A Sudden Drive

What drives you... what drives me... what drives the world to go on and drive...?





CURRENT MUSIC:
Chris Cornell - "You Know My Name"
Carry On

The theme song for the 2006 version of Casino Royale, "You Know My Name" perfectly fits with the story of this James Bond movie.
I remember years ago when I first heard this song - I was thinking how weird it was for a rock song to be blared as the theme for a Bond film*.
I guess it grew on me slowly over the years, because when it popped up again when I was rolling through my music archives, it seemed to make more sense, and I wasn't as put off as I was five years ago. (Of course, back then I wasn't doing amateur lyrical analyses, either.)
Anyway, I think Cornell did a pretty superb job with this. Despite some of my friends' negative opinions about him (and by extension, Audioslave), I think they'd have to (begrudgingly) agree with me on this.

For some reason, it seemed to mesh with today's entry for some reason.
Bond had to slowly realize that the missions he undertakes on his own will take their tolls on him if he allowed his emotions to remain attached.
Similarly, I now realize that unless I feel like staying tethered to the ground for eternity, I have to prepare myself for whatever may come my way when I begin this campaign - even if it means forsaking certain things (and if need be, certain people).

Heartless, huh? Well... I wouldn't think so. I had one... once.
But more on that later. Much later.

* = Yeah, I know - Duran Duran performed "A View to a Kill," but this was at a time when the only James Bond movies I knew of back then were the ones starring Pierce Brosnan. Oh, look - all of those movies (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day) had pop songs as their themes.


P.H.A.T.T. & Jennie Rix - "Eternal (Technikal Remix)"
Eternal [Single]

Just discovered this hard trance track last night while I was hit with a bout of insomnia.
Story was that a friend posted something in a group in regards to this recently-recorded World of Warcraft video where a Death Knight successfully takes on two dungeon bosses by himself**.

Now, I didn't post this in an attempt to shoo away anyone - I promise you I won't go into the mechanics of this insane feat.
It's here because it's just been placed on my playlist for adrenaline-pumping music.
Excellent music for me to fight to, and very nice for street ra- er, I mean... casually cruising down a road.
...yeaaaaaaaaaah... >>

** = Some people think it was staged somehow. Some others think it's the godliest thing they've ever seen. Others claim this as a reason for Blizzard to nerf the Death Knight class (which may not happen). And then there's me, who uses it as a source of inspiration.



"If you are going through Hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill

While this is an excellent quote and all (come on - it fits quite well with today's entry), something tells me that I'm off about it.
No, not because I'm some weird-ass chimp who doesn't think this is motivational - rather, it doesn't sound like Churchill despite everyone's assumed annotations.
While the world may never know who actually said this... I think I'll live with it being credited to the former Prime Minister.





Today, instead of wanting to become somebody, I ended up becoming somebody. No, that's not supposed to be some sort of cryptic metaphor.



I've noticed that during a person's lifetime, they will encounter a moment in their lives that ends up sparking the fire that - when looked back upon by others later on - will be highlighted as a time when a person's life changed dramatically.

It usually starts when the person in question's just trudging along on what seems to be another ordinary day in their lives. They're in the middle of some mundane routine and they just so happen to get drawn to something - a newspaper article grips their attention; they follow a YouTube video link their friends posted on Facebook; the radio starts up a song they have some sense of attachment to - and after they're done with it, they sit back and begin contemplating for a minute (but for them, it seems to be an eternity).

Rarely, instead of encountering something during a time of minutae, they're thrust forward into a tense situation where they're offered a choice to become something else, where they also end up contemplating.

In either case, their train of thought ends up becoming the final push they need to get a jump-start on a task they want completed... a dream they wish to be fulfilled... a goal they now want accomplished.



When this happens, they cease to be that doppelgänger that they were (and most likely resented) and begin their transformation into something else...
...but if they're not careful, they might go down the path of fanaticism and end up becoming the demon they fought to vanquish.





As for me? Well... I'm not sure. While "the coldness burns through my veins," I'm not sure if I know my name yet. The only thing that knows is the flow of time... so when it feels like showing the world, I'm sure it will.