in the mood for a debate

we've tried to be very versatile people.

be it in changing our normal instruments to doing different type of songs (we've done rap before)

lately, something on channel Channel 5 tali-besen has tickled our versatility nodes.

The Arena is a debating styled programme with a twist (so the tagline goes

this weeks episode came very timely indeed. More on that later.


Over the past few days, a few controversies have arised due to a few posts posted here on levasiz.blogspot.com



it was just a case of poking gentle clean fun at good natured people i.e.






with no evil intents were the posts posted, all they set out to do was tickle funny bones.

there was no intent at showing a guy touching his own undies (as in the video somebody posted on LEROY's PHONY MYSPACE) but rather just a buch of guys, 2/5ths of LeVasiz included, hurrying a friend to buy a basic need.



The Motion
Today's motion was very coincidentally:

This house believes that society does not encourage humour.

sad to say we lost the debate. For a greater purpose.

Why doesn't Phua Chu Kang win a golden Globe, and instead some guy name BORAT does.
Who the hell is he anyway

publicist and his publicity stunts

Chinese New Year is in 3 centuries time, and already the stupid chiiing chaeeng sounds are heard everywhere we go.

bloody hell, they even play chiiing chaeeng sounds in kinsahi, a Japanese restaurant for crying out loud.

However its just a small handful of us who don't appreciate this kind of music.
Statistics prove that a majority of the Malaysian population love hearing Festival Themed songs when the festival draws near (source: www.talkingcock.com)

Imagine if we had a

LeVasiz New Year or a Merry LeVasiz or Hari Raya LeVasiz or a

DEEPAVALEVASIZ

THIS JOKE
BEST BEFORE 31st Jan 2007

So, you think you can play ?

Have you ever wondered ? What if there was a new season of American Idol just for bands, wouldn't It be great ? Then,Levasiz could go on the auditions and try to make it all he way up to the top. We could get ourselves judge by the three judges that they are our Dawg,Randy, the one who tries to be nice, Paula and the man that everyone loves to hate but hate to love , Simon Cowell. We could also make ourselves reach the same heights that the legendary William Hung(she bangs!she bangs!) had done . Strikethrough the last line.

Let's just say this wonderthought happen before.

This would have been the story,morning glory.

LeVasiz in American Idol : Oh My goz(a true story)

How should I start ? Once upon a time ? ...erm
Ah ! Let me start with the queing up for the auditions.
It was raining early in the morning with most of the bands feeling the pain of the morning rain soaking into their bones and instruments. They were feeling the cold but Who gives a damn about other bands anyway as long as Levasiz got themselves a nice place where they're comfy and are far from being affected by any means of grandmother nature's torture. The lambda between us and moher nature's torture was at a margin that we could say we were safe.


The rain that won't go away. Why does it always rain on me ?

Ooppss..I guess i should coninue with more important aspects of the story.
After a wait of about a 100 years long 4 to 5 hours , LeVasiz finally a chance to carry themselves on against the 3 moody judges. They weren't in their best behaviour I guess...
Note: before it was our turn , the judges had sent a number of talented bands home . They were even some bands paking their stuff with tears streaming down their faces.Boohoo. Bands like Disagree,Electrico and Rivermaya fail to make it through because of their roots.Sad. Well, the All American Rejects got themselves rejected,Again! ! How unlucky. Well, probably now they can name their band The All American Idol rejects.


As we step in the room , we felt a feeling that was out of this world, It was so different as if we were sailing in a tidal wave or a tsunami . The atmosphere was great but the scenery was bad(faces of the judges were not such a welcome,they forgot to put on they're make-up).The audition started with the judges questioning us on a few things.The normal stuff.

Here's the conversation

Randy : Yo, Dawg. Oh, I mean DAWGS.
Levasiz(L): Hi.Oh, you're still alive, man ?? they said you were .....you know.
Randy : err..What ?( He wasn't to happy of the reply, started talking to himself like madman)
Simon : Erm..okay. Let me see, you guys have been a band for more than two years now . Is that right? (with he's brit accent)
Levasiz(S): Yeah..
Simon : That sounds promising. I hope I won't be calling you guys Horrendous or rubbish at the end of this audition. So what do you have for us today ?
LeVasiz(L): We're gonna do a cover of coldplay's Don't Panic(Beautiful world).
Paula : I think that's a nice song although I've never heard of it before. (Paula
scratching her head that's full of kutus )
LeVasiz(M): Of coz it's a nice song . We don't play shite,man. So here it
goes.

(LeVasiz starts playing a cover of coldplay's 'Don't panic')


Look! The judges weren't paying much attention to us.Our frequency and theirs weren't on the same channel.

We played the song ......and...It all when well...........untill ..............



A catastrophe happen !!!!!!!!!!!! It was Tragedy 4 December (not the real date)!
ARGHHH!!
What happen, this time around ?????




You'll find out after the brake........ (10 minute commercial)




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After 10 minutes of commercials.



And now , back to the story ........

And It was this ....SHITEEE!!!As leroy was about to sing the line '...we live in a beautiful world...'(a line from the song 'dont panic' ) some Poisonous gas exploded out from nowhere and exploded at the right side of the stage. It was someone's fart . No, worst. It was a FLASH BANG!#%$@!BOOM!! The world shook and the ground started moving .NOT. But the whole floor crumbled in a earthquake manner. The crowd were in such shock that they started running in a state of panic .Even the three judges were in immense in such fear that they quickly ran towards the exit. They ran with their tail tuck between their legs.HAHAHA. While thousands were inhaling poison, Levasiz continued playing and kept on reminding the world not to panic. Leroy's singing start getting blurry, Marvin started playing rubbish, Thomas started eating joel's drumsticks , Sharul started playing his chords correctly, and Joel prayed that he'll go to heaven.It was HELL.
OH MY GAUZE !

Look at the picture below..

This time the terrorist gang attack again . Instead of planting a C4 this time ,the terrorist threw a FLASHBANG(observe the left side of the picture) and a going-to-explode-bomb(the blue light) behind Marvin's feet.

Later on, the terrorist threw another bomb. This time he threw a grenade that exploded moments after the first bomb. The grenade which was the big one that took all of us out . We went out of the blue and into the black . It was a blank moment . We hit the ground hard and receive a number of severe injuries.It was exactly like the bomb explosion that happen in the last levasiz post. Levasiz went bursting into the skies !!!

BANG! We turned to dust

A supernova just happen.LeVasiz had a star wars moment .
It was LeVasiz vs The Dark Force

WHO COULD HAVE DONE SUCH A THING?

Could it be rival BANDits?
Or could it be Osama ?

Why must it always be Levasiz ? Can't they bomb the teriyaki boys or the backstreet boys instead?

Well, we've called the mystery machine, but Scooby Doo and friends came out with Jilo results. They weren't much of a help. Then we called FBI , CSI or whoever but they were still unable to identify the terrorist 'till today. Maybe, i should get Kira to write every terrorists name there is still living in this world. He has the death note to do that ,yeah ?



Lucky for us , we're still alive . We were told that we were saved by 5 botaks we never knew. That's what the tabloids say , anyway . We'll never know who or what or how or .....It's like a mystery that can never be solve. It was a qustion that involved two unknowns that were X & Y and it was a mystery that people could only answer definitely maybe.


Sadly, the story ends here . Maybe, they'll be a next time or maybe they won't. Let's just hope the waves would not get diffracted.As for the auditions levasiz will never know how good or bad they were. Too bad Simon can't showcase his sarcasm on levasiz. (laughs) The whole show when off after the attack and was never release in the media. The whole thing was kept under wraps.

As for the guys of LeVasiz , we wrote more than 10 songs after that . It was the bomb that made us write . Our world turned upside down and we began to bloom blaum. What a blast ?


Back to the real world where nothing is real, everyone's back to their normal life. It was a real fairytale. I guess I should stop here.
Like all fairytales, it ends with a '... and they live happily ever after.'
The End. Full stop.

This story is true if you believe in the tooth fairy and the boogeyman but fiction if you feed your head with reality.


LeVasiz-Give me real, don't give me fake

after 26 days into the new year, many strange and unexplainable things have been happening to us.

1. we're made to pay for our jamming sessions. reason being the whole of johor was flooded and we had to take a hired boat to joel's house
2. communications with our publicists in the US have been slowed down due to the taiwan earthquake which killed most of our internet connections
3. we could not afford buying new guitars this month as the prices of hardwood inflated. this due to our indon brothers flamethrowing at guitar wood
4. our gig at the singapore esplanade on the 20th of Jan was cancelled because singapore just kena tsunami.
5. our upcoming gig on valentine's day was postponed because some Romeo band got their way. (What's the point of having a Valentine's day not on Valentine's Day)

Red Tag situations. why do people

Natural disasters, you might call them.

lets look at things au natural.

Valentine's Day

• It is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other; sending Valentine's cards and candy, often anonymously.
• The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines" or roses between a Male and a Female
• Other symbols of affection, most commonly the Rose, are given to express a deep sense of love and is probably given as intent of wedding the other.

Whether you're a guy, waiting to pop the question to that girl you've been eyeing, or whether you're the girl, waiting for the guy to pop you the question, it all boils down to one thing, Valentine's Day can make or break a happy year ahead

The most natural disaster that could ever happen on Valentine's Day is not celebrating it with the one you love. Even more a natural disaster, or should i say an unnatural disaster would be not knowing on which side of the rose you're on.

this post was supposed to be published on jan 26, but the editors decided to draft it.

it was supposed to be much longer, but well,

looks like things weren't that disastrous after all

music and why we bother mini continuation

This picture is so high resoluted it took me more than a new year's resolution to decide to go to bed first.

anyways, other than printing certs, and using boss punya tuners, we also.......



acted macho and took wonderfully staged jungle pictures. (notice how small this world is, you never ever seem to be able to enjoy the alam semula jadi without being a few meters away from humanmade cars)

so we went to this place in the city where our professional photographer had booked a slot for us.

it looked really cool from the exterior, tall, metallic, a world attraction housing more than a million people at any one time.

that particular day, a general assembly for world zealots (GAWZ) was taking place.

our publicist thought it was a good idea for us to be there, then maybe we could (kena kena) catch the public eye a little bit. so we started our shoot at the japenese themed annex

and then we went up to the tip of the place, the observatory to see how things were with the world at our feet (and to see how big assed big shots down there will react to seeing a little bit more of our spitted/spat salivary amylase)
somehow, only shahrul felt that something was wrong. there he was busy making sure that he would send out that last messsage. but why the last message, we asked him..
so we overlooked shahrul's problems, and went on ahead with our photocatching with the DIGniteries.. this one is the owner of that building, the head of the foundation of the hairdressing zealots (f=Hz), his honorary Hz Mr. Eddie son of Loh pride of the punkBhs. (touch)


then we went outside to take more pictures, this one because we fascinated with the car

little did we know, something momentuous was going to happen to us. by chance, we did a cover of coldplay's Warning signs


this was some invited dudes singing and bringing the house to their feet right, they were right before us
our turn came...

we went up, introduced ourselves... and then brought the house down.. everyone was flabbergasted at our unique way of making music. we were actually playing guitars and banging on drums in their state of the art philharmonic ochestra grand hall..
how, punkbodohuesque

we were going so smoothly until suddenly,

the lights went off!

BOOM!!! BAM!!! BOOM !!!

A killion things went through our heads. We're being bombed!!


our lives flashed before our eyes...




we didn't want to have to go in here------------------------------->













so we thought and hoped and prayed that something would go right...

hoping that someone could solve the mystery of what was happening

in the background, the warning signs still played faintly (we were actually lip synching)

and then something struck our head.

something we never would have imagined in a billion gazillion years

someone whom we thought was so dear to us, whom we trusted and who held all our finances

the thought was scary, it made us cry a loud cry of ooohh aaahhs..

we were dumbstruck.

why did she do this to us?

did she really wanna see the end of us, or was she despoing to end the lives of these innocently guilty men of high pangkats..

what was she planning to do after we're all dead!

it is then, that we finally reminisced the scene of crime, it happened right in front of us.

she was caught red handed. and drawn with red lines

This Joke.

Best Before 31st Jan 2007

pop. the very next moment, we were awoken by the sound of the family. well, we were jamming there in the first place.

Music Makes Your Life Go Round, Keeps You Creative, Keeps You Happy, Forces You To Dream And Well, Rakes In Lots Of Money

Stop the bombing. stop the killing. stop the mercilessnesses. -Free Us From Pain-
www.fufp.blogspot.com

all depictions in this post are fictatious and are not meant in any way to harm those who coincidentally have the same names as the characters in the post

Just another day in the life of

LeVasiz

Music and why we bother

"Music is an art form that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is usually expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound"

music is not only something we hear, its something we marvel at. even tone defts, no matter how incapable they are at hearing or picking up tones actually do hear tones. those who don't hear, sign. one thing can be agreed, and its that we can't help but accept the fact that if we do not start appreciating music now, we're bound to be left out.

Music is fast emerging as, if not already the universal language.

LeVasiz's qualification as musicians.

1. Thomas literally started playing bass because we didn't see the need for a violinist
   
2. Shahrul decided to play the guitar because he wasn't any better at drums than Joel was


3. Joel played drums because we thought he sounded horrid when he played bass


4. Leroy decided to sing because he thought it'd dispel the rain (blame him for the floods)


5. Marvin played guitar because, well he didn't look like a pianist, nor was he suited to play brass


6. Nigel decided to be manager because we decided to make him manager


7. The place we jam is jammed alright. you can hardly squeeze anyone else with a 6"3 180kg monster "vinesh" already watering the place


8. the new jamming place is still quite a jam, conveniently located next to the jamban (malay for lavatory)
   
9. some of us have enrolled in music classes, but the furthest we've gotten is a grade 2 in piano, thats like equivalent to an A2 for English (or dare i say A1 in RAB size)


10. none of us do ARTS in school, which means we're more or less not cut out to go into a musically inclined course or take up an arts degree in music


11. our cheapest guitar costs us RM500, and our most expensive deserves a standing Ovation (ok, guitars are not exactly measures of music qualification, but heck)


12. we don't fork out a single cent for practices, and we don't plan to do so to be a successful band (good students get scholarships, we got Big ASS people waiting to notice us)


13. There are Thousands of better musicians out there whom we have great respect for, but there are millions of worser ones as well.


14. Shahrul still can't read Chords, and doesn't know how to hold a C chord


15. Leroy's only claim to fame is that he writes songs too high for him to sing (he can't do falsettos)


16. Marvin can't tune his guitar at the head because his guitar doesn't have a head


17. Thomas can't move on stage because he thinks he's moving when he's not (he provides the cure for Parkinson's disease)


18. Joel, oh he's good..
    

So, it can be said that music isn't exactly our forte, nor can we say we've done enough to prove to the world we're the next gonnabes.

Here's the catch, we've started working backwards, why start from the basics, when we can skip to the hard parts.


print damn cool ultra kick ass music theory certificates

we also use tuners to tune our guitars (duh) BOSS PUNYA!

But we still don't know which sides to put the guitar into. Input or Output

So this guitar pro guy named Brian said, "thats an acoustic guitar, there's no input and output. you just twang it and it will work". and we were like "ohhhhh..."

after making two stupid bloopers whom only beginner musicians make and who cheater musicians with good quality printers thrive at, we hopped back at the idea of going back to basics.

we'll write songs with simple chords, easy enough to play along, and ultra readable when we're reading it on paper. basic-basic chords will do, some open strings, maybe play at the 1st or 2nd fret, with only two or three fingers pressing.

it was smooth sailing, to be able to read chords like:

the C chord
and

the D chord

the songs were so easy to play, Shahrul could understand exactly what the chords were the moment we gave him the score.. until....

.......the ... D s u s 2 a d d 1 3 / F # chord

"the what what? de dust 2 add math 13 F###?" .he didn't have the benefit of looking at the picture like you do.

oh well. lesson learnt, learn music from young, don't give up halfway, and erm, aspiring guitaist, chords are actually the most basic thing you should learn.

LeVasiz

Good(whatever you wanna put in here)

Here's another post. Apparently, It's another song which is originally written and compose by one of us. The same old story ? No difference,huh?...........You're wrong.This time its written in a different kind of way with a rock-ier kind of music.It's not melancholic like our past 6 or 7 written songs . Well, It may sound a bit melancholy when you first read the title or read the lyrics or whatever shite you did to assume its a melancholic song , but when you lay your ears upon it, you'll change your perspective about it. or maybe not. Well, if i'm gonna put it, I'll say it's a total rock n roll song and it's a rock song with great melody. Or maybe it's just a soft rock song played in a faster beat. Haha...



Goodbye

Flowing through the waves, to where we are
Coming down at four , just like before
A drive that brought us here to where we are
A light that brought us near , like never before

Once your memories came out to play
You'll find it hard for what you cannot say


A feeling so strange that we had to change ( we got high)
A word that I wish , I hope , I 'll never say (say goodbye)
I wanted to stay all night but I had to go (it's time to fly)
Maybe someday we'll see each othe again, (so goodbye)


In a twisted logic world , you don't understand
Out of a million bands , one blew you away
Time and time again, you drove down the lane
You chose the otherside , as it sailed you away

Once your memories came out to play
You'll find it hard for what you cannot say


A feeling so strange that we had to change ( we got high)
A word that I wish , I hope , I 'll never say (say goodbye)
I wanted to stay all night but I had to go (it's time to fly)
Maybe someday we'll see each othe again, (so goodbye)

So goodbye....

(Here goes the mega guitar solo and guitar riffs and drumbeats with nano vocals till end the song)

The songs then ends with a goodbye to all the fans of levasiz

Goodbye.....



LeVasiz
20062007

Silver

just a few minutes at KimGary actually yielded some hasil. well, blame it on the horrfying shopping binges of irritating moms. thank the silver balls of light, it made way for this

Silver

i look into the open
the clever lines are broken
find silver lights, silver lights
it don't make it right

i've been livin of a platter
polished down and saw it silver
saw silver pains, silver pains
ah....

(there's this part where i didn't want to write yet)

chorus

If you ever feel like breakin'
And the truth you can't stop fakin'
put your hand right there, right by my hand,
i'll be right there at the end

she's so happy for a minute
then she says she couldn't cry
open doors mistake it
cupboards hide what's behind
hear silver bells, silver bells
it's yuletide in july

(chorus)

-then this crazy 6 piece string ensemble plays the verse melody,
and this is where you close your eyes and soak in the atmosphere-

when life pushes you aside
if you're second just be bold
push it high till you get it right
Silver's more than gold

coming in second doesn't make me sore, it just gives people a chance to see how much of a sore loser i am. oh well, FOA HERE WE COME


a few people deserve some sort of a mention for this song- the people who did it-the person who could not cry-the poor girl who was breakin'-pain-narnia-christmas-my irritable mom-and the big silver balls of KimGary (goz.. a picture would hve been great. coming soon)


LeVasiz

Tomorrow

Here, i am in a whole new year. Year 2007 and this is gonna be my first post of this year . Well, it's another song I guess. It took me quite awhile though to finish this song. I got slagged off mid way in writing it. Well, i got nothing to say about this song besides saying that I wrote this song with a cup of espresso beside me and a paper, a pencil, and my guitar while i was half-awake or half-asleep early in the morning. Anyway, it's a song and it's about moving forward and looking forwards. That's all i can say for now.
10, 9, 8,7 , 6, 5,4, 3,2,1 Happy New year


Tomorrow

Holding on with what you've got
try to break away with all your sorrows
Gotta move on , hide away your thoughts
Fly way today, slide away tomorrow

Now,all your days are covered in haze
You're facing trouble, oh you're on a struggle
Trap in a maze , did you lose your case?
You had a stumble, but there's still tomorrow.

Somethings have got out of control
and now you're losing out your soul
when....

You're on a road down the finish line
You'll feel fine once you've left it all behind
and everyday a shadow will show
It's time to run, So move on with tomorrow


Like a shadow of yourself
You can't run away from it, it's gonna follow
Saw you today , you said hello
when it was time to go, I'll see you tomorrow


Somethings have got out of control
All in all, It's all gonna fall..
When...


You're on a road down the finish line
You'll feel fine once you've left it all behind
and everyday a shadow will show
It's time to run, So move on with tomorrow






That's all folks. By the way, it has a nice symphony to go with it.


MJ
Le'Vasiz
January 2007