Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Nov 4, 2009, 5:50 am
When a friend of mine shouted that out in the crowd at a concert the other day, not Onstage but that of a local metal band, the frontman was quick to respond, preventing the inevitable shitstorm of an...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Nov 3, 2009, 9:36 pm
I am like the moon I only reflect the light But I can never know What it means to shine I am but a reflection In this mirror that lies not But not an image of perfection I am what I am not I a...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Nov 2, 2009, 9:34 pm
will crush you as they fall… Yet another addition to the instrumental piano compositions, all three are basically progressions from the same tune, that won’t seem to leave. This one was r...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Nov 1, 2009, 11:23 am
The system does not control us Rules do not define us For we are metalheads With fists full of steel!
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 28, 2009, 10:00 pm
Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I’ve trapped Have all become my pets And I’m living off of grass And the drippings from my ceiling It’s okay to...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 27, 2009, 10:30 pm
There is nothing to be seen But the space in between The dark and the light Perception’s white lie There is nothing to be heard But the call of the herd Like cattle in a field Waiting to ...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 26, 2009, 10:30 pm
…has been my savior for a while now, since the age of fourteen, to be more precise. I was rather depressed back then, those were my emo days, coincidentally the same time I started writing lyri...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 25, 2009, 9:54 pm
I’ve stepped into shit And I’ve sunk knee-deep I’m trying to struggle free But I’m stuck in this pit Of quicksand that pulls me Slowly towards its center Like an abyss th...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 24, 2009, 11:10 am
So yeah, that other post was true. I DO love her stuff. I also seem to have found a liking for Christina Aguilera. She seems nice. I am also going vegan. Yes, the animals of the world do not d...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 23, 2009, 9:57 pm
It’s peanut butter jelly time! Peanut butter jelly time! Peanut butter jelly time! Where he at? Where he at? Where he at? Where he at? Now there he go There he go There he go There he ...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 22, 2009, 9:54 pm
Do you believe in God? I don’t believe in your God, I believe in a god. Do you believe that God created everything? God is everything. God is me. God is you. God is a tree. God is a fruit. G...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 21, 2009, 9:54 pm
Driving down Galle Road A stop sign pulls me over I comply and roll the shutter down A man in khaki steps beside me Yes, officer, I have an identity But you’re not going to find it On th...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 20, 2009, 10:00 pm
You will drink to your health I will drink to my death Sipping on this potion of promise That will heal these wounds of time And free me from the clutches of consequence Drink up for death is the...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 19, 2009, 9:53 pm
That sickening feeling in the pit of your stomach, churned by the emotions engulfing your heart, triggered by the images forming in your mind, the movie that never stops playing, stuck on the same mot...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 19, 2009, 11:22 am
What’s wrong, dear boy? Why do tears fill your eyes? You know you asked for it You knew this would happen You played with fire You burnt your hand Your fingers are numb Your skin is burnt...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 19, 2009, 1:24 am
We’ve come this far Do we wonder? How it could have been different How we could’ve grown up Been through so much Do we ponder? About the days we spent together About the nights we s...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 18, 2009, 2:08 am
It’s your birthday today, I haven’t forgotten, Do you remember how I used to wish you? I’d give you a kiss and a birthday card Not from me but from all of us Dad would buy it, an...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 15, 2009, 9:57 pm
The hot air rises and fills my lungs As I set fire to the one I love I watch the flames rise up to the ceiling I hear her screams, am I still dreaming? “It’s all just a dream”, m...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 15, 2009, 1:38 am
25 years of hardship 90,000 and more dead 271,967 lives stuck in IDP camps So is it over? photo from The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office No, not yet.
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 14, 2009, 4:18 am
Rational man Do you not understand? Your clever deductions Can’t help you here For there is only emotion But do you even feel? The needle it pricks And the blood it does steal You’...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 12, 2009, 10:01 pm
The junkies are on the streets, itching and throwing up their guts. Itching for one last hit, one last needle prick. They say an addict spends 1/10th of their life waiting. Just… Waiting. Th...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 11, 2009, 9:57 pm
This weekend I had to go over to a friend’s place to finish some group assignment. We smoked up on the way, had lunch and then smoked up again, leaving just a bit for after we were done. As a re...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 9, 2009, 9:38 am
This loneliness that envelopes and conceals me in its shroud, threatens to remove me from the sight of those I love. This misery that comforts me with the promise of never leaving me, unli...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 9, 2009, 12:45 am
A new venue and a new crowd, last night was rather different compared to the Open Mic events we’ve had before, and interesting in its own way. We didn’t have as many speakers as usual, but...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 7, 2009, 9:53 pm
I was never a bully in school, I was rather “timid” as someone used to call me. I was hyperactive and all that, but never really caused much harm to anyone else, physically or emotionally....
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 7, 2009, 4:25 am
It’s been a long time coming, too long! We’re having an Open Mic tomorrow, Thursday 8th October, at the warehouse behind Park Street Mews. It starts at 8pm as usual, and anyone’s we...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 6, 2009, 10:19 am
You know that saying about wearing someone else’s shoes to know how it feels? How often do you really do that? If ever at all? It’s nearly impossible to know exactly how another feels, but...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 5, 2009, 9:54 pm
Some improv. on a lazy Friday afternoon. Got my cousin to record me playing his electric guitar through a boombox. Echo on full, volume up, pickless, plucking with my fingers, palming the strings with...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 5, 2009, 1:17 am
So Jerry proposed we head back to Kandy and check out the Knuckles mountain range and hike to Nitro Cave. I was never really briefed on what exactly this cave was or what the fuss was about, but it so...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 4, 2009, 9:51 pm
There have been many over the year or so I’ve been on Kottu. Starting with the Queen Of The Dark Asylum, who was the one that convinced me to start blogging, like a proper blog, not the crap I u...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Oct 1, 2009, 10:01 pm
The third (or was it fourth?) session took place Sunday, with a turnout of about 14 or so bloggers and some friends, and went pretty well. Even the legendary headless pianist (tempted to type penis )...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 29, 2009, 9:58 pm
So some of you may know by now that I’ve been doing these live acoustic performances over Tinychat for the past few days. It’s pretty simple really, I just think up a few songs to do, orig...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 28, 2009, 8:32 pm
So I sat in my room for 27 days No she never called, I had something to say! She made me feel okay with being happy. She helped me understand what happiness felt like. I felt whole, like she was my ...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 27, 2009, 10:01 pm
It started with one, as I was wailing away during a live acoustic session on TinyChat, climaxing over chords. And then he started broadcasting. and he was…. BLACK!!! And then they came in numb...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 24, 2009, 9:55 pm
Disclaimer: this post was written two weeks ago, so excuse the enthusiasm. OMFRB! I FUCKING LOVE CHIPTUNE MUSIC!!! Thought I’d share some more chiptunes with you guys instead of being a selfi...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 22, 2009, 9:38 pm
Heavy Metal, a supposed “sub-genre” of Hard Rock, but to me a genre of its own. Actually, screw genre, it’s a fucking universe of its own! I got into metal during highschool after ...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 21, 2009, 9:51 pm
… no, not my hair. Whenever I reinstall XP (once in 6 months) I freshen up the look and feel of my desktop, and this time I thought I’d go with something white, since I’ve been usin...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 20, 2009, 9:50 pm
… is the only word I can think of to describe my loss. I finally got my pc back, after about a month without it, had to replace a whole load of shit, but it’s back. Sadly there was someth...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 17, 2009, 9:55 pm
… can only satisfy you temporarily. Unless of course you’re losing hair or you keep shaving it off. I got a haircut a few weeks ago, and it was at a place I’ve never been before sin...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 16, 2009, 9:58 pm
What is the matter O Mortal One? Has your flesh turned selfish once more? Is this existence really more important Than the final destination Of this timeless soul? Who stole the life that ran th...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 15, 2009, 9:57 pm
A year ago my brother was shooed off to stay at my aunt’s place so he could focus on his O level exams, and he took the guitar with him. I was left with nothing to vent on, save for my blog, but...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 14, 2009, 10:02 pm
Well not REALLY, but I seem to have fallen in… lust? I don’t know how to explain it, it’s not the same as before, in the sense that it feels better in some ways. Who needs love anyw...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 13, 2009, 9:53 pm
Why do these things keep coming up? And why are they always so pointless, meaningless and friggin’ mundane? Love? Are you seriously asking ME about love? Meh. Lady Divine tagged me first, an...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 11, 2009, 4:46 pm
Trinity: I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing… why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You’re looki...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 10, 2009, 10:00 pm
… it would be a lot like this: I was watching this show and this particular bit got me laughing my ass off at something I’ve thought about a lot. How the world is full of dumb people. Co...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 3, 2009, 9:59 pm
Ever changing, ever present Like the darkness that lingers, shadows and splinters In my thumb, pricking my fragile skin, Embedded deep within, a part of me now weeps For the child that died in the...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 3, 2009, 2:58 pm
I feel… very much alone. Yeah, I say that a lot, it’s amazing “alone” wasn’t on my tweetcloud. Sigh… I don’t know why I feel this way. For the past few month...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 2, 2009, 9:56 pm
Face? Endless Vision Whole Worlds Within You Better In Black I Was Told The Enterprise Orion A Whisper In The Noise Playing With Reflections Swirls Anyone? And now for the hardcore one...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 2, 2009, 4:00 am
He had come to say goodbye, he told me, and for the last time. He had investigations and undertakings in other corners of the universe, he said, that would keep him busy for a longer period than I cou...
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Imaad Majeed posted an article on The Abyss - Sep 1, 2009, 10:02 pm
… that slap you across the face when you do something wrong? The kind that understand your logic and your reasoning, and respect that but still have something to say about your decisions, and p...
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