Faith vs Fear

'Your Faith has got to be greater than your Fear'

Lyrics to '11th Dimension' - by Julian Casablancas - taken from the Album 'Phrazes for the Young'

Muse - Undisclosed Desires (lyrics)

Editors - Papillon (Lyrics)

Papillon

Make our escape, your my own papillon
World turns to fast, feel love before it's gone
It kicks like a sleep twitch
My papillon feel love when it's shone

it kicks like a sleep twitch

Darling just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Now darling your born get old and die here
Well that's quite enough for me
We'll find our own way home somehow

No sense of doubt, or what you could achieve
Well I found you out, I see the life you wish to leave
Well it kicks like a sleep twitch
You will choke , choke on the air you try to breathe
It kicks like a sleep twitch

Darling now just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Darling ah your born get old and die here
Well that's quite enough from me dear
We'll find our own way home somehow
It kicks like a sleep twitch

It kicks like a sleep twitch


Taken from the forthcoming album 'In This Light And On This Evening' Due for release in the UK on 12th October 2009

Bloc Party - Biko (Lyrics)

BIKO

For my sweetheart the melancholic, you have crossed the river styx
And the waves have taken you away
As I lay my head on your chest, I can hear it in your veins
Wake me up when you come to bed

So toughen up
Biko toughen up
Biko toughen up
This world isn't kind to little things

(You're not doing this alone)

Was my love not strong enough to bring you back from the dead
If I could eat your cancer I would but I can't
So I keep writing these songs for you
To steal you from your grey
And we can dance in our front room again

So toughen up
Biko toughen up
Biko toughen up
I need you be strong for us
So toughen up
Biko toughen up
Biko toughen up
This world isn't kind to little things

(You're not doing this alone)

Don't you know that when you stand you stand up for the both of us
Remember that when the darkness looms
(You're not doing this alone)
Every tear you shed is cleansing, taking the pain away from you
I left you blueberries in the fridge, the little things that I can do

So toughen up,
Biko, toughen up (that I can do)
Biko, toughen up (that I can do)
I need you to be strong for us

So toughen up
Biko, toughen up
Biko, toughen up
This world isn't kind to little things

(You're not doing this alone)
(You're not doing this alone)
(You're not doing this alone)
(You're not doing this alone)
(You're not doing this alone)
(You're not doing this alone)

Resist!
Resist!
Resist!
Resist!

So toughen up (Resist! )
Biko, toughen up (Resist! )
Biko, toughen up (Resist! )
I need you to be strong for us (Resist! )

So toughen up (Resist! )
Biko, toughen up (Resist! )
Biko, toughen up (Resist! )
This world isn't kind to little things (Resist! )

(You're not doing this alone)
(You're not doing this alone)

We're From America - Lyrics - Marilyn Manson

We're From America

We're from America,
we're from America,
where we eat our young
we're from America,
we're from America,
it's where jesus was born

We're from America,
we're from America,
where they let you come on our faces
we're from America,
we're from America,
we speak American

We don't believe in credibility,
because we know that we're fucking incredible
we don't believe in credibility,
because we know that we're fucking incredible

I want to be a martyr don't want to be a victim,
Be a (?) with a gun so they call me a hero,
Want to be a martyr don't want to be a victim,
Be a killer with a gun so they call me a hero

God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
So sing it with me

We're from America,
we're from America,
we're from America,
you can sing it with me
We're from America,
we're from America,
we're from America,
you can sing it with me

We're from America

We don't like to kill our unborn,
we need them to grow up and fight our wars
We don't like to kill our unborn,
we need them to grow up and fight our wars

We believe in everything we say,
we say it because we believe it
we believe in everything we say,
we say it because we believe it

We're from america,
we're from america,
we're from america,
you can sing it with me
We're from america,
we're from america,
we're from america,
you can sing it with me

We're from america,
you can sing it with me,
from america,
you can sing it with me,

We're from america,
we're from america,
we turn literature into litter
we're from america,
we' re from america,
we believe in being a quitter

I'm in recovery
I'm in recovery
I'm in recover - eeee
from America
from America
from America

So sing it with me
We're from america,
we're from america,
we're from america
you can sing it with me,
we're from america,
from america
we're from america,
you can sing it with me
from america,
you can sing it with me
from america
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me

From the Forth coming Album 'The high End of Low'

This is currently available as a free download from the MM official website

Right Where it Belongs - NIN (Lyrics)

Right Where it Belongs

See the animal in his cage that you built
Are you sure what side your on ?
Then I look to closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on ?
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it's all ............Right where it belongs

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want to be ?
But if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself.......Find yourself afraid to see

What if all the world's inside of your head
Just creations of your own
Your devils and your gods all the living and the dead
And you really are alone

You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the worlds
Are you hiding in your dreams ?

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems
What if all the world you used to know
Is an elaborate dream
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want to be ?
But if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself.......Find yourself afraid to see


NIN - 'Right Where it belongs' - Taken from the Album 'With Teeth' released in 2005.

Previous posting that reminded me of this track 'You Alone'

Minute Prologue.....(Musings on inability)

Minute Prologue.

I've been listening to all the dissention
I've been listening to all the pain

And I feel that no matter what I do for you
It's gonna come back again

But I think that I can heal it
but I think that I can heal it
I'm a fool that I think I can heal it
With this song......

Taken from the Album 'Live Songs (1973)' by Leonard Cohen

You Know Me........?

WISH

This is the first day of my last day
Build it up now take it apart climbed up real high now fall down real far.
No need for me to stay the last thing left I just threw it away.
(?) my trust in you
Now there's something more fucked up I could do

Wish there was something real ,wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world for you.

I'm the one without a soul, I'm the one with this big fucking hole.
No new tale to tell twenty-six years on my way to hell.
Big time hard line bad luck fist fuck
Don't think you're having all the fun
You know me I hate everyone

Wish there was something real ,wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world for you.

Wish there was something real ,wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world for you.

Wish there was something real ,wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world for you.

This world for you
This world for you
This world for ......

NIN- 'Wish' from the EP 'Broken

Currently playing in iTunes: The Four of Us are Dying by Nine Inch Nails'

Connecting Macbook + Macbook Pro (late 2008) Unibody to HD TV (HDMI)

So many posts in forums about this 'question' I thought I'd try and add a little simplicity to the 'problem'

First of all you need to understand that The Mini Display port on your Macbook/Macbook Pro only transmits Video not audio. So hence a separate audio connection is required - via the headphone socket - and hence needs to be inputted into either your TV - if it can accept a separate audio to video signal or into a separate audio device - Like a 5.1 system or speaker system.

The cables required to achieve the video output are as follows:

Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter

£20 from Apple Store either online or Retail store.

Then also from Apple Store either online or Retail store :

Belkin HDMI to DVI Cable - 6ft
£14.63

So in total £34.63 will get your video signal to your HD TV.
As for the Audio a standard 3.5mm phones jack to whatever connection is on your TV/Audio system is all that remains to be bought and connected.

If you want to spend a little more you could always get the Apple Remote (£15.00) so you can run Frontrow via your armchair/Sofa

Obviously if your looking at running your Macbook from the sofa in terms of surfing checking your email etc you could invest in a Bluetooth Mighty Mouse and Bluetooth Apple Keyboard and run the Macbook remotely - also this would enable you to run the Macbook in 'Clamshell' mode - eg: closed.

Well hope this helps let me know if you've any questions.

NIN Remix's

NIN RSS

Link above to the NIN remix's I have done so far. Will allow you to download them as Itunes files so you can listen or access the playlist on the NIN remix.com site (though you will probably be then forced to create a user) - so best off just downloading them into Itunes!
Maybe doing another remix in the near future but creative things are on hold at the mo.

Quotes..."Something is Squeezing my Skull" - Morrissey

"Something is squeezing my skull
Something I can't fight...............no true friends in modern life".

Morrissey- Something is Squeezing my Skull - Taken from the forthcoming album 'Years of Refusal'

Worldwide Album chart - Top Ten 18/12/08

1 Beyonce - I am Sasha (2)*
2 Guns 'n' Roses - Chinese Democracy (1)
3 Akon - Freedom (3)
4 Coldplay - Viva La Vida (5)
5 Pink - Funhouse (8)
6 The Killers - Day and Age (4)
7 Britney Spears - Circus (9)
8 Kanye West - 808 & Heartbreak (7)
9 T.I. - Paper Trail (6)
10 AC/DC - Black Ice (10)

A bit of moving around in the top ten but all artists and albums from previous week are still there.
Nothing to report that is exciting though I am surprised not to see 'Take That' enter, but as this is a worldwide chart their UK popularity is negated when applied 'worldwide'.

* = Previous weeks position

Morrissey - "Years of Refusal" track listing and further Moz release info

Years Of Refusal
1 Something is squeezing my skull
2 Mama lay softly on the riverbed
3 Black Cloud
4 I'm throwing my arms around Paris
5 All you need is me
6 When I last spoke to Carol
7 That's how people grow up
8 One day goodbye will be farewell
9 It's not your birthday anymore
10 You were good in your time
11 Sorry doesn't help
12 I'm ok by myself

Slated for a release date of 23rd of February 2009 in the UK.

There will be two releases of this album, the DVD version will also include:
1 That's how people grow up (Promo)
2 All you need is me (Promo)
3 I'm throwing my arms around Paris (Promo)

For a track by track breakdown of the album see here

"I'm throwing my arms around Paris" will be released as a single on the 9th of February 2009

Tracklisting as follows :

CD
A I'm throwing my arms around Paris
B Because of my poor education

7"
A I'm throwing my arms around Paris
B Shame is the Name

Worldwide Album chart- Top Ten

In an effort to provide an 'alternative' (not musically speaking mind) Album chart for the 'world' market - not just UK/US or any other individual territory... I have decided on this master plan.
The chart is compiled using data from sources that are 'freely available'.

The chart will only include original artist albums - no dodgy compilations or 'summer hits' hogwash will be included.

Only the top Ten will be counted and previous weeks chart positions may also be included if I can keep track. (- hey I'm only human!)

1 Guns 'n' Roses - Chinese Democracy (-)*
2 Beyonce - I am sasha (-)
3 Akon - Freedom (-)
4 The Killers - Day and Age (-)
5 Coldplay - Viva la Vida (-)
6 T.I - Paper trail (-)
7 Kanye West - 808 & Heartbreak (-)
8 Pink - Funhouse (-)
9 Britney Spears - Circus (-)
10 AC/DC - Black Ice (-)

*(-) = Previous weeks position.

Mama Lay softly on the Riverbed (Lyrics) - "Years of refusal" -Morrissey

Mama why did you do it?
mama who drove you to it ?
Was it the pigs in grey suits persecuting you
uncivil servants unconcerned by how they frightened you
life is nothing much to loose
It's just so lonely here without you


Mama why did you do it?
mama who drove you to it ?


(?) british money men who scared the life out of you
bailiffs with bad breathe I will slit their throats for you
life is nothing much to loose
It's just so lonely here without you


life is nothing much to loose
It's just so lonely here without you
(soooo)
I want you
When I come to you
we're going to lie down beside you mama
we're going to met you
We're going to join you
we're going to lie down beside you mama
and we will be safe and sheltered in our graves
we'll come before you and we will kiss you
by way of one fine (?) mama

Morrissey - 'Mama lay softly on the Riverbed' taken from the forthcoming album 'Years of Refusal' Released 2009

Say Farewell.....

'Say farewell to your fair-weather friends , and not a second to soon'

Morrissey 'No-one can hold a candle to you'

Morrissey - Autobiography

Morrissey, has 'mentioned' on the Janice Long show (Radio 6 show in the UK) that he is currently writing/thinking of writing (delete as you wish) his autobiography that covers his music career, in an effort to maybe 'correct some truths'

"So much crap is written about me, it's hard to live with sometimes," he said. "It all gets burned down in history and becomes a part of your legacy."

If however 'Morrissey's true 'Legacy' sees the 'light of day' - well,..... we will see.........

Bloc Party - Talons Lyrics

Talons (Acoustic Version) lyrics



And in the dark it comes for me
Malevolent and without thought
Uprooting trees, destroying cars
Cold and relentless, with arms outstretched

No boat nor brick
Nor crucifix can hold it back
For I've been wicked
I've been arrogant

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss (Silent about it)
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And I cannot say that I was not warned or was misled
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss

Awaken from dreams of drunken car crashes
You saddened my friends and claimed all my lovers
I tried to stay still, so it will not see
It's talons rake the side of my face
When did you become such a slut? (A dirty slut)

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And I cannot say that I was not warned or was misled
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
It will feel like a kiss

And I didn't think I'd catch fire when I held my hand to the flame
And I didn't think they'd catch up as fast as we could have run
Fate came a knocking when I was looking the other way
A new disease came in the post for me today
For me today,for me today,for me today

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
Silent and velvet
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss


(Bloc Party 2008)

Note the 'Standard release of this single - is nothing at all in 'mood' like this version, in my opinion this is the superior release.

Verve - Love is Noise 'Promo Video'

Morrissey & Thoughts.....

'There is something I wanted to tell you, It's so funny you'll kill yourself laughing

But then I, I look around, And I remember that I am alone, Alone. For evermore........'

Quoted from the track 'Come Back to Camden' off the Album 'You Are the Quarry' by Morrissey