Castle Shima

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams

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You've Woken The Demon
Result! Here is another great combination of music with the movie Akira. Its another family oriented song too.

Down With The Sickness by Disturbed

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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
Slow toll now the funeral bells
I need to die to feel alive
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Be excellent to each other.
-- Bill from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

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I Got A Lump Of Coal

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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
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Memories are meant to fade. They're designed that way for a reason.
-- Mace from Strange Days

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Poverty And Power
I've always loved anime, specifically Akira. You could say I was born from Akira. Enjoy!

O Fortuna Remixed

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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy. For what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another.
-- Anatole France

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Should Have Changed My Fucking Lock
I always loved this cover version and never realized there was a video for it. Time to jam.

I Will Survive by Cake

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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

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Memorial
For Clan Mp...

She Is Gone by David Harkins
You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she has lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,
Or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,
Or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her only that she is gone,
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind,
Be empty and turn your back.
Or you can do what she'd want:
Smile, open your eyes,
Love and go on.
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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
Slow toll now the funeral bells
I need to die to feel alive
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Beat Those Little Bastards!
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Thanks to Starfury for this one.
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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
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You have broken what could not be broken! Now, hope is broken.
-- Merlin from Excalibur

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My World Is Half Asleep
Here is a decent video with Christopher Ecceleston as The Doctor. He played the Ninth Doctor, prior to David Tennant.

The song is abit mushy, but what the heck. We all need a bit of mush every so often. Heh.


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Noose around a choking heart
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
-- Norman Cousins

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After My Picture Fades

Time After Time by QuietDrive

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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
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There was no reason for me to stay in the real world any longer. In the real world, it didn't matter if I was there or not. When I realized that, I was no longer afraid of losing my body.
-- Chisa from Serial Experiments: Lain

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Without Further Adieu
First and foremost, I need to say Happy Belated Birthday to the brodyman, Starfury. Many more, sir!

I Exist
Serial Experiments: Lain is an anime series that touches on life, existance, and the Wired. What is life? Is it the one we live here or perhaps its the one in a virtual world? And if we were within that virtual world, would we know the difference?

Mad World by Gary Jules

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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
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We could have both gone away. We could have died together. Then at least I would have known I had a place in your heart.
-- Kei from Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

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Just Kill Me, Bill!
I've always liked this song even before it was part of the Halo2 soundtrack. This video seemed so more fitting since its also from Jin-Roh.

Blow Me Away by Breaking Benjamins

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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Never Forget
Today is the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. We honour those who lost their lives this day.
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Change of Pace
While I was working on National Novel Month (aka Nanowrimo), I found quotes and poets I never even considered. Granted, I failed Nanowrimo again, but thats another story.

I've always known Henry Rollins as the musician and the actor. He's even got his own television show on the Independant Film Channel. But as a poet, I definately am gaining a new respect for him.

Here was one of my favorites:
My feelings for you shame me into silence. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed.

It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life.

The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this.

You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me.

It is you who makes me see what I really am.

I am weak and out of touch with myself.
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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
-- Lance Armstrong

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We Didnt Start The Bubble
I tried to have at least one entry that didnt have a video attached, but this one is just to funny to pass up.



Thanks Pixelfish!
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Noose around a choking heart
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You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.
-- Shawn Taylor, ironically from his last known interview.

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My December
Yet another music video, but a very impressive one.


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Noose around a choking heart
Eternity torn apart
Slow toll now the funeral bells
I need to die to feel alive
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When dreaming, I'm guided through another world, time and time again. At sunrise I fight to stay asleep, because I dont want to leave the comfort of this place, because there's a hunger, a longing to escape, from the life I live when I'm awake.
-- Anonymous

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Spinning Turning Watching Burning
Here is a song I've been singing alot lately. Granted its been in the car so no one could get hurt. That is unless you happened to be in the car as well. Then we are wiping the blood from your ears.

Spin by Lifehouse

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Its not the tree that forsakes the flower
But the flower that forsakes the tree
Someday I'll learn to love these scars
Still fresh from the red hot
Blade of your words
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All our lives we search for someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance the song of heartbreak and hope all the while, wondering if somewhere, somehow there is someone searching for us.
-- Anonymous

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Dance Damn It!
I absolutely refuse to watch that dancing show, but I will admit that I love to dance. It must be because of my love of music.

Some dancing is just too mushy, even for me. This video is a prime example.



Thanks Mermaid. I blame you for this. Hehehe...
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Its not the tree that forsakes the flower
But the flower that forsakes the tree
Someday I'll learn to love these scars
Still fresh from the red hot
Blade of your words
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life
-- Napoleon Bonapart

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I'll Be Around

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Its not the tree that forsakes the flower
But the flower that forsakes the tree
Someday I'll learn to love these scars
Still fresh from the red hot
Blade of your words
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When you remember me, do not recall the king or the hero. Remember me as a man; frail and fragile.
-- Beowulf

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The Word According to Gaiman
I finally got to watch Beowulf. It was definately worth it, especially in full 3d.


I didnt realize that my favorite author, Neil Gaiman, helped produce and write this version of the epic poem. He has always been able to write something that intrigued me as well as touched my senses. American Gods is one of my favorite books for so many reasons.

Here is one of my favorite quotes from Gaiman:

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it?

It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life.

You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like "maybe we should be just friends" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.

I hate love.
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Its not the tree that forsakes the flower
But the flower that forsakes the tree
Someday I'll learn to love these scars
Still fresh from the red hot
Blade of your words
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The great essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-- Joseph Addison

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For The Halo Fans
From I Can Has Cheezburger site:


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Its not the tree that forsakes the flower
But the flower that forsakes the tree
Someday I'll learn to love these scars
Still fresh from the red hot
Blade of your words
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I treasure my remark to a grandson who asked, "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?" "No", I answered, "But I served in a company of heroes".
-- Richard Winters, 101st Airborne Division

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Over The Hills and Far Away
I have never been in full combat nor had to fight for my freedom. Veterans from past, present and future have done that.

For that, this day, we give thanks.

I think I've posted this in the past, but it seems appropriate.

Although this is a traditional British song, its been used recently in the tv series Sharpe's Rifles. I've always liked the way it described a soldier's life. And if thought carefully, it still applies today as it did back then.

Over The Hills And Far Away by John Tams
There's forty shillings on the drum
For those who volunteer to come,
To 'list and fight the foe today
Over the Hills and far away

O'er the hills and o'er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain
King George commands and we obey
O'er the hills and far away

When duty calls me I must go
To stand and face another foe
But part of me will always stray
Over the hills and far away

Through smoke and fire and shot and shell,
And to the very walls of hell,
But we shall stand and we shall stay
Over the hills and far away

If I should fall to rise no more
As many comrades did before
Then ask the fifes and drums to play
Over the hills and far away

Then fall in lads behind the drum
With colours blazing like the sun
Along the road to come what may
Over the hills and far away

Though kings and tyrants come and go
A soldier's life is all I know
I'll live to fight another day
Over the hills and far away.
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Its not the tree that forsakes the flower
But the flower that forsakes the tree
Someday I'll learn to love these scars
Still fresh from the red hot
Blade of your words
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Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
-- Tim Allen

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Chasing Cars
I've always been a fan of Doctor Who, now more than ever.

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Its not the tree that forsakes the flower
But the flower that forsakes the tree
Someday I'll learn to love these scars
Still fresh from the red hot
Blade of your words
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