does annyone really get it?

i watched the video but forgot to bring headphones with me to the library - oops! i'll have to do this again with the headphones.

as an aside, anagram, have you seen ang lee's 'house of flying daggers'. a bit opposite to this in terms of the use of primary colours. but the effects are quite breath-taking. well, at least i think so. the end is also very creative, if one actually gets it. it took me quite some time to figure it out.

o.O

I think you replied in the wrong thread. What video are you referring to?

anagram wrote:o.O

I think you replied in the wrong thread. What video are you referring to?

... this one ...

anagram wrote:Nicely explained. So, does it really matter? I guess it doesn't.

shock_the_monkey wrote:PS: nice avatar, BTW.

Thanks! It's from [this video] (one of my favorites). I love the imagery.

shock_the_monkey wrote:... this one ...

Oh! Thats explains it...

as an aside, anagram, have you seen ang lee's 'house of flying daggers'. a bit opposite to this in terms of the use of primary colours. but the effects are quite breath-taking. well, at least i think so. the end is also very creative, if one actually gets it. it took me quite some time to figure it out.

I haven't seen it. The stills do look stunning. The plot doesn't appeal to me, though. Everybody looks so serious...

anagram wrote:The plot doesn't appeal to me, though.

the real plot is very much about what people do for and because of love. i don't want to give too much away here. but i'll just say it's more than merely spectacular. it has a very meaningful message about sacrifice. i must admit i don't much care for films that don't say anything.

wow ... that was a bit dark!

Destroy everything you touch today
Destroy me this way
Anything that may desert you
So it cannot hurt you

reminds me of a song i wrote a long time ago.

shock_the_monkey wrote:wow ... that was a bit dark!

[This one] is darker (unfortunately it has no video). For some reason it makes me feel good/better no matter what mood I'm in.

i must admit, i think the lyrics of 'destroy everything you touch' are darker. granted the music is more melodic. but in a way that makes the contrast greater. perhaps what chills me about these lyrics is they bear more than a passing resemblance to the mindset of those that shoot up schools, shopping malls and movie theatres. i'm not saying it isn't a likable song. but it's certainly in the genre of peter gabriel's 'family snapshot'.

anagram wrote:I think it does. I think everybody wants to find someone who "gets them", or maybe "one of their own kind". Some people just give up. Not that I judge them. It's part of social existence to suppress some of your nature.

I pretty much gave up finding my own kind until I found the people in this forum...
It was a very good feeling to find a place I could call Home...

anagram wrote:

shock_the_monkey wrote:PS: nice avatar, BTW.

Thanks! It's from [this video] (one of my favorites). I love the imagery.

Why do guys so often have Avatars of women?
My avatar, on the other hand, is very representative of the real me...

TDT wrote:

shock_the_monkey wrote:i don't hear from any of the people i once knew unless i make the effort to contact them.

I ... hate this. Not your comment, just that this is really true...it relates to me a lot.

I quit a job I was at for 4 years about 2 years ago, and very few from that position ever try to keep in contact with me.

I was on a BBC board (pre internet proper) for around 5 years...
I didn't establish a friendship with any of them.
Apart from gains in some social/nt insights, a total waste of time in the relationship department...

shock_the_monkey wrote:i must admit, i think the lyrics of 'destroy everything you touch' are darker. granted the music is more melodic. but in a way that makes the contrast greater. perhaps what chills me about these lyrics is they bear more than a passing resemblance to the mindset of those that shoot up schools, shopping malls and movie theatres. i'm not saying it isn't a likable song. but it's certainly in the genre of peter gabriel's 'family snapshot'.

Nah I think you're taking it too literally. The way I understand it, it's about destroying egos, not buildings or lives. The band has this apathetic, misanthropic quality to them, but they're overall not aggressive.

Sh3ld0n wrote:Why do guys so often have Avatars of women?
My avatar, on the other hand, is very representative of the real me...

I don't know about others, but me, I identify with [who I'm attracted to], more than I identify with my image in the mirror.