waiting on the world weather to change
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Hooray. My boredom has taken new heights- now I'm even slashing at song titles above my post (hahaha geddit? geddit? above? taking new heights? argh whatever.) in a bid to get some cheap humour? Argh. I can tell why cavemen invented fire. They were probably as bored as I am now- heck, that's probably why the era of caveman is called the stone ages. All they did was stone. In caves hollowed out from stone. Argh. Ok, I'm slowly losing my mind :)Since I'm feeling so bored and have nothing to blog about since I didn't really do much today, I shall blog about... music! (Again.) I spend too long (in my opinion) listening to music, but too bad- most of the songs in my ipod are just too addictive. Anyway. Here are my "top 25 most played" as told by iTunes. iTunes is weird. It comes with default playlists that don't even make sense. Especially the one that's called "90s music" which is automatically filled with rubbish that totally isn't 90s music. But whatever.
Wait, I think I'll change 25 to 10. :) I'm bored but not that bored. I'm some failure at giving reviews. Don't blame me if you see the words "great", "cool" etc. etc. being repeated at least 20 times. :D
1.
The City Is At War - Cobra Starship: The first track off Cobra Starship's latest album, ¡Viva La Cobra!, The City Is At War is the first reason why Strange Glue [
link], which gave the album
0 STARS (yes, it's totally what-the-hell-inducing), is wrong. It has a super-catchy instrumental melody, and I love the whatever-you-call-that instrument in the background. I think it's called a keytar. That's a stupid name, but whatever- wikipedia says that's what its called. Byap- Cobra Starship is loads better than Interpol xD
Bang, bang, shoot 'em up, yeah!
2.
Me Love - Sean Kingston The second single from the totally strange and random self-titled album, Sean Kingston, is about a million times better than the million times more famous 'Beautiful Girls' track which is annoying times a million. Anyway, Sean Kingston mixes Reggae and R&B perfectly, and the tune is just too addictive! Argh. I feel kind of guilty cos I play this song so much that most of his other,
lesser tracks sit in a pile, neglected. :)
3.
Tears And Rain - James Blunt If you think James Blunt is all about stange falsettos squealing "You're beautiful", then you're totally deluded. Tears and Rain is a nice song that has all the elements of a song that puts you to sleep, and I don't mean it in a bad way. For example, you listen to Interpol with the intention of listening to a good "Rock" (or at least that's what the genre thing says) song, and you fall asleep and get super annoyed that you fell asleep when you wake up, but you listen to James Blunt you feel really.. relaxed? Ok never mind. That was a stupid analogy. No wonder I didn't score really high for SS EOY.
4.
Crash - Gwen Stefani It's an unbelievably addictive track from Love.Angel.Music.Baby, which is Gwen Stefani's first solo album! Haha. I didn't really know about it until I watched this totally pointless video of random people jumping on tramps and being total sadcases and landing like.. on the floor, the frame, everywhere. Anyway, as some sort of joke, the author of the video put Crash as the BGM, so that's the first time I heard it. Haha.
5.
Stronger - Kanye West Stronger is an amazing lead single of Kanye's latest album, Graduation. It samples from this daft punk song- something like Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger- um. Something along that lines. Anyway, Stronger is totally different from the Daft Punk techno babble (yeah I know, totally wrong usage of that phrase), and it's a perfect mix of strange robotic backup vocals and Kanye-West's brand of anti-50cent-absolute-garbage hiphoppy rap. Hey! Strange minus the A (absolute garbade 50cent rap) and plus an R (r for robotic freaky background vocals) -> Stronger :O OMG. Kanye West can do his AMATHS! Ok, never mind.
6.
My Love - Westlife Cringe not, boyband haters (especially Leon)- My Love is not only a pretty good song despite the age-old fact that "it came from like.. 1833 or something" (quote Lincoln :D). Anyway, deep down, it possesses some sort of significance for Grp 2 of our Wuhan OIP group! It's the song that 2 of the guys from our class (the one we were teaching) sang for the English Salon (yeah I know, salon is such a stupid word to use for a random concert), and it's also the song that we sang along with every single time the two 12-yr-old China students came up to sing it. :)
7.
Who Am I - Casting Crowns Another song with like.. special meaning behind it- it's one of the last songs we ever learnt- and one of the last that we sang together as a con3 batch during the november retreat :S Haha. Plus, it has added significance. Since there wasn't a church in Wuhan, it's one of the songs that I actually remembered most of the lyrics, so it's one of the random songs in a medley of badly butchered hymns that really doesn't commeasurate (OMG I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW TO SPELL THE JUN SEAN HISTORY-RA WORD!) for the lack of mass, but has to do. Oh well, at least Eugene and Gabriel (who happen to be in Holy Spirit Church too- wow) were with me, so the three of us missed mass together =.-
8.
Clumsy - Fergie It's the 5th single off The Dutchess, after London Bridge, Fergalicious, Glamorous and Big Girls Don't Cry- all (except the last one) which contain overdoses of Paris Hilton slash Britney Spears sluttiness. Anyway, Clumsy is totally different, and surprisingly, it isn't overflowing with vulgarities like London Bridge or Glamorous :D And the music video is super super cool. :) Go check it out on youtube. I'm too lazy to get a link to put here.
9.
Jimmy Gets High - Daniel Powter One of the less-popular songs off the album Daniel Powter by, surprise, surprise, Daniel Powter (WERE YOU SURPRISED? Admit it.) Daniel Powter joins the fray (not the band, but literally) and competes with Mika and James Blunt in the battle of the soaring falsettos! In an attempt to become Prince of the High Cs, right behind Pavarotti, Jimmy Gets High is a statement from Daniel Powter that he can produce a nice song that has only a few lines that aren't in the female vocal range. :D
10.
Lollipop - Mika Mika has the unofficial yet pretigious honour of being the artiste of the first ever legal album (I'd like to underline that word, legal, at least a few million times) that I bought! After watching Grace Kelly about 10 times on MTV, I actually decided to buy an album with my own money :P, and I wasn't disappointed by Life In Cartoon Motion, which has tracks like Lollipop (which is a totally random song about love and lollipops :P) and Billy Brown (about this guy who's gay. yup). I think it's one of the best tracks on an already great album, so it's like.. the creme of the creme of the creme of the cream.
If any literary gems of the earth would like to sue me for my blatant butchering of the cliched phrase, creme of the crop, I'd like to remind you that Singapore doesn't have any space for agriculture.
Anyway. There are more songs, but none that I'd like to review, in the great interest of time :D Like One Way by Hillsong, Baby Love by Nicole Scherzinger, Hold On by KT Tunstall, blah blah. :) Maybe I'll save that for another time. I've written too much. At least I've managed to kill about.. what.. an hour? ++? :D Hooray for activities like writing long, drab essays on your blog! They totally totally kill time!
Only problem is-
who's organising the funeral?
A surge of randomness at 8:53 PM, Singapore time.
waiting on the world weather to change
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Hooray. My boredom has taken new heights- now I'm even slashing at song titles above my post (hahaha geddit? geddit? above? taking new heights? argh whatever.) in a bid to get some cheap humour? Argh. I can tell why cavemen invented fire. They were probably as bored as I am now- heck, that's probably why the era of caveman is called the stone ages. All they did was stone. In caves hollowed out from stone. Argh. Ok, I'm slowly losing my mind :)Since I'm feeling so bored and have nothing to blog about since I didn't really do much today, I shall blog about... music! (Again.) I spend too long (in my opinion) listening to music, but too bad- most of the songs in my ipod are just too addictive. Anyway. Here are my "top 25 most played" as told by iTunes. iTunes is weird. It comes with default playlists that don't even make sense. Especially the one that's called "90s music" which is automatically filled with rubbish that totally isn't 90s music. But whatever.
Wait, I think I'll change 25 to 10. :) I'm bored but not that bored. I'm some failure at giving reviews. Don't blame me if you see the words "great", "cool" etc. etc. being repeated at least 20 times. :D
1.
The City Is At War - Cobra Starship: The first track off Cobra Starship's latest album, ¡Viva La Cobra!, The City Is At War is the first reason why Strange Glue [
link], which gave the album
0 STARS (yes, it's totally what-the-hell-inducing), is wrong. It has a super-catchy instrumental melody, and I love the whatever-you-call-that instrument in the background. I think it's called a keytar. That's a stupid name, but whatever- wikipedia says that's what its called. Byap- Cobra Starship is loads better than Interpol xD
Bang, bang, shoot 'em up, yeah!
2.
Me Love - Sean Kingston The second single from the totally strange and random self-titled album, Sean Kingston, is about a million times better than the million times more famous 'Beautiful Girls' track which is annoying times a million. Anyway, Sean Kingston mixes Reggae and R&B perfectly, and the tune is just too addictive! Argh. I feel kind of guilty cos I play this song so much that most of his other,
lesser tracks sit in a pile, neglected. :)
3.
Tears And Rain - James Blunt If you think James Blunt is all about stange falsettos squealing "You're beautiful", then you're totally deluded. Tears and Rain is a nice song that has all the elements of a song that puts you to sleep, and I don't mean it in a bad way. For example, you listen to Interpol with the intention of listening to a good "Rock" (or at least that's what the genre thing says) song, and you fall asleep and get super annoyed that you fell asleep when you wake up, but you listen to James Blunt you feel really.. relaxed? Ok never mind. That was a stupid analogy. No wonder I didn't score really high for SS EOY.
4.
Crash - Gwen Stefani It's an unbelievably addictive track from Love.Angel.Music.Baby, which is Gwen Stefani's first solo album! Haha. I didn't really know about it until I watched this totally pointless video of random people jumping on tramps and being total sadcases and landing like.. on the floor, the frame, everywhere. Anyway, as some sort of joke, the author of the video put Crash as the BGM, so that's the first time I heard it. Haha.
5.
Stronger - Kanye West Stronger is an amazing lead single of Kanye's latest album, Graduation. It samples from this daft punk song- something like Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger- um. Something along that lines. Anyway, Stronger is totally different from the Daft Punk techno babble (yeah I know, totally wrong usage of that phrase), and it's a perfect mix of strange robotic backup vocals and Kanye-West's brand of anti-50cent-absolute-garbage hiphoppy rap. Hey! Strange minus the A (absolute garbade 50cent rap) and plus an R (r for robotic freaky background vocals) -> Stronger :O OMG. Kanye West can do his AMATHS! Ok, never mind.
6.
My Love - Westlife Cringe not, boyband haters (especially Leon)- My Love is not only a pretty good song despite the age-old fact that "it came from like.. 1833 or something" (quote Lincoln :D). Anyway, deep down, it possesses some sort of significance for Grp 2 of our Wuhan OIP group! It's the song that 2 of the guys from our class (the one we were teaching) sang for the English Salon (yeah I know, salon is such a stupid word to use for a random concert), and it's also the song that we sang along with every single time the two 12-yr-old China students came up to sing it. :)
7.
Who Am I - Casting Crowns Another song with like.. special meaning behind it- it's one of the last songs we ever learnt- and one of the last that we sang together as a con3 batch during the november retreat :S Haha. Plus, it has added significance. Since there wasn't a church in Wuhan, it's one of the songs that I actually remembered most of the lyrics, so it's one of the random songs in a medley of badly butchered hymns that really doesn't commeasurate (OMG I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW TO SPELL THE JUN SEAN HISTORY-RA WORD!) for the lack of mass, but has to do. Oh well, at least Eugene and Gabriel (who happen to be in Holy Spirit Church too- wow) were with me, so the three of us missed mass together =.-
8.
Clumsy - Fergie It's the 5th single off The Dutchess, after London Bridge, Fergalicious, Glamorous and Big Girls Don't Cry- all (except the last one) which contain overdoses of Paris Hilton slash Britney Spears sluttiness. Anyway, Clumsy is totally different, and surprisingly, it isn't overflowing with vulgarities like London Bridge or Glamorous :D And the music video is super super cool. :) Go check it out on youtube. I'm too lazy to get a link to put here.
9.
Jimmy Gets High - Daniel Powter One of the less-popular songs off the album Daniel Powter by, surprise, surprise, Daniel Powter (WERE YOU SURPRISED? Admit it.) Daniel Powter joins the fray (not the band, but literally) and competes with Mika and James Blunt in the battle of the soaring falsettos! In an attempt to become Prince of the High Cs, right behind Pavarotti, Jimmy Gets High is a statement from Daniel Powter that he can produce a nice song that has only a few lines that aren't in the female vocal range. :D
10.
Lollipop - Mika Mika has the unofficial yet pretigious honour of being the artiste of the first ever legal album (I'd like to underline that word, legal, at least a few million times) that I bought! After watching Grace Kelly about 10 times on MTV, I actually decided to buy an album with my own money :P, and I wasn't disappointed by Life In Cartoon Motion, which has tracks like Lollipop (which is a totally random song about love and lollipops :P) and Billy Brown (about this guy who's gay. yup). I think it's one of the best tracks on an already great album, so it's like.. the creme of the creme of the creme of the cream.
If any literary gems of the earth would like to sue me for my blatant butchering of the cliched phrase, creme of the crop, I'd like to remind you that Singapore doesn't have any space for agriculture.
Anyway. There are more songs, but none that I'd like to review, in the great interest of time :D Like One Way by Hillsong, Baby Love by Nicole Scherzinger, Hold On by KT Tunstall, blah blah. :) Maybe I'll save that for another time. I've written too much. At least I've managed to kill about.. what.. an hour? ++? :D Hooray for activities like writing long, drab essays on your blog! They totally totally kill time!
Only problem is-
who's organising the funeral?
A surge of randomness at 8:53 PM, Singapore time.
