"a certain theme or topic that fascinates you - without which you wouldn't necessarily have felt inclined to check the music out in the first place?"

well, I'm so tired of myself today and it's the last thing I would like to speak about ... I want to back up a certain seedbed or the pre-conditioning of terms

let's take for example the song called "The Voices" / from Enslaved's album "Monumension", I haven't read the lyric ... nothing better I can come up in the moment

Thanks for responding, please elaborate further my friend. What is it that you try to get across? What fascinates you with the Enslaved song?
Ah the drugs that make us type the letters...

well, what came to my mind when I read the first sentence - "I hear the voices.." of this lyric ... it is those pictures of lives of artists.., writers most of all, because some of them, honest or liars, perpetuated something that sort of stands on a pulpit ...

some of the people of letters have spread over me the canvass of the stories of their lives and I see them going everywhere they want and doing whatever they want ...

sometimes I say to myself that it would take immortality to withstand the inertia of my mind, I'll use a quote to include its author : "all my enemies vanquished en route"

Seems conspicuous to me that you associate the themes and motifs of well-treasured music very very much with your own life experiences - which is good of course!

So I understand that artists, or artistically inclined friends of yours have something (maybe the so-called "creative outlet") that you admire? What would happen if you followed your own "voices"?



Oh this is something I can relate to - the daily inertia of the mind. Hope I can conquer it one day! Oh what we could aspire to achieve without the poison in our heads (and souls)!

"very very much" :lol:
ok, I admit mine might be too much

"So I understand that artists, or artistically inclined friends of yours have something (maybe the so-called "creative outlet") that you admire?"

:lol: yes, admiration, approval, but hardly envy over "creative outlet". But if we take life as a work of art or the art of living, the scales are tipped, cause I don't have very much to say about myself.

What would happen if you followed your own "voices"?

In reality, I suppose, cause I don't have anything up to the criterion of stability of art!?

dunno, it would be kinda solitary, I think.

I'm in the middle of reading Decibel Magazine's "Precious Metals - 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces"

It's a compilation of interviews with 25 of extreme metals innovators, and the making of their "breakthrough" albums - includes Celtic Frost/Morbid Tales, Morbid Angel/Altars of Madness, Carcass/Necroticism - Descanting the Insaubrious, Darkthrone/Transylvanian Hunger, and many more. Very cool to read interviews with these various musicians, especially because extreme metal is still very much in the underground, even today.

Thomas Aquinas - Summa Contra Gentiles (mostly volumes I and II) and Summa Theologica (mostly volume I).

Wow, Olivier, heavy stuff! At the shop I work we have a copy of the first ten volumes of Sancti Thomae Aquinatis Opera omnia, the edition at the instigation edition of pope Leo XIII. Heavy stuff indeed, approx. 10 kilograms

But really, I am surprised someone actually still cares about these important works. Regarding another threat, you know that von Aquin did a huge comment on metaphysics?

Yeah, this man died young (at the age of 49) but he has written a HUGE body of work. I wonder if there are many contemporary equivalents: I doubt it. Indeed he wrote enormous comments on most of the Corpus Aristotelicum which was available back then, such as Metaphysics, Physics, Logic, Ethics, etc., as well as many other original works of theology, psychology, cosmology, etc. etc... Well I read Thomas partly because it's part of my job and studies, partly because it's quite amazing to explore such a systematic way of thinking.

Gah! Thomas Aquinas... I've spent so much time pouring over his texts that just the mention of his name makes me shudder now... though he was a very interesting character, almost revolutionary considering the period in which he was writing.

I would also recommend Peter Abelard, the French philosopher/logician. His work Sic Et Non is excellent, it's absolutely amazing to think he actually got away with writing some of the things he did during the height of the papacy and the Catholic orthodox church. Most of his works are just series of random thoughts and questions, never giving any answers (for if he did he may as well have been branded a heretic)... they were mostly used as thought exercises for his students.

There was also a massive controversy over his affair with a female student of his named Heloise, you may have heard of it. He also wrote an autobiography about that episode which is interesting in itself.

When I took a course in philosophy history, they said that they were a bit annoyed, because people only know Abelard as this romantic tragic hero (he fell in love with his pupil rich girl Heloise, father took notice & emasculated Abelard, who kept writing these extremely passionate & beautiful letters to her). But of course, he was first and foremost a very important Medieval philosopher, the first academic they say.

Myself is currently reading only for the sake of the English literature course I'm taking; first Jane Eyre, now The Great Gatsby. Great books of course, but more than a little worn from endless discussions. But fortunately, I'm going to write a degree paper on late 19th century horror fiction (analysis of setting) - M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Robert W Chambers. Lovely!

Just finished Schiller´s "Wallenstein" and started "Don Carlos". I am on an "old school" spree right now after buying my last Discworld-book, thus completing my collection.

yeah i've heard of thta one...i think its a compilation of artciles fomr the magazine right...


im reading the collector's giuide to heavy metal.....vol. 2.. the 80's ..and it is amazing....by martin popoff...some the best music EVER !!! using it as my donwlaod guide in the blosphere...


also started n the songs of fire and ice by george martin...whooooooooooo

Men Who Hate Women

a book about Sweden, or Scandinavian design, it has very little in common with the genre set by American standard.

Hehe, you mean the criminal novel by Stieg Larsson? EVERYONE here has read it, EVERYONE has an opinion, and EVERYONE thinks Lisbeth Salander is the coolest woman ever born from fiction, after Pippi Longstockings.





Swedish girls, you know.