A Plan that didn't turn out Simple
I just got back from Tower Recods at KLCC today for an autograph signing session by Simple Plan.
Here are the details:
Who: Simple Plan, from Montreal, Canada
Date: 21 November, 2004
Time: 3pm
Place: In front of Tower Records
What I brought
- My Canon EOS Rebel camera
- Simple Plan's No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls CD
My plan was to get there by 1:30pm, meet Jay (and hopefully Hui Yee), get in line, get my CD autographed, take lotsa pix, and buzz outta there.
Posers in goth-like clothing, or punk-like wannabe baggy pants started to fill the LRT train I was in from the Pasar Seni stop onwards. Most of them were very young (and very bullyable) and accompanied by parents.
I got to KLCC by 1:45pm, and by the time I found Jay and Tower Records, there were so many freaking people there that we don't even know where the line started. Jay went in to buy their latest album, Still Not Getting Any so that he could get Simple Plan to sign it. I decided to buy the new album too and hopefully get them to sign both the new and the old one. We got free posters :)
It turned out a waste of energy though, because Phat Fabes announced on the mic that each person could only get one thing signed.
Bugger.
But it's a rational thing to do... seeing the millions of people there. If I were Simple Plan my signing hand would totally be jacked if I have to sign so much shit with my face on it.
Impressionable and hormonal kids would scream their hearts out at the many false alarms that happened. Some dude who had hair like Pierre came up the escalator and they would scream. The DJ played a Simple Plan song and saying "Ladies and Gentlemen...", and they would scream. Nothing happens, and they still scream.
Am I getting old for this or do those kids need a reality check? Or Prozac?
So while they scream and mess up the line, Jay ate some KFC chicken popcorn shakes bought by his super-youthful looking mom. Yeah, Jay came with his parents too :P
I had nothing to do either so I small talked with a girl standing in front of us in line. She was from .. uh.. Spain or Portugal.. something like that, I don't remember.
Hui Yee arrived with CC a while later. I shoved her my old Simple Plan CD in hopes that I could still get my two CDs signed.
Simple Plan arrived at 3:05pm. That was a nice change, they're quite punctual for rock stars, heh...
Aside from the pushing and shoving and yelling and sweat that comes with anything close to someone famous in the queue line, Simple Plan got up from their seats for everyone to take pictures after about an hour and a half of signing stuff. It was then in an almost Snaggle Puss way that they dashed out - EXIT, STAGE RIGHT.
And it was over.
Jay and I stood there, with a what the fuck look on our face.
"What?! They didn't even sign my CD yet!!" said us.
"Shiettt..."
"Since I can't go to Zouk to see them perform tonight, I'm gonna fuckin' go to KDU tomorrow!" said peeved Wolfy.
"Hey, where's Hui Yee?"
So we called Hui Yee... and whaddaya know, she got my CD signed! And she shook their hands! And she got her hands dirtied by the marker pen by Simple Plan!
"Farker!!!!! I wanted to meet them! And you got your hand doodled by them!?" I said to her.
*LOL*
Oh well, that was swell, at least I got one of my CDs signed :)
Let's see how tomorrow at KDU will go, apparently SP has some tennis thingy there.
UPDATE: MW finally did not go to KDU.
Here are the details:
Who: Simple Plan, from Montreal, Canada
Date: 21 November, 2004
Time: 3pm
Place: In front of Tower Records
What I brought
- My Canon EOS Rebel camera
- Simple Plan's No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls CD
My plan was to get there by 1:30pm, meet Jay (and hopefully Hui Yee), get in line, get my CD autographed, take lotsa pix, and buzz outta there.
Posers in goth-like clothing, or punk-like wannabe baggy pants started to fill the LRT train I was in from the Pasar Seni stop onwards. Most of them were very young (and very bullyable) and accompanied by parents.
I got to KLCC by 1:45pm, and by the time I found Jay and Tower Records, there were so many freaking people there that we don't even know where the line started. Jay went in to buy their latest album, Still Not Getting Any so that he could get Simple Plan to sign it. I decided to buy the new album too and hopefully get them to sign both the new and the old one. We got free posters :)
It turned out a waste of energy though, because Phat Fabes announced on the mic that each person could only get one thing signed.
Bugger.
But it's a rational thing to do... seeing the millions of people there. If I were Simple Plan my signing hand would totally be jacked if I have to sign so much shit with my face on it.
Impressionable and hormonal kids would scream their hearts out at the many false alarms that happened. Some dude who had hair like Pierre came up the escalator and they would scream. The DJ played a Simple Plan song and saying "Ladies and Gentlemen...", and they would scream. Nothing happens, and they still scream.
Am I getting old for this or do those kids need a reality check? Or Prozac?
So while they scream and mess up the line, Jay ate some KFC chicken popcorn shakes bought by his super-youthful looking mom. Yeah, Jay came with his parents too :P
I had nothing to do either so I small talked with a girl standing in front of us in line. She was from .. uh.. Spain or Portugal.. something like that, I don't remember.
Hui Yee arrived with CC a while later. I shoved her my old Simple Plan CD in hopes that I could still get my two CDs signed.
Simple Plan arrived at 3:05pm. That was a nice change, they're quite punctual for rock stars, heh...
Aside from the pushing and shoving and yelling and sweat that comes with anything close to someone famous in the queue line, Simple Plan got up from their seats for everyone to take pictures after about an hour and a half of signing stuff. It was then in an almost Snaggle Puss way that they dashed out - EXIT, STAGE RIGHT.
And it was over.
Jay and I stood there, with a what the fuck look on our face.
"What?! They didn't even sign my CD yet!!" said us.
"Shiettt..."
"Since I can't go to Zouk to see them perform tonight, I'm gonna fuckin' go to KDU tomorrow!" said peeved Wolfy.
"Hey, where's Hui Yee?"
So we called Hui Yee... and whaddaya know, she got my CD signed! And she shook their hands! And she got her hands dirtied by the marker pen by Simple Plan!
"Farker!!!!! I wanted to meet them! And you got your hand doodled by them!?" I said to her.
*LOL*
Oh well, that was swell, at least I got one of my CDs signed :)
Let's see how tomorrow at KDU will go, apparently SP has some tennis thingy there.
UPDATE: MW finally did not go to KDU.
Chewed out by Mystery Wolf at 6:00 PM
:
hate to put a damper on yer already soaking parade, but, thats what heppens when ye dont use ye elbows
A.
Alfred, dude...
I couldn't even use my elbows! There were sunken in someone's boobs the whole friggin time! And I don't know why but those damn boobs kept pushing forward like they don't have pain receptors or some shit like that.
*tries bloody hard to simulate wolf's experiences*
aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.......LOL
A.
elbow plus boobs = dutch lady?
I've got a catchphrase for the elbow + boobs thing = boob implants.
LOL
dutch lady?! how did that come about?
i dunno, probably amsterdamn inspired :p
A.
LOL
Don't you mean Amsterdam? :D
Now the question is:
What were you doing among a bunch of kids? :)
Or rather, what were the bunch of kids doing there?
Then again, I just got bashed by a fellow friend who works in Channel [V] for liking Simple Plan whom he said the band is for "pre-teen rockers".
He was complaining that he doesn't know why the hell his colleagues were attending Simple Plan's gig at ZOUK that night.
Anyway, Simple Plan's a good band. Some people might say they suck, or they can't play shit, or they're pop not punk... whatever. But I don't care, to me, they're punk, on a lighter side sure. Most importantly, being punk's more than just a genre. It's an attitude, screw that, it's a lifestyle. What's important is to be yourself, have fun doing what you do, and don't fucking care what others say about you. It's about being comfortable with yourself.
So if kiddies can connect with that, I'm happy. If they just like them for being "pop", then they need some lesson on pop culture. If they like them for SP's "boyband" looks, whatever... kiddies are hormonal. I don't think SP looks like a boyband btw. Just look at them.
Sure Pierre the lead guy's lickable... and I guess girls see David as the quiet lil cute pierced gothy bassist.
Forget what I said about Pierre.
Anyway, if you have seen SP's new DVD "A Big Package For You", or their free VCD that came with their latest album, you'll see that they rock and they have a great fuckin punk sense of humour.
If it's worth anything... if SP is used as a post-pop method for teenies to bridge into heavier stuff... then it's cool, don't you think? Less screaming in the Westlife camp and such.
Holy shit that was so freaking long it could've been a blog entry in itself!
I do agree about rockier pop being a bridge to bring kids into real rock (like Linkin Park). However, they seem tamer than other pop punk bands like Good Charlotte, even. Busted is a totally different story... they don't even sound pop punk! I still think punk metal ala Sum 41 and The Offspring is cool. Punk revival ala Green Day and Rancid is cool.
People tend to group Good Charlotte and Simple Plan together, probably for the reason u mentioned.
Did Busted say they're punk? They're soooo pop. They're like BBMak or something... just boybandish guys who play guitar.
U know, if Sum 41 had a more boybandish looking member, they'd be labeled light pop punk too.
The Offspring is incomparable man... that's THE way to go.
Green Day made me into who I am, so they'll always be "my roots"... fuck everyone who hates 'em.
Er, Sum 41's latest album, Chuck, is quite punk metal in the sense that The Offspring is. I don't know about their earlier stuff though.
It's only on this album that critics have started saying that "they're more mature now", "taking political stances" etc etc...
I don't know. Do you think Sum 41's serious punk or just-havin-fun punk? Damn... is there even such a thing?
What I'm trying to say is, if you take a look at their previous videos... they're pretty much the 'i don't care, fuck you, skaters rule, i'll stick my tongue out while playing guitar and slamming drums' kind of punk band.
And now they're all more properly dressed with apparently lyrics that actually mean stuff now, etc.
Heck, maybe they've just moved on to another level. It'd be kinda boring to stay the same and sound the same...
Alright I might've gone off track there, so what I think I'm trying to say is... that they don't sound The Offspring-like... and I don't think that they could, because that's not really their style. They might sound heavier and shit, but not on the same level as The Offspring.
I'll tell ya what though, shall Sum 41 come out with another album, I think it'll sound more like their older stuff like on the album of 'Does This Look Infected?'
I don't think Chuck'll work out as much as DTLI and All Killer No Filler. Chuck's not giving much of an impact anyway.
Also, I would like to listen to Sum 41's first record, Half Hour of Power. I wonder what it'll sound like.
Anyone got that record? Lemme know ;)
another blog/post, hahah, maybe u can copy and paste and save sum brain cells :p
A.
LOL
Just wanted to get the message across... even a scratchy message.
Thanks for the advice, since I sorta fried some of my brain cells last night, I might take up the advice when the time comes.
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