With Rhyme and Reason

What day is it?

Sorry, I've been so out of everything I just remembered I had a blog. So. What should I write at this ungodly hour after inhaling a cheeseburger and a pain reliever? I don't really know. I just updated my iPod and revamped the whole content, which to tell you the truth, made me want to hurl whenever I forced myself to listen to a playlist named Morning Show.

Morning Show, I remembered, was named such because the songs there woke me up when played at nearly full volume. I deliberately chose songs with deep bass lines so when I turned it up it felt like someone was clubbing my brain FROM THE INSIDE. I played it everyday from the cab to the train to the short walk to my cubicle, back when I still considered the 15th and 30th as the highlights of my life. As a result I always had a minor headache by the time Lotus Notes opened, which was usually remedied by coffee from the vending machine and two sticks of Marlboro Lights.

After that morning routine I would gaze at my Inbox and contemplate on the subjects of the unread mails. I would edit them in my head, but never in real life because basically my opinion was like Santa Claus at that point, in that I desperately wanted to believe it's there but no one has ever seen it so it's classified as an urban legend. I would still be half-awake after an hour of trying to organize all thoughts and stray papers -- I was never a morning person, ever.

So going back to this overhauling of Red the iPod, I dumped a lot of whole albums in there, from artists I would never have discovered had I not been friends with my friends now. I seriously don't know if I would have heard of Lily Allen and KT Tunstall had I stayed where I was. I would still be stuck listening to Top 40 hits and 96.3 WRock, never venturing out of what was familiar. And I'm so glad I did.

Now I can't stand showbands anymore, those bands who endlessly (but very good nevertheless) play covers of Earth, Wind and Fire hits and some VST & Co. medleys, but will brave traffic to listen to Mozzie, Kaze, Sando, and Techy Romantics. Indie music rocks!

Kaze just released their EP No Reason, and Techy Romantics will release their album soon. Let me know if you want to get a copy. Seriously, these bands deserve more airplay than that fucktard song "Updated Version of Me" I keep hearing when I'm in cabs. Upon googling that unfortunate line, I discover that it's by KC Concepcion, and from what I've read the demo single sung by one Iris Matunog is way better than KC's version.

This is Marionette by Kaze at Imeem, my favorite cut from the EP, and Shut It from Mozzie (they released their EP last year). I hope OPM and indie music grows more, there are a lot of undiscovered talented people out there who deserves to be heard than that acoustic version of Single Ladies they keep blaring at record stores. YUCK.

(Trivia: the person in the middle is our violin teacher with the never ending patience.)

No Reason by Kaze. Picture stolen from Fifi. Borrow, Fi.