Me and music
04.16.08 (4:41 pm) [edit]okay, so not many people around north america have herd of em, but nightwish is like this fantastic symphonic metal band, out here everyone's like nightwish who? but out in europe, their bigger than almost everything else going.
So anyway, within the past while they changed singers which altered their fanbase a little....now for those who dont know anything, there's one man in the band that writes ALL the songs and ALL the lyrics, that man is Tuomas Holopainen, everything he's written is passionate, and just amazing, the songs that really show example to that is, "forever yours", "dead boy's poem", ""deep silent complete", and finally "The Poet And The Pendulum"....i assure you, it's far more personal than anyhting you'll get out of a rapper or manufactured pop singer. I can listen to these songs, and truly feel the emotion behind it. So yeah if you havent heard of them, you should check them out, and for those who do know, YOU IN NO WAY CAN COMPARE ANETTE TO TARJA.
Now in saying that, Tarja was their original lead vocalist, she's trained opera singer, so yeah, you can imagine, there is a difference is overall sound from going from that to the popish vocals of Annette, but the same emotion and ambience is still in the songs, another person that happens to sing vocals for the band as well is the bassist Marco Hietala, again an EXTREMELY talented individual, he is the essence of metal, ( if your into metal then check out his other band tarot)....now since he has been singing since the beginning that also adds that things have changed that little....but yeah anyway...
Now that ive gotten my utmost fav band out of the way, here's others...
now before i say anything else, everyone has their own taste in music and i know these aint the favourite of very many....but....
CRADLE OF FILTH....yeah, their a sick and twisted death metal band, but once again, masters of their art..the ambience can be bone chilling, and every song is pretty much just an elaborate and epic poem for lyrics, now im not going to say what my favourite song of theirs is, mostly due to offensiveness of titles, but it did come off of the latest album they had....that being said, the lead singer created the band....and it was an amazing experiment....the idea was to test shock tactics and blatent offensiveness, people will adore, and it worked amazingly....
Next on the odd flow of my mind, is Placebo, yup those drug loving rockers....i know it may sond very bizzare to say, but the music these guys come out with is the modern day version of david bowie....and coming from me that's saying alot....yup it's just amazing, now those who have come across them at somepoint, one pointer to help figure their songs out, 1. special k isnt referring to the cerial 2. meds is not about anyhting perscribed by any sane and legally practioning doctor and 3. EVERY song is about teenage angst, love/heartache, or drugs!. My favourite song from them is "A Song To Say Goodbye"
next on the list is an underground and just partially mainstream band Dream Theater,....now i could say alot about these guys, but to keep it short, it's a band built up of some of the very best and most technical musicians quite possibly in the past century. my favourite song from them is "Ocatvarum", it's long but simply amazing.
Next and the last im going to put on the list, just cuz, is Tarja, now yeah she's the ex singer of Nightwish, but oh my!, her voice, it's a true musical instrument in itself, and in her songs she's written, quite the amount of passion, and most are just fantastic rock tunes!, id have to say that "die alive" would be my fav so far....but"poision" would be a very close second...
so now that ive put a few great music bands to check out .... just for the hell of it im going to put my ideal band.....
Vocals: Tarja/ Guitar: John Petrucci / Vocal2: Dani Filth / Bass: Marco / Drums: dave ghrol / Composers/keyboards: both Tumos and Nobuo Uematseu
oh man just one song from that would just be absolutely beyond amazing *drool*
anyway.....thought id share some music stuff with people
till next time
Nightingale in a golden cage
Shay Asundra
The things that SHOULDNT be on the internet
04.03.08 (2:16 pm) [edit]okay, so i was bored and decided to chat it up with some poeple on random chatrooms, and surprise surprise I got the same ol sex chat people wanting me to visit their pages and such and of course the creepy people who want to hit on you until they find out your over 14, and of course explain that they're only interested in people of that age while their going on 40, now that is just a different sickening issue altogether
what was not the normal is someone sent me some links to pretty destructive items that are free on the internet, for example, the compositions to various explosives, ranging from basic pipe boms to full instructions on how to make near nuclear explosions with household and over the counter items, along with that, full instructions on homemade fatal weapons, poisions, and of course brainwashing and tourture techniques......now im not one to really care what people do, but this isnt really information that should be accessable to anyone with a web browser...i mean think about it, what if some kid who thinks it'd be cool to get payback on a bully (which it uses as example for tutorials) with a thermite bomb in his locker (naturally also with instructions on how to develop enough shrapnel to allow either minor wounds or fatal ones)....how is this alowed to be on the internet, i mean c'mon, id rather a kid looking up porn than this crap....although im not saying kids should be hunting for porn but anyways, it's kind of insane, at least to me.....they say there's a problem with terrorism and crime.....may did they think that something like this could be a part of it.....like holy hell....for this kind of information to be allowed to even exist on the internet legally ( which it is apparantly just because they put a little disclaimer stating it's for "educational purposes only") they should at lest ask your age and like make you sign up just for general public safety's sake, i mean there's even old CIA documents on various tourture method experimentation, which includes instructions, effectiveness, damage to victim, and fatality rate. Im not quite sure wether it's me who has the problem or these crazy bastards who put this crap up, or the various goverments and companies who allow it to remain on the internet as it is.
You knopw the people who put this up should be the ones being hunted down, I mean like a 13 year old troubled kid should know a little better, but these guys are the fuel for the fire, i mean, it's like handing a kid the switch for highly volitile explosives and say herte you go, be cool and blow up your school.....like does it sound wrong or am i just looking too deeply into this?....
oh and by the way....apparantly most of these sites are not blocked by a netnanny or proxy servers the majority of the time.....which is even more annoying, since most of these sites have been around at least the past 5 years.....
so so very wrong
The unfeeling dreamer
Shay Asundra
The story so far.....
04.03.08 (10:52 am) [edit]I feel different for other people, I think i feel and think diffewrently than most of those around me most of the time. I cant feel the things im supposed to feel and can't be offended, or excited or happy when i should be either. I dont think I dream like everyone else too. I don't know wether to just call myself wierd or just there's something horribly wrong with me.
This is part of why I decided to start a blog, to hopefully figure something out at some point, I'm hoping one of you wonderful people out there in blogland can help me a little in this endeavour.
So ill be posting my thoughts, feelings, and other various things to try to figure something out...
so until my next post, see you all later
The unfeeling dreamer
Shay Asundra
A few poems
04.02.08 (8:20 am) [edit]Perfect Moment
Forget the feint dream of the past
How it holds it's sway will pass
It's venomous bite has but one cure
New love's first kiss, tender and pure
Never let fate bend you to it's will
I will protect you from what's dark and ill
Now hold on to the moment, cherish it fast
Because even when the next one comes, moments never last
Every moment is precious, it's always sure
Even the darkest nightmare has enticing lure
Let us make the moment time cannot kill
Hold me close and whisper the words that will make time stand still
Mend
Do you remember how it was?
Nothing was everything to us
All we knew was trust and love
How the hell did it all go wrong?
Reasons for hate were just because
Our future seems to be too lost
We have become the tainted doves
Our love was never ment to belong
Light is spent, song is gone
And my heart stays broken
But that piece of heart
That remains there with you
Will mend and become one
Mending words once spoken
Bringing it back to the start
My broken heart mends you
Fighting Myself
I used to be pure and innocent within glistening light
But after seeing hatred in light, I shield it from sight
You showed me the hatred by beating me so very sound
Revenge will be found, I'll make you lost in chaos and tossed around
The pain that you had once shown me is all that keeps me alive
In the pain lies a new way of life, in darkness I will thrive
The pain you gave me festered inside like some sort of sickness
But it showed me everything but your strength was your weaknesses
That showed me all our were alike, you're a part of me
Your world took what you were and your ability to see
So you alyways seem to look at me as if something is wrong
Though when I look at you I see a world that doesn't belong
But looking at our reflection my revenge seems quite pointless
You and I, we and pain are one this is the point I stress
That we are bound together forever, now I can face you
So I can bring back myself, and see the light and skies so blue
Burial Song
The cryptic song ensues
A macabre chourus swells
Dancing a fatal waltz
Hum sorrow's rhapsody
Strum fate bitter riff
Speak life's bitter sonnet
Complete death's coreograph
Pound the great burial beat
Then play the insrumental of my passing
The Dream
I found love in a face that can never be
Lost in a deep sleep, found only in a dream
She speaks to me in memories that never were
The great daydream kiss and the slumbering embrace
Her soft golden hair with a scent of perfection
And the enticing touch of heavenly passion
She is my only salvation in a world never free
Every waking moment makes my soul scream
Is my great love real? I can never be sure
All I truely hope for is to be blessed with her grace
But the world demands she's fantasy's infection
Why must my love exist only in this imaginary fashion?