8x2 :: telling the tale of unrequited love

today i'll try to tell the story of john. john fell heads over heels for this particular girl who didn't really like him but made him think she does anyway cause she, apparently, didn't have the heart to break his. indeed, this has already been used as a backdrop for years and years of emo tracks, the only difference now is i partly mangled the original songs' meanings.. =p

i was going to post something which is semi-related to my recent brush with supposed hard drive failures, but i couldn't come up with 8 songs. so sucks for you i guess.

1. Ben Lee- Birthday Song :: get me!
   john met this girl jane. he fell so madly in love with her, declared to the world that she is all he needs and wants in this world. and that he wish they'd be together forever and ever. if only he knew birthday wishes don't really come true...
2. Billie Myer- Kiss the Rain (acoustic) :: get me!
   so jane says something along the lines of sorry i can't be with you always but i'm missing you in more ways than there are stars in the sky. too bad she didn't say it was day sky and not night sky. so she tells him whenever he misses her, just go outside, kiss the rain and think that it was her. silly boi.
3. Strays Don't Sleep- For Blue Skies :: get me!
   john probably felt there was something wrong with the whole setup. so what does he do? he takes the blame for himself. typical emo guy you could say. so he keeps telling her he forgives her for all those things she missed with him, for all those dates she stood up, for all those times she just wasn't there: he forgives her and he looks at the blue skies and look to hope that one day, she will become free like the birds flying to the horizon and come to him and spend the rest of their days together. awww, ain't he such a sweetie.
4. The Replacements- Here Comes a Regular :: get me!
   after some time('some' meaning a decently long amount of time), he finally realizes that she's got nothing for him. he takes to drinking and skulking and spending more time alone on familiar places. places where guys like him can be found, but they don't really there together nor do they know each other. they're just there, passing the days(and nights), hoping someone would knock them out cold and that when they awake, there will be under blue skies.
5. The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers- Concerning Lessons Learned from the Aliens :: get me!
   after some time skulking, john, partly mental, declares to the world that he knew what he was doing all along and that it was all planned and that he wasn't affected at all. yeah, convince yourself that john.
   and yes dear readers, those are really long names. it comes from the album "the mother of love emulates the shapes of cynthia". and you thought Panic! At the Disco was long?
6. The Postal Service- Suddenly Everything Has Changed (The Flaming Lips Cover) :: get me!
   one day, he wakes up and it was like a moment of epiphany for him. all of a sudden he realized he was free. or in the words of a pinoy telenovela: "alam ko ayaw mo pa akong mamatay dahil makulay ang mundo". ok maybe not those words but its such a lame line that i had to put it in here somewhere.
   the guys from the postal service actually works at fedex, not the post office. ok no, that a fib. "Such Great Heights" was what really kicked it off for these guys, it was, and still is, used by ad agencies for a ton of commercials. after getting catapulted to the spotlight, the released other songs which instantly became hit to the yuppie crowd. though their sound is still too non-mainstream for them to become a mainstream artist.
7. The Whitest Boy Alive- Done With You :: get me!
   ohhhh, vengeance. i'm done with you jane. its over. don't got nothing for you now. yeah, double negative. so what? i still got nothing for you.
8. Joni Mitchell- Both Sides, Now :: get me!
   after everything, john now brags and flaunts his newfound wisdom about love and the whole she-bang theory.
   this song was used in one of my fave movies: Love Actually. the scene where the mom realized his husband gave that gold-heart-shaped-neclkace to somebody else...

so where are they now? well, jane became a dough... and john fashioned for himself a nickname after finding out that he really wants to be a superhero. he now goes by the name batman, and he won't some to your rescue if you don't call him by that name(john-john-john-john-john-john-john-john-john-john-john-john-john-john-batman!).

** john batman & jane doe are fictitious characters, any likeliness to real live people, living, dead or unborn, can be blamed on the crop circles.

-- goes well with a bottle of light beer.

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8x1:: cause introductions are almost mandatory

today i'm kicking off a series of posts: my form of support for artists. dubbed the 8x series, cause i am going to be posting 8 different songs(that is the plan at least), it aims to give you some idea why blog-hopping can be so worth it sometimes. most of these came from blogs, i dare not say all cause i have no idea where half my collection comes from anyways.

the kick-off edition is partly inspired by the fact that the current theme i'm working on for my multiply site is putting up a helluva fight. so, lets get on with the list shall we:

1. Just Jack- Writer's Block :: get me!
   in my case, i have a coder's block. cross-compat is a bitch. listening to the catchy tune of this song does help a bit... yeah, don't stop your head from bobbing side to side, keeps those creative juices properly dilluted all the time.
2. Peter Bjorn & John/Victoria Bergsman- Young Folks :: get me!
   this is semi-related to the first... this is taken from the album "Writers Block". if you know "The Postal Service", there's a good chance you'll semi-like this. even if you don't, well, it'll still probably be on your playlist a good couple of times.
3. Flunk- True Faith :: get me!
   like the theme for this playlist so far, this is another case of identity spill-over. for the longest time i thought this was a "True Faith" song. i didn't even bother to question why it sounded so different... stupid.
4. Bobby Martini- Raining Red Clocks :: get me!
   this guy is an artist in his own right. he does a lot of mashups and this is one of his tracks that i like. this is a mashup of Coldplay's Clocks and Peter Gabriel's Red Rain. drop him a visit here.
   and if you think that Clocks doesn't have a lighter side, then you haven't heard this cuban version from the guys themselves. its actually part of a compilation: Rhythms Del Mundo.
5. Avril Lavigne- The Scientist :: get me!
   whereas Coldplay proved they have a lighter side, this girl proved with this Coldplay cover that she's got a really tragic voice. Chris Martin's voice has emotion like feelings of suffering but there's still a glint of hope somewhere, Avril's is just... plain tragic. not that she sounds horrible, but the overall feeling is just so... emo. sad.
6. Amy Winehouse- Love is a Losing Game (acoustic) :: get me!
   after listening to Avril, you might think she's got a sad voice as well. but listen closely and you just might hear the original King Kong roaring in the background. there's just an old world appeal/quality to her voice. her fist single already had that in it albeit only a little bit(get here if you still haven't gone to rehab), but this... this reminds me of cobwebs. wicked awesome cobwebs that is.
7. Late Night Alumni- Empty Streets (Aurora Mix) :: get me!
   after a trip down memory lane, here's a jolt to bring you back to the future. remixes for this song abound, but this particular one is one of the few which really gets it in the world of mixing. the original here is categorically filed under ambient/chillout, hence, the tons of mixes available as they usually make excellent "base"s.
8. Port O'Brien- The Whiskey Song :: get me!
   so after making your rounds in the hottest party scenes, here is something which you'll probably be singing(but will have no memory of) right before you pass out...

and that wraps up this first edition. the challenge for me now is to come up with more songs to put here. i would have posted it here as a playlist but multiply thought it would be a good idea to not post any file i try to upload to their servers...

--- goes well with a hot mug of coffee in your favorite cafe on rainy days.

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