Black

Songwriters: Vedder and Gossard

Album: Ten

Released: August 27, 1991

Hey...oooh...

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay

Were laid spread out before me as her body once did

All five horizons revolved around her soul

As the earth to the sun

Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Ooh, and all I taught her was everything

Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore

And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds

Of what was everything

Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed Everything...

I take a walk outside

I'm surrounded by some kids at play

I can feel their laughter, so why I do sear

Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head

I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning

How quick the sun can, drop away

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass

Of what was everything

All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

All the love gone bad turned my world to black

Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I will be...yeah...

Uh huh...uh huh...ooh...

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be star

In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why

Can't it be, can't it be mine

[We belong, we belong together, together...]

Lay low with alternative

Playlist 4.

1. "Black" Pearl Jam

2. "Glory Box" Portishead

3. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" Radiohead

4. "Glycerine" Bush

5. "Fade into You" Mazzy Star

6. "Creep" Stone Temple Pilots

7. "Iris" Goo Goo Dolls

8. "Something In The Way" Nirvana

9. "Lightning Crashes" Live

10. "Indifference" Pearl Jam

Stickball

Walter Iooss Jr.:"There's a famous picture taken in the 50's of Willie Mays playing stickball in Harlem. I played a lot of stickball growing up and always loved it. I wanted to replicate the Mays photo in Cuba because baseball is the national sport there. It's everywhere. Cuban children play ball in the streets like kids in U.S. cities used to do. It was my last Saturday on this trip and I was slowly weaving through the streets of old Havana, looking for kids playing ball, when I came upon this corner, La Esquina. If you study the picture, you see that every eye, not just the kids' but even the dog's, is on that taped ball. It's the decisive moment, and there's no way to anticipate when you're going to get it. I had a vision of a picture that I'd tried and tried and tried to find but hadn't yet, and I came within a day of not finding it. To me it was all about getting the photograph I'd been searching for and I did it in 20 frames.

I like to photograph kids because I still dream the way kids do. All those years playing those games were some of the best times of my life. I was a stickball fanatic. When school closed for the summer, we played 12 hours a day. All morning, all afternoon, went home for dinner, then played after dinner."

Photo from cnnsi.com

What the hell is going on?

In this season, my beloved Reds are doing a great job in achieving the records that have not been reached before:

- Worst streak in the past, I don't know, 50 years or so in the league
- Failing to advance to 2nd round of CL since 2000 or something
- Failing to advance in Carling cup (expected)
and many more but I refuse to mention them as I don't stand seeing their low. Like I have maintained before to my friends, here are the main reasons in my opinion:

1. Very poor performance when it comes to new signings in the past 2 seasons. We didn't manage to get the players that we were aiming for and we basically have kept the same squad. That is possibly due to financial burden from the current debts and owners' failure to live up to their promises which in turn, has forced us to sell some players as well.

2. Relying on the current squad given the busy gaming schedule has left us with a long injury list and that has done a substantial damage. We rely heavily on 2 key players i.e. El nino and Stevie G. and their absences from time to time has cost us dearly.

3. Last but not least, I personally think that the current low can be largely related to the after shocks of last year where we lost the league title in the very last round while leading the table for the most part of the season.

Maybe Rafa has lost his 'Mojo' or something, I don't know, it is still early to think about sacking him which is not a very good option given his recent contact renewal and that move, I believe, is fundamentally naive. Either way, he's got to do something because it seems like we are heading for the gutter and I don't like the smell of that a tiny bit! The good thing has been, however, that we just won the Merseyside derby last weekend (always feels great) and we thrashed Man U at home (even sweeter than the derby for me!), let's just hope for an improving trend from now on...as Rafa himself has indicated.

My first ever game console

Preface: My brother used joke about my father and say if he finds a side mirror in the street, he will go and buy a car to attach to it! I feel like I am more or less the same...in certain aspects though!

I bought my first ever gaming console some days ago, a PS3 of course, basically to check out the newly released game of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2". Maybe I should admit firstly that I have been a COD junkie since a few years back. Anyway, if it wasn't for this game, I may have not bought that neither...maybe! When the package arrived, much earlier than what I expected, I didn't open it for days because I had given my TV for repair, a ----ing noise that has been bothering me for ages! I had everything in place last week, so I set everything up and...man, wild stuff! This thing is mind blowing...just what I needed indeed, and it may easily be that my not-so-preplanned-absences from here and there, is blamed on it...foget 'bout it!*

*I am very much hooked up with this phrase these days for no particular reason. As it is explained by Johnny Depp, who plays Donnie Brasco in the movie "Donnie Brasco": "Forget about it" is like, if you agree with someone, you know, like "Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it." But then, if you disagree, like "A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!" you know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like minga those peppers, "forget about it." But it's also like saying "Go to hell!" too. Like, you know, like "Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker!" and Paulie says "Forget about it!" And then, sometimes it just means forget about it!

SCREEEAAAMMM

At this very moment, I feel so angry, so...I don't know how to describe it, that I just want to go on a roof top and scream my lungs out OR, even better, like the guy in the Fight Club, destroy something beautiful.

Pass time in winter

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

- Rogers Hornsby

Important note to myself

Resolution 6. 2009-10-19

Elephant in the dark

پيل اندر خانه‌ي تاريک بود

عرضه را آورده بودندش هنود

از براي ديدنش مردم بسي

اندر آن ظلمت همي‌شد هر کسي

ديدنش با چشم چون ممکن نبود

اندر آن تاريکيش کف مي‌بسود

آن يکي را کف به خرطوم اوفتاد

گفت همچون ناودانست اين نهاد

آن يکي را دست بر گوشش رسيد

آن برو چون بادبيزن شد پديد

آن يکي را کف چو بر پايش بسود

گفت شکل پيل ديدم چون عمود

آن يکي بر پشت او بنهاد دست

گفت خود اين پيل چون تختي بدست

همچنين هر يک به جزوي که رسيد

فهم آن مي‌کرد هر جا مي‌شنيد

از نظرگه گفتشان شد مختلف

آن يکي دالش لقب داد اين الف

در کف هر کس اگر شمعي بدي

اختلاف از گفتشان بيرون شدي

چشم حس همچون کف دستست و بس

نيست کف را بر همه‌ي او دست‌رس

چشم دريا ديگرست و کف دگر

کف بهل وز ديده‌ي دريا نگر

جنبش کفها ز دريا روز و شب

کف همي‌بيني و دريا نه عجب

ما چو کشتيها بهم بر مي‌زنيم

تيره‌چشميم و در آب روشنيم

اي تو در کشتي تن رفته به خواب

آب را ديدي نگر در آب آب

آب را آبيست کو مي‌راندش

روح را روحيست کو مي‌خواندش

موسي و عيسي کجا بد کفتاب

کشت موجودات را مي‌داد آب

آدم و حوا کجا بد آن زمان

که خدا افکند اين زه در کمان

اين سخن هم ناقص است و ابترست

آن سخن که نيست ناقص آن سرست

گر بگويد زان بلغزد پاي تو

ور نگويد هيچ از آن اي واي تو

Party with Metallica

Playlist 3.

1. "Battery" Master of Puppets

2. "Die Die My Darling" Garage Inc. Disc 1

3. "Enter Sandman" Metallica

4. "The Four Horsemen" Kill'em All

5. "Last Caress/Green Hell" Garage Inc. Disc 2

6. "For Whom The Bell Tolls" Ride The Lightning

7. "Breadfan" Garage Inc. Disc 2

8. "Hit The Lights" Kill'em All

9. "Fuel" Reload

10. "Whiskey In The Jar" Garage Inc. Disc 1

A link where you can download this playlist is available upon request.