Two Rock Loving Girls In The Same Place...

It’s already been a year since I became a huge fan of Rooney’s music (An Californian pop rock band)I just chipped.

Rooney
Back back back, in April 2008, when Good Charlotte were touring around the UK, Rooney was the supporting act, and I caught them playing live in Edinburgh and London. When I saw those bands at Brixton in London, the rock lovin actress Mischa Barton was on the Rooney tour bus with the guitarist Taylor Locke. I clearly remember I felt a bit stoked as I met Mischa. Then in my head, "Wow! She is absolutely gorgeous. I didn't really know that the flawlessly beautiful girl like her actually existed! She's like the barbie doll!"

Mischa & Taylor

Imagine! meeting Good Charlotte, Rooney, and Miss Barton at once? I thought how lucky I am. But I couldn't actually think of anything except how beautiful Mischa & Taylor were... They matched awesomely! They were just so perfect even though I didn't really say to myself that they were way better than me and someone... The gig was incredible as always. Although the Good Charlotte frontman, Joel Madden said he totally remembered me, I had my eye for Rooney that night.

Next week, I saw Rooney in Paris again. It was hugely impressive. The cover of The Band's old number "The Weight", they pulled it off perfectly. I've seen some other American bands playing this song before, but I knew they could do it better than anybody else. And the handsome guitarist, Taylor Locke's play recalls the young Page. He's one of the immense guitarists I've ever seen in my life. Though he is no longer with Mischa, I just thought she was genuinely lucky to have him as a lover at that moment.
Rooney

The Real Libertine!!

*NME Awards 2009*

Carl Barât has recently started doing his solo gigs in England. He was touring around the US with the band Glasvegas who currently won the hearts of rock fans and media in January. I've met and seen him play live many times. But I've never asked and will never ask him about The Libertines misery or the wild rocker Pete Doherty. He is an amazing musician and I do love him as an artist! Apparently, the media are not waiting for him to do anything bad, but are always waiting for him to start something new instead.

Apparently, I'm a great picture taker!

His last project, Dirty Pretty Thing announced their split in October last year. It was too sudden, but they simply did not stop touring all over the UK and Europe until December last year. I saw them in Cambridge and Oxford in October, and then in Amsterdam again at the end of November. Their second album, Romance At Short Notice was simply superb! I know you don't believe me, but luckily, I was the FIRST LISTENER of the album, hehe.

At backstage. L-R: Didz Hammond, Me, Kaiser Chiefs frontman, Ricky Wilson, Carl Barat, and Anthony Rossomando.

Carl Barat and Me.

NOTHING IS SEXIER THAN ROCK'N'ROLL!!!

Led Zeppelin are extraordinary!!!

"12 January" was the special day for the Zeppelin and their fans. And they were on the cover of Kerrang Magazine in January (Issue Number 1244 January 17 2009). According to Kerrang, “There were four lads from England and on January 12, 1969, they released their self-titled bebut album. They were Led Zeppelin…”

In November 2007, I was lucky enough to get to meet the guitar god, Mr Jimmy Page. It has completely changed my life for sure.

Youg Page.

Here is the picture of me with Mr Jimmy Page. People always ask me how I got to meet him. I don’t know the proper answer because I just met him. Jimmy Page is my dad’s hero and I told him that my dad was listening to his records all the time. Then he pleasantly smiled at me. He was genuinely sweet!



Special thanks to Mr Jimmy Page and his friends.

Miss Penny Lane ~endless groupie travails???~

I love "Almost Famous" (The movie directed by Cameron Crowe 2000) it's more important to me than life!!!
For the first time I saw that film I was still in High School. Then I only commented after watching it, "Oh man, this is the dullest movie I’ve ever seen!" but I watched it again in July 2007. What made me want to watch it again? haha, it's secret. My eyes were flooded with tears... I empathised with Penny Lane way too much.

"Those girls don’t even know what it is to truly love some silly little piece of music or some band so much…that it hurts." (One of my favorite lines in Almost Famous) It made me realise I’m the real music fan! It’s not about the cloying sentimentalism, but about real me!
According to Pamela Des Darres, “With so many musicians snapped up by models, porn stars, and actresses, the groupie’s quest is even more difficult. Only a handful of girls are fearless enough to cross the precarious line into the rock’n’roll danger zone… What kind of girl makes it her life’s passion to meet the rocker of her dreams, consequences be damned?" Maybe a girl like Penny Lane doesn’t exist in the current rock’n’roll world, but I’m 100% sure that I could be the one. In fact, I’ve experienced the things that Penny has gone through in the movie and now I can find pieces of myself in the character, Penny Lane which I couldn’t find when I was in high school.

One of her groupie books, Let's Spend The Night Together-Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies (Chicago Review Press July 1 2007)

Like the girls in the movie, I’ve been thinking about how many other music enthusiasts can understand what it is to genuinely love some intoxicating sounds or some band addictively in solitude… "If you ever get lonely you just go to the record store!" this line was totally meaningful to me. That’s actually what I always do. Music might help us get out of a harsh reality, give us a reason to live and then we can trip anywhere we want to go.

I can understand why Penny Lane committed suicide and what the music was to her, what the band was to her and what Russell was to her, seriously…
The attitude of those people in the movie, like the thrill of chasing freedom, to be a part of something special were more pointful than any thicker books. Like the character, Jeff Bebe said, “Rock’n’Roll can save the world!” I personally think this realistic phrase conjures up young adults’ sense of liberation, particularly the people who flourished in the late 1960s and the early 1970s!
My fave scene!!!

According to "Peter Keough "She (Penny Lane) loved the music and that's what the movie's about. In Penny Lane's case, the music never leaves the man, which inevitably made her fall in love with the musician, too. And that's a difficult thing. Somewhere inside is a lost, vulnerable girl." To a girl like Miss Penny Lene who constantly have vulnerable moments in her personal life, falling in love (lust) with rock stars is essential. Of course girls can have a huge crush on musicians, but I presume it’s quite different to “Love” itself.

So Sick.

I'm here! Been ill, but hopefully, omeprazole will cure my tummyache.
The snow is slowly disappearing atm... which's good.
I'm so effin excited about the Franz Ferdinand UK tour next month!!!

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