Lord of War

Funny how I seem to always "get" a song while watching a movie. I was watching the movie "Lord of War" just now, and it had the song Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley playing in one scene, and at that very instant I realised how gorgeous the song really is.
I've had Jeff Buckley mp3s in my PC for a long long time now. I think I have the albums Grace, My Sweetheart the Drunk and the live album stored somewhere in my hard disk. But it's not like I listen to them all the time, I'm not even a big fan of Buckley. It's more like a random album that I play when I need something new to listen.
However, after watching the DVD I just couldn't get the song out of my head, and now I'm playing this track on repeat, possibly for a couple of days. It's just weird how only today I've seen the "light" and discovered beauty of this song. Sure, I don't have a clue what the words mean, but the music is really nice, perfect for the not-so-good feeling I'm in right now.
I don't know, maybe I'm just in a singer-songwriting, slightly depressing, melancholic phase. First it was Damien Rice and now Jeff Buckley?

Sunburnt

Playing golf without any sunblock is a bad, bad idea!
I'm all sun burnt now (or tanned, depending on how you look at it).
But at least I'm not a golf virgin anymore.
I'll be staying away from the course for a week after this skin-burning and stamina-crushing day of golf.

Meds.

I'm too excited and I couldn't wait until a few days for my next post!
Straight after my previous post, I surfed around and discovered that there's a new Placebo album.

I'm going to download it now!!
I'm stoked as hell.
I'm gonna put my Without You I'm Nothing CD right away. Just to get in the mood.
Maybe I'll watch the concert DVD after that.

Wow.

What's playing, Rage?

Ahh...
It's Friday night. Oh no,actually it's not Friday night. But it sure does feel like a Friday night. Maybe because tomorrow's a holiday. Yeah that's probably why.
Well, it doesn't really matter.

I just realised how much I miss watching Rage on Friday & Saturday nights on ABC. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, I guess thats OK.
I miss watching weird ass and cool video clips.
I remember watching the latest White Stripes/Strokes video on Rage.
I remember watching back to back to back Pennywise videos (haha... my "punk" days, thats funny)
I remember watching a Misfits/Dickies/Ramones/Black Flag clip for the very first time in my life on Rage.
It's like my whole musical education began with this program Rage.
And I remember being excited surfing the website for the week's playlist.

So, just for good old times sake, I present to you the Rage playlist for this Friday. (Or is it last Friday's?)
See how much good music I've missed.

Friday 17 February 2006
triple j Hottest 100

11:51pm Evie (Part 1) - THE WRIGHTS EMI
Why Do You Love Me - GARBAGE Fest/Mush
Themata - KARNIVOOL Chatterbox
12:00am Face Without A Name - KISSCHASY Virgin
On This Side - CLARE BOWDITCH & THE FEEDING SET EMI
The Fallen - FRANZ FERDINAND SBME
Heartstopper - EMILIANA TORRINI Shock
Bastard - BEN FOLDS SBME
Like Eating Glass - BLOC PARTY - Live Fest/Mush
We Can't Hear You - THE HERD Independent
12:30am Into The Dark - BEN LEE Inertia
Tightrope Walker - EPICURE Independent
White Unicorn - WOLFMOTHER - Live on JTV Universal
Filthy/Gorgeous - SCISSOR SISTERS Universal
Smoke It - THE DANDY WARHOLS EMI
Let's Take The Long Way Home - THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS Independent
1:00am Believe - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS Virgin
Fuck Forever - BABYSHAMBLES Shock
The Fighter - AFTER THE FALL Fest/Mush
First Day Of My Life - BRIGHT EYES Stomp
Hypnotize - SYSTEM OF A DOWN SBME
Que Onda Guero - BECK Universal
The Sound Of White - MISSY HIGGINS Virgin
Better Together - JACK JOHNSON Universal
1:30am I'm So Post Modern - THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER Independent
Run - COG Independent
This Year - THE MOUNTAIN GOATS Remote Control
Jesus I Was Evil - BUTTERFINGERS Independent
Ashes - THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS Independent
The Denial Twist - THE WHITE STRIPES Remote Control
Always Worth It - SARAH BLASKO Universal
2:00am Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - JACK JOHNSON Universal
Divorcee By 23 - CLARE BOWDITCH & THE FEEDING SET Independent
Beware Wolf - GYROSCOPE Warner
Jesus Of Suburbia - GREEN DAY Warner
All The Money Or The Simple Life Honey - THE DANDY WARHOLS EMI
Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole - MARTHA WAINWRIGHT - Live Shock
Little Sister - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Universal
2:30am It'5 - ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI Remote Control
Landed - BEN FOLDS SBME
Two Shoes - THE CAT EMPIRE Virgin
America, F**k Yeah! - TEAM AMERICA Independent
Be Yourself - AUDIOSLAVE Universal
Live With Me - MASSIVE ATTACK Virgin
Song To Say Goodbye - PLACEBO Virgin
3:00am Eddie's Gun - THE KOOKS Virgin
All The Young Children On Crack - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES Remote Control
Bullets - EDITORS SpeaknSpell
She's Love - END OF FASHION EMI
What's Your Damage - TEST ICICLES Remote Control
Turning The Screws - GERLING Warner
Never Say Never - VANDALISM EMI
Chewing Gum - ANNIE MOS/EMI
Ride A White Horse - GOLDFRAPP Virgin
3:30am Sorry - MADONNA Warner
Suffer Well - DEPECHE MODE Virgin
Kevin Is Gay - GIANT DRAG Universal
Conceived - BETH ORTON EMI
Little Self Centred Queen - CLARE BOWDITCH & THE FEEDING SET EMI
Kelly - VAN SHE Universal
Love For Sale - FAKER EMI
All Ones And Zeros - THE EARLY YEARS Remote Control
4:00am Hand Of Blood - BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE SBME
Coming Undone - KORN - Live Virgin
Sink We Swim - A DEATH IN THE FAMILY Independent
Far Too Sober - CREECH Independent
You Know - LOUT Independent
Time Won't Tell - FLICKER SWITCH Independent
Fallen Angel - BLACK LABEL Independent
Car Chase - COLD HARBOUR Independent
4:30am C'mon - THE DIRTY SECRETS Independent
Space For Rent - WHO MADE WHO MOS/EMI
Love Is A 256 Colour Word - MUSIC vs. PHYSICS Independent
Keep On Rising - JAY-J featuring LATRICE BARNETT Independent
Say Say Say (Waiting 4 U) - HI_TACK Central Station
Sex, Bass & Rock 'N' Roll - BROOKLYN BOUNCE Central Station
Flaunt It - TV ROCK SBME
You Take My Breath Away - THE KNIFE MOS/EMI
5:00am Perfect - PRINCESS SUPERSTAR Inertia
Club Night - J-CASTELL Independent
There It Go - JUELZ SANTANA Universal
Everybody Get Up - PITBULL featuring PRETTY RICKY Shock
Soobax - K'NAAN Universal
Bring That Beat Back - PUBLIC ENEMY Stomp
So High - JOHN LEGEND SBME
5:30am Every Little Bit Hurts - ALICIA KEYS SBME
Unbelievable - CRAIG DAVID Warner
The Effect On Me - MINT ROYALE Shock
Hoppipolla - SIGUR ROS EMI
Saint Simon - THE SHINS Stomp
Jackson - JOAQUIN PHOENIX & REESE WITHERSPOON SBME
Everything To Me - LIZ PHAIR EMI
Call My Name - CHARLOTTE CHURCH SBME
6:00am Biology - GIRLS ALOUD Universal
A Night To Remember - LIBERTY X Big/Rajon
Cash Machine - HARD FI Warner
Going Nowhere - CUT COPY Universal
Area - THE FUTUREHEADS Warner
Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - WE ARE SCIENTISTS Virgin
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - ARCTIC MONKEYS Virgin
Keelhaul - PHARAOHS Independent
Off The Record - MY MORNING JACKET SBME
Funny Little Frog - BELLE & SEBASTIAN Shock
6:30am Opportunity - PETE MURRAY SBME
I Was Alive - THE WHITLAMS Warner

The Blower's Daughter

I knew about this Damien Rice song by chance really, on a fine morning the video appeared on TV2, of all places! I've heard of Damien Rice a few years back, and how his album O was highly regarded amongst those hipster magazines. To me, being drooled over by hipster mags is always, always a sign of disappointment. Hence the reason why I never took the effort to "discover" Rice.
I still haven't listened to the rest of the album though, and am just forming my opinion based on this one track only. I'm a bit obsessed with this song recently, I've downloaded the mp3 and had gone as far as watching the movie where the song was featured in the soundtrack. Fucking hell.
I'm just fascinated by the feeling of helplessness, depression, sadness, despair and hopelessness that this song never fails to evoke everytime I listen to it. It feels good to feel depressed, if that makes any sense.This is probably among the bleakest song I've ever heard, ranking close to Johnny Cash's haunting "Hurt".

And on other matters, I hate you Johnny-bandwagon-jumpers who suddenly talk and comment A LOT about Liverpool. I bet you watched the Champions League final last year as a "neutral", then when we actually won the damn thing, you're suddenly a Red. You get super excited with our winning run but immediately whinge when we lost a few games recently. Well, FU. Go back supporting Arsenal, Manchester Utd, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona or whoever the hell you think plays "good" football.

Random Office Happenings

A few days ago, we had this contractor coming in the office to do a presentation on their findings on a just recently concluded exercise they did.
This particular group of contractors then brought along with them their Technical Consultant, a white mat salleh to help them out, I suppose.
So just before everyone gets settled down, and while waiting for the presentation to start, there's this really awkward silence (as you always do), where everyone just looks around, staring blankly into space. One of my colleagues, in an attempt to start some "small talk" - I think, suddenly broke the awkward silence. With his eyes staring directly into the foreigner's, he selamba-ly asked, "Are you Danish?".
The puzzled & embarassed look on the poor white man's face was priceless.

I thought that was kinda funny.

Random #2

I used to like Weezer.
Not anymore. Not after hearing that god-awful song Beverly Hills.
Too bad, 'cause I was really into them a long long time ago.

I still like Gilmore Girls though. I think.

Random #1

I used to like watching the TV show Gilmore Girls because:

1. It had an unbelievably witty, funny, sarcastic and amazingly hip script.
2. The chicks are hot and also good actors.
   
3. It name dropped Greg Ginn.

Well, it name dropped a lot actually; obscure bands, cool bands, Mojo, some weird writer, hip stuff like that.