Lifehouse in Manila!

Music: Bridges by Lifehouse

I’ve seen it all and it’s never enough

It keeps leaving me needing you.

–“Take Me Away,” Lifehouse (Stanley Climbfall)

Lifehouse is holding a concert on May 26, and I’m giddy with excitement, so much that I think fuzzy wuzzy bunnies and hamsters just about made my tummy their permanent nesting ground until the weekend. Oh yes, they’re doing cartwheels even as I type down these words.

And it’s not even because I’m obsessed with LH’s lead vocalist Jason Wade (or maybe I am, just an itsy bitsy bit). I don’t have the knack for proper fangirling anyway. I don’t squeal (not as loudly as the others, at least), I don’t stalk (except when I search for LH music videos and interviews via YouTube), and I don’t collect his photos (and personal belongings) for my shrine (not that I have one . . . no, seriously, I don’t). And it’s not like I’ve memorized all their songs either. I mean, I know “Hanging By a Moment” by heart (even the little pauses and all), but there are a few songs that I wouldn’t recognize on first hearing, not until I hear Jason’s voice booming in my headset or the speakers.

But while I’m not a full-blown (or all-out?) fan(girl), I am a fan, still. Because Lifehouse introduced “Hanging By a Moment” to the world, and it has become my favorite song of all time ever since. Because that song is not simply a love song (although I don’t mind if it is), but also about a spiritual connection with your God (what? check Jason’s statement about how he wrote the song!). Because although Lifehouse is not a Christian band per se, their songs can very well be considered spiritual, without turning you off or suffocating you because of a sense of forced morality.

So, yes, I am ecstatic at the fact that Lifehouse will be in Manila this Saturday. And while the rest of the population is abuzz with Lady Gaga and her Born This Way ball, I’ll quietly wait for the weekend to come, so I can rock it out with the rest of them Lifehouse fans. Because rather than being content with the fact that we are just born this way, I will choose to believe that someday, we’ll all find it, whatever it is that we’re looking for, inside the disarray J And that when that day comes, we will discover who we (really) are.

Yosh! My dream playlist for Saturday (in no particular order):

1. Hanging By a Moment (No Name Face)
2. Everything (No Name Face)
3. Quasimodo (No Name Face) OR Simon (No Name Face)
4. Spin (Stanley Climbfall)
5. Take Me Away (Stanley Climbfall)
6. Sky is Falling (Stanley Climbfall) OR Stanley Climbfall (Stanley Climbfall)
7. Blind (Lifehouse)
8. You and Me (Lifehouse) OR We’ll Never Know (Lifehouse)
9. Days Go By (Lifehouse) OR All in All (Lifehouse)
10. Disarray (Who We Are)
11. First Time (Who We Are)
12. Make Me Over (Who We Are)
13. Had Enough (Smoke and Mirrors)
14. Falling In (Smoke and Mirrors)
15. Wrecking Ball (Smoke and Mirrors)

Nothing left to do but wait for Saturday then. See you in a few days, Jason, Rick, Bryce and Ben! 

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Music: Electric fan in the background

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Looking Back: The Original Thursday Group

Music: Futures by Jimmy Eat World

More than a year after I made this little Christmas gift for the Thursday Group, I come to realize how we have changed over the months, and how fitting these songs are for each of us, even up to now.

1 - Simple Life (Sherwood)

For everyone in my little group (because, after all, I think they are the ones I’ve been searching for all my life...well, at least part of what I've been searching for)

~ I can't believe I said that. Insert cheesy emoticon here, please.

2 - Not Sure Yet (Andy Lange)

For Gel (because he's never given up on the idea of a happy ending)

~ And with the way things are going now, I have a good feeling he'll get just what he needs, and that no matter what happens, he will be fine. It will all be fine.

3 - Chase This Light (Jimmy Eat World)

For Ice (because, after all the chasing and falling and hurting, she's finally getting the happily ever after she deserves)

~ When I chose this song for Ice, I didn't know that it was supposed to be a "proposal/marriage" song. I'm glad it is, and that she is now happily chasing the light with her hubby Chris, confetti rainfall and all.

4 - Brand New Day (Joshua Radin)

For Ivan (because he finally found Miss Right, after a series of Misses Wrong)

~ What more can I say? :)

5 - Hammers and Strings – A Lullaby (Jack’s Mannequin)

For Ayen (because sometimes, all she really needs is someone to sing to her in her sleep)

~ And I'm still praying for that someone to hurry up and show himself, damn it, because Ayen is still waiting. Or, if she's not, her friends sure as heck are.

6 - How To Save a Life (The Fray)

For Gia (because sometimes, despite all efforts, friendships end, but it doesn’t mean that they end forever)

~ Well, she's an attorney now, so I guess she'll save lives in a different way? (I seriously cannot remember the context of this song anymore, doh.)

7 - Goodnight and Go (Imogen Heap)

For Lorraine (because of reasons that will not be mentioned here, since, you know, I fear for my life)

~ I still fear for my life, by the way :))

8 - Giving It Away (MAE)

For myself (because I need to learn to start trusting again)

~ I think I'm ready :)

And wouldn't you know it, our little group just got all the bigger. So I guess this means I need to collect more songs for next Christmas :)

Cheers to friendship! XD