If I Had a Gun...

It's always a good day when your favorite songwriter of all time releases a new song that gives you goosebumps and makes you feel you like you're 16 again. Cheers Noel G.

"That's a damn fine cup of coffee"

Just started Season 2 of Twin Peaks - if you have never seen this series before you are missing out big time. The characters are some of the most fascinating i've ever seen in a TV series. It is so fucking bizarre, man. Perfect for late evening viewing when you're home alone.

Sing me a sad song, cause that's what I want to hear.

Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you: how much more deeply then must I feel for you knowing you love me.

Sweetest Fanny,

You fear, sometimes, I do not love you so much as you wish? My dear Girl I love you ever and ever and without reserve. The more I have known you the more have I lov'd. In every way - even my jealousies have been agonies of Love, in the hottest fit I ever had I would have died for you. I have vex'd you too much. But for Love! Can I help it? You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time. You uttered a half complaint once that I only lov'd your Beauty. Have I nothing else then to love in you but that? Do not I see a heart naturally furnish'd with wings imprison itself with me? No ill prospect has been able to turn your thoughts a moment from me. This perhaps should be as much a subject of sorrow as joy - but I will not talk of that. Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you: how much more deeply then must I feel for you knowing you love me. My Mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it. I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment - upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses. The anxiety shown about our Love in your last note is an immense pleasure to me; however you must not suffer such speculations to molest you any more: not will I any more believe you can have the least pique against me. Brown is gone out -- but here is Mrs Wylie -- when she is gone I shall be awake for you. -- Remembrances to your Mother.

Your affectionate, J. Keats

The state of inspiring music in 2011.

I often ask myself these days... What happened to good and inspiring guitar music? And when will Green Day and the Foo Fighters break up? I think the musical industry currently is in an awful state, similar to the dreadful landscape of the late 90's when Limp Bizkit and Korn were selling out stadiums in the US. I don't think it's a problem of there not being enough raw talent right now - there are plenty of amazing bands and artists out there who are undiscovered by the masses who will never get played on major radio stations and money obsessed TV. Record companies only want to promote these 'plastic' artists (Lady Gaga anyone? OMG she is so individual!) who will make them an immense amount of financial profit. It seems like the actual art they create and the appreciation of the songwriting craft and melody means nothing to them. They will sign anything that looks like something that will sell. It seems like it takes one great band to reach the masses that needs to come through to get other bands heard (The Strokes "Is This It", released in 2001 rings a bell to me)

The popularity of this album helped tons and tons of smaller indie bands to get picked up by record labels. Sometimes we forget bands like the Arcade Fire and Kings of Leon (more like dick's of leon now) got signed because of the Strokes.

A few really brilliant, catchy and listenable (and my favorite) albums that have came out in the last year or so have to be:

1) The Horrors - Skying

2) The Arctic Monkeys- Suck It and See

3) Best Coast- Crazy For You

One band needs to come around in the next few years to get stripped down, inspiring, raw music back down to earth and to inspire teenagers to pick up a guitar, form a band with a few mates and realize the magic they can make.

my views on beauty and society

my views on beauty and society
by : sunit
17.8.11
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I’m not a victim to judge myself through societal structures and expectations in the rich capitalist societies that we live in. We should judge ourselves through our own senses, our own ability to touch, feel, create and think. I’m not saying I’m perfectly individualistic by nature, my views of truth have been distorted by my surroundings and its inhabitants; however I have accepted that it is rather impossible to be a true individual in our post modern societies. Our obsessions with religion, daytime TV, newspapers,etc. all have the ability to be potential evils in my mind because they all distort our real train of thought, and they all contribute to the non-individualistic, media driven, violent, insecure, and ill informed society that we live in. We should not let other people’s opinions distort our own reality and what we perceive as the truth; under my own senses the closest we can perceive the truth is reflected in beauty and in aesthetics. Beauty can come in various forms, only a few of us (the lucky ones, as I like to say) have the ability to actually grasp the true concept of beauty. Once we have grasped this form of ‘truth’, we appreciate the divine sensory pleasures that our existence was made for. At some moment in our lives, when we have reached a high and have found this truth and you can feel the goosebumps on your skin, your heart pounding, all your senses and your soul are in complete ecstasy. You feel more alive than you ever have in your whole demanding, dull and tame life. A goal for us is to remember that particular moment of ecstasy and live in a way that we can repeat that ‘great pleasure’ in different forms in which we perceived this truth as much as possible. Even if it means going against aged societal structures, this should be our end goal. The few of us that never have this specific beautiful and divine moment in perceiving this truth end up getting bitter about the world and its inhabitants, they will seek refuge from this inability in various ways such as violence, anger, bitterness, and turn into criminals or those kind of people who never have anything good or positive to say who we all know and despise.

Music When The Lights Go Out

My whole lifes been sinkin' in the water.

Underneath the sky

Panic on the streets of London...