Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The Musical Liberation Sensation Part 2: "Siuil A Run" - Clannad

It's that time again! For those not familiar with this segment, I basically pick a song and analyze its influence on me by breaking it down and relating it to my life atm. So here we go, again!:



When I first heard this song I stumbled upon it by accident. At the time I was looking for Albannach's old band Clann An Drumma and instead stumbled upon Clannad. This amazing little Irish band has been singing beautiful Irish folk ballads, and other old tunes for year [Honestly they have been around for so long they deserve one of those lifetime achievement awards] One might know them for their haunting piece "I Will Find You" from the Last of the Mohican soundtrack. I deeply with all my heart say that people should look past the showy, sex-appeal fueled image we look to day and back track to the beautiful classics let by artist like Clannad. Their music speaks to the soul, and preserves the beauty of many of our ancestors, including my own [I am part Irish after all] Either way, Siuil A Run, was the 2nd song [Use to believe it was the 1st because I had for the longest time believed "I Will Find You" was sang by Enya XD] I had heard form this band, and it was all that it took for them to land #22 on my favorite band list. That being said, this is one of the few songs that I play repeatedly and consistently throughout my life and NEVER get sick of no matter how many times its looped. [Some of you might be familiar with the Celtic Woman version, which is good in it's own right, HOWEVER it does not do the song any justice. Celtic woman renditions tend to ruin many great folk songs because they cut out the meat of the lyrics and are overly repetitive of the chorus and long instrumental breaks] That being said, How does it relate to my life? [Click link for more :]]

Saturday, May 22, 2010

The Anti-Theory - Part 1

Hey guys it's been awhile and so I open up with a new segment! This is the Anti-Theory. Where I take long pondered or accepted proverb/quote and warp them to reality :D Aka this is just for lulz even though this is somewhat legit XD. Enjoy, the Anti-Theory on The Forest Gump Quote:



"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get"

"Life is like a box of chocolates... you want the damn delicious caramel filled one but no, NO! GOD FORBID you get the deliciousness! No, you're going to pick the one filled with ORANGE ARTIFICIAL TASTING CRAP! And then you want to throw it away but your mom's like "No No, Don't waste it! There are children in Africa dying finish it!" and you're like "But MOM this taste like shit" and she gives you THAT stare, so you eat it. And then it ends up this was the ONE chocolate in the box that had traces of peanut in it, and you happen to be VIOLENTLY ALLERGIC to peanuts. So 5 minutes later you're flapping on the ground like a GOSH DARN DUMB ASS MAGIKARP and your parents are like "OH NO WHAT DO WE DO??!!!" and you have to go to the damn ER! And because of the shitty economy you have NO HEALTH INSURANCE.... Moral of the story - chocolate doesn't kill, people do"