Archive for the ‘Art, Music, Design’ Category
Need for Life: Imagination [iotd]
Imagination: More important than knowledge, make our possibilities become limitless. So… may all your dreams come true!
[Inspired by Smashing Magazine]
Playing For Change: Love Rescue Me
Music is such universal language.
There is a real power what music can do.
The Omagh Community Youth Choir: Love Rescue Me
Love rescue me
Come forth and speak to me
Raise me up and don’t let me fall
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me
Many strangers have I met
On the road to my regret
Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
They ask me to reveal
The very thoughts they would conceal
Love rescue me
And the sun in the sky
Makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks to the sea
I’m here without a name
In the palace of my shame
I said, love rescue me
Yeah, though I walk
In the valley of shadow
Yeah, I will fear no evil
Yeah I’m here without a name
In the palace of my shame
I said love rescue me
[Inspired by Playing For Change]
Peace Through Music: Stand By Me
If this video doesn’t bring a tear to your eyes and makes you smile for the rest of the day, you are a cold hearted bastard. Watch it from beginning to end—you won’t regret it.
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we’ll see
No I won’t be afraid, no I won’t be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by meIf the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won’t cry, I won’t cry, no I won’t shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
See more video at playingforchange.com
[Gizmodo]
(The Drowned)
Margaret array the rocks around the hull before we’re sinking
A million stones, a million bones, a million holes within the chinking
And painting rings around your eyes these peppers holes so filled with crying
A whisper weighed upon the tattered down where you and I were lying
Tell me now, tell me this, a forest’s son, a river’s daughter
A willow wand, a will-o-wisp, our ghosts will wander all of the water
So let’s be married here today these rushing waves to bear our witness
And we will lie like river stones rolling only where it takes us
But I pulled you
And I called you here
(Didn’t I, didn’t I)
And I caught you
And I brought you here
(Didn’t I, didn’t I)
These hazards of love
Never more will trouble us
Margaret the lapping waves are licking quietly at our ankles
Another bow, another breath, this brilliant chill has come for to shackle
With this long last rush of air, let’s speak our vows and starry whisper
And when the waves came crashing down he closed his eyes and softly kissed her
Singing but I pulled you
And I called you here
(Didn’t I, didn’t I)
And I caught you
And I brought you here
(Didn’t I, didn’t I)
These hazards of love
Never more will trouble us
And these hazards of love
Never more will trouble us
[The Hazards Of Love 4: The Decemberists]
Great Online Music Journey
Just want to show you there’s many great music site online. This is my fav site to listen, get music online, or just to find information about some new artist. Some of them are new service I liked to shared.
- Last.fm, and their scrobbler idea. Every track you play including track you play in your computer or iPod (scrobbling) automatically fills your library and will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like – and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too. Now they still revisited their plan to charge users €3.00 per month for listening to the radio in countries other than the USA, UK and Germany. I hope this not gonna happen.
- MySpace, you know it’s a social networking site, but many (indie) musician introduced their music there.
- Yahoo Music, with its content from YouTube (video), Last.fm, Flickr (photo), and Pandora (radio, US only), lyrics, and features affiliate links to iTunes Store and Amazon downloads alongside its partnership with Real’s rival Rhapsody (US only) service
- Vevo, new service by Universal Music Group and Google to provide Universal’s professional music videos online
- SeeqPod, which was bullied into bankruptcy by record industry. Some other site like this, just heat !t, and new release MusicDemon. This is the place where you search some music and play it online (some with video from youtube).
- Etree. If you got good headphones or speakers, etree archive provide you the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format, they got 129 MB song.. huh..
- beeMP3, AirMp3, even my campus internal MP3 Search provide so many downloadable mp3 music.
- For full album music, go to warez site. My fav: SG, katz, and warez-bb.
FYI: While you read this story, 694000 songs were downloaded illegally. For you leecher, don’t forget the Pirate’s Rule.
Intermezzo: I have more than 1000 artist in my library and scrobbling more than 4000 track today in last.fm since I active using it in March 6, 2009. Yay?
‘Last Days’, What’s the Story?
You might already read my post about ‘Silence is louder‘. What’s the story with ‘Last Days’?
I used almost all Graham Richardson’s song title form his album The Safety Of The North, and it make all my writing more artistic (…I think). Here’s the story about the album:
It concerns a young girl, Alice, and her family. Disenchanted with city living, they decide to “move north” (the Arctic Circle, judging from a couple of contextual clues provided along the way) to find a simpler, quieter day-to-day life. Such major upheavals usually don’t come about without their share of challenges, however. Thus Richardson has constructed a story-arc which from sadness to hope to struggle to sadness to hope once again. (SFBG Music Blog)
‘Nothing stays the same’ refers to change, loss and how we have no control over events or what happens to people. ‘Nothing ever ends’ are the memories of all these things, people or the mark they left on the world. It just means that the present can change at any moment but history can’t.
‘Onwards’ refers to Alice and her mother accepting or at least coming to terms with the events that have unfolded and realising that in time they will be able to move on in some sense. I pictured them marching. As always, i like to end the story showing a bit of hope. ([sic]magazine)
You are Stars, go somewhere, do something worthy, do it a lot (like a wise man), not talk much. At the end, you’ll find a better place for you and for me and the entire human race.
“Your Silence Is The Loudest Sound” is ravishingly icy, with Eno-like electronic murmurs and sputters forming a remarkable imitation of the frozen north. A place for a simpler, quieter day-to-day life. “We’ll be there soon, all of us, in the safety of the north,” a young girl (at Disc opener “The City Failed”) recites calmly, assuredly. (SFBG Music Blog)
Silence is louder: Hope is the only certainty in life.
Sylvia
or, Sliding Curtains Shining Children’s Heads
“Please, curtains in. Start us off…You swing first. Sorry. I don’t know what I said, but you’re crying now again, and that only makes it worse. Let me do my job. Let me do my job.
“Sylvia, get your head out of the oven. Go back screaming and cursing, remind me again how everyone betrayed you. Sylvia, get your head out of the covers. Let me take your temperature, you can throw the thermometer right back at me, if that’s what you want to do, okay?
“Please. please calm down. Steady out, I’m terrified. Sorry. I want us to ally, But you swing on little knives. They’re only sharp on one side. Let me do my job. Let me do my job.
***
“Sylvia, can’t you see what you are doing? Can’t you see I’m scared to speak, and I hate my voice ’cause it only makes you angry. Sylvia, I only talk when you are sleeping. That’s when I tell you everything, And I imagine that somehow you’re going to hear me…”
Nangijala
Let go of the burden that keeps you looking back
at the tracks that you made as you fell.
What’s the reasons for that..
Let go of the burden that keeps you
looking back at the tracks that you made as you fell.
What’s the reasons for that
if we will never try to stand again.
Two summers passed but the winters didn’t.
You moved but you keep coming back.
This place kept us both down and you knew that.
But you,
you took the first breath
as we reached the surface.
You took the first breath.
Two summers passed but the winters didn’t.
They remained within us like monuments of the words we never said.
But you,
you took the first breath
as we reached the surface.
You took the first breath.
And i,
i told you my secrets.
There will be no more cold.
You took the first breath,
now will you let go.
You tried to find home and it’s in your hands now.
You tried and it’s far from what slipped through,
slipped through ours.
Wasn’t this what you asked for.
You tried to find home and it’s in your hands now.
So shouldn’t you
let go of the burden that keeps you looking back at the tracks
that you made as you fell.
What’s the reasons for that
if we will never try to stand again.
Two summers passed but the winters didn’t.
You moved but you keep coming back.
You moved but you keep coming back.
>> Nangijala: at the other side of the stars
For me: first test of third attempt vs Mr. Magdy is finished. Hope it’s good!
Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Ashes in the Snow. Burial at Sea. Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn. Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm). Follow the Map. The Battle to Heaven. Everlasting Light.
[Mono]
