- great angry songs
until it sleeps and wherever i may roam are two metallica songs that totally rocks my world. can’t listen to ‘em without hyperventilating. sad but true is another fav, in fact that was the song that inspired me to pick up drums. nothing else matters & call of ktulu drove me to better my guitar skills.
what an impact a group of four people can make aye?
ok, i can’t have a metallica entry without mentioning a few more other songs (so i’ll just mention) - nothing else matters, my friend of misery, fade to black, king nothing, the unforgiven, the memory remains
was driving home with metallica roaring in my ears. here’s the lyrics as a tribute to an ol’ skool heavy metal rawk band that still KICKS ass today! (song really puncuates the lyrics with OOMPH)
-wherever i may roam-
…and the road becomes my bride
I have stripped of all but pride
so in her I do confide
and she keeps me satisfied, gives me all I need
but I’ll take my time anywhere
free to speak my mind anywhere
and I’ll redefine anywhere
anywhere I may roam, where I lay my head is home…and my ties are severed clean
the less I have the more I gain
off the beaten path I reign
rover wanderer nomad vagabond, call me what you will
-until it sleeps-
Where do I take this pain of mine.
I run but it stays right by my side.
So tear me open and pour me out
There’s things inside that scream and shout,
And the pain still hates me, so hold me until it sleeps.Just like a curse, just like a stray.
You feed it once and now it stays, now it stays.
So tear me open but beware
There’s things inside without a care,
And the dirt still stains me, so wash me until I’m clean.So tell me why you’ve chosen me
Don’t want your grip, don’t want your greed, don’t want it
Now tear me open make you gone
No longer will you hurt anyone,
And the hate still shapes me, so hold me until it sleeps
- chinese oracle bone
here’s the promised answer. anonymous got it almost right :)
facts:
- earliest chinese writing scripts / earliest writing record in China<
- carved on tortoise shell or animal bones
- used for divination during Shang Dynasty, hence named Oracle Bone
- rulers of Shang Dynasty (16th - 11th centuries BC, 4800 years ago) were a superstitious bunch, often wanting to foretell weather, health, fortune etc
- a possible of more than 4600 characters, out of which 1000 has been deciphered
- has accurate predictions of solar and lunar eclipse etched on the bones
- to date, 150,000 oracle bones have been found in China & Taiwan
- how it was used : the bones were heated until they cracked, the cracks were interpreted
- the questions and answers are then inscribed permanently on the bones
- hope
- windchimes
- dream catchers
- bubbles
- kites
- wild daisies
- candles
- burning incense
- offerings floating down a river
- scent of lilies
- chicks & ducklings
- guess
what is this?
p/s: answer coming soon
- chinese calligraphy
four qualities to look for in chinese calligraphy :
Bone: a feeling of strength in the strokes that appears impossible to break
Flesh: well-nourished quality in the strokes, without self-indulgence or fatness
Muscle: appearance of one stroke being joined to the next by invisible ligaments, and also one character to the next
Blood: full texture in ink, which should resemble neither water nor sludge
- honda cog advertisement
the honda advertisement that dylan sent (another link here) is one of my absolut-altime-favs, watched it countless times when it was first shown to me. totally blew me away, even loved the sound effect to bits. i had to know more, had to know whether there was animation involved (it looked very real), so i googled the information out. here’s some facts about the amazing Honda Cog advertisement :
- mogao caves
stumbled onto this early last year as i was reading about the silk road route. on to the facts.
facts:
- caves/grottoes are in dunhuang, china. comprises of 492 caves
- part of the silk road route, it is at the eastern edge of Taklimakan Desert. water found in this oasis is snow melted from Qilian Mountains
- nicknamed The Caves of A Thousand Buddhas
- mural on the walls cover 450,000 square feet
- there are 415 hand painted clay sculptures
- it’s now on the list of UNESCO’s World Natural & Cultural Heritage Site
- the murals on the walls have images of apsaras, musicians, buddhas, warriors, potraits of donors, auspicious symbols and decorative designs
- there is a hidden cache in one chamber filled with 50,000 rare scriptures, believed to be hidden by monks in the 11th century. comprises of ancient manuscripts in sanskrit, tibetan, uighur, chinese and other languages
- the murals depict many stories and fables (google them out)
- legend has it that the cave was initiated by a monk who was on a pilgrimage to india when he saw rays of light in the cliffs, which inspired him to carve the cave to honour buddha. other pilgrims followed his example, each would stop there to meditate, carve/draw a tribute, then continue their journey
- early cave paintings
courtesy of dylan’s textbook, i now have tonnes of things to read up on. one being the cave of lascaux.
facts:
- cave in south of france
- drawings are of paleolithic era
- has more than 1500 animal pictures drawn on its wall (another site says 2 to 3 thousand)
- 17,000 years old
- probably painted with grounded yellow&red ochre mixed with animal fat
- mostly paintings of bisons, horses, deer, bulls and other animals
- drawings seem to depict hunting stories, almost like a comic strip, “read” from left to right often ending when the prey is captured
- there are also engravings of animals
- lovingly named “the birthplace of animation” because of thespringing out of the paintings
- the drawings are well preserved thanks to the natural condition of the cave (i forgot whether it was the humidity or lack of).
- when the caves were open for visitors, moss started to grow over them and some of the drawings deteriorated due to increase of carbon dioxide emitted by crowds sighing and gasping over the art.
- so the caves are closed to public again
- two (or was it four?) teenagers stumbled onto the cave while they were treasure hunting in 1940
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