Emo Fo Sho

So Ches and his friend Sam have created their emo music lists. Now it's my turn!

Perhaps the word EMO has won the award for 'Most Over-used Word of This Decade'. I personally think this word has been misused and abused the way the word GAY has been used. I remember calling some things 'GAY' just because it didn't appeal to me...

You know, like calling a question on a Math assignment GAY because it was hard to solve.

I remember Jonan telling me the word GAY was being misused.
While Jason, still says GAY in every other 5-6 sentences in conversations.

Anyway, according to Ches (The Meaning Monkey), emo music allows you to emotionally wallow.

So here's my list and some reasons why I picked them, and why I find it emotionally wallowable ( if that has any meaning =P ).

My Emo Salad Bar Music List

Bent - Swollen
I don't really understand the lyrics to this song. But I admire the hypnotic set of beats and arrangement of wailing strings. This is actually a head-nodder for me, but can make me feel real down and anti-social real quickly. It doesn't take much to get me out of a bad mood though!

Emilianna Torrini - If You Go Away
Perhaps the most depressing minimal ballad I have ever heard. This song was played in an old Christina Ricci movie titled 'Pumpkin'. Long story short, I feel that this song could probably drive someone so love-lorn to suicide.

Evanescence - Hello
"Don't try to fix me / I'm not broken". This line really speaks to me.

Roger Sanchez - Another Chance (Afterlife Remix)
I remember crying a little to this track because my close friend went away.

Linkin Park - Krwlng [From Reanimation]
I really enjoyed this extended, cinematic version of the original. Back in my early teens, I always imagined myself as a human experiment trying to escape from some shoddy scientists in a dark, light-flickering-on-and-off laboratory. If that wasn't bizarre enough, by the last chorus of the song, I imagined myself literally crawling for help because the shoddy scientists shot me with leg-paralyzing needles.

Relient K - Which To Bury, Us Or The Hatchet
"I tried to move you, but you just wouldn't budge
I tried to hold your hand but you'd rather hold your grudge"
Amazing lyric in my opinion. This song is quite typical of a quote-unquote 'emo song', but whatever. I was drawn to this one by it's melody and somewhat "I don't hate you, but right now I just don't like you" lyrics. After listening to the Relient K album I ended up making up "Kiss me now, I'll kill us later".

Well that's all I could think of at the moment.

This has been sort of fun. This post has sort of called me to re-evaluate my tastes in music. I'll talk about that tomorrow.

And lastly, I don't think hip-hop and rap music will ever have anything emo to talk about. Ne-Yo's "So Sick" is a slight exception though.

I believe Eamon's "I Don't Want You Back" is probably the weakest song in terms of lyrics. Just saying the "F-word" 33 times will not get the point across. It will only make you sound like a baby, and get you shot, if you're talking to the wrong person.

Okay I'm done rambling with that song.

Photo This, Photo That

Sunset theater!

Shoveling snow.

Pink shirt!

The trees are dead.

The stairs are snowed.

A brother and sister.

Oh my freaking goodness.

iWish iHad an iPhone

It's the brand spanking new and revolutionary iPhone. Now everybody wants one. But people in Asia are gonna' have to wait till 2008 for shipments. And don't expect the price to be nice.

I'd only use this as a keychain.

I think I'd have to be re-incarnated 23 times to listen/see all those combinations.

Apple is good for your health, but not your wallet.


Anyway, onto the iPhone.
It's unbelievable technology.
Get this: you can use your two fingers to touch the screen and resize a picture by using a 'pinching' motion. No mobile phone/PDA/smartphone in the market today can do that.

Unbelievable technology indeed.

Some interesting iPhone fan-art.
This one's too colorful. And no noticeable Apple sexiness.


This one looks rather pleasing.


This one looks like someone glued a silver iPod on top of an old Sony Ericsson phone.


Wow. Old-school dial? Nokia's oddly designed 7610? Outdated screen?
I really don't know what to say.

Anyway this is what it really looks like.


And now my latest single:
"iWish iHad an iPhone"

Well I don't really want an iPhone. It'd just be nice to own one.

Maybe some nice person will just randomly go
"Man from Asia, I reward you with an iPhone".

Yes, that'd be nice, although he probably called me 'man' because of my uncontrolled mustache.