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And as for the Best Male Pop Vocal Awesomeness, I’d like to acknowledge John Mayer for being so generous with his gifts in music, but also for being so outspoken regarding his admiration for I’m Yours. I am blessed just to participate in music, but even more blessed to do so at a time when the music community is so loving and encouraging. Thank you John. It is a great honor to be recognized by one’s peers. You deserve every bit of acclaim that’s out there. Hope to see you and your giant heart on the road again soon.
http://freshnessfactorfivethousand.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-grammy-acceptance-speech.html

Jason is right. And I'm lucky to witness this. And you...

JM JM

I think Jason Mraz wrote, recorded and SANG one of the best songs of 2008, and I hope this makes it back to him...
http://www.johnmayer.com/battlestudies/

Isn't he a peach? Makes you wanna pinch his cheek, wouldn't you?

I probably already said it profusely, but I both love John and Jason. I got to know about them at about the same time, and I've been to concerts of both. I'm also still regretting not going to Hard Rock Calling in London, last year. John right after Jason. Ah well, I'd probably pass out anyway.

This blog, cause I only wanted to say 'Makes you wanna pinch his cheeck, wouldn't you?'.

And because I safe every piece 'n bit that's even only remotely about both. It's like having them together in one room. John playing the guitar and Jason doing the vocals for a song they might have written together...

Oh c'mon! Let a girl dream!

Once More, We're Talking Fruits Here!!!

I've been grinning all day from the moment I published my post up until now and I think I'm not done grinning yet.

Keywords are: suits, Grammy's, JM and JM, Say, I'm Yours.

Maybe I can tell someone to say 'Say I'm Yours'. I think I'm gonna try that one on my boyfriend tonight.

Anyway, the loss/win leaves me less baffled than expected. The weird comparisons amuses me this time. That brings me back to a short article I once found online. This should be registered for eternity:

Are John Mayer and Jason Mraz the same person?
Okay, so it's likely that John Mayer and Jason Mraz are not the same person, I know that. I also know I am not the first person to point out the similarities between the two. However, after checking out Jason Mraz Monday night at the Paramount I see now why the comparisons are made.

The words that made me laugh: .

...so it's likely that John Mayer and Jason Mraz are not the same person.

Buahahaha: As if there's any doubt.

And:

However, after checking out Jason Mraz Monday night at the Paramount I see now
why the comparisons are made.

I bet most people have no clue why they compare the two. But this might be right on the money.

That article was the most inventive of all the comparisons, and probably the most true. Still, I feel it's like comparing apples to oranges. Let's just say 'It's a Fruit'.

Note to self: Stop reading your own blog!!!

Reference:
http://wiwipedia.blogspot.com/2009/02/grammy-for-rant.html

http://pugetsoundblogs.com/spintheblackcircle/2008/11/13/are-john-mayer-and-jason-mraz-the-same-person/

http://wiwipedia.blogspot.com/2007/11/its-fruit.html

Look at the Suits

Great suits!

Tho J, what's up with your hair and the shoes?

Grammy for Rant

I'm a little bit bummed out.

Last night the Grammy's were given out. Jason was nominated in two categories; Best Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He didn't win any. That's okay really.

What is not so okay is; John Mayer won the one for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. That is total bullshit, because he can't even nearly sing as well as Jason. Besides that, it was for the song Say. Jason was nominated with I'm Yours. Neither of the songs are great treasures of the pop music world, but in my book, I'm Yours stands one place higher than Say. Say says nothing. At least it says nothing new we never have thought of ourselves. Jason has a song about the same freakin' subject, and I dare to bet many more artists do.

John Mayer won, because he's John Mayer, and Jason obviously isn't. And here the ridiculous comparison of the two comes in play. (I'm annoyed! Can you tell?) John is so much more commercial than Jason is. He sells his records, where Jason plays the songs from his records. John dazzles people for the sake of dazzling them, where Jason dazzles people, because he almost literally plays and sings his heart out. With that I don't say John doesn't like to play music; he loves it, but the third factor 'attention' is more important to John than it is to Jason. John does and tries more to get that attention to a point where the attention has nothing to do with his music anymore. Think of all the public relationships he has had in the last couple of years (Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston). While John is doing that, Jason is eating raw food (That's another way of getting attention. Not better, but just as effective. And I digress). Apparently, eating raw food isn't as sexy as dating a famous blonde (and a raw food diet don't sell a glossy).

My point is, the Grammy's have nothing to do with the quality of music, but rather with how much money one artist can bring in with his work. Not even with that particular song, cause Jason's I'm Yours is still somewhere high up in the charts where John's Say has disappeared altogether.

I mean: 'Say what you need to say'. Okay, but do you really need to say that 35 times at a time? I think I'd rather hear that someone's mine 35 times, eventhough that would make me wanna slap someone as well.

Conclusion: A Grammy winning artist is not per se a good artist.

And last but not least, I'd like to show how sophisticated the two songs were:

Say
Take out of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all your so called problems

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Walkin' like a one man army
Figthin' with the shadows in your head
Livin' up the same old moment
Knowin' you'd be better off instead
If you could only

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Have no fear for givin' in
Have no fear for givin' over
You better know that in the end
It's better to say too much
Than to never to say what you need to say again

Even if your hands are shakin'
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closin'
Do it with a heart wide openA wide heart

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Oh my dear gawd!!!I had to type out the lyrics, because I couldn't just simply copy/paste it. I was very effectively confronted with the overload of Say what you need to say's.

And:

I'm Yours
Well you done done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
Now I'm trying to get back
Before the cool done run out I'll be giving it my bestest
And nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some

I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment babay sing with me
We're just one big family
And It's our God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved

So I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours

Scooch on over closer dear
And I will nibble your ear

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and laughed
I guess what I'm be saying is there ain't no better reason
To rid yourself of vanity and just go with the seasons
It's what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue

But I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm yours
Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find that the sky is yours
Please don't, please don't, please don't
There's no need to complicate
Cause our time is short
This oh this this is out fate, I'm yours!

Oh my dear gawd!!!

I must admit, I'm fan of both John and Jason and knew both songs and sing-a-song-along happily, but I never thought of what I was singing. Do I now feel smart, or what!?

....Hear my gritting teeth in embarrassment....


John had this to say on twitter:

Best Pop Male Vocal!! I wanna share it with Mraz. His is a really special performance. Hands are shaking, about to play some R and B!!

I think they should, because that will make me (and about a thousands more people) happier, and they so deserve it.

Fair enough, I already knew the Grammy's are bullshit and that both John and Jason are capable of producing high quality music.

There, I said what I needed to say.

Contra Blog

You can heal your bones. You can't make your heart beat, but you can make it beat faster (don't do that too often). You can think of making your food digest. You can make a kid tick, but you can kill its own initiative all together as well. Yes, the Universe is at work in so many wonderful ways, and it won't stop just because we begin to think we know everything in the adult system (by the way, we don't). And yes, everything we know is just a story that we've made up to help us organize this reality. You're story is not completely written yet, so you can make the coming chapters interesting and inspiring. Feel free to make a difference.

When a person feels down, and brings himself down, it can result in sickness. It can make you more fragile, and therefore vulnerable to diseases. On the other hand, when someone's feeling happy, it can help healing wounds and broken bones. Excitement can result in hearts beating faster, like being in love, or like having an orgasm. I can even go as far as saying that having sex on a regular basis is healthy.

With that said, I never meant to say that we rule over the Universe, cause we simply don't. There's so much more outside than we can see, smell, taste, feel or even comprehend. The Universe, literally, rules. The Universe gave life to our Mother Nature who gave birth to us. The Universe and Mother Nature can make us feel happy and therefore make us able to heal ourselves. But they can also take our lives.

What I'm saying is, we're all responsible for all we create (lack of self esteem versus cockiness, beauty versus ugly, and so on). The things we leave behind and might effect our surroundings. Sometimes deliberate, sometimes not so deliberate. Sometimes more, and sometimes less. The Universe and Mother Nature will make us pay for those things we should have done, but didn't. And for the things we shouldn't have done, but did.

In short, we're responsible for all our actions. We can create and make happiness and uniness, and a healthy place to live in and with. Be considerate. That's our responsibility.

BTW, this piece can be interpreted in many ways. Take and make the way you can do something with it.

Reference: http://freshnessfactorfivethousand.blogspot.com/2009/02/seeds-sewn.html

Plant a Tree. Grab a Star. Make the Oceans Wave

I still do belief that we can make a difference. That's not the question. The question rather is if we got it right. Are the things we choose to do really the things we're supposed to do?
Life is not about preserving everything that once lived. It's not even about trying to keep it alive. In my opinion life is about life, including all the killing and dying. It's just a part of life, like surviving only applies to the bits from birth till your dying. After that it's up to the next form to make a life.

Sure you can try to be considerate, but with all the useless poluting aside, this earth was never meant to be forever. Forever is a really big word, which we can't even comprehend.
People got the balance so screwed up. We watch wildlife documentaries were the strongest animal always wins, and the weaker animal is sometimes lucky. And we say: "That's nature". Hell yes it is.

We have the courtesy of letting Mother Nature deal with death concerning our pets, most of the times. We think it's not good to let an animal suffer unnecessarily, but it's okay to let grandma suffer that much, cause we'll miss her so bad when she's gone. Sure we do, but what about that dog who was around for 12 years?

So what about Mother earth herself? Should we let her suffer? Fact is that we could have done better, sure. Fact also is that, in the end, we won't be able to safe her. Maybe she will safe us from our useless suffering.

In this world of contradictions, we're trying to make a reality that turns out to be as fictional as a virtual reality. We can't make the oceans wave. We can't grab a star. We can plant a tree, but that tree won't have eternal life. It'll breath and provides air, food and water for a period of time till all is done.

The question rather is; can we be proud of what and how we did?
Go on, make a difference and be good to your neighbour. Be good to nature. Just take what you need to survive for as long as it lasts, nothing more. Be generous, cause you don't need all the money of the world and you've got plenty of love to give. Make sure you can be proud at the end of your life.

This is the most unstructured rant I did so far.

Disconnected?

My ankle got a little smashed up, and for some reason I let it become a pull down. I've been fighting tiredness ever since I started working again. I can't seem to find my rhythm.

Tonight I read a mail from Jason to RKOP. I felt so disconnected, as if I was watching from the sidelines, not being involved.

It was nice to see, however, Jason had the same thoughts and ideas on his mind as me.

Reference:

• http://rightkindofphrase.yuku.com/topic/3953
• http://wiwipedia.blogspot.com/2009/01/0-interest-and-ive-got-some-space-to.html