today and yesterday's news and views

not much to say today: the things i wanna say today is actually yesterday's news. i typed a whole bunch of words, and when i tried to post it, i didnt realise that my internet connection had been DC'ed. then i got lazy, i just like that....

Yesterday's news (it was actually 2 days old already).

• my grandma finally went back home (2 days ago)
• came back from Paka and feel like shit, have to do some fucking overtime even though i reached home ard 8pm. this is a fucking company. don't ever work here. (2 days ago)
• got an email from wai (about nescafe's stuff and he asked bout my grandma's condition). "she's ok already, thanks for the concern, my man" (yesterday's news)
• Man Utd drew with Sparta Prague (0 - 0). shouldn't field john o' shea (he sucked) what happened to kleberson, djemba-djemba, ronaldo, phil neville. john o' shea can't play midfield. dissappointment once again. i should have supported Arsenal when i'm still in secondary school. (yesterday's news)

today's stuff that interests me

• ROTTW (Rhythm of the Third World) is co-organising a battle of the band. this is a local music magazine where i once did my pratical training bout 2 years ago. kinda cool there, err..i mean my boss' guitars. he had a collection of guitars in the office laying around there collecting dusts. i wish they were mine. once i opened up a guitar in a hard case behind my boss' back. and it was a godin electro-acoustic 12 string axe. tried to play the thing for a while. it rocks baby. it rocks. back to the battle of the band, it should be a battle of power chords to me. all those rockers/punkers wanna should be there (esp malay guys who thinks they can be rock stars by just churning a million power chords/minute) what i observe in those bands, is nothing new or shall i say different from other bands. they just play power chords. playing a C chord is more difficult than that. right...'gameboy'??... or they would shred the guitar like yngwie (those are people with more technical level) but still they would sound like everybody else. so basically.... i don't care. i just wanna play everything that comes out from my head, heart, hands and fingers. self-expression is important as well as technical skill. well there are a few school of thinking in playing music. some..for Self Expression (that means they 'recycle' the whole damn C, Am, F, G and they would just change the lyrics and melodies...they have another new song. they are more like a song writing plant). another one.....the Copy Cats. these are the people who just playing songs by other people/band. they just wanna have plain fun 'copy-catting' other bands namely nirvana, green day, OAG, etc. there's a lot of people like that in the jamming studio. some of them really good in 'copy-catting' but majority of them just failed. during my practical training in ROTTW, i heard some demo tapes. one band from sarawak, when they start to play..u'll know that it's a nirvana wanna-be. playing... power chords. singing...kurt cobainesque type. but fail to replicate kurt's scream. the bugger's was out of pitch all the time. the story of the failed copy-cat. some other demo, razif and band (razif was a music lecturer at my art school in USM). played jazz and lounge music. fucking cool stuff. gotta respect him..... that's what we call musicians. i'm not looking up to those people that play jazz or lounge music, but when you listen to what they are playing, you can tell they are something. when you see him perform...on the piano. it was like cool stuff.. (self expressions and good technical skills). the other school of playing, Self Expression V.2. it was something like us, Bedroom Jam, try to do our own thing, try to be original (there's no denial that there will be some influence music that we listened to) and try improve our technical skill to higher level. we write our own songs (self-expression) without churning out the same ol chords and strumming pattern, at the same time, add some technicality on the song, making it difficult for other people to play it, even your bandmates. hahah...it that cruel or what.