Showing posts with label The Strokes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Strokes. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Reptilia



A 'Reptilia' cover by VSQ (Vitamin String Quartet).

This is just, Perfect.


Check out other covers here.


Who're the VSQ (Vitamin String Quartet)?

The String Quartet Tribute is a series of string quartet tribute albums, released by Vitamin Records and performed by several different groups of musicians. These string quartet tributes are commonly referred to as "VSQ," or "Vitamin String Quartet" by fans. Albums generally focus on one band per record, and perform classical versions of that band's songs, generally note for note. They use a wide array of instruments but primarily violins and violas.


Also, here're some awesome behind-the-scenes B&W photos of Julian's Phrazes For The Young solo tour by Chris Searl. The rest are here.





(Yes, Jules is a rock star that reads Hesse's Siddhartha. He's cool like that.)

Monday, August 23, 2010

To the Adonis of Underground Rock,


Happy 32nd Birthday my liege!


May your days be filled with happiness & your career flourish forever,
May your music lasts for eternity & your name become legendary,
Most of all,
Stay sober!


With Love,
Me.




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P.S: Yeap, I got excited and made this poster like, a month ago haha.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Resurrection

Their new badge. It's on Fab's drums now.


After a long hiatus of 4 years, FINALLY our debauched rock gods are BACK. Been waiting for there to be enough decent quality vids on YT.

Let the vids do the talking. I'm absolutely, utterly, at a loss of words (adjectives particularly) to describe this...this...gosh dangit. Just WATCH!


Date: 13th June 2010
Venue: Isle Of Wright, U.K


The Modern Age

Reptilia

(You can actually SEE Fab's face at 1:36!)

Take It Or Leave It

(And Nick broke one of his precious strings...)

New York City Cops





P.S:

The Strokes' comeback actually happened on 10th June 2010 at Dingwalls, London, U.K. They played a secret gig under the name of 'Venison' with a setlist of 14 songs and 4 encores. The 500 tickets for the secret gig sold out in 10 secs yo! Haha.

All members of Coldplay (From a girl who spend the concert next to Chris Martin: "He's a sweetheart. He hugged me and completely lost it during Someday and Last Nite), Drew McConnell of Babyshambles, Binki Shapiro, Carl Barat, and Zane Lowe are among the more well known people who attended the secret gig :)


Tuesday, May 11, 2010

I said I was fine


This just about sums up what I'm feeling so here. Have a go, you'll love it. I assure you.




You people probably don't care and all but here. This one has a HQ ver. of that snippet of Sinatra's My Way Jules sang at the beginning, in the vid up there, before the real song they performed; 'Between Love & Hate'. He can croon your hearts into his hands if he wants to. Heh.

And oh, got plenty of footage of Jules chucking the mic stand around and throwing himself into the Jap crowd at the end hahaaa. Btw, song's called New York City Cops.


If you don't listen to The Strokes. You should start now. You're missing about half the pomp and glitter of life on earth if you don't. Seriously.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Apocalyptic

Ohohoho. I feel like posting every existing video of The Strokes' live performances on youtube right here. Seriously. Aaaaaaa, yeah. I'm feeling crumby because I had a Maths test this afternoon. Enough said, no? Hah.

Am having my study leave break now. Mid year exams starts next Friday until Wednesday. Got 5 papers to sit for. And guess what? I heard from a friend of mine who attended the exam briefing, that us Pharmacy and Dentistry bound students are supposed to get an average of 90% at least. If we don't our parents are gonna be called to the Parent-Lecturer's Day. I'm not concerned with having my parents coming over, it's just that...an average of 90% is. IMPOSSIBLE for me.

Talking about the impossible. Frankly, I'm absolutely certain that I'm not going to be able to get a TER 96 and fly off to Otago next February. Uhuh. Yeap. I'm resting all my hopes on JPA's mercy and my plan B of doing Dentistry twinning in IMU (2.5 years) and then to University of Sydney, Australia (2.5 years). The requirement is TER85 only, which is perfectly feasible for me. This, truly, is the ONLY thing that keeps me going at the moment (plus The Strokes, of course).

I'm a rationalist. I don't deceive myself, not often anyway. I know what my limits are. Yeah, yeah, this sounds like the ultimatum of a Defeatist too doesn't it? But hey, it's not like I'm giving up or something. I'm just licking my wounds and trying to comfort myself. The pressure just depresses me. Terribly so. You know what it's like, aite? When you find that absolutely nothing interests you anymore and feel the great emptiness of 'my life is pointless' settle in those quiet times in the edifices of your solitary mind?

That aside, I just finished formulating my 'study schedule' for the Mid Year exams. Just like the good ol' days in high school. Haha, those days when I used to list down the things I need to study, within a time frame, WHICH I NEVER manage to keep up with. Aha. The idea is not to really stick to it, it just helps you realize the NEED to study since there's a bunch of subjects to tackle.

Enough with the boring stuff.

FUN stuff:

I, am going to the TOKIO HOTEL concert in One Utama tomorrow!

YEAYYY. Haha. I already planned to attend it but gave up since you gotta get their HUMANOID album to get the free pass. I mean, I don't love them or anything, they pique my interest a little. So, when my cousin called me up yesterday saying she has two tickets she got for free from a friend, why the hell not? I am SO going to enjoy watching the Kaulitz twins. Hahahhaa.

My MAIN reasons for wanting to go to the concert are:

1. I wanna hear 'Monsoon' live. I hope they sing it!
2. Bill's HAIR. No shit. He is the spawn of Sonic the Hedgehog I tell you. If only it's indigo blue.

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P.S: I'm posting this anyway. AND OH! I've also just realized that in this song (4 Chord Of The Apocalypse) by Jules, there's this bit in the lyrics "It's nice to be important, etc etc, but it's more important to be nice". WHICH IS my favourite quote from the great ROGER FEDERER! Jules and Roger unified! MAGNIFICENT no? hahaha.

SO, enjoy.



Thursday, April 29, 2010

THE REASON: Juicebox




Why I'm boxofjuice.
Why The Strokes is brilliant.
Why Jules is magnificent.
Why the Earth is not flat.
Why some people are still alive.
Why some people are dead.

MOSTLY,

Why I am sane right now.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Phrazes For The Young.



Jules (Julian Casablancas) of The Strokes has a SOLO album. A SOLO album. SOLO. Titled: Phrazes Of the Young. It will be released Fall THIS year! Yes! Yes! SCREAMMMMM!!!! HAHAHAHA. *ahem* He even has his own SOLO website now!


After YEARS of SILENCE. FINALLY! SOMETHING from Jules!!!!! xD Ngaaaa~~ Just the preview of the album is that cool. I am excited as heckkkkkkkk.

Now, the EPIC interview:



Isn't Jules simply beautiful? Course he is. Says he likes Star Trek haha.