Video
This is my mates Marek, Nick and Louis’ band, ‘The Fifth Member’.
This is one of their new tracks, I personally love it and would appreciate it if you could have a listen to it and share with your friends !
Thanks xxxxxxxxx
Post
’Tell me, when you’re alone do you sometimes think about your partner and feel sad?’’
“Of course,” he says. “It happens sometimes. When the moon turns blue, when the birds fly south, when – “
“Why of course” I ask.
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time. It’s only a natural feeling. You’re not the person who discovered that feeling, so don’t go trying to patent it, OK?”
I put down my fork and look up.
“A fond, old faraway room?”
“Precisely,” Oshima says. He holds his fork straight up for the emphasis. “Just a metaphor, of course.”
Photo
“A good shoe is one that doesn’t dress you but undresses you. So if a woman is naked, and wearing shoes, she should still look nude.” - Christian Louboutin
Video
Video
Audio post - Played 0 times
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Regina Spektor - Oedipus
Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family:
King Oedipus, aware that a terrible curse has befallen Thebes, sends his brother-in-law, Creon, to seek the advice of Apollo. Creon informs Oedipus that the curse will be lifted if the murderer of Laius, the former king, is found and prosecuted. Laius was murdered many years ago at a crossroads.
Oedipus dedicates himself to the discovery and prosecution of Laius’s murderer. Oedipus subjects a series of unwilling citizens to questioning, including a blind prophet. Teiresias, the blind prophet, informs Oedipus that Oedipus himself killed Laius. This news really bothers Oedipus, but his wife Jocasta tells him not to believe in prophets, they’ve been wrong before. As an example, she tells Oedipus about how she and King Laius had a son who was prophesied to kill Laius and sleep with her. Well, she and Laius had the child killed, so obviously that prophecy didn’t come true, right?
Jocasta’s story doesn’t comfort Oedipus. As a child, an old man told Oedipus that he was adopted, and that he would eventually kill his biological father and sleep with his biological mother. Not to mention, Oedipus once killed a man at a crossroads, which sounds a lot like the way Laius died.
Jocasta urges Oedipus not to look into the past any further, but he stubbornly ignores her. Oedipus goes on to question a messenger and a shepherd, both of whom have information about how Oedipus was abandoned as an infant and adopted by a new family. In a moment of insight, Jocasta realizes that she is Oedipus’s mother and that Laius was his father. Horrified at what has happened, she kills herself. Shortly thereafter, Oedipus, too, realizes that he was Laius’s murder and that he’s been married to (and having children with) his mother. In horror and despair, he gouges his eyes out and is exiled from Thebes.
Page 1 of 6
