Nothing Else Matters!

I think everyone knows that “Nothing Else Matters” is a very well-known song and also an album by Metallica band.

Singer and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield wrote this song while on the phone with his girlfriend. Since he held the phone with one hand, he plucked the four open strings of a standard E-minor chord with the other, which eventually made up the first two bars of the song. The lyrics were also dedicated to his girlfriend, which talk about being "so close, no matter how far", indicating the bond they shared even when Hetfield was on tour. Initially, the song was not meant to go on the album, and Hetfield had written it for himself, but only after drummer Lars Ulrich heard it was it considered for the record.

But why is that song so popular?

In my opinion, beside the very nice composition and performance, lyrics play a big role in this success. Perhaps everyone has experienced the moments in the life; the time that one is thinking to oneself:

“Nothing else matters anymore;

I don’t care about what they think or say;

I trust in myself and my decisions;

I wanna live my life in my way

…”

National anthems and the Soviet Union!

Tonight while browsing YouTube, I got a link to national anthem of former Soviet Union. I like listening to the national anthems of different countries; in a glance it might tell you something about a country or an era. I could somehow feel myself in the soviet years listening to the USSR anthem; Vladimir Lenin and Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and general secretaries of the communist party: Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko for very short terms and finally Mikhail Gorbachev, respectively. After the collapse of Soviet Union Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev came to power as the Russian Federation presidents. I have all the names in my mind now!!! The lyrics start with “Unbreakable union of freeborn republics…” the unbreakable broke fairly easily in 1991!

Actually, I have been always interested in Russia; maybe this comes back to the years living in northern part of Iran near Caspian Sea where sometimes I used to tune to Russian TV stations. Once when I was a child while swimming in the sea, my father was afraid maybe I would go far away and drown myself! I asked him what would happen if I could swim for a few days and go through the sea and he answered that I would probably emerge in Russian coast!!!

I have always liked Russian music and even now I have a few Russian music albums in my phone. That’s maybe against the interest of some patriotic Iranians who truly believe that Russians stole many parts of Iran in wars! Actually some parts of ancient Soviet Republics such as Azerbaijan republic, Armenia, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan etc were some parts of Persian Empire until centuries ago.

An interesting point: Nazi Germany anthem has been removed by YouTube due to legal issues supposedly!

La nudité! (cette fois en français)

Une chanson très agréable sans aucune description,
Auteur, compositeur et chanteur: Shahyar Ghanbari
Traducteur du persan en français et en anglais: moi (Danial)!

Attention : Ma priorité, c’est de traduire exactement ce que le poète l'a dit.

Francais

Dans cette nuit sans lune et des fleurs
Sois la star-producteur de la scène
Déchire ton vêtement amour-tueur
Déshabille-toi dans ma poésie
Deviens la meilleur de la scène
Déshabille-toi, déshabille-toi!

Tes cheveux sont le calme de l'eau
Ton parfum est l'odeur d'une centaine de livres
Ton baiser magique est la redécouverte de vin
Deviens la meilleur de la scène
Déshabille-toi, déshabille-toi!

L’ongle rouge de ta main
Mon jardin fiévreux
Tes chaussures sont l'instrument de musique des gitans
Ton écharpe est un lieu pour se perdre
Tes yeux sont un endroit sûr la nuit en jouant à cache-cache
Tes seins plein d’histoire sont le bruit de la mine d'or
Deviens la meilleur de la scène
Déshabille-toi, déshabille-toi!

Ton discours, c'est comme une grande cerise
Ta coquetterie est comme la soie chinoise
Ton nom est la mémoire de jasmin
Ta haine est le tremblement de terre
Deviens la meilleur de la scène
Déshabille-toi, déshabille-toi!

Anglais

In this night of without the moon and the flowers
Become the star-maker of the stage
Tear down your love-killer cloths
Get naked in my poetry
Get the best of the scene
Get naked, get naked!

Your hair is the calmness of the water
Your perfume is the smell of one hundred books
Your magic kiss is the rediscovery of wine
Get the best of the scene
Get naked, get naked!

Red nails of your hand
My fevered garden
Your shoes are the music instrument of gypsies
Your scarf is a place to get lost
Your eye is a secure place at night while playing hide-and-seek
Your full-of-story breasts are the sound of gold mine
Get the best of the scene
Get naked, get naked!

Your talk is like a big cherry
Your coquetry is like the Chinese silk
Your name is the memory of jasmine
Your hatred is the tremble of the earth
Get the best of the scene
Get naked, get naked!

Désirée Clary

Tonight I was listening to a song named “Désirée” by “Gilbert Bécaud”; that suddenly reminded me of an old memory.

When I was very young my mum used to read a book for several times; its title was “Désirée”. Once I took the book and read the first page starting with “I think men like the women who has big tits…” It made me more curious to know what the book was about (I was a naughty child I know!). Anyway, mum told me that it was about “Désirée Clary” who was presented to “Napoleon Bonaparte” and engaged to him, but later Napoleon broke off his engagement to her and married “Joséphine de Beauharnais”. Afterwards, Désirée married French general “Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte” and her husband was elected heir to the throne of Sweden.

Désirée visited Sweden but couldn’t get along with the court and the Queen; she was treated with snobbery. She left Sweden, officially because of her health problems, and returned to Paris where she stayed for twelve years apart from her husband and her son. Later her husband became king of Sweden and she returned to Sweden with her son’s bride, Josephine of Leuchtenberg who was the granddaughter of famous Joséphine (Désirée’s love rival); in fact Désirée herself insisted to marry her son to Joséphine’s granddaughter who had the same name and even the same looks as her grandmother. After a while she was crowned Queen at her own request.

After the battle of Waterloo, representatives of the allied armies ask Désirée to speak with Napoleon hoping that she could persuade him to surrender and she gently tells him that he must do as France asks and go into exile on St. Helena. Commenting on how strange it is that the two most outstanding men of their time had fallen in love with her, Napoleon gives Désirée his sword in surrender.

Later I saw my mum writing on the book cover: “I love you Désirée because you could always live on your conditions with your loved ones”. Now that I pay attention more I think “Désirée” is a very pretty name too; désirée is someone who is desired!

Steve vs. Bill!

Tonight I was watching an interesting conversation between Steve Jobs CEO of Apple and Bill Gates founder and ex-CEO of Microsoft held in 2007 ( it was the first time I was watching it though!).

They were talking about how they started their works and established their corporations when they were so young. Bill left Harvard because he knew what he wanted to do, started Microsoft and gave too much to world! DOS, Windows from 95 to 7 and so much more.

It’s almost the same thing for Steve since the co-foundation of Apple. There has been so much going on since the introducing of Apple II series and then Macintosh until the shakeup of iPod and iPhone and now iPad.

The interesting point in my view was the refusal of Steve to answer the questions related to the evolution of laptops; even the host replied that Bill was revealing all the secrets while he wasn’t. The reason now must be a lil clear; the project of iPad!

“I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery. That's a good thing, and so he's doing a lot of good with the money that he made.

I'm sure Bill was like me in this way. I mean, I grew up fairly middle class, lower middle class, and I never really cared much about money. And Apple was so successful early on in life that I was very lucky that I didn't have to care about money then. And so I've been able to focus on work and then later on my family. And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing. “Steve said.

Looking up to them humbly, I can say that if superhuman really exists, both of them really are!