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Friday 27 March 2009
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Well, still not sleeping. Not a wink last night. On average 3 hours a night for the last week, and it's beginning to take its toll on me. i look like a fucking panda!
This latest bout may actually be due to me watching Dark Angel til late at night- and it was somewhat disturbing. I finished on season 1 finale, where Max & Zack are captured by Manticore. Max is shot and Zack sacrifices himself to save her life. Ooh. It was disturbing, I was so not expecting it, but sad too. I like the character Zack, I mean other than for the blindingly obvious reason :) - he's a complex guy. We know that as another X-5, he is Max's brother, but in a way he's not, if you know what I mean. They certainly have a chemistry and tension between them that sort of hints at turmoil under the surface.
Further adventures in Smallville-land: Adam is help captive and is unlikely to ever get any better. Shame really, Ian Somerhalder is a real dish - was hoping to see more of him :)
Oh but I found out that he is in Lost (s1 only though), have added that to my Lovefilm list. Which by the way currently holds 50 titles, mostly TV series that I never get around to seeing otherwise. ER, Lost, CSI (all three versions, Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill etc.
I'm just a TV addict, I know. But in a good way :)
Other news, had a meeting with the boss yesterday, I am being offered a promotion! I get to be Public Services Manager (fancy eh?), AND (the best bit), I get an assistant!!!!! Whoohooo.
This latest bout may actually be due to me watching Dark Angel til late at night- and it was somewhat disturbing. I finished on season 1 finale, where Max & Zack are captured by Manticore. Max is shot and Zack sacrifices himself to save her life. Ooh. It was disturbing, I was so not expecting it, but sad too. I like the character Zack, I mean other than for the blindingly obvious reason :) - he's a complex guy. We know that as another X-5, he is Max's brother, but in a way he's not, if you know what I mean. They certainly have a chemistry and tension between them that sort of hints at turmoil under the surface.
Further adventures in Smallville-land: Adam is help captive and is unlikely to ever get any better. Shame really, Ian Somerhalder is a real dish - was hoping to see more of him :)
Oh but I found out that he is in Lost (s1 only though), have added that to my Lovefilm list. Which by the way currently holds 50 titles, mostly TV series that I never get around to seeing otherwise. ER, Lost, CSI (all three versions, Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill etc.
I'm just a TV addict, I know. But in a good way :)
Other news, had a meeting with the boss yesterday, I am being offered a promotion! I get to be Public Services Manager (fancy eh?), AND (the best bit), I get an assistant!!!!! Whoohooo.
Tuesday 24 March 2009
Fall Out Boy
I'm a latecomer to FOB, I didn't really pay any attention to them until 20007, after Infinity on High came out. They are a difficult band to like. Patrick is the lead singer and frontman, but it's really Pete Wentz's band - he is the most visible member of the quartet and the only one who regualry gives interviews.
The early stuff suffers from overly convoluted and pseudo-satirical song titles (see Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued)with lyrics that don't seem to connect to reality at all.
But they are very clever, just look at the viral marketing campaign that led to FaD's release - it was a veritable masterstroke. I was a little worried when the release date was out forward by a month, but it was well worth the wait. Folie A Deux may simply be the best album of recent years, and as FOB goes, the best they have ever been. I'm not sure they will be able to surpass that, it will be a very tough act to follow.
So, what's so special about Folie a Deux?
Well, first single released 'I don't care' showed a more 'rock' FOB, it was unbearably catchy and the lyrics were ironic without being patronizing. Rest of the album is actually nothing like it.
The song titles are just as non-sensical as before, but at least they are shorter and catchier (Well, ok we still have 'Headfirst into Cooperstown on a bad bet', but that can be excused).
There's been a lot of criticism about the number of collaborators and guest artists on the album, as if that would be a bad thing somehow. Well, I personally think that FBR (and by extension, Decaydance)is the hottest label around at the moment, and if their biggest selling artist thinks the other artists are worth showcasing, more kudos to them! Genius collaborations are Pharrell (in w.a.m.s) and Brendon Urie of PATD (in 20 dollar nosebleed) - especially Urie's voice and style complement Stump's very well.
Living outside the US means that you don't get to see these bands very often. So, understandably, I jumped at the chance to see them in London a few months back, just before the record came out. The screaming teenage fans apart, it was a cracking show. The band interacted with the audience and the set struck just the right chord. But the second show I saw, only a couple of weeks ago could have been performed by a completely different band. The FOB I saw this time around seemed ill at ease with itself, I was left with the feeling that they were going through the motions more than anything else. I mean of course, technically they were brilliant, not a wrong chord anywhere, the new songs sound great live and there was a good balance between brand new songs and the old favourites. But still, something was missing, I was just...left cold I guess. They played an amazingly short set - 16 songs + 2 encores. Maybe it was a case of tour fatigue?
The early stuff suffers from overly convoluted and pseudo-satirical song titles (see Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued)with lyrics that don't seem to connect to reality at all.
But they are very clever, just look at the viral marketing campaign that led to FaD's release - it was a veritable masterstroke. I was a little worried when the release date was out forward by a month, but it was well worth the wait. Folie A Deux may simply be the best album of recent years, and as FOB goes, the best they have ever been. I'm not sure they will be able to surpass that, it will be a very tough act to follow.
So, what's so special about Folie a Deux?
Well, first single released 'I don't care' showed a more 'rock' FOB, it was unbearably catchy and the lyrics were ironic without being patronizing. Rest of the album is actually nothing like it.
The song titles are just as non-sensical as before, but at least they are shorter and catchier (Well, ok we still have 'Headfirst into Cooperstown on a bad bet', but that can be excused).
There's been a lot of criticism about the number of collaborators and guest artists on the album, as if that would be a bad thing somehow. Well, I personally think that FBR (and by extension, Decaydance)is the hottest label around at the moment, and if their biggest selling artist thinks the other artists are worth showcasing, more kudos to them! Genius collaborations are Pharrell (in w.a.m.s) and Brendon Urie of PATD (in 20 dollar nosebleed) - especially Urie's voice and style complement Stump's very well.
Living outside the US means that you don't get to see these bands very often. So, understandably, I jumped at the chance to see them in London a few months back, just before the record came out. The screaming teenage fans apart, it was a cracking show. The band interacted with the audience and the set struck just the right chord. But the second show I saw, only a couple of weeks ago could have been performed by a completely different band. The FOB I saw this time around seemed ill at ease with itself, I was left with the feeling that they were going through the motions more than anything else. I mean of course, technically they were brilliant, not a wrong chord anywhere, the new songs sound great live and there was a good balance between brand new songs and the old favourites. But still, something was missing, I was just...left cold I guess. They played an amazingly short set - 16 songs + 2 encores. Maybe it was a case of tour fatigue?
Monday 23 March 2009
April showers (well, March - same difference)
Well, the only time I go out today and I get caught in the rain. We are not talking about any drizzle here, it was like someone turned on the shower! I was out in it for... I don't know, maybe 2 minutes and I'm soaked through. The jeans are wet up to the knees, hoodie is soaked and so's the tshirt. I pretty much look like I took a shower with my clothes on - not funny at all. Wanna bet that it won't rain now for the rest of the fucking day, just that one time that I was out. Talk about fucking karma...
*sigh*
*sigh*
Sleepless in Seattle (well, in London really, but anyway)
Sleeping has been a problem lately for me. Well, not the sleeping bit, but the part where I wake up wayyy too early in the morning. For the last four days I have woken up around 7am with no alarm, this morning I was up at 5.30!That's just not nice. Strangely though, I feel fine today, although I suspect I will be dog tired come 6 o'clock and time to go home...
Sunday 22 March 2009
Smallville
Back to Smallville - on s3 at the moment. I find it hard to concentrate on it, only manage a couple of episodes in one go. It's frustrating really, for the first two seasons seemed that the story never really moves forward, some improvement here already, but still - it's too open-ended for my liking. Too many characters to follow, Clark and Lana, Pete, Chloe, not to mention Lex and his dad and all the other people, hard to keep track cause there's just never enough explained about their involvement.
But I admit, it is very entertaining, I do find myself strangely drawn to it. I can't help but to compare this to Roswell (of course..), which has a fixed story arc, a complete storyline to follow start to end and a very strong team of characters. Each character has been written as complete, we don't see one-episode-only villains, come to think of it, we see no one-episode charaters at all in Roswell. Smallville is full of this, every single episode sees a new character to follow, then they go away and you forget about them.
And why it is that I can quote lines verbatim from Roswell, but none from Smallville?
Well, we will see - I have 5 seasons to see yet, and who knows, maybe they make more?
But I can't watch it all back to back, so I have to find something else to watch in between...
But I admit, it is very entertaining, I do find myself strangely drawn to it. I can't help but to compare this to Roswell (of course..), which has a fixed story arc, a complete storyline to follow start to end and a very strong team of characters. Each character has been written as complete, we don't see one-episode-only villains, come to think of it, we see no one-episode charaters at all in Roswell. Smallville is full of this, every single episode sees a new character to follow, then they go away and you forget about them.
And why it is that I can quote lines verbatim from Roswell, but none from Smallville?
Well, we will see - I have 5 seasons to see yet, and who knows, maybe they make more?
But I can't watch it all back to back, so I have to find something else to watch in between...
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