Know The Least

   We all love ukulele covers, bought a ukulele now what ahaha. Here are simple ukulele chords to start off. Off course you have to practice strumming but your other hand won't be as natural finessing into different awkward positions, especially if you're new into playing music so here are a few chords.



   These three chords are the basics as I started. I'm not saying I'm pro now but start with these, then you'll get the hang off changing from one chord to another smoothly.

A very simple song to make goes like this

C  F  G 
C  G  C

   From one strum to another, with different styles of strums, you can make different mood tunes.

Strum twice on each chord and you'll make a happy go lucky song. Whereas if you strum slowly 4 times on each chord, you'll produce a nostalgic movie-esque tune. 

PLAY AROUND WITH MOVING FROM ONE CHORD TO ANOTHER AND YOU'LL BE AS SMOOTH AS ED SHEERAN,, KONPEM :)

   Here's a fact about myself... I'm 18 well 19 this year. But I just can't remind myself that I'm getting older and near to death ahahha. Okay so I wanna talk about money because here me out. There are two types of students that do absolute different things when relaxing after studying all day mind you 9-5 all day everyday.

   First, is the student who intends to go out... and they end up going out. Either go the extreme park or go  jogging with some mates even drinking having a good laugh with friends. Just the person that wants to be out of the house. You can even say this is an extrovert.

   Second, is the person who does not want to meet daylight. Stay in the house all day. These people are probably the smartest :D because instead of going out with classmates or peeps they study and study and study all day during the weekends. These are the students who will score with flying colours for their exams. Maybe you can say they are introverts. Silent but deadly in maths.



   Now this topic is mainly for the first type of student. I know there are numerous number of types of students in between but I'm trying to make it as simple as Oh My English even though I've never watched it. Now this topic is mainly for the first type of student. Since there life is mainly revolving around pubs, clubs, restaurants, outings and so on. Money is a virtue, I'm sure we all can agree on that, it is what it is.

   Imagine having your marriage collapsing, family separating, friends dying and you've been keeping all these emotions to yourself because you have nobody to speak out to. Would it be nicer to cry on a bicycle? or to cry in a Rolls Royce. God that example was gruesome damn okay not to that extent, but if anyone is going through all of that I pray for you for real. But anyways. Money doesn't provide happiness I agree with that but it does provide comfort, royalty, self worth.

   Don't tell yourself that you don't want to study just because money is not important to you. Money memang penting sayang. Bills, insurance, family wants and needs, emergencies and so on. To say money is not important nowadays is idiocy because you need a hefty amount just to survive in this god damn country.

   So with all the going out and shit these full time students need the dough, cash, mulla, greens, salad, ranch all that. And for real I am one of them. The problem arises with "full time student". Yeah even though the old guys will tell us go work at night somewhere or do whatever, we're still full time students. Assignments need to be done as well as presentations, socializing, homework. I am selling my things on the side to make extra cash though so you can say I'm HUSTLING. 

   Wau okay hustling konon bill belum kena bayar dah acah2. So yeah what would some of you do to gain money at this age? Mind you with a packed schedule ahahha thanks for reading ciao!

   4 years in the making and Frank Ocean had just released his newest album "Blonde". I never understood the hype of Frank but once I had a thorough listen to Channel Orange I could then see the reason of his great stipulation.

   He went "missing" no reports no nothing for 4 years. People say it's for him to make the masterpiece of the century, welp according to all the reaction videos it seems so. Every reaction to the album has been silence, harmony, near heart attacks and tears...or at least some watery eyes.

   I must admit his voice is something special to listen to. He doesn't just sing but raps as well as he did on Odd Future's "Oldie". I believe he mostly sang on the album. I can't confirm that statement because I only have Spotify and you require Apple Music to listen to it now. Even though it kills me to not have a deep listen of the album yet, I'll wait.



Release

   Frank came out with two albums. Endless (visual album/pre album) and Blonde (main album). Is it Blond or Blonde, people are jumbling it up now, even though the album cover says Blond.

   Anyways, he released two albums in 24 hours with a magazine. Basically they did a random announcement of a kind of pop up shop.



   It's about 360 pages long filled with godly imagery with a vintage aesthetic. And in between the pages is located the Endless and Blonde CD. Intentionally the huge magazine is an album case, which is very creative to say the least. I want it so ...bad my god.

   These were given out for free from random announcements in different regions of USA I believe. $$$ unrequired. Line up and get it for free. Such lucky people to have gotten those :'d

   Hopefully it both albums release on Spotify as soon as possible because all this hype is just getting me more anxious.

bye

   I had a pair of Nike's that were as close of a design as these ones. Merely because of the "teeth" on the sole supporting the fish like structure of the Cortez's. I can't pinpoint which model I had as I was too young to care. Yet when I saw these I was brought back to my younger years and bought it without second thought.

   Gorillaz was one of the 90's early 2000's bands that I was into mainly because my sister and father were into them as with any other band I would gravitate towards. At that young age I was always excited whenever MTV would play 19-2000 or Clint Eastwood, one of their top songs at that time. Probably a big reason I was into them other than the music was the cartoon characters that represented the band, 2D tall and skimpy who had all black or all white eyes, Murdoc Niccals also tall and skimpy yet more rock aesthetic vibes but plays the bass, Noodle a cute Japanese girl that does about everything, and lastly Russel Hobbs big scary physique who plays the drums.

   Plastic Beach dropped and all the nostalgia came running down my spine. I hadn't heard of them in a well. I must admit, I am not a die hard fan but it brings back so many memories of my younger years when I didn't know responsibility when it was all so "simple". Other than just playing music, Gorillaz even managed to get a spot in MTV Cribs where Murdoc showed around Kong Studios. Love how they're not just a band but have their own unique characters and personalities and even backstories.

   Example, so much information can be brought up from the cartoon characters that they kind of have their whole life unravelling like a movie while we observe their silly antics. They used to always release skits of them doing weird things like karate chopping each other, Murdoc cutting an eel in front of 2D but the thing we all knew was 2D and Noodle. For some reason, they both had a connection. Well, I knew rather after the fact that Noodle was a girl. For a long time I thought Noodle was a boy probably because of her short hair and boyish style, maybe he was just a Japanese boy who joined the band at an early age. Owh and this is 2D btw. Apparently he lost his vision due to accidents and other mishaps so they became white? Well it does look cool and eerily cute so I give it a logic pass.

   I'm not sure if Gorillaz is well-known in my country, Malaysia but whenever I bring up the band with whoever I'm with, a big question mark pops up off their heads. I guess it is a British based band maybe a bit underground but by now I had hoped some would know.


   Also forgot to credit of course is the creators of the band Damon Albarn who manages the musical part of the band, vocals keyboard the works. Partnering him is Jamie Hewlett who works on the characters of the band. One's a musician and the other is an illustrator. How art can bring such joy. I don't think Jamie appears in a lot of the performances but that doesn't exclude Damon who even though sings on stage sits behind a screen, giving way to the animated band to come to life. Also on your left here, meet Murdoc the crazy one of the group. What he do with that tongue though.

   The mysterious vibe that the creators give are really cool and the concept of giving the "band" the spotlight on stage is quite smart and shows you don't have to give an overblown performance to please the crowd.

 Noodle looks so sophisticated here though haha she's usually really fun and hyper dancing around a room accompanied by a big singing head. Everyone has their phases. Their is however an ongoing story where Noodle dies but doesn't and gets replaced with a robot clone called Cyborg Noodle which does about everything "dead" Noodle can but without any emotion. It's another instance where the story stretches to evoke more meaning into these lovable characters, makes them more than just a band.


and lastly, the silent but deadly member, Russel


Even though he emits a badboy figure, he's actually a really soft hearted guy. He does have a soft spot for Noodle, like a brother sister love. Russel has a weird thing about him. He has a ghost inside of him. Literally a ghost will come out of his head and start rapping dope bars whilst he plays away on his drums. Real quick, we aren't all Kendrick, so wouldn't you want to have a rapgod ghost step out of your body and rap like nobodies business? Also, it's name is Del :)



   If i had the money, you bet I would buy their vinyl toys. Yup even figures were made for these character. They are so perfect I just wanna throw money at the resellers, if I had any. I found that the original vinyl toys back in 2008 were sold for around $5 a piece. But now they resell on Ebay for at least $100 each, WHATTTT?!?!

$400 2D figure

   The one I get most excited over is the 2-tone complete set by Kidrobot x Gorillaz (below) that goes now for around $500 - $600. Seriously though, you know how older people buy things that they never had but wanted as a kid, may it be toys or shoes. This is probably one of the toys I would get myself to fill that empty void.

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

   A new album is presumably releasing somewhere this year (2016) or next year (2017), it's in the works. Jamie Hewlett has been teasing us with some artwork that I just enliven over. You can check them out Here .Keep doing you guys, this is just art.

   One day found myself mesmerized by supreme and their massive growth throughout these past few years. A hypebeast brand no mentioning but a great achievement by the company. In the few weeks of Supreme craycray i researched on the infamous Supreme logo, known for its simple design, white text over a red background, but twas not an original idea. The credit is given to conceptual artist, Barbara Kruger, claimed was the one who coined the design. It goes really in depth but I'm not going to dive deeper. It raised my curiosity on conceptual art and what it represented or meant. So I made a quick Google search to find the meaning which was

   tbh, this didn't make much sense to me, so I went to the other source of reasoning, visual. Looked up a few images of conceptual art and was mind blown at the amount of creativity that these artists were portraying at the time. And from the images, I can say with my own perspective, nothing too poetic here, conceptual art is taking a normal everyday item/scenario/discussion and adding a twist to the image to make it mean more than it really is. For instance,


   by Martha Rosler called Cleaning the Drapes from her series House Beautiful : Bringing the War Home. Apart from the apparent diference in scenario, the woman whom is at home is cleaning the drapes of her home whilst maybe the man is in battle, war fighting for his country. It's a two-sided scenario where we see the perspective of both woman and man in their everyday routine. It's... weird but it works. I am trying my best here to find a meaning to all this but I hope I got it right. Twisting an image to depict more meaning.


   I do have a scuffle when trying to understand these types of images, but at times I feel there isn't much to be understood, or more so that should be, observing maybe the only requirement. For instance, the new music video by Coldplay, Up&Up. In it, was imagery of unexplainable occurrences such as this where a pod of dolphins were swimming above....just take a look.


   What do you call that, like daheck is that, I have no idea but for some reason watching the video throughout, I felt some kind of whimsical understanding like a fairytale which Coldplay is really good at insisting, also seen in Strawberry Swing. I just love love love the instances in the video, but I'm not sure if it's conceptual art (closest thing I can relate to) or something else I'm completely unaware of. It may or may not have a reasoning but not everything in this world has to have a complete basis. They went all out on this but to be fair, to whomever made this, I salute you because to me this is just... fun art.


Plus, who wouldn't want to see a popcorn popping volcano eruption :)