TOMORROW.
I'll be in Malaysia.
How exciting is that?
Anyway, since I wrote a post reviewing two books yesterday, I've decided to do today's one on music.
Recent additions to my iPod include artistes such as Emilie Autumn, Crystal Castles, Coheed & Cambria, Van Atta High, I Set My Friends on Fire, I Am Ghost, Butch Walker, The Arcade Fire, Brokencyde, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Voxtrot.
Noteworthy soundtracks include the Skins Soundtrack.
If you watch Skins (and know what a fantastic series it is), you'd understand what sort of soundtrack it needs: mellow, yet catchy, more indie and snappy teenage at times, but very slow and soft at others.
The soundtrack provides exactly that sort of atmosphere at the neediest times.
My favourite tracks would have to be:
Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming.
(rather meaningless, but has an infectious intro and the verses just make you want to snap and sing along.)
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night.
(C'mon. Its the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. That kind of says it all.)
Mike Bailey - Wild World.
(Mike Bailey plays Sid on the show, and covers this Cat Stevens song. I never realised that Sid could sing! Slow, soft, and poignant, this sums up Sid and Michelle's relationship in three minutes.)
A soundtrack that I felt only lukewarm about was Twilight.
I expected something I bit more, well, for a lack of words, vampire-ish, shall we say?
Music that sends a chill up your spine, makes you glance back over your shoulder, gives you that creeping feeling reminiscent of Thriller.
But no.
Paramore's recordings of Decode and I Caught Myself were excellent, the usual quality you'd expect from Williams and the Farros.
I didn't think that the songs suited the movie, but by themselves, far from disappointing.
However, I must admit that Paramore is quite dead to Tasha, Neesha and I, for reasons only kampung girls and their grandmothers know.
Besides Paramore, the other track that I enjoyed was Bella's Lullaby.
I liked the instrumental very much.
I also kept Collective Soul's Tremble For My Beloved on repeat.
Like the Paramore tracks, this one was a standalone hit on my playlist.
I, however, really found Robert Pattinson's Never Think quite abhorrent.
The dude should stick to acting.
Note: I did not let my distaste for the books influence judgement on the music or movie. They are entirely separate.
The books are dirt, like I've mentioned before.
But the acting doesn't seem bad and I'm looking forward to the special effects in the movie.
To my Malaysian friends, one last word.
See you tomorrow.
