Welcome to the restless day and night of nothingness. You work 9 - 5 but then what? You go home and nothing is accomplished on a productive standpoint as you sit there. You look not at a wall but at a screen, a screen that projects images meant for your entertainment, but you are only entertained for short brief moments at a time before he speaks to you. Who is this person who is not there because you are alone? It is yourself that will not leave you alone. Yourself who is the restless one, the one that requires more from you, requires you to get up and entertain him; who is you. This you is very troubled and very determined but can't get his way without his counterpart. He wants out but you hold him in, which one is to be the leader? You need to allow the other to take the lead a bit for he knows what is needed or at least he thinks he does, so follow a while. Welcome to the family you are me.

Little Big Planet

I have owned the video game little big planet some months back now and enjoyed playing as well as listening to the music which they have chosen for their game. I not so long ago fell in love with one song in particular, a song that just touched me for some reason although I knew not the words. I put the soundtrack on my phone and would listen to it at work and every time the song would play I would have to play it again and again. One day I decided to ask some co-workers to translate is because I thought of it to be a language not too far from Spanish and I was way off of course. I then proceeded to look it up and realized it originated in Africa. The song and the beat just really pumps within my blood. Anywho, today I was on the train listening to my music on a random play cycle and the song beats within my blood. I decided I have had enough and wanted to know more about the song, so on my blackberry I google'd the name of the song, only to find out that it was the heart of some controversy. Instead of reading or doing further research on my phone since I had come to my stop, I waited till I got home. Now that I am home I find out that some people complained to ps3 and the makers of the game for the song that was chosen to be played in certain levels. Aparently they are words taken from the Quran.

The words are:

1- In the 18th second: “كل نفس ذائقة الموت” (”kollo nafsin tha’iqatol mawt”, literally: ‘Every soul shall have the taste of death‘).

2- Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: “كل من عليها فان” (”kollo man alaiha fan”, literally: ‘All that is on earth will perish’).

This was posted by someone anomosly telling sony that they were highly offended as well as any other Muslim. After further research I was entertained with the knowledge that it is frowned upon for the words of the Quran to be put within songs.

http://gunsaullus.com/little-big-planet-delayed/

Anyways I rather enjoy the song and the beat is just amazing. If I can boldly comment on the versus which are found offending. UMMMMM!!!! As a realist which I am which stands no part in my opinion. I believe that we shall all die one day and frankly nothing to my knowledge lives forever.

Will not elaborate on that but I will promote this artist.

http://www.myspace.com/toumanidiabate

The song that is in question or stiring up the controversy is called Tapha Niang.