I saw this challenge to list five songs a long time ago so I can't blame anyone in particular for filling the blog with what, I am sure, everyone finds absolutely and thoroughly interesting. But the five songs currently above the surface of my twisted mind (not in a value order, just listing them as they come along):
1. 'B.Y.O.B.' by System of A Down - one of my all-time SOAD songs, though 'Chop Suye!' and 'Question' come close. I've been listening to 'Mesmerize' in general a lot lately. One of the funny incidents was when I couldn't sleep and I ended up knitting a small scarf for my cousin and listening to 'Mesmerize' (and singing along, of course). I suppose this falls under the same category as wearing a Children of Bodom shirt and singing Roxette. =)
2. 'Listen to Your Heart' by Roxette. It (or, one of its club versions, at least) is in the forthcoming BodyPump tracklist. Tried the first six tracks of the new programme and... my major muscles are aching. Cycling isn't much fun. Or sitting down. Or standing up. Or moving my legs or my arms too high... ah well, leaves the way it came.
3. 'Senzafine' and 'Without Fear' and 'Comalies' by Lacuna Coil. It great having a perfect permission to spend my time listening to Lacuna Coil songs, especially the ones sung in Italian now that I'm studying Italian!
4. 'Our Solemn Hour' by Within Temptation. The lyrics fit perfectly to my current not-too-world-loving mood.
5. The whole album of 'Consequences of Disobedience' by Velcra, especially the songs 'Solar Red', 'Can't Stop Fighting' and 'Test Animals'. COD has been on my personal Top 10 list of the best albums I've ever listened to since I first heard it and has stayed there ever since.
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Rokkihomo
31.10.2008 00:55
Roxette. Eurgh. What bout Fading like a rose? At leats it has the nicest c-part...
But, something else. I came up with this, an Ursula K Le guin speech way back 1983:
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/LeftHandMillsCollege.html
and thought of, well, a lot of things, but Splenetic also occurred in myn mynd.
I've always thought Left Hand of Darkness was and is a proto-queer novel, but is it foremostly a feminist one?
How?
Splenetic
6.11.2008 16:08
I'm going to take my occuring to your mind as a compliment although I'm not quite sure if it's a compliment seeing the situation from your point of view. ;)
If I'm not mistaken the song you're refering to is called 'Fading like a flower' and the rose is in the C-part. It's a nice one, too, but let's face it: 'Listen to your heart' is a classic alongside 'Christmas for the broken-hearted' more commonly known as 'It must have been love'.
I read the LeGuin text you posted, and I have to admit she has a very good point most people ignore. The power of language, that is. I'm not quite sure I agree with her point of view but I can understand the main point very well. I may be overreacting again but it would seem to me that LeGuin is encouraging women to accept their fate of having to live "in the pain and in the dark" due to the patriarchal world. That's what troubles me. If we speak in LeGuin's terms, then I would prefer fighting although "that’s still playing by their rules". If the only language men unerstand is violence, then let's speak violence so they get the message all the way to their dominating organ hanging pathetically between their legs.
Haven't read 'Left Hand of Darkness', I've just read texts written about it so I know the general outline. It would sound to me foremostly as a feminist novel but let me get back to you in a month. I suppose by then I've read the novel as well as some of the criticism written of it and have managed to form some kind of an opinion of it's proto-queer qualities.