Trying to think up of something funny to write about is hard. Have you seen the news lately? Nothing funny about it. All deaths and disasters happening around the world. And also a crazy barking dog man. So instead of picking a topic and trying to be funny about it, let's talk about the topic of "funny" itself. And by "talk", I mean I'll do all the writing and you just sit there on your fat ass and read. With all the effort I'm putting into this post, you better be laughing! I can hear when you're NOT laughing, you know!
There are lots of kinds of funny. The kind of funny where you laugh at someone else's expense. Like a small child falling on flat on their face. Ok, maybe that's a little mean. Let's say a grown person falling off a skateboard. The moment they hit the ground and you hear a loud thump, you immediately just burst out laughing. After about 5 minutes of cracking up, you go over to them to try to figure out why they haven't been moving for a while. They slowly lift up they're head and you kindly ask them if they're OK. If they say yes, then you can continue on laughing guilt free. If they tell you they think they're seriously hurt, screw it. Laugh again anyway.
The kind of funny where it's just completely random. Where something just occurs completely out of nowhere, changing a normal situation into one that's completely ridiculous. Like a paragraph that's just full of sentences, none of which are funny, until the very end. Purple gay rhinoceros.
The kind of funny where you laugh when you're not suppose to. Where a serious situation just gets more and more funny as the story progresses.
Jane: Oh my god Trung! My dog died!
Trung:Oh no, that's terrible!
Jane: *cries* I accidentally ran him over with my skateboard
Trung's Brain: ...uh oh...i'm about to laugh. Whatever you do Trung, DON'T laugh! Must hold in laugh...Must not even smile
Jane: He was the best cocker spaniel ever.
Trung's Brain: No point trying anymore man. Just laugh in her face already
Trung: hahahaha.....I'm sorry....*pause*....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jane: -_-
You know what I find funny, that "-_-" emoticon. I use it all the time. It's meant to portray the expression of annoyance over MSN, but now that i think about it, isn't that how asains' eyes are normally? If I use it, I'm not saying I'm irritated, I'm just saying my face is normal.
Bob: Hey Trung, I didn't piss you off did I?
Trung: -_-
Bob: Err, so what are you saying? That you're annoyed or that you're chinese?
The last kind of funny I'll write about is best summed up in this short story I once read
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A circus had set up in a small town, not too far from the waters of the ocean. A great circus it was, with the main act being none other than the great Pochinko the clown himself. All who came to see his act would never fail to laugh at the great clown's ability to create humour out of nothing. The entire town and all its people were filled with joy ever since the arrival of the circus. All but one. A man had went to visit the doctor, with a desperate plea for help.
"Doctor" the man said with tears starting to form around his eyes "my heart is empty of warmth and I cannot get rid of this terrible sadness that has filled its place. Is there anything you could do to help me?"
The Doctor thought over the man's dilemma and came up with the perfect solution.
"I know what you can do!" The doctor exclaimed with enthusiasm "You must go and see Pochinko the clown. For he is the greatest at what he does and not one person has been able to walk away from his act without a smile on their face"
The man stared wide-eyed at the Doctor's proposal and immediately bawled his eyes out with his face buried in his hands. And through his tears, he cries out "I AM Pochinko!"
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The irony of being in a situation where there's nothing to do but see it it all go downhill. The kind of funny where you're just left reflecting on how amusingly wrong you were. The kind of funny where you don't laugh.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
KeepOnListening
I've had this blog now for over a year now and I've been asked a couple of times "Hey Trung, you should write a post sometime about your personal life". My response has always been "I would, but I want people to actually READ my blog though". This one post will be my first (and maybe only?) exception. No wait! Don't run off just yet. Crap, you're already out the door. I didn't know people could run that fast...and through walls.
Anyway, this entry won't be about my actual personal life but rather about my taste in music and the things I'm listening to. It won't have any (intentional) humour, so if you'd rather read an older post of mine that's funny-intended and music related, then try reading this old blog entry I wrote about lyrics in songs. Well this entry might be boring or interesting depending on how intrigued you are about me and who I am.
Well if you know my taste in music, then you would know that I'm into John Mayer's songs. I'm a huge fan of his work. My admiration for him borders homosexuality actually. And I know most of you think "John Mayer is just a huge jerk!" Well he's just portrayed as a jerk because the media has scrutinised everything he said ever since he broke up with Jennifer Aniston. My defending him sure doesn't make me sound less gay... Anyway, despite wether he's a jerk or not, there's no denying he's a lyrical genius. I find it hard it enough to express a quarter of what I need to say in coherent sentences. He's able to do it all to a friggin' melody.
There are many John Mayer songs that I just love. Too many to list "Your Body is a Wonderland", "St. Patrick's Day", "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room", "Friends, Lovers or Nothing". Well here are some others that rank up high in the list.
A really catchy and sweet song. I've always liked this song but didn't understand the meaning behind the song 'till a while after I first heard it. It's about the importance of a father and his love to a daughter. In John's own words, it was about a girl who couldn't love or trust a man because the very first man she knew, her father, didn't love her. Maybe 'interesting' is the wrong word, but it is interesting how boys aren't as affected by the care,or lack thereof, from our parents as girls are.
I my opinion, this is quite an angry song. About a person refusing to be be saddened by 'gravity'. This whole song is like a big 'Screw you world! You ain't bringing me down!'. At the centre of pain is the desire for more than what you have. "It's wanting more that's gonna send me to my knees". Sometimes to continue standing, we fight the pain instead of letting go of our desires.
Very sweet song, and incredibly catchy. Lyrics are pretty much self-explanatory with this song. If you fall down, you'll get back up (eventually,that is). Whatever happens, it's all good. Hmm, this song makes me happy, even if it's a momentary sort of high.
This is my favourite song of John's from his new album. Heck, maybe my favourite song from his whole discography. Sometimes there are songs that have maybe 2 or 3 phrases that represent how you're feeling. Every single line in this song has hit me hard. I don't know if this song is meant to be a happy or sad one, but I do know it gives me the feeling of an exhausted and almost desperate attempt to reach someone. The time where everything is said and done, and all that's left is to lay all of yourself out with no more walls hiding yourself away. It's quite a powerful feeling to have. And the consequences of it all is summed up in one single line: "There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me."
People may not know this, but John Mayer is actually an incredibly good guitar player too. Some of his guitar rifts are insane. I've been recently learning the guitar, and one of my goals is to be able to play one of his songs. Still a looooooong way to go, but I'm getting there. There are a few ways of playing the guitar, but my favourite way is the finger-picking style. Personally, I think it sounds just so much more nicer than the usual strumming way. Here are two clips of two people who are VERY good at this stlye of guitar playing.
These two are experts at what they do. And one of them is only bloody 12! I'll be lucky if I can manage a quarter of their talent. But watching and listening to them play does inspire me somewhat to keep learning. I really do enjoy playing the guitar. It's a good mood lifter. And whenever I finally get a part of a song that I've been working on for so long, I get a sense of "Fuck Yeah! Accomplisment!!". And the reward is a sweet sounding melody that I know I can tune out.
For me, a bad music video can really ruin a song. I can hear a song on the radio that's been played for weeks and find that it's really good to listen to. But when I see that the music video has been LadyGagaish-WTF-CrazyAbstract-ed, I'm just put off the song. Stupid music videos just plain ruin songs for me. I no longer hear a song as a song, I'm always in the back of my mind thinking about the weird ass clip that some idiot thought was artistic. But on the flip-side, a really good music video can actually make a song that much more meaningful.
This clip goes so incredibly well with the song. Almost no frame is gone to waste with this video alongside the music. Probably wondering what's the importance of this song to me. With some songs, it's nice to imagine yourself as the receiver of the lyrics. It'd be nice to know that you were the stand out in someone's list. But...it'd also be nice to be a billionaire. What's the chance of that happening anytime soon?
In terms of sitting down and listening to music, I'm not really into the R'n'B kind. I mean, I can listen to them from time to time, but my preferred genre is more acoustic and that guitar/piano sound. But when someone on youtube combines them both, it just becomes musical gold.
This is such an awesome acoustic cover of Replay. Lyrically, this song has almost no interest to me. But you don't have to listen to a song for the words, you just gotta listen to it for it's incredible tune and the fact that it makes you feel happy for absolutely no reason other than the fact that it sounds good in your ears.
I have always loved this song, ever since it was released back when I was in year 9! This acoustic version has just reinvigorated it back into my playlist. It's a bit weird with this song. It's always been in the "sounds nice" category when I first heard it, but it wasn't a long while after that it became lyrically important.
How about some cheer up music? This next song got me through some rough times. Back around when I had a mini quarter-life crisis during the middle of a very boring and uneventful uni semester when it felt like everything around me was stalling and nothing was changing. It took a while, but things got better. Some/most of it anyway, depending on my perspective on things.
Well that was a lot of songs to listen to, and I still havn't mentioned some of my other favourite artists, such as Rob Thomas, Maroon 5, The Fray, Coldplay and quite a few more. This has actually become quite a personal blog entry. Well all of mine are actually, it's just that this one isn't hiding behind a wall of 'comedy'. This is a pretty lengthy post, and most likely impossible to go through in just one sitting, especially if you're juggling between this blog, facebook and msn. Hell, I wouldn't even be able to listen to this whole blog in one go, it's over 40 minutes long. With me, I can just sit down and just listen to a song, with absolutely no distractions around me. Just me, completely absorbed in the words of the melody. I think the kind of music you listen to reflects the kind of person you are, so if you want to know me a bit better, than feel free to revisit this blog.
Well that's that. I may or may not make another entry about myself. We'll see. Time to conclude this long ass blog post, and i think the best way to end it is with none other than the man himself:
Thanks for listening =)
Anyway, this entry won't be about my actual personal life but rather about my taste in music and the things I'm listening to. It won't have any (intentional) humour, so if you'd rather read an older post of mine that's funny-intended and music related, then try reading this old blog entry I wrote about lyrics in songs. Well this entry might be boring or interesting depending on how intrigued you are about me and who I am.
Well if you know my taste in music, then you would know that I'm into John Mayer's songs. I'm a huge fan of his work. My admiration for him borders homosexuality actually. And I know most of you think "John Mayer is just a huge jerk!" Well he's just portrayed as a jerk because the media has scrutinised everything he said ever since he broke up with Jennifer Aniston. My defending him sure doesn't make me sound less gay... Anyway, despite wether he's a jerk or not, there's no denying he's a lyrical genius. I find it hard it enough to express a quarter of what I need to say in coherent sentences. He's able to do it all to a friggin' melody.
There are many John Mayer songs that I just love. Too many to list "Your Body is a Wonderland", "St. Patrick's Day", "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room", "Friends, Lovers or Nothing". Well here are some others that rank up high in the list.
John Mayer - Daughters
"Now I'm starting to see maybe it's got nothing to do with me"
A really catchy and sweet song. I've always liked this song but didn't understand the meaning behind the song 'till a while after I first heard it. It's about the importance of a father and his love to a daughter. In John's own words, it was about a girl who couldn't love or trust a man because the very first man she knew, her father, didn't love her. Maybe 'interesting' is the wrong word, but it is interesting how boys aren't as affected by the care,or lack thereof, from our parents as girls are.
John Mayer - Gravity
"Gravity...stay the hell away from me"
I my opinion, this is quite an angry song. About a person refusing to be be saddened by 'gravity'. This whole song is like a big 'Screw you world! You ain't bringing me down!'. At the centre of pain is the desire for more than what you have. "It's wanting more that's gonna send me to my knees". Sometimes to continue standing, we fight the pain instead of letting go of our desires.
John Mayer - Heart of Life
"No it won't all go the way it should, But I know the Heart of Life is good"
Very sweet song, and incredibly catchy. Lyrics are pretty much self-explanatory with this song. If you fall down, you'll get back up (eventually,that is). Whatever happens, it's all good. Hmm, this song makes me happy, even if it's a momentary sort of high.
John Mayer - Edge of Desire
"Don't say a word, just come over and lie here with me"
This is my favourite song of John's from his new album. Heck, maybe my favourite song from his whole discography. Sometimes there are songs that have maybe 2 or 3 phrases that represent how you're feeling. Every single line in this song has hit me hard. I don't know if this song is meant to be a happy or sad one, but I do know it gives me the feeling of an exhausted and almost desperate attempt to reach someone. The time where everything is said and done, and all that's left is to lay all of yourself out with no more walls hiding yourself away. It's quite a powerful feeling to have. And the consequences of it all is summed up in one single line: "There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me."
People may not know this, but John Mayer is actually an incredibly good guitar player too. Some of his guitar rifts are insane. I've been recently learning the guitar, and one of my goals is to be able to play one of his songs. Still a looooooong way to go, but I'm getting there. There are a few ways of playing the guitar, but my favourite way is the finger-picking style. Personally, I think it sounds just so much more nicer than the usual strumming way. Here are two clips of two people who are VERY good at this stlye of guitar playing.
These two are experts at what they do. And one of them is only bloody 12! I'll be lucky if I can manage a quarter of their talent. But watching and listening to them play does inspire me somewhat to keep learning. I really do enjoy playing the guitar. It's a good mood lifter. And whenever I finally get a part of a song that I've been working on for so long, I get a sense of "Fuck Yeah! Accomplisment!!". And the reward is a sweet sounding melody that I know I can tune out.
For me, a bad music video can really ruin a song. I can hear a song on the radio that's been played for weeks and find that it's really good to listen to. But when I see that the music video has been LadyGagaish-WTF-CrazyAbstract-ed, I'm just put off the song. Stupid music videos just plain ruin songs for me. I no longer hear a song as a song, I'm always in the back of my mind thinking about the weird ass clip that some idiot thought was artistic. But on the flip-side, a really good music video can actually make a song that much more meaningful.
Paramore - Only Exception
" But you are the only exception"
" But you are the only exception"
This clip goes so incredibly well with the song. Almost no frame is gone to waste with this video alongside the music. Probably wondering what's the importance of this song to me. With some songs, it's nice to imagine yourself as the receiver of the lyrics. It'd be nice to know that you were the stand out in someone's list. But...it'd also be nice to be a billionaire. What's the chance of that happening anytime soon?
In terms of sitting down and listening to music, I'm not really into the R'n'B kind. I mean, I can listen to them from time to time, but my preferred genre is more acoustic and that guitar/piano sound. But when someone on youtube combines them both, it just becomes musical gold.
Iyaz - Replay (Cover)
"Nananana everyday"
This is such an awesome acoustic cover of Replay. Lyrically, this song has almost no interest to me. But you don't have to listen to a song for the words, you just gotta listen to it for it's incredible tune and the fact that it makes you feel happy for absolutely no reason other than the fact that it sounds good in your ears.
Usher - Burn (Cover)
"Deep down you know it's best for yourself, But you hate the thought of her being with someone else"
I have always loved this song, ever since it was released back when I was in year 9! This acoustic version has just reinvigorated it back into my playlist. It's a bit weird with this song. It's always been in the "sounds nice" category when I first heard it, but it wasn't a long while after that it became lyrically important.
How about some cheer up music? This next song got me through some rough times. Back around when I had a mini quarter-life crisis during the middle of a very boring and uneventful uni semester when it felt like everything around me was stalling and nothing was changing. It took a while, but things got better. Some/most of it anyway, depending on my perspective on things.
Panic at the Disco - New Perspective
"Stop there and let me correct it, I wanna live a life from a new perspective"
Well that was a lot of songs to listen to, and I still havn't mentioned some of my other favourite artists, such as Rob Thomas, Maroon 5, The Fray, Coldplay and quite a few more. This has actually become quite a personal blog entry. Well all of mine are actually, it's just that this one isn't hiding behind a wall of 'comedy'. This is a pretty lengthy post, and most likely impossible to go through in just one sitting, especially if you're juggling between this blog, facebook and msn. Hell, I wouldn't even be able to listen to this whole blog in one go, it's over 40 minutes long. With me, I can just sit down and just listen to a song, with absolutely no distractions around me. Just me, completely absorbed in the words of the melody. I think the kind of music you listen to reflects the kind of person you are, so if you want to know me a bit better, than feel free to revisit this blog.
Well that's that. I may or may not make another entry about myself. We'll see. Time to conclude this long ass blog post, and i think the best way to end it is with none other than the man himself:
John Mayer - Perfectly Lonely
"Nothing to do, Nowhere to be, A simple kind of free"
Thanks for listening =)
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