A bit about 'lil old me...
Well, I'm a 25yo bloke called Stephen, living in Northamptonshire (East Midlands), UK.
People tell me I'm easy to get on with, friendly, deep, sensitive and a good listener. I enjoy good company, going to gigs/concerts (I think they're the one moment in time you can really let go and journey into a different place, both physically and emotionally - being connected to music is what it's all about) and I just generally enjoy having a laugh and being with friends.
I do have my mad moments and like to get tipsy from time to time, but I do have a serious side when necessary. Anyone who thinks they'd like to test that out, get in touch! You can never have too many friends :)
Music plays a huge part in my life -without it, I'd be well and truly lost. I have a huge passion for classic rock and metal and was definitely born in the wrong era! To see what kind of thing, see the band list on the left. I can be very open-minded when it comes to music, providing it's good musicianship, has been thought about and has the ability to take you to a different place!
Above all, I'm a total dreamer, and easily drift off, imagining a perfect world, serenity and all 'that', lol, but it can be good to dream. Honest. *ponders* (Yeah, that one shouldn't really be a dream). Did I say I ponder a lot? One could also say I procrastinate quite a bit too, but hey...I'll write more here another day!
I have recently discovered the work of Carl Sagan and have truly been moved by what I have read and seen.Someone who truly appreciated the beauty of Earth and the potential of our species.'We' spend billions on nuclear weapons, preparing to destroy ourselves and our planet...we are knowinlgy heading towards self-destruction, as things stand...why, oh why? *mumbles* See the videos and quotes below :)
If you're on a similar kind of wavelength, feel free to get in touch.
[ Friend Requests - If you're a band, can you at least respect my music tastes and send me a message to introduce yourselves before you make a 'Friend Request'? Many thanks! For everyone else, a message before/after adding me would also be great...]
http://stevieu.co.uk for more info. :)Below: The intro to the film "Contact". One of the most beautiful, awe-inspiring and mind-boggling introductions to a film I have ever seen...
" W e succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
T he Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
O ur posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
T he Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
I t has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan.
Take a look at the videos below. I can only say, they're inspirational :)
"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have" - Albert Einstein
"Who are we? We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering." - Carl Sagan