assigned to write a poem entitled: "I Am From..." that i specifically remembered doing when i was their age. I decided to partake in the activity and as i read mine aloud, every one of their vulnerable little eyeballs turned to me - and watched - and listened to someone whom they perhaps wanted to be..
and in turn, to someone who wanted to be them...
Click "read more" to read my poem
4.10.2010
Music II: rabbit in your headlights
The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments.
They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you. They're freeing your soul.
If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on...
You'll see devils tearing your life away.
But...
If you've made your peace...
Then the devils are really angels
Freeing you from the earth.....
- Jacob's Ladder
...these words are quoted in this song. one of my all time favourite music videos. if you want your mind to be blown away, wait until the end. enjoy ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cud_k9f6tqk
****NOTE: read the comments on this video. i completely agree with those people. this video was banned from MTV for its "violent imagery" and yet.....sex, drugs and alcohol are a motifs throughout almost all music videos of popular music today. this is a beautiful thing.
4.08.2010
She Said: "I Know What It's Like To Be Dead..."
“i know what it is to be sad....and you’re making me feel like i’ve never been born.”
So i possibly had the longest dream of my life last night. More like a nightmare actually. There are only a few dreams that i remember so clearly and with such detail....this was one of them....
4.03.2010
Trapped in another dimension...
Why do i let other things and people speak to me more than i speak to myself ...or do i let them speak for me...?
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