Listening MONORAL : Enjoy Riding The Rollercoaster Of Emotions

“It’s like riding a rollercoaster of emotions and somehow you never get bored of it because it changes a lot and unexpectedly surprising.”

That’s what I told my friend who’s wondering why on earth I get so addicted listening to the band MONORAL.

Riding a rollercoaster of emotions?
Hmm… indeed.
Well, at least that’s what I get every time I put those albums and mini albums of the band in my playlist and let them all playing for some times.
Honestly? I haven’t changed the playlist for so long and keep those collections of MONORAL I have being played 8 straight hours a day as assistance to my ears during working at the office.
Sometimes, after listening to every song of MONORAL, I have this kind of a feeling: feeling of tired or exhausted, it seems like those songs I’ve just listened to are soaking me to the bones, suffocating. But that doesn’t make me stop listening to them, because unconsciously, I’ve already let them playing again and again.

I don’t know, but I think the songs, the lyrics, the music and the how vocalist of MONORAL (yes, Anis Shimada it is) sings or how the bassist (Ali Morizumi) supports the songs are just capturing emotions of them all, very well.

hmm, it seems like the duo manage to pour their hearts into a song so that each and every one of the songs has its own soul, its own emotion, or chemistry. And that makes the song feels like alive and somehow it grows in you.

But if you’d like to put on a super size headphones instead of speakers and turn the volume up until you can no longer hear what’s going on around you and it seems like only you living in a MONORAL world, then you’ll not only ride a rollercoaster of emotions, but also… you’ll experience so much cool noises and interesting sounds as well.

Probably those noises or sounds you’ll hear not the original ones, but somehow this band can mix them all into something interesting and… should I say… sexy? *big grin*

I like the how these two guys can create a wide range of music. From a very rockin’ blast to a popish ballads and amazingly can also create catchy exotic rock sounds. And you can find them all even in one album. So it’s pretty interesting I have to say.

And reading the lyrics of every song, I actually don’t want to praise them this much but, what can I say?
They can be romantic without being poetic, they can be pathetic in a funny way, they can be mean in a polite way, they might be angry but they’re still smiling nicely and they even can be friends in disguise, or even enemies?

And funny thing is they’re not two kinds of genius musicians, indigo or whatever.
No.

I have to say that Anis Shimada (the vocalist) is not a perfect singer with a glamorous vocal range that roars the hall, even comparing like those in American Idol maybe? (hahaha!)
And Ali Morizumi (the bassist) plays the bass like a common bassist will do with no such of blasting specialty. I can even say that he’s nothing comparing to Tetsu of Laruku ^^V (forgive me, but I’m trying to be fair here and that’s what my ears speaking)

But I have to admit that they are indeed smart.
They are smart in combining those music and lyrics in a right proportion.
Maybe they’re not the greatest, they just two ordinary musicians with ordinary music, ordinary lyrics, but they do manage to combine all those ordinary things into something beautiful.

This is cool I’d gladly say.
And I have to say it again that I haven’t got bored of this band… yet. I don’t know when. Hopefully won’t.

To those who’ve never heard any of MONORAL, you should try and give them a listen and enjoy riding the rollercoaster of emotions… and sounds.
As to the MONORAL, I have to send a message “keep making those beautiful music guys!” *big grin*

credit to the photo here:
the photo is taken without any permittion on a site (sadly i kinda forget what site it is), it's an interview *grinning*

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Now I think I’m over flooding my own blog with MONORAL-ism. Would that mean I have to manage another blog where I can put all those MONORAL-ism I have learnt? *sighing*
(this is what you actually get if you have a restless Brian I guess. It’s a blissful and a killing at the very same time)

Bestfriending with the ears: MONORAL (the whole of them)

Culinary Walk pt. 1: Macau – Hot Milk Pudding

Dari pertama kali ke negara yang satu ini, gw sama TEN, udah penasaran sama kedai yang terletak di ujung mulut Senado Square itu. Alesannya?

>> karena kedai ini selalu PENUH (well oke, kedai mana sih di Macau yang GAK SELALU penuh?!)
>> karena di etalase toko ini ada lemari pendingin segede bagong yang isinya mangkuk-mangkuk putih dengan isi yang juga putih. Mangkuknya BANYAAAAAKKKKK buanget.
>> karena seluruh hiasan kedai ini adalah SAPI: poto sapi, patung sapi dan aneka jenis pajangan laennya yang menampilkan si sapi ini!

Namun sampai hari terakhir kami di Macau, kedai ini tak juga kami sambangi. Alasannya?

>> karena ragu akan kehalalannya
>> walau gak mungkin, tapi kami sempet begok berpikir “mungkinkah itu patung babi sebenernya?!”
>> karena males ngantri begitu liat jubelan orang yang berkerumun di pintu kedai
>> karena takut harganya mahal.
>> karena kami pada dasarnya kehabisan duit.
Eiiiitttsss!!
TUNGGU DULU!!
Butir 4 dan 5 harap dihilangkan, menurunkan derajat dan martabat saja!!!

Oke, balik ke cerita intinya (emang ada intinya?)
Nah!!
Kemarin, kali kedua gw ke Macau bareng beberapa temen kantor, gw membulatkan tekad, “kedai rame bin mbludak itu harus seenggaknya gw cari tau dia jualan paan, dan gw harus pastiin kalo patung itu BENAR adanya seekor SAPI bukan babi dicat putih item dan disuntik hormon pembesar.” ^^V

Lalu, setelah kesasar dan harus berJALANKAKI selama 2 JAM (maapkan mb NUUII^^V) gw pun memantapkan hati dan kedua kaki ini untuk melangkah ke kedai itu.

Masuk.
Dan ternyata.... baru buka!
Masih KOSONG.
Begitu masuk, disambut dengan CecetCowet pramusajinya yang tak kami mengerti (karena dalam bahasa Cina)

Akh ya, patung di meja resepsionis itu BENAR adanya seekor SAPI. Dan poto itu, benar juga sapi raksasa dengan payudara MUONTOK-MUONTOK (dan dipastikan bukan babi disuntik hormon ^^)

Pramusaji kembali berCecetCowet, dan gw pun berujar, “MILK?”
Lalu dirinya pun manggut-manggut.
“Two,” ujar gw sambil ngangkat jari bikin angka 2. “MILK”
“okay, okay” si pramusaji menggiring kami ke satu tempat duduk.
“HOT? Cold?” tanya pramusaji lagi.
“HOT! TWO HOT MILK”
“Ooh, okay okay”

Dia pergi ke dapur, kami ditinggal bengong, duduk berhadapan dan memandangi sekeliling kedai itu. Banyak sapi. Bau susu.
Tapi.... bercampur juga dengan bau babi.
Eh, ternyata ada yang pesan bacon dan mie babi diseberang sana HAHAHAHA (kehalalan sangat diragukan nampaknya)

Bengong liat kiri, liat kanan.
Susu gak dateng-dateng, sementara ibu-ibu pemesan mie babi sedang menikmati tiap untai mie sambil merem melek (iyalah, kalo merem terus mah tidur kali).

Apakah sapinya diperah dulu?
Tunggu ditunggu, tetap tidak kunjung datang.
Mati gaya.
Liat daftar menu aja!
Sia-sia. Semua dalam tulisan garis horisontal-vertikal-diagonal.
Gak ngerti!
Yang tau cuma deretan angka yang mengikutinya 16$... 20$... 7$... 14$

Hmm.... *garukgaruk*

Hampir 30 menit berselang.
UNTUUUUNGGG!!
Pramusaji datang dengan membawa dua.....
gelas?
BUKAN!
Mang-kuk.

2 mangkuk kecil porselein warna putih dengan 2 sendok bebek juga dari porselein.
Keduanya panas.

Kami melongok kedalam isi mangkuk itu.
Whoa!!
Susu itu menciut!
Dan.... mengental?

Ternyata, kalo pesen susu panas, di Macau atau Hongkong itu yang disodorin adalah pudding susu.

Jangan tanya bagaimana proses pengentalan (yang makan waktu cukup lama itu!) susu itu, karena nanya harga aja sama pramusajinya pake bahasa isyarat kok. Yang pasti susu sapi yang putih nian serupa dengan mangkuk dan sendoknya itu, mengental bagai puding, begitu halus dan tercipta sedikit lapisan air di bagian atasnya.

Kami mengasumsikan, mangkuk-mangkuk di mesin pendingin itu berisi biang puding susu ini yang berasal dari kepala susu kental. Lalu entah bagaimana caranya, dikentalkan hingga membentuk pudding (mungkin dengan bantuan minyak babi?HAHAHAHAHA!!!!)

Nah, bagaimana rasanya?
Hanya satu kata: UUUWEEEEENNNNAAAKKKK!!!!
Manisnya pas. Kekentalannya juga pas. Melumer dengan sempurna di lidah.
Dan santaplah selagi panas, karena kalau dingin bisa mencair dan pisah-pisah sama lapisan airnya.

Harganya?
Untuk satu mangkuk kecil puding susu panas dibandrol harga.... 16$ ...... SAJAH *cynically mode: ON*
(seumur idup, gw baru makan puding seharga hampir 30rebu!!! Untuk semangkuk kecil pulaaak!)

Berminat nyobain?
Kalo iseng-iseng judi di Macau, redakanlah stress akibat kalah taruhan dengan menyeruput pudding susu ini, hehehe. Tempatnya gampang banget ditemuin. Tinggal ke Senado Square. Jejerannya kedai Starbucks Senado. Letaknya sebelum Tourism Information Center (kalo dari depan), deket money changer. Pokoknya kedai dengan hiasan sapi deh (dan selalu PENUH)

Selamat menikmati!
Ditanggung pengen lagi dan lagi dan lagi.
Tapi itu artinya, harus KAYA :D

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Posted a while ago in my Facebook note

VAMPS AMERICA TOUR 2009

That’s been a while since they posted the title in their MySpace blog and I was already insanely proud of the band (and jealous at the same time to the US fans), I mean… touring the US for the non-US-bands is truly something BIG.
I’d been waiting for the following news about this (the venue, the dates and all the stuffs) and kept checking the MySpace page also their official site, but still none, so I started ignoring it, until yesterday noon.

While hanging out with bunch of friends in a café, I was silently sliding away from the crowd into my autism world, checking emails (that I had neglected for some times) and WHOAAAA!!! I was shouting out loud, surprising everyone around, when I hit the message “New Blog from VAMPS”.
I had a guess this would be something about the tour in US.

And BOOM!
As I opened the link, I was burst in tears of cheers.
YUP.
They finally make it to the US!
Not only because it’s in a very short period since the band is formed but also because…. They haven’t even released the album, YET.
Way to go guys! GREAT.

And as I checked the news again and read it more carefully, I noticed this “WARPED TOUR” (on July 12th and 14th) on the list.
I stopped scrolling and then, widening my eyes.
Waakkss!!!
They even made it to the WARPED TOUR?!?!
Gosh!!!
As far as I know, WARPED TOUR has always been flooded by many rock bands and the crowds are HUGE (if it’s not MASSIVE).

So I checked the Warped Tour’ site for the line ups and sadly it hasn’t published the line-ups bands to perform there. I guess I’ll just wait later to check it out again.

But the fact that VAMPS will be touring US, and also participate in WARPED TOUR does SOMETHING for the band and also for the Japanese Music Industry I believe.

Thou I’m TOTALLY positive won’t be able to go and share the crowd, I absolutely support the band for touring the US. Maybe more cities/countries will be on the list later, some when after September 2009 (since I notice the schedule is full and they’ll be rea~~~lly busy touring until September or so)

And for the fans of VAMPS who luckily live in US (any part of that country) or probably those who love Japanese music but have no idea about VAMPS, OR to those of you who adore music and curious about any kind of genre and would love to widen your music archive, do PURCHASE THE TICKET TO VAMPS US TOUR 2009 (anywhere around the US) and experience fun times with them.
I can tell it would be bloody FUNtastic live that you won’t regret to go.

GO GO BUY THE VAMPS US TOUR 2009 TICKET NOOOOOWWWW!!!!!
BRING ALL YOUR FRIENDS, ENEMIES, STRANGERS… ANYONE… ALONG AND HAVE A GREAT TIME!!!!

(Soon as you get back from there… and recover from severe nosebleed *big grin*, REPORT Pleaaaseee ^^V)

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Check out the VAMPS US Tour 2009 news here:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=1001163280&blogId=481176259

And for the updated news, please embrace yourself to have an urge to visit their officially sites:
MySpace
VAMPS
VAMPROSE
The Tickets Sales
VAMPS on MTVIGGY
VAMPS USA Forum

Side Info on Warped Tour:
The Bands
Buy The Tickets

Side note:
But soon as I finished writing this post, I sighed, the heaviest one.
DAMMIT!!
Now I know why I hate being a citizen of my country :P
To obtain the US visa, here in my country, is never been that easy. Shit!

So I guess, I’ll just continue with my bo~~~ring life, and ooh, to light it up a little, maybe I’ll spend summer holyday as I had planned before: going to BALI.
But in order to feel the VAMPS, I’ll guess I’ll bring along VAMPS collection I have (still only 4 singles)…

*sigh*
Won’t rant again about how unlucky I am in this kind of thing… I’ll sign off now.

Don’t forget:


BUY THE “VAMPS US TOUR 2009” TICKET NOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!






Cheers!!!!

Trouble Is A Friend by Lenka

Trouble Is A Friend
by: Lenka

Trouble,
He will find you no matter where you go
Oh, oh
No matter if you're fast, No matter if you're slow
Oh, oh
The eye of the storm wanna cry in the morn
Oh, oh
You're fine for a while
But you start to lose control

He's there in the dark He's there in my heart
He waits in the wings He's gotta play a part
Trouble is a friend Yeah
Trouble is a friend of mine Ahh

Trouble is a friend but trouble is a foe
Oh, oh
And no matter what I feed him
He always seems to grow
Oh, oh
He sees what I see
And he knows what I know
Oh, oh
So don't forget
As you ease on down my road

He's there in the dark He's there in my heart
He waits in the wings He's gotta play a part
Trouble is a friend Yeah
Trouble is a friend of mine
So don't be alarmed
If he takes you by the arm
I won't let him win
But I'm a sucker for his charm
For his charm
Trouble is a friend Yeah
Trouble is a friend of mine
Ahh

How I hate the way
He makes me feel
And how I try
To make him leave
I try
Oh, oh, I try

Ooh
Ahh
Ooh
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A while ago i decided to temporary close this blog (to export the contents to my other private blog), since i found there’s a stalker been hanging around in my page and spent times too long here for a normal visitor should be.
i’d been monitoring this person’s IP Address, referall URL, pages visiting, the frequency of visiting and of course the time length spent here. It's been a month, or two, for sure. and i’m wondering don’t this person has something else to do than wandering in my page for that long? Like a job maybe, a normal daily work from 8 to 5, with all the deadlines and reports? I mean spending hours here, in a day, for e-ve-ry-day?!! is that a new job?? I don’t quite remember how my page can actually pay someone’s monthly spends anyway (if that’s so, then why i still can’t travel the world in 5stars budget??!!)
It’s quite disgusting if it’s not annoying and irritating, actually.
And i’m pretty concern about the contents here, thou none here is personal, but i’m aware of the possibility of copying the whole ideas i’m pouring here.

Should i close this blog permanently? I’ve been thinking about it, and this idea is actually still in my prior list of action towards this stalker.

Ooh, well... it seems like trouble is a friend of mine? Neah... trouble is our friend. Period.

So i re-open this blog, but soon will close this as the stalker comes back again.
And to the ‘normal’ visitors who’ve been on my guest list for so very long period, since i start blogging, i’ll let you know my new blog, and the password to enter it.

Cheers.

MONORAL – VIA (The Album): A (Mind) Journey via Heart

It’s been more than 6 months after the band MONORAL released their third full length album VIA, but those eleven songs still remain on my player, and regularly being played. And by saying regularly, I mean, DAILY *grinning*.
I’m not usually like this actually, sometimes I only spend a month listening non-stop to a new album and the next month I already change my play list into another new one. But this album is just like a dope to a certain level.

Talking about this album, probably I’m not the best one when it comes to musically-speaking, because I tend to let my heart listens to the music rather than my brain, so practically I’m dumb in music business. So what can my heart say about this album?

Well, actually, it’s not a big surprise seeing the album content. It still has the same MONORAL-ism: “simple but has a rich uniquely flavor of melody and sound that tightly wrapping a thick emotional filling”. [ps: I wrote that ‘filling’ correct, I never meant to write ‘feeling’ there ^^V]
So basically, it’s another enjoyable ride on a ‘rollercoaster of emotion’ as listening to their new album VIA.

BUT, one thing I discover after listening to the album constantly, continuously and orderly couple of times, is that this album I think is their first album that has a frame on it. I’m not talking about the jacket or the cover album, but I’m talking about a concept here. So the whole song in it is kind of flowing to one another, describing the same story about ‘a journey’.

Opened by the line “Everybody’s got somewhere to go, how about you?” in the opening song, ‘Everybody’s Way’, a less than 2 minutes song, I guess the album frame is pretty clearly said.
This line actually stole my attention first time listening to the album. It made me set aside anything else I was doing back then, and focus my whole senses in this album. I must say this line, this song, is perfectly placed as the opening. It actually gives me a precaution also that this album has a possibility of containing chaining-songs.

Well, what do you know? As listening to the second song, ‘You’, that started with a very rocking guitar rhythm, and the line “there’s nothing new about you, but I’m still with you.” It’s pretty much like an answer to the opening song, telling you that, “Well fine! You still have no idea which way you’re heading to, you still the same old brand new you, but hell, I’m still with you, all the way, no matter what.”
So maybe this is what the album all about, maybe it’s a companion, a travel-mate in a journey to find the ‘You’. That’s what I thought and expected.

Heading up we have “Costa Rica”, as the third song, and I like the sounds of drum in the beginning of this song, pretty unique and somehow takes you to an exotic place. And thou I’ve never been to Costa Rica before, I’m sensing that this song is about miserable, a regret maybe, for not taking the right choice. Something that makes your life collides upside down.
Emptiness? Something like that I think.

But soon as I thought that the next song will be drowning me in darkness and despair, “Safira” came waking me out from the desperation. “Make your choice! Stand up, be brave!” or whatever it is, but it feels like a wake up call. This song is one of my favorite, although, I can sense a bit of Smashing Pumpkin’s 1979 in the beginning, I don’t know, I don’t read music note, so I don’t know whether they (MONORAL) chose the same chord for the opening, it’s only couple of notes I think, not the whole song.

So the choice is made in the fifth song, “Via”, a popish and catchy song so far after listening to four twisting sounds and music in the beginning. I like the how the sounds, the vocal and the vibe in this song, they’re pretty describing the whole story in this song: “I made it!”
What are you going to do if that happens? Exactly! Overexciting that almost makes you jumping out of the bridge doing the bungy, and that is what the song sounds like. You can never sing this song in a bitter and cynical tone while frowning. This song makes you smiling and laughing and it feels like, “finally you have made a choice to embrace the world, and ready to dare.”
I listened to this song over and over and over again while I was on the road and it felt so damn great. I screamed the whole lyrics silently as listening to it. And somehow this song made me enjoying the whole journey.

But you know what, no matter how brilliant your choice is, obstacles are there, ready to block you from breaking through, and that’s when you need assistance, a guardian that rises up in the sixth song, “Guards of Mice”
First time reading the title, I thought, “whoa!!! Are these two guys writing a song about the John Steinbeck’s ‘Of mice and men’?” That’s not impossible, but…. “do they read?” Whhoo!!!! No offense but I just cynically thought it’s impossible *grinning*
Anyway, as I listened to the whole song, I thought this might be telling about the book… neah, but it seems like that actually.

And yes, those obstacles are there, and thou there are guardians around you, somehow the feeling of loosing yourself will always be there no matter how small it is. It breaks you, tearing you apart. But climbing the “Everest” would be so much easier if you do it together, with friends, partners, whatever you'd call them. Sometimes you fall, sometimes you have to stop, sometimes you must climb up again, but when you reach the top of the hill, there’s nothing more incredible as sharing those feelings inside with your partner. That’s what “Everest”, the seventh song is all about, that everything will be much lighter and easier when you have a friend to share, to help and to lean on sometimes. Two heads are better than one, right?
And for this song, I like the idea of bringing the vocal to the foreground. The vocalist’ voice is pretty unique and this song shows it off nicely. This is the catchy part of the song actually.

And being in the shadow is never been the easiest part in this life. It actually what holds your feet from moving on and you have to make a choice to cut the rope or else you will stand still. “Sun Shadow”, as the next song, somehow reminds me of Radiohead’s ‘High and Dry’, I don’t know why. This song is in my top list favorite from this album. It gives me the same kind of feeling when I first listened to “Kiri” (a single from the previous album, Turbulence). I like the harmony here.

Again, a decision is made. History will always be something to remind us how precious life is, and the journey is just started. No matter how crazy things might be on the road, somehow when you reach the final destination, everything will be nothing but beautiful. That’s “Casbah” is all about.
And I am so freaking hip about this ‘arabic metal’, as they described, because it’s damn rocking. The music, the vocals just blend in perfection and just when I got really high, it stops right there and leave me breathless. Damn.

Thou I hate the next part because the song suddenly drastically change to another ballad, I like the idea of “I Don’t Mind”, it seems telling you that, “who cares whether I’m going to be hit by a train or crashed into pieces, I would still grab the chances, dare all the challenges to create my own world. That’s what makes me content, period.” *smiling*
I like that. I love it actually.

So the end is here, and “Sometimes” is a great song to summarize the entire journey been through.
This is my most favorite one actually. I really love the music, the sounds and how the emotion comes out here. Pretty emotionally relaxing, I must say. This song seems like telling you that whatever happen, whatever uphill and down you have been through, you will always own this shoulder to lean on, just to rest your bones for a while before heading back on the road, no need to say a word just lean on and surely will try to sweep away all the burdens inside. Damn!
And as listening to it, it feels like you have found the best partner in crime in the whole world that would stick with you no matter how crazy and frantic you might be.
I really like the idea of putting this song as the ending of this album because somehow it seems like a closing but actually it’s just the beginning. It makes you unconsciously thump the play button again as the CD stops rolling and takes another journey. Over and over and over again.

So that’s VIA (the album) to me is all about. This is why I describe it as “a (mind) journey via heart” because somehow, it’s another rollercoaster of emotion created by two lovely gays (oops!!!) I mean GUYS *grinning* kidding!!!
An album that suits any kind of journey you’re into. It offers nothing but a joyful ride of life, a life-adventure that you yourself ever created; any life adventure to be underlined here. And this album acts as a friend, a travel-buddy, a partner in crime, an assistance you might say or whatever you want to call ‘something/someone that stick with you throughout the journey’.

Well, want to experience a blastful emotional journey??
What are you waiting for? Grab (or in this case I mean, Ship) the album and enjoy the ride!

how to purchase it?
try these sites:

www.cdbaby.com
www.cdjapan.co.jp

need samples?
try this one: MONORAL-VIA
or just visit the official myspace to get a clue



cheers!

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MONORAL are Ali Morizumi (bass) and Anis Shimada (vocal)

AMBER

Brainstorm…
Take me away from the norm
I've got to tell you something..

This phenomenon
I had to put it in a song,
and it goes like:

Whoa
Amber is the color of your energy
Whoa
Shades of gold displayed naturally

You ought to know what brings me here
You glide through my head blind to fear,
and I know why-

Whoa
Amber is the color of your energy
Whoa
Shades of gold displayed naturally

Whoa
Amber is the color of your energy
Whoa
Shades of gold displayed naturally

You live too far away
Your voice rings like a bell anyway
Don't give up your independence
unless it feels so right
Nothing good comes easily;
Sometimes you've got to fight

Whoa
Amber is the color of your energy
Whoa
Shades of gold displayed naturally

Launched a thousand ships in my heart, so easy
Still, it's fine from afar,
and you know that

Whoa
Brainstorm
Take me away from the norm
Whoa
I've got to tell you something


.by 311.
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Love this song. A LOT.
And I’ve been listening to this song for the hundred times today. Miss it so much.
The lyrics, the feeling you get as you’re listening to it, and…. Nick Hexum’s voice… all of those just make this song pretty romantic. Nice to chew along while relaxing
Somehow I wish that Anis Shimada from the band MONORAL, one day, will perform this song. Although, I don’t quite sure if it fits him, but… it’s just a wish anyway =D (or maybe singing ‘Love Song’? hmm….)

- dedicated to someone across the waters :,) -

Credit to the clip: LBCSublimer89

... a masquerade ...

is
something
I
can
not
put
on
...
..
.

@10:29 PM
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Listening to: PLACEBO – Protège Moi
[“dear you in the attic, protect me from what I want, pretty please? Because I can not put this masquerade on any much longer.”]

Note:
Since I’m starting ‘the project’ now, this will be my last post for quite a while, pretty quite long, actually.

So long!
Cheers.

TUESDAY

I can hear this silence crawl around
Hello, you thinkers
Hello, you fakers
And I see the summer drown you dry
Hello, you lovers
Hello, you dreamers

When I feel so insecure
I will need you, turn around

There's no one left to decide who is right or wrong
Waiting's not enough for you
Wasting what I want the most
Tuesday's gone and I'm tasting it over
Let me reside with the same old view
Sharing's all I need from you
Taking what I want the most
Tuesday's near and I wish that you were here

I can feel this sadness drag you down
Hello, you talkers
Hello, you sleepers
And I see this madness close your eyes
Hello, mistreaters
Hello, you weepers

When I feel so insecure
Grace my day
Please, stay around

There's no one left to decide who is right or wrong
Waiting's not enough for you
Wasting what I want the most
Tuesday's gone and I'm tasting it over
Let me reside with the same old view
Sharing's all I need from you
Taking what I want the most
Tuesday's near and I wish that you were here

If this comfort holds you down
I would gladly pull you out
It's a heavy
(Keep, keep, keep me awake somehow)
(Keep, keep, keep me awake somehow)
Now

….by MONORAL….
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A <long> Side Note:

‘Visions in My Head’ was the first song I heard from MONORAL, but this song ‘Tuesday’ was the first song I love the most instead of ‘Kiri’ (like many other would choose). I think it’s because of the line: “let me reside with the same old view, sharing is all I need from you…” ^^
Well, sometimes, we just need friends/best friends to share, to accept, not to solve, or to break the problems down. and then when it feels too comfy that you choose to refuse to change, they’ll pull you out and force you to grow.
^_^
(well, probably this song is not as much complicated as I interpret, but what do you know? Me and my twisted world, twisted mind…. Ooh well, me is twisting anyway^^)

O! Yea! And to make it even complete, today is Tuesday, and it’s all started with a medium rain pouring down that lasted since the night before, but Thank God the rain had stopped falling as I left the house early this morning, although the heavy grey cloud still hanging up above. I was complaining along the morning to The Almighty Above of why He decided to paint the Tuesday’ sky all grey, but something hit me right away.
As I walked out the train station, and looked up the sky, WHOAAAA!!!! There it was, a slight sketch of rainbow on the sky, trying to deliver the message that no matter how grey the sky is, there’ll always be bundles of colors to paint the Tuesday.
So I smiled to the rainbow, and whispered, “Ohayou.”

Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ooh!! Wait! Wait! Not finished yet here!
About MONORAL!! Uugh, how I deeply wish that there will be another Video Clip or Music Video coming out. As I noticed, there is no MV yet for the latest album VIA, and I asked the management once, he (the manager, J-san) said that they’re still not planning neither DVD nor MV *heavy sigh*
I actually thought that they would film the tour, those South America and Europe and Japan, and packed it into a… three or four minute’s documentary clips and slide in the song Via, BAM! It’ll be a good documentary/music video for the single 'VIA', right? *so typical actually*
But hey, at least the promotion would be a lot easier, right? Right? No?
Now I’m talking this way as if one of the management of MONORAL would read this post,
hell.. there’s NO WAY they’ll spend their precious times surfing here and there and deserted here, right? RIGHT?!?! Now this one is ROOOAAAAIIITTT.

Ooh well, it’s just me and my twisted mind again, as always…

NOW!!!
It’s: Cheers anyway…. ^^V

Digging up the Forgotten

I’ve just realized that even thou I like this band a lot, I have never ever posted a single thread about them, here. And this came out after I dig up my trash bin to find a test file (a placement test, to be underlined here) that I mistakenly erased some times ago *silly me*

Instead of finding the file (yea, I still couldn’t find it, and I think I should make another one. Shiitt!), I found things that more precious, those were: few songs from the band LIFEHOUSE. And those were buried under. I was shocked, “What the heck?! What was I thinking, erasing these precious treasures?”

So I restored them back to where they used to belong and from that moment, I kept playing the whole songs *grinning*

Listening to those songs again reminds me of my college year, how I put them as my original soundtrack during the finishing touch of my Bachelor-thesis. Well, that phase has never been the easiest phase in the college age, rite? And I found my consolation from them. I even put them in my thanks parade page.

How are they doing right now?!
Last time I checked, they just released the single First Time and an album “Who We Are” (am I correct here?)
But yesterday, as I logged in to the official website, which I hadn’t done for so very long, they actually already released the newest album last year called ‘Broken’ (isn’t it the single in a previous album? *shrugging*)

Ooh well, I guess I have to rush the record store A.S.A.P to get the copy. Let’s just wish that it IS released here also, so I don’t have to ship it. I still have to manage my saving to ship all those MONORAL albums, some times next June, so I really hope that the LIFEHOUSE latest album is already on every local record store.
And soon as I get the album, I’ll definitely write something about Jason Wade and the boys, here, in a long post.

Hey, I even just found out that there’s a new comer in the band for the guitarist.
DAMN!
I surely need to recharge my LIFEHOUSE-ism *grinning*


Sidenote:

This post is actually just a rant about how stupid I am in some parts, and I have no idea but I’m suddenly losing all my appetites in writing (not even an FB note). Should I start thinking about starting ‘the project’ like now and abandon this blog??
Hmmm, I’ll go figure and ask him first how he’d feel about starting ‘the project’ sooner as expected


Cheers anyway!
(ooh well, maybe I’ll just keep flooding this blog with songs… *wondering* now where’s my Slipknot’ album??)

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Listening to LIFEHOUSE – Stanley Climbfall (the song I adored a lot back in the day)

“Quiet, a sound you know so well. You’re living just to make it through another day. Stand climb and fall. Carry the world. Can’t carry on your own”

^_^
Still love the song no matter what.