Def Leppard - Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?

Friday night is nostalgic rock night! I don’t want to use the term “classic rock”. My choice of music says so much about my age! I am freaking old!! HAHAHA!!! But make no mistake, Def Leppard is one of the geniuses of the music industry itself. An icon with some of the best power ballads from the 80s and 90s. How I wish I could go back in time and change a few things!

This song is also from 25 years ago. I cried when I first heard it. Has been one of my favorites ever since. Reminds me of a girl I was never really able to “get” at that time. She and her family migrated to the United States and I lost all hope. Now here I am again, same feeling but different girl and different situation. (*sigh*)

It doesn’t matter now if it’s a specific person, we just want a trustworthy, loving and most of all, God-given life partner as we grow older. BUT NOT ALL OF US WILL HAVE SPOUSES. I guess some of us just want that kind of intimacy we so long for.

(I do not own the video)

'HAVE YOU EVER NEEDED SOMEONE SO BAD?' By Def Leppard

Here I am, I'm in the wrong bed again

It's a game I just can't win

There you are, breathing soft on my skin, yeah

Still you won't let me in (so close)

Why save your kisses for a rainy day?

Baby let the moment take your heart away!

Have you ever needed someone so bad? Yeah

Have you ever wanted someone

You just couldn't have?

Did you ever try so hard,

That your world just fell apart?

Have you ever needed someone so bad?

And to the girl I gotta have,

I gotta have you baby, yeah...

There you go, midnight promises again, yeah

But they're broken by the dawn

You wanna go further, faster everyday, baby

But in the morning you'll be gone

And I'm alone

Why save your kisses for a rainy day?

Baby let the moment take your heart away!

Have you ever needed someone so bad? Yeah

Have you ever wanted someone

You just couldn't have?

Did you ever try so hard,

That your world just fell apart?

Have you ever needed someone so bad?

Every dream I dream is like

Some kinda rash 'n' reckless scene

To give out such crazy love

You must be some kinda drug

And if my time don't ever come

For me you're still the one

Damned if I don't, damned if I do

I gotta get a fix on you!

Have you ever needed someone so bad? Yeah

Have you ever wanted someone

You just couldn't have?

Did you ever try so hard,

That your world just fell apart?

Have you ever needed someone so bad?

And to the girl I gotta have

I gotta have you baby, yeah...

Have you ever needed someone so bad? Yeah!

Have you ever wanted someone (you ever wanted someone)

You just couldn't have...

Iron Maiden - Wasting Love (Official Video)

One of my favorite songs for 25 years now...



'WASTING LOVE' by Iron Maiden

Maybe one day, I'll be an honest man
Up to now, I'm doing the best I can
Long roads, long days of sunrise to sunset, 
Sunrise to sunset

Dream on Brothers, while you can
Dream on Sister, I hope you find "the one"
All of our lives, covered up quickly by the tides of time

Spend your days full of emptiness
Spend your years full of loneliness
Wasting Love in a desperate caress
Rolling shadows of night...

Dream on Brothers, while you can
Dream on Sisters, I hope you find "the one"
All of our lives, covered up quickly by the tides of time

Sands are flowing and the lines are in your hand
In your eyes I see the hunger, 
And the desperate cry that tears the night

Spend your days full of emptiness
Spend your years full of loneliness
Wasting Love in a desperate caress
Rolling shadows of night...


Spend your days full of emptiness
Spend your years full of loneliness
Wasting Love in a desperate caress
Rolling shadows of night,

Spend your days full of emptiness
Spend your years full of loneliness
Wasting Love in a desperate caress
Rolling shadows of night....

COLOSSAL (2017) Review

WARNING: SPOILER

This motion picture’s theme is somewhat off. I’m not really keen on comparing plots, but it’s like PACIFIC RIM with a satirical twist. The film sort of failed in consistent tone, being a sci-fi comedy at first and then shifting into a suspense drama later. It’s confused with itself; it suffers from an identity crisis.

The visual effects are cool, but very limited, which also reminds me of the Godzilla movies. I don’t know why they chose the secondary setting to be Seoul. Maybe because that’s the “place to be” nowadays and also partly because some of the producers are originally from that country or of that descent. It just had to be (South) Korea.

Few characters though still not that solid. Nevertheless, it’s quite an entertaining motion picture. Not bad for an independent film.

--Movie critiquing: one of the sad and worthless hobbies of my sad and worthless life. “Soy…. Un Perdedor…. I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?” HAHAHAHA!!!! >_<

!!!

I HATE RAINY DAYS!!! BULLSHIT!!!

20 PSYCHOLOGY FACTS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR WORLDVIEW

Numbers 10, 9, 7, 5 and 1 are very profound! HAHAHAHA!!!!

Soul Asylum - Misery

I got low. :-((



'MISERY' by Soul Asylum

(1, 2... 1, 2, 3, 4!)

They say misery loves company
We could start a company
And make misery

Frustrated, Incorporated

Well, I know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you'd pay to see

Put me outta my misery
I'd do it for you, would you do it for me?
We will always be busy
Making misery

We could build a factory
And make misery
We'll create the cure
We make the disease

Frustrated, Incorporated
Frustrated, Incorporated

Well, I know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you'd pay to feel

Put me outta my misery
All you suicide kings and you drama queens
Foreverafter happily
Making misery


Did you satisfy your greed?
Get what you need?
Was it only envy? 
So empty...

Frustrated, Incorporated
Frustrated, Incorporated
Frustrated, Incorporated (Put me outta my misery)
Frustrated, Incorporated (I'd do it for you, would you do it for me?)
Frustrated, Incorporated (Foreverafter happily...)
Frustrated, Incorporated (Making misery)
Frustrated, Incorporated (Making misery)
Frustrated, Incorporated (I'd do it for you, would you do it for me?)
Frustrated, Incorporated (Put me outta my misery)
Frustrated, Incorporated... 

Eurythmics - 17 Again (Acoustic Version)

17 AGAIN (acoustic) by Eurythmics

Yeah, though we ventured through the valley of the stars
You in all your jewelry and my bleeding heart
Who couldn't be together and who could not be apart

We should've jumped out of that airplane after all
Flying skyways overhead, it wasn't hard to fall
And I had so many crashes that I couldn't feel... at all

And it feels like I'm 17 again
Feels like I'm 17 again
Looking from the outside in,
Some things never change


Times might break you, God "forsake" you, leave you burned and bruised
Innocence will teach you what it feels like to be used
Thought that you'd done everything, you didn't have a clue

Yeah it feels like I'm 17 again
Feels like I'm 17 again
Looking from the outside in,
Some things never change

Hey... I'm a million miles away
Funny how it seems like yesterday

All those fake celebrities and all those vicious queens
All the stupid papers and the stupid magazines
Sweet dreams are made of anything that gets you in the scene

Yeah it feels like I'm 17 again
Yeah it feels like I'm 17 again
Yeah 17, 17, 17 again...
17, 17 again...
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah...

WE ARE NOT PERFECT, WE ARE A FAMILY

We are not a perfect family; we are not even ideal. We never were. I have always thought that every household has its own certain dysfunction anyway. There was a time when we were “just fine”, we were quite happy. But sometimes wrong decisions in life make us susceptible to other more serious mistakes. Nevertheless, family is family.

The other night I dreamt that my siblings and I were going to Tagaytay on a hot afternoon. Our youngest brother was driving an apparently new van; I suddenly demanded to be dropped off because I had to “go to work”. It was absurd. He pulled over in that intersection of Roxas Boulevard and EDSA, we must have strolled at MOA or something. Both of my sisters were laughing so hard as I disembarked. I suddenly realized that we were young again. The four of us in our teen years – all at once. It was an impossibility because of our age gaps. But it was nostalgic. It was a mixed timeline where we didn’t only belong to the same generation, but to the same age group as well. Like a “what-if-we-were-all-virtually-seventeen-at-the-same-time” kind of strange.

Even for just a tiny segment of fiction, we were complete again.

I woke up missing Ate. I looked her up once more on FB and I noticed that she already unblocked me. I also discovered we have a niece with her, a dozen years of age, bearing yet another surname. Biological, from the looks of it and based on her wall messages with her BFFs. She’s still quite “naughty” and stubborn at her age. HAHAHA!!! Our relatives and former neighbors won’t easily find her because she changed her surname (not that of her ex-husband’s) and seems to choose who she accepts as friends very meticulously. I “forced” my nephew to add her and see what happens. He has the right to get in touch with his real mother and know his half-sister. Up to this writing, still no response.

I didn’t tell our parents because they would probably not want to know that their detached daughter appears to be now living in with a lesbian. Although that is yet to be proven. They gave up looking for her years ago.

I truly envy families whose members are very close to one another. We almost weren’t. A family picture for us is rare. But let’s not blame anyone here. I was part of the problem. I may still be.

We can do something about whatever’s amiss in our lives. We have the power. The key lies in our willingness… because one day we might regret it.

Make time for your loved ones. If it’s in your capacity to give them what they want, do so.

I love this pic… tinakpan ang celebrant! HAHAHA!!! If there was a way to go back, I will. Hay…