*goosebumps*
*misty eyes*
…
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Author: Cubilone
This is me. Or so I believe.
No More Fountains
Another water-themed song. Dedicated to people that stay the same and constantly pass the blame in a million ways…
What can you say?
A million ways to stay the same.
Day after day,
a million ways to pass the blame
You catch me and hold me.
No more fountains, only rain…
Flow
When I’m told to imagine
my vanity kills my creativity
When people look serious out of the blue
I try hard to bury my smile
When I’m told to listen closely
only my ears are really there
When they remind me that I have the power to destroy
my arms can only hug
When they say my existence means nothing
do they ever realise we’re partners in crime?
When affection is shoved down my throat
loneliness doesn’t seem so bad
When they tell me I’m late again
I wish they hadn’t bothered waiting
When they ask me “How are you?”
I never believe that’s really what they’d like to know
When they tell me to grow up
it’s like they’re suggesting I give up
When they keep telling me it’s not worth it
suddenly I want to make it so
When I think I’m unique
it’s next to remember that so does everyone else
When people talk about the value of life
cockroaches and livestock spring to mind
When they tell me I’m a good person
it’s as if they’re meaning to put me down
When they insist I am selfish
…what a funny thing to say
When I know it’s time to cry
knowing keeps my eyelids dry
When I leave a woman’s embrace
my hands can smell how I feel
When the impossible looks possible
the possible becomes trivial
When the possible looks trivial
the trivial becomes impossible
When all the world’s a stage
how does one get over stage fright?
When mind becomes self-conscious
that is when it drops un-conscious
When I think I’m going against the flow
a part of me pretends I’m going with it.
But when I’m not minding my own reflection
the sound of water says what I think.
Dredg – Sang Real
Review: To Τετράδιο
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Το Τετράδιο είναι μια συλλογή των αναρτήσεων του συγγραφέα στο μπλογκ του για έξι μήνες, συγκεκριμένα από τον Σεπτέμβριο του ’08 μέχρι τον Μάρτιο του ’09. Ο Σαραμάγκου λέει την άποψη του για πολλά θέματα για τα οποία η άποψη του θα με ενδιέφερε: παγκόσμια πολιτική, θρησκεία και κοινωνικά θέματα αλλά και δυστυχώς πολλά άρθρα σχετικά με Πορτογάλους ή Ισπανούς συγγραφείς ή πολιτικά πρόσωπα για τα οποία δεν θα μπορούσα να ξέρω τίποτα ούτως ή άλλως.
Η αλήθεια είναι πως περίμενα περισσότερα. Αν και τα λέει πολύ καλά, όπως συνήθως, δηλαδή έπιασα να χαμογελάω πολλές φορές με ικανοποίηση και συμφωνία όσο διάβαζα αυτό το βιβλίο, δεν χρησιμοποιεί εδώ το λογοτεχνικό στυλ για τον οποίο τον έχω αγαπήσει. ‘Ετσι μερικές φορές οι ιδέες του δεν αποτυπώνονταν το ίδιο ξεκάθαρα και ασυναγώνιστα. Θέλω να πω, θα μπορούσε να είναι ο οποιοσδήποτε κομμουνιστής άθεος 80χρονος Πορτογάλος συγγραφέας. Αλλά φυσικά, μόνο ο Σαραμάγκου θα πληρούσε αυτά τα κριτήρια…
Radioactivity
Pendulum – The Island Part II (Dusk)
Review: Η Αμερική δεν υπάρχει: 7 ιστορίες αλλοτρίωσης
Η Αμερική δεν υπάρχει: 7 ιστορίες αλλοτρίωσης by Peter Bichsel
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Η Δέσποινα (η Καταπότη!) μου το είχε δανίσει αυτό πριν κάπου δυο χρόνια και το ανακάλυψα στην βιβλιοθήκη μου. Είπα λοιπόν να το διαβάσω, τι, 63 σελίδες; Heh!
Από τις 7 ιστορίες μου άρεσε περισσότερο η πρώτη με τον Γιόντεκ (;) και η προτελευταία νομίζω, με τον τύπο που ήθελε να ανακαλύψει αν η Γη είναι στρογγυλή.
Ένα ωραίο, λυπητερό, διαβολικά απλό βιβλιαράκι για ένα ευχάριστο απόγευμα!
Yes – Siberian Khatru
It usually goes like this:
1. “Hey, awesome song!”
2. “Wow I can’t get this out of my head!”
3. “I like it so much I want to use it as my ringtone!”
4. *fast-forward a few months*
5. *ring* “Oh gahdz, my ringtone annoys the hell out of me.”
6. *listens to proper song another time*
7. “Hey, I have this song as my ringtone, awesome!”
8. Proceed to 2.
The most observant of you will notice this is a closed loop.Because life is usually not this well-structured and logic-driven, longer and juicier earworms that would deserve to be blared out from my phone every time someone feels the urge to talk to me are usually held back by the sheer power of laziness alone.
Review: What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day
What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day by Christopher Lloyd
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
There are some times when you read books that change your worldview, if even slightly (I mean, OK, realistically, what book will change your world view completely?). They make you think, stay with you for some time, making you want to talk with others around you about the fresh things you’ve just found out but for some reasons nobody seems to care about. What on Earth Happened has been one of those books for me.
It’s a beast. It took me slightly less than 3 months to read it all, but at times I remember reading a lot of it every day. WoEH is just incredible in i’s variety of subject material. The title truly says it all. Where else are you going to find the stories of giant dragonflies, the tectonic plates, why Europe’s only hope out of decadence was to go out exploring and colonising (ie destroying), prehistoric man, dinosaurs, ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, America (etc), the first species of marine wildlife, how ants, bees and termites are in some ways civilizations of their own, etc, etc, in one tightly packed, well-knit, intriguing package such as this?
WoEH, as it does claim to do, looks at the bigger picture. It delivers nicely: this is quite possibly the biggest picture of anything I’ve ever imagined, and it’s not cheesy at all, contrary to what I suspected at first… If the age of the universe can be shrunk into 24 hours, we humans have existed for the last 20 minutes of that and history is just a mere second thereof. Think about that for a second (pun intended).
You know what? It’s 6 o’ clock in the morning. I’ve slept very little and have to catch a ship. This book is genius, I love it, I can’t recommend it enough, I feel as if it’s going to be quite inluential to the way I see things. It’s bound to teach you someting new and fascinating, lots of stuff you always wanted to know but were too afraid/bored to ask. And of course other things you would have never imagined could be true. This review is a mess. I should come back to fix it sometime.