Despite the pouring rain 30 Seconds to Mars was unstoppable in giving us fans one great epic concert!
Truly one Closer to the Edge Concert! Wohoo!! No regrets being there!
I even got the chance to 'rub elbows' with celebrities like Vice Ganda, Mark something of PGT 1, Kean Cipriano and Jasmin Curtis, who were just in front of me! San ka pa? haha!
Thanks to Jared, Shannon and Tomo for one effin awesome show!
Please don't ever consider the idea of disbanding!
I will end up this post by Jared's opening line to the crowd:
'IKAW NA!"
haha!!
Here are the pictures!
The tracks they played!
1. Escape 2. A Beautiful Lie 3. Attack 4. Search And Destroy 5. This Is War 6. 100 Suns 7. Call To Arms 8. L490 9. Hurricane 10. Alibi 11. The Kill 12. Night Of The Hunter 13. Closer To The Edge 14. Kings And Queens
Here's a video of the Last Song "kings and queens"
Pardon me guys. I just can't get enough of this 'cheesy-ness' haha!! Now, this time I'm posting not just one video but four videos from four great bands. So hope you bear with my cheesyness, though this is really really going to be a tough one, 'coz this is quadruple the cheesyness of my previous posts. hehe!!
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL
First Video: This video of "Stolen" is from one of my favorite bands 'Dashboard Confessional'. From the time I've heard their song "Hands down" I felt I needed to buy their record, well I didn't, 'coz I found out my brother has one. Haha!! Too bad they've become a little bit mainstream. I wonder when are they going to have a new album.
Here's an acoustic/orchestral version! Para mas 'cheesy'! haha!! I think this track would be a nice background music on a date. (hmmm.. thought bubble insert!) haha!!
We watch the season pull up its own stakes And catch the last weekend of the last week Before the gold and the glimmer have been replaced, Another sun soaked season fades away
You have stolen my heart
Invitation only, grant farewells Crush the best one, of the best ones Clear liquor and cloudy eyed, too early to say goodnight
You have stolen my heart
And from the ballroom floor we are in celebration One good stretch before our hibernation Our dreams assured and we all, will sleep well
You have stolen You have stolen my heart
I watch you spin around in the highest heels You are the best one, of the best ones We all look like we feel
You have stolen my You have stolen my heart
AMBER PACIFIC
Second Video: This is the video of Poetically Pathetic by Amber Pacific, another favorite band of mine. Amber Pacific is a Seattle band, like Nirvana. Their songs are really great from the lyrics to the arrangement. They've just released an EP with 3 new tracks on i-tunes.The new tracks are:The Good Life; Don't Let It Fall Through and The Right Place At The Wrong Time
Here's the video of "Poetically Pathetic".
I'm Thinking of the words to say, I'd like to think that this was fate. Reference to a song you love, Spell confusion with a "K" Like a star without its strings, I'm hanging here on these two wings. For that smile and those eyes I'm falling
If time could stop, how could I make this more poetic? When there's nothing more pathetic to be said
You bring me out, show me light, I'm sorry if I hide, I'm too afraid to look inside. You carry truth, and make me smile. If it were you and me tonight, I would tame the stars and save the brightest one for you, For you...
If you ever had the chance, Would you make your life seem right? Or would you only hold it back, The good times, the hard, and the bad. Whatever you say is alright, Just as long as there's no doubt. Could you look me in the eye and say hopes died?
If time could stop, how could I make this more poetic? When there's nothing more pathetic to be said
You bring me out, show me light, I'm sorry if I hide, I'm too afraid to look inside. You carry truth, and make me smile. If it were you and me tonight, I would tame the stars and save the brightest one for you.
Our wish, Each time, Keeps me returning to you, Night after night Lift me up as high as the clouds that won the sky, For you and I
You bring me out, show me light, I'm sorry if I hide, I'm too afraid to look inside. You carry truth, and make me smile, If it were you and me tonight, I would tame the stars and save the brightest one for you
You bring me out, show me light, I'm sorry if I hide, I'm too afraid to look inside You carry truth, and make me smile If it were you and me tonight, I would tame the stars and save the brightest one for you, For you...
Third Video: This one's an old one, from The Police, the English Rock band in the 80's wherein Sting was the vocalist back then. The band who popularized the song "Every Breath you Take". The video you'll about to see is a performance by Sting of the song It's "Every Little Thing she does is Magic", which was an original from The Police. I guess most of you know this, because our very own Paolo Santos had a cover of this in one of his albums.
Though Ive tried before to tell her Of the feelings I have for her in my heart Every time that I come near her I just lose my nerve As Ive done from the start
Every little thing she does is magic Everything she do just turns me on Even though my life before was tragic Now I know my love for her goes on
Do I have to tell the story Of a thousand rainy days since we first met Its a big enough umbrella But its always me that ends up getting wet
Every little thing she does is magic Everything she do just turns me on Even though my life before was tragic Now I know my love for her goes on
I resolve to call her up a thousand times a day And ask her if shell marry me in some old fashioned way But my silent fears have gripped me Long before I reach the phone Long before my tongue has tripped me Must I always be alone?
Every little thing she does is magic Everything she do just turns me on Even though my life before was tragic Now I know my love for her goes on
LAST VIDEO: And to finish this off, I'll leave you with this song from... drum roll please! hehe! Of course the list isn't complete without a song from the band of my demi-God Kurt Cobain, Nirvana! hehe! The song is "About a Girl".
I need an easy friend I do with an ear to lend I do think you fit this shoe I do what you have a clue
Ill take advantage while You hang me out to dry But I cant see you every night free I do
Im standing in your light I do hope you have the time I do pick up number two I do keep a date with you
"And I feel the way I feel because I need you all the time And I know the things you know but that’s just not enough to make you mine And I won’t do anything that it might compromise this time so I’ll just sit and hold my breath only that’s not enough to make you mine.."
Haayzzz... :(
Here's the full lyrics...
Sometimes it's not that time For things I cannot hear For words I cannot feel The way you want to go It makes me feel like shit I'm last but that's not it I wonder if she'll care For me ever again Waiting for the last time I'm waiting for the right time To see if she will know the things She doesn't say to me
Chorus And I feel the way I feel because I Need you all the time and I Know the things you know but that's just Not enough to make you mine And I won't do anything that it might Compromise this time so It's not enough to make you mine
Get up it's time to die Just guess and don't ask why Lately you just don't try Someday we will fly Higher than the satellites Into a spacial paradise Where up is up and down is down And no one is around (I don’t want to see you crying) (Let’s leave) (The dramatics behind)
Dahil suspended ang classes namin until June 29 nang dahil sa AH1N1.. ETO PA ISANG VIDEO!! Wahaha!!
Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you By now you shoulda somehow realized what you gotta do I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now Back beat, the word is on the street that the fire in your heart is out I'm sure you've heard it all before but you never really had a doubt I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now And all the roads we have to walk are winding And all the lights that lead us there are blinding There are many things that I would like to say to you But I don't know how Because maybe You're gonna be the one that saves me And after all You're my wonderwall Today was gonna be the day but they'll never throw it back to you By now you shoulda somehow realized what you're not to do I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now And all the roads that lead you there were winding And all the lights that light the way are blinding There are many things that I would like to say to you But I don't know how I said maybe You're gonna be the one that saves me And after all You're my wonderwall I said maybe You're gonna be the one that saves me And after all You're my wonderwall I said maybe You're gonna be the one that saves me You're gonna be the one that saves me You're gonna be the one that saves me
** I've read somewhere an interpretation of this song, I'll try to recall and rephrase. So here it goes:
The song is about the love for a girl but the guy being to afraid to say anything because she seems too perfect but at the same time he knows there's more than meets the eye. It also illustrates that he wants to say everything he is feeling because he knows that they are meant to be and that she can help him with his troubles and he can help her. And that it will be a long tough road ahead but it will be a happy ending and well worth it if she just gave him a chance. "wonderwall" means something like he always wondered about her and what they could be but there was a wall between him and her so they said wonderwall.
Sometimes in the most unexpected places and the most unexpected circumstances we are struck by some thundber bolt. I don't know but it just happened so fast.. Here's the video, for you to understand what I am talking about..
You only stay with me in the morning You only hold me when I sleep I was meant to tread the water But now I've gotten in too deep
For every piece of me that wants you Another piece backs away
You give me something That makes me scared alright This could be nothing But I'm willing to give it a try Please give me something Because someday I might know my heart
You only waited up for hours Just to spend a little time alone with me And I can say I've never bought you flowers I can't work out what they mean
I never thought that I'd love someone That was someone else's dream
You give me something That makes me scared alright This could be nothing But I'm willing to give it a try Please give me something Because someday I might call you from my heart
But it might be a second too late And the words that I could never say Are gonna come out anyway
You give me something That makes me scared alright This could be nothing But I'm willing to give it a try Please give me something
You give me something That makes me scared alright This could be nothing But I'm willing to give it a try Please give me something Because someday I might know my heart
Today is the 40th year from the first time John Lennon and Yoko Ono released "Give Peace a Chance", a song which was made by them for the US Government to stop the war in Vietnam. "Give Peace a Chance" was the first "solo" single released by a member of the Beatles while the band was still intact, though, technically, the artist was credited as Plastic Ono Band, not John Lennon. It reached number 14 on the pop charts in the United States. (thanks to wiki.)
Truly, John Lennon was a great loss in the music industry. He totally changed the way people think and he radically pushed through for political activism which opened the doors for some changes in the US.
I know there are a lot of Filipino musician activists in the country today I just hope they continue what they are doing by bringing people together and fight for their causes as well as inspire others to do the same thru their songs..
“Rock ‘N Roll is a lifestyle and a way of thinking. It’s not about money or popularity, although some money would be nice. But it’s a voice that says, “Here I am and Fuck you! if you can’t understand me.”- Jeff Bebe (Almost Famous- 2000)
Rock and Roll has been with the world for ages. I don’t even know where or how it started. I can’t even remember how I got to like it.
We dig different music genres. Be it pop, RnB, blues, hiphop, trance, soul and what have yous. I do listen to other music genres once in a while, but Rock truly made me feel alive. It gives me that high that flow all throughout my senses.
It never occurred to me that until after I got my bachelor’s degree my frustration to be in a Rock Band will continue. Well, I guess I’ll have to carry the burden indefinitely. But seeing the new generation of Rock Bands today makes me feel anxious about the future of Rock and Roll. Let’s face it, no one has ever surpassed the brilliance of Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynryd, Guns ‘N Roses, Nirvana or Aerosmith. All the rock bands today are either copycats or just plain noise-makers.
Like any other genres, playing or writing Rock Music requires a certain degree of talent. For a band to get recognition, one should be extraordinary. The band should offer something that the others do not have. Listeners of Rock Music put a high premium of the originality and versatility of the band. Mediocrity is clearly out of the picture and would get the band nowhere in the music scene.
Being a rock star requires a lot of passion and dedication. Just writing a song requires being into it. Immersing himself while he writes it. Telling every listener a story of his own, as if he is making a conversation.
I’m not a rock star, nor have been a member of a band. But I can feel the struggle they have to go through in their songs. The faces they have to wear when they perform or when they are interviewed just weaken the enthusiasm I have.
Landing on a great record deal seemed to be a sure shot at fame. But what’s the price they have to pay for it? Does it include strangling the real deal by manipulating the band’s own style to be more marketable? Is comprising the real world always part of the bargain?
Rock ‘N Roll is not just about being a Rock Star and all. As an artist every Rock Musician has only but one goal. And it is to let other people listen with their hearts what they have to say. The most indefinable thing that a Rock Star could do is to make the listeners catch something with his music. Something that is incomparable to the money, big cars, mansion and women he has. Something that is priceless and way beyond the fame.
Seeing Oasis’ MTV of their song ‘Outta Time’ makes me wanna own an owl! I don’t know I thought there’s something strange about owls. I just love their big eyes and their feathers are very much different from the other species of their kind. As weird as it may sound I feel that I see myself as an owl in my past life. Aside from the fact that they’re nocturnal, the mystery and their eccentricity is truly me.
Anyway, enough of Owls, I’ll make some research on them and post it here in the next entry. I am a little bit struck by the title of Oasis’ new song which is “Outta time”(well if you don’t know yet their back with a new album Dig out your soul! Kudos to you guys!). I somehow felt I am out of time. Slowly, I can feel that there are a lot of things I should have done now which I happened to either forget about doing or was just lazy. There are some things which I know I should have done so long. Things which I have subconsciously ignored for quite a long time.
It pains me when I think of things that I should have done and stood up for long before. It gives me a hard time accepting the fact that I am really running out of time. Sometimes I even thought of death. In fact I even have a draft post on the subject. I fear death I must admit. Death totally extinguishes everything. It totally stops the clock ticking for you. It bars you from doing everything you’ve started and aimed at accomplishing. During the times when I feel the pain and I just cannot do anything but to curse the fucking pain, flashbacks of all the memories just come in and out of my mind. Thoughts of remorse, regrets. Thoughts of all the things I wanted to do and up to now are still unaccomplished.
I know I’m running out of time. I want to take the steps right now, but there are a lot hindrances. I am not even sure if its worth taking the steps. Haay.. if only I could stop the clock from ticking..
By the way, Oasis is in Hongkong on the 7th of April, I want to go!!!, but I can’t, fuck! I’m broke!!
I've admired Kurt Cobain since highschool. The words through the lyrics he writes struck me, maybe because it is truly the unconventional which I always try to be. His lyrics are sometimes vague and always capable of different meanings.
The suicide of Kurt Cobain shocked almost everyone(well which some still thought isn't really a suicide but a foul-play). I've read somewhere that he's even dubbed as the John Lennon of his time after his death. But discounting that, I truly am in deep sorrow upon knowing his story. His broken family, his life under a bridge, his cocaine addiction, his fucked-up relationship with Courtney and a lot of things. Well maybe the fact that he has a fucked-up life and still continued living it up though for a while made me admire him more.
Maybe Kurt's death is a dream come true for him, because somehow he has attain the state of nirvana. Complete peace!
THE SUICIDE NOTE
Here's a tribute video of him
Here's a biography of him: Kurt Cobain was born to Donald and Wendy Cobain on February 20, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington and spent his first six months living in the village of Hoquiam, Washington before the family moved to Aberdeen.He began developing an interest in music early in his life. According to his Aunt Mari, "He was singing from the time he was two. He would sing Beatles songs like 'Hey Jude'. He had a lot of charisma from a very young age."
Cobain's life changed at the age of seven when his parents divorced in 1975, an event which he later cited as having a profound impact on his life. His mother noted that his personality changed dramatically, with Cobain becoming more withdrawn.In a 1993 interview, Cobain said, "I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that."After a year spent living with his mother following the divorce, Cobain moved to Montesano, Washington to live with his father, but after a few years his youthful rebellion became too overwhelming and he found himself being shuffled between friends and family.
At school, Cobain took little interest in sports. At his father's insistence, Cobain joined the junior high wrestling team. While he was good at it, he despised it. Later, his father signed him up for a local baseball league, where Cobain would intentionally strike out to avoid having to play.Instead, Cobain focused on his art courses. He often drew during classes, including objects associated with human anatomy. Cobain was friends with a gay student at his school, sometimes suffering bullying at the hands of homophobic students. That friendship led some to believe that he himself was gay. In one of his personal journals, Cobain wrote, "I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes."In a 1993 interview with The Advocate, Cobain claimed that he used to spray paint "God is Gay" on pickup trucks around Aberdeen. Cobain also claimed he was arrested in 1985 for spray-painting "HOMO SEX RULES" on a bank.However, Aberdeen police records show that the phrase for which he was arrested was actually "Ain't got no how watchamacallit".As a teenager growing up in small-town Washington, Cobain eventually found escape through the thriving Pacific Northwest punk scene, going to punk rock shows in Seattle. Eventually, Cobain began frequenting the practice space of fellow Montesano musicians the Melvins.
In the middle of tenth grade, Cobain moved back to live with his mother in Aberdeen. Two weeks before his graduation, Cobain dropped out of high school after realizing that he did not have enough credits to graduate. His mother gave him a choice: either get a job or leave. After a week or so, Cobain found his clothes and other belongings packed away in boxes.Forced out of his mother's home, Cobain often stayed at friends' houses and sneaked into his mother's basement occasionally.Cobain later claimed that when he could not find anywhere else to stay, he lived under a bridge over the Wishkah River,an experience that inspired the Nevermind track "Something in the Way". However, Krist Novoselic claimed that Cobain never really lived there, saying, "He hung out there, but you couldn't live on those muddy banks, with the tides coming up and down. That was his own revisionism."
In late 1986, Cobain moved into the first house he lived in alone and paid his rent by working at a coastal resort twenty miles from Aberdeen.At the same time, Cobain was traveling more frequently to Olympia, Washington to check out rock shows.During his visits to Olympia, Cobain started a relationship with Tracy Marander.
Marriage
Courtney Love first saw Cobain perform in 1989 at a show in Portland, Oregon; the pair talked briefly after the show and Love developed a crush on him.According to journalist Everett True, the pair were formally introduced at an L7/Butthole Surfers concert in Los Angeles in May 1991. In the weeks that followed, after learning from Dave Grohl that she and Cobain shared mutual crushes, Love began pursuing Cobain. After a few weeks of on-again, off-again courtship in the fall of 1991, the two found themselves together on a regular basis, often bonding through drug use.
Around the time of Nirvana's 1992 performance on Saturday Night Live, Love discovered that she was pregnant with Cobain's child. A few days after the conclusion of Nirvana's Pacific Rim tour, on Monday, February 24, 1992, Cobain married Love on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. "In the last couple months I've gotten engaged and my attitude has changed drastically," Cobain said in an interview with Sassy magazine. "I can't believe how much happier I am. At times I even forget that I'm in a band, I'm so blinded by love. I know that sounds embarrassing, but it's true. I could give up the band right now. It doesn't matter, but I'm under contract."On August 18, the couple's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born. The unusual middle name was given to her because Cobain thought she looked like a kidney bean on the first sonogram he saw of her. Her namesake is Frances McKee of British band The Vaselines and not Frances Farmer as is sometimes reported.
Love was somewhat unpopular with Nirvana fans; her harshest critics said she was merely using him as a vehicle to make herself famous.Critics who compared Cobain to John Lennon were also fond of comparing Love to Yoko Ono. Rumors persist that Cobain wrote most of the songs on the breakthrough album Live Through This of Love's band Hole, partially fueled by the 1996 appearance of a rough mix of "Asking for It" with Cobain singing backing vocals. However, there is no specific evidence to support the assertion.
Cobain's final weeks and death
Following a tour stop at Terminal Eins in Munich, Germany, on March 1, 1994, Cobain was diagnosed with bronchitis and severe laryngitis. He flew to Rome the next day for medical treatment, and was joined there by his wife on March 3. The next morning, Love awoke to find that Cobain had overdosed on a combination of champagne and Rohypnol (Love had a prescription for Rohypnol filled after arriving in Rome). Cobain was immediately rushed to the hospital, and spent the rest of the day unconscious. After five days in the hospital, Cobain was released and returned to Seattle.Love later stated that the incident was Cobain's first suicide attempt.
On March 18, Love phoned police to inform them that Cobain was suicidal and had locked himself in a room with a gun. Police arrived and confiscated several guns and a bottle of pills from Cobain, who insisted that he was not suicidal and had locked himself in the room to hide from Love. When questioned by police, Love admitted that Cobain had never mentioned that he was suicidal and that she had not seen him with a gun.
Love arranged an intervention concerning Cobain's drug use that took place on March 25. The ten people involved included musician friends, record company executives, and one of Cobain's closest friends, Dylan Carlson. Former Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg described Cobain as being "extremely reluctant" and that he "denied that he was doing anything self-destructive." However, by the end of the day, Cobain had agreed to undergo a detox program. Cobain arrived at the Exodus Recovery Center in Los Angeles, California, on March 30. The following night, Cobain walked outside to have a cigarette, then climbed over a six-foot-high fence to leave the facility. He took a taxi to Los Angeles Airport and flew back to Seattle. Over the course of April 2 and April 3, Cobain was spotted in various locations around Seattle, but most of his friends and family were unaware of his whereabouts. On April 3, Love contacted a private investigator, Tom Grant, and hired him to find Cobain.
On April 8, 1994, Cobain's body was discovered in the spare room above the garage at his Lake Washington home by Veca Electric employee Gary Smith. Smith arrived at the house that morning to install security lighting and saw him lying inside. Apart from a minor amount of blood coming out of Cobain's ear, Smith reported seeing no visible signs of trauma, and initially believed that Cobain was asleep. Smith found what he thought might be a suicide note with a pen stuck through it beneath an overturned flowerpot. A shotgun, purchased for Cobain by Dylan Carlson, was found resting on Cobain's chest. Cobain's death certificate stated that his death was a result of a "contact perforating shotgun wound to the head," and concluded his death a suicide. The report estimated Cobain to have died on April 5, 1994.
On April 10, a public vigil was held for Cobain at a park at Seattle Center which drew approximately seven thousand mourners.Prerecorded messages by Krist Novoselic and Courtney Love were played at the memorial. Love read portions of Cobain's suicide note to the crowd and broke down, crying and chastising Cobain. Near the end of the vigil Love arrived at the park and distributed some of Cobain's clothing to those who still remained.Cobain's body was cremated.
KURT COBAIN: ABOUT A SON TRAILER
An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audio taped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the flm, Kurt Cobain recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and others often-piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations with Cobain have never before been made public and reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but never truly understood.
I was LSSed again when I've heard the song from my all-time fave band 3eb! Here it is!!
I'm only pretty sure that I can't take anymore Before you take a swing I wonder what are we fighting for When I say out loud I want to get out of this I wonder is there anything I'm going to miss I wonder how it's going to be When you don't know me How's it going to be When you're sure I'm not there How's it going to be When there's no one there to talk to Between you and me Cause I don't care How's it going to be, How's it going to be Where we used to laugh There's a shouting match Sharp as a thumbnail scratch A silence I can't ignore Like the hammock by the Doorway we spent time in, swings empty Don't see lightning like last fall When it was always about to hit me I wonder how's it going to be When it goes down How's it going to be When you're not around How's it going to be When you found out there was nothing Between you and me Cause I don't care How's it going to be And how's it going to be When you don't know me anymore And how's it going to be Want to get myself back in again The soft dive of oblivion I want to taste the salt of your skin The soft dive of oblivion oblivion How's it going to be When you don't know me anymore How's it going to be, How's it going to be How's it going to be
