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.