trent feat. sellouts

for the record, i STILL do think that facebook makes you too connected .. and yes there is such a thing as being too connected .. well for me at least .. and i think im like 1 out of 10 ppl who doesnt believe in facebook .. and yet i have an account – yes i know – but the ppl in there are limited and most of the time id think twice about adding ppl in .. i dunno – just do not like being too open i guess

and dont get me started on twitter .. i think that is just pointless .. and unless youre a celebrity or my boyfriend – why the hell would i be even remotely interested in what ure doing  every single minute? .. pointless i tell ya .. ok im semi-kidding about the having to know my b/fs every move thing .. heh .. half kid .. plus i do not and am not following any celebrity on twitter .. well cept that one time during that lohan/ronson break-up thing .. heh .. that was some desperate shite (them .. not me .. eh) .. heh .. that was purely for the fun factor .. for a lil laugh

so anyway .. lets talk nine inch nails now ..

trent have somehow always been good in my books .. i like the anti-social, depressed and very dark image that he has (without being labelled as goth or death metal) .. musicwise tho – some i can accept and some to me is just white noise with machine beats .. i like the vocals tho .. he makes tortured soul sound sexy ..

anyway – nin is coming to singapore in august .. and i kinda have mixed feelings about this – i wanna go – cos i like a few songs and i wanna experience them live .. i have a feeling they will be different than all other bands ive seen – so thats nice .. on the other hand tho – i know jack shit about the new album – which theyll be promoting .. so that sucks .. AAAND more importantly – its at fort freaking canning park .. uugh .. i hate open aired, sweaty armpits and all sorts of nauseous smell kinda concert .. i mean after experiencing the police and coldplay at the indoor stadium – i feel like ALL concerts should be held there .. yes all .. i mean its air-conditioned, the acoustics is AMAZING – even the smallest f chimes can be heard in the stadium .. and the whole concert was distrubingly organized .. heh .. even the crowd was very well behaved .. heh .. ok actually i dont really mind open air – but its one of those free standing type of concert – u know where everyone gets dumped into one big moshpit .. yea so – and from experience – 80% of concert crowds in singapore are all non-singaporean ex-pats who are tall and huge .. so unless i claw my way to the front (which i will never do) or my whole nin concert experience will be hearing white noise while watching someones back .. not cool .. anyway ill sleep on it and decide later .. theres still time

ok so another thing that makes trent reznor so cool .. he did this april fool joke – posting on his website that hes releasing an album called ‘strobelight’ .. he even has a track listing – which is hilarious .. and even named a few guest artistes on it – which i assume he considers as sellouts – but chris martin and bonos in it which is weird cos coldplay and u2 are mainstream .. so .. nevermind .. anyway apparently this joke is sposed to be aimed at chris cornell who has an album out called “scream” and hes collaborating with timbaland .. heh .. theres just so much wrong in there that i just dunno where to begin – but ill sum it up with a quote from a comment by TK on pajiba ..  “I certainly won’t condemn anyone for liking Scream- each their own and whatnot. But as a hardcore Soundgarden fan, listening to it makes me want to slash my throat with my copy of Badmotorfinger” .. my sentiments exactly

so now that were talking bout sellouts .. saw a piece of non-cool trent news yesterday on perezhilton nonetheless ..hes apparently engaged to some singer – who used to pose for playboy .. and hes walking those red carpets shit … i mean .. heh .. whatever happened to the dark, sullen anti-social trent? .. ok having a g/f is fine – but not one of those types .. u know what i mean – shes in a non-famous band so shes dating trent to get famous .. yes those type .. plus i dont trust her face – heh .. and apparently nin fans arent too happy about this .. but i guess whatever – trent should prolly take back whatever jokes he had about chris cornell .. at least im not seeing him walking red carpets with less-than-2 weeks old g/f and announcing their engagement to the whole world .. heh seriously what the hell happend trent? .. april fools over – enough with the jokes …

jason mraz, malls and independence

jason mentioned malaysia in his blog .. he even put a pic of stadium negara there .. nice pic – he is rocking his fisheye of late – i noticed .. heh .. pretty soon i shall be rocking my sis fisheye too … heh .. just gotta get some films first .. anyway – yay for the stadium negara pic – now it shall be famous – so padan muka to all you mega malls developers who originally wanted to bring that building down .. shame on you .. im sorry did jason mraz put a pic of ‘the pavilion’ or ‘midvalley bloody megamall’ in his blog? .. I DONT THINK SO .. its like a dime a dozen and its the same everywhere .. so eff u guys .. down with the malls and demolishing of historical buildings!

on a semi-related note .. malaysia is so weird .. several years ago all these money faced developers were fighting their ass off to bring down stadium negara and stadium merdeka .. STADIUM MERDEKA can u believe it?? .. i mean come on .. and in exchange of what? .. another mall? .. another tesco? .. another hi-rise exclusive ridiculously priced condos? .. for fucks sake man .. have an identity will ya  .. sheesh .. it would suck for u if ud have to list out shitty malls as part of your countrys architectural history .. and these ppl (and by that i mean ppl in the ministry) dont think do they .. theyd go ‘ooh were rich in cultural heritage .. bla bla bla’ .. and your evidence to support that is ‘the biggest mall in ASIA’? .. ‘the tallest twin tower in ASIA’ .. eh .. im sorry – thats just stupid .. so anyway .. back to my point – so NOW – recently i guess .. victoria’s institution received that national heritage award thing – and its just a stones throw away from those two stadiums .. i mean – wtf? .. first u want to kill the most important building in history .. but next minute youre celebrating it and all the buildings around it .. i dont get that .. i mean dont get me wrong – it IS the right move (for once) .. it is just extremely weird thats all

ppl dont pay enough attention to restoration of historical buildings here .. and that is just sad .. i for one – think that stadium negara should be more well kept and more .. how should i put it .. ‘celebrated’ and ‘proud of’ than klcc .. i mean it has a history man .. u can build great buildings but u cant buy history .. so i know its nowhere near the grandeur of lets say the coliseum .. but still – it is of great historical importance to us .. and its just sad that its left in an unkept state .. and only used for concerts or footballs matches and stuff like that .. anyway – in short – money hungry- mega mall building – two face politician/whoever in the government who gets 10 million for approving to demolish historical buildings to make way for megamalls/condos should all go back to the ‘japanese occupation’ era and get tortured their balls off AND THEN they should be asked ‘so is a place where we declare INDEPENDENCE important?’

 

 

yea .. i dunno whered this patriotic bug came from either .. highly perplexing

jason mraz in kl, malaysia – concert setlist

k this will be a swift post .. heh .. will give a long post for my mraz concert later  when i am not freaking dumped by shitload of shit work .. ok caaalllm .. life is wonderful .. heh

one thing i was pissed off about yesterday was the lack of info on the bloody setlist that jason played for his asian concerts .. sheesh .. so now here goes (altho not in order – i was too excited and enjoying myself to take note of the songs and i have a short term memory)

Jason Mraz in Kuala Lumpur  – 4th March, 2009

SET-FREAKING-LIST

1. Make it mine
2. The remedy / wonderwall (oasis)
3. You and I both
4. Live High
5. Life is wonderful
6. Geek in the pink
7. If it kills me
8. A beautiful mess
9. The dynamo of volition (at superspeed)
10. I’m yours / Dont worry about a thing (Bob marley)
11. Lucky (encore) / Invisible gum song (extremely cute dance)
12. i have no idea what this song is here but it was nice
13. Butterfly

ok if i have to sum it up in a few words  – here it is :

jason – cute, superb singer, great crowd interactor, likes to get jiggy, fun, that is one mothereffing talented boy, and buffed???

toca – cute, great voice, bongos, great percussionist

horn section – cute, also likes to get jiggy, fun, talented, majulah sukan untuk negara!

crowd – not bad for mostly fedora wearing kids crowd (heh), very responsive – thats good

songs – wanted wordplay but i guess its not meant to be, love the other songs and hearing jason play them live was unbelievable, i want more of course, and no coyotes?

me – throat – hoarse, i would like to apologize to my seat neighbours for all the ‘WOOOO!’s and the ‘AAAAAAAAAAA!’s, feels like everythings gonna be alright

whole concert – two words – EL SUPERBO!

out

mraz and co – it was worth the wait

air is pretty clear today

ok so time for some serious speculation .. of coldplay concert in malaysia .. heh

so its no secret that i dont have any faith at all with malaysian concert scene – when it comes to international artistes of course .. i mean why would i go otherwise .. heh

ok so what we have on one hand is this idiotic ‘sunburst kl’ so called music fest .. i dont know why but it is fast getting on my nerves .. first of all there is that ‘are they coming’ ‘are they not coming’ rumors bullcrap .. and then theres that stupid silent press conference crap at the pavillion where they announced lacklustre acts (additional gripe – what the FISH is “silent” press conference – NO SUCH THING in my book .. press conference is press conference .. if you want it to be silent – then shut the fish up .. NEXT – coldplay TBC – again this belongs in the ‘what the FISH??!’ category .. cos i dunno what mind games theyre trying to play here but its working – IM PISSED OFF .. and it doesnt help that this pineapple events have a bad rep – theyre the ones who wanted to bring tennis aces fedex and nadal but cancelled at the very last minute without any official notice in fact – not good .. not good at all ..

so weighing all that info that i have – i deduced that coldplay will be a no show in malaysia ..

BUT – TODAY i came upon some extremely exciting news – heh – coldplay is coming to Singapore .. as in a FULL ON CONCERT .. as in they will play more than 40 MINUTES .. as in NO SHITEOUS LOCAL ACTS (well maybe 1 opening act – but who listens to opening bands anyway) .. as in ALL THEIR GREAT SONGS WILL BE PLAYED

so i am once again a happy bunny .. heh .. and am now checking them flight tickets .. i dont care if its on monday – IM NOT GONNA MISS IT THIS TIME .. i have been carrying this BIG regret since 2006 when they came to singapore and for some weird reason i DID NOT go and made this shit mistake of reading the concert review in the star newspaper .. and by the time the writer said he had goosebumps when he heard the whole stadium sang to Fix You – i VOWED to myself – never EVER to miss a coldplay concert if i can help it ..

so tis time to keep to that vow  .. heh

so anyway – whatever happens in malaysia – i wouldnt even give a rats ass .. pineapple events can play all the games that they want and they do all kinds of gimmick or whatever crap it is that they want … i dont care – im off to singapore .. cos even if coldplay lands here – it will be like 40 mins only .. and the ticket price is more or less the same .. AND i dont like any other bands that theyre offering .. AND theres a good chance that this might get cancelled ..

BUT theres a very good chance that coldplay will be coming to malaysia tho – cos their last gig in NZ is on the 19th and the next gig is in Singapore on the 23rd .. sunburst is on the 21st .. so ..

on the other side the grass is greener

i am damn ANXIOUS – seriously .. tickets for jason mraz’s concert in malaysia have YET to be on sale .. whereas tickets for OTHER places is already out there and is getting sold out by the minute .. tix for singapores concert which opened yesterday has only limited seats left TODAY .. so

i SERIOUSLY have NO FAITH whatsoever on malaysian sponsors n what not .. be it small companies or big companies .. reputable or not .. they have a reputation for cancelling even the most popular events and even with sold out tickets – like what happened to that fed-ex vs whoever tennis match .. bamm! cancelled at the very last minute .. by experienced sponsors even .. shameful i tell ya .. so of course now – i think theyre at it again – being so late in selling the tickets .. and of course the website for the organizer is under construction .. how great is that .. if that doesnt install faith back into malaysian organisers i dont know what will ..

so i am seriously going to get the singapore tickets – id rather have 2 tickets than NONE .. cos seriously i am NOT going to miss this

seriously .. heh

guess ill always be haverin’

the cat is pondering about life and whats gonna happen next year .. more catnaps maybe?

few days into the new year and im already feeling shitty .. not really off to a good start id say .. whats the big deal about a new year anyway .. ive never been one to celebrate the new year – really dont know whats the big deal about new year .. and have no idea what were to celebrate – yes its a new year .. so? .. was feeling my usual normal self during the weekend but come monday i was slowly falling into that depressive mood .. i dunno to me its like – god id have to wake up at 7am for another year – work my shit work for another year – and go through the same old routine for another year .. so really i do not know how can ppl celebrate another year of work and routine? of course i should thank god that i have a job in the midst of this economic crisis .. of course im only looking at the downside of things and not the good stuff .. maybe i hafta enrol into something like that ‘yes man’ seminar and be all positive in life and say yes to everything .. altho i do find the idea of being all spontaneous and going to the airport and catching the next flight no matter where it goes to really appealing – but i cant really imagine doing that – not the spontaneiieieity part – its the money part (as usual) ..

ok stop being so depressed and be a little positive and hope for a good year – may i get oodles of money this year .. there ive said it – im being all positive .. and if i dont get oodles of money, be rest assured someone is going to get  slapped

so anyway – heres a good mood picker upper … jason mraz has somehow miraculously added ‘stadium negara’ in his tour list … i think he read my 987 comments in his blog asking him to drop by for a little show in malaysia – yea … think he did .. thats the only reasonable reason .. heh .. so

BUT – malaysia is so unreliable .. trust me – things are not confirmed until jason steps on the stage … first it will be ‘holy shit jason mraz is coming to malaysia!!’ .. then its ‘wow is it really on??’ .. next its ‘shoot its been cancelled – i think someone mentioned that he gets naked on stage and promotes satan – so its off now’ … ‘oh wow its on again – weirdly enough he promotes satan but tehyre letting him IN!’ .. ‘oh no its off again’ .. ‘oops no wait its ON again’ … bleh u get the pic .. this is a typical malaysian concert scene scenario .. so im already thinking about buying tix for his singapore show .. sure its more expensive – but at least its confirmed that im gonna get to see him

 

i should close with my favorite jason mraz song … but somehow – this song comes to mind .. revisiting the gorgeousness that is johnny depp is always fun anyway

jason on ellen

yeeenywayy…

jason mraz always puts me in my happy place everytime i hear him sing live ..

this is from 2004 tho .. and hes super cute .. heh .. i rarely describe anyone as super-cute – but he is so here .. should not be read as a “teenager hypeventilating over a boyband crush” super cute but more like a mellow ”heh .. thats cute” kinda thing ..

and i really like this song .. love the lyrics – i mean its a happy break-up song – who wouldnt love THAT? .. listening to this makes me feel all floaty and happy and heck its like a 3 minute mind vacation away from everything ..

which is great ..

current mood :

with lyrics

scripted

i like this

what? theyre irish??

blake and leona lewis

its video time!

for some reason i find it hard to detach myself from infectious poppy songs .. so what the hell ill just admit to it – but its not to say i have totally ditch my other likes such as tool and stuff … its just that iono – some pop songs just appeal to me .. NOT ALL .. i said SOME … so

this is one super catchy song … i love the big beats in the music thats to the point of distorting the sound of the speakers .. and i like how robotic the background singers are .. heh .. well u dont see it here but ull see it other live videos of her .. anyway nice song .. no match for mariah carey tho – but shes hot and the songs great .. this is a nice live version of it

yeeeeaa .. an american idol runner-up … i like this – its different .. i like it when he breaks it down in the middle .. he looks like hes enjoying himself .. fun stuff .. i wish we get jimmy kimmel here