June 4, 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 feel so happy.
Why?
Because my life is full of engaging challenges. Difficult problems to solve. They are so big [...]
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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 29, 2008
I just learned that happiness doesn’t necessarily mean feeling happy.
Don’t get me wrong, if you’re feeling happy, then you are happy. Be happy! Celebrate!
But you may be experiencing other types of emotions, and still feel “happy.” Perhaps the word “happiness” is problematic here. You can be “joyful,” “content,” or “satisfied” without [...]
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April 29, 2008
I just learned that Tom Araya, the bassist and vocalist of the seminal Slayer, is a Christian. Catholic, to be precise, and still believes strongly in that faith.
Apparently, all the anti-religion and anti-deity lyrics in that band’s catalog does not bother or shake his beliefs one bit. For exact quotes taken [...]
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April 18, 2008
I’ve been going through some old CDs, and I’ve gotten rid of quite a few. But I came across one album that surprised me.
It’s The Alarm’s Eye of the Hurricane.
The Alarm, for those of you not old enough, was a British band from 80’s that were colleagues of early U2.
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April 17, 2008
Yesterday was one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting.
It’s my theory that these incidents are perpetuating itself. The more media coverage there is (and I’m not advocating that media NOT cover it), the more we think that this CAN happen. The idea gets incubated in mentally unstable people, and those two elements [...]
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April 10, 2008
I hope you have watched it. If you haven’t, I hope you do soon, and I hope you like it. It’s a terrific movie on many levels.
One scene that always gets me, is the scene inside the whale’s mouth.
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April 2, 2008
It’s easy to misunderstand. Very.
But many of us musicians are wrong about this. Or if we knew at one point, we forget.
I don’t want to be one of them.
You see, music is not a one-way street, like, a flash light illuminating a black wall.
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April 1, 2008
Well, that’s not quite right, though close. An old Japanese saying goes something like “for a real man, knowing when to retreat is important.”
Today is a day to accept my defeat. It was just “one of those days” when everything seems to go wrong.
My solution? Give up. Go to bed early.
Good night.
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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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