Music

Music is the universal language. A word may convey thousands of meanings, but a single note can articulate the most vivid emotions: from joy, pleasure, and excitement, to grief, sorrow, and despair. It heals, it inspires, it provokes, and it motivates. A familiar song can arouse memories of a smell, a taste, a place, or an entire period of your life. To try to encapsulate what music really is into a single paragraph is to neglect everything meaningful about it. We all relate to music personally. And speaking personally, I regard music as a refuge. It is an escape to a place where I can realize my imagination and completely live in that world. To someone else, it may hold an entirely different meaning, but it holds meaning nonetheless.



Everybody is capable of appreciating music, and everybody is capable of creating their own, there is no such thing as "wrong" or "right" in the art of sound. There is no "wrong" or "right" in art as a whole.

Really Kickass Webcomics: Subnormality

Subnormality

This is one of those really great insightful comics that are intelligent, funny, and well-drawn to boot. This isn't a 3-panel gag-strip; it reads more like a story with huge blocks of text, but this adds to the appeal of the comic rather than detracts from it. Like most webcomics it doesn't really follow a "story" per se... not in the same way as graphic novels do. It's more like small, separate story lines, following several recurring characters (a Sphinx, and a girl with pink hair) or occasionally just random characters. Sometimes it's a Seinfeld-esque commentary on real-life issues, sometimes it is bizarre, funny and weird, and sometimes it is honest and eye-opening.

Episode #3

After much heavy contemplation, Robogirl came to the conclusion that robots don't really need nails so much. Laser vision and telepathic ability pretty much rendered them moot. On the other hand, she still craved a Quarter Pounder. So, armed with nun-chucks and a cute chipmunk, she raided a nearby McDonald's and proceeded to kill everything in sight. Once the place was destroyed she figured she didn't want a Quarter Pounder that much so she went home and ordered in pizza.

Episode #2

As Robogirl crawled out of the charred remains of the explosion's full-blown destruction, she faced a dilemma. Where does a high-tech, superior intellect, totally kick-ass cyborg go to get a decent manicure?

To be continued...

Episode #1

One day as Robogirl was surfing the world of cyberspace she stumbled across a flash game. She spent many an hour playing until she finally succeeded in winning the game, coming out empty handed yet nevertheless satisfied in her accomplishment. The next day, Robogirl stumbled across another flash game. Then the next day, yet another. Robogirl soon came to realize the mesmerizing power of flash games, and with that knowledge, destroyed herself in a giant mushroom cloud explosion.