Monday, June 1, 2009

Gotta Be Somebody

When i was younger, I had this ridiculous belief that Nickelback was a terrible band. That they had no talent, and that only odd people could love such a band. I based this on Chad's voice, as I'm sure most Nickelback haters do, and not on actual musical talent. I remember a while ago i saw a MuchMusic interview of Green Day, and i remember them making fun of Nickelback and Creed for having similar raspy voices, and i used to think it was funny. Years later... I find that I'm in a completely different situation. I've grown mentally and physically. I've learned and realized many things and I've gotten more mature. Things that used to matter to me before may not matter to me anymore, and there's certain things I didn't pay attention to before, that may be very important to me now. My musical taste has changed since then, I've grown to be very specific in my music and the music I listen to. The music I listen to has to meet certain standards in order for me to enjoy it, but they are MY standards and are not to be taken for standards that interpret whether a song is great or not.

Over the passed year I've heard a few new Nickelback songs... they're always catchy... but i don't always love them. "look at this photograph" haha, the way he sings that is very memorable. I remember the first time I heard this song (gotta be somebody), it was on television, and I remember thinking that the video was awesome; cameras panning from space to earth and to different locations and back to space, showing how small and insignificant we are and yet how big the earth is and how many people there are out there. At first, when I read the song title, I thought this song was going to be about being successful and making it, as a human, in one's pursuits and adventures. "gotta be somebody" I thought it meant gotta be somebody... like to be a somebody. I liked that idea, of it being about success, but when I listened to the lyrics, I liked it even more.

For a long time I've been wanting to write exactly how i feel and interpret into a song. I wanted to write a song about finding the one, but my problem is, when I get into songwriting I always want everything to be perfect, and it holds me back from getting a lot of work done, because of my insecurities. I need to learn to just let go and let the pen do all the work. I wanted to write a song about truly wanting to find that somebody, and to try to explain how it would feel to find her, and how it feels while in the process of finding her, and what one thinks about while in the "waiting room"... and this song does exactly what I wanted to accomplish. when I read the lyrics I was shocked, because it was almost exactly how I would've wanted to write it, if ever i found contentment in my writing. It's almost like the song is telling me how I'm feeling, like it understands me.

So now when I think back at that Green Day interview, I also think about myself back then. How close-minded were they, and was I, that we couldn't look passed his voice and actually listen to the music. I've recently learned that Nickelback is one of the biggest and successful modern rock bands, and yet they are also one of the most hated. I think being one of the best, although followed by countless fans, also comes along with countless haters. The biggest and most successful acts always have the most haters: Nickelback, the Jonas Brothers, Coldplay, Michael Jackson, Kanye West. People always find a reason to hate someone, regardless of their talent. So here's the song and video i've been talking about, listen closely, and enjoi the visuals.

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Saturday, May 30, 2009

story telling

i was thinking about how people upload millions of pictures all the time showing their adventures and what not. i suddenly realized that there's no more storytelling, back in the days you had 24 shots to capture your adventure unless you had a lot of film. people could see those 24 shots and be like oh what happened here, it's not the same when you have 240 shots capturing every moment and pretty much explaining the story. storytelling is a dying form of expression. storytelling is a remarkable thing, cus when you hear the story, having not seen anything the storyteller is talking about. you use your imagination to create the picture. no need to use your imagination if everything is displayed for you in photographs. technology is holding us back from expanding our imaginations.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

i'm in love......



i've been falling for the fobs lately, hahaha, as funny as that sounds. something about them that's doing it for me... and not just orientals, any type, any country.. haha just not filipino for some reason. maybe it's the idea of something different. something that will be a journey just to understand someone, and a journey learning their language aswell. being attracted to someone so much you'll learn another language just to speak to her and to be able to understand her. that's on a different level.... shit. not to say i'm in that situation.. but it would be interesting. haha i've always got my fob radar on. This show is really funny, they seem to have revolved this whole segment on these really attractive girls, while someone keeps playing really random sound effects in the background HAHAHAHAHA! can't wait to tour asia...





... (drool
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

complete

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Friday, April 24, 2009

look what you did Diddy


so here's a picture of cassie from justjared.com

so apparently she woke up and felt like doing it, by the way she only shaved half of her head, its not a mohawk. i commend you cassie, i love originality, but at the same time, i feel like she's gonna regret it one day, whether it be 10 years from now or 10 days from now. one day she's gonna look at a picture of herself from 2009 and think why did i do that? reason i think this is because it's not her, in this picture she's giving the devil horns, usually associated with the rock n roll culture (by the way cassie, you're an R & B singer). i just fel like, if she wanted to be original, she shoulda done something more R & B, and not rock & roll. Theres a crazy blend of cultures (hip-hop and Rock) going on in the Hip-Hop world, and i feel like it's only like that cus lil wayne does it, its a fad like SO many things in Hip-Hop, it will fade, and it will change and evolve into something (most likely another blend of something else, cus thats how it seems to be, they copy something and try to make it their own). I listen to rock music, for the most part, and when i was in highschool, i tried the whole emo bangs thing, and it was cool until i got bored of it, but looking back at it, i kick myself. I look at pictures of myself and it's just disgusting, why did i do that, and that was just something in the culture i follow. All the more with cassie, an R&B artist trying to be rock & roll, this is why i think she'll regret it. I'm not going to say it looks ugly, cus who am i to distinguish something like that, but it doesn't suit her.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

another complaint

im starting to feel like holden caulfield here with all these complaints on everyday life. but here's one more. On YouTube, people get into fights in the comment boxes all the time, even the most (seemingly) intelligent people get into E-fights. I used to waste my time on that, but then i realized... yes, it is a waste of time. some people write stupid comments for the hell of it, some people truly believe what they are saying, and stand by it no matter how much rationality you throw at them. there are times when i see a comment and i just snap, and it absorbs my attention like a ShamWOW towel. by the way, why do people act like shamWOW is such a new thing and as if that guy wasnt at CNE (the exhibition) advertising and doing shows on that stuff every single year haha, back then it was under a different name... anyways.
....it absorbs my attention like a shamWOW, and i am pressured to comment, nowadays, the comment i have to reply on must be on the HIGHEST levels of ignorance for me to care. enough people fight about religion on youtube, its sooo stupid. or who's the best drummer, it's sooooo stupid. its crazy cus, i made a realization last year, that realization was that everyone is different, but there's a different between knowing that and accepting and understanding it. all these youtube commenters haven't accepted yet.
the world is full of robots...robots without AI
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

a necessary change

so i picked up a cd walkman earlier this week. it's a mammoth of a device, but i have good reason for this odd switch. YES, i do have an Ipod.. so why change?... you might ask. well ever since i purchased my first Ipod years ago, i feel like i haven't really been checking out new bands or hearing much new music. and even though i have thousands of songs on my Ipod.. i ALWAYS end up playing the same songs over and over again. what's the point in having such a wide selection if i'm not going to select them? cus deep down i just wanna listen to the really good shit. but even with all these album i download i don't give them a chance to be heard in it's entirety. a lot of the new albums i download end up just more space filled in my Ipod. with a cd player, you are forced to listen to what you have. cus i remember back in the day whens i bought a cd, i would listen to the whole thing and find which songs i like and which ones i don't, cus i don't have much else to listen to. i'm hoping this necessary switch will help me appreciate music more, and learn to be more patient with music, cus lately all i've been looking for are those one hit K.O songs, that just hit you right away, cus i love those ones, how can you not. i burend a few cd's, so i can switch it up every now and then... this is what i have rotating: Meg & Dia - Here, here, and here, K-os - Atlantis, Metric - Fantasies, Bloc Party - Silent Alarm. i think i'm gonna burn some JT and Aaliyah soon. heres a picture of my baby....

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