Wrong Side of Heaven- Five Finger Death Punch

As we’ve seen in this project, some songs are made to be listened, and this is one of them. Just the title has enough meaning to make us think a little, Wrong side of Heaven is a song which speaks about war veterans which are not enough rewarded, after all they’ve seen and most of them live in the streets now, having no food, no home and most of them having mental sequels because of the war.

This song also has a lot of religious references;” I spoke to God today, and she said that she’s ashamed, what have I become? What have I done” and” I spoke to the Devil today, and he swears he’s not to blame, and I understood,’ cause I feel the same” between many others. Making reference to the fact that they need somebody to be forgiven, and once they realize that nobody is going to help them, they try to forgive themselves in Heaven. A Heaven which is sold as the one reserved for war veterans, but they notice that Heaven is not what the government says, because then they would be on the wrong side of heaven.

I really like this song because besides the fact that the lyrics are really powerful and sound like they really want to change this, the message in the song is a topic which is not really spoken, because yes, the veterans are heroes when they are in war, but once they get back to their countries, nobody seems to remember them, which is really sad. In fact, the simple reason these guys were sent there is to protect billionaire interests, and then turn our faces to them. Some things must be changed in this

Refugees attacked

A group of people had attacked for the second time the refugees camp in Chios Island, Greece, by throwing them stones, petrol bombs and fireworks, forcing more than 150 people to flee. Four tents have been burnt and the Greek police had arrested four suspicious delinquents, who had already stolen the fireworks from a nearby shop.

I know this topic is really complicated, because everybody wants to be far from war, but then anybody wants to have them in their respective countries, which I find so hypocrite … Violence is never the solution, because they could’ve used the fireworks to make him more visible and not having to burn tents…anyways, now they have the attention they wanted so maybe they are smart enough to not waste it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38025109

Jo Cox

Jo Cox was an English Member of Parliament was murdered after being stabbed and shot multiple times by a man who screamed:” Britain First”

Jo had parked his car near a library in which she had a constituency event, and then a man called Thomas Alexander Mair attacked with his knife and gun. A witness of it had also been injured.

Supposedly, the man had ties with Nationalist, pro-Apartheid and Neo-Nazi groups. That is really sad. That there are still people who think like this is sad, but it’s almost incredible that there are people who think that violence is the best way, and also attacking somebody when is disarmed just because you don’t agree with his ideas is pathetic. 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/16/labour-mp-jo-cox-shot-in-west-yorkshire

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/16/labour-mp-jo-cox-shot-in-west-yorkshire

Can we understand everything?

Well, I’ve been thinking a lot about this, and there are some ideas that maybe we will never understand. And I’m not talking about quantum physics, just some casual things that have been incorporate to our society and we can’t understand at all.

For example, I think that more or less I can understand homosexuality (for me it’s just like prefer brunettes rather than blondes) but what about transsexuality? That’s a lot deeper, you aren’t on the body you think you belong to.

My uncle said to me once, there are some things made to be understood, and some others to be respected. Of course, I respect everything which doesn’t affect me (transsexuality, homosexuality, some religions…) but I just would know how hard is to be in another body. Or maybe I wouldn’t endure it. I suppose curiosity killed the cat…

Is rap poetry?

Hip-hop (also called rap) is a music style in which the most important aspect is the message you transmit, with a base behind your voice which has to follow it. But these last years a lot of rappers thought that they were more than that and they called themselves “poets”. How much truth is in that?

As there was a lot of controversy with Bob Dylan and his Nobel Award, some rappers called themselves poets or at least they pretend to be one. That’s the case, for example, of Nach, a Spanish rapper who wanted to become a poet and, well…he got stuck on the way. Besides all this last “trap” thing, which is the inverse of rap( a low base and someone saying stupid things at the back) in which the trappers pretend to believe that they are the Mozart’s of the XX century, the rap thing has declined a lot. Most of the rappers had stopped recording or if they still, they had sold themselves to the system, which for me, it’s crap.

Harambe

As you may have noticed, this blog has one of these names which when is spelled, it fills your mouth with enough power to destroy the world twice (wasn’t this America’s nuclear weapons?) … yes, it is. Harambe.

If you didn’t spend all this year sleeping or killing yourself with methamphetamines, you will know that Harambe was the gorilla of the Cincinnati Zoo killed because a forgetful father let his child fell down to the gorilla’s cage. At first this caused a lot of controversy because the death was totally unfair, but when the internet realized this, it exploded creating tons of memes about the gorilla’s death. This achieved it’s decisive point when all the Twitter people started posting with the hashtag #Dicksoutforharambe, which by the way achieved the top 4^th position in USA and the 14^th of the world.

As a funny fact, in the last election 11,000 people voted for Harambe. There are some religious people and then we have Harambe’s fans.

Spotify

I use to work with a chill playlist on Spotify as I do my homework and stuff, and I’ve been thinking… won’t be cool having someone on these days you feel really bad who said to you: ”I know you are not OK, here you have 1 million euros”, and won’t be super duper cool to make a Little reflection about Spotify?

So, as I was saying, Spotify has a lot of good options; you can listen to any playlist posted by anyone all around the world, you can share yours with your friends… but the last few years they’ve been doing some crazy things. For example, as you know, you can have this app on your mobile device and if you download songs you can walk around and don’t need internet connection, but, one recent actualization of this app asked your permission to have access to your gallery, which clearly violates the private property law.

So, de conclusion is: is it really worth it to have Spotify(Premium) and pay for it every month? In my opinion yes. The music quality is supreme and is it really easy to create your playlists to listen whatever you use to listen. Also, it’s legal, which always is good. And the thing of the gallery and everything, well, I’m not famous, I don’t have any naked pics on my gallery so I suppose that the FBI won’t be spying on me…I hope.

Death

Death from Pau Ayensa

Strenghts and weaknesses

On November the 8th the USA people decided their political future, and America talked. Donald Trump has been elected.

 Besides the fact that Trump is a misogynist, homophobic and a xenophobe, he is a really bad candidate. But we don't have to forget about Hillary Clinton neither.... she looked exactly like the sheep compared to the wolf, but he is worse than a pack of wolves.

She had all this problem with the confident emails, which Donald Trump and his voters knew to leverage. Also, everybody knows that she was a mannequin of more powerful people, just a mask which hid the capitalist devil. All his path until the election has been paid for these bigwigs, and in my opinion that's the thing that made her lose. Although Trump is everything he is, after all, he is natural.

He really believes that he is that white supremacy he definitely is convinced that exists, but he doesn't have any complex with that. But Hillary looks so artificial that makes people hate her even more than Trump.

After all, we will have to wait how Trump is going to manage himself to govern the most powerful country of the world...maybe he is not that much bad, Hillary could be worse....

The Clash- London Calling

"London Calling"

London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared, and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

[Chorus 1:]
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out, and draw another breath
London calling, and I don't wanna shout
But while we were talking, I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

[Chorus 2: x2]
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river

Now get this

London calling, yes, I was there, too
An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
After all this, won't you give me a smile?
London calling

I never felt so much alike [fading] alike alike alike

Well, this song reflects how an era is collapsing, and how the times that are coming aren't worth of living(ice age is coming, London is drowning..).

By the way, it has also a reflection of the band's worries about worldwide events like the nuclear error(mentioned in the chorus) of Three Mile Island, the concern of what would happen if the Thames River flooded(also mentioned in the chorus), about police brutality(the line which talks about the ring in the truncheon) and the casual drug taking effects(We ain't got no high/Except for that one with the yellowy eyes. All of that apart from the references to the fact that the group had money issues with the manager, due to the decline of punk music in England, which started with the end of the same thing's boom, in 1977.

And as a gift, a reference; the title of the song is a reference towards how did the BBC World Service's identificate itself with other occuped countries in Second World War:This is London Calling....