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Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:52:36 -0800

Seeed - Rise And Shine

Good track! :}

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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:40:33 -0700

Rather inactive until the end of August. Life.

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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:36:26 -0700

Fueled by the content of the previous post, I have decided to look for some traditional folk music from the Balkans region.
The first two tracks are Bulgarian, the third one is Kurdish.
Enjoy.

Listen* to: Theodosii Spassov Quartet - Sandansko Horo (kaval)
Theodosii Spassov Quartet - Trite P�ti
Koma Amed - Hoy Memo

*QuickTime plugin required for online streaming

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Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:34:52 -0800

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:08:10 -0800

Definition of Emo - "In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands.
The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else.
Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so.
Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. Some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, f***, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."
Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously inaccurate, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap. (taken from UrbanDictionary.com)"

Now, I don't fit any thought/fashion/music patters as those labeled as being "emo," but someone, somewhere, thought it would make him feel good to spill out whatever frustrations he has on emos, on me. Using coarse language, he labeled me as being emo because I don't quite entertain the "all is perfect and positive and pink" world view.

How can someone be *that* ignorant, remains a mystery (for me).

http://armannd.stumbleupon.com/review/17436979/

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:50:27 -0800

Sing for the man on the corner
Sing for your love of God
Sing for your apathy
No matter no matter what you believe
Sing just a little bit louder
Sing with all you got
Sing along with me
No matter what you believe

***

Dope - Sing

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Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:10:29 -0800

Slow down little one
You can't keep running away
You mustn't go outside yet
It's not your time to play
Standing at the edge of your town
With the skyline in your eyes
Reaching up to God
The Sun says its goodbyes

***

Editors - The Racing Rats

http://armannd.stumbleupon.com/review/17038690/

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:30:19 -0800

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more...

***
Lord Byron

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Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:04:52 -0800

For those who are "angry" at my "adjectival" reviews: I don't live on SU, you know.

Most of the time I'm simply bookmarking pages for my own interest.

http://armannd.stumbleupon.com/review/15241984/

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:54:14 -0800

I'm at a loss for words, there's nothing to say
I sit in silence wondering what led me to this place
How did my heart become so lifeless and cold
Where did the passion go?

When all my efforts seem like chasing the wind
I've used up all my strength and there's nothing left to give
I've lost the feeling and I'm down to the core
Can't fake it anymore.

Here I am at the end I'm in need of resurrection
Only you can take this empty shell and raise it from the dead
What I've lost to the world, what seems far beyond redemption
You can take the pieces in your hand and make me whole again

You speak and all creation falls to its knees
You raise your hand and calm the waves of the raging sea
You have a way of turning winter to spring
Make something beautiful out of all this suffering

~ Nicol Sponberg - Resurrection ~

A beautiful tune.