21 Guns

Songwriters: Armstrong, Billie Joe; Bowie, David; Pritchard, Michael; Wright, Frank E., Iii;

I love Green Day. they sing loud songs. they sing mellow songs. with lots of curses/swearing in between. i love them still

21 Guns reminds me of their song Wake Me Up When September Ends. very relaxed. a bit of melancholic melody. but with a very deep message.

i think america’s bad side of politics is bringing out the best in this group.

keep on rocking Green Day!

 

You’re Beautiful

.. Mr. James Blunt!!!!!!!! “:>
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and so where do i begin? im still smiling to myself everytime i remember the concert last night @ the Araneta Coliseum. it started an hour late. o well that was kinda expected. but when the show began we didnt really mind the delay. james’ very first song was I Want You from the recent All the Lost Souls album. ’twas the first time i heard it really and i loooooove it agad. as in.
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the whole repertoire was a combination of the Back to Bedlam album and the recent one mentioned above. the concert wasnt that well-attended for whatever reasons there could be, but hey it was worth the watch and im sure everybody present there did have a great, great time. really!
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i love it when he spoke with that heavy, heavy brit accent. he talked a bit of the songs before singing them. “this next song im gonna play you will make that one sound like a happy one (goodbye my lover) cos this is really miserable.” hehe. he was referring to his next song No Bravery relating it to the time he was in the army.. witnessing life and death. cute niya din magsalita ng tagalog.. maraming salamat, paalam.. hehe.
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ala akong matitinong videos at photos dahil ang dilim. (i might search youtube for better videos.) the only one i took in full was “You’re Beautiful” (gosh it takes forever to upload so gotta skip this one.)

james head-bangs hehe
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dont know what song was in the video above but boy! james sure headbanged at the piano =)). the crowd just went wild hehe. ang likot niya galaw ng galaw.. ikot ng ikot except for the really slow ballads of course. there was this one time he surprised everybody by going down to the audience and quickly made his way to the throng of people.. mabilisan lang inikot niya ang oval don sa baba at bumalik din agad sa stage. whew i wasnt able to capture that one, nagpanic kasi di ko napindot record button hehe.

all in all, i wasnt expecting the James that i witnessed last night. seeing him on tv appearances and the videos released, he seemed the serious type. my mistake. he is fun and playful, he has charisma, he is down to earth, he connects with the audience, and undeniably.. without question.. a great, great singer-composer. his voice alone is more than enough to capture my heart
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you’ll really be be with the quality of his voice. kahit alang accompaniment maa-appreciate mo talaga. so strong. so solid. so raw. so full of heart. so full of soul. lahat na hahaha!
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another special event that’ll forever be cherished “:> “:>

 

This is Home

great great song/performance by Jon/Switchfoot at the Leno Show. the long-haired look suits him well. another great masterpiece.. kudos to Jon! this makes the movie, Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, doubly adorable hehe.

 

Cure for Pain

The first time i heard the song.. boy o boy it brought my spirits down. the melody alone can make you cry. ewan. all in all it, depresses me.
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but i love jon. i love his songs. i love his voice. i love his honesty. i love how he speaks my thoughts, my emotions, my vulnerabilities. but i think i want to make an exception for this song. for surely, i dont want to hear it that often. really.. really it touches a chord somewhere. aaaaaaaaaaaahhh ayoko nadi-depress.. for a song. nope. sorry jon. not this one. (nothing to worry though, the rest of your songs are lovingly tucked in my iPod )
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someday pag feeling so down siguro i might listen.. over and over again.. not for the purpose of further bringing myself down. but for the reason that it evoke such deep unexplained emotions that it’s a sure way to make myself cry. just to let it out. and that’s it.

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have to hear yet the rest of his “Fall” album. a far cry from the rest of the Switchfoot songs. a very different jon here. very, very different.

 

To James or Not To James?

.. that is the question!!!
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two more weeks and james will be here weeeeeeeeeeee! :”>
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sana..sana makanood ako. kahit sa pinakadulo lang ng araneta coliseum
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ok na marinig ko lang boses mo james :”>
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kinda tight on the budget nowadays ‘cos of the present economic situation in the country. gosh! lahat nagtataasan! as in ramdam na ramdam namin :-S (actually the recent food crises is not only felt in the Philippines but also in the neighboring asian countries.. haaaaayyy.. hirap maging batang third-world.)
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pero james! james! alam kong wrong timing ang concert mo but i will really, really try to set aside for the tickets makita at marinig lang kita. crossing my fingers that i’d have spare this coming sweldo.
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if not, see you in YouTube na lang =))

 

James Blunt in Manila? huh?

what a way to start the week. i checked out TicketNet’s website at ito bumulaga sa kin..

whaaaaaaaaatttttttttttt?!?! nong Friday lang sinabi ko sa isang friend, Sana pumunta dito si James Blunt. gooossssshhhhhh nagdilang-anghel ba ko or what?

 

Jon’s thoughts on the release of his solo Fall album

(my thoughts on blue hehe)

hi my name is jon foreman and this is my bio.

I’m writing it from a backstage dressing room in Ohio. It’s a beautiful fall day outside and the dying leaves make a fitting backdrop for the decaying junkyard across the street. Fall.

Autumn is my favorite time of year. Everywhere. Even back home in San Diego where there is little distinction between the seasons: autumn is my favorite time of year. (ooops.. we dont have autumn on our end)

Perhaps this is because the fall reminds me of the sunset: the beautiful death of another day or another year. A chance to look back- to . look out across the pacific and see gallons of beauty mixed with regret.

I was born in October. Maybe that has something to do with the nostalgia. Even when I was young, the Autumn sunsets were sober reminder that everything loses it’s leaves eventually. The body goes cold. The air grows dark. The fall.

I have been on tour off and on since ‘97. I’ve had the rare privilege of actually doing what I love for a living with amazing people that I love to be around… And I’m thankful, this life is a real gift.

I kinda grew up all over: lake arrowhead, boston, virginia… but from high school on I’ve lived in San Diego and the north county feels like home.

It’s a pretty incredible place where I can go for a surf with my dad or my brother and almost always see someone I know.

Ten years ago, when I actually started making money with my songs I was nervous that the magic would disappear. That somehow, the passion, the joy, and the high that I got from music would evaporate with every step I took towards the modern music industry. I’m so thankful that that hasn’t happened. I’m so thankful that these songs still mean so much to me. In fact, I am perhaps more drawn to music than ever.

Lately music has been my compass: it’s neither the map, nor the road but a steady constant that can help me make sense of the both. (ano daw? )

Most of the time, the songs that I write are more honest than I am. Sometimes I don’t play certain songs for people because I’m not ready for that sort of honesty.

I don’t write many happy songs, at least not lately. Which is odd because I’m a fairly upbeat guy. So I’ve got a few theories as to why this might be the case.

It might be because life wears down on you. And you lose that part of yourself. (very true, the idealism one may have just dissipate through the years. the system wears you down. sometimes you look back and compare the idealistic YOU once were and see the big disparity of the YOU are now. how sad can that be. musings, musing.. again.)

Or it could be because the songs are the only place where these types of ideas can find a release- like a dream where your subconscious is trying to tell you something. (true.)

Or perhaps I don’t write songs when I’m happy. You know, a celebration requires a few friends and depression requires solitude. (yeah.. yeah..)

Either way songs have become my way of finding beauty in the midst of chaos and the pain. It’s a way of finding redemption for mistakes and regrets that I have. (huh..! what’s your regrets jon.. c’mon you can tell me )

In this way I feel like the creative process brings me closer to God. As a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed. (demm he can be poetic! ok i love you na.. haha )

 

SF Holiday Package

just received an email from Switchfoot.. close kami o di ba (wish ko lang). subscribed to their mailing list the previous month and here’s my first ever. goodness is this for real? i want THIS package! meron kaya sa local market? or via the net? hmmmm research.. research. haaaay pero syempre pa, i have other priorities and cant indulge myself to such things right now huhu

 

Rebuild.mp3

Switchfoot is very charitable.. always doing stuff for a good cause. re-posting here jon’s letter from their website http://www.switchfoot.com/in_index.html
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Howdy,
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My name is jon foreman- I play guitar in a band called switchfoot. Many of our songs have deeply personal stories behind them. This one, “Rebuild” has a story that grew even bigger after the song was written.
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This summer, Matt Thiessen and I began to write a song specifically for our fall tour, the “Appetite for Construction” tour where a dollar from each ticket sold will go to Habitat for Humanity. The song, (written with Habitat in mind) was called “Rebuild.” Afterwards, we said our goodbyes and both bands parted ways and drove on down the road. Hours later his bus burned down. After the flames died down, the song and the tour had a much deeper meaning.
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Now, as our hometown of San Diego recovers from the worst fires we’ve ever been through, this song has a deeper meaning still. I’ve spent the last week on tour trying to find out if friends and family are ok. It’s been an incredibly helpless feeling. And though we’re far from home, we’ve been trying to figure out ways that we can help.
So we came up with this idea, more than just giving a dollar a ticket this tour we’ve decided to give a song away. We love giving things away whenever we can, our hope is that you do too.
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Download the song, “rebuild” and give your money or your time directly to Habitat for Humanity. That way you don’t need to even live in california, you can still help in your own backyard. If you’ve got extra cash, cool. If not, donate your time instead. Habitat is an incredible organization that has built houses from New Orleans to New Delhi for deserving individuals. After the fires die down we’ll need a lot of help in San Diego.
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The song features someone from all three bands on tour: ourselves, Matt T. from Relient K and Dustin from Ruth on harmonica. The song means a lot to me and I hope you enjoy it. Now is the time to rebuild. Please join us.
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Here’s your choices:
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1. “I’d like to pay for the song by donating money to habitat”
2. “I’d like to pay for the song by donating my time to habitat”
3. “I don’t have any money or time but I’d still like to own the song.”
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thanks,
jon
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bless them for adding the 3rd option . now i have the song.

 

Oh! Gravity

while im still at it.. gotta post the lyrics here. loooove the beat.

There’s a fracture in the color bar

In the backseat of a parked car
By the liquor store where the streetlight
Keep you company till the next night
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In the same town, there’s the same scar
In the same glow of the liquor store
By the freeway, where the headlight
Keep her company till the next night
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(chorus)
Oh! Gravity!
Why can’t we seem to keep it together?
Sons of my enemies,
Why can’t we seem to keep it together?
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In the back room of the pentagon
There’s a thin man with a line drawn
With a red jaw and a red bite
Watch the headline on the next night
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(chorus)
Oh! Gravity!
Why can’t we seem to keep it together?
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Sons of my enemies,
Why can’t we seem to keep it together?
Why this tragedy?
Why can’t we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity!
Why can’t we seem to pull it together?
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In the fallout, the fallout
We found out the hype won’t get you through
We’re connected, connected
I meant it, the hype won’t get you through, through
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Oh! Gravity!
Why can’t we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity!
Why can’t we seem to pull it together?
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Why this tragedy?
Why can’t we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity!
Why can’t we seem to pull it together now?
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La, Lala, La La La 24x
Lets pull it together