February 10, 2006

• Diamond Body

  Picture obtained from: http://www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=songinfo&song_id=30791

   

  

   

  I originally intended to put up a random rant against willy wonka, but the past 6 ½ hours kinda changed that. It’s a little morbid to ask, but have you ever listened to a song and knew right away it would be one you want to be played at your funeral? Yesterday, I had two such songs, Red Hill Mining Town off of U2’s ‘The Joshua Tree’ and Into The West of off the ‘Return of the King’ soundtrack. The last thing I expected to have happen today was to find a third. Well the song Diamond Body off of the self-titled cd by a group called Lost at Last is it. I got it from the library the other day since it looked like it may have some good trance music on it. I was wrong, it had some mediocre trance on most of it, and then a song that is a class only inhabited by those two songs I just mentioned above. I kid you not, I listened to it 38 times during work, and I have it playing as I type to you here at this very moment!

   

  The song itself is almost certainly a reference to the Diamond Sutra from the Buddhist Mahayana. Take a look at the lyrics(roughly – I couldn’t find them online so I just wrote them down while listening).

   

  The diamond body, has awakened to shine

  Gonna leave this material world, leave it behind

  It’s time to surrender, illusions of your mind

   

  A new day is dawning, now you can see

  That your love is a river(or rhythm) to eternity

  And your diamond body, has awakened to shine

  We are living to remember, all is divine

   

  So take those lyrics, combine them with the ‘Diamond’ in the title, listen to the Indian musical elements throughout the song, and the Buddhist influence is fairly easy to see. All of that and the fantastic beat make it a very powerful vessel in which to take a meditative journey into trance.

   

  All of those elements combined into a mere 5 minutes and 30 seconds of music…it’s downright awesome. The wicked key change right after she says ‘shine’ the first time, it resonates very deeply. I don’t know how else to explain the song’s impact. It resonates, it echoes.

   

  And what is the impact of such a song? Energy! I wasn’t anywhere close to drying out of ideas, but just this morning I came up with 3 new poems(Ice, Acidic Visions and Pornographic Princess) and have ideas for a bunch more stories. Acidic Visions will very likely make it’s way onto this page, and perhaps one or two of the stories, but my imagination was going places that were either too deeply personal to express anywhere except within my own heart, or exploring areas too dark to put on a public web site. Acidic Visions is pretty funny though. It takes a song, a state of trance, like this to get my mind heading in directions that can cause me to envision a tiger dancing over an ocean. J.

   

  I gotta say that I’m not sad, I’m not happy, I’m just full of a massive amount of creative energy. It’s like all that energy is flowing through my veins and it’s not leaving enough room for my blood. “Yo, creative energy…make way! Yeah you make him feel alive, but it’s us blood cells that gotta keep him alive! I declare blood fued!(Get it?)” So is it obvious that I’m just typing away here? There’s a chance that you’re sitting there completely confused I suppose. I’m just in a very surreal mode right now.

   

  Enough describing I guess. Why am I sharing all of this with you? This is the kind of thing that fuels the entries you see on this page! I guarantee you this. The more creative the entry, the happier I was when I wrote it. If I had the time, I could easily put up about 5 full entries and not even blink. All five would be the craziest things you’ve ever seen, and you’d likely think I was high. In fact, that thought probably already crossed your mind. I’m not high though, this is the state in which I like to be, and it’s nice to be able to get here via an awesome song and not an awesome drug. Though to be sure, I can see how this song could fuel some wild times when infused with a dose of acid.

   

  Anyways, I certainly can go on and on huh? Just look at the picture up there and imagine the mindset needed to come up with that. That’s where I am, and I like it here. I don’t know how the four of you feel about this page, but I love using it as an outlet for creativity. You may be surprised to learn this, but the fact that all of this isn’t going to just become yet another journal entry that fades away unseen by any soul save my own is actually a genuine attempt at trust. I began posting all of this in an effort to share what it’s like inside of my head, and everything you just read is what it’s like when I’m at my peak.

   

  I wish you a terrific weekend,

   

  Dan

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