It looks like Default's got another couple of months to go before their album finally fucking drops. At least the new song I heard called Little Too Late is good, so at least I know I won't be disappointed when, as I've brusquely phrased it, their album finally fucking drops.
Evans Blue, on the other hand, has set a final date (at least it's more concrete) but....I'm a little on the fence on the single they put out called Sick Of It. Dan's a good singer, but, I'm feeling like he's a little disconnected from the band. The song's got some serious Three Days Grace/Breaking Benjamin-isms because of the lyrics and the call-and-response nature to some of the lines. EB's haunting/heavy guitars are supposed to be coupled with equally haunting/pained vocals. Come to think of it, he sounds a bit like Ben Burnley minus any screaming.
I'm not calling it bad, just that...Kevin fit better. This comes off as a little bland.
I've got enough credit left in my iTunes account to buy the song when it comes onto iTunes on the 31st. I think I just need to let it grow on me. God, I hope I have a Goo-ish complex where I just need to listen to it more to like it more.
...Please?
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Is Having Awesome Luck On The Thirteenth Paradoxical?
So, it was paycheck day (or would that be direct deposit day? Hehe, I think I like this alliteration better) so you can already guess what I used $25 on here. Yup, new music! Didn't have any luck with finding CDs in Wal Mart so I just bought myself an iTunes card. Not to mention I did this in spite of the fact that someone at work is going to give me a $20 card for cheap because they can't use it (score for useless gifts!), but hey, I'm a shut-in who doesn't spend much to start with so any cheap entertainment is always good.
Anyways, my list this week is kind of ecclectic so you can blame the radio for some of these:
Anyways, my list this week is kind of ecclectic so you can blame the radio for some of these:
- The Fallout (Album) - Default (Needed to complete it so, * = new)
- Sick & Tired
- Deny
- Wasting My Time
- Slow Me Down
- One Late Night
- Seize The Day*
- Somewhere
- Live A Lie
- By Your Side
- Faded*
- Let You Down
- Blind (Bonus Track)*
- Deny (Acoustic Bonus Track)*
- Wasting My Time (Acoustic Bonus Track)*
- I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
- Do You Like It - Our Lady Peace
- All For You - Our Lady Peace
- Naveed (Album)- Our Lady Peace
The Birdman Supersatellite Starseed Hope Naveed Dirty Walls Denied Is It Safe Julia Under Zenith Neon Crossing
- 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
- Son - Scott Weiland
- Mockingbird Girl - Scott Weiland
- Help I'm Alive - Metric
- Front Row - Metric
- Over My Head (Cable Car) - The Fray
- Amphetamine - Everclear
- To The Moon & Back - Savage Garden
- Why Can't You Be - Third Eye Blind
Oh, and while I'm on the subject of music, it seems that, according to Steph, the Goos have picked Tim Palmer as the producer for the new album (provided that this is true). Now I looked at his producing/mixing credits and I think we're in good hands. The guy fucking mixed Pearl Jam's Ten and mixed some tracks for U2!
I find it funny that I was joking about Goo ripping off Pearl Jam by naming their new album Nine because they couldn't self-title it because they did that already.
I think I should buy some lottery tickets or something.
Son, she said, have I got a little story for you....
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Moar News.
Evans Blue has set a date for their new album (which surprisingly doesn't have a big-ass title this time around since it's -shock!- self-titled) so mark your calendars for June 23th, people.
Oh and I think it's safe to say that we'll get a Goo album this year, judging by this:
'just dropping in to say hello. we're still banging away in the studio, but spirits are high here in camp goo as we can see the light at the end of the recording tunnel. more news coming soon!'
I wouldn't be ready to wager on a specific time frame for this yet, it's just that I have a strong feeling it'll be in the year. I'd imagine that even if they were close to being finished with the recording, they'd still have to allocate more time afterwards to make the artwork, fine-tune some last minute stuff, promote it, yada-yada... and I personally have no clue of how long that it'd take. Since I haven't had to properly wait for any of their releases, I can't rely on past trends with this kind of stuff. (God, is it obvious that I'm a math nerd/likely candidate of OCD here?)
On a side note, I fucking love this adorable picture of Robby with his kitties:
Oh and I think it's safe to say that we'll get a Goo album this year, judging by this:
'just dropping in to say hello. we're still banging away in the studio, but spirits are high here in camp goo as we can see the light at the end of the recording tunnel. more news coming soon!'
I wouldn't be ready to wager on a specific time frame for this yet, it's just that I have a strong feeling it'll be in the year. I'd imagine that even if they were close to being finished with the recording, they'd still have to allocate more time afterwards to make the artwork, fine-tune some last minute stuff, promote it, yada-yada... and I personally have no clue of how long that it'd take. Since I haven't had to properly wait for any of their releases, I can't rely on past trends with this kind of stuff. (God, is it obvious that I'm a math nerd/likely candidate of OCD here?)
On a side note, I fucking love this adorable picture of Robby with his kitties:
Just another sequel, just another reason for you...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The Countdown Is Sooo On!
Today is March 4th, and, for those of you who aren't in the know, is also one of my friends birthday.
Funny thing is that I always used to joke around and say, 'Oh, now it's officially two months from my birthday!' in high school. Most of my friends can't seem to remember when my birthday is but she's one of the few who do because of that (seriously, I think only two remember).
Even weirder is that time seems to fly the fuck by once that two month-marker hits, so that's why I say it's ON. I'll be double-decades before you know it.
(and yes, I still find it as weird as hell to be that old in TWO MONTHS)
Everything you are, falls from the sky like a star...
Funny thing is that I always used to joke around and say, 'Oh, now it's officially two months from my birthday!' in high school. Most of my friends can't seem to remember when my birthday is but she's one of the few who do because of that (seriously, I think only two remember).
Even weirder is that time seems to fly the fuck by once that two month-marker hits, so that's why I say it's ON. I'll be double-decades before you know it.
(and yes, I still find it as weird as hell to be that old in TWO MONTHS)
Everything you are, falls from the sky like a star...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Something I'll Not Forget (Neither Will Rinoa).
This was it, the moment before she’d take that first step into the room and have the last moment she’d ever have with her mother.
It was so surreal to be here. Deep in the corners of her mind, she’d always imagined that it would have been the other way around, that her mother would be visiting her on her deathbed, that she would outlive her. It always seemed like a large possibility given that it almost happened once already. Rinoa closed her eyes and rid herself of these thoughts. She only had a few hours at best and it would be foolish to squander them away like that. Not after all Squall had done to get them here.
She walked forward and grabbed hold of the doorknob to her room. When she twisted it open and let herself in ever so slowly, it made a foreboding creak in midst of the pitch-black room. Rinoa stifled another reoccurring sob, determined to be strong, if only for a moment.
As she quietly walked past the rectangular curtained-off section on her left and a door, presumably a bathroom door, on her right, the soft glow of a dim lamp cast enough light on the bed in the far corner to allow her to recognize the figure lying in it. Even though the said figure was wrapped in bandages and hooked up to several machines flanking her on both sides, Rinoa knew it to be her mom. No one else had such beautiful, long dark brown tresses like her mom did; she was one of a kind that way and she still was, even now.
Rinoa took another deep, steadying breath right then and there. This was truly it, she reiterated to herself, and there is no turning back. And so, without another conscious thought, she walked up to her bed. Her mother's eyes were closed but her chest was still rising and falling – it looked like the teenager wasn’t too late after all.
“...Mom?” Rinoa called out to her. Slowly, but surely, the older woman opened her eyes. Though they were rather bloodshot, but they still held the warmth they always had.
“...I’m so glad you made it sweetie.” she softly told her daughter. Rinoa managed a small smile, fighting back the rush of tears at the same time when Julia smiled back in kind.
“I have Squall to thank for that.” she whispered back. “He drove me here as fast as he could with a really bad sprained ankle after he...got to the bottom of this when...there was a mix up with the hospital.”
“Well, you’ll have to tell him thanks for me when you get the chance.”
“A-alright.” When her bottom lip started to quiver and her throat began to close up, Rinoa knew it was over; she couldn’t keep up the brave face anymore. The tears finally fell. “M-mom...I don’t...I don’t want you to die. I...I need you too much. Hyne, why did it have to be you and dad? ...W-why couldn’t it be someone else?”
“Rinoa....” Julia reached out to her daughter by gripping her hand with her own. “...we can’t choose what fate has in store for us. Nobody likes it when...tragedy takes away the ones you love, but it’s life. Sometimes...you can’t do anything other than to accept what’s meant to be.”
“Well... I don’t believe in f-fate so it can’t... it can’t take you away from me,” she argued, “And you’ll be okay and then...we...we can go home together after you get better.”
“Rinoa...as much as I would like that to be true...I know that I only have very little time left in this world.” she told her daughter whose face was now completely marred with tears. “...I know this is really hard for you and...I wish I didn’t have to make you cry like this, but...let’s make the most of the time we have now.”
“B-but...”
“...Please,” she pleaded, “...I don’t want my last moments with you to be sad...even if I can’t stay here with you like I want to.”
“...O-okay...” she choked out, wiping away the tears left and right, “...I’ll try.”
“...That’s...my girl.”
“...M-mom?” Rinoa called out to her mother when her eyes were beginning to close once more and her grip on her arm was beginning to loosen. “No....not already. I...I didn’t get to...”
“Don’t worry...” her mother weakly replied. “...I haven’t gone...anywhere just yet.”
“You...promise?”
Julia opened her eyes a little. “I promise.”
Rinoa stifled the remainder of her tears and pulled up a chair nearby so she could lay her head on her mother’s bed, allowing her mother to lovingly stroke her hair.
“...Rinoa...” Julia softly began when she tucked a loose strand of her daughter’s hair behind her ear, “...before I leave you...I want you to know that you were and still are the best thing that has ever happened to me. I know I don’t have much but I want to give you my silver wedding ring.”
“...You mean the one I’d always used to try and put on my necklace as a little girl?”
The older woman smiled. “The very one.”
Before she knew it, the said ring was placed right in front of her eyes. Hesitantly, Rinoa took it in her hand, clasping it tightly with her fingers. She tilted her head backwards so she could see her mother’s face once more.
“Go on..." she encouraged, "I want to see what it looks like on your necklace now.”
“...A-alright.”
Rinoa sat up straight on her chair and reached her hands behind her back to undo the clasp, methodically taking extra precautions to ensure that the ring stayed within her fingers. After a few trying moments, she had carefully slid the ring through the bare chain and caught the clasp on the first try. Moving her hand away from the chain, she turned so that her mother could see.
“...It’s beautiful, Rinoa.”
Rinoa shyly accepted the compliment but when she noticed that her mom was beginning to drift off for good, she knew it was time to add more to her thanks.
“Thank you...for everything, mom.” Rinoa told her. “I’m...going to miss you, but...I’m not going to say goodbye because...because I know that you’ll always be there, watching over me.”
After Julia gave her an appreciative nod and smile, she finally allowed herself the comfort of eternal slumber as she closed her eyes once and for all. When her mother’s last moment on this earth had passed, Rinoa got up from her chair and tucked her mother in and planted a kiss on her cheek in a final act of kindness, letting her lips linger for an extra second or two.
It was a while before Rinoa found the courage to leave the room, but when she did, she was not alone; Squall had been waiting for her on the chairs on the other side of the door. He looked a little worse for wear, but it didn’t matter. She was immensely thankful for his presence alone.
Without another thought, she walked over and sat on the spare chair beside him.
“...Did you get enough time with her?” he asked. While it seemed like an odd question, Rinoa knew where he was coming from.
“Yes...I did.” she quietly told him. “...Squall?”
“...Yeah?”
“My mom told me to thank you for getting me here on time and...I want to say thanks too. I...couldn’t have done this without you.” she sombrely said. “...Not in a million years.”
He looked downwards. “You’re.......welcome.” Then he looked up. “...I don’t know what you had the chance to say but...if you don’t have anywhere to stay...I called my parents in the parking lot and they said you could stay at the house for as long as you need.”
Rinoa honestly didn’t know what to say at this moment. All she could do was cry.
It was so surreal to be here. Deep in the corners of her mind, she’d always imagined that it would have been the other way around, that her mother would be visiting her on her deathbed, that she would outlive her. It always seemed like a large possibility given that it almost happened once already. Rinoa closed her eyes and rid herself of these thoughts. She only had a few hours at best and it would be foolish to squander them away like that. Not after all Squall had done to get them here.
She walked forward and grabbed hold of the doorknob to her room. When she twisted it open and let herself in ever so slowly, it made a foreboding creak in midst of the pitch-black room. Rinoa stifled another reoccurring sob, determined to be strong, if only for a moment.
As she quietly walked past the rectangular curtained-off section on her left and a door, presumably a bathroom door, on her right, the soft glow of a dim lamp cast enough light on the bed in the far corner to allow her to recognize the figure lying in it. Even though the said figure was wrapped in bandages and hooked up to several machines flanking her on both sides, Rinoa knew it to be her mom. No one else had such beautiful, long dark brown tresses like her mom did; she was one of a kind that way and she still was, even now.
Rinoa took another deep, steadying breath right then and there. This was truly it, she reiterated to herself, and there is no turning back. And so, without another conscious thought, she walked up to her bed. Her mother's eyes were closed but her chest was still rising and falling – it looked like the teenager wasn’t too late after all.
“...Mom?” Rinoa called out to her. Slowly, but surely, the older woman opened her eyes. Though they were rather bloodshot, but they still held the warmth they always had.
“...I’m so glad you made it sweetie.” she softly told her daughter. Rinoa managed a small smile, fighting back the rush of tears at the same time when Julia smiled back in kind.
“I have Squall to thank for that.” she whispered back. “He drove me here as fast as he could with a really bad sprained ankle after he...got to the bottom of this when...there was a mix up with the hospital.”
“Well, you’ll have to tell him thanks for me when you get the chance.”
“A-alright.” When her bottom lip started to quiver and her throat began to close up, Rinoa knew it was over; she couldn’t keep up the brave face anymore. The tears finally fell. “M-mom...I don’t...I don’t want you to die. I...I need you too much. Hyne, why did it have to be you and dad? ...W-why couldn’t it be someone else?”
“Rinoa....” Julia reached out to her daughter by gripping her hand with her own. “...we can’t choose what fate has in store for us. Nobody likes it when...tragedy takes away the ones you love, but it’s life. Sometimes...you can’t do anything other than to accept what’s meant to be.”
“Well... I don’t believe in f-fate so it can’t... it can’t take you away from me,” she argued, “And you’ll be okay and then...we...we can go home together after you get better.”
“Rinoa...as much as I would like that to be true...I know that I only have very little time left in this world.” she told her daughter whose face was now completely marred with tears. “...I know this is really hard for you and...I wish I didn’t have to make you cry like this, but...let’s make the most of the time we have now.”
“B-but...”
“...Please,” she pleaded, “...I don’t want my last moments with you to be sad...even if I can’t stay here with you like I want to.”
“...O-okay...” she choked out, wiping away the tears left and right, “...I’ll try.”
“...That’s...my girl.”
“...M-mom?” Rinoa called out to her mother when her eyes were beginning to close once more and her grip on her arm was beginning to loosen. “No....not already. I...I didn’t get to...”
“Don’t worry...” her mother weakly replied. “...I haven’t gone...anywhere just yet.”
“You...promise?”
Julia opened her eyes a little. “I promise.”
Rinoa stifled the remainder of her tears and pulled up a chair nearby so she could lay her head on her mother’s bed, allowing her mother to lovingly stroke her hair.
“...Rinoa...” Julia softly began when she tucked a loose strand of her daughter’s hair behind her ear, “...before I leave you...I want you to know that you were and still are the best thing that has ever happened to me. I know I don’t have much but I want to give you my silver wedding ring.”
“...You mean the one I’d always used to try and put on my necklace as a little girl?”
The older woman smiled. “The very one.”
Before she knew it, the said ring was placed right in front of her eyes. Hesitantly, Rinoa took it in her hand, clasping it tightly with her fingers. She tilted her head backwards so she could see her mother’s face once more.
“Go on..." she encouraged, "I want to see what it looks like on your necklace now.”
“...A-alright.”
Rinoa sat up straight on her chair and reached her hands behind her back to undo the clasp, methodically taking extra precautions to ensure that the ring stayed within her fingers. After a few trying moments, she had carefully slid the ring through the bare chain and caught the clasp on the first try. Moving her hand away from the chain, she turned so that her mother could see.
“...It’s beautiful, Rinoa.”
Rinoa shyly accepted the compliment but when she noticed that her mom was beginning to drift off for good, she knew it was time to add more to her thanks.
“Thank you...for everything, mom.” Rinoa told her. “I’m...going to miss you, but...I’m not going to say goodbye because...because I know that you’ll always be there, watching over me.”
After Julia gave her an appreciative nod and smile, she finally allowed herself the comfort of eternal slumber as she closed her eyes once and for all. When her mother’s last moment on this earth had passed, Rinoa got up from her chair and tucked her mother in and planted a kiss on her cheek in a final act of kindness, letting her lips linger for an extra second or two.
It was a while before Rinoa found the courage to leave the room, but when she did, she was not alone; Squall had been waiting for her on the chairs on the other side of the door. He looked a little worse for wear, but it didn’t matter. She was immensely thankful for his presence alone.
Without another thought, she walked over and sat on the spare chair beside him.
“...Did you get enough time with her?” he asked. While it seemed like an odd question, Rinoa knew where he was coming from.
“Yes...I did.” she quietly told him. “...Squall?”
“...Yeah?”
“My mom told me to thank you for getting me here on time and...I want to say thanks too. I...couldn’t have done this without you.” she sombrely said. “...Not in a million years.”
He looked downwards. “You’re.......welcome.” Then he looked up. “...I don’t know what you had the chance to say but...if you don’t have anywhere to stay...I called my parents in the parking lot and they said you could stay at the house for as long as you need.”
Rinoa honestly didn’t know what to say at this moment. All she could do was cry.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Buying Stuff: Part Deux
Used up the rest of my iTunes credits, here's what I got:
- Sunflowers - Everclear
- Pale Green Stars - Everclear
- Slide - Everclear
- Out of My Depth - Everclear
- Red Star - Third Eye Blind
- Faster - Third Eye Blind
- Danger - Third Eye Blind
- One Late Night - Default
So that makes 27 new songs total. That should tide me over...until the next paycheck. Hihihi.
Yeah, were gonna let it slide...
Would You Buy This?
I just saw this neat feature on iTunes where you can make a playlist/mix that other people can buy and rate after iTunes approves it. I figured I'd try my hand at this so I made a 10-song compilation (because I thought it'd be appropriate to not make it a random number) of what I know best - alternative rock. I aimed my focus on songs people were sure to know on a casual basis (i.e. chart-toppers) and I thought I did a pretty good job. I even made sure that the track listing worked nicely as well although one song was a bitch to place (try to guess which one).
So I ask you, if you were a casual alt-rock listener (and didn't have these songs to begin with), would you buy this:
So I ask you, if you were a casual alt-rock listener (and didn't have these songs to begin with), would you buy this:
- One Headlight - The Wallflowers
- The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
- Closing Time - Semisonic
- 3AM - Matchbox Twenty
- Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
- If You Could Only See - Tonic
- Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
- Hemorrhage (In My Hands) - Fuel
- Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon
- Hanging By A Moment
Fun Fact: I bought another copy of Everything You Want because I love the extended intro and mine didn't have that.
I Buy Music Because I Have Nothing Better To Spend My Money On.
Got paid on Friday and went to the mall today to pick up some Diet Pepsi, gum and convinced myself to buy myself some stuff from the HMV there because, like the title says, I have nothing better to spend my $$$$ on (I got the gum and cases on sale at Shoppers' so I suppose that might have been reason to celebrate?).
Now the dilemma concerning my fanfiction has died down and I think I gained a few reviewers instead of losing them but what I found ironic is that I ended up buying an Our Lady Peace album (along with a $20 iTunes card). It's not the one that had the song on it (that one would be Spiritual Machines and I got Clumsy) but I still found it funny. ...Or could that be symbolic? Hm.
Anyway, here's what I bought (in order) so far with the $20 iTunes card. I've got $9.85 left in credits so feel free to suggest things. *winks at Jess*
Now the dilemma concerning my fanfiction has died down and I think I gained a few reviewers instead of losing them but what I found ironic is that I ended up buying an Our Lady Peace album (along with a $20 iTunes card). It's not the one that had the song on it (that one would be Spiritual Machines and I got Clumsy) but I still found it funny. ...Or could that be symbolic? Hm.
Anyway, here's what I bought (in order) so far with the $20 iTunes card. I've got $9.85 left in credits so feel free to suggest things. *winks at Jess*
- The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
- 6th Avenue Heartache - The Wallflowers
- One Hit Wonder - Everclear
- You Make Me Feel Like A Whore - Everclear
- So Outta Line - Goo Goo Dolls
- On Your Side - Goo Goo Dolls
- Know My Name - Goo Goo Dolls
- Road To The Salinas - Goo Goo Dolls
- Misfortune - Goo Goo Dolls
- The Burn - Matchbox Twenty
- Whatever (Live) - Our Lady Peace
Clearly, I was in a 90's mood with the first two and I'm kind of happy that I've (unofficially) got all of the true Goo songs on Hold Me Up (I ain't wasting 99 cents on 22 seconds or Lance Diamond though Lance is a cool guy, I'll admit). I feel like I'm forgetting something from the 90's that I wanted to get, but I'm sure that I'll remember it eventually if there is something that I did forget.
Hopefully someone from the plethora of artists I mentioned in that list awhile ago have something new out (Default, I'm looking at you) by the time I visit Wal Mart or HMV again. Listening to new things is always nice.
Life is waiting for you, it's all messed up but we'll survive...
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