the unknown force is in effect.
it will only send you what you can handle.
it is as simple as rising up to the force.
it is your guide to who you are,
and who you can be:
a maker of sense out of chaos,
a maker of beauty out of pain,
a maker of hope out of fear…………………
i am eternally grateful for my trust in it.
xMAdMx
The photo looks like a Supermassive Black Hole.
Your talking about music right?
I think you are, im not sure.
I love your music im going to start playing bass soon.
Thank you.
I hope you play in Ireland soon.
What you write is so hopeful, it reminded me of a line by W. H. Auden “Who are you and why?”, it’s the only question you have to answer.
“…it will only send what you can handel…” – that’s beautiful –
even when it’s seems too much too painful too cruel too surreal
let it come
“…it will only send what you can handel…” – that’s beautiful –
even when it’s seems too much too painful too cruel too surreal
let it come
I love chaos. I actually believe chaos is only an order, but of a much greater complexity. Chaos is the unpredictability due to our lack of understanding of the exchanges of energy between seemingly unrelated systems. It is a force, yes. And a system waiting for us to rise up to the challenge of a greater understanding.
Will it ever happen? Do I make sense?
I agree that forces beyond our control , be it chaos or fate or destiny, play a role.
I’m still trying to figure out what you just wrote (I didn’t get too many hours of sleep last night, so….hahahaha!), but it’s nice to see you’re around once again.
A friend of mine and I have been working on a documentary about local underground rock bands. I’ts been like…six months since we first started, but now it’s nearly finished. It’s looking really good. Editting is the best part. It’s the time when everything starts making sense. I think we’re finishing it today. I can’t wait to see the final result.
How’s your new music coming out???
Take care.
Huge hug! =)
Your videos are quite exilarating!
As for IT…well, I guess our task is to get in touch with ourselves in this life. That’s the IT, to me. Just our inner self that, most of the times, is just ignored.
There’s a very nice definition (or many, really) of IT, in an old Genesis’ song called…IT. It’s the last one on “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” (1975).
Take care and good music,
Peace
the picture, it reminds me “lime and limpid green” stuff.
Hi MELISSA
The unknown force, make me think of a sentence of a learned; Emile Coué, he was a master of the autosuggestion, he said:”the IMAGINATION is stronger than the will”.
Me Dominic, I need I want I will and I IMAGINE…
So, now i’m IMAGINE myself going to speak to the people who look opened to receive me (who look me)!
I CHOICE to go speaking to the nice people EVEN IF i’m afraid to embarrass them…even if they are strangers, even if…
Life can be sometimes so cruel,so painful like Dorota said. But some other times life is so good, so joyful, so beautiful!
There isn’t nobody in their life who never experimented the cruelty of this last one…
Everybody have a cross to bear…
But the negative in life make us appreciate the pretty little things and the great times of HAPPINESS…
I’ll go CATCHING your LIGHT, diamond’s GIRLS!
XlOveX
Dominic Von Lunatic
F*CK THE UNKNOWN FORCE!!
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR,
I WANT YOUR SOUL!!!!!!!!!!
I WANT “it”!!!
it…………..it………..it
…………..it………….!!!!!!
GIVE ME YOUR SOUL!!!!
it’s WHAT I WANT!!!!!
I only hope I can live long enough to see it.
It could be a lyrics for your next song.It’s very intresting,like your blog…I’m so happy ‘cuz I found it!!!Yeeeeeah!!!
Long Live MELISSA!!!
HAHAAAha! I WANT THE SOUL OF EACH PERSON WHO WANTED THE SOUL OF MELISSA AUF dER MAUR !!!!!!!
CAN YOU see HOW MUCH I’M DANGEROUS TO PROTECT HER!!!
MY BADNESS WILL BE WITHOUT ANY LIMITSSS!!!!
I’M just kidding! HAHA!! BUT I COULD BE serious TOO!!! Haha! just kidding again.
xLoVEx
Dominic Von Lunatic
so it came
“…Maybe you will never bridge the gulf. Baby you are just too sensitive. Are you numb enough? Can we ever feel this impending void? Have we become what we intended to avoid? Have you ever smile for too long? Till you’re aching. Have you ever laughed till you cried? Till you heart is breaking. Have you ever smiled for too long? Till you’re aching. Have you ever laughed till your heart is breaking…”{moloko-absent minded friends}
*pass me
pass me like
a stranger
cause that what you are
pass me like
i’m passing you
a little
surprised
still
one
of your
kind
pass me like
a familiar unknown
pass me like
you never seen me before
pass me like
you never will
pass
over
***
fuck i swear i clicked once! this time&previous time! vicious machines!
It’s funny, I usually only think of your “it” as a “she” always lingering just outside of my peripherey. I suppose somewhat akin to a universal muse of sorts- hidden, subtle, and whispering… it’s all in how well you listen to her as to how the finished end of things comes out. But then again if I believe to much in that then I begin to doubt that any creativity is coming from me…and then I say, fuck it, it’s rock n’roll and I don’t have time for an existential dilema.
no comment to leave… comments don´t leave… comments stay stand still…
“it”….appropriate name for…well…it.
its my very first time here. I luv your album…i luv ur pics..im becoming a big fan of ur work.
I am also a musician, a bad musician, and i take some pic for fun…
Nothing much to say right now but
i send you my best vibes to you.
I hope u come down to Brazil and play for us. It would be nice.
Check out my band…
http://www.myspace.com/ospazuzus
http://www.ospazuzus.com.br
Respect,
Poitier
You came in to my blog (The dirty end of winter), and now i’ll search for you albums…
i’ll come back to let you know my impressions.. a kiss from portugal
oh my god, we are so happy to have found this page…you are such a great talent, a great beauty…
You see through my soul Dorota!!! Are you an Angel? You must be an ANGEL, cause you describe my actual life…
Now in my life , I try to make the UNITY in me. Because I live so much contradiction and confusion.
I’m just too distrustful cause I was so hurt in my past … There is distrustful even in my immediate environment. And all that stop my EVOLUTION, unfortunately… A lot of sad events “destroyed” me in the past and today I’m rebuilting myself , so please give me a CHANCE! But i’m IMPROVING myself cause i believe in you…By this cold medium of the web. Maybe one of this day I will say to you in NATURE that all this worthed this long time and obstacles. Because in this near future, I hope, I’ll be “heal”.
During this time of distrustful in me and around me i try to do my best cause i loved people. My therapy is to write happy song but also strange crazy song and wicked song too. I write song of badness to concentrate my dark feelings… Is it right or not , i don’T know yet…
So HELLO Melissa, Dorota & everybody
In nice people i TRUST…
FREEDOM is comming soon for me…
xLoVEx & Peace
BROTHERHOOD to everybody
Dominic Von Lunatic
Bonjour Melissa!
Juste un petit commentaire pour te dire que nous attendons ton nouvel album avec impatience en France!!
A bientot sur scène, et bonne continuation!
Cécile
xxx
i tend to view life like a kaleidoscope – the whole symmetry thing. from the superficial basics of mating (attractive people are the most symmetrical???) to every coin has two sides to the sum of our carbon atoms = us – the sum of us = earth – the sum of the planets = the universe and infinity.
below are a few abstract kaleidoscope arrangements associated with music.
Guitar
Eighties – Killing Joke
Come As You Are – Nirvana
Kings and Queens – Killing Joke
Skin Receiver – Auf der Maur
Bobby Fuller
Monster Hospital – Metric
Daddy Warbucks
Bobby Fuller – I Fought the Law
The Clash – I Fought the Law
Green Day – I Fought the Law
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Jack Kerouac – The original “pretty girls make graves”
The Smiths – The Greatest Band Ever
The Smiths – Pretty Girls Make Graves
Seattle band Pretty Girls Make Graves
Sandie Shaw
The ultimate love song
It took a while, but Moz & Marr eventually connected with Sandie – Sandie appears at the end of this video footage
The Smiths – Blackpool – what’s this got to do with Sandie Shaw? – see next link
Blackpool – The ultimate love song
“We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of discords as well as of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could she/he sing? He/she has got to know how to use all of them and blend them together.” Montaigne
thanks to DarrenB for the great suggestions of songs
Hi Ace of Spades,
the unknown force is not so unknown if you know how to feel it
hugs from Portugal [[[]]]
Hi, How are you? I dont know what I can say. so a person have to stay in silent. But … pardon about my english.. The mirror of sensation is a deep hole for the brave spirit. Dark and the light come in your heart. Togheter. I like it… but when the shadow come in life. You shall prey for your strong. Is the game of the true life.
hey hey Miss Auf der Maur
My name is Natasha and I’m a bassist since 2 years (I’m just 16 years old) and I really love your music, your photography …
you have a bunch of very good photos and articles on your blog and you seem to be a very interesting person
I just wanted to tell you something important
I had a dream
I met you one night at a concert or … I don’t really remember how
but I just remember that we had become friends
it was the best dream of my life
and the day after I was very very happy
IT was like an unknown force who helped me this day
and it was a perfect day : music,sun,love,beach …
before midnight,I went to see your blog because I wanted somebody to explain me what happened
and when I read this article, I understood everythink
and I’m sorry because I wanted to write you a comment since I saw your blog for the first time but I didn’t know what to write but nevermind …
so I just wanted you to know that there are fans all around the world (I’m from Yougoslavia but I live in Morocco) who love your art and who encourage you for all you want to do in your life
and I wish that my dreams for music will come true just like yours
take care
kisses
BRAZIL !!!
Hallo,.. I’m from Brazil and have to say that, would be nice if could come here and make a concert. I am one of many fans that love your works.
Although I’ve downloaded all your song, I’m trying to by your CD my grandmother is German and she going to send it for me by mail if she find it there…(in Germany).
Still waiting for you new album!!!
my band: http://www.fotolog.com/bandaganeshas/?pid=11811151
(I’m the bass player,..hehehe)
küssen ,…
Marceleza
blue, blue, electric blue – that’s the colour of my room
and I prefer green
I’ve got a Raleigh Chopper and I know who to use it.
how many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Fish
oblique messages? There’s one
The only thing to do with a chopper is ride it.
Preston for the championship!!!
“…I fought the war I fought the war but the war won I fought the war I fought the war but the war won
‘t stop for the name of God…”(Emily Haines)
never forget “Gott mit uns” (God with us)describtion on Wermacht soldiers helmets during WW2
…
I am reading Chekov’s “The cherry orchard” at the moment, I’ve lost a friend, I met a painter, I’m reunited with an old friend, I found the hilarious version of classic (almost)everyone wants to sing in their own way – “Sweet dreams” on YOU TUBE com( Sinead O’Connor, Natalie Imbruglia&Kylie – all wearing wigs&having lots of funny fun, kitchy kitch
-wrong-and Melissa I was 666 viewer of you live “I need I want I will” video…
It’s 4am. I must be crazy.
Mousier von Lunatic I wonder who you are…
ps. you’ll never believe how loud this Brighton seagulls can scream and how big they are…Hitchcock would be very pleased I believe but me…I am looking for my earplugs and I’m saying goodnight and good morning at the same time…
you are amazing!!!!
There is always a sense of positive energy forces being thrust into the universe and minds of your readers here from your blog and especially your music. …on that note I highly recommend the film An Inconvenient Truth.
wow i see you have read Barbera G walkers womans encyclopedia of myths and secrets! that book is immense and so fantastic i dare say its changed my life. may i suggest reading walkers dictionary to symbols and objects as a sister book to the encyclopedia. as for this unknown force it can be a number of things from the dualities of existance and the polarities that exist within our own conscious and those of the physical world. anyway your amazing and so clever you must know what your on about hhahaah!
xXx server of sirius (for the time being) xXx
errata “…but the war won’t stop for the LOVE (not name) of God…”
hi MELISSA
Who am I ? I’M a nice person, well I think so! I’m a little bit lazy. I’m a kind-hearted soul, I’m generous. I hate WAR, mostly war between person of the same famely. I LOVE COMFORT in everything, because life is enough tough like it, that we don’T need to live all jamed!
I love friendships of QUALITY of all kind cause we can find in each person something great to do both! So i’m SOCIABLE. OF COURSE I LOVE beautiful intelligent girls like MELISSA AUF dER MAUR… IN my DREAMS i see myself working with many people like: the pretty GWEN STEFANI haha!, Coldplay, Velvet REVOLVER and of course with THE MERMAID OF FIRE, the one and only M.A.d.M.! And I don’T forget others like EMINEM, the great MADonna, haha! and Sheryl Crow… Conflictual relationships bugs me, so i HATE that!
I love nice people who respect the others. It’s simple i respect people who respect me and vice versa.
Oh! YES i forget I’M very sensitive to what happen to people that I LOVE… Your right Dorota!
Do i answerd to your questions CURIOUS AMAZING Dorota?
PEACE to everybody
&
xLoVEx to MELISSA
Dominic von Lunatic
sheryl crow? i used to listen to sheryl crow lke a madman, not anymore, and as much as I respect Melissa(someone called me Melissa tonight, but he was on drugs) I think we are falling in love in a vision illusion image and it’s easier when something is out of reach…we are falling in love with an image created by an object we are falling in love with…out of reach…lots of space for imagination…dreamland nation…is there anybody out there who what’s to be aware or is it too painfull?
“..real lie…i am that kind living blind for lie..” or I just got it wrong again?
errata: who wants to be aware( sorry I’m from Eastern Europe, different family of language, slavic,
LoSerDreamz: my burger was raw..puke
LoSerDreamz: i still ate it
PixsiAssasin: that was the blood of jesus
LoSerDreamz: i know! thats why i devoured it
And you Dorota, WHO ARE YOU?
BECAUSE you look very smart but very strange in the same time…OR is it your relationships that are too heavy, too strange, too awful?
SALUT MELISSA, Je commence à me poser d’étranges questions concernant Dorota???
xLoVEx to Melissa
and understanding for “scary” 666-Dorota
hi melissa!
i am brazilian and i don’t understand english very well, so, i will write just some things that i consider more important:
- i like all your musics, but my favorite is “i’ll be anything you want”
- i started play bass because of you (seven months ago)
- more and more sucess for your band
- i hope you play in brazil soon!!!
kisses :*
scarrrrrrrrrrrry? i am not scary i’m rather scared of what I see and what I hear… on the streets of Brighton(now Brighton, could be London, Berlin, Warsaw or Amsterdam)…it is no good to be aware sometimes and go with a flow but I am always asking where the flow will go…I don’ have to know destanation but I prefer to know direction…I am love human beings and I love the Earth…my relations are fine(my mother loves me, my sister miss me, my niece adores me, my father regrets he wasn’t close enough in a past but he startes to understands me and I am trying to understand him), but yeah, relations in Brighton are strange…you have to go for a drink with them or there is no relation, that makes me feel so lonely cause I’m used to spend my best time with my friends not necessarily drinking out somewhere and here they don’t really what to meet you, they what to drink(and more) and suck everything from you for a night and tomorrow most of them won’t remember a thing… I don’t understand but I’ve tried to be like them( cause I am sponge, I am curious and I am a writer)but I cannot . and i won’t be . cause i need more and deeper/666 is a joke, evil is all around and the light..goodnight
…want not what…of course…sorry that could be red wine side effect…that odd spelling…nevermind…that comment sounds like bullshit anyway, hey!
let’s sunny morning be turning-point…
P.S. Domi nic I used to have French classes in High School and my housemate is French so French won’t be much of a code…;)…and you sending more misunderstanding …getting overexcited…calling me conflicting names(“…are you an Angel?”, “scary”666Dorota )…hmmmm.interesting
[what about Melissa's DANZIG hand band?if it comes to analize signs from the darkness
uuuuuuuuu] and Marlyn Manson?…witty provocation or close look into a deep dark well of pain,faith,fame,sin,twisting, manipulation,sexual condition,evil,God,drugs…I think his portrait with Mickey Mouse ears is great….byebye
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HI MELISSA
All my APOLOGIES if i scared you Dorota. I was tired and i panic (et j’ai le don ,même avec un simple grain de sable d’en faire une montagne. Et j’ai aussi mal traduit car mon ANGLAIS est loin d’être parfait!) cause I belived that you want to say that dreams are made to be “hang out” to let place just to the real life …
Dreams are very important in my life. And in everybody’s life! Dreams made part of this last one…
Don’t you agree with me that dreams can guide our life?
You said Dorota that you was a writer, maybe you and i could write together!!! I’ll be very interrested to work with a girl like you, you know.( même si tu es SLAVE,HAhaaa! car je ne suis pas raciste! )
(questions for Dorota)
Why are you fed up to listening Sheryl Crow? She’s a brave woman!
Where is situate Brighton geographically?
Angel-scary 666 Dorota , make me think of a song creation of mine…HAhaaa!
Melissa et Dorota ont raison, la force nous envoie seulement ce que l’on peut tenir! J’espère que je ne manquerai pas le bateau!!!
I will let it come
My apologies again to Dorota
xLoVEx to the great and sweet Melissa
friendship to everybody
Dominic
yes, sheryl crow is just not as good as she used to be…i don’t like c’mon c’mon and the last one is really hard to listen to – apart of wildflower wich sounds like a song from her self titled album – my favourite – then globe session and tuesday night music club… great respect but i am not obsessed anymore ( like with everything i am also falling deep in love with music…stories it tells, sheryl crow used to have a lot to tell:))——
Brighton is in East Sussex, on the south coast of Great Britain, by canal La Manche (English Channel), 40 minutes on a train from London Victoria…
i think we are leaving to many comments…
take care of yourself and stay warm blooded:)
HEY! what’s happening with this blog??? It’s been like a thousand years since Melissa wrote… is she still alive???