current earworm : beautiful

G. Love is one of Jason Mraz's friends, and T. Prettyman is, yeah .. Mraz's fiance. I just found this song. i'm loving it!

current earworm : shy that way

this song has been my earworm before a long time ago, but when the news of Jason Mraz getting engaged to Tristan Prettyman came out, i'm loving this song over and over again because i'm seeing it in a different, sweeter light. because of the history of their relationship.



that was the live acoustic version for when they both were starting out as performers. i also love the studio version from T.P's album Twentythree. (23 is a significant number for both Jason and Tristan)



fangirl fast fact : this song was actually written when they first met and both were too shy to talk to each other, both jual mahal lah so to speak. but they somehow managed to write a song together about how they want to get together but they're being too coy and shy about making the first move. complicatedly cute, kan?

and then they got together as a couple for a while from 2001 up to 2006 (or something) before Tristan called it off just before one of Jason's gigs in Europe on Valentine's no less. She just called him up and broke it off but he was cool about it, went on with the show. (edited 7/1/11 : ok, sorry. they both wanted to end it. just found Tristan's side of the story when i read her blog here.) anyway, they got together again this year and got engaged just before Christmas. Jason told in detail about how much thought he had put into designing the ring and proposal. i died a bit reading it. no, not because he's getting married, but because he's such a romantic.

while i'm on the subject of dying of romance, watch this one too and witness how he can't take his eyes off of her (especially towards the end). and how she stole a peck on the cheek at the end of the song. and then, a few days after this show, he proposed to her. died or what?



i dont know how i know all this stuff, but i do. i'm a fan. go away.

current earworm : try try try

this is a new song from jason mraz, i think. makes me all giddy with anticipation waiting for his new album. hopefully next year, maybe?



i also found a couple more new songs.





i love all three songs so far. feelgood throwback and sound like possible soundtracks you'd normally get in movies set in paris, like amelie, before/after sunset or 2 days in paris. kinda.

my life according to jason mraz

got this meme tag on facebook. using only song names from ONE ARTISTE, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people you like and include me (presuming I'm someone you like). you can't use the artiste I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "My life according to (artiste name)"

Pick your Artist : Jason Mraz, naturally. because i have approximately 340 something of his songs in my collection. mostly different versions of the same song and i'd guess it'd be a lot easier to answer the following questions when i have that many songs from one artiste. right? also because i am a bit obsessed with the man.

Are you a male or female : Dramatica Mujer. yerp, the ultimate drama queen.



Describe yourself: A Beautiful Mess. a one-liner that says so much. i'm a living box of paradox. i'd call it being true to myself. most people would call it being a hypocrite.



How do you feel: Absolutely Zero.



Describe where you currently live: Galaxy. i love anything astronomy-related which is why i love songs like this, and Drops of Jupiter so much. i love learning about our cosmos, minus all the numbers of course. there's this theory that we are all stardust and i kinda buy that, in a blasphemous kind of way. and knowing i'm living in a world that is so small as compared to other worlds and other galaxies and other universes makes me humble, yet gives me the confidence to carry on and the fuck-off-mindedness about others who've messed up my life and head because they too are insignificant. there are bigger things at work here. and they don't matter.



If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Halfway Home or on a Plane towards some wonderful holiday destination.





Your best friend? I'll Do Anything for Ayis & Farrah & Nash



Favourite time of day: Sleeping to dream. when the baby's already asleep. that's my me time.



If your life was a TV show, what would it be called: stranger in the sky. because it doesnt really make sense. or perhaps, being the opposite of dark and angry, lucky. because as a matter of fact, i am really really lucky.





What is life to you? : 0% interest. life is what you see is what you get. people shouldn't just be taking and always taking and demand things from you when they themselves don't give. those people are not worth your time. and people who demands more than what you can give, is called YOUR BOSS.



Your relationship: The Right Kind of Phrase. coz it sure is!



Your fear: 10,000 Motherfuckers. i fear motherfuckers. heh.



What is the best advice you have to give: Too Much Food. don't do it.



Thought for the Day: Who Needs Shelter?



How I would like to die : Loved, even If it Kills Me.



My soul's present condition: Life is Wonderful. it's complete, not perfect, still some corners i like to work on, but wonderful and complete.



My motto : Make it Mine. i'm gonna quote Jason Mraz verbatim on his recent twitter-answers post which is like totally ironic that i am simply quoting him instead of making my own. "No one is going to hand you anything. In all businesses of the creative, you have to create it. Once you do that, others will see your passion and want to be a part of it. I promise. Just Be You."

mraz meets sinatra : i think i just wet my pants

found this and i died. my almost lover singing my actual lover's favourite song. it's so favourite that it is his ring tone for now. and mraz did it just as mraz would. wonderfully.

when you wish upon a rockstar

"Don't let your mind stop you from having fun!" said Jason Mraz in his concert at Stadium Negara last night. and what the wizard of words says, we follow.

oh, man, we had a blast, my brother and i! it was his first concert experience ever, and mine the second. we're not the concert going type of person. for me its generally because i hate standing in line and being amidst the sea of screams and sweats. for my brother, its because he's selective over which artist is worth his money and time on.

falie didn't exactly know the way to the stadium, so he called and asked papa. "you know where VI is?" asked dad. "err.. no" why would a Johanian want to know where VI is located anyway? after consulting google map, we drove to the stadium by 4, almost 5 pm, and somehow got lost along the way because we took the wrong turn and detoured a long way. but we got there eventually.

"if we have to stand in line in this rain, kita boleh upgrade from fan to fanatic" falie said while driving."fanatic is when you stand in line since this afternoon. kita cuma peminat tegar!" i said.

so we found a space to park right at the back of the stadium, near the backstage gate where Jason were to come and go from. and had to walk all the way around the stadium to collect the tickets and stand in line. there, we stand amongst the fanatics. there were a group of girls that have been there waiting in front of the gates since 11 am. how do i know? because one of them exclaimed loudly to the person on the other side of the phone she was talking to shouting "Dude! I've been here since 11 fucking AM. where the fuck are you?". and there was even one girl who had thick printouts of Jason's lyrics in hand so she can sing along flawlessly, probably? and there were a lot of people with fedora hats.

geez. jason, here i thought, i was your biggest fan. it was a very humbling experience for me standing in that line for 2 hours. because then came a woman with a protruding belly joining the line. PREGNANT, ok? standing in line to be at the pitt. very humbling for me, indeed. i brought along a book to fill that time with, but where there's people, there's opportunity for peoplewatching. and that 2 hours gave me a lot of windows to whisper to my brother every wrongs possible committed by human beings, like "OMG what the heck is she wearing? baju polkadot merah besar-besar, kasut wedge kuning, tudung gila bunga-bunga kaler hijau!" or "eee. tak suka betul tengok girls smoking." or "teheheh. nampak chelabon dia!" (celabon = celah bontot? fyi, that's buttcrack for you kak liana!)

probably as much as people would say "eh pompuan bulat tu. dahlah tetek besar dan londeh perut menggelebeh dah tak macam muffin top dah. macam kek meletop ada kot. lagi nak pakai ketat-ketat camtu!" about me. fml.

around 7 pm, they finally opened the floodgates. but we were stopped for security bag check. only they didn't really checked our bag but my brother instead 'mengaku bersalah' for bringing a camera. they didn't allow cameras in. but whatever. falie handed in a flash card for collateral, but he had 2 more in his pocket. and we also hid the video cam.

finally, we're at the pitt where we had to wait for another hour before jason went on. he was 30 minutes late. not his fault, i know. he was there since before we were standing in line. i know coz i saw the 'bas persiaran' parked just near where we were lining up. heck, they were still doing sound checks at 8.15.

while waiting, and zealously protecting our 'personal bubble' we mingled with the people next to us. the pregnant lady and her husband was right behind us, and it turns out they flew in from singapore, because Jason's concert in singapore tonight was sold out. and she was, get ready for this, SEVEN MONTHS PREGNANT. i was like, whoa, omg woman, you rock! and there was also a few girls from Bangkok who self-proclaimed that they were "Jason's BIGGEST fan!"

by 8.30, they dimmed the lights and *shrieky woohoo moment* JASON CAME ON! he's so much hotter in person, let me just point it out because he was right there just a few metres in front of me. pandemonium in the stadium ensues. he started the concert with Make it Mine. and all the song lineups after that was a blur for me. i know all the songs by heart, but i cant remember which he songs he sang when exactly. thank god i brought along the video cam.





he sounds exactly like how i expected him to sound live. GREAT. AMAZING. PERFECT. maybe even better than perfect because the whole thing is complete with his cute facial expressions and body language and dancing and adlibbing and scatting and sexiest guitar strumming. his wit, his funny, his child-like wild, his charm. everything he does is magic!



the only thing that didnt work though, was that sorry excuse of a singer that came in late to sing Lucky with him. Lucky became yucky, no thanks to her. who was she anyway? nobody has ever even heard of her. the Thai girls tapped my shoulder asking me who she was and i went, i dont know! her voice didn't even gel with Jason. im sure there were many other better singers out there. Atilia would've worked it better. but nevermind that AhMei, we came to see Jason. and the crowd can simply drown her shitty voice by singing the Colbie parts.





the Thai girls who self-proclaimed they are Jason's BIGGEST fans, really truly absolutely are Jason's BIGGEST fans. borderline obsessed, maybe. they knew every word to his songs, even they ones Jason adlibbed. and they even sang along, word per word, The Dynamo of Volition.

i seriously under-estimated the malaysian crowd. i thought they only knew at most, 2 songs ... but turns out, they were singing along to every single thing he sang. even Sleeping to Dream. or probably just the people in the pitt. because only true devotion (and RM258) gets you in that pitt. but all in all, i was in awe with KL. i think jason was in awe too because after the 5 minutes intermission, he came back on stage donning "I HEART KL" sleeveless t-shirt.





when he sang A Beautiful Mess, i swear he was singing to me personally. (perasan much lisha?). because occasionally, when i entertain my delusions, i like to imagine it's a song my husband would dedicate to me because the lyrics just sort of says a lot about our beautifully messy relationship and my presence in this relationship. especially the line that says 'Although you were biased I love your advice. Your comebacks they're quick. And probably have to do with your insecurities'. but since my husband doesn't listen to him and even mispronounce his name, i'll just leave it as a beautiful delusion.



i was layaning Jason singing A Beautiful Mess (singing to me personally) when a DUDE behind us said "ooohh, he's ssssoooooo HOT!" rudely bursting me out of me reverie. kacau ah kau! diam boleh tak?

the final song was totally unexpected, though. he strummed his guitar and i, fumbling with the video cam, immediately knew what song. the kinky-est, most erotic song since Dave Matthew's Crash Into Me. my favourite one in his new album. the one i've been waiting to hear him sing live the moment i first heard the song.

BUTTERFLY.

i was totally Mrazmerized.



thank you again, falie for taking me with you, for the tickets, for the drive, for sharing this experience with me. thank you Jason for coming to KL and let us indulge in our view the most beautiful you and showing us a great time. thank you ayis, for letting me go crazy and forget that i was married and a mom for a few hours.

i conclude this amazing post update that altered my life and make me strike one thing off my things to do before i die list with something only Jason would write.

"And through timeless words in priceless pictures
We'll fly like birds not of this earth
And tides they turn and hearts disfigure
But that's no concern when we're wounded together
And we tore our dresses and stained our shirts
But it's nice today, oh the wait was so worth it"

p/s : i would post the video once i get my brother faiz to transfer it to something digital so i can youtube it. (they're a bit shaky because it's hard to control when i was dancing and jumping and going crazy at the same time) but do enjoy the amazing photos falie managed to capture! as noisy as most of them are, they're all (in flickr and in this blog) rights reserved, by the way.

here's mraz from fadz

hello, my almost lover

secured tickets to Jason Mraz. yeah yeah!!

thank you, falie for the ticket!

will be going with my brother falie. only because my husband mispronounced his name.

will probably take leave on that day, or at least half day.

hopefully, no deadlines the next day. kalau ada pun, like i care?

daddy promises to take care of arwen that night.

Jason Mraz, yeah yeah!

jason mraz coming to KL?

apparently so.

I WANT TO GO!!!!!

and then i can cancel one thing more off my list of things to do before i die.

yes, i am that serious about mraz.

butterfly

i have loved jason mraz since his first album. and now, 4 albums later ... and about 102 of his singing in my iTunes to date i am still ridiculously in love with him. a freaking talented lyricist .. i mean who the hell comes up with lines like "let me indulge in my view the most beautiful you"? .. and he looks so my type. geeky and hot all rolled into one general geeky hotnessness. and now, in his latest album, he comes up with this most sexy quincy-jonesque song. (google the lyrics, i dare you).

i haven't been horny for more more than 7 months now, due to the stupid pregnancy hormones. well, i'm wet now.