So.
In variety to my usual Linkin Park ramblings, I'd like to introduce you to one of my other favorite bands to listen to.
Enter Shikari.
Who are Enter Shikari and why are they here on my blog?
I'm not Wikipedia, so I won't be quoting their full profile here. I'm writing solely as a fan, and this post isn't just going to be a copy-paste piece just to fill the pages. Naah.
It all started in a dull evening of March 2012. As usual, I was browsing through the internet, and during that moment I (and my internet modem, apparently) was (were) in a good mood to surf YT for some music videos. Beginning with some channels I was already familiar with, I glanced at the "Featured Videos" section at the right side of the screen, and decided to give those videos some tries.
And there it was. Enter Shikari - Arguing With Thermometers.
Been a fan of "rock music" as I were, the name Enter Shikari sounds kinda familiar. They have been featured in a magazine I like to read for quite some time. Kerrang. If you knew. This K! mag usually features variety of bands that I'm fond of; the kinds of Linkin Park, My Chem Romance, Rise Against, Papa Roach, Sum 41, Avenged Sevenfold -- Goddammit! It feels like I finally found a company. Someone who actually likes THESE bands. Someone who has interest with the EXACT PACK of BANDS that I'm into.
So, seeing the name of the bands that my buddy (K! magazine) recommended just a click away, I gave it a try.
Who knows it would make such a difference.
Arguing With Thermometers.
Two words. Holy. S__t. Just... wow?
Maybe you guys just don't get how I can get so speechless, so appalled over a silly music video like this. But how can't you??
I gotta admit, the word "silly" might describe some aspects in the video pretty well.
See, the vocalist [Rou] dressed as a news reporter -- and later on known as Phillis McCleavland, another persona, in the fanbase (he even has a twitter account!) -- while the bassist [C. Batten] and the guitarist [Rory C] took the role as cameramen. And the drummer? [Rob Rolfe] Weather man. With drums. Gosh, I actually laughed. No, no particular reason as the video was too hilarious to be real, or it sucked so bad, no.
The video starts with a newsflash banner, like, real TV news. During this I wondered how the music would be like... Then, all of a sudden, heavy guitar riff with a thunderous drum beats commence! Followed by Rou's post-hardcore style scream for "THIS IS AN EXPEDITION-" with a generic newsreader straight expression, I dropped my jaws. For a moment, I thought the whole song's gonna be all screamo, but my expectation went wrong.
After the verse scream, the guitar riff slowed down, and replaced by smoother vocal lines (no scream) full of ambiguous critical lyrics with the touch of fast groovy beats. I don't know exactly to describe the atmosphere, I'm not a music critic, but that part sounds very tempting to dance to, to jump around to, to headbang to. Until the lyric "Shackleton is rolling is his grave" stops.
Nonetheless, the sound variety doesn't stop there. The guitar tempo and the drums started to increase rapidly, joining the semi-rap fast-tempered politically aware vocal lines that creates the chaotic atmosphere in your headphones. It feels like Rou was exitting the studio, and suddenly reporting news in an anarchic situation. And don't forget the touch of electronica that continues until the next part where the instruments rest and let the cymbal plays flow.
Followed by sounds-like "boop boop boop" dubstep-ey touch, half-screamed exclamation of "Yeah!" which rate and pressure keeps increasing to a full scream point "you know there's oil in the- ICEEE!". The atmosphere gets chaotic again by the time the bass gets heavy, but Enter Shikari just don't stop. The last three "boop"s opens the gate to the electronica dominance to accompany the lyric "that's a maniac standpoint!" and "psychotic outlook" very fittingly.
The rapid guitar tempo and drum beats repeats again (from the second verse and pre-reff), groovy beats followed by chaotic feels all over again, with a burning, increasing tension just before a line of guitar riffs start rebellious bridge of several "WE'LL TAKE YOU DOWN"s. And a "STAND YOUR GROUND" in which part most instrument paused, just series of guitar lines.
Then the video changed setting. Phillis throwing the papers in the studio, while the full scream point of "You know there's oil in the ICEEEE" echoes in your headphones. Studio gets chaotic. Again. "Yeah! We're all addicted!". Again.
After the nervous wrecking synthesizer plays and serious "boop"s accompanying another "psychotic outlook!", the ear roller-coaster rainbow came to an end by conservative use of guitar and bass and drums played in slow tempo. The lyric "Dig deep." closed the curtain.
So kids, that's how I met the love of my music life. Again. At that moment I fell in love with Enter Shikari. Their music, I mean. I gotta say, after been quite a while, I finally found a band with a new, fresh sound I'm fond of. "Arguing With Thermometers" is just full of variety in its sounds, and the video's pretty brilliant too!
If you ask, my favorite part of the video is when the four of them walked along on the street screaming "We'll take you down!". Oh, and when they make upside-down triangles with their both hands' forefingers and middle fingers, smiling. Oh, and when Rob points the weather forecast background with the drumsticks, and when he slides down his glasses with a "WTF?" expression looking at Phillis going all raging, throwing papers in the studio. MAN! Basically I love all the moments I spend watching this music video.
I'm definitely updating my Top 10 music videos and gonna put this one on #1. Ha.
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So, what's with the title? In case you're too lazy to Google up, Enter Shikari is a band from St. Albans, UK.
Cheers to Lions!
T.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Monday, January 17, 2011
Furs and Tale
There. I stood still, staring through the window glass with full focus, capturing every motion of that creature again. It just sat down there on the front yard of my house, backing me with vision locked to the direction of the tree branches. Sometimes it gracefully turned his head to its sides, almost exchanged glimpse with me. I wanted those pair of eyes to meet mine. I wished for it to happen, but that was just silly. I could watch its motion forever, if it doesn't leave me first.
Yes. There was nothing more weird and exciting at the same time than staring silently at a cat. I love cats more than you could imagine. No exceptions. I don't pick my favorite cat, because generally I love them all. Whether it's Tabby Cat, Persian, Maine Coon, or whatever, I don't care. I like seeing their silly attitude and adorableness, even when they could be terribly annoying. There's always this inside feeling to hug every of them I meet, directly or just visually.
Cats are everywhere. They are in my school, house neighborhood, across the street, even in mall parking lots. I once lived in a neighborhood full of wild dogs, but I was still able to meet lots of cats. Their survival skill is high. They salvage your outside garbage can to search for organic trash we don't need, steal some fresh meat or fish from your sloppily opened kitchen, or fight each other to snatch food from.
They are amazing individualistic animals. They don't spend time in groups even when they sometimes need company. They don't give a damn about each other. If they don't like a certain one, they fight. They're no hypocrites.
Cats don't give a damn about their owner. They will come when they need food and leave after business finished. They receive your hugs and pets just to kill the time. They thank us in selfish ways. When they're not eating, they will play... alone or by another cat. They scratch your sofa, rip off your curtain, aim the TV cable, or attack your ballpoint through their fantasy adventure. They do actions we'd love to take moments to watch.
Cats mate with whichever partner they want and won't care about it. Mother cats don't whine for having so much children and she would raise them well until her kids have to live on their own. There are so much love and ignorance from the parents, but they survive anyway.
Cats live in total freedom. They do what they want, they do what they need and nothing changes their minds. Cats spend 1/6 of their lifetime to clean up by licking their body with tongue. They are useless for humans, pet or not. Cats annoy you, disturb you, break your stuffs, make you clean their mess but bring you charm at the same time.
To me, my love to cats is like a blind love. I love them despite all things they are capable to do to torture my sanity. Their manner inspires me and their beauty attracts me. They have a pair of eyes that could pierce sharply to you when annoyed, or blankly stare at you in fear and curiosity. Their face expresses fondness toward your kind but nevertheless scared that you might shove it away. They gaze upon you with a begging look and also represent a mind that says "If you don't want to, I can take better care of myself" at the exact moment.
I want to be like cats. I want to be able to care about nothing I don't want to. I want to ignore how someone left me alone and meet them again as if nothing happened. I want to survive every place like they do. I adore their irresistible cuteness. I like that expression on their faces when they climb a tree or receive meal from their owner.
I can't understand people who dislike cats. Sure, they're annoying, but to me cats just represent our ideal, ignorant lifestyle. We are now being demanded by career, aspiration to be wealthy and needs of unimportant things. In fact, what we basically need are just like cats: food to survive, and clothes - when it's furs to them, and a place, or several places, to stay. We would just do what we need to... just like cats.
Yes. There was nothing more weird and exciting at the same time than staring silently at a cat. I love cats more than you could imagine. No exceptions. I don't pick my favorite cat, because generally I love them all. Whether it's Tabby Cat, Persian, Maine Coon, or whatever, I don't care. I like seeing their silly attitude and adorableness, even when they could be terribly annoying. There's always this inside feeling to hug every of them I meet, directly or just visually.
Cats are everywhere. They are in my school, house neighborhood, across the street, even in mall parking lots. I once lived in a neighborhood full of wild dogs, but I was still able to meet lots of cats. Their survival skill is high. They salvage your outside garbage can to search for organic trash we don't need, steal some fresh meat or fish from your sloppily opened kitchen, or fight each other to snatch food from.
They are amazing individualistic animals. They don't spend time in groups even when they sometimes need company. They don't give a damn about each other. If they don't like a certain one, they fight. They're no hypocrites.
Cats don't give a damn about their owner. They will come when they need food and leave after business finished. They receive your hugs and pets just to kill the time. They thank us in selfish ways. When they're not eating, they will play... alone or by another cat. They scratch your sofa, rip off your curtain, aim the TV cable, or attack your ballpoint through their fantasy adventure. They do actions we'd love to take moments to watch.
Cats mate with whichever partner they want and won't care about it. Mother cats don't whine for having so much children and she would raise them well until her kids have to live on their own. There are so much love and ignorance from the parents, but they survive anyway.
Cats live in total freedom. They do what they want, they do what they need and nothing changes their minds. Cats spend 1/6 of their lifetime to clean up by licking their body with tongue. They are useless for humans, pet or not. Cats annoy you, disturb you, break your stuffs, make you clean their mess but bring you charm at the same time.
To me, my love to cats is like a blind love. I love them despite all things they are capable to do to torture my sanity. Their manner inspires me and their beauty attracts me. They have a pair of eyes that could pierce sharply to you when annoyed, or blankly stare at you in fear and curiosity. Their face expresses fondness toward your kind but nevertheless scared that you might shove it away. They gaze upon you with a begging look and also represent a mind that says "If you don't want to, I can take better care of myself" at the exact moment.
I want to be like cats. I want to be able to care about nothing I don't want to. I want to ignore how someone left me alone and meet them again as if nothing happened. I want to survive every place like they do. I adore their irresistible cuteness. I like that expression on their faces when they climb a tree or receive meal from their owner.
I can't understand people who dislike cats. Sure, they're annoying, but to me cats just represent our ideal, ignorant lifestyle. We are now being demanded by career, aspiration to be wealthy and needs of unimportant things. In fact, what we basically need are just like cats: food to survive, and clothes - when it's furs to them, and a place, or several places, to stay. We would just do what we need to... just like cats.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Of Comics and Reading Talent
Thinking of some earcatching titles for this post but end up failing miserably as usual...
Today is the last day of Early Semester Holiday, and I have done nothing special except for Wednesday, when I went to a non-tourism river and rented a boat with my family to cruise along and catch a glimpse of this surprisingly cute primata called "Bekantan" or under scientific name Nasalis larvatus which is, FYI, an endangered species. We traveled at exact noon or 12 p.m, making the hot journey not a very comfortable one, especially because those animals aren't coming out around that time. We did manage to see some, though. :D
Anyway, despite of that occassion, my holiday went disappointingly boring. Luckily a new episode of LPTV aired yesterday and it was a fun one. So besides living on internet, I eat and breathe, I pray and play (music), listening to music as usual, I mostly read books and... comics.
A-ha. We're getting into comics. I want to review some things about two of my most-read comics on these day-offs, which are released just recently.
THIS is the first one: Komik KambingJantan 2
If you're youth and you're Indonesian, you would totally be familiar with this title. Yep, the briliant and famous Raditya Dika is now back with some concept which artwork is done by once again Dio Rudiman.
Like the first one, this comic contains his story as a college student in Australia. Still with his comical actions, it spits jokes through the art, narration, and storyline. A difference with the first edition I noticed is the "Nicole" character was drew nicer in the comic 1. And this new release focuses on the motion actions, but the drawing is kinda rough for such thing, I should say. There are lot more jest and joke, and some subliminal gag in the artworks.
I like 8th chapter the most. It has light drawings, more humorous storyline than others -- though slightly tragic.
And the last chapter is awesome. It represents the author's character the most and clean gags.
The second (un)fortunate comic to review is....
ShonenMAGZ 1 year 2011. A compilation of shonen (male) manga (Japanese comic) I've been subscribing for months. I start collecting it since volume 56 and found it interesting.
However, this first 2011 edition is kind of... disappointing.
This kind of comic contains at least two chapter of each manga series it provides. When a manga is finished on a ShonenMAGZ edition, the next one will have a new manga to fill the finished one.
A new serie, which replaced the old one, is called 'Blazers Drive'.
To me, it's not a really good manga. I mean, the storyline is like has been ever: A gifted protagonist boy in a fantasy world, met some enemy, lost his family and then would win against anything in his way. It has too much too-pushing jokes.
I like the idea of a different situation of skill-power. It puts a thing named Mysticker as an individual's power. The mysticker can give the four basic-elements power they can use to fight. But that's not a reason to love this manga. Among the whole series, this one still stands as my least favorite.
My problem is not only with Blazers Drive, but also with BECK and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.
When I read BECK, my first impression was "this one is cool". It tells about a fictional rock band (I love rock music), their struggle through the world of music business and the dark side of it, an idea hard to find. BUT, the twist in the plots is kind of confusing nowadays. Talking about an unfinished song that fires a conflict is still a big question mark for me. Stiff jokes and artwork too.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle? It's been in ShonenMAGZ from the start so before Blazers Drive released, this one is the least favorite. I don't get the story because I don't follow the serie from the beginning. It has advancing plots and twist. It's actually good and the artwork is amazing, but I just don't know what happens to this and that person. It has too much character I don't know.
So folks, because my holiday and your weekend ends in... *stares at clock* an hour, I wish you and myself luck for a good starter Monday tomorrow! :D Good night.
Today is the last day of Early Semester Holiday, and I have done nothing special except for Wednesday, when I went to a non-tourism river and rented a boat with my family to cruise along and catch a glimpse of this surprisingly cute primata called "Bekantan" or under scientific name Nasalis larvatus which is, FYI, an endangered species. We traveled at exact noon or 12 p.m, making the hot journey not a very comfortable one, especially because those animals aren't coming out around that time. We did manage to see some, though. :D
Anyway, despite of that occassion, my holiday went disappointingly boring. Luckily a new episode of LPTV aired yesterday and it was a fun one. So besides living on internet, I eat and breathe, I pray and play (music), listening to music as usual, I mostly read books and... comics.
A-ha. We're getting into comics. I want to review some things about two of my most-read comics on these day-offs, which are released just recently.
THIS is the first one: Komik KambingJantan 2If you're youth and you're Indonesian, you would totally be familiar with this title. Yep, the briliant and famous Raditya Dika is now back with some concept which artwork is done by once again Dio Rudiman.
Like the first one, this comic contains his story as a college student in Australia. Still with his comical actions, it spits jokes through the art, narration, and storyline. A difference with the first edition I noticed is the "Nicole" character was drew nicer in the comic 1. And this new release focuses on the motion actions, but the drawing is kinda rough for such thing, I should say. There are lot more jest and joke, and some subliminal gag in the artworks.
I like 8th chapter the most. It has light drawings, more humorous storyline than others -- though slightly tragic.
And the last chapter is awesome. It represents the author's character the most and clean gags.
The second (un)fortunate comic to review is....
ShonenMAGZ 1 year 2011. A compilation of shonen (male) manga (Japanese comic) I've been subscribing for months. I start collecting it since volume 56 and found it interesting.However, this first 2011 edition is kind of... disappointing.
This kind of comic contains at least two chapter of each manga series it provides. When a manga is finished on a ShonenMAGZ edition, the next one will have a new manga to fill the finished one.
A new serie, which replaced the old one, is called 'Blazers Drive'.
To me, it's not a really good manga. I mean, the storyline is like has been ever: A gifted protagonist boy in a fantasy world, met some enemy, lost his family and then would win against anything in his way. It has too much too-pushing jokes.
I like the idea of a different situation of skill-power. It puts a thing named Mysticker as an individual's power. The mysticker can give the four basic-elements power they can use to fight. But that's not a reason to love this manga. Among the whole series, this one still stands as my least favorite.
My problem is not only with Blazers Drive, but also with BECK and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.
When I read BECK, my first impression was "this one is cool". It tells about a fictional rock band (I love rock music), their struggle through the world of music business and the dark side of it, an idea hard to find. BUT, the twist in the plots is kind of confusing nowadays. Talking about an unfinished song that fires a conflict is still a big question mark for me. Stiff jokes and artwork too.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle? It's been in ShonenMAGZ from the start so before Blazers Drive released, this one is the least favorite. I don't get the story because I don't follow the serie from the beginning. It has advancing plots and twist. It's actually good and the artwork is amazing, but I just don't know what happens to this and that person. It has too much character I don't know.
So folks, because my holiday and your weekend ends in... *stares at clock* an hour, I wish you and myself luck for a good starter Monday tomorrow! :D Good night.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
A Thousand Stories About A Thousand Suns
In case you're not a Linkin Park fan, and you haven't found out about their latest album A Thousand Suns, you seriously need to check it out. It hit stores on September 14th, a month ago, and its first single was 'The Catalyst', released at September 8th, peaked at many music charts for the last 30 days.
So why do I write this so late? I have one confession to write about A Thousand Suns: I just bought the album yesterday. I didn't really pre-order or anything. I haven't worked yet, so I thought it would be a burden to my parents since they don't really approve expenses through internet. I then think of buying the album via iTunes, because my mom has bought me some iPod apps and I thought she wouldn't mind... but another problem concerned. iTunes Music Store still hasn't available at my country. I tried to be patient until it hits the local music store, but I couldn't handle it. Three days after ATS' international release, I dared to download it for free on a certain site that I believe had been shutted down. I was frigging guilty, you know. I couldn't bear seeing my oversea LP friends keep posting and discussing about ATS, so my curiosity won. Even though I've got the song, I couldn't really get satisfied. I spent the next 7 days getting patient for the album to come out of the store, but then I got desperate. I didn't know an album can drive you crazy until I experienced it myself. I visit music stores twice every week, but they always said it hasn't arrived yet. The desperation is paid now!!! I've bought ATS and nobody could ever upset me for a long time of period!! HAHAHAHA!!
But I hope no friends of mine will get mad because I've been pretending to get the album and discussing that stuff with them as if I've bought it legally :\ I'm so SORRY, Linkin Park, for not being a real supporting fan :(
OK, enough babbling. I want to review A Thousand Suns my version, so I can figure out it's gonna be one hell of a crap, I've tried anyway:
A Thousand Suns is totally epic and genre-busting, and it drives me speechless when it comes to 'describing' or 'reviewing' this album. My first reaction to the single The Catalyst still remains the same: stunned. The difference is now that I can sing along with it without fainting first :P ... my brother too. He totally fell in love with that song as much as I do :)
I sometimes feel upset for ATS because it only has 9 full songs out of 15. I can't call the other 6 as a song. Some of them are quotations with BGM, though sound matching. My most favorite track is, believe me it's hard to pick, Wretches and Kings. I don't know why, though in that song Mike raps and Chester barely screams, it gives me lots of energy. It's like everyone in the band had significant role of playing music throughout the track, even when it's obviously highly scratched by THE Mr. Hahn. It also has Martin Luther King Jr. quote opening the song. Chester sings the teeth-gritting chorus, and it's epic. I've heard Wretches and Kings live and it sounded great!
My next favorite song is Waiting For The End. It's the second single of ATS, and its MV has came out. The video was terrific, completing the already-great song. Mike opens the song with rapping, and Chester sings the slow, deep toned chorus. The song kinda represents regret and a hope to move on your life to me. It doesn't sound like highly-reproduced through music technology. Sounds less 'mainstreams' to public than other tracks.
The 3rd track, Burning In The Skies, doesn't have Mike rapping. Mike sings the verses with some backings. Chester sings again the chorus, sounded rather slow and backed with Mike. Well what can I say, I love the combination :) this song has cheerful atmosphere, mixed with deep dark tones. Imagine how it sounds, or listen to it :P
'When They Come For Me', one track ahead from BITS, has an intro that seems like declaring a war to you, but it's not. The next thing appears after the intro is Mike's rap. Slightly curses, but as usual, nothing addressed to you. The chorus only sounds like 'aaahh' from 6 of the band. Chester sings the bridge, backed by Mike :)
After that is 'Robot Boy'. A slow tempo song starts with a solo piano by Mike, and 'ooooh' by the whole LP. The piano then continued throughout the song, with touch of violin. Chester sings the whole song backed by Mike again :) No certain chorus, but the bridge may be indicated (sorry heavy words) with Chester's background scream.
In the song 'Blackout', Chester RAPS and screams in the chorus himself. Isn't that epic? I'm amazed by how advanced he is in managing his breath :) There's keyboard sound and Joe's scratching sound can be easily heard in it and uniquely, Mike sings this song's bridge, and it reached the outro with a fading atmosphere.
'Iridescent' is rather sad. With the intro of solo piano and Mike singing in deep voice and low tone, it's followed by Chester's backed singing. Then the instruments got louder, accompanying the lonely-seemed piano's initial play, and Chester backs Mike's second bridge. After the sound of solo guitar, the whole band sings together. This is the part where I mostly weep :') The drum then starts playing, and Chester sings by himself with now loud instruments. The song's sound represent the situation of someone getting hope. It's first deep and lone, and then slowly getting loud and cheerful.
'The Messenger'... It only has guitar solo as instrument and Chester sings by himself. It's talking about loving and supporting someone. Slow tempo, lasts so fast. :| I'm sure I've heard that song before, or similar song, but what and where? :s
OK, that's it. I ain't reviewing The Catalyst because I'm totally stunned and speechless. The whole ATS itself could sound like ONE long song, because one track's outro is like the next song's intro. I couldn't stop listening to it since I first bought it. I'm so proud of Linkin Park!!! :DD Thanks for making a terrific project!
So why do I write this so late? I have one confession to write about A Thousand Suns: I just bought the album yesterday. I didn't really pre-order or anything. I haven't worked yet, so I thought it would be a burden to my parents since they don't really approve expenses through internet. I then think of buying the album via iTunes, because my mom has bought me some iPod apps and I thought she wouldn't mind... but another problem concerned. iTunes Music Store still hasn't available at my country. I tried to be patient until it hits the local music store, but I couldn't handle it. Three days after ATS' international release, I dared to download it for free on a certain site that I believe had been shutted down. I was frigging guilty, you know. I couldn't bear seeing my oversea LP friends keep posting and discussing about ATS, so my curiosity won. Even though I've got the song, I couldn't really get satisfied. I spent the next 7 days getting patient for the album to come out of the store, but then I got desperate. I didn't know an album can drive you crazy until I experienced it myself. I visit music stores twice every week, but they always said it hasn't arrived yet. The desperation is paid now!!! I've bought ATS and nobody could ever upset me for a long time of period!! HAHAHAHA!!
But I hope no friends of mine will get mad because I've been pretending to get the album and discussing that stuff with them as if I've bought it legally :\ I'm so SORRY, Linkin Park, for not being a real supporting fan :(
OK, enough babbling. I want to review A Thousand Suns my version, so I can figure out it's gonna be one hell of a crap, I've tried anyway:
A Thousand Suns is totally epic and genre-busting, and it drives me speechless when it comes to 'describing' or 'reviewing' this album. My first reaction to the single The Catalyst still remains the same: stunned. The difference is now that I can sing along with it without fainting first :P ... my brother too. He totally fell in love with that song as much as I do :)
I sometimes feel upset for ATS because it only has 9 full songs out of 15. I can't call the other 6 as a song. Some of them are quotations with BGM, though sound matching. My most favorite track is, believe me it's hard to pick, Wretches and Kings. I don't know why, though in that song Mike raps and Chester barely screams, it gives me lots of energy. It's like everyone in the band had significant role of playing music throughout the track, even when it's obviously highly scratched by THE Mr. Hahn. It also has Martin Luther King Jr. quote opening the song. Chester sings the teeth-gritting chorus, and it's epic. I've heard Wretches and Kings live and it sounded great!
My next favorite song is Waiting For The End. It's the second single of ATS, and its MV has came out. The video was terrific, completing the already-great song. Mike opens the song with rapping, and Chester sings the slow, deep toned chorus. The song kinda represents regret and a hope to move on your life to me. It doesn't sound like highly-reproduced through music technology. Sounds less 'mainstreams' to public than other tracks.
The 3rd track, Burning In The Skies, doesn't have Mike rapping. Mike sings the verses with some backings. Chester sings again the chorus, sounded rather slow and backed with Mike. Well what can I say, I love the combination :) this song has cheerful atmosphere, mixed with deep dark tones. Imagine how it sounds, or listen to it :P
'When They Come For Me', one track ahead from BITS, has an intro that seems like declaring a war to you, but it's not. The next thing appears after the intro is Mike's rap. Slightly curses, but as usual, nothing addressed to you. The chorus only sounds like 'aaahh' from 6 of the band. Chester sings the bridge, backed by Mike :)
After that is 'Robot Boy'. A slow tempo song starts with a solo piano by Mike, and 'ooooh' by the whole LP. The piano then continued throughout the song, with touch of violin. Chester sings the whole song backed by Mike again :) No certain chorus, but the bridge may be indicated (sorry heavy words) with Chester's background scream.
In the song 'Blackout', Chester RAPS and screams in the chorus himself. Isn't that epic? I'm amazed by how advanced he is in managing his breath :) There's keyboard sound and Joe's scratching sound can be easily heard in it and uniquely, Mike sings this song's bridge, and it reached the outro with a fading atmosphere.
'Iridescent' is rather sad. With the intro of solo piano and Mike singing in deep voice and low tone, it's followed by Chester's backed singing. Then the instruments got louder, accompanying the lonely-seemed piano's initial play, and Chester backs Mike's second bridge. After the sound of solo guitar, the whole band sings together. This is the part where I mostly weep :') The drum then starts playing, and Chester sings by himself with now loud instruments. The song's sound represent the situation of someone getting hope. It's first deep and lone, and then slowly getting loud and cheerful.
'The Messenger'... It only has guitar solo as instrument and Chester sings by himself. It's talking about loving and supporting someone. Slow tempo, lasts so fast. :| I'm sure I've heard that song before, or similar song, but what and where? :s
OK, that's it. I ain't reviewing The Catalyst because I'm totally stunned and speechless. The whole ATS itself could sound like ONE long song, because one track's outro is like the next song's intro. I couldn't stop listening to it since I first bought it. I'm so proud of Linkin Park!!! :DD Thanks for making a terrific project!
Friday, September 24, 2010
The Story Between Me and Linkin Park
This is not a fanfic, just a true sharing about a Linkin Park fan, me.
Ever discovered a plan to make Linkin Park dominating the world and did not agree about that? Find out why LP fans are so stubborn.
- Early Linkin Park Recognition
I've became an LP fan since I was a middle 7th grader. It was 3 years ago, pretty new huh? The only reason I acknowledged Linkin Park so late is because I was a TOTAL nerd. Before I hit the age to go to junior high, I didn't give a damn to anything other than school things. I never hung out with friends, browsed internet, listened to any kinds of music, you name it. The most exciting daily thing I ever did was reading. When I was a 6th grader, my reading hobby led me to the obsession of an anime (Japanese Cartoon-thing) named One Piece. After I graduated and began to recognize the internet, the obsession became an addiction... and I finally was introduced to music. Yay. Ok, so I searched things related to One Piece night and days, then I found something called AMV (Anime Music Video). Some sort of music video, where we pick up scenes that match the entire music's mood. A certain AMV caught my attention. The graphic was excellent, the scenes just matched the music mood, the effects was a professional work, but the best thing I liked about it was the music: Lying From You. Linkin Park. All thanks to junizorofan at YouTube. Technically, it was not the first LP song I ever heard. My parents bought me a compilation with Numb as one of the songs in it, and that was the first I recognized.
- Internet Influence
I watched the AMV over and over again. The two main characters in the AMV were coincidentally my very favorite ones, and their scenes were packed well. They totally described the angsty atmosphere of the song. After I got attracted to the song, I tried to watch the similar AMVs. I also found some bands I liked by using the anime obsession such as Rise Against and Three Days Grace. I didn't remember correctly how, but I ended up downloading EVERY songs on Linkin Park's studio albums from Hybrid Theory to Minutes To Midnight for free through some sites. I guess it took about 3 days to do so because I also downloaded some other band's songs - though not as much as LP's. At the same time, I planned to make an AMV but I kinda failed. With A Place For My Head song in the video maker and edited scenes that didn't even fill quarter part of the song, I came up with nothing. Feeling bored, I browsed things about LP without any serious purpose. I thought I could get some inspiration. I was wrong. I eventually abandoned the AMV project and searched more things about Linkin Park. Apparently LP was nothing but awesomeness. I first visited LPN and LPU, and then fansites like LPA, LPT and LPL, and social networkings. Now, I'm in touch with more LP fans on social networks than the sites that are purposely dedicated to them, because I browse on mobile more than laptop. And my internet connection is just a sucker for those sites. It loads extremely slowly and pisses me off. But enough with that. So my obsession to the anime slowly decreased, and I began my journey to become an absolute hardcore LP fan! I finally dedicated my soul to LP after I hit the 8th grade. I kept up with latest stuffs about them, and really hoped Linkin Park would come to my country again. Because I freaking missed their performance (my lifetime regret). My mp3 player that used to be full with anime soundtracks was turned into a special LinkinPlayer. Simply filled with LP songs... er, and Three Days Grace, Sum41, and Rise Against's.
- Influence to Family & Friends
My family is the one who found out my LP obsession first. My little brother did watch the AMV, too, and I could tell he was kind of fall for it. We basically liked for lots of similar things, though he often denied it. I could watch One Piece all day long and he would stay with me to comment that the show is awful, but at night he'd by any way read the manga (Japanese comic) without me knowing it. So when I started to put up LP tunes in my house TONS of times, he wondered why. I wouldn't answer, because I knew he'd figure it out himself that I already got myself a new obsession! My parents did guess right, too. They bought me a Linkin Park t-shirt for my birthday! Wee! Not thinking twice, I wore the shirt to school and shocked all my pals. At that day, I was supposed to perform a drama with my group and I remember that I used 'Chester' for my role's name, since I wrote the script! From that second, they asked about that and I was notable for being the school's biggest Linkin Park fan. Another story. On a past certain holiday, when I was travelling over southern Java Island with my family, we visited lots of places and we once arrived in an old music shop. Guess what, I did find all the studio albums! I begged my parents to let me buy Hybrid Theory, Meteora, Minutes To Midnight and The Rising Tied all in that moment! I could not miss the chance. The albums were already hard to find, my parents understood and gave me the permission!!! Yay!
- Catching Up With Communities
I signed up for LPN as the first attempt to become their hardcore fan. I felt like I didn't belong to the community and I only visit the site to catch up the latest info. I hadn't signed into the LPU because I wouldn't force my mom to pay the membership. Afterwards, I registered on fanbase websites like LPA, LPL and LPT. Being influenced by public, I made social networks account on FB and Twitter. I was inactive to those communities since two months after I passed to 9th grade. I had an 8-months training, but that was another story. For now, twitter has given me the best LinkinSources. I found out about MikeShinodaClan, Phoenix-Farrell, ChesterBNetworks, and other fansites. I also follow some informative accounts for latest LP news such as KROQ, MTV, and owners of fanbases. I became friends with fellow LP lovers and my already-known classmates!
- Be Objective
First times I became fan of LP, I felt an excessive confidence in my mind to force everyone to be LP hardcore fans. I became sensitive with anything and everything about Linkin Park. If LP shows up on TV, I will scream like a desperate fangirl. If some kids talk about music, I will barge in and babble about Linkin Park. Those happened until I went 9th grade. Before the maturity got over me, I would just answer "the best band in the world!!" when somebody asked my reason to be so obsessive. Nothing satisfying, though. My mature atttude started since I listened to some other bands that I felt like: Rise Against, The Corrs, Three Days Grace, Sum 41, Deftones, Shinedown, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance, 30 Seconds To Mars, and anything similar to them. I realized that everyone got different tastes of music, and although LP is the best band in the world for me, I'd like to be objective and try something new. I don't need to be hysterical or cursing whenever I find out some guy speaks bad things about LP. I'll tell that person my opinion and ask about theirs. The easiest examples are found lately: some Linkin Park 'so-called fans' just complained about their new album A Thousand Suns and wanted them to go back to 'nu-metal' genre. The people says ATS was a crap, or a too-experimental project. On the other side, lots of LP fans still stick with the band and said they love the stuffs, the tracks were awesome, and other complimenting points. When I listened to ATS, I could feel why some people felt disappointed and why the rest got satisfied with it at the same time. A Thousand Suns review coming up on next post.
- Why I Like Linkin Park
My first amazed impression was the scratches and sound effects on the music. They got their own DJ. Reanimation album, contains the remixes of previous album tracks, it was dope. Joe Hahn, other than turntabling, also directed LP's video clips. Makes the whole members have equal portion of tasks to do. The next thing was the rap. Mike Shinoda, being a keyboardist and a rhythm guitarist, also raps along with Chester's voice and screams. Creating an insanely new innovation in rock music world. There are too many good things to say about Linkin Park. Their music evolves, where on each steps always bring brand new atmospheres, and the changes are going great. Linkin Park knows how to create and play music that will shake people's moods and make them addicted to it. The instruments seem to be basic, but to know this you gotta take a closer look. The teamwork. Lots of members on a group often causes internal conflicts, but this thing never bothers them. In my thoughts: Mike may not be the best rapper or keyboarder ever, Chester may not be the best vocalist in the world, Brad may not be playing crazy guitar techniques to top himself on greatest guitarists rank, and so on, but the modesty is what makes the teamwork go well. There are no expert guitar techniques, or some advanced drumming, or crazily-fast keyboard playing, or else, but they know how to turn some kind of basic music into perfect describing of life and emotion reliever. Linkin Park has all the tracks you need for all your moods. Other than musical stuffs they create, Linkin Park is not a bad band, either. They are modest. I mean, they are all talented on loads of things, and even after getting popular, they had never acted weird or doing things that are intended to gain public attention. They live their life like us, but keep giving their fans the attention they need. One more thing: they're not selling out. Artists can do anything with their creation.
Ever discovered a plan to make Linkin Park dominating the world and did not agree about that? Find out why LP fans are so stubborn.
- Early Linkin Park Recognition
I've became an LP fan since I was a middle 7th grader. It was 3 years ago, pretty new huh? The only reason I acknowledged Linkin Park so late is because I was a TOTAL nerd. Before I hit the age to go to junior high, I didn't give a damn to anything other than school things. I never hung out with friends, browsed internet, listened to any kinds of music, you name it. The most exciting daily thing I ever did was reading. When I was a 6th grader, my reading hobby led me to the obsession of an anime (Japanese Cartoon-thing) named One Piece. After I graduated and began to recognize the internet, the obsession became an addiction... and I finally was introduced to music. Yay. Ok, so I searched things related to One Piece night and days, then I found something called AMV (Anime Music Video). Some sort of music video, where we pick up scenes that match the entire music's mood. A certain AMV caught my attention. The graphic was excellent, the scenes just matched the music mood, the effects was a professional work, but the best thing I liked about it was the music: Lying From You. Linkin Park. All thanks to junizorofan at YouTube. Technically, it was not the first LP song I ever heard. My parents bought me a compilation with Numb as one of the songs in it, and that was the first I recognized.
- Internet Influence
I watched the AMV over and over again. The two main characters in the AMV were coincidentally my very favorite ones, and their scenes were packed well. They totally described the angsty atmosphere of the song. After I got attracted to the song, I tried to watch the similar AMVs. I also found some bands I liked by using the anime obsession such as Rise Against and Three Days Grace. I didn't remember correctly how, but I ended up downloading EVERY songs on Linkin Park's studio albums from Hybrid Theory to Minutes To Midnight for free through some sites. I guess it took about 3 days to do so because I also downloaded some other band's songs - though not as much as LP's. At the same time, I planned to make an AMV but I kinda failed. With A Place For My Head song in the video maker and edited scenes that didn't even fill quarter part of the song, I came up with nothing. Feeling bored, I browsed things about LP without any serious purpose. I thought I could get some inspiration. I was wrong. I eventually abandoned the AMV project and searched more things about Linkin Park. Apparently LP was nothing but awesomeness. I first visited LPN and LPU, and then fansites like LPA, LPT and LPL, and social networkings. Now, I'm in touch with more LP fans on social networks than the sites that are purposely dedicated to them, because I browse on mobile more than laptop. And my internet connection is just a sucker for those sites. It loads extremely slowly and pisses me off. But enough with that. So my obsession to the anime slowly decreased, and I began my journey to become an absolute hardcore LP fan! I finally dedicated my soul to LP after I hit the 8th grade. I kept up with latest stuffs about them, and really hoped Linkin Park would come to my country again. Because I freaking missed their performance (my lifetime regret). My mp3 player that used to be full with anime soundtracks was turned into a special LinkinPlayer. Simply filled with LP songs... er, and Three Days Grace, Sum41, and Rise Against's.
- Influence to Family & Friends
My family is the one who found out my LP obsession first. My little brother did watch the AMV, too, and I could tell he was kind of fall for it. We basically liked for lots of similar things, though he often denied it. I could watch One Piece all day long and he would stay with me to comment that the show is awful, but at night he'd by any way read the manga (Japanese comic) without me knowing it. So when I started to put up LP tunes in my house TONS of times, he wondered why. I wouldn't answer, because I knew he'd figure it out himself that I already got myself a new obsession! My parents did guess right, too. They bought me a Linkin Park t-shirt for my birthday! Wee! Not thinking twice, I wore the shirt to school and shocked all my pals. At that day, I was supposed to perform a drama with my group and I remember that I used 'Chester' for my role's name, since I wrote the script! From that second, they asked about that and I was notable for being the school's biggest Linkin Park fan. Another story. On a past certain holiday, when I was travelling over southern Java Island with my family, we visited lots of places and we once arrived in an old music shop. Guess what, I did find all the studio albums! I begged my parents to let me buy Hybrid Theory, Meteora, Minutes To Midnight and The Rising Tied all in that moment! I could not miss the chance. The albums were already hard to find, my parents understood and gave me the permission!!! Yay!
- Catching Up With Communities
I signed up for LPN as the first attempt to become their hardcore fan. I felt like I didn't belong to the community and I only visit the site to catch up the latest info. I hadn't signed into the LPU because I wouldn't force my mom to pay the membership. Afterwards, I registered on fanbase websites like LPA, LPL and LPT. Being influenced by public, I made social networks account on FB and Twitter. I was inactive to those communities since two months after I passed to 9th grade. I had an 8-months training, but that was another story. For now, twitter has given me the best LinkinSources. I found out about MikeShinodaClan, Phoenix-Farrell, ChesterBNetworks, and other fansites. I also follow some informative accounts for latest LP news such as KROQ, MTV, and owners of fanbases. I became friends with fellow LP lovers and my already-known classmates!
- Be Objective
First times I became fan of LP, I felt an excessive confidence in my mind to force everyone to be LP hardcore fans. I became sensitive with anything and everything about Linkin Park. If LP shows up on TV, I will scream like a desperate fangirl. If some kids talk about music, I will barge in and babble about Linkin Park. Those happened until I went 9th grade. Before the maturity got over me, I would just answer "the best band in the world!!" when somebody asked my reason to be so obsessive. Nothing satisfying, though. My mature atttude started since I listened to some other bands that I felt like: Rise Against, The Corrs, Three Days Grace, Sum 41, Deftones, Shinedown, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance, 30 Seconds To Mars, and anything similar to them. I realized that everyone got different tastes of music, and although LP is the best band in the world for me, I'd like to be objective and try something new. I don't need to be hysterical or cursing whenever I find out some guy speaks bad things about LP. I'll tell that person my opinion and ask about theirs. The easiest examples are found lately: some Linkin Park 'so-called fans' just complained about their new album A Thousand Suns and wanted them to go back to 'nu-metal' genre. The people says ATS was a crap, or a too-experimental project. On the other side, lots of LP fans still stick with the band and said they love the stuffs, the tracks were awesome, and other complimenting points. When I listened to ATS, I could feel why some people felt disappointed and why the rest got satisfied with it at the same time. A Thousand Suns review coming up on next post.
- Why I Like Linkin Park
My first amazed impression was the scratches and sound effects on the music. They got their own DJ. Reanimation album, contains the remixes of previous album tracks, it was dope. Joe Hahn, other than turntabling, also directed LP's video clips. Makes the whole members have equal portion of tasks to do. The next thing was the rap. Mike Shinoda, being a keyboardist and a rhythm guitarist, also raps along with Chester's voice and screams. Creating an insanely new innovation in rock music world. There are too many good things to say about Linkin Park. Their music evolves, where on each steps always bring brand new atmospheres, and the changes are going great. Linkin Park knows how to create and play music that will shake people's moods and make them addicted to it. The instruments seem to be basic, but to know this you gotta take a closer look. The teamwork. Lots of members on a group often causes internal conflicts, but this thing never bothers them. In my thoughts: Mike may not be the best rapper or keyboarder ever, Chester may not be the best vocalist in the world, Brad may not be playing crazy guitar techniques to top himself on greatest guitarists rank, and so on, but the modesty is what makes the teamwork go well. There are no expert guitar techniques, or some advanced drumming, or crazily-fast keyboard playing, or else, but they know how to turn some kind of basic music into perfect describing of life and emotion reliever. Linkin Park has all the tracks you need for all your moods. Other than musical stuffs they create, Linkin Park is not a bad band, either. They are modest. I mean, they are all talented on loads of things, and even after getting popular, they had never acted weird or doing things that are intended to gain public attention. They live their life like us, but keep giving their fans the attention they need. One more thing: they're not selling out. Artists can do anything with their creation.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Spoiled Brat = Less Happy Endings
--> "It's amazing how one story can lead to a different perspective... either literally or not."
And I started to change my perspective since a minute this day began. Tapi sebelum aku berceloteh, I wanna say Happy Birthday to Jakarta!! :) I'm hoping for more live concerts and less pollution... I wish Linkin Park would like to come once again!!!
Yah yah yah... ngelantur deh. Gini nih kalau semalam tidur jam 1 dan bangun jam setengah 4 pagi untuk travel ke Yogya dan mengetik archive blog jam 12 malam berikutnya. I had quite a day today and would like to share you all my story. I think I'd put up some pictures I took, too. Because one picture tells thousand stories, right? :) and I think I might as well give random writings for each things occurred in the trip.
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So here's how the trip had gone:
I went to Yogya this morning at 4 from dorm with my mother. We took a cab to get to the airport. At this state I fell asleep in the taxi and therefore could not take any pictures or know anything happened at the time. -__-''
As soon as we got to the airport, the clock stroke 4. We both quickly checked in and left the luggage to the crews. We found the airport was unexpectedly in a total crowd at the time THAT early. We met some TransTV reporter crews I wanted to say hello to but I didn't get to. We spotted a group of kids in uniform, looked like they were going far. They remind me so much of my last study tour with the Inter-classmates. Nice memories :)
*Sumber foto : Nyomot album Friendster jadul anak2 SBI. sori ya pilih yang gak ada anak ceweknya. Soalnya foto ini yang paling keliatan seni 'group travel'-nya. With backpacks, uniforms and luggages.Ah, after we checked in, we walked upstairs by escalator. My mother asked me if I wanted to get into a lounge, since the plane would depart in one and half hour, so we didn't have to wait in the waiting room covered in boredom. I agreed. I had never got into a lounge anyway. Shortly, we went inside and had our breakfast there. [Random Writing Ahead] a list of feast a JW Exclusive Lounge provided (as far as I noticed):
Nasi Kuning
Bubur Ayam
Roti Tawar
Nhuh, that was all the meal, I think. There was actually a Rotiboy outlet outside the lounge, but it was still closed. But as for the beverage, they got a Nescafe Coffee Brewer!! World Heavens! Here's a list of the brewer buttons:
Nescafe Black
Nescafe Black Coffee with Sugar
Nescafe Brown
Nescafe Cappuccino
Okay, tidak penting hingga saat ini... tapi selain kopi, ada juga air putih, teh, soft drinks, dan minuman dingin kotak. So don't you think I was too over-freaking on coffee and couldn't notice anything else. ;) Another good thing I noticed was: there was an internet corner!!! Hell yeah!! I went there and tried to post something on blog but later I realized that there was no way I would connect my camera's memory card with a public computer. Plus, I got stuck on finding an idea of what to write. So I just browsed last.fm and billboard.com instead, that was something that got me to stay up tonight and download tons of songs I had browsed there. What I browsed was about:
All Time Low
The Temper Trap
Stone Temple Pilots
Daft Punk
Drowning Pool
Radiohead
Slipknot
Cage The Elephant
Allrighty, I was too busy focusing on the monitor that I just realized it was time for my mom and I to get into the airplane. Luckily we got into the plane on time and made no problems afterwards.
As you got into an airplane, you can ensure yourself that you're already secure. That's what I always do. And as I sat on the plane seat, that means boredom. Ah, but at the moment I was totally sleepy. So I tried to sleep.... and succeed, but the unconsciousness only lasted for half an hour or so. I saw quite the view as soon as I woke up. I worked to capture nice shots, but I didn't think my digital camera could really show the critical details I wanted to have picture memories of. So this was nowhere near my expectation. Nowhere close to the nature beauty I actually admired:
And at the state when the airplane landed:
Slowly, the plane went down and down until it stopped. Then... voila! Welcome to Yogyakarta!!Yogya was a rather nice city with pleasant atmosphere, but alas, the traffic was apparently sooo crowded!! Well, not as crowded as Jakarta, but considering the circumstance of the street and number of people lived there, there was too much motorcycle roamed through the boulevard. Besides all the crowd, I guess everything was OK.
Shortly, what made us traveled to Yogya was for me to register into one of the best high school here. Thus, that was what we do. We took care of the education enlistment problems from 9 until 13. Afterwards? My mom and I hung out in a certain plaza in Yogya. We coincidentally arrived on a day an anime event for preschoolers was held, but it hadn't started yet.
We bought a pair of shoes for my brother. I myself got two football T-Shirts. :) The shopping thing took less than 2 hours (well, that's fast :P) then we lounged at Cafe Excelso, because we couldn't find Starbucks there.
Ah, you see, my enlistment problems didn't finish at 13 as soon as the consultation ended. I still had trouble to decide the best choice.
My biggest problem was: if I study at Yogya, I wouldn't be able to continue my physics training I've been wanting to end for so long. However, I felt it was kinda pity to let go the rare chance of physics training, and everyone was supporting the training I'm doing right now as it could give me nice 'passport' to let me choose any major I want to, when I finished the training. I had to decide:
1. sekolah di Yogya tapi bukan Tofina
2. Tofina tapi gak sekolah di Yogya
Options were only two but deciding one was hard for a spoiled brat like me. So I discussed the thing over cups of coffee at the cafe with my mom. I remembered that I already felt kinda into option 2, but the crazy-leveled difficulty of the technical problems I had was too much for me. I told her about my problems with the offensive critics from a tutor. I expressed the technical problems I had with analogies she could understand. One thing I didn't consult with her was that I was in love with Steve. :$ I'd be dead by the second I confessed about it. As we chatted the heavily-leveled conversation, the children event started. Well we did get distracted:
Anywaaayy... the discussion led me to choose option 2, at least. Apparently I just needed someone to talk about my problems, which is what I never had in the dorm. Mom was a very good listener (well in fact she is a mother). So we decide not to study in Yogya. At least I got two days off from training. yea, I'm sneaky :P muahhahahahah.
Hell yeah, after all the merciless (??) conversation, we went to my cousin's house and spent a night there. While my mom was sleeping, I quietly wrote this archive AND download tons of songs I had researched at the lounge before. Apparently the internet connection here was so satisfying!! :)) Here's a list of the songs:
All Time Low - Hello Brooklyn
All Time Low - Sick Little Games
All Time Low - Walls
Avenged Sevenfold - To End The Rapture
Blink 182 - What's My Age Again
Bullet For My Valentine - All These Things I Hate
Dead By Sunrise - Walking In Circles
Dirty Heads feat Rome - Lay Me Down
Finger Eleven - Paralyzed
Incubus - Anna Molly
KoRn - Blind
My Chemical Romance - Give 'Em Hell, Kid
My Chemical Romance - I Never Told You What I Do For A Living
My Chemical Romance - It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's A Deathwish
My Chemical Romance - You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us In Prison
The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
Papa Roach - Change or Die
Papa Roach - Had Enough
Papa Roach - Live This Down
Radiohead - Creep
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Slipknot - Before I Forget
Stone Temple Pilots - Between The Lines
System of A Down - Aerials
The Temper Traps - Sweet Disposition
Ah that was amazing. I never downloaded so many songs at a time. *stunned* If you know any one of those above or have interests in, contact me or comment this entry and we'll chat over the songs! Or perhaps your interest's not my writing about the tracks? NP, let's talk!
Guess I'll end this entry here. See ya. It's already 3 a.m and I haven't slept. Ciao!! :)
Monday, August 31, 2009
Cat21
Tiga serangkai kucing: Monty, Milo dan Luke sebagai my personal Sum 41 :-) Tambah adekku jadi Three Days Grace, dah!
Friday, August 28, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
9th Grade Sucks!
hey y'all fellow bloggers & blog-watchers...
i'm so glad i can start blogging again. as usual, i got no idea how much this blog will last. i even dumped my previous class blog, the longest-lasting blog i ever made. i have tried to update this blog as much as possible, and now i could start babble around about those things made me unable (*or forgot :P) to update my blog...
before that, i wanna say Ramadhan Mubarak to all muslims in this world. may this sacred month bring us joy and peaceful for our life and afterlife. don't forget to pray more and do fasting a month full! i hope we can get through this Ramadhan successfully, amin.
okaayy... the first thing i wanna share right here is how hard being a 9th grade if you usually lived on a very relaxing class in 8th grade. i got too many homeworks, i think. and exams are held even though we're getting into new semester just now. guess what, we have social science paperworks that HAVE to be done tomorrow, in fact tomorrow we have math & social science exam. uhm, maybe some countries do same thing in their curriculum but this is just ridiculous. we have to be able to play flute for the art lesson, and no other instruments are allowed. why not choosing the easier ones? like guitar, maybe. or drums? okay, so not gonna happen but at least it is nicer than flute. if i can suggest something to that freaking teacher ima tell her to ask the students about instrument they like, and give task to make a band :)
the nice thing about being a 9th grader like now is we got some juniors to be bullied >:) JK, of course! i couldn't even dare to tell the teacher that his tie doesn't match his shoe... back to topic! so that nice thing is uhh... hard to find one. so let's just talk about the 'so-not-nice' things on becoming a 9th-grader here!
and point no. 3 is what i hate so much. we're not allowed to play basketball and soccer in lunchbreak anymore, we cannot hang out as much as we did, and stuffs.
so hard to achieve the dream...
talking about the dream, i still don't know what i want to be. sometimes i'm thinking to be a journalist, and then artist, then TV crew, or even just an ordinary employee. i told my friends and siblings about this and their respond is most likely 'it's good to have such natural ambition but if you don't know yet just let it flow... you'll know it someday'. whew, i think they are right.
last thing i wanna post here is a promotion for Mike Shinoda's art exhibition. i've mentioned before that i like Mike Shinoda, haven't i? :)
my thought is that i've been provocated by Mike. quoting on his blog posting: "Hey...I bet you're too scared to help me promote the Glorious Excess (Dies) show by putting these buttons up on your page... chicken"
i'm not a chicken, mr. shinoda. i'm a monkey Xp. ye happy now? because i have promoted your art exhibition in fact i am DYING to see it.
i'm getting sleepy now... didn't get a nice sleep last night. and i should wake up for sahur. oh well, i guess i'll just end it right here for now. i'll update this blog as soon as possible! thanks for reading!
quote of the day: "why bother buying a barbell if you can train your muscle nicely through the art of dish-washing?"
i'm so glad i can start blogging again. as usual, i got no idea how much this blog will last. i even dumped my previous class blog, the longest-lasting blog i ever made. i have tried to update this blog as much as possible, and now i could start babble around about those things made me unable (*or forgot :P) to update my blog...
before that, i wanna say Ramadhan Mubarak to all muslims in this world. may this sacred month bring us joy and peaceful for our life and afterlife. don't forget to pray more and do fasting a month full! i hope we can get through this Ramadhan successfully, amin.
okaayy... the first thing i wanna share right here is how hard being a 9th grade if you usually lived on a very relaxing class in 8th grade. i got too many homeworks, i think. and exams are held even though we're getting into new semester just now. guess what, we have social science paperworks that HAVE to be done tomorrow, in fact tomorrow we have math & social science exam. uhm, maybe some countries do same thing in their curriculum but this is just ridiculous. we have to be able to play flute for the art lesson, and no other instruments are allowed. why not choosing the easier ones? like guitar, maybe. or drums? okay, so not gonna happen but at least it is nicer than flute. if i can suggest something to that freaking teacher ima tell her to ask the students about instrument they like, and give task to make a band :)
the nice thing about being a 9th grader like now is we got some juniors to be bullied >:) JK, of course! i couldn't even dare to tell the teacher that his tie doesn't match his shoe... back to topic! so that nice thing is uhh... hard to find one. so let's just talk about the 'so-not-nice' things on becoming a 9th-grader here!
- more studying responsible to prepare the graduation exam
- the class are shuffled so i got separated from my best friend
- less non-academic activities are allowed
and point no. 3 is what i hate so much. we're not allowed to play basketball and soccer in lunchbreak anymore, we cannot hang out as much as we did, and stuffs.
so hard to achieve the dream...
talking about the dream, i still don't know what i want to be. sometimes i'm thinking to be a journalist, and then artist, then TV crew, or even just an ordinary employee. i told my friends and siblings about this and their respond is most likely 'it's good to have such natural ambition but if you don't know yet just let it flow... you'll know it someday'. whew, i think they are right.
last thing i wanna post here is a promotion for Mike Shinoda's art exhibition. i've mentioned before that i like Mike Shinoda, haven't i? :)
my thought is that i've been provocated by Mike. quoting on his blog posting: "Hey...I bet you're too scared to help me promote the Glorious Excess (Dies) show by putting these buttons up on your page... chicken"
i'm not a chicken, mr. shinoda. i'm a monkey Xp. ye happy now? because i have promoted your art exhibition in fact i am DYING to see it.
i'm getting sleepy now... didn't get a nice sleep last night. and i should wake up for sahur. oh well, i guess i'll just end it right here for now. i'll update this blog as soon as possible! thanks for reading!
quote of the day: "why bother buying a barbell if you can train your muscle nicely through the art of dish-washing?"
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Sekedar Awalan
Hai, hai, hai semuanya!!! Apa kabar di hari yang cerah ini? Tidak ada tanda-tanda rintik hujan di langit Balikpapan di sekitar Perumahan WIKA untuk sore pukul 4.52 pm ini namun dikatakan dalam Weather Forecast hari ini hujan rintik-rintik akan turun selama beberapa jam mulai sore ini...
Benarkah ituuu?? Dari tadi sepertinya tidak ada hujan sama sekali, hummm... :-/
Ya sudahlah, anyway, ini adalah jurnal pribadi pertama saya, dimana saya akan banyak bercerita tentang kejadian-kejadian seru nan lucu, mengesankan atau keren, pokoknya semua yang sudah sejak lama ingin saya tulis! Bukan di diary, tentunya.. Saya senang menulis, tetapi (ehm) kadang-kadang kalau sudah memegang pulpen atau pensil mendadak blank, lain halnya dengan laptop kesayangan yang saya beri nama... Henrietta!! Kalau udah di depan layarnya Henrietta, rasanya saya bisa betah berjam-jam mengetik dan browsing Internet... dan benar begitu adanya! Hehe, kalian juga mengalami candu yang sama?? =P
Latar belakang saya menulis blog ini adalah:
FYI, saya currently sedang menyenangi One Piece dan Linkin Park jadi kayaknya keduanya akan banyak terselip di cerita-cerita yang akan saya tulis, entah iseng atau memang bermaksud bercerita, hehe... Baidewei yah, keduanya cocok digabung untuk membentuk AMV lhoo!! Tahu AMV kann?? Anime Music Video?? Kind of video klip begitu deh... Musik dari band tertentu timing-nya digabung dengan video-video anime yang sekiranya cocok dengan emosi dan pesan dari musiknya. Ini contoh gabungan LP dan OP.
Keren kann??? Ya kan ya kan ya kan?? Secara, bukan punyaku!! Hehe...
Lastly, terima kasih telah membaca blog dan artikel perdana saya yang dengan resmi menjadi blog kedua saya! (Sebenarnya ada 3 tapi satu gak keurus, tuh kan inget lagi hiks hiks :| )
Yah, pokoknya semoga anda menyenangi blog saya dan merasa terhibur... Have a nice day, fellow bloggers!! :)
Benarkah ituuu?? Dari tadi sepertinya tidak ada hujan sama sekali, hummm... :-/
Ya sudahlah, anyway, ini adalah jurnal pribadi pertama saya, dimana saya akan banyak bercerita tentang kejadian-kejadian seru nan lucu, mengesankan atau keren, pokoknya semua yang sudah sejak lama ingin saya tulis! Bukan di diary, tentunya.. Saya senang menulis, tetapi (ehm) kadang-kadang kalau sudah memegang pulpen atau pensil mendadak blank, lain halnya dengan laptop kesayangan yang saya beri nama... Henrietta!! Kalau udah di depan layarnya Henrietta, rasanya saya bisa betah berjam-jam mengetik dan browsing Internet... dan benar begitu adanya! Hehe, kalian juga mengalami candu yang sama?? =P
Latar belakang saya menulis blog ini adalah:
- Di blog kelas saya , saya banyak bercerita kejadian pribadi
- Meningkatkan teknik menulis yang menyenangkan tetapi baku
- Iseng a.k.a bosen
FYI, saya currently sedang menyenangi One Piece dan Linkin Park jadi kayaknya keduanya akan banyak terselip di cerita-cerita yang akan saya tulis, entah iseng atau memang bermaksud bercerita, hehe... Baidewei yah, keduanya cocok digabung untuk membentuk AMV lhoo!! Tahu AMV kann?? Anime Music Video?? Kind of video klip begitu deh... Musik dari band tertentu timing-nya digabung dengan video-video anime yang sekiranya cocok dengan emosi dan pesan dari musiknya. Ini contoh gabungan LP dan OP.
Keren kann??? Ya kan ya kan ya kan?? Secara, bukan punyaku!! Hehe...
Lastly, terima kasih telah membaca blog dan artikel perdana saya yang dengan resmi menjadi blog kedua saya! (Sebenarnya ada 3 tapi satu gak keurus, tuh kan inget lagi hiks hiks :| )
Yah, pokoknya semoga anda menyenangi blog saya dan merasa terhibur... Have a nice day, fellow bloggers!! :)
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