the big news!

so a week ago when im just leaving the class i get a phone call fromt his ali...

Ali: Hello, i am ali from geo, am i talking to arafat?
me: (all excited but pretending to be all cool) uh yeah, how can i help you ali
Ali: yar my creative team just heard your song and loved it and we want to do your video as well as an episode which will be kind of like a day with the rising, i want to know what you ahd in mind when you wrote jhoot
me: blah blah...

:D

so the past four days have been one of the most tiring days of my life. the geo team had little time and a lot of shots...on one day we woke up for the shoot at 5 45 am and kept going around lahore for shots (for the day with the rising) than reaching at a law at 3 am (next day) totaly fucked up where they ask us to jam so they can record it and we give the most fucked up performance as well (wait, make it the second most fucked up now, haha (abhi batata hoon kyoon))...and we pack up at 6...kher kal was the performance video shoot..which was AMAZING...but we were so frigging tired...darmayan we took a khaney kee break and went and perfoemd at this very very gay crowd (except a few lovely people who i met) and we gave a pretty average performance withouta ny effect processor lol uskaye baad..to the shoot again where the director was pretty pissed cuz we were late..ab i wont go into the details of how the sset was and what we were doing..but i THINK..this might just well be a pretty nice video.

oh and also had a fight with faizan who thought we shouldnt have performed if we had a video shoot AND if the crowd was like what it was like...oh and other than that this girl aisha over here was singing in the soundchekc, she has a really nice voice, very pleasent

so any way we packed from the shoot at 4 am i think...slept for a couple of hours got back home and now writing this. more updates later.

Listening to Lifehouse - Everything.

you probably would not understand, if you did, it would be less special. ofcourse, every next story is special, no person is ordinary, every eye has a lot to it. moon is just illusioned that it knows a lot. the world is covered in secrets, the sound we hear is noise, the real story prefers to stay behind silence. sometimes it decides to reveal itself in the most beautiful of moments. rest is just noise, nothing else.

can you draw the line between what is real and what is just a fragment of your imagination? i sometimes dont. i am a strong beleiver in imagination and fantasies. there is this piece i made once, a long time ago when i entered this whole music thing, which i still love a lot. i think its the most 'imagination' based piece i have ever made, its available in bad mixed version in the link at the end if anyone of you want to hear, its called 'if wishes were horses', nothing too fancy, but definately very honest.

its time we stop mourning in black. you and me are. thats good enough, beautiful moments come and go, some stay with you forever, some define you, some break you and some make you. when you come across something so beautiful that it becomes eternal even if it goes 'away' on the surface, you are lucky. somethings are more beautiful because they are a bit 'away'. that there is a sky between you and your perfect world. your imagination.

because at the end of the day when you close your eyes, and use your imagination, like you did when you were a kid and wanted to visit disney land, you can go there, you can be 5 and play with your childhood friend who died, you can be 18 and tell your mom you always wanted to say you are sorry, you can go and rediscover yourself, join your other half waiting for you there and embrace your beautiful self.

stay safe friends.
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http://www.soundclick.com/closure (in music ->if wishes were horses if anyone is interested what i was going on about heh)

Listening to Tori Amos - 1000 Oceans

Yes, buhut dair karkaye update kaya hai blog but i have something big to tell...BIG BIG :D...but not yet, just give me a few days and i will let all you lovely people know :)

other than that been listening to a lot of tori amos and trying to arrange some stuff here and there for other tracks...its really hard these days to find the peace of mind to start working on the other tracks we have.

i wish i could rob a bank and start recording the album because i am excited already, even if its at least 8, 9 months away...i am just excited because i have high hopes from myself and the rest of the band...i already spend so much time setting the sound in my mind. the closure influence is going to be there, definately but in a more subtle way i guess.

no one has given me any audio clips yet...:/...i need them man..i have this instrumental almost ready just need some clips.

so what else, yeah a few days to go before we hit the studio again for the next song.

why has everyone forgetten about rushk? and the brilliant album...the sound was so fresh and there was definately so much originality lyricaly and musicaly in their stuff...they should have a website waisey...many people havent even heard their album which is sad.

am i the only one who thinks tori amos' latest album is REALLY poor in comparison to her previous stuff...i mean absolutely speaking it still kicks ass but i had so much more expectations, its just not tori amos in sound..i guess she has entered a new phase in her life after her marriage...a more happier phase maybe? and maybe she needs more time to find brilliance in that dept heh.

but jo bhi hai..tori amos tori amos hai...if i had to name one artist who had the most influence on me as a musiciain, not particularly musica'ly' tu it would be tori amos. her whole personality and how she dealt with things that happened to her as a woman is inspiriational.

song recommendation, tori amos - me and a gun, if this doesnt grab you by your balls tu phir i dont know what will.

tata for now...the weathers getting pretty cold so make sure you people tkae care of yourself.

oh and yes, the whole 8th concert incident we are so frigging over that :)...to be honest it has made us all in a very 'lets just kick everyone's ass' mood.

yeah so the deal is

that we have been cut off from the concert at the last minute.

opiate's bass guitarist, hamza ilyas, co organizer calls me up says, its a matter of his 'ana' (pride, ego) that he cant let us perform if opiate isnt performing. i talked for ages telling him there ar epeople coming to see us, we have the word around and he says it isnt his issue, jahanzaib should have let them perform as well and now no one will.

i dont know if this is a wrong move http://www.entertherising.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1054#1054 but i really didnt feel like giving a bullshit cover up like i was told to do so.

lets play politics!

Listening to Godspeed you black emperor - providence

i hate it.

i absolutely hate the way things run.

its a fucking charity concert for fucks sake have some fucking soul!

and i am becoming such a hypocrite too...yay a round of applause for me too...here is to a new, improved and shining arfu. :)

and if anyone has any audio clips of mourning people from the earthquake or any audio which kind of translates what happened at the time of the incident or the aftermath, please let me know.

bye you better, purer people :)

great recording!

we had a show recording with CNBC today...the inernational channel who are expadning themselves in pakistan mid november...they recorded us jamming on jhoot, gardish (karavvan), aitebar (vital signs), and a blues instrumental (in which we improvized like hell and went amazing) but at the end they told us they are going to play the studio version of jhoot behind clips of us jamming. wtf lol but still was great...they asked some questions at the end about how upcoming bands and underground bands had no social acceptance...i was trying to hint them that we are not an underground band lol but what the hell :D

it went great, faizan had a fucked up throat but after drinking tons of alaichee mixed water mixed honey and what not he was amazing on vocals.

i am dead tired and really really down with flue, whole body aching, just thought i update everyone.

thanks for the good luck comments in the last post :)

bye!

bad timing, bad timing

me sohail and faizan have a really bad throat, cold and fever.

me and sohail kee kher hai but NOT faizan...why?

cuz we have a god dam interview on a really BIG upcoming channel TOMORROW and faizan will have to sing jhoot on the acoustic and right now he sounds like atif aslam :/

he is drinking all sort of weird things to get it right, and we are hoping on a miracle :/ kher dekho :D

other than that we have no place to jamhahah we have no prep for 8th :D and we are really nervous!

more tomorrow, i have to catch some sleep

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