wistful

ever since i got back from having tea with mom and jijim at an oldtown kopitiam outlet tadi, i've been feeling ridiculously cheerful. Giddy, in fact. must be the side-effect of their ice-blended white coffee. caffeine buzz.

i think it's official. I've joined the ranks of the Arctic Monkeys' legion of fans. You know, to be honest, when they first came out and there was all that hoo-haa about them and their album, i didn't really get it. I listened to 'I bet that You Look Good on the Dancefloor', and it was alright, but i didn't think it was THAT fantastic.

I repent!i repent! This album, 'Favourite Worst Nightmare', is just fantastic. Yes, i was miffed that they didn't provide the lyrics and instead had an album cover made up of pages of 'art'(more like blank coloured pictures), but the cd itself makes up for it. i can't stop playing it. In fact, i'm starting to think i should get the first album too.

i can't though. i'm broke. well, not completely flat-out broke, but i've been to the ATM so many times this month, i'm feeling way over my head. half the papers in my wallet are receipts, rather than proper money notes.

chop, going off on a tangent there. where was i? the album. Once again, i can't measure them in technical terms, since i'm not a musician myself. I once read a comment where some guy criticised them, saying they were amateurs and didn't have any real skills, which may be true, i don't know, they didn't exactly have any jaw-dropping guitar solos throughout any of the songs, but still. The riffs!the beats! the lyrics!ntah, for some reason i just dig all of it. and yes, i guess i can understand why some people may complain that their songs may sound repetitive in terms of style, but for me it didn't seem boring or worn out. while the style IS generally the same, the songs (for me) was distinctly different enough from one another for each to have its own uniqueness.

Out of 12 songs in the album, 7 are absolute favourites, listen-on-repeat songs. the other 5 are also good, the kind you grow to like the more you hear them, that in the end you just have the whole album on repeat. I highly recommend anyone who trusts my taste in music to listen to the album. And, i underestimated Alex Turner's vocals all this while. Especially on the song '505', his voice just really caught hold of my attention, bile dengar lagu to baru i became aware of his range and the unique quality of his voice. yeah, well. this is just my opinion.

At least try looking up these songs,ok? ntah knape aku nak promote sangat lagu dieorang ni pon tak tahu, but i guess i just want to share what i think is a good thing. 'Teddy Picker', 'D is for Dangerous', 'Only ones Who Know', '505', 'This House is A Circus'. Another thing i noticed about the album is that in most of the songs, Alex Turner's voice is altered to sound like it's sung through a speakerphone. Karen O's voice from the yeah yeah yeahs was altered the same way on their album 'Fever to Tell'. While it distracted and irritated me to some extent on 'Fever to tell', it didn't bother me at all on 'Favourite Worst Nightmare'. Another reason why i like this cd so much.

must. stop. gushing.

hey, i know this is irrelevant, but i finally decided to organize my songs and make playlists. i used to be of the sumbat-je-semue-lagu-and-listen-on-shuffle species. but that didn't work out, because moreoften than not, i'd want to hear a certain genre or tone of songs, depending on my mood, and i didn't have psychic powers to control the order of songs the shuffle control belted out. but now, my problems are solved! i have my 'giddy' playlist, my 'wistful' playlist, my 'feeling down' playlist, and a few others. this may sound insignificant, but it does give a sense of accomplishment. it's the small pleasures that count, yeah?

i thought this was interesting. Don't know if you've heard about it(i didn't before this), but i read in the papers today about Paul Potts, who apprently won the hearts of the British public. He's your average mobile phone salesman, who tried out for Britain's Got Talent, a brainchild of Simon Cowell's. Anyways, watch the video, which shows his tryout for the competition. He went on to win. your basic fairy-tale story of success, quite touching, as far as reality talent shows go.


i wish i could try wearing a beanie. but there really is no point. nak pakai gi mane? genting highlands?