15 January 2011

Kurt Cobain & Nirvana

Pagi korangkorang. 
Masa aku tengah duduk bosanbosan pagipagi ni, sambil tengah layan facebook, aku terfikir sesuatu pasal blog. Aku dah janji yang aku akan post something bout music kan? This is it. Korangkorang pernah dengar kugiran yang dinamakan NIRVANA? Rugi kalau tak pernah dengar yop sebab kugiran ni merupakan salah satu daripada nama yang menaikkan nama grunge yang bermula di Seattle, Washington D.C. Seattle merupakan tempat permulaan genre muzik yang dinamakan "grunge". Bagi mereka yang dah memang layan grunge mungkin akan pandang remeh, kenapa aku post isu yang mudah bagi dorang ni? haha. Meh aku ingatkan sekali lagi, yang tujuan blog ni untuk membetulkan fahaman merekamereka yang kurang faham atau tersalah faham. Jadi, ini info yang aku jumpa kat satu website. Baca tau?!

Kurt’s Bio:
Kurt (Donald) Cobain born in February 20, 1967. His hometown (Aberdeen, Wa) was always kind of ‘problem’ for him  “Aberdeen was nothing but rednecks and guns and booze.”
In his childhood his parents divorced, and he ended up being shuffled from one relative’s house to the next. Kurt drooped out from high school and in his late teen he left home, abandoning the orderlines of his mother’s house for the danger and occasional excitement of bumming with friends and doing nothing.
Though his condition had not yet been diagnosed, he had begun to show signs of narcolepsy, an incomprehensible illness which strikes its victims asleep in unoccupied rooms than he did in the menial sweeping and cleaning which was supposed to be his vocation.
That wasn’t his only job in his late teens, in 1985, he worked briefly as a lifeguard at the local YMCA.
But nothing lasted for long, except music.
That year, Kurt made the fateful connection, when he met the 19 years old Chris Novoselic born in Los Angeles into into a family of Yugoslavian extraction, Chris was brought to Aberdeen before he reached his teens as his father entered the logging industry.
When Kurt played with Chris for the first time in 1987, they decided to keep the band together, and by the beginning of the next year, they had a ten-song demo fully in place with Crover on drums.
Many of these tunes wound up on their Sub Pop debut album, Bleach (1989) and on their rarities compilation, Incesticide (1992). In the beginning (’ the early Nirvana’ ) of  the band they didn’t really find their ‘perfect’ drummer(Channing, Crover, Peters). However they found their perfect drummer that was Dave Grohl, who born in Warren, Ohio.

After their 1991 breakthrough album Nevermind the album that shook the world by storm and bring their music to the world, Nirvana were everywhere. They were the cover boys of every major music mag in the world, song after song concert after concert as Nirvana gets better and better.
Nirvana:

  • Kurt Cobain - songwriter, guitarist, vocal
  • Chris Novoselic - bassist
  • Dave Grohl - drummer
Kurt always had a problem with the ‘macho man’ style “I definitely have a problem with the average macho man, because they have always been a threat to me. I’ve had to deal with them most of my life -being taunted and beaten up by them  in school. I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being  than I do the male.”
Meantime Kurt start spending time with his girlfriend, Courtney Love. He felt that spending a lot of time with Courtney was essential for his sanity. “I just wanted to do something that was really exciting” “I figured Courtney was the best option . I knew that there wouldn’t be a single person in the Nirvana camp that would approve of it. Because they’re so fucking boring.
Their lives are so normal.” In the spring of ‘92, Kurt checked into a rehab to rid himself of his heroin habit. “I just decided I want to have a life”.

However on February 24, 1992, Kurt married his girlfriend Courtney in Hawaii with a female minister, Kurt wore his pajamas on the ‘wedding’. And in August 18, 1992, Frances Bean Cobain was born in Los Angeles. Just 10 days after Kurt become a father, Nirvana played the U.K. Reading Festival. And in September the band performed at the MTV Video Music Awards, and received two awards
  1. Best Alternative Video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
  2. Best New Artists Awards
In the morning of April 8, 1994, an electrician arrived at  Kurt house in Seattle and spotted what he thought was a mannequin lying on the floor of a small cottage/greenhouse above the garage.
Upon closer examination, he realized that what he saw was the body of a young male with a shotgun on his chest. The police arrived and body, dressed in jeans, a shirt and Converse trainers, was removed for identification. Fingerprints confirmed that it was Kurt Cobain, he left a suicide note, a wife and a daughter, and millions of fans that will not let go and will never forget him.


Haa. Amacam? Menarik kan kisah dorang ni. Aku memang betul tabik kat dorang ni sebab dorang memang minat betul dalam muzik. Aku bukan nak sanjung dorang, tapi dorang ni jugak la pengaruh aku masa aku sekolah menengah dulu. Macam macam yang dorang dah rasa, susah payah dalam dunia muzik. Aishh, aku harap korangkorang dapat apa yang aku cuba sampaikan melalui post aku kali ni. Ambik apa yang baik, jangan korangkorang ambik yg negatif dari dorang ni pulak ekk? 


Sorry post kali ni pendek sikit. Kalau nak tau lagi banyak pasal dorang, jengukjenguk websitewebsite ni :

Lepas ni aku akan post pulak pasal kugiran yang sezaman dengan NIRVANA ni. There will be more! Until next post! Choww!



14 January 2011

kasut kasut kasut !

Korangkorang ada terfikir nak beli kasut baru? yang boleh pakai kalau nak pergi jalanjalan makan angin atau nak bawak pergi kerja dengan gaya macho? bagi awekawek pulak, yang nak pakai kasut yang nampak ganasganas tapi masih ada ciri-ciri feminin? aku rasa ada kasut yang sesuai untuk korangkorang ni. bagi pendapat aku, kasut ni memang smart tahap gaban untuk korangkorang semua ushar !


HISTORY OF DR MARTENS
Almost from the moment British shoe manufacturer R. Griggs Group launched the Dr. Martens 1460 model boot on April Fools Day 1960, the footwear was popular with British postmen, police officers, and factory workers. The 1460 was an eight eyelet, cherry-red, Napa leather design.

In less than a decade, the Dr. Martens 1460 (so named for the date of their introduction, using the convention of day/month/year) boots had become popular with the British working class subculture of the skinheads. Over the years, skinhead culture became more violent and racist, and Dr. Martens boots became associated with soccer hooligans.

(Read more at http://www.articlealley.com/article_697375_27.html?ktrack=kcplink)

Haa, ini sedikit info pasal kasut yang aku nak warwar kan kepada korangkorang semua. Yes! DR MARTENS! Sebenarnya, masa zaman aku sekolahsekolah dulu, kalau pakai kasut ni, orangorang kebiasaannya budakbudak taksub, akan gelar korang SKINHEAD. Naknak pulak kalau korang berambut botak, lagi la! Dari dulu aku teringin nak beli kasut ni tapi tak sampai lagi hajat aku tu. Tapi tu dulu beb! Sekarang dah lain! Kasut ni korang boleh gayakan ikut sukahati kepala otak korang. Bak kata iklan TV, "zaman dah berubah, dunia dah maju,". Tambahan lagi, Dr Martens bukan saja Keluarkan boot, tapi dorang jugak ada keluarkan kasutkasut sneakers untuk korangkorang yang naknak jadi jambu dan kacak. Pakcik yang naik motor kapcai pun boleh bergaya dengan kasut ni!

Dalam post ni aku ada sertakan gambar untuk korang ushar ushar. pilih pilih pilih!




















Haa...Apa macam? Menarik tak? haha. Memang rare la kan. So, bagi korangkorang yang baru start nak baca blog ni, untuk pengetahuan korangkorang semua, aku akan post selang seli. Maknanya, sebelum ni aku ada post pasal sejarah muzik kan?, dan sekarang aku post pasal fesyen pulak. Lepas ni korangkorang dah boleh agak apa yang aku akan post kan? So, teruskan ushar ushar blog aku ni. Kalau ada apa apa cadangan, boleh komen kat post atau emel kat aku. Emel aku akan letak nanti. Aku akan selalu bukak inbox, harapharap akan ada maklum balas, okay. terima kasih! :))

13 January 2011

Ok, here's a start, "sejarah muzik 101".

Kamus dan ensiklopedia mendefinisikan muzik sebagai "bentuk seni komunikasipendengaran menggabungkan nada instrumental atau vokal dengan cara yangberstruktur dan berterusan." Hal ini juga ditakrifkan sebagai "setiap bunyi yang menyenangkan dan harmoni" dan "suara yang dihasilkan oleh penyanyi atau instrumen muzik."(Sumber: wordnet.princeton.edu)


Haa, sekarang aku nak terangkan lagi, aku harap korang akan lebih faham dengan penjelasan aku ni. Muzik tu tak semestinya terdiri daripada lirik jiwang karat ataupun petikan gitar yang indah lentok. Muzik ni pengantara, boleh dikatakan luahan isi hati seseorang yang biasanya tak dapat mereka luahkan dengan percakapan biasa. Bunyi-bunyi alam semulajadi contohnya bunyi katak panggil hujan, bunyi petir, guruh tu pun semua sebenarnya muzik jugak. Muzik tak semestinya mengikut beat atau tempo, bunyi gitar bass dungtangdungtang, tak jugak. Kadang-kadang bunyi-bunyi yang pecah terabur tu jugak, tonggang langgang tu jugak dipanggil muzik asalkan tak sakit hati kita dengar. 
Bagi aku, muzik ni sebenarnya ubat, bukan aku nak cakap ubat kanser payudara, ubat batuk berdarah ke ape ke, tapi bila orang dengar dan memahami sesuatu yang betul-betul dinamakan " muzik ", tanpa mereka tu sedar, itulah muzik yang sebenarnya. korang setuju tak?