urban wanderer

Monday, February 16, 2004   taken from clare's blog :P B a s i c s 01. Name: Jim 02. Single or taken: Single 03. Sex: Male 04. B'day: Sept 14, 1985 *sinister grin* 05. Sign: Virgo 06. Siblings: three younger sisters 07. Hair color: natural = greying LOL 08. Eye color: brown 09. Shoe size: 11 10. Height: 5'7'' r e l a t i o n s h i p s 01. Who are your friends? paris, donatella, elton 02. do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? sometimes f a s h i o n | s t u f f 01. Where is your favorite place to shop? no specifics as well 02. Any tattoos or piercings? one; left ear s p e c i f i c s 01. Do you do drugs? yes, for my gout 02. What kind of shampoo do you use? head & shoulders 03. What are you most scared of? missing a note at karaoke 04. What are you listening to right now? Nite & Day - Al B. Sure! 06. Where do you want to get married? wherever 07. How many buddies are online right now? not sure f a v o r i t e s 01. Color: blue, green 02. Food: chinese 03. Boys names: Michael, Jamie 04. Girls names: Jamie, Christine/Chrissie/Chris/Kristine 05. Subjects in school: n/a 06. Animals: horses 07. Sports: futebol, basketball, horseracing, Aussie Rules h a v e | y o u | e v e r 01. Given anyone a bath? no 02. Smoked? yes 03. Bungee jumped? no 04. Made yourself throw up? yes 05. Skinny dipped? in the jacuzzi, alone 06: Ever been in love? yes 07. Made yourself cry to get out of trouble? No 08. Pictured your crush naked? i dont crush anymore but when i did when i was like 10 yrs old, no 09. Actually seen your crush naked? No 10. Cried when someone died? Of course. 11. Lied? Who hasn?t lied in his/her entire life? 12. Fallen for your (guy) best friend? No 13. Been rejected? Yes 14. Rejected someone? Yes 15. Used someone? Yes 16. Done something you regret? Yes. See 15 c u r r e n t clothes: blue long sleeves, tie, slacks, Aquila shoes, CK Truth Music: contemporary jazz, 70s & 80s rock Smell: CK Truth Favorite band: Steely Dan & Doobie Brothers CD in player: assortment of 80s music that i downloaded & burned l a s t | p e r s o n you touched: C you IMed: cant remember yelled at: C a r e | y o u Understanding: Yes open-minded: Yes. Arrogant: No Interesting: some say yes but im really boring...case in point: this entry hehe Random: Sometimes. Hungry: i just had a big lunch of meat pie, chips, salad & coke so not really Smart: yes Moody: yes Hardworking: yes? Organized: yes Healthy: as in fat? yes. as in sick? yes Shy: yes Difficult: yes. Attractive: used to before i became Randy Jackson (oh wait, he's losing weight) Bored easily: Yes Messy: No. Responsible: Yes. Obsessed: nah. Angry: No. Sad: No Happy: Yes Hyper: No Trusting: Yes Talkative: No Legal: of course. w h o | d o | y o u | w a n n a Get really wasted with: those blokes from Matchbox 20. Apparently they can outdrink any metalheads on the planet Get high with: errr....Ozzie Osborne Look like: Rowan Atkinson hehe Talk to online: Osama Talk to on the phone: a very horny Kate Beckinsale r a n d o m In the morning i am: hungry & thirsty All i need is: just a little more time, to be sure, what i feeeeel is it all in my mind..ala na Love is: a battlefield w h i c h | i s | b e t t e r Coke or pepsi: Coke. flowers or candy: nfi tall or short: short o p p o s i t e | s e x What do you notice first: boobs Last person you slow danced with: i dont dance Who makes you smile: anyone Who gives you butterflies in your tummy when you see them: bill collectors Who do you have a crush on: none Who has a crush on you: those girls whenever i sing ballads at the karaoke..hehe kapal d o | y o u | e v e r Sit on the internet all night waiting for someone to IM you: No. Save conversations: used to Wish you were younger: yes but not as young as when i was at school. dont wanna even experience that anymore Cry because someone said something to you: once. n u m b e r |of| times i have had my heart broken: not too many of hearts i have broken: zero of guys I've kissed: zero of girls i've kissed: not too many of continents i have lived in: 2 of tight friends: zero of cds i own: 100s of scars on my body: forehead, left elbow, right index finger of things that i regret: Quite a few y o u r | t h o u g h t s I know: that on Saturday, ill be wasted I want to know: if Osama is still alive and if so, where the hell is he I want: pizza I wish: Tom & Nicole got back together I hate: Britney Spears I fear: calls from bill collectors I fight back tears: no i dont I wonder: what's happening with Saddam I regret: that I am overweight I love loudest: eh? f i n a l | q u e s t i o n s 01. do you like filling these out: Yes 02. gold or silver: gold 03. what was the last film you saw at the movies: Along Came Polly 04. favorite cartoon/anime: The Simpsons 05. what did you have for breakfast this morning: a piece of Skyflakes 06. who would you love being locked in a room with: Jodie Foster 07. could you live without your computer: of course 08. would you color your hair: sure 09. could you ever get off the computer: yes 10. hablas espa?ol: mi no comprende 11. how many people are on your buddy list: 5 12. drink alcohol: are the trees green? is paris hilton a slut? 13. like watching sunrises or sunsets: sunsets. im still asleep at sun-up posted by uging | 7:46 PM Wednesday, February 11, 2004   Not only Pinoy viewers can watch 'American Idol 3' for the first time but Aussies as well. The show has been running for like 2 years & it's just now that one of the FTA networks decided to show it here, with the tremendous success of 'Australian Idol'. One of the success stories of AI3 is William Hung. He didn't make it past the auditions but the impact he brought was so huge that he has become a household name. So far he is the most recognizable of all the contestants, more famous than those who made the Top 32. Someone even created a website as a homage. So to pay my own tribute, I am posting as my Top 10, the reasons why everybody loves William (of course this was taken from his www.williamhung.net website). posted by uging | 4:27 PM   We found this new place to hang out for trivia & we've been lucky so far, winning the last couple of weeks. While the prizes are crap, the questions are heaps more entertaining. Not that I'm sick of music trivia but I somehow missed the normal ones: general knowledge, politics, science & even nonsensical questions like 'what are the 5 ingredients of Heinz Tomato Ketchup? Another good thing with this trivia is that there are in-between questions where teams can win a jug of beer or a packet of MM's. Last week, I won the chocy for naming the song with these lines: 'nothing had the chance to be good, nothing ever could' & last night I won again by naming this one: 'take your passion'....its heartening coz people appreciate it inspite the tackiness of it all. The real killer though with this trivia is the jackpot round consisting of 3 questions. I've always wondered what that little line between the 2 numbers in a fraction is called. No one would ever get these sort of questions. Even if you're a math whiz, you still have to deal with questions like 'what is Axl Rose's real name' & 'when did Mahatma Ghandi got assassinated'? For next week, Question 11 will be 'what are the six layers in a Cadbury bar'? Anyone who knows the answer, feel free to shout out. posted by uging | 4:15 PM		archives Band of Bloggers curves ahead girl with the indigo eyes the princess she likes to watch moka java true companion north star stories of the painted desert dream of the sirens bella luna bookmarked best jazz band in the world Soccer madness Pinoyexchange NBA online quizzes weird stuff fun & games Weekly Top 10: Fave George Benson & Al Jarreau tracks 10.Lady Love Me One More Time 9.Feel Like Makin Love 8.20/20 7.This Masquerade 6.Love Times Love 5.Turn Your Love Around 4.Were In This Love Together 3.Boogie Down 2.Mornin` 1.Breakin Away Musical heroes: Def Leppard Def Leppard, in many ways, was the definitive hard rock band of the '80s. There were many bands that rocked harder, and were more dangerous, than the Sheffield quintet, but few others captured the spirit of the times quite as well. Emerging in the late '70s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the group actually owed more to the glam-rock and metal of the early '70s — their sound was equal parts T. Rex, Mott the Hoople, Queen and Led Zeppelin. By toning down their heavy riffs and emphasizing melody, Def Leppard were poised for crossover success by 1983's Pyromania, but skillfully used the fledgling MTV network to their advantage. The group was already blessed with photogenic good looks, but they also crafted a series of innovative, exciting videos, which made them into stars. They intended to follow Pyromania quickly, but were derailed when their drummer lost an arm in a car accident, the first of many problems that plagued the group's career. Def Leppard managed to pull through such tragedies and they even expanded their large audience with 1987's blockbuster Hysteria. As the '90s began, mainstream hard rock shifted away from Leppard's signature pop-metal and towards edgier, louder bands, yet the group maintained a sizable audience into the late '90s and were one of only a handful of '80s metal groups to survive the decade more or less intact. Def Leppard had its origins in a Sheffield-based group Rick Savage (bass) and Pete Willis (guitar) formed in their late teens in 1977. A few months later, vocalist Joe Elliott, a fanatic follower of Mott the Hoople and T. Rex, joined the band, bringing the name Deaf Leopard. After a spelling change, the trio, augmented by a now-forgotten drummer, began playing local Sheffield pubs, and within a year they had added guitarist Steve Clark, as well as a new drummer. Later in 1978, the recorded their debut EP Getcha Rocks Off and released it on their own label, Bludgeon Riffola. The EP became a word-of-mouth success, earning airplay on the BBC. The group members were still in their teens. Following the release of Getcha Rocks Off, Rick Allen was added as the band's permanent drummer, and Def Leppard quickly became the subject of the British music weeklies. Soon, they signed with AC/DC's manager Petter Mensch, who helped them secure a contract with Mercury. On Through the Night, the band's full-length debut, was released in 1980 and instantly became a hit in the U.K., also earning significant airplay in the U.S., where it reached number 51 on the charts. Over the course of the year, Def Leppard relentlessly toured Britain and America, including opening slots for Ozzy Osbourne, Sammy Hagar and Judas Priest. High N' Dry followed in 1981, and it became the group's first platinum album in the U.S., thanks to MTV's strong rotation of "Bringin' on the Heartbreak." MTV would be vital to the band's success in the '80s. As the band recorded the follow-up to High N' Dry with producer Mutt Lange, Pete Willis was fired from the band for alcoholism, and Phil Collen, a former guitarist for Girl, was hired to replace him. The resulting album, 1983's Pyromania, became an unexpected blockbuster, due not only to Def Leppard's skillful, melodic metal, but also to MTV's relentless airing of "Photograph" and "Rock of Ages." Pyromania went on to sell 10 million copies, establishing Def Leppard as one of the most popular bands in the world. Despite their success, the band was about to enter a trying time for their career. Following an extensive international tour, the group re-entered the studio to record the follow-up, but producer Lange was unavailable, so they began sessions with Jim Steinman, the man responsible for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell. The pairing turned out to be ill-advised, so the group turned to its former engineer, Nigel Green. One month into recording, Rick Allen lost his left arm in a New Year's Eve car accident. The arm was reattached, but it had to be amputated once an infection set in. Without a drummer, Def Leppard's future looked cloudy, but by the spring of 1985 — just a few months after his accident — Allen began learning to play a custom-made electronic kit assembled for him by Simmons. Soon, the band resumed recording, and within a few months Lange was back on board, but once he joined the team, he judged the existing tapes inferior and had the band begin work all over again. The recording continued throughout 1986, and that summer, the group returned to the stage for the European Monsters of Rock tour. Def Leppard finally completed its fourth album, now titled Hysteria, early in 1987, releasing it that spring to lukewarm reviews; many critics felt that the album compromised Leppard's metal roots for sweet pop flourishes. The record was slow out of the starting gates — "Women," the first single, failed to really take hold. But with the second single, "Animal," Hysteria began to take off. It became the group's first Top 40 hit in the U.K., but more importantly, it began a string of six straight Top 20 hits in the U.S., which also included "Hysteria," "Pour Some Sugar On Me," "Love Bites," "Armageddon It" and "Rocket," the latter of which arrived in 1989, a full two years after the release of Hysteria. During those two years, Def Leppard was unavoidable — they were the kings of high school metal, ruling the pop charts and MTV, and teenagers and bands alike replicated their teased hair and ripped jeans, even when the grimy hard rock of Guns N' Roses took hold in 1988. Hysteria proved to be the peak of Leppard's popularity, yet their follow-up remained eagerly awaited in the early '90s as the band set to work on the record. During the recording, Steve Clark died from an overdose of alcohol and drugs. Clark had long had a problem with alcohol, and following the Hysteria heyday, the band forced him to take a sabbatical; he did enter rehab, but to no apparent effect. In fact, his abuse was so crippling that Collen had to play the majority of the guitar leads on Hysteria. Following Clark's death, Def Leppard resolved to finish its forthcoming album as a quartet, releasing Adrenalize in the spring of 1992. Adrenalize was greeted with mixed reviews, and even though the album debuted at number one and contained several hit singles, including "Let's Get Rocked," "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" and "Make Love Like a Man," the record was a commercial disappointment in the wake of Pyromania and Hysteria. After the release of Adrenalize, the group added former Whitesnake guitarist Vivian Campbell. In 1993, Def Leppard released the rarities collection Retro Active, featuring a new single, "Miss You in a Heartbeat," which scraped the lower reaches of the Top 40. Two years later, the group released the greatest hits collection Vault while preparing their sixth album. Slang arrived in the spring of 1996, and while it was more adventurous than its predecessor, it was greeted with indifference, proving that Leppard's heyday had passed, and they were now simply a very popular cult band. Undaunted, Leppard soldiered on, returning to its patented pop-metal sound for Euphoria, which was released in June of 1999. "must listen" DISCLAIMER: The title URBAN WANDERER as well as the link titles to other blogs are song titles from a jazz band. I used these titles as a gesture of appreciation & gain no financial benefits from this & in no way used to promote my blog. For the real deal, visit their website.