Song of the week

I'm really emotionally attached to this song since my childhood. Besides, I love this man's voice and his melodies.

"All the times that I've cried
Keeping all the things I knew inside
And it's hard, but it's harder
To ignore it
If they were right I'd agree
But it's them they know, not me
Now there's a way and I know
That i have to go away
I know I have to go"

Cat Stevens - Father and Son

p.s. Today is my father's birthday. Happy Birthday dad. 

Happy Holidays

I'm late but who cares?

It's coming on Christmas,
And they're cutting down trees.
Putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace,
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on.

It don't snow here,
Stays pretty green.
I'm gonna make a lot of money
And quit this crazy scene.
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on.

I wish I had a river so long,
I would teach my feet how to fly.
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on.
I made my baby cry.

You tried hard to help me,
You put me at ease.
You loved me so naughty,
It made me weak in the knees.
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on.

I'm so hard to handle,
I'm selfish and I'm sad.
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I've ever had.
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on.

I wish I had a river so long,
I would teach my feet how to fly.
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on.
I made my baby say goodbye.

It's coming on Christmas
And they're cutting down trees.
Putting up reindeer,
And singing songs of joy and peace.
I wish I had a river I could skate away on.

 

[Joni Mitchell - River]

My Christmas song... always.

Band of Joy

After a total lack of subject I come back with something at least a bit interesting to share. Robert Plant's newest album. Everyone that knows me knows that Led Zeppelin is my favorite band and one of the major reasons is this man's voice. And I must say, it is like fine wine, it gets better with age. 

The album is very good for listening anytime, and it's excelent travelling music. It follows the path of the country-blues and the roots of American music. Of course (thanks God, maybe) his voice does not have all that power of Zep's good ol' days, and perhaps that's why he re-learned to sing.  No more screaming , groaning and high notes, he still have the sex appeal but he, now sing with such an elegance among accoustic guitars, mandolins, banjos, pedal steel guitars and accordions. The duets with the singer Patty Griffin are also something that deserves attention in this album, they are beautiful. 

The first track Angel Dance invites you to dance, House of Cards is a bit obscure, Central Two O Nine, the only song written by Plant, has some of those arabic references so common to some of Zeppelin songs in it's backing vocals.

Silver Rider is probably the most melancholic track of the album (no wonder why it's my favorite) and it's also the longer. He sings for six whole minutes and I could stay listening it endlessly. You can't buy my love is a funny ballad, with lots of drums and percurssion and before you notice you're alredy dancing at the sound of it. Falling in Love Again is one of those ballads from the 50's, made for dancing cheek to cheek. 

The Only Sound that Matters is the countryest of the songs, and it's beautiful. Monkey is probably the only track I would skip while listening to the album, some of the critics liked it but I found it a bit annoying at some tomes. Get along home Cindy is one of those songs that sound like Zep's songs in it's last days but you can't remember the name of any of them to compare. LOL

Harms Swifted Away has some of that country beat. Satan your kingdome must come down is a classic song from America's folk music and it was performed beautifully by Plant. Even This Shall Pass Away is a poem by Theodore Tilton and it has a bit of Zep's psycoldelia. The drums are really marked here and it has a lot of distortion. 

Band of Joy was the name of Plant's blues & Soul band back in the 60's, before Led Zeppelin in which John Bohan also played. Plant ressurected the band in this album and tour and it doesn't disappoint at all. Now, that you've done a great job, dear Robert, could you please, go on tour with Jimmy Page and the Zep again?

Song of the week

But when the night is falling

and you cannot find the light

If you feel your dream is dying

Hold tight

You've got the music in you

Don't let go

You've got the music in you

One dance left

This world is gonna pull through

Don't give up

You've got a reason to live

Can't forget we only get what we give

[New Radicals - We only get what we give] 

This blog is going into something too personal. I'm sorry for that. ;) 

You know when you listen to a song a thousant times, it's always on your playlist, you've always loved it but, in one of these thousants of times it starts to make some sense to you? This happened to me this week. (not for the first time, but this time worths sharing)

I've been feeling hopeless, like I have lost all the oportunities of my dreams comming true and so on. This is a song that usually cheer me up but I had this insight. "Don't give up" (so cliché, I know. I'm sorry!), then I started writing this post but my internet connection wasn't helping posting at all. I left home for work and when I got there I got great, wonderful news! So, the song fits my week completely. =)

I'm sorry for the personal stuff again. =)

It's been too long, I'm glad to be back

I have had some tough days and I'm sure that they're not all water under the bridge. But I'm also sure that there's still a lot of water to run under the bridge so... Why worry?

Ideas that became drafts are about to become posts really soon. As you wait, enjoy a fine and pure shot of rock'n'roll.

News News News!

I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED MY GRADUATION COURSE!

That's it! This is the big news! My graduation ceremony sets place in September so tecnically I'm not graduated yet but I have finished all my subjects. 

I have had a nice week so far, things at work as less worse than I thought and I survived my feedback. I won't be there next year, thogh, unless things change. I lost my hability of planning my life for the next year because of the moving possibility and I have decided, at least, try not to worry before it's time to. I went to a Zeca Baleiro concert on Wednesday and unfortunately I don't have pics because my mum was with the camera and she was travelling. The concert was great and he played almost all my fave songs. It was really good, I haven't danced like that in a while! 

I was taken by the World Cup fever. I watched all Brazil's matches and except for the ones against Cote d'Ivoire and Chile, the other ones were absolutery boring! Specially today's fiasco against Netherlands. I don't know enough bad words in English to express my indignation. Of course Brazil isn't only football and I hate the Brazilian stereotypes but the Worl Cup is the World Cup and even though you don't like football that much (I don't like mostly because I get stressed, as I did today) you can't help getting a bit excited. The whole country stops to watch the games and you get a day off from work (or at least half of the day), so it's easy to be taken. 

I'll have to work for 2 more weeks before I can get a 10 days recess. I won't be able to start my psycology course or post graduation this year so I intend to rest from "school" for the nexts 6 months and that's a strange thing because I don't really know what it feels like not having to wake up at 5:45 a.m. to go to the class. That was my life during the last 20 years. I need to organize my stuff, my university things and so on... I haven't done that for 2 years or more so you can imagine how messed up things are. All the stuff is badly acomodated in the closet.

I can't wait to watch Toy Story 3. My brother has spoiled some facts to me (I wanted to kill him) and I'm excited about it because it seems that the movie wasn't made for kids but the old Toy Story fans, like me, who were kids when the first one was made. It's been 11 years since Toy Story 2 and I've been waiting for a long time. Probably my next post will be about it. 

That's it. A resumé of my last month.

=D

p.s. Listen to the link on Zeca Baleiro, I love him and I'm a fan since I was a child. ;)

p.s.2 That's me, age 6. Graduation ceremony when I leaned to read and write. =)

5 completely lame love songs that I love

Love is lame or passion at least. But that's where all the fun is. Being ridiculous. From lame public expressions of love to nicknames that not even your mother could give you. But aparentely, the best "love songs" aren't about love, they're about the end of, the break up. And that's something that can get even more ridiculous, and even more funny if you're not the one involved. This list could get endless but I choose the ones I really listen to despite of all lameness of it, so here it goes... 

5. Always On My Mind - Elvis Presley

I'm being heretic for considering Elvis lame, he's a classic! But I'm analyzing the song's content. The guy didn't give any attention to his girl and she obviously left him, and men are like this, they don't give a shit but once you leave them they start to say things like "You were always on my mind..." This sentence is also very used if the bastard cheated on you. (I'm not talking about my own experience, I was never cheated - as far as I know - and I never left my boyfriend because he didn't care about me, but I have seen cases like that)

The lamest lines: Tell me. Tell me that your sweet love hasn't died.Give me.Give me one more chance to keep you satisfied. ("I know I deserved it but pleaaaaaaaaaaase give it another shot!)

4. Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

4 minutes of song and 3 stophes being sang over and over again. The song is lame with that riff. The video is lame with a chick running through a beach and the lyrics are lame with all that "you're so hot and special and I don't wanna fall in love with you" 

The lamest line: Nobody loves no one. (Totally random!)

3. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

Mediocre band and even more mediocre ability of writing foolish balads for making money. This one only went to the top thanks to Meg Ryan open arms in a bike being smashed by a truck. Nothing more. Still this is one of the top "relationship music theme" and it's cute.

The lamest line: You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be.

2. Always - Bon Jovi

Hear the keybords, the violins, the guitar. Feel all the passion, the agony, the angst. Hahaha. Jon Bon Jovi is a Diva, in the very Mariah Carrey way. With the wind is the hair, close fists, tight t-shirts and leather pants he is the drama enbodyed the first line starts the whole thing, ("This Romeo is bleeding...") then he blackmails the poor girl ("And I know when I die, youll be on my mind") and declares that he'll "be there till the stars don't shine, till the heavens burst and the words don't rhyme". That's true love, not walking into your girlfriend's bedroom though the window every night. LOL The funny thing is that I could choose any Bon Jovi song, (or any 90's hard rock song) I chose this one because maybe it's the most famous, and I don't know one single person that doesn't start to sing the chorus of it (AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.... WILL LOOOOOOOVEEE YOUUUUUU BABEEEEE) if the song starts somewhere. You can hate this song, but you sing it. 

The lamest line: I can't choose one. The whole song is lame and cheesy. Still I love this song and all the other lame Bon Jovi songs. I guess I'm lame and cheesy. LOL

1. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler

Like Bruce Willis said in "Bandits" it's "The ultimate sappy chick song" and it's owner of one of the most ridiculous videos I've ever seen. But  HOW can't you feel the sorrow and the grief and how it grows while she's singing??! "Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart." See? She can play with the words, it's deep! It's the ultimate sappy chick song, the ultimate song if you're in the dumps, it's the ultimate lame 80's love song!

The lamest line: I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks. (WHAT THE HELL?!)

BONUS - Total Eclipse of The Heart - Literal Version 

Hope you enjoyed! ;)

p.s. I need to buy a valentine's day gift to my boyfriend. (Brazilian Valentine's Day is next Friday) Suggestions?

Be Italian: A "Nine" Review

I know I said I would write an Iron Man 2 review... but I feel like I'm not enough qualified to write about it. I haven't read "The Demon in the Bottle" (shame on my... the comic book is just a few steps away in my brother's bedroom...) Well, I'll read it and maybe I'll write something about it. Maybe I'll translate my "bastard"step brother's review into English, if he allows me. He's a specialist. Haha!

Back to the subject... Nine... Nine...  Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, Fergie, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren. Got it? Now I can move on.

Nine is a musical, directed by Rob Marshal, the same guy who directed my fave musical ever (well, now I simply can't choose one) Chicago. First thing I want to talk about is how Marshal's musicals go on. It's not that almost ridiculous thing of people talking and suddently, out of nothing they go "Oh! Let's sing instead of talking." No. The songs in Marshal's musicals are played in another set, like a theatre and it's like the songs are only in the character's heads. So, the characters are talking and then the song starts to play and the scenes start to change, from the set where the character is to where the song is played. Specially in this movie, all the songs are inside Guido's mind, in his desilusions, in his search for the content of his new film.

Some facts

The musical is inspired by Federico Felini's film 8½. I can't say much about Felini's work since I only watched Satyricon and all I can say about that film is: What the hell?! Poor Petronius must have rolled in his tomb. LOL 

I thought that the name of the musical was "Nine" because of the women, I thought that were nine women in Guido's life, but when I watched it I obviously noticed that they are only seven. So, the real reason this is called "Nine" is, according to the author of the original Broadway musical, that if you add music to 8½ "it's like half a number more".

Stick to the point, Mariana.

Here's the deal: Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) is an Italian film-maker that made great movies in the begining of his career but after some total fails he's living his midlife crisis: He has ten days to start shooting his next movie and haven't written a word of the script and to add some more, this imature and spoiled man has to deal with the women of his life: his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penélope Cruz), his confident (Judi Dench), his fan (Kate Hudson), a prostitute from his childhood (Fergie), his muse and movie star (Nicole Kidman) and the spirit of his mother (Sophia Loren). 

Daniel Day-Lewis's appearence, after "Gangs of New York" and "There Will Be Blood", is quite a relief. I mean, it's nice to see him a little bit more handsome. His acting is, as always, impecable. You can tell it by his accent (and when he says the word "two" I think of this video.) and his expressions. You can almost feel what Guido's feeling. His performance is amazing, very active and atletic (in the extras they said he didn't use any doubles) so he's really acting, singing and jumping at once all around the set. Still, I can't compare his acting in this movie with his acting in the movies I mentioned before, maybe that's because Guido is lighter character. 

Some female characters are completely decorative but some with nice surprises. Fergie, who plays Saraghina, a crazy prostitute who was part of Guido's childhood is one of those. She doesn't speak a line! A single one! But what she's there to do, she does well. I may not like her own music but she's a great singer and her theme in Nine, "Be Italian" is simply all the Italian men stereotypes together and it's sang with incredible passion. The other decorative character is Kate Hudson's Stephanie, completely out of time (too 2000's for a film in the 50's) but a big surprise in the singing number, she sings passionately and very well.  

Now, the woman characters who matter. Judi Dench's number is the most "musical like"  but it's beautiful and fantastic. I believe she and Daniel showed well the chemestry between their characters. She's more than a confident, she's his couselour. Sophia Loren is literally the spirit of this movie, I can't think of another Italian actress to play this role but the woman scared the hell out of me with all that botox. She can't close her mouth while speaking!!!! Nicole's presence is almost oniric, in Guido's desilusions, in search for some inspiration.  She is his muse, his ideal woman, but as woman in love, she wants to be seen as she really is. She  has few scenes but big, big role. Her singing skills are no news, she's been in Moulin Rouge (in which people start to sing out of nowhere...)

The best acting in this movie goes to the wife and the mistress, Marion Cottllard and Penélope Cruz. Penélope has no limits, indeed. After that well deserved Oscar for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" another well deserved nomination! What the hell she did with her accent??? She simply turned her Castillian accent into a Italian accent perfectly. She's funny, comic. She's obsessed with that man, she wants more of him (as all women in his life) but she can't handle to be his wife. Penélope's number is stunning (my poor brother, a huge fan of hers was stucked in the couch) and her singing is amazing.

I'm a fan of Marion Cotillard since La Môme. She has this capacity of changing from character from character and La Môme impresses because she changes a lot in one movie and with so many tiny details like hands, shoulders, spine curvature and facial expressions, voice tone. In Nine, you can feel how much her character loves her husband but can't stand the feeling of being left behind all the time, of living a sort of lie. She sings one of the trickest and surely the saddest song of the film (My husband makes movies) and she does that so naturally that we think that's so easy, and then as if it wasn't enough she sings and dance beautifully in "Take it All" and that's when Guido see's that he can't make the movie and he's forced to grow up.

A interesting thing on this movie is Guido's creative process. Beside all the desilusions that end in nothing, I mean. He really grow up and start to connect with his interior child. It is this child who really inspires him, in this child rests his geniality, and from the moment he grows up, stop to consider himself the center of the world, when he finally reconect with this child, he starts to be the great film-maker he is. Now, I must see if Felini's 8½ is a real master piece.

p.s.

JOKE OF THE DAY: The MTV Movie Awards. 

No commentaries.

The Family Jewels - Marina and The Diamonds

I'm really pissed off that I lost my post but I'll start again...

I've been wanting to write about her for a while. She was my (not really mine, a friend "introduced" her to me) great musical find of 2009. Her debut album, "The Family Jewels" was just released and I'm reviewing it now.

Marina Diamondis is Welsh singer and songwriter with Greek ancestry, her cogname comes not only from her last name, which means diamonds in Greek, but it also is a cute nickname to her fans. Owner of a deep voice, she's capable to change from deep notes to the higher ones within seconds. Her lyrics, wrote by herself, what is rare in pop world nowadays, are pretty much about her own experiences and her own toughts. The reason I liked her so much: her voice is almost is hypnotic (it changes so much during the songs, I love that) and her lyrics seem to be talking to me (Yes, identification is a primary criteria for me to like something) but, they are not empty and they have a tone of critic to some standarts.

The album starts with "Are You Satisfied",which is basically her introducing herself, with funny synthesizer the lyrics are about stardom and ambition. "Shampain" has an eletronic beat and is dancing. "I'm not a Robot" is sutil, meaningful and sensitive, maybe the highest point of the album. Is about frailty, and most of all accepting your own frailty. The video is really something, totally David Bowie in the Ziggy age. With "Girls" the album starts to sound more pop, but the lyrics aren't that pop, one funny line is about chick lit writers. "Mowgli's Road" is totally senseless and I love it! It has something of Kate Bush and the video is completely bizarre. "Obsessions" is my top favorite. I've been listening it almost everyday since I heard it for the first time. It's piano is sublime and her voice is amazing. "Hollywood" was the first single, it's probably the "most pop" song of the album. It's chorus get stucked inside your head but it's not all that bad. The album does not end gloriously but these tunes I talked about and some others from her EPs (like "Simplify") are amazing. Her voice is unique, I love the way she plays with it and all the weirdness all around.

But Marina has a serious problem: she is (using her own words) too indie for pop and too pop for indie. She sounds pop but her lyrics are "indie". Soon enough believe she'll have to choose her path in her career and I really hope she doesn't go to the pop side of the force. Untill there, she's a nice voice to hear.

More of Marina you can find on her official website. I like reading her blog, it's really personal, without being cheesy. Strong opinions, dilemas, news and photography, always a good reading. (For celebrities personal blogs, I mean)


Enjoy Marina's "Ziggy Video" I'm not a Robot, but please, listen to my fave song, Obsessions.





Update on me:
It took me ages to write something. This post was actually ready but I lost it while I was trying to publish it. I've been working a lot and studyin like crazy. But I alredy signed my diploma mirror and that means that the end is near... FINALLY!

Madonna

I've been a fan since, I don't know... 2000 maybe. Everybody around me hates her and I couldn't really explain why and why I like her music so much. Well... while I was watching Glee's special episode about Madonna and I've got my answer: her music frees people. Of course not everybody needs freedom, only the ones that are more "opressed" - for lack of better word - that's why girls and gays like her most.

Her messages are: be yourself, express what you feel, don't care for what people say, your mind and your body are yours and only yours, love, get hurt eventually and then put yourself together again... You don't see anywhere something like: "you should act like a whore", but you see, if someone is free of some bounds people see them like that.

I can't speak for the gay comunity (it's strange but I don't live with many of them and I seem to be the only woman in the world that doesn't have a gay friend) but I can speak for myself and I say: it's not easy to be a girl and I'm not talking about the biological part. 

We're judged all the time, we have to be a good daugters,wife, mother, mistress and professional and all of that wearing wheels and in perfect shape. By being a good anything, I mean do not have your own wishes, desires and goals. In one sentence: be a puppet. Somehow most woman manage to do all this (or part of it) and they do it well, still we are not as recognized or payed enough.

This is one of those subjects I don't like to think, write or discuss about because it always makes me angry or down. This one specially because sometimes I deeply wish I was as dumb as a door and I didn't think about these things. I wouldn't feel so suffocated and so under pressure and my life would be, for sure, easier.  

p.s. Still I think that Madonna must have some kind of deal with the devil. haha

How to train your dragon

IT'S THE BEST FUCKING MOVIE I WATCHED IN 2010!

Ok. Now I can talk about it. 

SPOILER ALERT

In a Vicking village called Berk lives a teenager called Hiccup. He's extremely awkward, he can't do anything right and nobody trusts him, in actual terms he's a nerd, but unlike another teenager that claims to be awkward and that we know very well, he's not an emo and it's decided to be a Vicking and make his father and his people proud. He's weak and skinny and can't hold an axe, or hammer, or sword so he builds a machine to try to kill a dragon (because that's what Vickings like to do) and during an attack he hits the most powerful dragon they know, no one has ever seen it: The Night Fury but no one believes in him.

In the next day he goes after this dragon, that must have fell somewhere around the island and when he gets there the dragon trapped and totally vulnerable, it's his oportunity to kill a dragon and finally be a Vicking  but he can't do it. He releases the Night Fury and go home. After the last dragon attack in the village Hiccup's father and leader of the village, Stoik decides to go on a quest to find the dragons nest once again and tells Hiccup to start his training on killing dragons, but he now knows that's not what he wants to do. He tries to speak to his father but he can't (his father isn't much into listening), the kid has no choice but to start his training, but everyday he goes to the hidden place where the hurt Night Fury is and he starts to be friends with the dragon. He gets to know more about dragons and realizes that "everything they knew about them is wrong". 

You see, the plot isn't that original, it's the same old story about the old and the new wrestling and their lack of understanding. It's the same old story about "the other" and about breaking down predjudices and how dangerous actions, no matter how noble they are can result in permanent losses. It's not original, but somehow the writer made it sound beautiful and meaningful. If you want to watch a movie that talks about predjudices against "the other" and about a person that got into another culture and starts to understand it, watch this, not Avatar. 

This is Dreamworks masterpiece. I'm not that fan of the Shrek movies (I liked the 1st, that's all) and I definetely hate Madagascar but since Kung Fu Panda I believe that Dreamworks is starting to get near Pixar. And I do believe that this is going to be quite a competition in 2011's best animated movie Oscar.

Things I really liked

The training and the dragon classification totally sounds like an RPG game. And that was funny because I was watching the movie with a bunch of nerds that could be seen in The Big Bang Theory and that are RPG players (I am a RPG player myself). 

The soundtrack by John Powell (P.S. I love you and Ice Age 1,2 and 3) is the most beautiful I have listened in years. This soundtrack does more that what ordinary soundtracks do. It transports you to that world (and I can feel it just by listening to it, like I'm doing right now) it raises the emotions, show you the feelings of the character.

The graphics are stunning, really beautiful. I watched it in 3D, of course it makes things more beautiful. But the movie is beautiful anyway.

The only thing I regret is that I had to watch it dubbed, so I couldn't listen to Gerard Butler's voice, which I like very much. lol

Now, listen to my fave song of the soundtrack. 

Top favorite male voices

They could read me anything, the phone book, the bible or even Twilight. I wouldn't mind to keep hearing their voices for hours and hours and hours. They could sing anything, I wouldn't mind to listen. Here's my favorite male voices.

6. Matthew Barlow
He probably has one of the most powerful voices in heavy metal and it makes me shiver. It's amazing. The best Iced Earth vocalist ever!!
Listen: Iced Earth - A Question of Heaven

5. Gabriel Macht
I wouldn't mind keep looking at him and not only listening to him. I first saw him in the awful romantic comedy "Because I said so", where he plays a very charming musician and while I was watching I could only think "What is this voice?" Deep and hoarse, very very sexy.
Watch: The Spirit

4. Morgan Freeman 
I don't know, I just love his voice. It's kind and warm and really nice when saying "Shoot that motherfucker" in Wanted.
Watch: The Bucket List

3.  Gary Oldman
He doesn't have a deep voice, in some interviews it can be almost high pitched (not in an annoying way) but I love what he does to his voice, he can change it in different levels and he's a wonderful singer. He can speak in a way that can really touch us, like in the last scene of The Dark Knight.
Watch: Dead Fish - because he sings on this one, and it's hilarious.

2. Nick Cave
When Nick Cave sings "Happy Birthday to you" he can make it sound like the funeral march.Period.
Listen: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Far from me 

1. Johnny Cash
His songs are great and he could make covers better than the original versions. His voice is captivating and can make you want to stand up and dance or lay down and cry. He deserves the first place.
Watch: Johnny Cash on the Muppets Show - Ghostriders in the Sky

All the same

I was at a Subway restaurant today and I was watching "MTV hit list" while I was eating. Of course, apart from a U2 video, there wasn't anything good that. But I noticed something really interesting, the new "harvest" of young singers are just the same thing. I mean, some years ago we had Britney and Christina, they were the same but at least Christina had a good voice. That don't really happens today.

I watched videos from Taylor Swift, Kate Perry, Paramore (that's a band, leaded by a girl) and another brunet that I don't remember the name right now and I swear that if I had closed my eyes and just listened to the "music" I wouldn't be able to recognize the voices. It's just the same thing! The only difference is the color of their hair - this part have become a bit more democratic because a couple of years ago this side of phonpographic industry was ruled by blondes.

Where is the girl power? Why there aren't any girls like Joan Jett and Chrissie Hynde? Why there aren't any bands like Vixen? Why is the world ruled by bitches? Where are the women who rock? Probably because it's easier (and makes more money) being a mindless bitch. And you know what? Probably they are happier.




P.S. I have changed the layout because I have seen a blog with the old one. (Yeah, I'm paranoic)

Yes, I know. If I like being exclusive I should learn how to make my own layouts.

Soon the fanlists icons will be back.

No line on the horizon

When I was 13 I needed a song that talked about war for my dance classes at school, a called my father an he told me "Take a golden covered CD on the shelf called U2-The best of 1980-1990, listen to 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' and 'Where The Streets have no name'". I did as he told me to and it was love at first sight (or hearing). I became obssessed about the band, really obssessed, I had posters, I knew (and still know) the lyrics by heart, I knew everything about their life and so on... I grew older and of course I started listening to other things but U2 always gave me that feeling of wanting to run or to go on a trip.

No line on the horizon is the 12th U2 album. It was released in the last January and I haven't heard it until today. I don't really know why, maybe it was my father putting agains one of my fave bands ever saying that's absurd Bono asking every nation money for charity and his cds being the most expensive ones. Maybe it was my brother saying that The Edge is the worst guitar player ever but I have never really listened to him (my brother). Well, the album is better than I was expecting but it isn't that good, there isn't anything different, a blowing mind song. It was well produced, it has U2 trademarks but nothing else.

The opening track that gives the album's name "No line on the horizon" is good but it's too slow for being the first track. "Magnificent", "Unknown Caller" and "I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight" are my favorite tracks, they are melodic and follow the same line of the last two albuns "All that you can't leave behind" and "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb", "Moment of Surrender" is the most 'peaceful' one, but I didn't like it that much.

"Get on your boots" was the first single released and it's really good and "Stand Up Comedy" is really exciting, these songs remind me of "Achtung Baby" whitch is the best U2 album ever.

In "Fez – Being Born" you can hear some Oriental influences, "White as Snow" have a Western thing and it's very beautiful. "Cedars Of Lebanon" is the political song of the album.

In short the album is good but it isn't surprising, all the songs remids of something they have alredy done in the past but in the past they did it better. I can't say I didn't liked the album at all, U2 still U2 for me and there's no way I cannot like it, uless they make another POP. LOL

My life according to Bon Jovi

Funny internet chain game...

Here are the basic instructions:

Using only song titles from ONE ARTIST or ONE BAND, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to at least 15 people and include me. You can’t use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It’s a lot harder than you think! (Your band or artist may have a helpful discography on Wikipedia, or check a lyrics website like http://www.metrolyrics.com)

Show me your answers!!




Pick your Artist
BON JOVI (the band and some of Jon’s solo songs)

Are you a male or female
“Woman in love”

Describe yourself
“Wildflower”

How do you feel
"Unbreakable"

Describe where you currently live
“Dry Country”

If you could go anywhere, where would you go
“Destination Anywhere”

Your favorite form of transportation
“Mystery Train”

Your best friend is
“Wanted Dead or Alive”

What’s the weather like
“Summertime”

Favorite time of day
“One wild night”

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called
“Living in sin”

What is life to you
“It’s my life”

Your fear
"Fear"

What is the best advice you have to give
“Keep the Faith”

Thought for the Day
“Someday I’ll be a Saturday Night”

My soul’s present condition
“Runaway”

My motto
“All I want is everything”

Michael Jackson R.I.P.

Well... the King of Pop is dead. There isn't a easier way to say it.
I can't deny that the guy turned himself a walking freak and that if there is a hell he must be burning there but I can't deny that it's a really big loss for the history of music industry. His music is great and it will always be and that's the important thing.
A ledgend is dead and that's too bad.