The begining of the end... or is it the other way around?!

No good ending can be expected in the absence of the right beginning. It is too late. - I Ching

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. - Seneca

When small men begin to cast big shadows it means the sun is about to set. - Lyn Yutang

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L'Amour

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi

What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly. - Lao Tzu

"Live" vs written conversations

Which is the most rewarding?
I definitely prefer live, at least for now - first live, then crime ;)

C you around

Life?

No fundamental topic today.
Again.
My blog is a little bit like my life, it doesn't know that much where to go.
Well, it's worse for my blog than for my life.
I know what I want out of life at least, which is more than what I know about my blog.
Doesn't mean I can get it, though.
Doesn't even look like I am going to, not for the time being at least.
But as with most things in life, it takes time.
And as with everything that takes time doing, it's probably worth  the wait.
I very much hope so.
Anyway, I'd continue writing, but my red tabby is up and around messing things up.
I guess he wants to go outside, so I have to take my leave.

C you around

Cannon fodder

I'm forcing myself to write this, just to acquire the habit of writing regularly...
I suppose I won't be doing it on a dailly basis for long, anyway.
It's been a grey day with a relentless wind and non stop rain.
I didn't work, got the kids tonight, spent the night away - everything should be great!
The thing is... it's not.
It's not bad either - I got nothing wrong coming my way.
But there was something important missing.

C you around

IV. Virtual vs Real

In a previous post I asked myself about the interaction of the virtual and "real" life of each individual.
In this one I play on a graver register - the virtual world menaces to take over the real one, in order to maintain people in a perpetual state of allertness and fear, without time to think by themselves and for themselves...

I find no better way to translate this than by posting a video of Toulouse based electro-punks Punish Yourself, in a not so subtle metaphore on how the media manipulates our collective minds...

You don't like the music? Fine by me, I do have peculiar musical tastes. But listen to the message in it, research, draw your own conclusions, think for yourself.

Don't let their virtuality become your reality.

C you around

III. VTD - Visually Transmited Diseases

Back in the early '00s I was all about fair skin, dark haired, light eyed ladies - I even married one, once.

In '04 I got infected with a strange, new virus, a visually transmited disease: Ginger Virus!

Now my life has changed a bit during the last 2 years, most of the changes for worst or at least really different.
I'm finally picking up the bits and pieces of the mess I allowed to take place and guess what? There's your ginger virus again!
Life (emotional life, that is!) is moronic - one is very seldom happy with what he is or has, but when there is loss involved, it automatically gets bigger, whatever it is you lost (for me, at least).
I "lost" a wife and didn't even win back a friend - the Horror! The Tragedy! The Pain!
And then I stoped feeling sorry for myself after metting a new, interesting, vital, ginger girl.

Her part is done, my turn to play now.


Thank you Candy

C you around

Music

If this blog thing works out, we're bound to see a lot of posts concerning this subject, as it is one of my main pleasures in life...

...and today I achieved an extraordinary feat : to discuss, on the same facebook post, about Sopor Aeternus and Eisenfunk...

I suppose I won't be able to do something like this again in a near future - these are not polar oposites, they are just absolutely un-related.

This capacity to find similar points in such disparate subjects is something I value a lot.

I'm not a physicist, I know nothing about the chaos theory, but the image of the flutter of the wings of a butterfly in Brazil provoking a major hurricane in China makes perfect sense for me - everything is connected, related in a way or another.

Sooooo.... if in my music posts you jump from folk music to extreme metal with a little stop at the disco for a quick danse or two, don't be surprised :)

And if you unexistant reader can do the same for me and point me to new stuff - be it music, literature, art or cinema - do not hesitate to!!!

C you around