30 March 2009

Sequel to the entry that was posted an hour ago...

After listening to Kanon by ART-SCHOOL over and over again, I finally started writing lyrics for this song I've been playing around since December...yikes. Funny thing, the song kind of sounds like Kanon... The lyrics, of course, will reflect my personal experience with a girl, I know what you're thinking "Great, another love song. Boooo!", but rest assured this song will not have the term "love" in it. It's probably gonna be a corny song but hey, practice makes perfect.

Thought I'd be creative and write the song in a third person view, so basically I'm like narriating my own life. I know eh? Genius. *Nods head with arms crossed and eyes closed* Now the hard part is writing the chorus, but the question is DOES THIS SONG NEED A CHORUS? Hmmm... delimna indeed. Also I only have one guitar part and I've been trying over the weekend to think of a second guitar part, but with the extent of my music knowledge and skill, it is very difficult. Then there's the bass track I need to incorporate and as well as the drums, I'll let Chris handle the drums I trust him. I think this is a song where it'll be recorded with all instruments but can be performed acoustically when live, you know for a change of pace. Right now I'm playing the song and attempting to sing the lyrics (what I've accumulated so far) on the acoustic gee-tar and boy oh boy are my vocals mediocre... if not worse.

I haven't even thought of a title for the song yet! Actually, I should say I've thought up of many titles just haven't decided on one yet. ART-SCHOOL probably has the biggest influence on me, in terms of trying to write song, Hinata has the biggest influence on my bass playing of course ;), So I would not be surprised if the lyrics are similar to that of their songs and even the title is entitled with girl's name or something in relation to a girl. I've come to accept and learn that Riki Kinoshita can write some very emo songs, haha. Riki is after all my favourite song writer, so if I write some mad emo songs, I don't blame myself.

Now back to the lyrics I'm working on, I actually thought of the first line last night before going to sleep, like a true artist I waited until I woke up to write them down. Great ideas arise when one is prepare to call it quits. Now so far I have about.... 12 lines, 6 bars, one verse? Man writing a chorus is hard and I gotta make a new guitar composition for that part. TOO MUCH WORK.

La la la laalala
la la lalaa

That's how the vocals go btw, LATER ALLIGATOR.

I will never hear Kanon's voice again...



It was a very cold winter
You and him had met
You fell in love quickly
Those days were like a dream
Stepping on crumpled dead leaves
Your breath was white
And he was admiring
After he noticed

Even if we loved each other so much
Even if I held her like the other day
We noticed the beautifl times
That we could never go back to

Maybe you knew too
That the love died
And since the day, the bird stopped
Flying in the sky

Even if we fucked
I will never hear Kanon's voice again
I've felt this feeling before
I didn't think that I would ever forget it

I noticed...

Stepping on crumpled dead leaves
Your breath was white
And he was admiring
After he noticed

Even if we loved each other so much
Even if I held her like the other day
We noticed the beautiful times
That we could never go back to
Maybe you knew too
That the love died

I noticed...

I've ran out of ideas to blog about seriously..... this has got to stop. But I love this song.

Strike me with lightning then I could come back to your world



This song is so... emotionally alleviating. Even before I read the English translation (provided in the video above) I instantly fell into awe with this song. So chill, so relaxing, so soothing, so... good. I'd type out the lyrics, but I'm too busy singing along to this song. Maybe I'll edit this post later and type it out. MAYBE I SAID.

Life sucks. Peace.

EDIT: Here it is,

You are not here that's it
Nothing has changed
Tonight even stars that do not shine want to take a rest
It's like a broken monitor of an abandoned TV
With what shall i seal a crack of my heart

I want to live like fire that remains for all eternity
At least this wish from my heart if flesh is lost

I don't want anything
If you are beside me
Even a watch that doesn't work wants to take a nap that's OK

Take a breath
With a magic that effects for all eternity
Reaching out for the sky without substance

Strike me with lightning
Strike me with lightning
Strike me with lightning
Then I could come back
To your world

Strike me with lightning
Strike me with lightning
Strike me with lightning
Then I could come back
To your world

Your world
Your world
Your world...


26 March 2009

Asshole.



Tomorrow I have my last QMS quiz before exam! Too much to do!!!!!!

Touch my bod-eh.



This is old, but such a classic. Man knows how to sing. HIT EM WIT ANOTHER ONE.

22 March 2009

Dnim.

abyss

–noun
1. a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.

Lately I've been feeling really shitty and bummy (thanks for a great month March). Like the definition above, I feel like I've been falling through an endless hole, trapped in an abyss. Starting to feel nothing but apathy, lost my sense of emotions that it's starting to hurt when I smile. Tired of the same old world I see everyday, I feel better with my eyes closed than to rather have them open. A month of disappointments and failures that only leads to a road towards more obstacles to get through with.

Boy, was that emo.

I was hoping the past Friday to be the highlight of the month, but as always things never go my way, so I ended up working on a Friday night, again. My music and band are the only thing left that keeps my sanity in check. Speaking of my band, we gotta look for another vocalist again! What the effff mang?!?!?!? Things were looking so well with the project, now we're back to square one. Money is tight, but nowadays whose money isn't?

Have I mentioned how last week, I was reunited with a friend named "cigarettes"? Surprisingly I had about 4 that night and man did it felt good. For a few minutes I felt like I was in a world where all my burden was lifted upon my shoulders, as soon as it got to to filter, I was hit and sent back to reality. Now I know what Chandler meant when he said smoking is cool. Haha. And this whole e-cigarette thing is sick as well. Gotta love technologies and them goddamn Asians that make them LOL.

I cannot wait until school is over, I loved the feeling of having nothing to worry about. Reminds me of last summer when I was in Japan, slept and did not have a care in the world. No assignments to do, no tests to study for, no need to wake up for work, just pure chill and satisfying indulgence. Of course this summer won't be like that but at least I won't have school to worry about, especially when it's for 4 months as well! Next year seems to be the year to proves if I'm worthy of having the education that is given to me. I swear I will be serious and focused that time around. This year can be labeled a "freebie" if you may. But nonetheless next year shall be judgment time. Not sure if I want to apply for co-op I'll be working all summer and spring, no breaks! GAYYYY. So yeah I don't know.

Dnim is this track of THE NOVEMBER's paraphilia mini-album by the way, SICK SONG.

Kudos.

12 March 2009

emo.

I`m such an emo. Been such a depressing, stressing, sad, cold (literally), no sunshine week for me (so far). To sum up, I`ve become a downer (ART-SCHOOL reference btw). I hate school, I`m currently in the library right now, on the fourth floor ``working`` on my sociology paper. To my surprise the fourth floor is like a lounge type of floor, I`ve never been on this level before... Hmmm, should go here more often.

Later aligator.

11 March 2009

youth of distortion.

What a week, what a week it was not. Nothing exciting, just a lot more stress loaded on to the back of my hear ("I just walked back in you head." - Tegan & Sara). Anyways, I finally got some music from this band I discovered on YouTube almost two years ago (I think...). The band is called 'solaris' and man do I love their sound. Thanks to a nice YouTube user I was able to download their EP entitled "youth of distortion", and it is SICK.

I'm missing you
You're missing me

If only she said that to me... Oh that's form the chorus of track 4, sweet song! I just finished watching Two and a Half Men, once again Jake Harper (who once was the cutest little chubby 10 year old) was given a secondary role in the episode, such a shame :( The episode was basically about the power struggle within relationships, who has leverage basically, and Charlie (to my surprise) told his girlfriend, Chelsea, "I love you.". Also to his surprise, he got a "Thank you.". For the rest of the episode it's just him going paranoid over the whole "I love you." issue and it was not a good episode that I had anticipated. Oh well, there's always next week and SCRUBS WHERE ARE YOU?!

I should be working on my sociology paper, so later!

09 March 2009

Brandy Alexanderrr.

The only relevance that Brandy Alexander has to this blog is that I am currently tuning into a song entitled "Brandy Alexander" by Feist, okay now the song has ended, NEXT TRACK! Anyways, how are you guys? I'm doing (I wish I was) fine. March is here and is it not great to be queer? Sorry, watched Starsky and Hutch on Showcase last night, that song played and me and my brother just could not stop singing it. Man that movie is funny lmao.

I have so much to do for the rest of the semester, like I said before once mid-term hits, there's no break after that. YOU GOTTA GO HARD!

I was going to take pictures of my CD and DVD collection that have accumulated over the year. Speaking of CD's I haven't actaully listened to each completely yet! So starting now (with Feist) I shall listen to each one! Might I add, I have quite the diverse selection of music (not just because I liseten to Japanese music making my mix more diverse in that sense). Tomorrow is Monday, what am I to do? Let's see, start on that damn 5 page report, finish my statistics group project (which I've yet to discuss with my group), do an online quiz, start working on another group project for my ITM class, start on an analytical report for the most worthless class ever! Oh Em Gee, TOO MUCH! !@#$%^&*()

Been so easily "distracted" that I've been trying to compose new music with the gee-tar. I should really write those baby down instead of keeping it memory, because we all know just how great my brain's capacity is (if you don't know, it's not that much actually). Got rehearsal on Tuesday and I believe it shall be Tuesday from now on. At least we got something down. I WANNA PLAY LIVE ALREADY! But the way it seems we won't be ready until late April, WHICH BY THE WAY IS EXAM PERIOD! AND LAST EXAM! APRIL 29th 2009, FML.

Sorry kids no pictures for today, maybe the next entry.



LOVE AND PEACE! (Whaddya know, a picture after all.)

02 March 2009

Cold cold cold world.

Indeed it is a cold cold cold world out there... well at least here in Canada it is (haha...k maybe not that funny). This whole week the weather forecast predicts that the temperature will be at least -10 degrees (Celsius), well around maybe -10-ish. Everything is piling up, it's like de ja vu or something. Once mid-term come it's like a breaking point for us students (am I right fellow peers?). Like I was saying, breaking point, around this time comes the epiphany that is usually accompanied by regret and many questions. Oh yeah, and a overdose of stress.

After a week of disappointment, well came more disappointment. I'm not sure what week I'm in but I have 3 essays to do (2 for that dreadful marketing class and 1 big one for my sociology class). Two of which involves being with a partner and a group and in that class I've yet to shake hands with anyone... So I sent an e-mail to everybody in that class tell them well... let me quote it for you guys haha.

"Hey, I'm not familiar with anybody in this class so I've yet the chance to find a group or partner for the second essay and group assignment. Anybody willing to take me in?"

As pathetic as I sounded, I actually received a handful of responses! Now I'm stuck in a dilemma, hmmm choices choices. Aside from this issue, I have a mid-term tomorrow as well and then at 7pm a two hour rehearsal with Greenline (did I forget to mention that was the name of my band?). Also time for a new metro pass as well. Oh man, just more money down the drain. Before my marketing mid-term last week, I discovered I had received a mark of 59% on my assignment...the class average was round 66%. FML. I was also SO CLOSE to getting 80% on that mid-term! I got a 78%! OH MAN LIFE'S A BITCH!

You guys want to know what's a cool movie? Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Thanks to a certain somebody ( ;) you know who you are) I was able to stream the movie after coming home from a hard day at work. I've been meaning to watch this movie but never had a chance to when it was in theaters. I can now say it is probably one of my favorite all-time movies, thought that ain't saying much as I am not a big movie watcher... I haven't even watched Dark Knight yet -_-

To end off, I think I forgot my dad's birthday. Not sure if it's March 20th or April 20th. Oh boy.