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whoaaa. 4+ months I haven't dropped by here. Err. I guess I got occupied with things and by the time I had time I simply had forgotten or lost all energy to blog.
Anyways, not sure whether I'd start writing/blabbering here again (I should, since I don't really have anything to do yet); still waiting for that call from Maybank person, or maybe I should just call them tomorrow.
Being bored and restless, and not to mention all alone at home (my dahlink sisters have left me to go off to Jakarta -sobs-).. makes you do the most random things.
I actually googled my name. Interestingly, few articles popped out. I kinda forgot I wrote them, I lost the newspaper cuttings. Honestly, I enjoyed the free CDs :)
DAVID USHER SPINS IN CIRCLES
Author: By Utami Kirana
Source: The Medium
Date: September 29, 2003
Following up to his album Morning Orbit, David Usher tries to repeat his success by releasing Hallucinations. Unfortunately, his new album does not include songs with such potential like his international hit Black Black Heart. The album shares the same mood as all his other recordings.
Listening to this mellow and rather haunting (soothing) CD, there are times that it becomes hard to differentiate one track from another. Track three Numb is one of the few rather catchy - guitary tunes he delivers in this album. His cover of The Manic Street Preachers' If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next actually managed to raise my hair up and for a second, I thought I was being brainwashed.
If you don’t mind getting depressed by listening to a CD, this will satisfy you. Fans of his previous album will either be ecstatic with this third release or get really bored of hearing the similar/identical tunes, over and over again. And of course, there are people like me who find him more of eye-candy.
Frigid Band Heats Up Sound Systems
»» By Utami Kirana
Cold
Year of the Spider
Flip/Geffen records 2003
Cold's latest release, Year of the Spider, kicks off with the song 'Remedy', incorporating the same nu-metal sonics of their previous 2000 album, 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage, though with a hint more mainstream production.
Year of the Spider, however, features a more melodic sound through each of the thirteen cuts, which has led to more airplay in major radio stations, especially with the first single, 'Stupid Girl', co-written by, and featuring, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo.
Cold consists of Scooter Ward (vocals - uncannily sounding similar to Staind's Aaron Lewis), Kelly Hayes (guitar), Jeremy Marshall (bass), Terry Balsamo (guitar) and Sam McCandless (drums).
It is quite obvious that the band has grown up a lot musically and lyrically after fifteen years together. Scooter wrote most of the song lyrics based on his own life experiences and the lives of others: "I was never good at hiding anything/ My thoughts break me/ Do you understand what you mean to me?/ You are my faith/ If you can make the world a stage for me, then I hope that you can hear me scream," are lines from the song 'Cure My Tragedy', written about his sister and his girlfriend, both diagnosed with cancer.
Not all lyrics are completely autobiographical. 'Kill the Music Industry' ably conveys Cold's feelings of greedy and corrupt practices in major record labels. Any fan of Staind or the Deftones will love this album.
Taken as a whole, Year of the Spider employs many of the tired cliches of nu-metal, but it's a credit to Cold that it still sounds credible
I think there were one or two more reviews that I wrote, somehow those didn't show.
Andd... there are suprisingly a lot of people called Tami. Not Tammy, Tamy, Tamie... but Tami. Hmm... here I was thinking I had quite a unique name, the only other person I knew having the name Tami was Tami Hoag, the author.
