Trivium - Throes Of Perdition

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A great video. Unfortunately the quality of the only version of it I could find on youtube is not all that great. I think a better quality version can be found on their homepage:
http://www.trivium.org/

Enjoy!

Iron & Wine - Boy With A Coin

Foo Fighters - DOA

Antidote to broken promisses

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Years ago, I promised someone I'd send them music from one of my favourite bands. I had some of it in mp3 (don't actually remember where from), but most of it was out of my reach (couldn't find it to download it, didn't have money for original CDs for a long, long time). And while I sent several gigabytes of music to this person years ago, I decided not to include these mp3s (bit of a perfectionist, I am) and decided I would rather send the music in original CDs as soon as I could afford them.
A few months ago, I started working and earned some money. Part of that money was, of course, immediately put aside for purchasing this music in hopes of finally keeping my promise. And so, I travelled the country far and wide in order to complete the entire discography (some of the albums are pretty old by now and since the band is quite popular here, they are difficult to acquire). They were supposed to be sent in a form of a birthday present. There was even a card made (from scratch). Not a bad one, if I might add.
But somehow, again, things got complicated and keeping this promise of mine didn't seem to be appropriate anymore, for several reasons I won't discuss here, and fair towards several people I don't wish to mention here either.

So, now, I have a whole collection of CDs of one of my favourite bands, wrapped (I had the stores remove the plastic wrappings with the price tags on them and rewrap them) and in a plastic bag on my desk, birthday card right next to it. It has been sitting there for months now, collecting dust, since I simply don't know what to do with it.
A part of me desperately wants to simply unwrap the whole damn thing and just enjoy the wonderful music, while the other part of me insits I keep it intact (don't ask me why).

So in the end, I have something that does and does not belong to me at the same time. And oddly enough, the more time goes by, the less urged I feel towards claiming the CDs as my own and the more satisfied I feel with them just sitting there on the corner of my desk, collecting dust.

Spouse Shop

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Recently a shopping multicomplex was open, in which people could shop for… spouses.

On one side of the street, there was a shop, where women could purchase a husband. On the door it said:
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The shop has 6 floors. The characteristics of men improve with each floor.
There are only 3 rules that must be followed while shopping here:
1. You are only allowed entrance once.
2. You can choose any spouse you desire on your current floor, or move to a higher floor.
3. Once you climb up to a higher floor, you are not allowed to move back down to a lower floor.
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And thus women would enthusiastically enter the building.
On the first floor, there was a sign that said:

»These men have a job.«

The group of women that was in the shop at the time read the sign, looked at each other and decided to move to the next floor.

On the next floor was a sign that read:

»These men have a job and love kids.«

Again, the women looked at each other and enthusiastically proceeded to climb to the next floor:

»These men have a job, love children and are incredibly handsome.«

A few of the women in the group hesitated for a moment but then, bursting with curiosity, the women again all decide to climb to the next storey:

»These men have a job, love children, are incredibly handsome and help with choirs.«

Without hesitation all the women burst up the stairs to the fifth floor:

»These men have a job, love children, are incredibly handsome, help with choirs and are very romantic.«

Depending on how fast the women could read, they would all, sooner or later, shoving each other aside, rush up the stairs into the last, 6th floor.

The last woman of the group to reach the 6th floor, to her amazement, noticed, that the floor was completely empty. The only thing that could be seen on it, was an electronic billboard that said:

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Welcome! You are visitor no. 31.456.012.

There are NO men on this floor.
We have built this floor to prove that it is impossible to satisfy a woman.

Thank you for visiting our store!

The elevator to your right will take you to the exit.
»


Acroos the street was another 6-story building that looked pretty much the same as the first one. The only difference was that here men could purchase a wife.

The rules were the same as in the previous store.

The sign on the 1st floor said: »Women that love sex.«
The sign on the 2nd floor said: »Women that love sex and don't bitch too much.«

None of the other floors have ever been visited.

Paramore - Misery Business

Paramore - Crush, Crush, Crush

Creed - One Last Breath

Validation

Nickelback - Gotta Be Somebody

Feeling a bit under the weather these days. Hope it'll pass soon.

Siddharta - Vojna Idej

A new single from their new upcomming album.
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