SO THEY’RE all “expert environmentalists” and the more they whine the more they show their ignorance and stupidity.
Of course “white sand”, or in this case crushed dolomite, is never meant to be eaten and piles of garbage on the shores of Manila Bay are not “national heritage” to be saved.
It’s been more than 30 years and your issue is still Marcos? The man is already dead and buried. Grow up. Your 30-year stupor is already boring!
Of course, activism is not terrorism. Who is that idiot who said it is? The idiot saying activism is terrorism is also the same one shouting it is not. Remember this: those who were saying that Marcos is a hero are also the ones shouting he is not!
Someone trying to be clever compared the rise of Adolf Hitler to President Rodrigo Duterte. That person conveniently failed to mention that Adolf Hitler was fully supported by the Catholic Church and the Pope during that time. Perhaps in his haste to come out with something “clever” he overlooked this.
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So they’re all celebrating that Iloilo City is now on MGCQ I just have one silly question. Was there a memo signed by the virus COVID-19 that it will no longer infect people?
And we segue to the “Dark Side of the Moon”.
It’s been 47 years when perhaps the most iconic, influential, creative and progressive album in the history of modern rock was released and to date no album comes even close.
The first time I listened to it then and now, the song remains the same, meaning I’m still in awe. Maybe overwhelmed is too much but the memories are there.
And we revisit the most successful album of Pink Floyd both commercially and musically…”Dark Side of the Moon.”
Syd Barrett is, of course, one of the original founders of Pink Floyd and the creative mind behind the band’s psychedelic and progressive rock stance.
Creative indeed, perhaps too much more than Syd Barrett can handle that he became schizophrenic with a “little help” from LSD and other mind altering drugs. He eventually crossed over to the “dark side of the moon” and died an insane man. Totally out of this world.
Excerpts from that free online encyclopedia aka the internet:
“The Dark Side of the Moon” is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on March 1, 1973 by Harvest Records. It built on ideas explored in Pink Floyd’s earlier recordings and performances, but without the extended instrumentals that characterised their earlier work. A concept album, its themes explore conflict, greed, time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett, who left in 1968.
Developed during live performances, Pink Floyd premiered an early version of “The Dark Side of the Moon” several months before recording began. New material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London. The group used advanced recording techniques at the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops; analogue synthesizers are prominent, and snippets from interviews with Pink Floyd’s road crew and others provide philosophical quotations. The iconic sleeve was designed by Storm Thorgerson. Following keyboardistRichard Wright’s request for a “simple and bold” design, it depicts a prismspectrum, representing the band’s lighting and the record’s themes.
And that album’s sleeve or cover art work became one of rock music’s most iconic album cover designs.
The first time I listened to the album “Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety was courtesy of a lady friend who just came back from the States sometime in mid-1973.
So one afternoon in her house somewhere in Jaro when her parents were away, with a couple of joints, the “Baguio Gold” kind, and a bottle of chilled Chablis, we let Pink Floyd blew our minds away and what happened after that is for you to wonder and for me to smile about.
In a band meeting at drummer Nick Mason’s home, bassist Roger Waters proposed that a new album could form part of the tour. Waters’ idea was for an album that dealt with things that “make people mad”, focusing on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle, and dealing with the apparent mental problems suffered by former band member Syd Barrett.
“The Dark Side of the Moon’s” lyrical themes include conflict, greed, the passage of time, death, and insanity, the latter inspired in part by Barrett’s deteriorating mental state. The album contains musique concrète on several tracks.
Part of the legacy of “The Dark Side of the Moon” is in its influence on modern music, the musicians who have performed cover versions of its songs, and even in modern urban myths.
Incidentally, when an Englishman says someone has gone to the dark side of the moon, take note that it has nothing to do with a place or going to the moon. It simply means that bloke he was talking about has gone insane.
So I’ll see you on the dark side of the moonone of these days. Or maybe not just yet./PN
