Wednesday, January 10, 2007
[Stupid Blogger]
[Stupid Blogger]
The title says it all.
Why?
I've been trying to make a post since three days ago.
And everything was working alright until I tried to access the Create Post page.
Damn. One hour later and it's still not loading.
It was like this for two days straight.
Thankfully it worked today.
Okay, so now I shall try to remember exactly what I wanted to blog about.
Oh! I remember! I got Hybrid Theory on Sunday!
A bit of an impulse buy because I was hoping to scout for enhanced CD version.
But anyway Hybrid Theory isn't as nice. For a start it was a very primitive Linkin Park, not quite as sophisticated as Meteora. And they had no bassist that time (Phoenix left when they were called Xero and joined back after Hybrid Theory was released. Couldn't have chosen a better time, huh?)... so the bass part was all "char-par-lang" and didn't have the "Phoenix touch". The two songs that win hands-down would be In The End (obviously!) and Papercut. If you notice they're very similar to the songs in Meteora. A Place For My Head has nice lyrics. The rest are just too angsty... okay almost all their songs are angsty but the rest just don't sound as good. Oh, and Cure For The Itch is funny. "Folks, we'd like to introduce to you.... MISTURRRR HHAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHNNNNNNN...". Apparently I heard somewhere that that was Joe Hahn speaking... but the beginning part sounds like Chester and the "MISTURRRR HHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNNNNN...." part is too badly disfigured for me to hear if it was Joe or anybody else. But it's Hahn-ism at its best. Oh yeah.
For music videos, Papercut's MV is one of the best from Linkin Park. It's got a lot of significance. And Breaking The Habit from Meteora is the BEST of the BEST. Entirely Japanese Animation. They got animators from Kill Bill. (actually I've never seen the anime, but let's just say it's way better than getting the people who did Tsubasa and Cardcaptor Sakura to do it! I don't mind the XxXHolic-style too.) I tell you it's seriously good. Seriously. Seriously.
And if you intend to watch any MVs from Linkin Park, insist that it's directed by Joe Hahn. Out of all the MVs they ever had, Joe's are always the best. The fantasy types with all the monsters and the Utopia feeling and the somewhat morbid and out-of-this-world ones. Not Faint. Dumb video of a concert and Chester screaming his shit off at jumping fans. Spoiled the song totally. Don't watch Numb too. It's typical teenage angst-style video with a school outcast involved and she gets emo by slashing the canvas and spewing paint all over it.
Enough about Linkin Park. Talk about school.
We had CCA Orientation.
It was... okay I guess. Except the Sec 1s were exceptionally rude while we were performing. Shouting things like "ACT LAH! ACT LAH!" at us. In the first place, little dears, have you guys any idea how much time we had to do this? Three days. Two and a half to be exact. Everything from scratch - that means music, actions, cues, costumes, make-up, props and manpower. All in two and a half days. I find myself and the rest sacrificing so much time in those few days just to stay back, rehearse and get all the parts nailed down. We were determined to put up a show and in the end we lost your support. So are you saying that we shouldn't bother and just wait for fresh arrivals to drop from the sky? Complete ingrates and ignoramuses.
The first lesson I ever fell asleep in... Ms Ow's literature class! Oh gosh. And she decided the best way to wake us (me and Careen) up was to shout "A DRUM!" into our ears, before walking away nonchalantly saying the remainder of the lines, "... a drum! Macbeth doth come." I can feel my eardrums disintegrating.
Anyway we hear enough of her shouting everyday. I really hope she isn't taking her DM job too seriously, all of us really get paranoid everytime we're within the school grounds. It's almost like our mobile phones are about to ring even if we know it's switched off and in our school bags. It's as if everytime you step into school your fringe suddenly grows three inches too long, your nails get varnished by themselves, extra piercings start popping all over your face and your skirt and socks become nonexistent. I find myself getting really, really, really uptight even though I don't show it. If I saw Ms Ow on the first floor I'd run four storeys up just to bypass her field of vision, especially when she is scolding people. I loved Ms Ow, but now that she's DM she's getting really... I don't know, I guess it really is the stress to improve the school's discipline that's turning her into a nightmare.
"IT'S LIKE I'M/PARANOID LOOKING OVER MY BACK/IT'S LIKE A/WHIRLWIND INSIDE OF MY HEAD/IT'S LIKE I/CAN'T STOP WHAT I'M HEARING WITHIN/IT'S LIKE THE FACE INSIDE IS RIGHT/BENEATH MY SKIN" - Papercut
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