I recently re-joined MySpace after having been a way for a long time due to some rather weird reasons. This time when I signed up I decided it would strictly be for the music and the potentially great groups and singer you can find there.

Peppermoon is one of the best discoveries I've made so far...although the group found me first, I guess you could say. Just click on the picture above to hear a sample or go to their Myspace page: gorgeous sounds!!!

Their music is in French (which I've become rusty at since my seven years of it in high school and college years ago) but it's so lovely and free and just really good!!! Music is the universal language, after all. Translation may help, but it's not necessary to enjoy, to take in the beauty.

http://www.myspace.com/peppermoon

I'm sort of in a funk today and listening to music from my youth...wow, I never really heard how sad "Ordinary World" is till now...

lyrics to "Ordinary World"

Came in from a rainy Thursday
On the avenue
Thought I heard you talking softly

I turned on the lights, the TV
And the radio
Still I can't escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence
Once prompted you to say
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now pride's gone out the window
Cross the rooftops
Run away
Left me in the vacuum of my heart

What is happening to me?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Papers in the roadside
Tell of suffering and greed
Here today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh, here besides the news
Of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

And I don't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Every one
Is my world, I will learn to survive
Any one
Is my world, I will learn to survive
Any one
Is my world
Every one
Is my world

It's a quiet day and I'm catching up on news and other reading materials...just finished reading the article below...it is so very heart-breaking...be sure to read the posted comments (over 500*) following the article...maybe if there are much harsher penalties imposed on those who bully others, things like this won't happen...it makes me so sad after reading this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/us/30bully.html

More than one commenter says that the bullied girl is the one that took her own life, not the kids who teased her mercilessly...maybe that's what physically happened and maybe there are some kids who would have been stronger and been able to cope better, but the simple truth is we are not all the same in our physical and psychological make-up.

Who knows why some survive trauma perfectly intact and others never fully recover? It's not for us to judge what is going through another person's mind. Not all seemingly similar situations are equal...maybe one bullied teen has a better support system at home than someone who ends up self-destructing.


But the even more crucial question is: why was this behavior ever allowed in the first place? Bullying is a serious offense and one of the worst things that can happen to kids in middle and high school.



(*I mention the comments because at least a dozen or so of the posts are better-written and more heartfelt than a news story ever could be...)

Have you heard about "Lost" fans' outrage over the V logo fiasco? In the grand scheme of things, it's really not that big a deal, but still sort of frustrating when trying to get an organic tv experience!:)

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/that-v-made-lost-hard-to-see/

I guess it's the stubborn streak in me, but immediately after "Lost" was over, I turned off the tv and decided not to watch "V" like I had originally planned. I'm so tired of watching shows with dancing characters, wide banners and so on and so forth along the bottom of the screen or at the corner of it. No wonder it's becoming more common for people to wait for their favorite tv shows to come out on dvd. The advertising-hungry powers that be have obviously decided to pump it up since so many of us fast forward through the commercials...

Network executives should not be surprised to discover viewers are growing tired and disgusted with these intrusive symbols. Ratings for all shows will continue to plunge if this newest way of promoting shows and products continues!!

Slow and boring or cinematic and thought-provoking? There are two camps of response to one of the more highly regarded films in the After Dark Horrorfest series. In "The Broken" Lena Headey plays a radiologist struggling with her identity after she is in a serious automobile accident.

The movie is full of broken mirrors and doppelgangers and lots of quiet, dark moments and yet Headey does such a good job and the eerie atmosphere is so convincing you don't really care that nothing makes sense and some moments seem to drag on...for anyone who likes to overanalyze their movies, this is for you!!:)