A Feast Of Friends

Wow, I'm sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain
South
Cruel bindings
The servants have the power
Dog-men and their mean women
Pulling poor blankets over
Our sailors

I'm sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the TV Tower

I want roses in
My garden bower; dig?
Royal babies, rubies
Must now replace aborted
Strangers in the mud
These mutants, blood-meal
For the plant that's plowed

They are waiting to take us into
The severed garden
Do you know how pale and wanton thrillful
Comes death on a stranger hour
Unannounced, unplanned for
Like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
Brought to bed

Death makes angels of us all
And gives us wings
Where we had shoulders
Smooth as raven's claws

No more money, no more fancy dress
This other Kingdom seems by far the best
Until its other jaw reveals incest
And loose obedience to a vegetable law

I will not go
Prefer a Feast of Friends
To the Giant family.

- Jim Morrison

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Form follows function

Its really shocking that educated people at this era thinks "Form follows function" is gibberish. I'm not saying that I understand all of it but at least I'm not dumb enough to say that its gibberish and have the curiosity to learn about it.

Just in case you don't know what that means -
"Form follows function is a principle associated with modern architecture and industrial design in the 20th Century, which states that the shape of a building or object should be predicated by or based upon its intended function or purpose."

Anyway it's been used worldwide, from designing a simple website to a complex space shuttle. Before building something doesn't matter what it is, it can even be a paper plane, you have to know the function or purpose of the entity. Its not rocket science is it? If you fail to understand the purpose of the entity you are building, the entity is ought to be a complete failure at the end of the day.

Between the purpose of a paper plane is to glide when you release it from your hand, the more it glides the better your design is. Just in case some of you don't have enough brain power to figure that out.

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Letters from Iwo Jima

I like Clint Eastwood as an actor but as a director I truly had doubts. His first directed movie I saw was "A Perfect World", I think it is a great movie. But since then he started making movies that are shallow, dramatic and somewhat pointless, at least I think so.

For the last couple of weeks I started watching any war movie I can get my hands on. I was almost out of it when a friend of mine suggested a movie about the battle of Iwo Jima WWII - "Letters from Iwo Jima". It is without a shadow of a doubt a cinematic marvel and by far the finest piece of work from Eastwood.


Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (played by Ken Watanabe)

The movie is based on the Pacific Campaign of World War II 1945. The last stand of the outnumbered Imperial Japanese Army lead by Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (played by Ken Watanabe) against the United States on the island of Iwo Jima located 1,200 kilometers south of mainland Tokyo.


Invasion beach seen from the top of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima

I'm a great admirer of Japanese honor, pride, glory, code and ethics. If someone saw "The Last Samurai" they will understand what I'm talking about. Ken Watanabe did an outstanding job in both the movies to show what Japanese honor is. The music is overwhelming it gives the exact amount of profundity the movie needs. Eastwood was right on target in every aspect of the movie.

We all know that soldiers of Allied Forces fought for survival and for the greater good of humanity but the question is will the soldiers of Axis Alliances be forgotten and will always be remembered as evil just because of their fascist leaders?

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