Song : TLC - Waterfalls A lonely mother gazing out of her window. Staring at a son that she just can't touch. If at any time he's in a jam. She'll be by his side. But he doesn't realize he hurts her so much. But all the praying just ain't helping. At all 'cause he can't seem to keep. His self out of trouble. So he goes out and he makes his money. The best way he knows how. Another body laying cold in the gutter. Listen to me. Chorus: Don't go chasing waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that. You're used to. I know that you're gonna have it your way. Or nothing at all. But I think you're moving too fast. Little precious has a natural obsession. For temptation but he just can't see. She gives him loving that his body can't handle. But all he can say is baby it's good to me. One day he goes and takes a glimpse. In the mirror. But he doesn't recognize his own face. His health is fading and he doesn't know why. 3 letters took him to his final resting place. Y'all don't hear me. Chorus I seen a rainbow yesterday. But too many storms have come and gone. Leavin' a trace of not one God-given. Is it because my life is ten. I pray all ten fade away. Seldom praise Him for the sunny days. And like His promise is true. Only my faith can undo. The many chances I blew. To bring my life to anew. Clear blue and unconditional skies. Have dried the tears from my eyes. No more lonely cries. My only bleedin' hope. Is for the folk who can't cope. Wit such an endurin' pain. That it keeps 'em in the pourin' rain. Who's to blame. For tootin' caine in your own vein. What a shame. You shoot and aim for someone else's. You claim the insane. And name this day and time. For fallin' prey to crime. I say the system got you victim to your own mind. Dreams are hopeless aspirations. In hopes of comin' true. Believe in yourself. The rest is up to me and you

Author: dutchgirldan
Keywords: TLC Waterfalls
Added: March 30, 2008

Fractals put to Aphex Twin's "Icct Hedral". Enlarge the screen. :D The first set: the dive into the mandelbrot zoom is so deep that if the final frame were the size of your screen, it would be larger than the known Universe. wiki info: Natural fractals include the shapes of mountains, coastlines and river basins; the structure of plants, blood vessels and lungs; the clustering of galaxies; Brownian motion. Man-made fractals include stock market prices but also music, painting and architecture. Benot B. Mandelbrot, the "father of fractal geometry" has been called a visionary. His informal and passionate style of writing and his emphasis on visual and geometric illustrations sparked a widespread popular interest in fractals as well as contributing to chaos theory and other fields of science. Far from being unnatural, Mandelbrot held the view that fractals were, in many ways, more intuitive and natural than the artificially smooth objects of traditional geometry. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line." -- B.Mandelbrot ** I fixed the sound, thats why I posted it again. There was too much bass that "boomed" out everything .

Author: TheDopeMage
Keywords: Icct Hedral Aphex Twin Mandalbrot Fractals Psychedelics LSD infinite regress downward spiral matrix fucked up trip
Added: April 1, 2008

The chaos, the beauty, the richness and poverty of Bangladesh are all encapsulated in the tea-laden, river adjacent city (?) that is Sylhet: enjoy. And if you can, go and see it for yourself before it too, becomes yet another hollow coccoon of consumerism (which, seeing as the US/UK have "discovered" its oil/gas/and diamonds, is already happening)

Author: onjb21
Keywords: cityscape culture
Added: April 3, 2008

VPG-DVD-188 - GALICIA Our journey through romantic northern Spain travels south through Galicia along the Atlantic coast. A Coruña is the region's largest industrial city and shipping harbour and it thought to have been founded by the Phoenicians in 60 A.D. The Romans conquered this harbour city that has always been associated with the sea and it was from A Coruña that the invincible Spanish Armada set sail in1588 to invade England. Santiago De Compostela is the capital of Galicia and since the Middle Ages it was, apart from Jerusalem and Rome, the most important pilgrimage destination in Christendom. Half a million pilgrims came here each year from all over Europe and Spain's most religious city continues to attract the faithful. Some centuries ago each of the large villages of the Rias Baixas prospered due to fishing, as did Pontevedra. However, all this changed when its harbour was engulfed by sand some three hundred years ago. In contrast to Spain's many other harbour cities, the old town of Pontevedra is almost the same now as it was in bygone times with cobbled streets, intimate squares and the residential palaces of the city's former elite. Across a huge chain bridge that spans the mouth of a deep river is Galicia`s largest city, Vigo. Its name is of Roman origin and it is believed that Vicus Spacorum was the starting-point of Caesar's campaign against Britannia, as well as a storage area for his Empire's oil, fish and wine. For many centuries A Guarda, 'the Female Guard', has watched over the river border with Portugal and in the wooded mountain city of Monte Santa Tecla the Celts established a settlement that contained more than a thousand buildings that dated back to the 6th and 3rd centuries B.C. and formed part of a prehistoric settlement. Throughout the centuries life in Galicia was not representative of that in the rest of Spain and both Romans and Moors considered it to be too remote for their interests. Maybe that's what makes it such a special place to be!

Author: TravelVideoStore
Keywords: GALICIA Spain Coruña Santiago De Compostela Rias Baixas Pontevedra Vigo
Added: April 5, 2008

When you're talkin to yourself And nobody's home You can fool yourself You came in this world alone (Alone) So nobody ever told you baby How it was gonna be So what'll happen to you baby Guess we'll have to wait and see One, two Old at heart but I'm only 28 And I'm much too young To let love break my heart Young at heart but it's getting much too late To find ourselves so far apart I don't know how you're s'posed To find me lately An what more could you ask from me How could you say that I never needed you When you took everything Said you took everything from me Young at heart an it gets so hard to wait When no one I know can seem to help me now Old at heart but I musn't hesitate If I'm to find my own way out Still talkin' to myself and nobody's home (Alone) So nobody ever told us baby How it was gonna be So what'll happen to us baby Guess we'll have to wait and see When I find out all the reasons Maybe I'll find another way Find another day With all the changing seasons of my life Maybe I'll get it right next time An now that you've been broken down Got your head out of the clouds You're back down on the ground And you don't talk so loud An you don't walk so proud Any more, and what for Well I jumped into the river too many times to make it home I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone If it doesn't show give it time To read between the lines 'Cause I see the storm getting closer And the waves they get so high Seems everything We've ever known's here Why must it drift away and die I'll never find anyone to replace you Guess I'll have to make it thru, this time Oh this time Without you I knew the storm was getting closer And all my friends said I was high But everything we've ever known's here I never wanted it to die

Author: LudaZaVryzvane
Keywords: Estranged Guns Roses
Added: April 6, 2008

Seaports and maritime trade Figurine of a foreign merchant of the Tang Dynasty, 7th century.Chinese envoys had been sailing through the Indian Ocean to India since the 2nd century BC,[64][65] yet it was during the Tang Dynasty that a strong Chinese maritime presence could be found in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, into Persia, Mesopotamia (sailing up the Euphrates River in modern-day Iraq), Arabia, Egypt, Aksum (Ethiopia), and Somalia in East Africa.[66] From the same Quraysh tribe of Muhammad, Sa'd ibn Abi-Waqqas sailed from Ethiopia to China during the reign of Emperor Gaozu. He later traveled back to China with a copy of the Quran, establishing China's first mosque, the Mosque of Remembrance, during the reign of Emperor Gaozong. To this day he is still buried in a Muslim cemetery at Guangzhou. During the Tang Dynasty, thousands of foreigners came and lived in Guangzhou for trade and commercial ties with China, including Persians, Arabs, Hindu Indians, Malays, Jews and Nestorian Christians of the Near East, and many others.[67] In 748, the Buddhist monk Jian Zhen described Guangzhou as a bustling mercantile center where many large and impressive foreign ships came to dock. He wrote that "many big ships came from Borneo, Persia, Qunglun (Indonesia/Java)...with...spices, pearls, and jade piled up mountain high",[68] as written in the Yue Jue Shu (Lost Records of the State of Yue). After Arab and Persian pirates burned and looted Guangzhou in 758,[43] the Tang government reacted by shutting the port down for roughly five decades. However, when the port reopened it continued to thrive. In 851 the Arab merchant Suleiman al-Tajir observed the manufacturing of Chinese porcelain in Guangzhou and admired its transparent quality.[69] He also provided description on the mosque at Guangzhou, its granaries, its local government administration, some of its written records, the treatment of travellers, along with the use of ceramics, rice-wine, and tea.[70] However, in another bloody episode at Guangzhou in 879, the Chinese rebel Huang Chao sacked the city, and purportedly slaughtered thousands of native Chinese, along with foreign Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the process.[71] His rebellion was eventually suppressed in 884. The Tang government and Chinese merchants became interested in by-passing the Arab merchants who dominated the trade of the Indian Ocean, to gain access to thriving trade in the vast oceanic region. Beginning in 785, the Chinese began to call regularly at Sufala on the East African coast in order to cut out Arab middlemen,[72] with various contemporary Chinese sources giving detailed descriptions of trade in Africa. In 863 the Chinese author Duan Chengshi provided detailed description about the slave trade, ivory trade, and ambergris trade in a country called Bobali, which historians point to the possibility of being Berbera in Somalia.[73] In Fustat (old Cairo), Egypt, the fame of Chinese ceramics there led to an enormous demand for Chinese goods, hence Chinese often traveled there, also in later periods such as Fatimid Egypt.[74] From this time period, the Arab merchant Shulama once wrote of his admiration for Chinese seafaring junks, but noted that the draft was too deep for them to enter the Euphrates River, which forced them to land small boats for passengers and cargo.[75] Shulama also noted in his writing that Chinese ships were often very large, large enough to carry aboard 600 to 700 passengers each.[75]

Author: juanpingz
Keywords: China 中国 中國 Chinese Civilization History
Added: April 6, 2008