Dance

I've wondered why I love dancing so much. I think I may have received my answer in a book not about dancing at all. Dancing, I think, is perhaps a little like playing the agogo at an umbanda. Dancing is a form of expression....of life, of love, of beauty and freedom....of desire. When you dance, you free your body of inhibitions, letting yourself be moved by the melodies of the universe. But by learning how to dance, by learning the steps of this ancient art, you do more. You control the melodies. When your feet move in rhythm with the tabla, you are moving in rhythm with the harmony of the earth. By controlling your movements while in that spirit of ecstasy, you control the flow of the world. You move the music of nature with your body. When you express desire, desire is created around you and moves with that hasty beat of the tabla, when you sway with passion the flute echoes your love, when you fall in agony, you take the world into the abyss with you. When you dance, you understand...you know that there is something deeper something more powerful than all the humans put together, something more beautiful, and in expressing that beauty you create it. You become a believer. 

I'M SOOOO IN LOVE WITH HER!!!!!

Jill Sobule is fucking beautiful and fuckin awesome!!! 

The modern age ad lingo

I've seen many advertisements in my life, and been warned against quite a few of them. But this one takes the cake.

I watched tearfully as a daughter brings a smile to her mother's face, I smiled at two old friends digging up their little treasure, I was touched by a writer going to thank her old school teacher. That is, until I saw what it was...an advertisement for a hair product. Gosh! You took our revolutionary spirit and marketed it as beer, you took our freedom and gave us sports shoes, you took our villages and sold it to us as coca-cola, you took our forests and made refrigerators of them, you took our mountains and made bottled water, and now you take our feelings, our innermost thoughts and emotions and make beauty products! Will anything be left of me that is my own?

Everything that was

The more I read, the more I feel convinced that in losing the Indian civilization to colonization (not just British, but even before that), we lost something quite wonderful. Everything we know now, almost a 1000 years after the end of many of those great civilizations, we seem to have known then and known much better. It was a civilization that was highly evolved. There was a very well structured language, the teaching of which was spread through many lands to improve communication (much like English, except that the English is complete chaos when compared to the elegant beauty of Sanskrit's grammatical and semantical structure), trade between different countries was of prime importance and in fact, geographical routes were created to help increase trade (thus showing an understanding of 'comparative advantage'), the benefits of division of labour and specialization were realized (hence, the varna system), schooling (both gurukul and other forms of apprenticeship) was mandatory for children and was tailored to ensure the greatest amount of skill-development, literature and arts were cultivated, so was science and technology. Philosophy, medicine, maths, music, astronomy, physics, economics, political science, warcraft, history, among others were separate specialized bodies of systemic study, much like they are today, but I believe, in a much more advanced stage. And then, civilizations that were less evolved, except in military prowess, decided they wanted more land. The rulers, looking at a civilization much more evolved, failed to understand its significance and went about slowly destroying these wonderful innovations and discoveries. Humankind was pushed back by 1000s of years, and had to start over. 

Zombie

I used to have a dream. A belief in Albion. In the return of the King. What happened to me? Who have I been replaced with? 

In your head, in your head 

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What's in your head, in your head 

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