holy crap!
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005this is the creepiest thing ever.
i want a zombie dog.
all i ask for
all i pray
steady lonely woman
gonna come my way
all i pray
steady lonely woman
gonna come my way
Archive for June, 2005
my favorite sign.
Sunday, June 26th, 2005I saw this sign at a restaurant the other day, it amused me:
“Braille and Picture Menus Available.”
I wonder if the people who made that sign are the same ones who sell DVDs on how to hook up your DVD player.
more on lyrics.
Monday, June 20th, 2005I decided to just make another post since i was writing a lot in the comments.
This is in response to mike’s comment - he doesn’t listen much to lyrics, doesn’t care much if they’re bad, and what are examples of good lyrics?
The thing that bothers me about System of a Down isn’t that they have bad lyrics. It’s that they believe that their lyrics are profound and important, when really, they might be enough to place a non-rockstar in an insane asylum.
Ronnie James Dio in his various bands uses retarded lyrics that are contradictory and nonsensical, but he isn’t trying to make a statement.
check this beauty out:
Holy diver, you’ve been down too long in the midnight sea, oh what’s becoming of me
Ride the tiger, you can see his stripes but you know he’s clean, oh don’t you see what I mean
No, sorry Dio, I don’t see what you mean. As far as i can tell, that just means crazy, but so what? He’s not trying to sing about the downfall of society.
I think I can forgive some cockiness or ego-inflation about lyrics or other shortcomings as long as they can back it up with talent in other areas. Take Steve Vai. He doesn’t really write good lyrics, but you know what, there are very few people alive who can play guitar better than him so I’ll let it slide if a guy who’s been playing amazing guitar for 25 years wants to write lyrics and sing, even if he’s not the best at it. And he’s not that bad… usually.
As for good lyrics, Coldplay probably does have good songs lyrically, though I don’t really know them. My beef with Coldplay isn’t their lyrics, it’s that they only have one mood in their music; they should ligten up a little.
DMB has good lyrics, G ‘n’ R had good lyrics, and folk singers are all about good lyrics.
But the thing about lyrics is that good and bad mean different things to different people. In my opinion, good doesn’t have to mean deep or important.
I mean, take the Spin Doctors’ “Two Princes”. I think the lyrics are pretty good. They tell a story about one guy competing with another for the heart of a girl. The antagonist of the song is rich, spoiled, comes from an important family, and probably doesn’t love the girl. The protagonist doesn’t have much money, didn’t go to an ivy league school, but he loves her and will be a better guy all around. Simple lyrics, but they get the job done; you know what the song is about, maybe you can even relate. (Plus the music is better than System of a Down, but then again I don’t really like a lot of newer music where half the singing is just screaming hoarsely and the guitar just thrashes indistinct chords that you can’t make out.)
And now to fulfill Mike’s request for Kelly Clarkson lyrics. I doubt she writes her own songs, and i wouldn’t really call them good, but you can at least understand tham. Since U Been Gone (awesome, it has the word “U” in it!) is about a girl falling for a guy and realizing later that he doesn’t care about her and then dumping him. Pretty simple stuff really.
I am not looking up any more Kelly Clarkson songs.
it’s just a rainbow in the dark
system of a down.
Sunday, June 19th, 2005seeing as i ripped on coldplay last time, i might as well say something bad about system of a down too, while i’m at it.
first off, the singer’s voice is rather odd. their music is very discordant, and their lyrics are really bad. they have a couple new songs on the radio right now which are less annoying than their previous songs, but they still have pretty awful lyrics.
from “radio and video”
hey man look at me rocking out
i’m on the radio
hey man look at me rocking out
i’m on the videothey take me away from
the strangest places
sweet danny and lisa
they take me away from.
the top stanza repeats 5 times, the bottom stanza repeats 3.
the lyrics don’t mean anything, and they can’t even be bothered to write enough lyrics to fit the entire song.
the thing that annoys me most about system of a down is that they act like they’re the next rage against the machine, singing powerful songs against the man and the establishment (supopsedly radio and video is anti-hollywood) but their lyrics are borderline retarded.
in the song “Aerials” there’s this beauty:
Always want to go,
But you never want to stay
if you want to go then you’re not staying. is there really a problem?
Holy crap, i just looked up the lyrics of “Chic ‘n’ Stu”. It means nothing whatsoever. But i bet they say it means Americans buy lots of food and we’re fat.
they’re just a bunch of pompous idiots, but at least they wrote a couple songs that i don’t immediately switch away from the instant i hear them. and they got close to not sounding completely insane with B.Y.O.B. an anti-Bush song.
i think i’d usually rather listen to coldplay than system of a down. although not always, sometimes the moposity level gets too high and i’d rather listen to horribly cheesy crappy music.
everybody’s going to the party have a real good time.
mj = ww?
Saturday, June 18th, 2005I just realized that i think michael jackson is really willy wonka in disguise. but also MUCH crazier.
yeah, that’s all you get from the last two weeks.
batman begins is awesome. Crash is a good movie. The Night Of the Living Dorks is GREAT, if you can watch it you should. it’s a german movie about 3 loser kids who die and come back as zombies. really really funny. It was in the seattle film festival, catch it if you can.
my favorite music review ever.
Sunday, June 5th, 2005There is a great review of Coldplay’s latest album X&Y, and the band in general, in the NYTimes. In general I feel the same way about coldplay, not to mention a lot of other new bands around right now. Angst is well and good, but too many bands seem to be singing about how depressed and lonely and desolate everything is.
I haven’t heard much of the album, just a couple songs, but nothing about it is really interesting to me. Maybe it’s because i try to see things positively even when they aren’t going well, but i guess i’m not angsty enough to sacrifice interesting melodies in music for looping hooks and whininess. Or i am, but i just try not to be so emo about it.
te estoy buscando
idaho is bored.
Thursday, June 2nd, 2005seriously, idaho must have nothing going on pretty much all the time.
They recently passed House Concurrent Resolution 29 commending Jared and Joshua Hess and the city of Preston for the production of the movie Napoleon Dynamite.
You should check it out, it has such jewels as:
WHEREAS, Uncle Rico’s football skills are a testament to Idaho athletics;
and
WHEREAS, Pedro’s efforts to bake a cake for Summer illustrate the positive connection between culinary skills to lifelong relationships;
and
WHEREAS, Tina the llama, the chickens with large talons, the 4-H milk cows, and the Honeymoon Stallion showcase Idaho’s animal husbandry;
Good stuff there. Be sure to make fun of congratulate Tyler for his home state’s legislative commitment to the arts.
