Post#4 It Won't Be Soon Before Long

On one fine afternoon trying to stir up the day, I walked into Virgin Records and browsed for some CD's.
I found this impeccable album which i easily have enthralled with. Gosh, throughout the week this had been the playlist I kept playing in my ipod. Honestly I was never a frantic listener nor a huge fan of Maroon 5 until I got a copy of my own. The songs are really something that I could not get enough of it.

It Won't Be Soon Before Long is the follow-up album to the smash hit Songs About Jane of Maroon 5, a Grammy Award-winning American Pop Rock Band with members: Adam Levine(frontman, lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Valentine(lead guitar), Jesse Carmichael(keyboards, rhythm guitar), Mickey Madden(bass guitar) and Matt Flynn(drums). Being massively successful on their debut album that gave chart-toppers This Love, She will be loved, Sunday Morning and Hard to Breathe, Maroon 5 bagged numerous awards and recognitions, skyrocketing them to the music scene. 5 years in the making, the new set of songs were released on 2007 which was extremely appreciated over the airwaves, billboards and world wide web. The song Makes Me Wonder became the best-selling single and video on itunes. According to Adam Levine, the band's vocalist, it's a lot better than the first album with sexier and stronger music as it is inspired from the music of Prince, Michael Jackson and Talking Heads of the 80's.

The new album It Won't Be Soon Before Long comprises of 19 funky-classy cuts including 2 remixes If I Never See Your Face Again feat Rihanna and Wake Up Call feat Mary J. Blige. The kind of vibe it brings to your ears would make your ipod playlist set in a loop. I have found new favorite songs in the soultry, kinda old fashion sound of Back at Your Door and It's Better that We Break, which both tells honest feelings and direct interpretations of love and pain. I could imagine them being the musical score into the scenes on one of my fave series. Nothing Lasts Forever (a song about relationships that hardly would ever work out) and I Wont Go Home Without You that have been played all over the radio are perfect background while travelling the roads of Abu Dhabi or Fujairah in a dreary sunset. Fast tempoed and high-esteemed beat of Can't Stop and Makes Me Wonder that has an audacius sexual content would drag your left-feet to the right dance floor. And before I dose off at night, I would select the track Goodnight because of its relaxing, soothing mood, and that it gently drifts me off asleep. Anyway, it is just great that this album is worth additional to my CD collections and I recommend it to those folks with wide preferences in terms of music.


Here's a clip for you to check out...hope you get entertained...:)
Maroon 5 featuring Rihanna: "If I Never See Your Face Again"

Post#3 A Brutally Done Film

First and foremost....I wanna say "duh" for having been gone for a bit while from blogging. Friends might have been mising out and wondering my whereabouts. For some reason I had to shut down temporarily since the last post.There had been some crazy things going on lately that puts my brain down the drain. However, I had to admit that the last didn't go well...it was pretty bad for a starter to express such rubbish post...Though I plead it wont happen again so that my mentor Arabian Josh would put a satisfied grin on his face.
I had a great time this weekend, enjoying every bit second of it after long days of office works and boredom. Part of it was my very first time in a cinema in U.A.E.. I just watched Dark Knight. I am not really a fan of Batman, though I had to say "that's one movie to be seen with popcorns stuffed in the mouth." I might have given 5 yawns in the beginning but I have given 9 stars rating at the end.

The Dark Knight (directed by Christopher Nolan) is the brutally done film sequel of Batman Begins which tells the story of Bruce Wayne who turns into a mysterious dark-suited phantom that lurks at night to sweep clean Gotham City's unwanted crimes. Now on its continuation, Dark Knight brings out
a different twist that introduces the important villains of all time: the Joker and Two-Face.
In favor of the latter, the story rolls out the plot of how Harvey Dent became a vengeful freak from a just-natured political icon of Gotham. Unlike the several Batman movies of the past, it gave a bold attempt to re-tell the story with a different level of intensity. Especially on its visual effects packed with excruciating gunfires, falling debris, deafening blastings, hardcore fight scenes, big chase, advance technology, badblood and dark atmosphere. Perfect ingredients to pull off a great action-packed superhero movie . Surely this is not for a faint heart.

The Dark Knight(Batman), shrouded by the torn notion between a hero and vigilante, is at quest of busting out the justice in the rising crime supremacy of The Joker(Heath Ledger), his ultimate arch-villain; along with the forces of Lieutenant James Gordon(Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent(Aaaron Eckhart). But soon enough they've figured themselves falling into Joker's plot that leads to the ill-fated death of Rachell Dawes(Maggie Gyllenhaal), who happens to be Harvey Dent's girlfriend. Hardly accepting reality, Harvey Dent woke up discovering a half-burned face caused by a massive explosion and later on was brainwashed by Joker. He sets out as Two-face on a vendetta, taking lives of people, deciding their fate upon flipping a coin.
Lucius Fox(Morgan Freeman) helps out Batman using his advanced technology in the battle against Joker and Two-face in which eventually reached the triumphant conclusion. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), the Batman himself is devastated for the lost of his friends as he was also trapped in the fine line of being a hero and an outlaw. In spite of it, Batman remains in the stand of the common good.

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On my personal note, The Dark Knight has achieved its greatest expectation not only that it has catapulted top grosser against the records of spiderman,titanic, etc. This is a movie that's worth watching for because it conveys a substantial context of a real superhero movie. Sometimes a true hero doesnt have to do good things just to save the world, perhaps what he aims for the greater good is only that matters. Anyway, I have to give it up for the actors who have equally done the job so well. Hats off to Christian Bale who reprises the role, I think he's fittest to slip into those black rubber suits. Superb acting for Heath Ledger as The Joker. I never knew it was Heath behind the character of the ultimate villain until I saw the credits. I couldn't agree more, since Brokeback Mountain, he really knows how to handle challenging roles. I like the important participation of Aaron Eckhart in the film as he was introduced as Two-Face (in the first 1-and-a-half hour of the movie i was figuring out what the hell was this guy doing there?). The special make-up must be hard for him...hahaha...Moving aside, the high-tech weapons were amazing. I could use one of those to get back at my boss for making me miserable(those blades that pops out the gauntlets). The Bat Pod was fantastic having two enormous wheels hitting the road. It's a lot better than the massive titanium chunk called Bat Mobile; it's the same ride he was in back at The Batman Begins. I didn't like it honestly, but Im pretty sure it would turn out handy in the next installment. There are so much yet to show in the movie, but the audience would mind waiting for it anyway. And until then, I'm just hovering around here to make it more interesting. How's that? Well..Yalah...