Timeless

On the pages of the Book of Revelation we are promised another life, a better one and incomparable with what we currently carry on with. It's hard to believe sometimes, I understand. That's why I post here this video clip from a film by Terrence Malick "The Tree of Life". This is the Formation Scene. Music composed by Zbigniew Preisner.

Having seen this part for the first time I was frightened with the scenes, and captured with the voice and the music in the background. All of the subsequent views of this part of the movie carried me away, to unachievable far distance, in the centre of the Universe, and when I, breathless and cold, see those Horsehead and Crab Nebulae, when I feel roaring sea waves unseen in the black of the sunless Void, when I confirm my insignificance in the face of the Eternity and when I want to cryyyyy out as I just try to imagine my Home, my Mother Earth lost in those pictures of the Universe, and when those pictures roll on with the divine background - either harmonic sounds of nature or a human-created eternal music - I BELIEVE that a better life can be gained. If only knew my soul will be taken there afterwards....

But I won't be able to stay there eternally. Those visions are unbearable expressions of LOVE. Who would dare to see THIS forever?

Only tears in my eyes....

On Disasters and Catastrophes (no more tears left)

Yesterday such a phrase from some of the TV-series reached my ears: "You are guilty of committing a crime against humanity...."

However I haven't yet heard another phrase: "Humanity is guilty of committing a crime against Life (Planet, Nature, Being, Mother-Earth - whichever one likes the most)". Why is everything so unfair?! Although it is said "those who endure to the end shall be saved", and also "this world still exists because of them" (I already wrote on this on the Journal pages). So it turns out that Mother-Earth will suffer all the pain and humiliation, until the last human deserving it stops walking upon it, won't She? Is that right?

Watching Animal Planet, Viasat Nature, where sweet voices tell stories about people who look after this or that species, or how they save this or that animal from violent treatment. "Fortunately, everything turned out all right...." - such words sum up those "positive" plots. But in fact the topic is about how the remnants of worthy people on Mother-Earth are trying to postpone the end of some animal species as far as possible, as their home territory reduces more and more, their lives getting shorter, and their looks getting more tragic. Our Mother-Earth is being deforested, waters polluted, and animals extinct....

And still.... this humanity dares to complain about anything?!

I heard a song today, oh boy....

The song is beautiful and the video seemed to me the best among the other choices....Their music resides inside of us irrespective of our attitude towards them.

In consequence of silence....

... I will just sum up what took place in the past couple of weeks.

1. Major involvement in job responsibilities and different minor works leaves no time for Curly's Airship translation at all. I worry about it, but I have played again the whole piece a couple of times.
2. A "first impression experience" review is written on Peter Hammill's "Consequences" album (will be posted on The Russian Site in a couple of days). "Somehow I relived a mini-model of the-process-of-getting-into-the-pH-works-in-duration-of-time, mapped onto this specific album." The whole review of mine is written in this muddled style coming from subconsciousness. Andy Wood's excellent description of the moment ("I should know by now that PH never gives you what you expect, no matter what  your expectations are. Thankfully.") and Adam's Convictions blog (as I call it) also fit this topic.
3. Vinyl news in VdGG and pH world: mostly through Twitter I've learned that Consequences is a real candidate for release on vinyl. Also, a new VdGG release "ALT" is going to be release in June on both CD and vinyl. Peter a-kind-of-approved Don's (a Twitter member) guess that "Elsewhere" somehow fits the description of the new album.... Let's wait for a while.
4. Recorded David Jackson's "Hello" on occasion of David's birthday. I played it with my daughter in free style, she played on violin following the notes written down (she reads notes!) and I took my guitar. Now she understands what was the recording of-even-a-short-piece-of-music-in-the-studio-in-one-go like. Now she understands that I did a good job when recorded my bass part for Empyray's "Declare the War" in one go (in two parts, actually, but it was the band and the recording engineer who stopped the recording process due to some technical reason; the whole track was recorder in one go!).
5. "Inheritance" - the fourth book of the Inheritance cycle by Christopher Paolini is released in Russian. Will be with me in one month though.
6. Made some updates source files related to the Always Something New post, and assisted Kevin from Yahoo Groups in creation of PH discography. Oh, and there is the VdGG one prepared!
7. Consequences grows on me....

Happy birthday, David!

Always something new

Finally, I got to the point when I started building up a spreadsheet containing all the major recordings by Peter Hammill, provided by brief information on what was that "something new" on this or that record. This process requires time, and will appear when I believe nothing special can be added by me, and when it is well balanced (for example, the info is quite ready for the latest album 'Consequences' but should be found out more for early works).

I hope that the translation of "Curly's Airships" will appear sooner....