Music and Photography

Mr. Bungle - Pink Cigarette




I found a pink cigarette
On the bed the day that you left
And how can I forget that your lips were there
Your kiss goes everywhere, touches everything But me

You'll find a note and you'll see my silhouette...

Shoes

I think I'm going to open a savings acount in the bank only in order to be able to buy one pair of Christian Louboutin Shoes..... How is it possible for a man to draw such perfect shoes??? NOT FAIR! They are way to expensive but still I have a dream....

...of at least try one pair. snif snif










Official website: http://www.christianlouboutin.com/

Oscar predictions

One of my biggest passions in life are films so I could not stay still when I read that the oscars predictions so far are for Inglourious Basterds to win at best picture, and usually the person who wins best picture wins best director as well. I couldn't be happier because Quentin Tarantino is one of my favourites directors.

Apparently Quentim Tarantino can win in January because of the success of this film in both comercial and critical views. For me the big secret of the film success was the actor Christoph Waltz who play the Col. Hans Landa, his characterization was genious and twisted at the same time. Of course Tarantino's creations always have something unique, this time the story being a satire to The World War II and all the characters having something special to distinguish them apart. The way the different scenes are shoot and the dialogues are another way of recognize his brilliant work.

So far the film won one award at Cannes Film Festival, Christoph Waltz for best actor, and Quentin Tarantino was nominated for the Golden Palm.

The plot: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Source: http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2009/11/oscars-prediction-inglourious-basterds-will-win-best-picture.html

Photography

Do you know when you see a picture and twousands of things come up to your mind? Well I was looking around on the internet and found a blog where pictures are posted according to a song. Like a match between photos and music. For each song there is one photo. I felt tempted to try and do something similar.

HIM - Love Requiem

The heart of darkness is hope of finding you there
And that hope will be our love's requiem
Take me into your arms and sing me your beautiful song
Hold me until we're one and sing me you're beautiful song

Depeche Mode

November 14th, Saturdar night

Another week another concert, this time Depeche Mode. It was the first time I saw them, the expectations were high but were fullfilled. The place was the same as last week, Pavilhão Atlântico. It was sold out as well and also we could see a lot of people wearing black. People from all ages were presented with a set that was planned to every last bit, since their setlist had not change much on the entire tour. They brought the new album, Sounds Of The Universe, from which they played 4 songs. The concert was a blast and we could see how much they were enjoying themselfs on stage. I love when a band seems to love what they do instead of just play their set, don't speak a word and when they are done leave without pronuncing a word of belief.

Lots of the critics I read about the concert were that we the audience were great but the band didn't fullfied our needs. I don't exactly agree with them but maybe thats due to the place I stayed. I was near the front row so everything seemed great. Songs like "Walking In My Shoes", "Home", "It's No Good", "Never Let Me Down Again", "Enjoy The Silence", "Stripped" and "Personal Jesus" were some of the most enthusiastic moments. Chants and screams were heard, sometimes a little bit to much. The only thing I regret was the fact that two 40 something year old women were behind me screaming like two hysterical teenagers that were watching they're favourite band. There were times I could hear them better than Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode Singer.

My favourite part of the concert was with "It's No Good" and "Home". The first being the best because I had chills all over my body and the 2 women weren't screaming :P. The later because it was sang in a diferent version from the original with only the guitar player Martin L. Gore singing it almost in a acoustic way.

It was a great concert and I hope they return to Portugal next year or in a near time so I can see them again with my friends.

Setlist:

In Chains

Wrong

Hole To Feed

Walking In My Shoes

A Question Of Time

Precious

World In My Eyes

Fly On The Windscreen

Sister Of Night

Home

Miles Away

Policy Of Truth

It's No Good

In Your Room

I Fell You

Enjoy The Silence

Never Let Me Down

Encore

One Caress

Stripped

Behind The Wheel

Personal Jesus

Two Concerts, One Night

Last night I tried to make the impossible happen. I made the attempt of going to two different concerts in the same night. Around 17h I left home with a great friend of mine to go see The Glenn Miller Orchestra that started at 18h. We got there right on time, the concert was being held in Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon. For me, the best room for concerts in Lisbon, it has the capacity of 5000 people and the acustic is the best. It is an old coliseum build with the porpose of theatre which makes the sound very clear.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra is a band that honors the work of the late Glenn Miller. It was formed in 1988 and has the same formation on stage ever since, 5 saxophones, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 3 percussions and two singers, one male the other female. The repertoire includes more than 200 themes such as In The Mood, Moonlight Serenade, American Patrol o Chattanooga Choo Choo.
I was loving the concert but around 19h we had to leave in order to see Rammstein. Even though we only saw one hour instead of two we got into the mood of jazz and swing. There were times you just wanted to get up and start to dance along with the contagious music.

Rammstein Concert

We got to Pavilhão Atlântico around 19:30, met some friends on the way in and waited for the first band to come on stage and play. Combichrist opened with their electro-industrial sound. The place was sold out, so as the night went on the air was getting thinner. Combichrist are a Norwegian band that was formed in 2003. The band was well received by the portuguese audience, some were singing the songs, as for me I was only moving to it since I only knew one song. "What the Fuck is Wrong With You People" was the best song of their set. I am going to try and find out their setlist but so far I haven't been able to do it so.

9:10pm
Rammstein are waited with much entusiasm, the lights are out and the music beteween concerts is turn off. Whistles and screams are loud and clear to prove we want the concert to start. Their openning couldn't be better, in my opinion is somehow genius. They enter the stage with axes and blowtorches, and even though I've heard that that act might be seen as a metaphor with the fall of the Berlin Wall I don't see it as one. They start the nigh of with "Rammlied", a song from the new album "Liebe Ist Für Alle Da". Through the entire set there was fire, flamming dolls, a giant dick and fireworks. The concert was great as far as visual effects.
This was the first Rammstein concert I've been so I can't make a comparison to the last time they were here. The first big hit came with the song "Feuer Frei!", the crowd was chanting the song even though the language was foreigner, there were several mosh pits and people surfcrowding. Songs like "Link234", "Benzin", "Du Hast", "Pussy", "Ich Will", "Haifisch", "Seemann" and "Sonne" were some of the highlights of the concert, with "Du Hast" bringing lots of fire, "Pussy" having a giant dick coming on the audience, etc..
On the first encore the keyboard player did what I call surfcrowding with quality, with the help of a boat he surfcrowded the audience in "Seemann". There were two encores in which the best part of the concert happened, at least for me. On the last encore with "Sonne", I had chills all over my body, it was the most intense part of a night that ended at an Irish Pub after the concert.

The Cheezy Music

Anyway, music:
Just so you can have a clue here's some names, you can look them up on the internet, youtube being a great source.

ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A man after midnight)
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
Aqua - Dr. Jones
Backstreet Boys - Everybody
Bananarama - Venus
Bee Gees - Staying Alive
Boney M - Daddy Cool
Cindy Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Culture Club - Karma Cameleon
Daniela Mercury - Rapunzel
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Grove Tonight
Eiffel 65 - I'm Blue
EMF - Unbelievable
Eric Carmen - All By Myself
Europe - The Final Countdown
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Haddaway - What is Love
Hot Chocolate - I Believe In Miracles
Irene Cara - What A Feeling
Lipps Inc. - Funky Town
Los Del Rio - Macarena
Lou Bega - Mambo Number 5
Madonna - Vogue
MC Hammer - You Can't Touch This
Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True
Nena - 99 Luftballons
Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield
Peste & Sida - Sol Da Caparica
Queen - Flash
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Samantha Fox - Touch me
Sir Mix Alot - Baby Got Back
A-Team Theme
Baywatch Theme
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
The Vapors - Turning Japonese
Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom Boom
Whigfield - Saturday Night
Whitney Houston - Wanna Dance With Somebody
Yazoo - Don't Go

This isn't the entire set list of the night, there were about 200 songs and of course that even if some are cheezy we can't help but like them. The are some really good bands or singers on the list such as Queen, David Bowie, The Ramones, The Doors, Pink Floyd, T- Rex, U2, Faith No More, Soundgarden, Lenny Kravitz, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Mr. Bungle, INXS, House Of Pain, Depeche Mode, Beastie Boys...... and so on and on....
I started by only choose songs that sucked but marked a generation, songs like Macarena, it is one of the most awful songs ever but still was always on the radio. After I gather around 100 songs I changed my main goal and put some songs that I love and still everybody knows such as Black Sabbath, The Ramones or Soundgarden for instance, all these bands have songs that are extremely famous. And since my friends were making some requests with songs they liked whynot put some of my choice!? XD

Ciao

Hallooween

Halloween is over!
Like I said before, I went to my grandparents house with a few friends. This year we all got costumes for a change ( there was always someone who didn't) and didn't party as hard as last year, by that I mean no one throw up. Altought around 2 am I found myself sleep walking the other guys stayed up untill 6 am. During the day we visited what was supposed to be a haunted house, it felt like the house was about to fall on us. The ceiling had some parts missing, others seemed to have fallen with the help of a storm. The floor had holes, trash and what was left of some old furniture. The walls were all dirty and full of nails. Have no idea what they were for. The place was enormous, it should have been a great house when it was brand new.