'Life's Artsy Influences'

Recovering from androgenous melodies (one example later, if that's your scene), i have reached my hearthstone. Reconfirmed my hunches that mum knew something about me sharing some time with the sticks-of-death, it's all out in the open now. Shame?, no, not really just that at least now she's confronted me out in the open, and i have nothing left to hide. We talked about how my week went, how i saw my cousin at the local supper place and what's been happening to my other relatives in Kuala Lumpur, and how i'm anxious to see next weeks' unfolding petals.

Here's to a Birthday that i can't share as of the distance. Have a good one, KK. ;-)

The 1st hour of being on the bus was pure bliss. Not many left Butterworth at 8.30pm (that's the last bus, fyi) and i was sitting by my lonesome (which is good for bus-rides) by the window. 2 outlets of air conditioning all to myself. I curtly had counsciousness for about 15 minutes after i had plonked myself into the seat. Deadsleep. Woke up an hour later thinking about life's influences and how everyone is inevitably living xerox machines. How we can only be the person we are today by going through what we did, and of course the choices that we made based on the said events.

So, as shot as this post is (and i'm starting to ramble again), i have a random list that i have mentally compiled (from the last 30 minutes of the bus-ride, and then stored during a short session of supper), things that have made/contributed to making me (it's pretty obvious, if you didn't know by now, and a lot of it i have already forgot):-

1. Sesame Street (as a young chinese kid in Malaysia, this is a staple for getting the young un's to love the English language, i know i did ;-)

2. Ultraman [in fact i did use some of the moves (especially during kid-fights, sorry to say) i saw in this old school production from Japan which was horribly dubbed in Bahasa Melayu, but i didn't notice a thing 'cause of the monster fighting and superpowers]

3. Beatlejuice (I was Beatlejuice for a few years in primary school, i cussed like mad and of course made myself ten times more obnoxious, but supposedly comedic in the execution of my 'character'...)

4. Ocean Color Scene's 'B-sides, Seasides and Freerides', something in that order... (this was when i was still starting out on the guitar, and it helped a lot that the songs were melodic and acoustic)

5. Oasis' 'Be Here Now' ( " )

6. Bruce Springsteen's 'The Ghost Of Tom Joad' (I loved 'Highway 29', and this album did much to nudge me into the direction of acoustic folk, though i still sound like i'm a bedroom musician plunking away ideas as rough as sandpaper on the box guitar, obsessively)

7. Radiohead's 'Kid A' (Everyone i know doesn't like this album, it's that or they didn't pay attention to it. I had it playing in my ears during my long walks to and fro lecture in varsity. It taught me a lot about being on my own, and gradually edging me to be more eclectic in my taste for music, also an excuse or reason why i love 'The Mars Volta' and our local noise makers, 'The Maharajah Commission, i get a kick out of seeing my friends grimace everytime i mention the latter band)

8. Soundgarden's 'Superunknown' (Also a varsity day staple, it's all about being lonely and angry isn't it?, this one took me to the heavier paths of the music road, and opened me up to Deftones and Tool, bands which later was introduced to me by my tight music posse then)

9. American Beauty (Life is short, make the best outta it)

10. Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' (Authority figures and the protectors of the law in Malaysia can criticise the piracy movement anytime, but w/o them, I, wouldn't have been able to get my hands on this masterpiece. Couldn't imagine not seeing this. It has partially left me with quirky ideas at times and how language can be totally made up and yet beautiful, and by the way, i do sometimes drown my ears in Sigur Ros...)

So that's it. Not really the big movers to make me, but noticable enough if you look hard. I'm sure there's something i left behind. But let's leave that for the time being. I did promise you androgenous melodies didn't I? (I'm still waiting for Mew's album by the way...tell me if it's out...)

As deep linking isn't allowed on this site that i'm about to share, this is as far as i can take you:

http://www.i-bands.net/audiovault/bands/1809/music.php

Thanks for the song, Auburn. Rock on.

Cheers.

;-)