I recently found out about Chevelle and turns out they're not bad. The very first song I listened to was Vitamin R, on the radio and liked it. Then I heard some other songs, like The Red, Send the Pain Below and Closure and they're good. And I just found out that they're all brothers, Joe, Pete, and Sam Loeffler. Their music sounds very passionate and powerful, and those two things are very important.

 

I used to think that Depeche Mode was an okay band. I never liked them but I did respect them. So when I found out that Marylin Manson's(!) Personal Jesus(!) was actually a cover of Depeche Mode's song, I just assumed that Marylin Manson murdered someone's nice song yet another time (this taking from the time I heard him do a cover of Sweet Dreams). So today I figured I might listen to the original Personal Jesus performed by Depeche Mode and it turned out to be horrible! But let's review the basic facts first: Marylin Manson had no right to sing something titled Personal Jesus in the first place. Would that make him a total hypocrite? Well, you should see the video first. But then again, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I have no right to judge or talk about anything without getting all the facts straight. I think that the song is very nice and another, very talented nice band should take it and make a very nice cover of it. It's like the song Hurt from NIN, a great song just not performed well.

 

Here's a disturbing thing I noticed a while ago. While being a member of iVillage and gURl.com, I post on the message boards. The members of iVillage are mostly women and the members of gURL are teenage girls and here's what I've noticed about the message boards: few people post on the music board of iVillage, while the music board of gURL is the most active. Which confirms the fact that as people grow older, they stop being serious about music. How many adults do you know who listen to music all day long and would rather listen to music than do anything else? I don't want to be one of those adults when I grow up. What if one day I wake up and not feel the need to listen to music to make my life complete? Or worse, discover that I'd rather listen to Celine Dion than, let's say, Tool? That thought really scares me.

 

 

She caught the melting sky

It burned but still the winter passes by and by, to the other side

A slow parade of winds that blows through trees that wilted

With the season's children

Are we saved by the words of bastard saints

Do we live in fear or faith

Tell me now who's behind the rain

 

A tangled maze of grace

The symptoms of "for real" are crumbling from embrace

But still we chace

The shadows of belief, a new religion clouds our visions of the roots of our souls

Are we ashamed of our own faith

Or play the fool for our own sake

Tell me who's behind the rain

 

What do we want, where do we go

When we get where we don't know

Why should we doubt the virgin white of fallen snow

When faith's our shelter from the cold.

 

Quicksand Jesus I'm so far away without you

Quicksand Jesus I'm so far away without you

Quicksand Jesus I'm so far away

Quicksand Jesus I'm so far away

 

Quicksand Jesus I need you

Quicksand Jesus I believe you

Quicksand Jesus I'm so far away

 

I'm seriously addicted to this song. It's amazing. I listen to it all the time and I don't feel like listening to anything else. I'm not a fan of the band mainly because this is the only song from them that I heard. They're metal band, black metal, I think. The lyrics are amazing. They're a little hard to understand, but you don't have to always understand the song thouroughly in order to appreciate it. I like songs that seem way over my head. Someone wrote those lyrics and at that time they made perfect sense to him. And every time you listen to the song you discover more things about it. That way it never stops being interesting.

Well, if you're one of those people who has only several favorite bands and listens only to them all the time, you should probably check out this song, for the sake of listening to something new.

 

-Posted 10/10/04

 

Cut by Patricia McCormick

 

 

The most beautifully written book I've ever read and that's the reason you owe it to yourself to check out this book. It will draw you in until you finish the very last chapter. But when it comes to the plot... I didn't like the whole plot of the book because it seemed like it lacked something. Surprising plot twists, some shocking element... The book seemd more like non-fiction, or a memoir, focusing more on the feelings than on the story. Nevertheless, I really loved the book and I know that the majority of girls have already read it. So if you didn't, you better go to the library or the bookstore and get the book. You won't regret reading it.

-Posted 10/11/04

 

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

 

 

This book is the best thing that happened to literature. It's amazing. It's about this 15-year-old criminal, Alex, whose greatest joy in life is to make people suffer. Then many interesting things happen to him; I don't want to give away important details from the book just in case you decide to read it. It's very well-written. You will laugh, you will gasp in horror, you will love the characters while hating them. Well, you will mostly dislike them because most of the characters are evil. Read it and you will understand what I'm talking about. The only problem with the book is that there are a lot of Russian words in it that slows you down a bit but it's not impossible to understand the meanings of the words even if you don't know Russian.

--Posted 10/14/04