Amy Lee- the voice
There's just something about her voice that sears into your soul, very much like a knife- but in a good way. Yes, of course all Evanescence songs are incredibly depressing, and almost all of them have to do with not being noticed or not getting enough attention. But sometimes, I just like listening to them for Amy Lee's voice. It is so drenched with emotion that you can't help but be drawn to it.
Kudos to Evanescence's song writers too. I love the lines "You used to captivate me by your resonating light. But now i'm bound by the life you left behind. Your face, it haunts my once pleasant dreams. Your voice, it chased away all of the sanity in me. There's just too much that time cannot erase."
To me, this is brilliant. No one since John Lennon writes songs like this. The deepest extent of any hit song lyrics these days is "shake it like a Polaroid picture."
Evanescence is different.
It's beautiful.
Grow some brains if you can
I really want to know why reporters cannot get better questions to ask newly famous people than "how do you handle all the attention?" or "how do you respond to all the gossip about you." And it's ridiculous, especially because they always think that they have just invented this question and that it is very clever of them...it's like really?
And then the famous person always answers like "I don't let the gossip bother me at all. I think it's good to have any kind of publicity. Being talked about means that I still exist. It only bothers me when they talk about the people I love. But they can call me a crack-whore/man-slut for all I care. I know who I am on the inside."
Every time they say this, they think that they have just given an incredibly innovative answer.
The Evolutionary Case for Promiscuity: Human Beings were never meant to be Monogomous!
Textbook Definitions:
Monogamy-> involves the formation of a lasting pair bond between one male and one female. This behavior is common in birds, and uncommon in mammals because
a) The avian mother is no better suited than the father to provide for the needs of the young like food, warmth and protection. Without him, the young carrying his genes may not survive. Among mammals
b) Among Mammals,such as human beings, the situation is different. Females lactate (produce milk), providing food for the young. Males often can contribute little or nothing to the survival of the young. So, it is to their ADVANTAGE to mate with as many females as possible.
It's like I've always said, human beings were never meant to be monogamous!
As my apartment-mate says, however, "just because you can, doesn't mean you should."
I don't know about that.
I guess this textbook definition doesn't really make it okay for women to be promiscuous, but does for men. I guess this would be a good time to remind everyone that the STD (sexually transmitted disease) rate in the country is 1 out of ever 4 people....that's 25%....that's a LOT. So, ahem, **don't sleep around**.
The time has come when I have to outgrow Charmed and Gilmore Girls...I don't Wanna!
This day is here again. It is the last day of a vacation, the day when I'm always like "shit, what the fuck did I bring all those textbooks for if I wasn't going to read a single one of them?" and "shit, that stuff was actually REALLY heavy. Why, didn't I just leave them at the apartment?"
Anyway, I'm going to be leaving home again in a few hours, off into the world of term papers and mid-terms. Yes, that's right. This is how I've come to think of college now. Once upon a time, it used to be the world of awesome parties and cute guys. But no, now it is a universe of tiresome drunken events and douche-bag-like guys.
Once upon a time I used to be excited about being away from home, from the creepy evil that is my parents. I used to pine for the day of freedom, where I could do whatever I wanted, live a dream life. Then, I came to college.
Let me just tell you: my first year was hand-down the crappiest experience I have ever had. EVER. It was even worse than my 9th grade gym class of having to run 2 miles every day as a "warm-up." It was EVEN worse than having to sit next to that smelly lady on an 8 HOUR trip from Dulles to Heathrow. It was just plain shitty.
Imagine how much I liked my first year, if the best experience I ever had was getting the FLU for 2 weeks, and getting to come home- even though my family was moving at the time, so I had no home--but I was still glad to get out of that crap hole!!!
Anyway, away from that tangent, I have to go back to college now. Even though the once-shit-hole is no longer as much of a shit-hole, due to the very lucky event of finding great friends to live with, I must say that I am not at all that excited about going back.
Even now I am telling myself that I will read my Environmental Policy reader (of over 200 pages) during every stop light on the way. Many may pass this off as wishful thinking, but I, am very serious about doing it.
At least for now :)
Labels: I wonder, Musings
And the shadoes of time recede as they always do.
The wind slows, chills, and goes.
The sunlight is covered by a blue cloud.
The trees lose every gorgeous green leaf.
And yet life does not hold still.
It moves on.
It always finds a way.
Labels: Poetry
WAS This the Face that Launched a Thousand Ships and Burnt the Topless Towers of Ilium?
Okay, maybe I just watched Shakespeare in Love (refer to title). Again. But I think this has to be said...
Sirens are not a new concept.
No, I am not talking about those things in Ambulances. I mean those gorgeous sea nymphs who would lure sailors into crashing on their shores.
Women have been blamed-let's be honest- for so many things that had nothing to do with them.
Case in point, Helen was blamed for the destruction of Troy- even though the war had so much more to do with internal politics than to do with Paris' lust/love for Her. Regardless, that's precisely how history depicts it. Helen is the woman who bewitched the most powerful men in the world to fight over her. She destroyed the will of man with her beauty.
Whether or not this story is actually true, it holds an unbelievable amount charm in it's idea. The idea of the power of a beautiful woman is thrilling.
The past is riddled with such examples.
Think about Cleopatra and Caesar/Mark Anthony: Cleopatra is the woman who managed to save her country by managing to seduce the most powerful man on Earth.
Then there is the case of Anne Boleyn, who made Henry VIII divorce his wife, overthrow the Roman Catholic Church, and found a new religion altogether just to be with this alluring young woman.
My question has little to do with the actual veracity of these stories. I'm sure that Cleopatra's political policies had more to do with convincing Caesar than her seduction-skills. In fact, if you consult any history textbook, you will find that Cleopatra wasn't at all beautiful. She was known to have a hooked nose, and quite-odd features. So this depiction of her as the "Goddess of The Nile," is great imagination at best. In the situation with Anne Boleyn, Henry's divorce with Queen Catherine had more to do with his paranoia of not having a son than to do with his attraction to Anne.
When you think it then, are men just weak to fall prey to women like that?
I doubt it.
In fact, it would make more sense if these stories were concocted by women to enhance their own ego. But no, they were written by men to blame women for their mistakes.
Not to sound too much like Dan Brown and blab about the Sacred Feminine, I think we really ought to rethink history. Just a little bit.
Labels: I wonder
It is a hot day outside, but in the water, it is perfect. The brilliant blue of the lagoon is breath-taking. The water is a pure reflection of the clear blue sky above it. Beams of light reflect off the exterior of the sunken ship. Fish swim in and out of these beams.
They move in schools, as if they are in perfect harmony with everything around them. There is no anger, no temptation. There is no jealousy, or greed. They are uninhibited by such human flaws, able to simply enjoy presence.
Labels: Musings
