June 25, 2008
Welcome, new visitor! My name is Ari, the man behind Aries9. Here I share my thoughts on music and life, so you can get to know me and my music. Thanks for visiting!I’m a pretty unique individual. But yesterday’s post made me think about how I still don’t know how to use my [...]
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May 31, 2008
This is something I do concern myself with, quite seriously.
And also that’s the reason why so many musicians hate the words like ‘promotion’ and ‘marketing.’
It seems that so much of marketing or promotion is focused on manipulation. The ads on TV, or newspaper. They all try very hard to make you want [...]
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May 7, 2008
I have this annoying habit of crossing my legs.
Tightly.
I also have a habit of not straightening my back. My back is always curled. I am afraid that it’s going to be stuck that way, when I’m old and my body is no longer flexible.
Neither of those things are comfortable for me to do. Well, [...]
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April 25, 2008
From CNN.com:
“Japan’s government has long battled to contain the country’s alarmingly high suicide rate. A total of 32,155 people killed themselves in 2006, giving the country the ninth highest rate in the world, according to the government.
Suicides first passed the 30,000 mark in 1998, near the height of an economic slump that left many bankrupt, [...]
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March 28, 2008
Some of us are better than others.
In concealing what’s inside.
Some days I feel that I must be so good at it. I have this inpenetratable surface — hard and shiny, slick and never-changing — that clearly states to the world “I’m fine and dandy, the same as yesterday.”
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