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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Wine of your life...

  Once upon a time there was a band called "Dying For A Pie". Actually I was a drummer in that band, but anyways... the band doesn't exist yet, and I'm not a drummer anymore. I wrote a text of a song called "Wine Of Your Life" and I want to share it with you all. The text never became a song, but it doesn't matter, I like it. 

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Wine Of Your Life

By Dying For A Pie

My eyes are wide, with golden shine
I wait for you, and I will be thine
My teeth are sharp, full of poison
I’m a cold-blood killer, not a person
My snow white skin is cold as ice
Damn, I’m hungry, I hate this vice

Let me kiss your pulsing vain

Now I’m coming
Don’t hide in yourself
I wanna kiss your neck for a last time
You are screaming
So confused and afraid
Help me to survive, give me your blood-wine

I’m hiding in the shades of your mind
I will hurt you, but maybe not tonight
Please don’t run, I dislike it when you're tired
Please don’t scream, I’m faster then your shout
I desire to slake my thirst and survive
I desire to drink the wine of your life

My sweet breath is a cruel bait
Unfortunately you’re just a prey
You will soon fall a victim
My handsome looks is just a trap
I find you so delicious
I can smell the fear in your eyes
Relax, I’ll never kill you
I just wanna turn you one of us...

No!
Go!
Run!
I will hurt you
My snow white teeth
Rip your skin
Two black streams
Are running down
On your neck

I killed you
I love you
Don’t leave me
Forgive me
I turned you
In a monster
Like me...


Saturday, December 18, 2010

Hips with frostbite kill the melancholy

Hint: If hips become frozen, heat them up with dipping in a hot teapot...
Winter came, it came again trapping the vitality of the nature in its crystal deadfall... 

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  Normally I hate the snow, I hate Christmas also, I hate the winter at all, but... this year it's different, such as there is a new season, a 5th season called "lovely winter".
  Two evenings ago I was staying on roof top of the mall called... "The Mall" (what an ingenious name) and I was watching the snowflakes falling over my head and covering the whole world with a cotton cobweb; the falling vanilla ice-cream bits messed about the sky like thousands of flies over a rotten pork flesh; the flashing Christmas lights twinkled and blinked an eye at me, seducing and making me to like them; down below, on the parking lot, there was a ice-rink full of children, who were shouting and laughing, crying down the Christmas songs... The whole background made me feel like I'm a character in a fairytale or in a Coca-Cola commercial. This winter is not the same awful season it had always been; the snow is no more ice-cold and wet, it's just white and beautiful; Christmas isn't a boring commercialistic and arty holiday anymore...

  I wish it would be one enchanting Christmas...

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O! You better watch out!
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town 



  

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Physiology of the cardiac muscle

  Anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, biophysics... we study all these subjects in the Medical school. We know in details the structure and funktion of each part of the human body, can measure and register its activity; we are familiar with all hormones and chemical substances, which cause different reactions in the body and we can write their complicated structural formulae... 
  
  We spent hundreds of hours studing the specifications of every single cell, tissue and organ in the "corpus humani"*, we remember how it's organized and made, how it works, how it's called in Latin, but we don't know the answers of much more simple questions - why do we "function" that way. I bet all of my fellow-students know most of the anatomical details of the human heart - structure of the valves, pattern of the muscularity and vascularity, but none of them know, how a fist-sized organ is capable of containing so many feelings.
Physiology of the heart... it's so simple - depolarization followed by a repolarization, systole, and then comes the diastole, top-tup, top-tup; each of us can auscultate the cardiac tones, can make and analyze an ECG** and know exactly how  the heart works. But why the heart beats pound faster, when we're scared or we're thinking about our significant others? Obviously! The cardiac rhytm is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system. Yes, I'm sure you know that, but how feelings and emotions - love, anger, fear, hate, lust, wrath, envy, can control the activity of each organ, can supervise and overpower the whole body... 

  Studying  hardly and being good at physiology or biochemistry will help us to be competent physicians one day. We know how enzymes, hormones and neuromedioators keep tabs on the whole body, but... when will we get answers, why love (especially when it's unrequited) does it better...

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*human body (Lat.)
**Electrocardiography




Sunday, December 12, 2010

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

 "Vita est brevisars longa,occasio praeceps, experientia fallaxjudicium difficile..."*
 Hippocrates

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"Ars Longa, Vita Brevis" or "The Art is long staying, and the Life is brief"... the art of medicine, the art of healing,  the art of being God...
There is something very strange, when people realize that you're a doctor; they don't see you as a human being, they see you as god. Yes, each doctor is a god, he saves and gives human lives, takes lives if makes a mistake, the vitality of people depends on him; the doctor masters the art of healing, knows the secrets of cure and creates and protects life's vital "gear" - the Health. So the doctor is a creator, a demiurge, an artist, а real God.
But I don't study medicine, because I want to become a god, I do it, because I want to be a artist... As pathologically addicted to all kinds of Art, I want to acquire and improve the greatest one - the art of saving human life. I wonder if my talent for drawing and painting would help me being a physician... we just have to wait and see...

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*I wanted to start my first post on this blog with my favorite quatation of the Hippocrates' Aphorisms. 
The original citation in Greek sounds: "Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή..." and the English translation is: "Art is long, vitality is brief, occasion precipitous, experiment perilous, judgment difficult..."