Birthday cartoons!

A week ago it was my birthday. October 13. It also happened to be my 18th birthday. Well, the day before it I read a couple of webcomics (I'm a new fanatic of webcomics, by the way) that were about birthdays.

Both were pretty depressive and contributed to make me worry about being older. Even though people may think that having 18 is a good thing, I guess it is quite sad. You quit being a boy and have a lot of responsablities more.

So, here they are. The first one comes from a webcomic called A Softer World. The tone of this one is pretty sad, it is about sorrow, and sadness and death. But the style in which they are presented is indeed extremelly artistic.

A Softer World

I love the concept.

The second one is from the Perry Bible Fellowship. This one generally present little cute images and ends the strip in a horrible way, or the other way round, or entwines both of them. This one is an example:

The Perry Bible Fellowship


Way creepier, isn't it?

Birthdays are not as good as they may seem at first sight. The 18th one is just especial because you can do legally a lot of stuff you weren't allowed to do before. Putting that aside, it sucks to be an adult.

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: