Rock In Rio

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Music
Genre:	Alternative Rock
Artist:	Franz Ferdinand

"Details have been announced of the broadcast of  tour documentary Rock It To Rio on Franz Ferdinand. The film, shot by acclaimed director Don Letts on the bands South American tour in February, will be aired on Channel 4 on Sunday 24th September at 11.50."

- http://www.ukmusic.com -

and so i found the downloaded version of the concert. ha-ha.
well, a dear friend named Frankie gave the link to me, actually.

konsernya keren banget. gue belom pernah nonton Franz live in concert, tapi dari "archive" youtube gue, bisa terlihat kalau mereka sangat bagus live actnya. walaupun, menurut gue masih di bawah Bryan Adams. gue engga tau apa karena stagenya Rock In Rio ini yang terlalu besar untuk mereka berempat atau gimana, tapi melihat set stagenya bisa membuat konser Bryan Adams terlihat sangat mewah. dan anak2 Franz tampak kurang pecicilan, mungkin karena gitar2 mereka masih tersambung kabel ke ampli, sedangkan setelah gue menonton 3 dvd konser Bryan, tampak beliau entah udah wireless gitarnya atau kabelnya sekilo gue ga tau, dia bisa berlarian dari ujung panggung yang satu ke ujung panggung yang lainnya. mungkin kalau anak2 Franz pake berlarian di panggung, kasian Alex. soalnya dia lagi jalan mundur di panggung aja bisa keserimpet kabel.

konsernya hanya menyiarkan Franz ketika membawakan lagu2 dari dua albumnya. sebenernya kalau disimak mereka juga membawakan beberapa lagu baru, tapi dicut, enggak disiarkan. mungkin untuk mencegah pembuatan illegal bootleg? [kaya anak2 itu peduli aja!]. sayang juga sih, padahal soundnya bagus banget tuh, pasti asik kalo ...

........

ya, sekarang saya tau kenapa ketika mereka membawakan lagu2 barunya nggak disiarin! XD

performance Alex, Nick, Bob dan Paul sangat luar biasa. Alex suaranya mantap banget live. susah membayangkan kalau dia sebenernya ada asma, sampe tahap inhalernya selalu stand by di saku celana setiap saat, dan dia bisa panik sendiri kalo tu benda sampe ketinggalan. Nick tampak kekuatan lengannya sangat amazing, karena lagu2 Franz Ferdinand rata2 membutuhkan permainan gitar yang upbeat. Paul, si drummer kurus kering, ternyata menyimpan tenaga yang sangat besar di balik kecungkringannya. dan Bob, yang walaupun hanya berdiri tenang nyaris tidak melakukan apapun yang menarik perhatian, sangat ahli memainkan basnya, dan dia adalah orang yang "dijebak" Alex untuk ikutan bikin band ini.

[flashback]

Alex: hey, Bob, do you want to make a band?
Bob: what? i'm an artist, not a musician.
Alex: ............. they're the same, you know.

[kurang lebih seperti itu]

ya, emang kurang ajar si Alex itu.

yang menurut gue agak kurang itu lagu Walk Away. gue suka banget lagu ini. baik versi album yang terdengar manis dan ballad-y, maupun versi live yang lebih galak. sekitar 2 tahun lalu, Franz Ferdinand selalu mengajak teman mereka, Andy Knowles, yang juga bertugas sebagai asistennya Paul untuk memainkan drum di lagu ini, dan Paul maju memainkan gitar [walaupun dia terlihat canggung, dan tampak lebih nyaman ketika memainkan drumkitnya]. di konser ini, Andy tidak terlihat, dan lagunya entah kenapa beatnya jadi lelet, agak2 kurang nangkep gitu feel lagunya.

stagenya, again, gue bilang terlalu besar untuk mereka. dan the ladz jadi terlihat mati gaya di panggung sebesar itu, padahal di Brixton Academy gig mereka terlihat cukup pecicilan ketika show, terutama Alex yang sibuk jual feromon. ya, dia udah engga jual pesona lagi, saudara2 sekalian yang terkasih dan tersayang! gue engga tau ya apa karna ada Nick yang setia berada di sampingnya atau apa, tapi body languagenya Alex tuh sangat mengundang!

oi, people who wants RUU Pornografi diapprove!! yang bisa bikin pikiran iya2 tuh bukan perempuan doang tau!! ada nih lelaki yang walopun berpakaian lengkap ketutup semua bisa bikin turn on!

anyway, lagu2 yang dibawakan, seperti yang sudah saya duga, terdengar lebih mantap live. dan saya suka band2/musisi2 seperti ini. mereka yang bisa membuat lagu2nya terdengar lebih baik ketika live, that's how it should be.

Michael seperti biasa dijadikan lagu pembuka, dan tampak Alex sangat menghayati lagu ini. benarkah kalau lagu ini adalah kisah pribadi dirinya? instead of a friend?

you're all that i see, i wanna see
so come and dance with me Michael
so sexy, you're all sexy
so come and dance with me Michael
this is what i am, i am a man
so come and dance with me Michael
so close now, you're close now
so come and dance with me, so come and dance with me
so come all over me ...

yeah .. right ... a friend's experience, Alex?

dan juga seperti biasa, konser ini ditutup dengan This Fire, yang sangat memacu adrenaline.
cukup gawat konser ini ya ...

all i know, it's better than watching porn ...

oh ya, ada camoe dari Nyonya Paul Thompson, Esther, dan bayi mereka Georgie.

oh and if anyone interested for the link ... here.

ps. pics came from Google search. dan bukannya ga cinta ma Paul and Bob,
tapi susah banget cari foto mereka yg Rock and Rio! O_o

Bram's Stoker's Dracula

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Romance

when i was a kid, i could never really watched this movie. for an obvious reason, fright. i hate Lucy's vampire-bride look and totally frightened by it, and i hate the soundtrack, totally frightening. back then, of course, i didn't know that Annie Lennox had a beautiful song called Love Song For A Vampire in it.

and today, i still found the vampire-bride look frightening, but i don't mind watching it. and i think the soundtrack as a whole was excellent. moreover, i fell completely in love with Bram Stoker's Dracula. it's beautiful, it's tragic, it's romantic. i find it more romantic than a certain story about two teenagers who just hit their puberty and found "love" at first sight at a ball masquerade. the forbidden love between a nosferatu who was a lethal killer and an innocent woman who just married the love of her life was beautifully captured. different from the novel, yet it fits the story without any odd feeling to it.

so, when a local station aired Dracula few nights ago, i just can't say no to it.

i love the visualisation and cinematography in this movie .... Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder aside, of course. the old Victorian feel, the Gothic aura, the creepy things happened when the Count is around. wicked. Mr. Coppola brought a different kind of Dracula story compared to the novel, yet it has the same shivering horror, which was more tragic, in my point of view. since in the novel, we could hardly feel the Count's existence. it was pure terror of his that linger while reading the book.

Gary Oldman gave a superb performance as the Count. from that arse-look-alike wig on his head to the John Lennon look when the Count grew young ... brilliant. don't really fancy the hairstyle, though ... but what's in the hair when you've got a Transylvanian Lord with an Eastern-European accent? very hot. Winona Ryder puled off a flawless english accent, as opposite Keanu's. horrid. honestly, don't they supposed to have language/accent coach for that?

still my favourite scene by far was the condemned matrimony. when Dracula sort-of proposing Mina to be his wife, and later he called it off himself, by saying thisbeautiful line, "you will be cursed as i am to walk in the shadows of death for all eternity. i love you too much to condemn you."
damn, that's deep, my Lord.
back then when i first watched this movie as a whole [not only for the gorgeous white wolf], i felt a tear coming out when he said that. that was touching.

in the book, the Count's death was quick. not painless, i suppose. as in the movie, it was dramatic. he died in front of the altar where he took vow to be an undead, "watched" by his beloved Elisabeta, and later he died at the very same place his wife lied lifeless, witnessed by his present lover, Mina Harker.

then came Annie Lennox's song.
and i felt like crying.

Love Song For A Vampire.

come into these arms again
and lay your body down
the rhythm of this trembling heart
it's beating like a drum
it beats for you,it bleeds for you
it knows not how it sounds
for it is the drum of drums
it is the song of songs

once i had the rarest rose
that ever deigned to bloom
cruel winter chilled the bud
and stole my flower too soon
oh loneliness
oh hopelessness
to search the ends of time
for there is in all the world
no greater love than mine

love o love o love
o love o love o love
o love still falls the rain
o love o love
o love o love o love
o love still falls the night
love o love o love
o love o love o love
o love be mine forever (be mine forever)
love o love o love
o love o love o love
o love o love o love
o love o love o love

let me be the only one
to keep you from the cold
now the floor of heav’n is laid
with stars of brightest gold
they shine for you
they shine for you
they burn for all to see
come into these arms again
and set this spirit free