... out of where we are now.
I was watching a TV show yesterday night about the situation in Latvia culture and society. And what I really liked, was the end when all the people taking part were asked to express their opinion. One of the political scientists there was asked:
''What do you think would be needed to get Latvia out of the situation we are now?''
And what he answered, was:
''Two things: complete censorship and a Ministry of Propaganda.''
And you know what? Even if it was a joke, I think there is some truth behind that sentence.
Okay, I wouldn't be okay with a total and complete censorship, but a Ministry of Propaganda... it does have a potential.
Okay, maybe not a ministry, but a department or a bureau of propaganda wouldn't do bad at all. Not that kind of propaganda when they say that ''You must hate every other country and people, because Latvia ( insert any other country here ) is the best!'', but a kind of propaganda that would encourage people.
There are so many bad things happening now in Latvia, and they are always carried out in the front plan, forgetting all the good things happening around. Even the TV shows where they want to tell about good things happening, they always end up with some kind of problem that only makes it worse.
So, a kind of propaganda that would say like ''Today, 10 families on countryside were given money to buy school books for children!!! Yeaaah, WE'RE THE BEST!'' or ''The amount of jobless have fallen per 2% this year! Yeah, Latvians can do it!''
If you don't like the word ''propagada'', then call it ''Good News Agency'' or whatever.
The definition of propaganda is ''A form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.'' And nobody says that it must always be used for political causes, it can also be used for other things ( *cough*McDonalds*cough*Coca Cola*cough*), and so why not use a propaganda to raise people's spirit a bit? After all the terrible things that have happened in Latvian economics and society, I think that a bit of push wouldn't be bad at all :)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Negative comments xD
Some people are complaining that the fans on MB don't do anything else than complain.
First, they don't just complain, sometimes negativism is constructive and you can't expect all the people blindly like everything Lordi are doing. Me as a person who earlier liked a lot of things they are doing, has just one word for some of the new things now, it's the Russian ''blj@#!!'' which in English would mean like ''goddamn, what are you doing screwing everything up'' xD But I don't complain.
I have only one thing to say about it, and it's what some composer said: ''Art belongs to the simple people. If the simple people don't don't like it, then the piece of art is not good.''
Second, I do believe that every person is allowed to have their own opinion. And saying that people aren't fans just because they find something the band does is bad, wrong or ''sucks'', that's just too stupid from those people. There hasn't been anyone who has given them the right to decide ''oh, you're a fan, you say everything's good, but that guy says that the new video sucks, so he's not a fan''
And the conversations up on MB leave also an impression that ''gosh, but it's sooooo 80s like, you MUUUUST like it''. Well, sorry, but I don't like it. My mother missed the 80s, because anything that was from the Western world wasn't allowed here in the 80s ( check some history books on that theme ). So I have had no real impression about what the 80s were like, my mother didn't listen neither to KISS nor anything else from the ''West'' society, and prankly I have no real wish to find out. We live in the 21st Century, not the 80s anymore -.-
So, in general and short - some fans need to grow up and stop following their idols blindly, worshipping everything they do and the ground they have walked on.
First, they don't just complain, sometimes negativism is constructive and you can't expect all the people blindly like everything Lordi are doing. Me as a person who earlier liked a lot of things they are doing, has just one word for some of the new things now, it's the Russian ''blj@#!!'' which in English would mean like ''goddamn, what are you doing screwing everything up'' xD But I don't complain.
I have only one thing to say about it, and it's what some composer said: ''Art belongs to the simple people. If the simple people don't don't like it, then the piece of art is not good.''
Second, I do believe that every person is allowed to have their own opinion. And saying that people aren't fans just because they find something the band does is bad, wrong or ''sucks'', that's just too stupid from those people. There hasn't been anyone who has given them the right to decide ''oh, you're a fan, you say everything's good, but that guy says that the new video sucks, so he's not a fan''
And the conversations up on MB leave also an impression that ''gosh, but it's sooooo 80s like, you MUUUUST like it''. Well, sorry, but I don't like it. My mother missed the 80s, because anything that was from the Western world wasn't allowed here in the 80s ( check some history books on that theme ). So I have had no real impression about what the 80s were like, my mother didn't listen neither to KISS nor anything else from the ''West'' society, and prankly I have no real wish to find out. We live in the 21st Century, not the 80s anymore -.-
So, in general and short - some fans need to grow up and stop following their idols blindly, worshipping everything they do and the ground they have walked on.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
The new CD cover
'kay, so today Lordi revealed the new CD cover picture for Babez For Breakfast...
Is it good? Yes.
Do I like it? No.
But at least I have a reason for not liking it and it's not connected with ''ewww, it's pink'' or ''it's un-Lordi'sh ''.
See, in Latvia, we had this album series of children lullabies some years ago. And the designs of those covers were... well, they were quite like the BFB, at least in their theme ( without the blood and the monstrous demon baby, of course xD ). So I have no liking towards that cover now :s It is good drawn and no doubt Mr. L has talent, but it just... it doesn't speak to me, even if other people say like ''OMG, it's soooo 80-ties like!'' I have no doubt, if I didn't know how the album would look like when I would go to Randoms to buy it this September, I'd think the shopkeeper has lost her mind if she brought me something that looked like a lullaby CD :s Now, that would probably be fun xD If Mr.L's aim is to scare the crap out of some poor Latvian mothers who come to music shop in searches for a new lullaby CD for their damn brats ( the CDs there are labeled alphabetic, not by genres ), then he will suceed.
Will wait and see if the album is good itself, and it would be a wonder if a Lordi album wasn't good, but that cover... oh man, they should have called it Devil's Lullaby not Babez For Breakfast then, because the picture fits the DL better than BFB xD
Is it good? Yes.
Do I like it? No.
But at least I have a reason for not liking it and it's not connected with ''ewww, it's pink'' or ''it's un-Lordi'sh ''.
See, in Latvia, we had this album series of children lullabies some years ago. And the designs of those covers were... well, they were quite like the BFB, at least in their theme ( without the blood and the monstrous demon baby, of course xD ). So I have no liking towards that cover now :s It is good drawn and no doubt Mr. L has talent, but it just... it doesn't speak to me, even if other people say like ''OMG, it's soooo 80-ties like!'' I have no doubt, if I didn't know how the album would look like when I would go to Randoms to buy it this September, I'd think the shopkeeper has lost her mind if she brought me something that looked like a lullaby CD :s Now, that would probably be fun xD If Mr.L's aim is to scare the crap out of some poor Latvian mothers who come to music shop in searches for a new lullaby CD for their damn brats ( the CDs there are labeled alphabetic, not by genres ), then he will suceed.
Will wait and see if the album is good itself, and it would be a wonder if a Lordi album wasn't good, but that cover... oh man, they should have called it Devil's Lullaby not Babez For Breakfast then, because the picture fits the DL better than BFB xD
Sunday, August 1, 2010
*sad sigh*
It's such a beautiful summer day of August 1st, and yet where am I? I am sitting at home and aimlessly staring out of the window and sometimes into the computer screen.
Well, I should know better than with my social skills, I can't get anywhere further than the 60th level in Gothic 3, but still, it is like I would be forgotten by all and everyone. It's a nice day and I could think of dozens of activities to do outside, but what's the point of doing them if you are all alone in that? It's like swinging on the big, horizontal swings where one side comes down, the other goes up and so on. It's only fun when there are two; with one, they stand still.
So it is. I could, for example, think of going shopping. I have money for that, but it just isn't fun if you go alone, and even if you go alone, what's the point of doing it if none of those fucking clothes fit you anyway and if you don't like those idiotic accessoires?! What's the point of that? Should I go get groceries instead? Of course, I could just go for a walk, I have done it already today, but how many times can a person walk on the same fucking route without getting bored?
I am just antisocial. I have tried. In school, I tried for the first 4 years, then I just gave up because it seemed nobody had interest in me and I also didn't have any real interest in them. I have had like... 3 friends at school during the whole time I spent there. One from the 4th to 6th grade, one from the 8th grade to 9th grade an one in the 12th year. And that's it. Nohing more, nothing less. Others were more or less just classmates. The second friend developed better contacts with the others and so we were studying. I wouln't say I was living, more like existing as sort of the fifth wheel. I have been deceived a lot by people. The thing I ''liked'' the best was that I was never informed what the 2nd friend would do together with others. I can remember how we - the 2nd friend and two more ''friends'' - decided to go and see one of the Harry Potter movies, but, when the day came, she gave me a call ''Oh, hi! Turns out I won't be able to come. Hope you'll have fun, though.'' Me: ''Okay, sad that you can't come. I'm sure we will have fun :)'' She: ''Oh, about that... you know... we went to that movie last week... so... I hope you'll have fun...'' Me: ''I see... bye... '' It fucking hurts when people do so... :'(
The best friend that I have ever had, we were friend in the 12th year. We did have different interests aside from languages and politics, but at least she was honest...
It is also the reason why I am so careful on the internet. I better ask the person first, before I add them on Facebook. Because there is always that fucking question ''What, if they don't want me as a friend? I will just be the fith wheel again...'' For me, it is better to ask first: ''May I add you?'' and then act the one or the other way when the answer comes. If there is something in this world I don't want to, then it's forcing someone to be friends with me...
And still, despite my anti-sociality, I wish I had someone who would call me or write me a SMS and say like ''Hey, let's go for a walk together, I want to chat a bit''. Because, no matter how to hide it, it sometimes hurts to go outside for a walk and see people walking around in pairs or in big bunches, chatting and laughing while I have no other person to talk to ( except for that creepy imaginary friend who sometimes shows up xD ).
I would lie if I said I don't understand people who spend all their free time at Facebook and computer games. Because where else than those virtual worlds of WoW, Lineage, S.U.N or Raganrock Online can they meet other people if they are just like me? Hell, I'd escape there right now, too, if I had the chance and the resources to do so... I really wish I could do it...
It is very difficult. People also ask me, why I don't get excited about anything. Right now, two days are left till August the 3rd and new Lordi masks. I am not excited, with each new video I feel more and more like ''shut up already, people...''. Still, I am a fan, but at the same time I know I am the only fan who feels like that *sad sigh*
I have learned that I shouldn't get excited. I learned this the hard way. Every time I get excited about something, something always goes wrong and I am left on my own and ditched by everyone so I have no courage to do it again. I get deceived over and over, and over again and now have no wish to go through it again...
That's it... and it's still the nice sunny day of August the 1st... and I am still inside and staring out of the window and sometimes at the computer screen. I think.. you know, I don't think anything... I just keep existing.
Well, I should know better than with my social skills, I can't get anywhere further than the 60th level in Gothic 3, but still, it is like I would be forgotten by all and everyone. It's a nice day and I could think of dozens of activities to do outside, but what's the point of doing them if you are all alone in that? It's like swinging on the big, horizontal swings where one side comes down, the other goes up and so on. It's only fun when there are two; with one, they stand still.
So it is. I could, for example, think of going shopping. I have money for that, but it just isn't fun if you go alone, and even if you go alone, what's the point of doing it if none of those fucking clothes fit you anyway and if you don't like those idiotic accessoires?! What's the point of that? Should I go get groceries instead? Of course, I could just go for a walk, I have done it already today, but how many times can a person walk on the same fucking route without getting bored?
I am just antisocial. I have tried. In school, I tried for the first 4 years, then I just gave up because it seemed nobody had interest in me and I also didn't have any real interest in them. I have had like... 3 friends at school during the whole time I spent there. One from the 4th to 6th grade, one from the 8th grade to 9th grade an one in the 12th year. And that's it. Nohing more, nothing less. Others were more or less just classmates. The second friend developed better contacts with the others and so we were studying. I wouln't say I was living, more like existing as sort of the fifth wheel. I have been deceived a lot by people. The thing I ''liked'' the best was that I was never informed what the 2nd friend would do together with others. I can remember how we - the 2nd friend and two more ''friends'' - decided to go and see one of the Harry Potter movies, but, when the day came, she gave me a call ''Oh, hi! Turns out I won't be able to come. Hope you'll have fun, though.'' Me: ''Okay, sad that you can't come. I'm sure we will have fun :)'' She: ''Oh, about that... you know... we went to that movie last week... so... I hope you'll have fun...'' Me: ''I see... bye... '' It fucking hurts when people do so... :'(
The best friend that I have ever had, we were friend in the 12th year. We did have different interests aside from languages and politics, but at least she was honest...
It is also the reason why I am so careful on the internet. I better ask the person first, before I add them on Facebook. Because there is always that fucking question ''What, if they don't want me as a friend? I will just be the fith wheel again...'' For me, it is better to ask first: ''May I add you?'' and then act the one or the other way when the answer comes. If there is something in this world I don't want to, then it's forcing someone to be friends with me...
And still, despite my anti-sociality, I wish I had someone who would call me or write me a SMS and say like ''Hey, let's go for a walk together, I want to chat a bit''. Because, no matter how to hide it, it sometimes hurts to go outside for a walk and see people walking around in pairs or in big bunches, chatting and laughing while I have no other person to talk to ( except for that creepy imaginary friend who sometimes shows up xD ).
I would lie if I said I don't understand people who spend all their free time at Facebook and computer games. Because where else than those virtual worlds of WoW, Lineage, S.U.N or Raganrock Online can they meet other people if they are just like me? Hell, I'd escape there right now, too, if I had the chance and the resources to do so... I really wish I could do it...
It is very difficult. People also ask me, why I don't get excited about anything. Right now, two days are left till August the 3rd and new Lordi masks. I am not excited, with each new video I feel more and more like ''shut up already, people...''. Still, I am a fan, but at the same time I know I am the only fan who feels like that *sad sigh*
I have learned that I shouldn't get excited. I learned this the hard way. Every time I get excited about something, something always goes wrong and I am left on my own and ditched by everyone so I have no courage to do it again. I get deceived over and over, and over again and now have no wish to go through it again...
That's it... and it's still the nice sunny day of August the 1st... and I am still inside and staring out of the window and sometimes at the computer screen. I think.. you know, I don't think anything... I just keep existing.
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