Why so Silent?

There are a lot of things I'd like to talk about that I just...can't talk about. It's irksome, but there you go. If a Sith's life weren't irksome, she'd no reason to live. Sith are supposed to be irked. That's what being Sith is all about: honing your rage to a nice fine point, then rising up and striking down your master. Of course, I have no master, so I'd just go on a killing spree because, as we say in the South, people "need killin'." It's just a fact of life and that defense has been used in Southern courts in the past: "So-and-so needed killin'." Understandable. Not-guilty, next!

I've reached a bit of a snag in my Sith duties here of late. I try to maintain an underlying low-grade anger, just to hold on to for any ungodly situation that may need my full-blown ire. I've encountered someone twice, someone I was a tad irked at, at the time. Each time, I went away all sunshine and flowers, and pissed off that I was no longer pissed off. How conflicted can one person get? The soul in question has some serious Anti-Tin scary fairy dust on hand and I am to steal the crap for to bury it. Today, however, is not one of those days where I want to sing-a about the moon-a and the june-a and the spring-a. Today is one of those days I want to rant and be writerly and moody, and.....do the things that I want to do! Not what my brain wants me to do. So I'm back to being filled with ire and nursing my low-grade anger. Let's hope the Anti-Tin doesn't show up with bunnies....

Have a video for your trouble. I would have put it on You Tube, but the bastards said it was too long. And here I thought I was only long winded in words..

The Writer's Rant from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.

**EDIT** Perhaps I would have been taken more seriously if I'd worn a different tee shirt that day. Maybe my 'I Haz a Bukket' or 'Can't Stop Writing or My Music Will Eat Me.' Pre-plan, boys and girls... Lesson here.

Dave Matthews....A Video Love Letter

This is a conversion post for paisleydaze.

First of all, just behold his raw and unbounded talent, much like our Blog Boy, but in music instead. Watch his hands on the guitar. He is channeling something deeper and greater than what we mere humans can comprehend.

Dave's 'Gravedigger,' which happens to be the only Dave song on my j-Tunes. It just seemed to fit him. The song never fails to give me chicken pimples. Doesn't hurt that he knows the real meaning behind the 'children's rhyme.'

Here he is with Tim Reynolds. He's a fantastic storyteller and, I must admit, bloody well easy on the eyes. Yes. And I love his moment of misanthropy here. I admit I would molest him in a New Yore Minute. You will come to love him, m'dear, I just know it. If all else fails....just look at the eyebrows... They've got a life of their own.

Now, I'm not much for love songs, but this one gets me every time. Well, it's also kind of a lust song, but that's okay too, because it's DAVE with his EYEBROWS being all ARTISTIC in a friend's back yard. Yes, I luff him and, Goddess Willing, you shall too. Embedding is disabled on this one, but click on the link, I beg of thee.
Crash Into Me

Another embedding disabled video, but this is my all-time favourite song by Dave. When I heard this on the 'Under the Table and Dreaming' promo I was auditioning for RCA, I was brought to a point of speechlessness, which doesn't come easily. Oh, and I think that's a very young Jeremy Davies in this video for all you fellow LOST fans (could be wrong...)
Satellite

Pretty much my anthem to my Soulmate. The perfect song of seduction for someone who is also a very dear friend. Dave fits for every occasion...

And he's an actor now, too. Not as good as our Dude, but he's very good, especially for a musician. And, again....very easy on the eyes. Can't say that enough. The people at RCA got sick of me saying it. He was also in an episode of House.

Dave's latest. It's amazing how he was just a kid pretty much when he started out. But we were all kids back then, him being a 67 child as well. He's holding his age very well, methinks. Gonna be one of those who just gets better as time rolls on. He's just plain beautiful...but that's just me getting all fangirly, so moderate me immediately. Wait...it's my journal! And his message just keeps getting more intense. So few artists these days are willing to tackle the larger issues and work for change. He's one. So is Ed Kowalczyk. And, of course, Sting and Peter Gabriel. I love them all. But Dave? He's always had a special place in my heart. I guess it's because of how he foiled the music exec's cunning plan of keeping us all in the stranglehold of mediocrity.
Funny the Way It Is

This will be the last one. It's my second favourite by Dave. This performance also shows his sense of humour, which I love.

Humanity and the Sociopathic Mind

A friend of mine and I were discussing psychology and how someone one on a message board, a avowed psychopath, presented flawless logic about the state of humanity. We bantered back and forth a bit about this person's uncanny insight, when I wrote this.

It's always been my contention that, turn off the electricity for three days, and we'll see this civilised mask that humanity wears so smugly, ripped off by the hungry, angry mob.  Within a week, public burnings and torture would become the new entertainment, within a month, slavery would be the norm and a feudal system of rule would be established (if they're lucky).

 

Humanity has always been nothing more than chimps in clothes, carrying clubs and waiting for the next big brawl.  But they don't like to reminded of this, so they label those people who make their true state of existence as being psychopathic, sociopathic, or anti-social.  It's easier to label someone than it is to look in the mirror.

Guess it's time for me to be labeled. Please proceed.