Having passed an awesome weekend with Kenta-kun, I also did my first *good* recording! With the delicacy of Kenta's fairy fingers, we managed to record my ska version of NOFX's All His Suits are Torn. So here it is! Enjoy, and criticize!
My blog is making me its bitch, and I ain't nobody's ho! *snaps fingers twice* mm hmm! The weekly player is disappearing randomly, now the header and the background are gone... I mean, Dude WTF?! This means I'll have to fix it?! Fuck... I thought I was done with work!
Sony and PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi made a joint statement Thursday saying Kutaragi would retire from his position as chairman and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment as of the company's next shareholders meeting on June 19, and that he has "been considering this decision for some time."
That'll teach him not to mess with the customers! All play and no work made Kenny a dull boy. Again I'd like to point out something that the media don't cover enough. We hear too much about the Blu-Ray player. This is something that is not mentioned: The BR player came too early in this age. It's like releasing a DVD player in 1984; it's expensive, not everybody has the means, and most movies are on the previous format. If the Playstation 3 had waited for the Playstation 4 to have a BR player in about 5 years time, then it would have been a better thing. After all, the PS2's DVD player came just at the right moment when DVD players were growing in popularity. Now another thing that the media don't cover a lot, it's that Kutaragi was arrogant. He thought that now that his company was Number 1 he could do whatever he wanted and ignore people's complaints and win because of his "We're Sony, bitch!" attitude. BluRay is not the only reason, and it's not really the biggest reason. BR is actually good, just premature. I illustrated this earlier on, when the PS3 was released in Europe, and also for my New Year insults, with an article detailing how Sony ignored game developer's proposals for their exclusive games. That is why now Devil May Cry 4, or Assassin's Creed will be multi-platform. Apparently Metal Gear Solid 4 will stay on the PS3, yay! Now it's all on Kazuo Hirai, he better do it well and learn from the past, unlike some people I know.
Well Sum 41 released their new single "March of the Dogs", or rather their iTunes single, since their official single was announced to be a different song, and would be released on the 7th may, and the new album would come out sometime in early June or late May at a recordstore near you! (also available for free on the internet!)Deryck Whibley announced it to be in the same style of "Still Waiting" and "We're All to Blame", but honnestly I hear nothing as such in this song. Luckily for them (otherwise I would've been doubtful), he also announced that this song would be the only political song off the album. Good thing, because Sum 41 are not supposed to be fully political just like some other bands decided to be one day when waking up in the morning...*cough GREEN DAY cough*. So here are the lyrics, though you don't care for them, they'll be useful as marks as to the breakdown of the song's different styles and inspirations.
Ladies and gentlemen of the underclass, The president of the United States of America, Is Dead!
I don't believe in the politics, Of chosen fools and hypocrites, Who walk a line that stretched so fine, Is death or glory had in mind?
And here we go, I guess the resolution, No-one knows, Who'll lead this revolution now, Attention grows, The way to a conclusion,
It's too late there's no time, (its too late there's no time) All for none, never was two, three, four
March of the dogs, To a beat of disillusion Sworn under god, Breeding panic and confusion, The white flag is down, Send in the clowns, The carnival of sins is now going to begin,
It may be I'm a pessimist, But I say we need an exorcist, The root of all evil standing tall, Under god and above us all,
And here we go, I'm getting desperation, All we know, Is confusion and frustration, Ditch your clothes, No vision of salvation
It's too late there's no time, (it's too late there's no time) All for none, never was two, three, four
March of the dogs, To a beat of disillusion Sworn under God, Breeding panic and confusion, The white flag is down, Send in the clowns, The carnival of sins is now going to begin,
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! A-one, two, three, four
Another president dead, Because they blew off his head, No more kids to be led, Yes to heaven he fled, Was it something he said, Because of who's in his bed, By who will we be led? By whose hand will we be fed? All the lies by the lying liars who said We'll be fine, It's OK, Hey look mom no head
La la la la la la la (random) It's OK, it's alright
At first when the bass and drum kick in with the guitar's one note lead it sounds like a potential NOFX/Descendents punk song, but once the guitar riff goes on it's definitely like the Descendents, a good reference that sounds pleasant to the ear. But then *onoez!* once the guitar has ended its riff and introduces the lyrics, it sounds very scarily and strikingly like Green Day, and once Deryck's voice comes in, you might wonder "Cool they did it like Green Day" if you're an optimist with bad references, or "Oh no they're doing it like Green Gay" if you're a pessimist with bad references but that are not yours! But luckily the lyrics are more appalling than Green Gay.
Then once Deryck sounds singing, we're back in Sum 41. But the music, unusually expressing a happy and playful tune, sounds like either early Sum 41 if we mixed it with something else, OR more strikingly Blink-182! But then when you go to "And here we go, I guess the resolution..." the answer is obviously clear: Blink-182 incarnated into Sum 41. The recipe of their song "Go" from their latest self-titled album has been clearly copied/pasted in this part, with the same beat, a similar melody, and a high, yelling back voice going "GO! GO! GO! GO!" (or something else maybe like "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!" or yelling out a sentence word by word - undetermined yet). Then when we go to "It's too late, there's no time" it sounds like earlier Blink-182 from TOYPAJ, and it goes on till the chorus... with lyrics referencing the Carnival of Sins, a live album and DVD by Mötley Crüe, which Sum 41 had opened for when they were on tour. Then we go to the second verse, deeply comfortable and blatantly expressing a continuing Blink influence, with a loud bass just like in the song "Go", once again! Then the pre-chorus goes on... But once Deryck goes on to his "All for none, never was two, three, four" it sounds just like the early Sum 41 pop-punk melody, just this one line! Then we get the chorus again... still Blink... Then the bridge. With the same "Hey!"s as in the song "No Reason" from Sum's last album "Chuck". Then it seems like we're back to some Green Gay with their "ONE TWO THREE FOUR" yelled in a megaphone. But then the bridge riff sounds good, like a new Sum 41 style, or perhaps more like we're back into the Descendents! But a very good sounding bridge overall! Well written and entertaining! They couldn't've putten a Green Gay like bridge there otherwise it would've been disastrous. Then go back to their American Idiot-style of music. But we have in the lyrics assonances and rhymes which are not for the worst, and lyrics that are more mature than Green Gay's in my opinion. But what's that?! Once this verse is over, the outro starts off, in a 3/4 rhythm, sounding a big deal like... My Chemical Romance! What the hell? A roundabout-like sounding melody, with "lalalalalala"s, and random words being yelled out, sounds like a carnival, but ending in an original Sum 41 way with voices just giving up. And that's "March of the Dogs" Now listen to it completely without reading this big part.
So what do I have to say about this one song?? Well, although the references and the inspiration that Sum 41 got from this song are not of the elite in terms of today's modern "rock" music (it's actually all the biggest mainstream pseudo-pop-punk-teen-emo-lame-rock bands), this is overal a good song. Why so? Because the bridge is solid, well written, and gives an acceptable excuse to the band for copying bad band's styles. I actually like Blink-182, just not their latest stuff that much, just like most fans, if not all. But also, when you know it's Sum 41, and when you weren't expecting anything in particular from them (like metal or pop-punk), you can just accept this song much more easily. I know Sum 41 well, they have changed throughout the years, no two albums of theirs are identical, and so I can accept this song by them, they even announced themselves that it would be the only political song in the album, so it's all good in the hood, yo! The Blink references are not bad, the Green Gay parts are the scariest, the bridge is solid, all in all a good song, and at least Sum 41 did not try to keep up their hard rock style and just went backwards with this song. So it's actually a good thing I find, they said themselves that they couldn't keep up with metal and the experience they did with Chuck, and I think that it's wise to want to go backwards or take a different road keeping the same style. Let's hope that the whole album is varied, and stays in the style of the talent of Sum 41, and also original! No copies, please! Last sentence: obviously, Blink would've written the music to this song if it were them!
From Toronto with....well Ajaxians on his blog...meh, -Teoman
Rueducommerce.com a maintenant des petites annonces.
Ils en ont même des pour les rencontres! Il y en a une intéressante je trouve intitulée "Mon inconnu(e)" pour que les gens qui se sont vus au hasard quelque part se retrouvent. Bon, bien sur je ne pense pas que ca marche, mais il y en a une qui m'a.... fait réagir... Regardez par vous-même!
Voilà.... donc c'est comme ça qu'ils passent leurs annonces en premier. C'est un concept intéressant… même si je pense que ça ne marche pas. Mais voyez ensuite ce que le mec a republié deux semaines plus tard:
Voilà je vous laisse juger par vous même... la bonne blague...
You know that weird feeling you have when you focus on a word and read it several times in your mind, and it starts feeling weird, and special perhaps, like the word starts making no sense? No? Well I duno about you, but I was searching on Facebook for some Teomen, and I read several times the name since there are about 28 Teomen on Facebook including me. So I read my name over and over and over again in my head, and after reading it about 10 times it started jumping out, and it gave me an impression of being unique, rare and uncommon. The more I read it, the more I thought "wow... is that really my name? My name is really Teoman?"... and then I started feeling special... I felt as if my name was really special. And it is, I mean I never really payed attention to it before in my life, but several things came up to my head:
-I have a Turkish name -I have a rare Turkish name -I have an ancient Chinese-Hun-Turkic name -My name is more than 2200 years old (apparently the first Teoman was born in around 200 BC). -I have that name, it's mine -I do not have a common name -I have a historical ancient ethnic name....shit.... I guess I should be proud....
And I felt proud.... I did, I just thought "damn, I'm neither John nor Peter nor Abdel-Khader (now a common name in France btw), I'm Teoman... it sounds international.... well bluntly speaking, the "Teo" part makes it sound Christian, and the "man" part makes it sound English (but that's what the French say about my name "ah tu t'appelles teo-homme hahahaha qu'est ce que j'suis drole!"), but what I also mean is that it's not difficult to pronounce. There's no click in my name (c.f Russell Peters), no spit-like sounding consonant (c.f. Arabic or German), no tongue swallowing (c.f. Vietnamese), no teeth grinding or intonation (c.f. Cantonese and Mandarin), or no ellaborate consonant combination to make a sound (like "ph" or "cz" or "kt" or "x".... or even "!xo"), it's just plain "Teoman".... tayomahnn... of course it sounds better when pronounced in an Ural-Altaic language like Turkish or Japanese, but it still is easy to read in most languages. Of course the french automatically have a French-turett (sp?) and pronounce it "Teyomon" (in with an ending like a french adverb such as "exactement" or "maman"), and when I tell them my name is Teoman, they are truly masters at polluting my name and turning it into some freestyle ass Frenchised (harhar) version of this royal name. I get the classic "Théoman" which is the most common mistake they make. Then when I correct them I still get a mistake and it's "Téoman" (French pride; ACCENTS ON THE 'E'!). It's ok at first, but I take it badly when people I've known since ever still write it wrong, ie. My French family! Do you know how hopeless it feels when at x mas or my birthday I get a card and on it is written "Théoman"? Of course I'm not gonna get pissed about it, it's not like I'm the only one who gets his name misspelled, but please!!! 19 years later they still misspell my name! That's not all though, I actually got this once only, but it was I think the most elaborate mistake I've ever seen in misspelling my name. I was invited to this guy's birthday party once, and he gave out invitation cards to people, and on my card, my name was spelled "Théomanne".... I was speechless... I just didn't know what to say, whether I had to laugh at it or be all like "wtf".... but wow... I mean damn, there is no way you can make this name more Frenchised (harhar bis)!! This guy must either be a genius or a total ignorant. Of course, it's not his fault, but that was the most advanced mistake I've ever seen for my name. But you know what? If you're going to write my name down, don't be French; don't just write it down the way you think it's written. Ask me! Ask me how my name is written, don't just try to guess and distort 2200 years of history in one name... I'm proud of my name, and so far nobody else than the French have distorted it! (yes... the French again...) But don't get me wrong, I'm not pointing at the French, it's not my fault if they continuously make mistakes. Hell it was even on my final exam in high school "Was France a terrible mistake?" I got a B+ for that question if I remember well... ahh... thank you Mr.Bunting. But anyway, all this to say that I have a rare name, and that I'm damn proud my parents named me that name now. But you know what sucks about this name? Since it doesn't sound really Turkish to westerners, but more like an extension of the Théo family (Like Theodore, Theophile, Theo...), my name is not efficient in proving that I'm really Turkish, hence Asian! If my name was something like... Mehmet Pasha or Ali Demiroglu people would say "yes, your name is Turkish, hence you're Turkish, hence you're Asian", but when you say Teoman Pontais it's more like "eeeeeerrrrr!!!! Your last name is Pontais, hence French, hence Not Asian! And your first name doesn't sound Turkish to me, phony!!!" That's the catch. But I still like my name, even though it doesn't feel like Turkish to the ignorant people. Sigh.
From Toronto with spelling mistakes in his name brought to you by the French, -Teoman
Why I no post? Because I no have nothing to say. I bored. It's been about 3 weeks classes have ended and my last exam is on wednesday....after that I got nothing to do at all. All I do now is try to force myself to work, and just jerk around on the computer, and also jerk off in front of the computer. Nothing is happening, I'm just sitting in my room (without a needle in my hand), waiting for a sign from God (hence me).
Right, what I'm saying makes no sense, but I'm just bored. I've watched several times "College Guide: How To Get More Pussy", it's a good movie, and hilarious too! Hell! I even skip the sex scenes to go straight to the fake acting scenes, it's so hilarious. I have exploded my account (I got about 200 bucks left), and I'll have to wait until the 7th May until I get back to the motherland (not my motherland obviously...just the french's motherland). Sheesh.... I'll actually be setting foot on the politically new France. I wonder how the country will change, if it ever would. In the words of the french journalists:
"Quel avenir pour la France? Le Burger King a-t-il une chance de se racheter? Reportage de Marine Lecourt...."
Film at eleven.
It's quite funny how I'm actually looking forward to go back to France. It's actually not that; I'm looking forward to leave Glendon. I wanna leave this boring place. These annoying bitches with bad laughs always laughing in front of my door (they're my neighbours), drunk as always, not respecting the quiet hours thinking everybody is asleep and won't hear them. Jeez. I wanna smack them. But then again I'm not a violent guy and it's none of my business. But then again when I'll be back home I'll be better off: -I won't die of hunger at night anymore -I'll be able to drink wine and eat cheese -I'll eat well actually -I'll be with my cats And best of all: -I'll finally be getting my Gibson SG Standard. Ahh...being able to play Johnny B. Goode or Roll over Beethoven on this guitar.... or even the great Pillow Talk.... what's that? You don't know Pillow Talk? Hehehe... I thought so too... it wouldn't be unusual for you to not know one of the best pieces to be featured in the Metal Gear Solid 3 soundtrack. Now I duno who composed it, it says on the CD case "Starry K.", but all the research I've made lead to nowhere. I would assume Harry-Gregson Williams wrote the song and put that pseudonym just to make it seem as if it was written in the 60s. But oh well... my sweet SG... it will sound terrific with my Dunlop Crybaby 535Q wah.... mmmh... doughnuts~
Oh yea, it'll take time before I post something uninteresting again. So be patient. Meanwhile listen to Finntroll!! And this is Pillow Talk by Starry K.:
You've never heard nothing like that before: Finntroll, coming all the way from mighty Finland, is a polka-folk metal band. Their brand new album "Ur Jordens Djup" came out last month on the 6th March in Europe but it seems it hasn't come out in NA yet. But in any case the album is a complete success, just as good as their former "Nattfodd"!
Finntroll are:
Mathias 'Vreth' Lillmåns (Vocals) Samuli 'Skrymer' Ponsimaa (Guitar) Mikael 'Routa' Karlbom (Guitar) Sami 'Tundra' Uusitalo (Bass) Samu 'Beast Dominator' Ruotsalainen (Drums) Henri 'Trollhorn' Sorvali (Keyboards)
I fucking love this band, their concept is really clever, and they are funny at the same time. Their vocals are mostly about trolls, myths and legends found in nordic folklore and some people who know them have associated them with the Orcs and Elves from the Warcraft video games (kinda n00bish but it fits the atmosphere). They're coming to France in May, right after I arrive, so I think I'll go see them, I have nothing to lose, cos they'll also be coming to Toronto next September, so I could always see them twice! Woohoo! A little thing about the band, they sing in Swedish cos they think it's more "trollish". Nothing wrong with that! Anyway what can I say about them. You know how I feel when a member in a band is replaced or a new guy comes along, like a DJ, or a guitarist. Limp Bizkit failed hardcore when Les Borland had left the band. Last year the charismatic singer of the band, Tapio Wilska, got fired from the band for bad communication, yet the reason remains unrevealed. They found a new singer, who was thin and tall, the radical opposite of Wilska who was hairy, small and fat, and had curly hair. This time the singer is blond, has long but straight hair, and looks much cleaner. I wondered how he sounded. In the end when the new album came out with this singer on it, I just didn't figure any difference. They both sound excellent, although I think Vreth sounds more violent and loud than Wilska. Anyway. Some people take Finntroll as a joke, kinda like techno, but Finntroll are really serious about themselves, and I respect them. They do a really good job, and their music really sounds good and entertaining. Even my girlfriend said it herself, she finds it amusing! Booya-kah, hide your daughters, kegs of rhum and men of god, the wretched are upon Goreface69 this month!!!!!
1) That's not right........................................ Sum Ting Wong
2) Are you harboring a fugitive? .............. Hu Yu Hai Ding 3) See me ASAP........................................... Kum Hia Nao 4) Stupid Man.............................................. Dum Fuk 5) Small Horse............................................. Tai Ni Po Ni 6) Did you go to the Beach? ...................... Wai Yu So Tan 7) I bumped into a coffee table.................. Ai Bang Mai Fa Kin Ni 8) I think you need a face lift..................... Chin Tu Fat 9) It's very dark in here............................. Wao So Dim 10) I thought you were on a diet.............. Wai Yu Mun Ching 11) This is a tow away zone....................... No Pah King 12) Our meeting is next week................... Wai Yu Kum Nao 13) Staying out of sight............................... Lei Ying Lo 14) He's cleaning his automobile............... Wa Shing Ka 15) Your body odor is offensive................ Yu Stin Ki Pu 16) Great...................................................... Fa Kin Su Pah
