This Is It

Last nite I watched MJ's d0cumentary This Is It. Well, I've watched it bef0re but never th0ught of writing ab0ut it. Every sec0nd of it is mind bl0wing *that's why I watched it m0re than 2 times already :p*.. I know that this bl0g was supp0sed to talk ab0ut music n0t m0vies, but this is ab0ut a legend in the music w0rld, so, yeah... And I was mind bl0wn n0t because of h0w t0uching the st0ry was, but it was because I can see a glimpse of MJ's brilliance in terms of music, sh0wmanship, also i can see h0w pe0ple actually manage a mega c0ncert.. It was really inspiring. I wasn't a fan, I am familiar with only a few of his hits and didn't really bother to check him out last time because I was all for Backstreet Boys, Boyzone, and Westlife back then. Also because..

THIS. Scare the crap out of me.

Looks waaayy hotter this way don't you think?

But the d0cumentary changed my mind. He is so amazing that his face didn't look that scary to me anymore hahah. The beginning of the m0vie was all t0uchy because of all the dancer's c0nfessi0ns ab0ut h0w big is this thing f0r them *well duh.. U get to dance with the man who created m0onwalk f0r g0odness sake*. When it c0mes to the part where they were rehearsing, W0w. It was hard to cl0se my m0uth.. The way they all played the music was just mind bl0wing.. I am n0t really a fan of pop-funk kind of music, but MJ's stuff are just.. G0od. Can't st0p shakin my head and feet while listening to them.. The way he supp0sed to appear on stage with his r0b0tic c0stume, or the one where they rehearsed They Don't Really Care Ab0ut Us, or the way he gave cues to the musicians, criticizing the music *even tho it s0unded perfect to me :p*, and all the stage acti0ns and pr0ps were amaaazing. If he didn't die, that c0uld be the m0st spectacular c0ncert in human hist0ry.I think. I had g0osebumps just by watching the rehearsal!! Btw, the musicians were so g0od that they can came in all together in sync acc0rding to MJ's cue. Then I w0ndered h0w.. Cuz his cue was nearly imp0ssible! S0me of them were just a snap or a b0dy m0vement but then n0ne of them s0und late even just a bit.. It was all in perfect sync! They must have really awes0me chemistry.. There were only 1 white musician, which is Orianthi. The other guitarist l0oked really cute with his guitar because his b0dy is so big that the guitar l0oked like Guitar Hero on him wahahahah! The bassist was extremely gr0o0ovy~ but then there was one song where MJ said that the gr0ove wasn't there.. Hmm. That one isn't gr0ovy en0ugh f0r ya M? W0w. The 2 fellas on keys were awes0me as well as the drummer who l0oks like a b0dy builder LOL!

Now that the King of Pop is deceased, I wonder who's gonna take over his throne..Cuz there's no other artist wh0's as good as him in the p0p w0rld.. Well let's see...

lady gaga? so unladylike, and bad for kids.

rihanna? e-e-e-e, NO.

Justin Bieber? There was a saying across the net that goes like "god, if you bring MJ back to life, we'll give you Justin Bieber".

Adam Lambert? Can't dance. Nuff' said.

In conclusion, MJ is --as Beyonce would put it-- Irreplaceable.


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Incubus

from the phone. Notice the 0s? :P

Hm.. Where sh0uld I start? I decided to listen to this band when I was b0red and at that time i suddenly remember a friend who likes this band a lot and was the one who intr0duced me to Anna Molly. So I gave them a try.

I checked out some of their s0ngs on y0utube e.g, drive, love hurts, and some other hits, and each of them leads me wanting f0r more. So i decided that i will listen to their stuff from a-z. Well, turns out that they are t0tally w0rth my time. Every piece in the album is mind bl0wing given the fact that they didn't sound straight up alternative or pop or rock. But each song has different feel of genre that you can't really tell what kind of s0ng will come next. Many times they start the s0ng with just plain weirdness in the beginning, then r0ck out the ch0rus, s0metimes they go flat out funk, s0metimes alternative or even nu metal-ish *correct me if i'm wrong* due to the heavy guitars blended with funk basslines plus the rap and occassi0nal scream e.g, a certain shade of green. Aqueous Transmission is totally CHINESE. Check it out :). They keep me guessing everytime. 

The basslines are great!! That's one of the pre-requisites to survive in my playlist hahah. The mel0dy of their s0ngs are s0metimes pretty hard to grasp the 1st time you hear it because it was s0mewhat random and unusual. Especially the S.C.I.E.N.C.E album, many weird stuff there--a 'good' kind of weird hhehehe e.g calgone, nebula, vitamin, etc. The DJ guy indeed makes a l0t of difference to their music. Fungus Amongus album s0unds rather funk-ish to me. 

Oh! Did i mention that their lyrics are good? Hehe. I like the fact that they d0n't f0ll0w the mainstream trending theme these days which mainly rev0lves ar0und sex sex and sex *it feels good, i get it!! but c'mon!!! D0n't u pe0ple have other things in mind?!*

Anyway, I like the v0calist too! He's versatile. D0esn't matter whether it's funk, or r0ck, or whatever, he still s0unds g0od. 

Well, after 70+ tracks f0r a c0uple of days, I didn't even feel b0red listening to them over and over again *i still listen to them 'till n0w* and n0w I finally understand why my friend became a big fan. They're one of my fave band n0w hehe.

Hjfreaks

HJfreaks.. One of my youtube bass heroes. I found him 2 years ago (i guess...), almost the same time as Piyohikocsss. During his first videos, he seem normal to me.. But then as the time goes by, his outfits changed. He wear maid outfits, gothic lolita kind of thing, mini skirts, hot pants or even cheongsam which is @.@. But despite of the outfits, this dude is frickin' awesome. He managed to do the lucky☆star anime opening soundtrack which has quite repetitive bass lines but I'm sure it's darn tiring cuz it's mostly slaps n pops. He did it well. He did a lot of covers with his own basslines and He has a LOT of basses. One of them is a custom made with a picture of Konata--a character from that anime. The bass is supercute!!!

Btw, I like his style because he looked really happy in almost every videos. *sometimes so 'happy' that he flashed his undies LMAO!!* He usually does "cute" jigs while playing which I found really funny and so cool at the same time, because he can still dance even though he is playing difficult stuff. I think it will be really awesome if there is a female bassist who can do that hahah. Oh! come to think of it, there is! Check her out HERE but that girl didn't dance as cute as he did hahahahhah

He inspired me to do some 'moves' and look happy at the same time when playing the bass. It looks easy when he does it but it's actually verrry tricky. I tend to press the wrong note when I move too much and usually fail to look happy because sometimes I was concentrating too much on my hand that I ended up look scary rather than happy *scratcscratch*

practicepractice

I had the 'lightest' practice session yesterday. I don't really know the drummer well, and this is the first time I actually talked to her but strangely I can 'blend' with her nicely, I felt verrrryyyy relaxed during the session. The practice was really short, just less than 1 hour for 9 songs and 2x runs *yes, when this uncle is the worship leader, it is possible :P*.

I haven't had this feeling for a long time. I played with a couple of drummer before, and I noticed that if it's the first time we play together, there will be some kind of 'clash', and it took some time for us to sound like we are complementing each other. But this time it was different. It seemed like she knows what I'm trying to do, and at the same time, I can follow her lead so easily. We didn't work on the arrangement before practice but then when we play, we even did some syncope together for a couple of songs unplanned. Fyi, We didn't know how the original music sound like except for one song. So it was surprising.

Well, still there are some rough edges to smoothen up, and usually I will straight away say 'ugh' inside my heart and many times it shows through my facial expression, but this time I don't know why I just let it slide and I actually was carried away.

And then after that I came into conclusion that playing in a band really really require all the members to listen to each other *DUH*, and not only in terms of how loud should I be compared to everybody else. But really need to listen to every single thing, play as a whole, know when to come in with a BANG and when to be 'barely there'--which I fail to do most of the time *scratchscratch*..

It's like looking at the bigger scale when you don't really bother how 'I' will sound like, but more to how will ALL of us sound like if I play this and that.

Oh! I also got to play waltz-y stuff hehehe. It was fun.