Journal for Plague Lovers

Cover painting by Jenny Saville

Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers

1. Peeled Apples
2. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
3. Me and Stephen Hawking
4. This Joke Sport Severed
5. Journal for Plague Lovers
6. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
7. Facing Page: Top Left
8. Marlon J.D.
9. Doors Closing Slowly
10. All Is Vanity
11. Pretension/Repulsion
12. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
13. William's Last Words" / Bag Lady (Hidden Track)
Japan-only bonus tracks
14. Alien Orders/Invisible Armies
15. Primitive Painters

Juxtaposed With You

Let's associate the songs with the words now. I'm only putting excerpts, the full lyrics would be too long :p
Just click the button to reveal the lyrics / click again to hide

I read bad poetry
Into your machine
I save your messages
Just to hear your voice

At my most beautiful
I count your eyelashes, secretly
With every one, whisper I love you

I cannot be without you
Matter of fact
I'm on your back

If you walk out on me
I'm walking after you

My heart is yours.
It's you that I hold on to.
That's what I'll do

If I told you a secret
You won't tell a soul
Will you hold it and
Keep it alive

If the world isn't turning
Your heart won't return
Anyone, anything, anyhow

I wanted to run but she made me crawl
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Eternal fire, she turned me to straw
Oh oh, the sweetest thing
You know I got black eyes
But they burn so brightly for her

(en plein amour)
You and i
Just collapsed in love
And it looks like we might have made it
Yes, it looks like weve made it to the end

(en plein soleil)
(en plein soleil)

And oh if you stay I'll chase the rainblown fields away
We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun
Oh if you stay
We'll be the wild ones, running with the dogs today

And it's a shame the plane is leaving on this sunny day
Cos on you my tattoo will be bleeding and the name will stain

the atlantic was born today and i'll tell you how:
the clouds above opened up and let it out.

I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere
when the water filled every hole.
and thousands upon thousands made an ocean,
making islands where no island should go.
oh no.

those people were overjoyed; they took to their boats.
I thought it less like a lake and more like a moat.
the rhythm of my footsteps crossing flood lands to your door have been silenced forever more.
the distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
it seems farther than ever before
oh no.

I need you so much closer

I fell in love again
all things go, all things go
drove to Chicago
all things know, all things know
we sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
in my mind, in my mind

I drove to New York
in a van, with my friend
we slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
in my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
in my mind, in my mind

Happy Songs for Happy People

I meant to do this for Azni & Shahril's wedding, but I never got to finish it, so I'll pass it on to Zal then.

But urm, they are not your conventional soppy love songs
Click the song title to sample them :

1. REM - At My Most Beautiful
2. Foo Fighters - Walking After You
3. Coldplay - Sparks
4. Travis - Love Will Come Through
5. U2 - The Sweetest Thing
6. Air - Cherry Blossom Girl
7. Blur - To The End
8. Suede - The Wild Ones
9. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
10. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago : This is not really a love song, but I love it so much, I'm putting it here

Blimey Susan!

Watch Susan Boyle here

Jamiroquai and F1 chaos, 4-5 April 09

Hello, here's the setlist of Jamiroquai's gig last Sunday. Got it from their official site. 13 songs altogether, quite a short list,but some songs from their earlier albums were extended versions, so they were longer. Too bad, they didn't play Virtual Insanity though :(

THE KIDS
HIGH TIMES
SEVEN DAYS IN SUNNY JUNE intro
ALRIGHT
LITTLE L
BLACK CAPRICORN DAY
CANNED HEAT
USE THE FORCE
TRAVELLING WITHOUT MOVING
COSMIC GIRL
SPACE COWBOY
LOVE FOOLOSOPHY

Encore:
DEEPER UNDERGROUND

Here's a review of the gig.

Agree with Faz on Jay Kay's dance moves, that reminds me of Miele's fren, Izmir's comment : Jay Kay punya kaki macam anak pony LOL! I said to him, err pony is already anak kuda, what do u mean by anak pony? Like a pony's baby? :p LOL! And for pix, here's a link

Me & Miele were quite at the back, so most shots I got were not up close. Better look at those pix in the link ;) Some of my better shots:

Btw, the gig ended around 11pm, then went back, reached home midnite, then re-watched the race on TV LOL! I was really blur on what actually happened on the track :p

As we all know, the race was red-flagged halfway into the 32nd lap due to heavy rain - most of the cars had spun & visibility was poor. Our hillstand seat had already become a muddy waterfall!

It was about an hour's wait for the decision whether they'd continue the race or not. So while waiting, some Mat Sallehs (we figure were from Finland becos they were supporting Kimi) were doing mudslides down the slope! (they probably missed snow sliding?) And they brought inflatable floats for the mudslide! People were cheering for them LOL!

And some folks on the left side of the hillstand (from where I was) started a Mexican wave, so all at hillstand followed suit. People at the more 'posh' Grandstand were probably thinking what a crazy bunch of people there at the hillstand :p

Anyway, yeay for Liz becos Nick won 2nd place :) So sorry for Faz though cos Kimi didn't get any points. But then again, the winners were only awarded half of the full points, so not too far for him to catch up eh.