Calendar

I really like astronomy. The Stars and planets above our head in night sky are astonishing. One of the related topics in astronomy is calendar, the system which people in countries use to calculate the days and month and other events in a year.
We just passed the first day of new Gregorian year. Today is the first day of Islamic calendar. We will reach to Chinese New Year's Day in a month. And in March there will be Persian New Year's Day (نوروز).
Mostly the old calendars are lunar type. A lunar calendar is a calendar oriented at the moon phase. The only widely used purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar, whose year always consists of 12 lunations.
A solar calendar is a calendar whose dates indicate the position of the earth on its revolution around the sun. Gregorian and Persian calendars are examples of solar calendars.
Chinese calendar is lunisolar, The reason for this is that a year is not evenly divisible by an exact number of lunations, so without any correction the calendar year will drift with respect to the seasons.
The interesting question is always popped: Why this day is New Year's Day?
Gregorian calendar decided the birth of Christ (actually a day between two most saying) and Islamic calendar decided the first day of great journey of Prophet Mohammad.
Chinese calendar uses a bit complex mathematical and astronomical calculations to determine the first day. In one sentence, the Chinese New Year is the second New Moon after the winter solstice.
The Persian year starts at vernal equinox. (The time when the sun crosses the celestial equator and day and night are of equal length, marking the beginning of spring.)
The Persian mathematicians used a simple and universal method for the calendar which impress me too much.

Blackfield II

After five years, Wilson and Geffen managed to record another studio album. The first Blackfield album consisted of 10 tracks. On year 2004, they published their first album again with three bonus tracks, one of them "Where is my love?" is now reappeared in the new album, Blackfield II. This new album is also consisted of 10 tracks.

• Track listing:
1. Once
2. 1,000 People
3. Miss U
4. Christenings
5. This Killer
6. Epidemic
7. My Gift of Silence
8. Some Day
9. Where is My Love?
10. End of the World

From the music aspect, it's the same kind of sound and quality as the first album and more piano than usual. I really like a lot of this album (mostly Epidemic, My Gift of Silence and End of the World).

From the lyrics aspect, it reminds me of the No-Man's 'Together We're Stranger' album. All the lyrics Core is love and its consequences (happiness, joy, sad, jealousy, anger and void).

Minimalism

Minimalism is simply defined as:

"A style of art in which the least possible amount of form shapes, colors, or lines are used to reduce the concept or idea to its simplest form"

This style influenced music by the slowing down of musical processes through the repetition-with-variation of short fragments.
In literature that aims at reducing the elements in a text to a bare minimum.
there is a track by "Porcupine tree" in the album "In Absentia (2002)" that bares this kind of minimalism in its lyrics.

Lips Of Ashes

Paralysed
Lips of Ashes
Synchronised
Blue vein crashes

Touching you inside

Idolised
Black Eyes fading
You and I
Connection failing

I drill down inside

Scenes

Scene One: I am watching a video cassette of "The dark side of the moon" with almost good sound and video quality. there is no Waters in the show.I like the work and astonished by the sound and lights and clips showing in background.
Scene Two: I get a cassette, a selection of Pink Floyd tracks. I hear the Time and Money Tracks. I enjoy "Wish you where here".
Scene Three: Now I am listening to "The Wall". My friend talks about Waters and I recognize the odd voice from Gilmore in the tracks. I enjoy the idea of an album as whole piece of art.
Scene Four: I am watching the amazing "The wall Live in Berlin". Waters is a genuine.
Scene Five: Is it really "Amused to Death"? who on earth can compose and perform such a marvelous loving album.
this man is Roger Waters.

007

007 is a super man actually. He is not about to do and act like a ordinary man. He is fast, strong, wise, good looking and fit. he seduces every women he likes and he is loyal to the Queen.
The Movie Casino Royal is about to break this. The new actor is so different from oo7 ancestors in many ways. Pierce Brosnan acts this character as it must resembles to people. Daniel Craig on the other hand, plays this character as an ordinary man. he fell in love, got hurt and face the pain and even death.
I noticed the idea of recreating this fiction characters and make them to be regarded as ordinary man in the movie "Batman Begins". The turn is now for 007. We have to wait to see who is next.

Sweet November

I saw this movie a couple of days before the Plot summary is as follow:
Nelson (Keanu Reeves) is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara (Charlize Theron). She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.

I cant find anything interesting in the movie although I like Keanu Reeves acting. I can just say it is a good movie for a couple to seat on a sofa eating chipse and enjoy being together not more.

I think the idea one of the critics wrote is enough to end this post
"...If I were a guy, and a gorgeous woman took me into her apartment, had passionate sex with me and supported my ass for a month, it’d change my life, too! Perhaps this is more romantic science fiction than anything".

BACK WHEN YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL(No-Man)

singing songs
they'll never understand.
tempo drifts
in half-cut wonderlands.

back when you were beautiful,
they'd smile and shake your hand.

friendship comes,
but it mostly goes.
you mark the time
with your fading clothes.

back when you were beautiful,
you'd pass it off as pose.

you walk for hours,
your feet like lead.
you keep your secrets
locked inside your heads.

back when you were beautiful,
the needle pushed the red.