You can feel the poundingIt's amazing the inspiration a single song and video can give a person. The artist have made it so that the video can't be embedded, so here's a link:
Wrapped around your chest
Nothing's too excessive
When you've got nothing left
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
If we all should die tonight
We will have no regrets
If we all should die tonight
We will have no regrets
If this night should take my life
(We cant go back we cant go)
If we all should die tonight
(we cant go back we cant go)
You can see the plastic
Dripping off your face
We may not all be pretty
But we feel pretty fake
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
If we all should die tonight
We will have no regrets
If we all should die tonight
We will have no regrets
If this night should take my life
(We cant go back we cant go)
If we all should die tonight
(we cant go back we cant go)
If this night should take my life
(We cant go back we cant go)
If we all should die tonight
(we've got nothing left)
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
We're all here 'cos we've lost control
If this night should take my life
(We cant go back we cant go)
If we all should die tonight
(we cant go back we cant go)
If this night should take my life
We got nothing left
If we all should die tonight
We got nothing left
-Innerpartysystem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1GIT44jjkE
This post would be a little more appropriate with the piece included in it, but my Drawing & Design teacher has it at the moment; I'll make sure to update this post with the finished piece the minute I get it scanned.
Basicly for the last month or so I've been kinda of reserved, focusing more on my school work, my art, and the people around me. I've fallen out of a lot of internet groups and find myself lurking most of the time rather than posting and chatting with some of my online friends.
I want to say I feel really guilty about that.
In getting my school act together I feel like I'm loosing pieces of myself- I was always the anime geek/nerd who had their face crammed in a manga or spent their days after school watching the latest show from Japan- not so much anymore. I'll talk about anime with friends, but I don't find myself defining me as a little weeaboo anymore.
I guess this is what they call "growing up" and frankly I don't like it. I've noticed that a lot of my art now is very morbid or dark. The only reasoning I can think of is my inane fear of death. I've been raised in a Christian house my entire life and now after years and years of shit and pure unadulterated hypocrisy from "people of faith" I can't tell left from right.
Don't get me wrong- I know "right" from "wrong", but certain actions deemed "sinful" by the church just leave my head spinning. Being homosexual is a "life long sin/struggle"? What the hell? If this was true wouldn't God have made everyone gay? Why decide to select a decent size of the population to endure a "life long struggle"?
Not to mention the simple fear of the "perfection" of heaven. Granted there are some horrible atrocities of man that the world would be better without, but pure and utter perfection is a scary thought in my mind. If I were to die and go to heaven tonight, I most likely loose the friends I hold dear, or in an attempt to have a "perfect" heaven God would either remove memories of my "Un-Christian" friends on earth or create likenesses of them- only untainted- and completely unlike themselves.
Worst of all, I fear I'd loose everything that makes me, me. I don't want to be "reborn" in a new spiritual body. I like me just the way I am. I know it sounds really selfish, but I don't want to loose my imperfections, my likeness, and become "one of a thousand in white."
I love this world and all it's imperfections and I wouldn't trade it, or my friends, for some set of pearly white gates and white garb.
2 comments:
Can you tell me why this song inspires you? I'm really interested in hearing! It just makes me sad when I hear it. The video...the losing control...death...darkness...not happy thoughts to me. All that to say, I LOVE Don't Stop, and I really dig the music for Die Tonight, Live Forever. I'd love to see the art you're working on too. living@djryze.com
I think most of the inspiration comes from the fact that I can relate to it and draw a lot of parallels to my own life. A good period of my life was very dark and I was so young it felt like everything was spinning out of control.
So much music feels very shallow nowadays that I find myself clinging to very emotionally gripping songs- Ones like Die Tonight, Live forever.
Aside from the dark and depressing, I love Don't Stop. Innerpartysystem really is an interesting group.
Haha, thank you. I've been scanning and working on quiet a few things over the last couple of days, so look forward to a post filled with updates! :D
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