On day 7, God created rock music

I hope I don't sound too blasphemic. My intention is not to disparage God, but to highlight the great value called rock music. This entry is mostly meant to worship this type of music, so if you don't like it then this is your chance to close my blog and go watch some Rihanna or Akon on youtube.


As you probably know, music is a big part of my life: I can't study/do homework without it, I can't travel without it and it's hard for me to walk without my headphones (if I am by myself). And most of the time, I listen to indie/alternative type of rock, the one I can't get enough of. Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Placebo, Stereophonics, Interpol, Coldplay, The Killers, Radiohead and Arcade Fire are only a few from my never-ending list of favorite bands and I recommend them to anyone who wants deep lyrics and complex sounds. Why do I love indie?


Hmm, I can't put my finger on what I like about it...the guitars, the drums, the bass (Franz Ferdinand have the most incredible bass ever!), the attitude, the shoes, the metaphoric lyrics and the voice. The vocal part is very important to me because if I don't like it, a band could have the greatest intrumental in the world and I still wouldn't listen to them. There is no "voice-pattern" that I look after in a band...there's a variety of voices that I love. From the androgynous one of Brian Molko to the throaty ones of Kelly Jones and Richard Ashcroft, from mellow like Thom Yorke and Chris Martin to the intense voice of Win Butler, from boyish like Alex Turner to manly like Paul Banks . However, I'm very picky about female voices: I tend to avoid strong voies like the singers' from Nightwish or Evanescence, and go for soothing ones, like The Cardigans, Massive Attack or Portishead (the last 2 are rather electro than indie).

Enough jabber about voice analysis. This music is my fuel and I'm not joking. You should see how slowly I walk when I don't listen to music, but I go up to Observator from downtown in 15 minutes when I do.

Of course, rock isn't only about alternative. It's also heavy metal, punk rock, death metal, psychedelic rock, classic rock, glam rock and many more. I listen to some of these according to my mood, like Rammstein, Marilyn Manson or Metallica. Because you know....alternative has some negative parts too. And that is represented by bands like Good Charlotte, My Chemical Romance and a few other American bands which promote the 'emo' culture....I think I told you about those emo kiddies at the OCS concert... So alternative rocks, emo sucks. End of discussion.

And now to end my little review (I could write more, but I've never been this tired in my life and I'm not feeling 100%) I will post the lyricsand the video of Suede's song "Trash"

Oh maybe maybe it's the clothes we wear,
The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair,
Maybe it's our kookiness,
Oh maybe maybe it's our nowhere towns,
Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds,
Maybe it's our cheapness,

We're trash, you and me
We're the litter on the breeze,
We're the lovers on the streets,
Just trash, me and you,
It's in everything we do,
it's in everything we do

Or maybe maybe it's the things we said,
The words we heard and the music we play,
Maybe it's our sweetness,
Oh maybe maybe it's the times we've had,
The lazy days and the crazes and the fads,
Maybe it's our cheapness,

But we're trash, you and me,
We're the litter on the breeze,
We're the lovers on the streets,J
ust trash, me and you,
It's in everything we do,
It's in everything we do

The Ghost of Highschool

If you read a few posts back, I bragged about how well I knew at the Mechanics exam. I didn't expect a 10 but I expected around 7-8. Well, on Wednesday, the professor brought us the results (or rizalts as he calls them) for the application. Reduction of forces 7 (i can't believe he took 3 points away because I forgot to do a bloody summation that gives the resultant; i found the moment of force correctly and I don't think a summation was worth 3 points) and centres of masses 4. Which means I will get an application from centers of masses in the big exam. Grrr I'm so pissed about that 7. I don't give a damn about that 4 because I'll improve until January, but grrrrrr I could've got more than 7 if he had marked me more 'humanly'.
And speaking of marking methods...mom told me I'm not in highschool anymore, to expect points even if i messed up some calculus or didn't finish the exercise but got the idea. And this made me a bit nostalgic...I miss highschool. Not because of those damned grades. But because of the atmosphere...as soon as the bell rang, I was outside in the lovely park that Sincai Highschool has, chatting and laughing with my friends. I used to be late to most classes because we extended our conversations. And then after sitting at my desk, I used to take out my sandwich and eat it then, since breaks are meant for talking, not eating. All that atmosphere I was familiar with (especially since Sincai had been my 2nd home for 8 years) is now gone. Instead, I go to a university with no nice park, with buildings scattered all around the city (including one on Bulevardul Muncii at the end of the world! i have to go by tram there), with teachers who don't let you in if you are late (some of them), who give us tests from what we learnt in that lesson at the end of the class and who get upset and become drama-queens because they think your tone when greeting them wasn't appropriate. Geeesh. But my Sincai time is gone, it's history, and I have to move on and get used to living 'university style'.
By the way about eating during classes...the first hour of the Phyisics lecture on Friday was so cool, we learnt about sound waves and octaves and all that cool real-life stuff and I was finally happy that I understood something at that subject. Eating my yummy sandwich at the same time :)). But then in the 2nd hour, it all went back to normal: same old babble, pointless, rubbish 'omega' and 'psi' and all those Greek notations that I hate.

Today's song is my all-time favorite song: Special Needs by Placebo. Please watch the video too.

Remember me when you're the one who's silver screened
Remember me when you're the one you always dreamed
Remember me whenever noses start to bleed
Remember me, special needs

Just 19 and sucker's dream
I guess I thought you had the flavour
Just 19 and dream obscene
with six months off for bad behaviour

Remember me when you clinch your movie deal
And think of me stuck in my chair that has four wheels
Remember me through flash photography and screams
Remember me, special dreams

Just 19 this sucker's dream
I guess I thought you had the flavour
Just 19 and dream obscene
with six months off for bad behaviour

Just 19 and sucker's dream
I guess I thought you had the flavour
Just 19 and dream obscene
with six months off for bad behaviour

Remember me...

Just 19 this sucker's dream
I guess I thought you had the flavour
Just 19 and dream obscene
with six months off for bad behaviour
Just 19 and sucker's dream
I guess I thought you had the flavour
Just 19 and dream obscene
with six months off for bad behaviour

Remember me...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elVMHKb8A4A

OCS!!!!

Finally! November 17th has come and it was time for the Omul cu sobolani concert. I met up with my friend Daniela at8 o'clock but the concert started only after 10. grrrrreat! the 2 hours of wait were looooooong, but filled with good music! They played Muse, The Cure, The Killers, Keane and Placebo (just to mention a few of my favorite bands):X so I was entertained :)) There were so many 13 year old emo kids that I freaked out :-ss. Call me old-fashioned if you like, but I'm a bit scared whenevr I look at these kiddies...what will they be when they grow up? Urgh, I'd rather not think about it.
Back to the concert. They started with 'Nu incerca asa ceva acasa", one of my favorite songs and sang a few songs from their latest album, as well as some older ones. The microphone really sucked and poor Dan (the singer) had to hold the cable in a certain position or otherwise his voice could not be heard. So boo for the sound! Big boo! But they were funny, interacted a lot with the crowd and the atmosphere was alright. I was on the right side of the stage, quite close to them and I managed to get away without being stepped on! My shoes look like new :D But don't think that I just stood there and watched. I headbanged and danced around, sang along to their songs and had a good time. Well what a normal person does at a rock concert. By the time the concert ended, I was soaking wet. I have to say, I prefer outdoor concerts because you have plenty of air, but here...geesh we were close to suffocating. Where's the AC when you need it?!
All in all, the concert was ok. Thumbs up for Dan, Cezar, Nucu and Mihnea, their music is great and they are funny, but big boo for the sound. It pretty much blew it. But I'll surely be there at their next concert! OCS rock!
Song of the day is "Razna" by OCS :D youtube link included :)

chiar nu ma intereseaza
parerea celorlalti nu conteaza
nu-mi pasa, stiu c-or sa vorbeasca
nebuniei mele sa se-mpotriveasca
inseamna atat de putin pentru mine
oricum fac cam tot ce imi vine,
nu urmaresc chiar sa displac
da' refuz mereu sa va fac pe plac.

vad sanatorii cu balcoane,
borcane de pastile goale,
camasi de forta dantelate,
reflexe neconditionate.

nu imi pasa ce-or sa zica,
stiu oricum c-or sa-mi poarte pica
tu esti mai putin nebun decat mine
eu sunt cel ce stie totul despre tine.......

sunt nebun, imi spun nebun, ma simt nebun....
razna am luat-o cu totii,
dar voi, ca tontii, nu observati
ca am luat-o razna cu totii,dar eu....

vad sanatorii cu balcoane,
borcane de pastile goale,
camasi de forta dantelate,
reflexe prea conditionate!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzRerpVuwR8

Aaaaaaah what a fine day for science!!!!

Dexter's famous line defines today perfectly. It's not like I'm a genius when it comes to Mechanics (or Michenix as our professor pronounces it, the syllable in Italics being the stressed one) but I think I did quite okay in the partial exam. I knew the theory about the reduction of parallel forces (I just hope I wrote enough), I think I solved the problem with reduction of forces right and then I messed up a bit the problem with centers of masses, but I hope he'll give me half the points for it as I wrote quite a lot of correct things. After the exam I had a coffee with my colleagues Mia, Sorana and Paul in Hard Rock Cafe (they played 'Plug-In Baby' from Muse among other lovely songs :X) and then headed to another building of the university for 4 gruesome hours of Algebra. God I hate that subject. Not as much as Physics, but 4 hours in a row of this subject are simply too much.
Some other good news for me was that the English teacher accepted me in the preparation group for the LCCI exam (a more professional type of Cambridge exam) which will be held in April 2008. I’m looking forward to this new challenge and I hope it won’t prove too difficult for a 1st year student.
Oh well, 2 more days of Uni and then the weeeeeekend!!! And I’m going out on Saturday to the OCS concert \:D/ I can’t wait!
Today’s song is “Dakota” by Stereophonics, which gives me a bittersweet sensation, but I love it a lot. It’s probably my favorite ‘phonics song so I’ll put a link to it’s youtube video (for the ones who don’t know it)

Thinking about thinking of you
Summertime think it was June
Yeah think it was June
Laying back, head on the grass
Children grown having some laughs
Yeah having some laughs.

You made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one
You made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one

Drinking back, drinking for two
Drinking with you
And drinking was new
Sleeping in the back of my car
We never went far
Needed to go far

You made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one
You made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one

I don't know where we are going now
I don't know where we are going now

Wake up cold coffee and juice
Remembering you
What happened to you?
I wonder if we'll meet again
Talk about us instead
Talk about why did it end

You made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one
You made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one

I don't know where we are going now
I don't know where we are going now
So take a look at me now


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUHjDJxkcSE[/youtube

What a fine day. Blah.

Great. This is just great. I hate whining but my state of mind screams to me to do so. I hate having arguments with people, especially the ones I consider close, but I feel so damn stressed out right now that I simply cannot control myself and my reactions. It’s been a crazy week of arriving late at home and waking up early in the morning and an even crazier week awaits me, with a partial exam at Mechanics and a big test at Building Materials (where I’ve already landed some quite fucked up grades) so this weekend has one word written all over it: STUDY. Yes. Study hard, study a lot because I cannot afford to mess up even more…now I’m starting to feel the repercussions of treating the first month of university as an appendix of the summer vacation. The snowball has grown from fist-size to snowman-size and I don’t want it growing even more. It’s not the quantity of material that I have to study, but the quality, because all the elements that we’ve been taught are important for the exams we’ll have in Jan-Feb and if I don’t understand them now, I might as well search for another university. And in addition I’ve taken up Spanish classes, which are very cool because I’ve wanted to learn Spanish for like 3 or 4 years and now that I’m finally getting round to doing it I’m really pleased, but the thing is that the classes are in the evenings so I get home even more tired. So no, I don’t feel like going out. There’s simply no more fuel for the engine.
And I promise this is the last time I whine in a blog entry. But I felt like I had to pour it out somewhere and this place is the best to do so. The ego box is not so pink right now…but I hope it will be next weekend.

Closer to the past

Hello there!
Today I went to the cemetery with my parents as it was the day when we remember the dead. We got there late, at about 6 pm when it was already dark. All the graves were decorated with candles and and the ocean of light really impressed me. It was as if the past had come to life. I compared it to Tuesday afternoon when I went to clean my grandparents' grave and it was a gorgeous autumn day. Then the gloomy spirit of the cemetery really caught me as I was coming down the hill...I kept on stopping to take a closer look to some graves that were old and tried to imagine how those people lived. I felt the whole place pulsating with history and I felt so small and overwhelmed. But today it was different. The spiderweb of candlelights filled me up with a sensation of past inserted into in the present. In addition, from the top of the hill I saw a panorama of the city and I have to say I realized (again!) how much I love my city and what a big feeling of belonging it gives me. Wherever life may take me, I know a piece of me will be here.

And probably from now on, each post will have a song's lyrics in it. I guess "Hoodoo" from Muse is the song of the day as I listened to it about 10 times today :)) I like to call it the "mad-scientist song" especially because of the piano part :X the lyrics are beautiful :X

Come into my life
Regress into a dream
We will hide
And build a new reality
Draw another picture
Of the life you could have had
Follow your instincts
And choose the other path
You should never be afraid
You're protected
From trouble and pain
Why
Why is this a crisis in your eyes again
Come to be
How did it come to be
Tied to a railroad
No love to set us free
Watch our souls fade away
And our bodies crumbling
Don't be afraid
I will take the cold for you
I've had recurring nightmares
That I was loved for who I am
And missed the opportunity
To be a better man