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 III.

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.

NY Bombers: Love'em, Hate'em

Yankees won the world series again the other week...for the 27th times! No team in the professional sports has ever accomplished that.

Yes, it's true that the franchise has spent ca. 1 billion dollars since 2000 and they are notorious for their spending spree and overpaid/overrated/pass-their-prime players, conveying huge amount of distress to the people of NYC thanks to gigantic ego of 'The Boss' and his endless threats of moving the franchise to somewhere else than Bronx, destroying 'The house that Ruth built'- one of the trademarks of the the big apple- for a lavish, costly top-notch club house right across street and so on...

But the fact of the matter still remains, and I have to repeat myself, that they have won the world series for the 27th times and no team, I repeat NO TEAM, in the professional sports has ever accomplished such a milestone. For that, they do deserve awful lot of credit (and that includes everyone involved) despite the methods of club's executives have been (and will be?) highly questionable in the recent past years.

Eκβάτανα

A weekday, the sun is about to set in the western horizon of a tired, worn and heavily polluted city, people are mostly on their way home, chaotic traffic and its indefinite jams with its background music: the deafening sounds of horns, the sight of the so-called liberty monument which was originally a king's memory with its dazzling architecture and all those uncanny curvatures, the warmth of the air and the salty taste of sweat, the tired feet, the repelling smell of exhaust gases, the tight and uncomfortable rides, the sight of airplanes landing and taking off in the airport nearby, the heated half court basketball and the ice cold soda afterward, the chicken that was grilled on the balcony, the calm of the night and the sound of AC, the cold water in a metallic jar, the endless talks in the dark, the extremely loud snoring by someone, the poster of young MJ on the wall, the very strong home-made beer, the late 5-card-draw pokers, the surreal movie of The Wall, the harsh smell of freshly burned leaves...

Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?

Source for the notes: www.streetmusician.co.uk

Missed his blog

There was (and still is) a mullah who used to be some kind of deputy vice-president...not very long ago. He was quite liberal and an open-minded reformist. He was possibly the first of his peers who entered the world of blogging and modern(!) IT era. He put up a site(or blog?) and started writing, blogging, whatever. I think I had seen that site, it was not too bad and quite interesting especially for those who knew him and his surroundings and the related events. In the aftermath of the recent unrest, he got arrested by the same regime which he was a representing and defending while ago (ironically!) and was sent to prison and was later put on trial and etc. I read somewhere, that he was granted very limited access to internet and managed to post something on his blog or maybe started to write memoirs or so, I don't remember exactly. Anyway, (here's the punch line) he said that in the midst of his interrogation, he suddenly thought of his site/blog and he missed it big time which I found that very cute!

I'd like to reach a point (not by being imprisoned or anything obviously) that I feel that I miss my blog so much. Right now, I don't miss it particularly much. I mean I like it very much but I don't miss it. There is something about this feeling that makes things very dearer. I guess human beings start to realize the real value of things as soon as they lose them, suck!

5 years

Thèse

Sometimes, I feel like that I am 5 years behind. I mean I should have been in this position in life for about 5 years ago, that is the social status, the family, the job, the belongings, the mind set, the money, the experience, everything should have been reached a while ago. While I must emphasize on the fact that I have been very lucky to have achieved almost everything that I aimed for, I just can't help wondering what it would been like if I was in the same spot as I am now only 5 years younger.

Anti-thèse

What is 5 years? It's nothing!

Synthèse

Well, it's not like that I do have a choice and can change things around, it's just a mind tickling that I get every now and then.

Time management

Resolution 5. The time spent 'wasting' (you know EXACTLY what I mean!) at the computer/internet X (minimum)2 = The time spent reading.

The time allocated for wasting will be monitored carefully.

I to U via H

Source: www.farzadonline.com

With a strong taste of Seattle

Playlist II.

1. "Rape me" Nirvana

2. "Killing in the name of" Rage Against The Machine

3. "By the way" Red Hot Chili Peppers

4. "State of love and trust" Pearl Jam

5. "Hunger Strike" Temple of the Dog

6. "Pillar of Davidson" Live

7. "Fell on black days" Soundgarden

8. "I stay away" Alice in Chains

9. "Be yourself" Audioslave

10. "Heart Shaped Box" Nirvana

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