Life Burns!

And the last song is this Life Burns!, from the Finish metal band Apocalyptica. They are really famous because they only perform using cellos (and lately a drummer). The song comes from their eponymous album.

I wanted to put this song as the last one as a conclusion of all the post. I chose this one because it says what I think about life: that it is like burning. There is a lot of wicked about life, and each day we are slowly burning. And also a lot that we take for granted in our lifes is hollow.

But to be honest, I don't really think that it matters that much. I mean, it is important to consider this in order not to waste our whole existance i something that is not important at all. I'm not talking from a suicidal perspective, I think that even if life is like that, we need to try to enjoy it one way or another.

This is everything, I hope you enjoyed listening the songs I uploaded as much as I did uploading them.

Every summer you have seen was filled with April rain

The next song is from the Dutch symphonic metal band Delain. The song is called April Rain, from the album of the same name.

The song is about how we imagine a lot of our problems. Life is way better than what people usually thinks. Saddly, always there is going to be somebody who doesn't want to be happy. But happines is within each one. The potential to change each one life resides in us and no mather how much a third person or our circunstances help us to reach happiness, if we don't decide, we won't ever be able to enjoy life.

I know that life sometimes can be difficult, but we can improve it if we decide. I know as well that are certain things that cannot be changed and certain circunstances that won't let us do some things. But we don't have to limit ourselves for that.

Here is the song:

I need to keep the scars to prove there was a time when I loved something more than life

The next song is also from a Finnish band. They perform power metal and they are called Sonata Arctica. The song is called Don't say a word, from their album Reckoning Night.

As I said before, this song as the past one, doesn't have a personal tide to me. But I decided to include because, as the past song, this one represents a situation in a perfect way. But this one is not about love, is about a broken heart. This is one of the most angry yet loving songs you'll ever listen.

The lyrics show us the feeling of the lyric voice who lost somebody who he loved a lot. After the betrayal of the loved one, the only thing that is left is hatred.

This is the video of the song, from their DVD For the sake of revenge:



But since the quality of the other one is quite bad, well, here is another one, which I didn't really intneded to put because is shortened

Would you do it with me? Heal the scars and change the stars.

The next song is from another Finnish band. It is called Nightwish. The song I'd like to show is called Ever Dream, from their album Century Child.

To be honest this song, as the next one, doesn't have a deep reason. The only thing that distinguish it from the thousands of songs that I have in my iPod is that it is one of the most romantic songs I've heard in my whole life. If you could squish it like a lemon, you would get honey mixed with a bit of tears.

This is the video of the song, it is from a DVD of the band, called End of an Era. It is interesting because it records the last time the band played with that singer, just after that concert the band fired her, for personal reasons.

Take a flight from Trinity to Novaja Zemlja!

But lets leave sentimentalisms behind. The next song is from the heavy metal Finnish band Tarot. It is called Follow the Blind, from their album Suffer our pleasures.

The song is basically about the war. I t says that no matter what the excuses are for a man to kill another of his kind, in the end we are just animals. It seems to say that mankind's worst enemy is the man.

The frase "Take a flight from Trinity to Novaja Zemlja" also suggests that the song is about the nuclear weapons. This is because in Trinity was testeed the first atomic bomb. In the other hand, in Novaja Zemlja was exploded the biggest weapon ever created by mankind: the Tzar Bomb.

I chose this song because I'm completely against the war. I actually believe it is necesary for the economy to regulate to have some wars, but that doesn't mean that I agree with them. The carnage, suffering and losses caused by wars just make us look like animals.

Here is a video of the song. As with the first one, I just couldn't find a better one.

Who we are and who we want to be is not the same all the time

The next song is from the German gothic rock band Xandria. It is called Who we are (and who we want to be) and appeared in theri album India. The song is about how we are not always what we wanted to be or what we were supposed to be.

I think that there are so many things I'd like to say to the people around me (good and bad things, actually) and things that I wish I had said to people that for one reason or other are not anymore arround here. I don't think that people is actually able to really manage through life without being hurt at all. Perhaps there are some people out there, who never were hurt... because they didn't got near anybody in their whole life.

In a sense, it is better to be hurt. As people say, better to love and loose than not having loved at all. But, in the other hand, this beautiful song has all the reason (the only thing i don't like about it is that it is written from a female perspective).

Here is the song:

Oh, I can think, I can work, I don't need your support!

In this point it starts to become more personal. The next song I'd like topresent is called Between Love anf Fire from another Dutch symphonic metal band called After Forever It comes from their album Invisible Circles. This album is about a child whose parents doesn't love nor care for him.

I didn't intend to expose myself as a suffered child. I'm not that at all. The reason for me to use this song is that it explains the origin of the couple that eventually raised the traumatized child that protagonizes Invisible Circles. They were a couple that only cared about having a succesfull career and had a child to try to save their completely lost marriage. Instead, they ruined the life of a new life that wasn't to blame.

I feel that I'm actually in the trend to become a person like the ones that appear in the song. A person that just cares about oneself and cannot give love to the others. If I continue the way I am, just caring about my future life and not about the people that surrounds me, I'll end up marrying a person like and complaining about the desires of my wife "I haven't got the time top raise a brat."

So, this is something I really need to avoid. If I ever become a dad, I'd wish to raise my child in a caring home.


Here is the video of the song. It is from a live performing of the band at Pinkpop festival.

It's easy to condemn without looking in the mirror

The third song is from the Dutch Symphonic Metal band Epica. It is called Cry for the Moon and it comes from their first album, The Phantom Agony. The song talks (even though it is not in an extremely evident way) about the abuses of the priests on the children.

I picked this song because I really despise Catholic Church in general. I believe that it is more a bad influence in the world that a good one. There are lots of cases in México of priests that have done unforgivable things with children. That kind of people deserve to burn in the hell they preach about.

The song by itself is really beautiful. Even the male growling vocals help to the express the main subject of the song, as an angered voiced that is raising his voice against the abuses of the high priests.

Here is a video with the song:

Sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight

The second song in my album is Enter Sandman, from the American Trash Metal band Metallica. It comes from one of their most famous albums, Metallica. This song is important to me because it is my favorite song from one of my favorite bands. Metallica for me was the gate to listening new music and not just what the major stations dared to broadcast.

Once, a friend of mine was trying to tag people with what he thought was the music that may represent each one. I was quite pleased when he said that he identified me with "Enter Sandman".

The lyric is about a character in European folclore. He is the sandman, or Morpheus, who delivers dreams to the people, but is not able to have own dreams. In the song, the interpretation of this leyend is twisted in a rather scary way. The Sandman is depicted as a man that delivers nightmares. I think that Metallica explores in a superb way the duality of this character that at first sight looks so good.

The song may be even based in a short movie, called The Sandman, in which the character is presented as a horrible and cruel animal.

Here is the short movie:



And this it the video of the song:

Walls of Isengard face the northern winds

The first song I'd like to present is called "Forked Height", from the Finnish metal band Battlelore. And why did i choose this one. Actually, because the band in general talk in all their songs about passages in Tolkien's books. As you could have imagined by the image in the cover, I love Tolkien's fiction. Since it has been a constant in almost all my life, well, I decided to publish this song.

The song is kind of an hymn to an important place in The Lord of the Rings: Isengard, the Gondorian fortress that Saruman the white ocuppied and that later on became his fortress in the war against Rohan.

To be honest, it is not one of my favorite songs. Actually, the band has a mediocre sound, but the album this song comes from, Songs of the Sword, is their best work. It has a good structure and the female clean vocals are really good (even though the male growlings are not the best I've heard in my life).

Below is the video with the song, please try to ignore the video, I couldn't get another version of the song in a streaming media

Description of a photograph

Today, I'd like to publish the description of a photograph. Well, actually what I wanted wasn´t to show my skills describing pictures but to show this great photo. It is from a website called Deviantart, which features works from amateur artists who can find in this website a site to share their work. The page isn't restricted to photograph. People who write, draw, or do animation with Flash, among others, can upload their works there.

This is the picture:


It is called "He told me to even breathe" and it comes from a the username ~joganelken.
The link to the picture is this one: ~http://joganelken.deviantart.com/art/He-told-me-not-to-even-breathe-105979084.

So, here comes the description:

The first thing that catches the eye in the picture is the girl. She is stained with blood. The blood covers her lips like if it dripped from there. Her hands are also filled with the red fluid, as other parts of her face.

It can also be noted that she is quite good natured. We can only see her face and part of her chest and arms. She has brown big eyes. She is also a brunette with long hair that falls in her forehead.

Her environment is depressive. She is lying on the floor that is stained with blood as well.

Her attitude is what may amaze mostly the observer. She appears to be in silence and calm, even though she is covered with blood. Putting aside her state, she appears to be fine. But she is kind of misterious as well. She is staring directly into the observer and is making a gesture with her hand, demanding silence from us who watch her.

The most bizarre thing of the picture is that she doesn't seem to be alarmed by anything, like if she was used to be in that state. The picture is remisniscent of a song by an Amercian band called Otep. The song is called "House of Secrets", and the lyrics sound like the kind of thing that the person in the picture would say.

CD

Well, this will be the beggining of a serie of posts that will have about ten songs. This songs won't be in my blog because they are my favorite or something like that, but because the lyrics or the music expresses something important for me. I had to design a cover for the album, and this was all I could do:

It shows my lack of skills with Paint.Net, but considering that I did it in like ten minutes, the result could have been way worse. The painting depicts the death of Smaug, the principal antagonist in Tolkien's The Hobbit. Smaug was a fierce big dragon who destroyed a complete kingdom but lately died because of the skill of an archer, who later became king.

Personal anecdote

The new English task was to write an "amusing and light-hearted anecdote from my childhood. I was surprised since I cannot remeber any anecdote of that kind. Maybe if I sit an hour and just think, I will get the best anecdote, but since it is class work, well, this is it. May be I blocked all my childhood memories.

When I was young (I don’t remember the age, I don’t use to bother about that kind of details) I wanted to learn to ride a bicycle. My dad, who is kind of a short-tempered man, couldn’t teach me so I passed quite some time without a bike. But one day my uncle, who is, well, weird, tried to teach me. To be honest I was kind of afraid. I’d never rode a bicycle until then. Well, I had, but with the training wheels, so it didn’t really count. At this point I’m pretty sure that you can notice that I’m not a brave person. But I got on the bike, started to advance, I started to raise my speed! Then I felt. But I tried until I was able to do it. But to be honest, I never really liked bikes after the whole experience.