I have not written much in this space lately.

Whether because of lack of anything important to say or just being downright busy all the time, I’m not really sure.

Either way, I was recently thinking how a blog provides skewed insight into a persona (in this case, mine). In so many cases, we human beings attempt to encapsulate the objects of our attention into manageable, discrete packages, such that we might better understand said objects. Too often though, we fall into the trap of over-simplifying an idea, a thing, or worse, a person.

While weblogs are supposed to allow anybody to publish his or her thoughts to the world at large (or anybody willing to Google your name), the medium necessarily encapsulates only one part of its author: that which he is willing to share. No more than I do not shout from the roof tops my most personal of phantasmagoria, this space does not transmit that which I would not otherwise share with complete strangers out browsing the tubes. Each author finds the appropriate balance with which he or she is comfortable, and I believe I have found mine. In the larger sense, though, this purposeful subset may inadvertently steer you, dear readers, into the false notion that all you discover here is me.

Please know that it is not.

With that said (or unsaid), enjoy my Music of the Day.

Helium Vola – Du Bist Min

Du bist min
Ih bin din
Des solt du gewis sin
Du bist beslossen
In minem herzen
Verlorn ist daz sluzzelin
Du muost auch immer darinne sin

==English Translation==

You are mine
I am yours
This you can be assured
I have locked you
In my heart
And thrown away the key
So you must always stay inside

Current Mood: tearful

Related posts:

1. Dazkarieh – Caminhos Turvos
2. Haggard – In a Full Moon Procession

In a time where the number of portuguese who can’t spell on their own native language grows by the second – something that makes me want to puke several times a day, Dazkarieh – whose new album will be launched in 2 days – provided me some immensely pleasant lyrics, which were a joy to listen to and write down.

A nice surprise indeed. (and, as a bonus, the girl is cute )

Note: Video is HD and has enough quality to be seen in full-screen. Just press the ><

Caminhando vi luz que embala
Sentir que escapa ao olhar

Forte percorri nova estrada
em trilhos por semear

Querer dominar destino oculto
Momento por decifrar
Vida que adormece, em longo luto
Quimeras por alcançar

Querer agarrar ondas de loucura
Num momento sem pensar
Ilusão de mais de longe perdura
Mão que urge curar

Voz que entoa paz profunda
Clama em se descobrir
Grita pra revelar segredos a perseguir

Teias que tecem tons escuros
Para me aprisionar
Grito pra libertar demónios
Livre pensar

Despertando um sol que emane
Luz no meu jardim
Sentinela nua e crua
Chama por mim

Libertando amarra turva
De um silêncio tal
Emergir pra sempre duma sombra infernal

Vir de um sono profundo
O mundo agarrar
Querer desvendar futuro
Duvidar

Caminhando vi luz que embala
Sentir que escapa ao olhar
Forte percorri mar que leva a trilhos por semear

Caminhando vi luz que embala
Sentir que escapa ao olhar
Mapa onde encontrei cor divina
De prantos a sussurrar.

Current Mood: surprised

No related posts.

As the evening breaks
The night awakes
And the land is mournfully wrapped in silence
Sorrow last
And remains the past
cause this will be my ending day

Then the moonlight dies
And torches rise
See the crowd longing for the ritual burning
Holy rimes, as the churchbells chime
cause this will be my ending day

Silent thief
Take me away
Let my soul rest in the realm of fairytales
And as the fire enlightens the dark
I see the face bewildered with guilt
An nobody’s speaking a word

And the dark night enters

See the soul that’s coming out of darkness into light
Pictures, I can’t fight
Appearing in front of my eyes
Like silhouettes in the night

Like they give bread to the beggars
They get ready for the feast
Cruelty absorbed by their eyes
Within this midwinters breeze

And the dark night enters

Related posts:

1. Hmmm.