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Sameer and his midwestern love affair.

i can see angels around me.

About Me

hi, my name is sameer:and i am 18 and from singapore. im freshman at lubbock christian university with my major being music business. i am a total music nerd, and listen to wide stack with my favorites being punk, indie & shoegazer/post-rock. i have a weird accent thats a braid between american/british/australian, whatever the hell else you want to add in. i have gauged ears. my favorite movie of all time has to be garden state. its an amazing movie and highly suggest everyone to see it. i love coco-pebbles and i can majorly mess up my sleeping pattern no matter which side of the atlantic i am on. my favorite sport teams are the manchester united football club, and the atlanta braves. my favorite players are ole gunnar solskjaer, and chipper jones in their respective sports. i like chocolate and i love meeting new people. & apparently a comment whore.i listen to:+44, a new found glory, a static lullaby, a vacant affair, a.f.i., acceptance, ak1200, the album leaf, the american analog set, american football, amy millan, anathallo, anberlin, andrea hamitlon, andy c, angelas dish, angels & airwaves, the anniversary, the appleseed cast, architecture in helsinki, armor for sleep, as cities burn, ashlee simpson, at the drive-in, the ataris, athlete, the automatic, backstreet boys, bandwagon, basement jaxx, bayside, the beach boys, bear vs. shark, beastie boys, the beatles, beck, bee gees, belle & sebastian, benton falls, bicycle, blindside, blink-182, boy kill boy, boysnightout, braid, brand new, brandtson, broken social scene, buddhistson, camera obscura, cartel, cat power, charlie hall, chris tomlin, circa survive, the city on film, clap your hands and say yeah, cobra starship, coheed & cambria, coldplay, copeland, craig david, the crush, the cure, cursive, damien rice, daphne loves derby, dashboard confessional, david crowder band, days away, the dears, death cab for cutie, death from above 1979, decibully, decoder ring, deftones, delirious, denali, denison witmer, dido, the dismemberment plan, dntel, early day minders, the early november, edisonmusic, eight, eisley, the elected, eletrico, emery, eminem, envy, eric clapton, ester drang, evangel, everytime i die, explosions in the sky, fairweather, falling down hurts, fenix tx, ferns, fiftynine minutes, finch, five, flogging molly, fonzie, foo foo fighters, forgive durden, form, the format, frank sinatra, franz ferdinand, the fray, from first to last, frou frou, fugazi, funeral for a friend, furniture, further seems forever, gatsby’s american dream, the get up kids, girls in hawaii, glassjaw, the gloria record, godspeed you! Black emperor, goo goo dolls, the good life, gorbachev, green day, gwen stefani, heislegend, head automatica, the headlights, hellogoodbye, her space holiday, hey mercedes, hidden in plain view, hilary duff, hillsong, hillsong united, hit the lights, home grown, hopesfall, howie day, i can make a mess like nobody’s business, ida, imogen heap, incubus, iron & wine, jack’s mannequin, jaga jazzist, jamie cullum, jars of clay, the jealous sound, jenny lewis & the watson twins, jessica simpson, jets to brazil, jettie, jimmy eat world, joan of arc, john denver, john lennon, john mayor, jonezetta, joss stone, joy division, julian fane, Justin timberlake, keane, kenny g, kevin devine, the killers, kings of convinence, last days of april, lifehouse, limbeck, little compass, lo, london elektricity, the long winters, lorene drive, lovedrug, lyndsay diaries, madonna, mae, man alive, margo may, maritime, massive attack, mates of state, mem, men, women, & children, mew, mewithoutyou, michael buble, michael jackson, michelle branch, midlake, midtown, mineral, minus the bear, moby, mogwai, moneen, mono, monty are i, motion city soundtrack, the movielife, mum, muse, mutemath, mxpx, my american heart, my latest novel, my precious, my squared circle, myriad, n’sync, name taken, the network, neutral milk hotel, the new amsterdams, new london fire, no doubt, no use for a name, norah jones, northstar, nothing to declare, number one fan, the observatory, oceanlane, outkast, owen, page france, the pale pacific, paloalto, paramore, parkway drive, paul mccartney, pedro the lion, pelican, pension state, the perishers, pharrell williams, pistolita, plain white t’s. plainsunset, portugal.the man, the postal service, the promise ring, punchline, q & not u, radiohead, rainer maria, the receiving end of sirens, refused, reggie & the full effect, relient k, return to fall, reverie sound revue, rilo kiley, rival schools, rogue wave, rosie thomas, rufus wainwright, russian circles, russian futurists, rx bandits, s club 7, saturday looks good to me, savage garden, saves the day, saxon shore, say anything, scary kids scarying kids, sense field, shamejoannshame, sherwood, shiny toy guns, sia, sigur ros, silverchair, simple plan, sky in euphoria, sleep station, sleeping at last, smashing pumpkins, snow patrol, something corporate, sonic-edge band, sophie ellis-bextor, the sounds of animals fighting, the sounds, spill canvas, the spinto band, spitalfield, stars, the starting line, steel train, stereophonics, sting, straylight run, sufjan stevens, sugarcult, sullivan, sunny day real estate, supermarket hero, surreal, taking back sunday, telepopmusik, terminal, test your relflex, texas is the reason, thievery corporation, third eye blind, thirteen senses, this day & age, this providence, thrice, thursday, tristeza, tv on the radio, u2, umbrellas, underoath, unwed sailor, usher, valencia, vanilla sky, the velvet teen, vertical horizon, vertical rush, waking ashland, watashi wa, we are the fury, the weakerthans, the wedding, weezer, west grand boulevard, whence he came, the wreckers, xiu xiu, yellowcard, youngstown, youth group, zero 7, zolof the rock & roll destroyer.i like:good conversations, coffee, making out, apple computers, beer, buying records, chai tea, you, my ipod, snaping pictures, getting drunk, sweet potato, photography, girls with lip piercings, girls, high end fashion, sex, new music tuesday, indie/vintage fashion, areoplane rides, lomography, sweet popcorn, music, hot tubs, baybeats, chocolate covered cherries, coco-pebbles, artsy designer items, hot fudge poptarts, being lame, apple pie, potato salad, cheeries, pianos, the oc, to shop, choclate milk, bands, touring, bubble baths, records that between 10-12 tracks max, fisheye photography, meeting rad people, chicken rice, food that i can put in the microwave for a couple of minutes and instantly eat, i love lucy, the work of chris strong, the office, slow sex, food, chocolate, dark chocolate, milo dinosaur, choclate pudding, the movies, to be alone, football, baseball, gibson guitars, marshall amplifications, my super rad friends, the chili in the chicken rice, dogs, cherry coke.i dislike:loud heavy screaming music, sushi, war, racism, smells that are bad, egg, cats, discrimination, censorship, when my favorite band breaks up, three hour lectures, the image that the media put into peoples minds on how they are ment to look like, getting up early, long records with half of it being fillers, second hand cigarette smoke, humidity, hate, fish, when my computer breaks down and/or deletes information i am typing, how money really does influence people & goverments, people who walk slowly infront of me because they arent able remain in a constant speed and attend to other things they are doing, getting up early in the morning, the feeling you get after being tipsy for a good twenty minutes and the alcohol is subsiding, white chocolate, politics, fake people, when my favorite band becomes your favorite band, the mis-conception of "trl fashion emo" & real emo, people who cant think for themself, annoying songs that stuck in your head, "emo kids" who cut themself, exams, the lies the media feeds us, self centered people, when i read into things too much & in the process getting paranoid, egomaniacs, missing & losing friends.i believe:in god, human equality, human rights, treatment of animals, religion is based on faith, hope, & morals, the gap between rich and poor should be dimished as well as poverty, every person in this world should have access to water, food, medical care, and shelter. i am a supporter of the one campaign, and the invislble children campaign.i'm intrigued by:the concept of marketing and how it fools us without us noticing, post-mordernism, the universe (the planets, the start, the end), ufos and aliens, crime, the unknown.bands i've seen:59 minutes (singapore), action action (usa), andrea hamilton (usa), angela's dish (australia), august burns red (usa), bandwagon (japan), blueline medic (australia), brand new sunset (thailand), brandtson (usa), buddhiston (japan), copeland (usa), cesspit (singapore), chasing victory (usa), decibully (usa), deciple (usa), destroy the runner (usa), electrico (singapore), elesebelle tears (malaysia), emery (usa), everytime i die (usa), falling down hurts (usa), falling up (usa), flee the scene (usa), fonzie (portugal), from first to last (usa), furniture (malaysia), gorbachev (singapore), haste the day (usa), hawthorne heights (usa), he is legend (usa), headlights (usa), kenneth ishak (norway), kutless (usa), last days of april (sweden), lorene drive (usa), love me butch (malaysia), michael jackson (usa), monty are i (usa), morningwood (usa), my squared circle (singapore), pension state (singapore), plainsunset (singapore), plus one (usa), p.o.d. (usa), pug-jelly (singapore), red jumpsuit apparatus (usa), relient k (usa), return to fall (singapore), rivermaya (philipines), scary kids scarying kids (usa), sky in euphoria (singapore), the sleeping (usa), sommerset (nz), the sounds (sweden), stellar kart (usa), story of the year (usa), sullivan (usa), supermarket hero (australia), surreal (singapore), the gloria record (usa), the velvet teen (usa), vertical rush (singapore), whence he came (hk).links:
www.flickr.com/people/thecameraissameersweaponofchoice
www.iamwearingawire.livejournal.com
www.xanga.com/himynameissameer
www.last.fm/user/_all_star_me_
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My Interests

Music:

indie.post-rock.shoegazer.pop-punk.

Movies:

american history x, bowling for columbine, dude where's my car?, euro trip, garden state, kids, nacho libre, school of rock, the terminal, thank you for smoking.

Television:

bewitched, boston public, boy meets world, csi, everybody's loves raymond, the flintstones, fraiser, growning pains, i love lucy, the jetsons, laguna beach, life as we know it, mind your lanuage, mr. bean, the oc, the office.

Books:

animal farm, harry potter, farenheit 451, dude where's my country?, angels and demons, da vinci code.

My Blog

recommendation sunday (11/12/2006)

you listen to:scenes from a movie.pop-punk/rock.one big sparks/east westwww.myspace.com/scenesfromamovie two years ago, a band by the name of fall out boy took the main stream by storm with their majo...
Posted by sameer is great success! on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:59:00 PST

recommendation sunday (10/22/2006)

okay so its been ages since i did this because:a) i got lazy.b) no on really reads this.so anyways, this one for adam because he asked and because im bored in romans. here's some stuff i've been liste...
Posted by sameer is great success! on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:28:00 PST

the REAL OC!

im going to be in california doing an internship at this amazing record label. im so stoked. its going to be such an awesome experiance. im so excited. thats all.&hearts.ps. pick up that new nfg recor...
Posted by sameer is great success! on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:20:00 PST

recommendation sunday - the singapore edition. (8/6/06)

its sunday. and i decided to be consistant with my recommendations. in obidence of my time left in this country, i've decided to dedicate this edition to local bands who i think deserve your ears. so ...
Posted by sameer is great success! on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:42:00 PST

recommendation sunday (7/30/06)

hello lovers of the world. whats up? so here's my 2nd ever recommendation sunday (though in truth, its monday 5:44am here. but myspace doesnt have the concept of time difference. so here's a couple of...
Posted by sameer is great success! on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:45:00 PST

recommendation sunday (7/9/06).

ive decided to post a blog  once every some sunday just to tell everyone what i've been listening to and stuff. so its basically recommendations of things you should check out. so here's the firs...
Posted by sameer is great success! on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:54:00 PST

corporate espionage.

its scary to think how much the media, and major corporations play in our lives. it seems these days the media has bigger say on who we are, & who we want to be than we do on ourself. they find a prod...
Posted by sameer is great success! on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:58:00 PST

invisible children.

today was an amazing day. so there i was. after finding out i failed my physcology test sitting in the cafe, which i was very pissed off about, when jacob told me that two people from invisible childr...
Posted by sameer is great success! on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:55:00 PST

best of 2005.

Top Albums of 2005 20) Circa Survive - Jurtuna 19) The Spill Canvas - One Fell Swoop 18) Furniture - Twilight Chases The Sun 17) Stars - Set Yourself On Fire 16) Eisley - Room Noises 15) The Sta...
Posted by sameer is great success! on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:04:00 PST