Basically, I watched Zombieland last week and have had zombies on the brain (ahaha, terrible yet entirely unintentional pun) ever since. Because zombie movies= instant hilarity and lots of blood and gore. What’s not to love?
So naturally, I’ve complied a playlist because I don’t already have enough to do during midterms week. (Fun fact: this [...]
Guilty pleasure song.
I get so nostalgic about this song, ahahaha. I remember when I used to listen to this on repeat and sing along. Now I think I only liked it because it’s within my range– but I do like the first verse, especially the first two lines: “breathe in for luck/breathe in so deep”.
Use lyrics from one artist or band to answer the questions:
1. Are you male or female?:
I’m a little good girl
I’m a little good girl
OLIVIA–Walk On By
2. Describe yourself:
Oh I, I might be small
but it doesn’t mean I can’t reach the sky
I, I might be weak
but it doesn’t mean you can knock me down
OLIVIA–Dress Me Up [...]
1. What’s up with me losing everything today? This is so not on. I’m upset over losing my favorite earring, it took me ten minutes for me to locate my iPod this morning, and another five minutes to find my iPod USB cable. :[
2. Aikawa Nanase and Shiina Ringo are the Queens of Japanese Rock.
3. [...]
Sometimes you just have to crank up the music and study until your eyeballs fall out.
I still harbor total non-ironic love for Michelle Branch, even after all these years.
Michelle Branch–If Only She Knew
Songs on Repeat
1.Tegan & Sara– Nineteen
I felt you in my life
Before I ever thought to
Feel the need to lay down
Beside you
And tell you
I feel you in my heart,
And I don’t even know you
And now we’re saying
Bye, bye, bye
2. Mumm-Ra–She’s Got You High
She’s got you high and you don’t even know yet
She’s got you high and [...]
Quick post before I go to bed…
I dislike the singer for various reasons. I’ve watched and read a few of her interviews and her answers and her persona just bugs me in a way that I can’t articulate properly in words; I just get the general impression that if I knew her personally I’d want [...]
What I should be doing : sleeping.
What I am doing: marathoning more of Beck and reading through pages and pages of text (fan opinions of songs/music/characters and hilariously enough, the question “what do you think is the sexiest instrument?”) and remembering exactly why I love this series.
(Also, in my opinion– vocals. Because I’m a music [...]
I’m still slowly going through my music collection and adding album art and lyrics. (Just over 5 GB done, another 32 GB or so to go!)
It’s so strange going through my music library and listening to songs I liked back in high school. Obviously, I still like the songs– I kept them for a reason– [...]
It sounds even better in studio– I can’t believe I’m linking to myspace– but you can listen to it here.
I kinda want to have the soloist’s babies. (I have a thing for acapella boys, okay. STOP JUDGING ME.)
I am so cranky right now.
I suppose this is what happens when you have to go to the dentist to get a cavity filled and the entire left side of your mouth is numb for eight hours (she said the novacaine would wear off an hour after the procedure, that was a filthy lie), and [...]
I’m in the process of adding album art and lyrics to my iTunes music collection (I have nearly 8000 songs so um, it’s not easy).
Does anyone else make give overly creative titles for their music playlists?
‘Cause I have [a sampling]:
My Indie Street Cred (Part I and Part II)
Life is my Catwalk
Cheer Up Emo Kid
Crushes: an [...]
It’s so weird rummaging through one’s google docs and coming across snippets of stories that never got written properly.
Example:
The first time David tries to write a love song, Karl falls out of his chair laughing and Chris looks both amused and sympathetic all at once.
“Oh man, thanks Davie,” Karl says, snickering. He’s still on the [...]
I really like Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad , right?
It’s heart-warming and sweet, and a fantastic coming-of-age manga/anime. (I’ve only really followed the anime. Scanlations were slow so I never finished the manga.) The Engrish is unintentionally hilarious in the original anime, but the characters grew on me and in case you haven’t noticed I really [...]
While I was trying to find this music video (my favorite ASKG song) on youtube, I came across random guitar and bass covers.
And damn, this is pretty damn hardcore, not going to lie.
Now I really want to watch more of Beck. Not sure if I can take the unintentionally hilarious Engrish this time around though, [...]
After I watched some movies, I went on a music acquisition spree. Needless to say, I now have a ton of new music and my iTunes library takes longer to load than even before.
A sampling:
The Smiths discography
(500) Days of Summer soundtrack
Howl’s Moving Castle Soundtrack
A lot of Nobuo Uematsu’s Final Fantasy music (fantastic studying music, I [...]
I think I take it back.
One of the things I miss when I’m at school is listening to Tiffany playing the piano.
She coax out old melodies and tinkers with them until they form new ones with talent I will never possess.
The notes float up to my room and even though everything is rough and unfinished, [...]
She hadn’t touched her piano for two years when she comes back home for Christmas break.
The piano sits in the living room, a reminder of her passed accomplishments (and failures, because like everything else– she didn’t stick with it). All the award certificates in cherry wood frames hang above it and guilt seeps into her [...]
Likes:
Whenever iTunes shuffle reminds me that T.M. Revolution, Two-Mix, Do As Infinity, Ellegarden, and Asian Kung-Fu Generation made/still make pretty excellent music.
Oh my not-so-secret anime fan past. :P It’s a pity that I’ve outgrown most anime and manga (Sailor Moon being one of the very few exceptions– like, no, seriously– you diss Sailor Moon [...]
The intro (actually the entire backing track/instrumental) of Muse’s “Sing for Absolution” and Jay Chou’s “Drifting [Piao Yi]” are almost identical.
Interesting, since the two songs are of two completely different genres. It’s also a common riff– but still.
Love me faster than the devil
Run me straight into the ground
Drowning deep inside your water
Drown in love and memories
Getting my headphones before my family kills me for playing this song too many times on repeat! (Yes, I like it that much.)
I’m going to try to find a way to rip the youtube version. I [...]
Confession No. 24343
I totally teared up while listening to Muse’s cover of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”.
… It’s a pretty epic song?
Falling in love with Rie Fu’s music all over again.
I remember I was obsessed with this song back in 10th grade.
No wonder, since the lyrics are beautiful.
Good Things
Hanging out with Maria. I adore her, it’s so easy being friends with her and I like that, a lot. I love friendships where we can go from not talking for weeks and fall back into a easy, laid-back friendship with no awkwardness.
Drugstore shopping is ah-may-zingly therapeutic. I bought new shampoo (Organix Tea [...]
I’m a little in love with this cover.
Just a little.
(Especially the chorus when Matthew Bellamy goes “And I love you, baby/And if it’s quite all right/I need you, baby/To warm the lonely nights”.)
Polisci paper, right. A night of Muse and furious typing!
I think Andrea and I stumbled upon this on YouTube and then decided we had to watch My Lucky Star ((Don’t get me wrong, I really do like My Lucky Star. Do you know how hard it is to find an Asian drama that is charming, not depressing, has an interesting plot, interesting characters– and [...]
… I dreamt about Sailor Moon and terrorism.
My subconscious is terrifying.
Also, I think that due to the WTF nature of my dreams, they’ve been leaving me more tired. D:
Before I fell asleep last night (or rather, early this morning– I got back to my room at 4: 45 AM) I was thinking about Nick and [...]
Dear subconscious,
… What the hell was that?
Okay, I know it’s finals week which means that you’re bound to make up crazy things just to make me freak out a little. (I still remember the cannibalistic hominid dreams from midterms!)
But Billy Idol?
Billy Idol.
I just had to Wiki him, but uh, surprisingly enough– you knew what he [...]
Explosions in the Sky– Your Hand in Mine
Sometimes, lyrics just aren’t necessary.
This song is everything you want it to be.
But to me, this song is the definition of love.
I imagine it to be a retelling of a love story in three parts:
1) falling in love
2) miscommunication
3) eventual heartbreak.
(I don’t mean this in a depressing way [...]
How many songs total: 7123
How many hours or days of music: 19.2
Sort By Song Title
First Song: Arashi– A-RA-SHI
Last Song: Ping Pung–…..
Sort By Time
Shortest Song: Jim Lang– Helga Interruptus 1 (Hey Arnold OST music, yes) (0:08)
Longest Song: Beethoven– Symphony No. 6 (Pastorale)(44:40)
Sort By Album
First Album: Mirah–(a)spera
Last Album: Rie Fu– 5000マイル
Top Five Most Played Songs:
(This is inaccurate [...]
DONE.
Finally.
There’s time for me to sleep before I hobble off to my doom. I need to remember that the best way for me to finish a paper is to listen to Daft Punk.
(Also Taylor Swift. Bless her heart, her rendition of “Last Christmas” makes me cringe but it also made me type faster.)
I have the [...]
I’m listening to the Pokemon: The First Movie soundtrack and I swear to god, if Pokemon music cannot get me to work on my freaking Anthro paper then that means there is no hope anywhere.
I bought the cassette (cassettes! so old-school!) of the soundtrack when I was ten and I swear this is still one [...]
I really hope my neighbors don’t murder me in my sleep.
I’ve been playing The White Stripes’ Fell in Love with a Girl and Joss Stones’ cover Fell in Love with a Boy on repeat for the past hour.
There is snow on the ground and I am currently freezing in my room. I’m wrapped in my incredibly warm comforter but it’s still too cold for me to get any work done. (… I may have to reevaluate my opinion on Snuggies. They may be the stupidest looking invention in the world, but I [...]
Hello song that has been stuck in my head for the past two weeks. :D
I love this acoustic cover of 公轉自轉 even though it’s dated and cheesy. It’s so 90s. Even the music video1!
But it’s a sheepish love song! How can anyone resist a sheepish love song?
我像地球一样你在我心思中央
天长地久是神话我知道
但却天真盼望
我傻吗?
Translation:
像地球一样你在我心思中央
wo xiang di qiu yi yang ni zai wo [...]
DISLIKES:
1. Fire alarms going off at 11:30 PM when I’m in my PJs and my hair is still wet from my shower. I think my hair almost froze. (Also, I’m pretty sure it’s the same girl who keeps burning her popcorn in the microwave. Seriously. IT’S NOT THAT HARD TO STAND IN ONE PLACE [...]
When I think of Rie Fu, I think of sophomore year of high school and Bleach (the anime that I’m eons and eons behind on).
Her music is fantastic to listen to when I’m studying. Vocally, her voice isn’t exceptional but she’s able to convey a lot of emotion (although some of my friends would disagree!). [...]
Okay, now for something less serious before I get too freaked out. :P
Something Corporate is one of my favorite bands, I’m still rather heartbroken that they disbanded (and it’s been years). I love their music with lingering nostalgia, I played Lauren’s ripped CD of Leaving Through the Window over and over again until it was [...]
Because I live under a rock, I only just found out that there’s going to be a live action film adaptation of BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad.
This is a dream come true for me. Rock music (and it better be rock music or I will be so pissed), struggling musicians, coming-of-age journeys… three of my favorite [...]
Maybe I lied a little in my last post.
Regina Spektor can be overrated (just a little, you know the type who’s obsessed) but that doesn’t mean her music isn’t fantastic.
I’ve had this stuck in my head all night:
and it breaks my heart, and it breaks my heart
and it breaks my he-he-he-he-heart
I remember one of the [...]
bury it
I won’t let you bury it
I won’t let you smother it
I won’t let you murder it
our time is running out
our time is running out
you can’t push it underground
you can’t stop it screaming out
Stephenie Meyer has somewhat tainted Muse for me for some obvious reasons (hint: I detest Twilight with every fiber of my being [...]
I’ve been on a Joanna Wang kick. There’s something about the drawl in her voice when she sings that adds character to the song. I was listening to her acoustic cover of the same song and remembered thinking that if her voice was slightly more conventionally beautiful, I probably wouldn’t have noticed her music.
Similarly, I [...]
I’m not a fan of the music video– it’s bland and nothing exceptional but oh, this song.
Cause even if my heart should break
You’d be the best mistake I ever made
Joanna Wang’s voice is a cross between Fayray and Norah Jones’s. Her voice manages to be raspy and soothing at the same time.
Man, if she had [...]
Listening to Chinese oldies and feeling a little homesick.
I grew up listening to songs like Yue Ding/約定 and Zhu Fu/ 祝福 and while the music isn’t exactly my cup of tea, it makes my heart ache. My dad is big on music so he had tons and tons of Chinese CDs and karaoke music videos [...]
My left eye has been twitching for the past ten minutes because my skullcandy earbuds are more or less broken (sound only comes out of one side) and I had to use standard Apple earbuds while I shelved books. Lemme tell you, those uncomfortable cheap white earphones do not do RHCP justice.
I really really hope [...]
China’s black pop idol exposes her nation’s racism
The 20-year-old daughter of a Chinese mother and an African-American father who left the country before she was born, Lou was a highly unusual entrant to Shanghai-based Dragon TV’s Go Oriental Angel. Her appearances – she became one of five finalists – have provoked a storm of abuse [...]
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“Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.” –Douglas Adams
Just felt like it was oddly appropriate, given the title of my blog.
Oh lovely change
A breeze of grapefruits and
Jasmine seas
Sexy burgundy skies
Sweet peppermint candies
Will the [...]
This morning, I decided that what I desperately need in my life is a ringtone for whenever my mom calls. Currently, it’s set to my standard ringtone (OLIVIA’s A Little Pain). Throughout junior year when my mom and I were arguing about SATs it was set to The Imperial March (my dad was so, so [...]
I wish my life had an accompanying soundtrack of epic theme music.
Seriously, copying Chinese characters while listening to The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack (including “What’s This?” in Japanese) ? Awesome.
Although listening to The Dark Knight1 soundtrack while doing Chinese isn’t shabby either.
Note to self: TDK is also worth a re-watch, if not just for the [...]
