You Are Loved - And Love Is A Four Letter Word

What's the punishment for abandoning your blog for ... 13 months???

Jason, please forgive me. You know I still love you to bits!

Speaking of which, in 27 days time I'll have another date with Jason in Kuala Lumpur! YEAY! So, in between my last post in April 2011 and now, I have actually been to a concert by our man Mraz!

YEAY! *ra ra ra ra ra ! *

Flew to Manila last October to attend his You Are Loved concert, featuring the one and only Toca Rivera at Araneta Coliseum.

Madness and more mad love!

And to atone I bought the bestest ticket I can afford, right at the front of the stage, First Row baby! Though not quite centre, some people beat me to that and yepp, I procrastinated a few days.

Nothing but the best for JM.


Four Letter Word included  :)))

Won't You Please?

I'll be braver when you save me.

Credit : glsnrgn

Heart to Ground.

I absolutely *LOVE* this performance!

Credit : shewhodaydreams (thanks, S!)

"Face to palm

Tear to tear

And mouth to tongue

Heart to ground

Heart, heart well heart to ground

Say, I am in love.."

Watching this video of Jason from 2001, it crossed my mind that if I had known him that well then I would have sold a kidney to see him perform every night at Java Joe's.

I mean, we can live on one kidney, so ... :P

Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours! Omnia vincit amor.

I Don't Know Just What I'm Here For.

Not that happy these past few days :(

Wish you were here to make me high.

Credit : nahemwe.

Well I don't know just what I'm here for
I want more than words can describe
I've been deprived
Can you believe it

My whole world well its fallin' apart
well it falls, still it falls, well it falls apart around me

And you pick me back up, oh said you pickin' back up
oh you gonna pick me back up and you get a' me high
Said at you pick me back up, oh said you pickin' back up
oh you gonna pick me back up and you get a' me high

Cuz' I'm drinkin' all of the tears you cry
And I don't wish, to know my ending, mmmmm'
I just say I wanna know when I begun
I wanna know when I begun
I wanna know where it started from
where it all had started from

Because I feel like I am spinning,
I feel like I'm spinning
Well I feel just like I'm spinning I'm spinning around
oh oh oh oh
said I feel like I am spinning
all around this summer
and the winter comes and another storm
it falls, well it falls, said it falls apart around me

And you pick me back up, oh said you pickin' back up
oh you gonna pick me back up and you get a' me high
Oh my, my, my
Said you pick me back up, oh said you pick me back up
oh you gonna pick me back up and you get a' me high
Said I'm drinkin all of the tears you cry
breathing every breath that you sigh

I am
I'm breathing all of the tears that you cry, that you cry
all the tears that you cry, every breath that you sigh

There's No Shame In Being Crazy

This is - one of the many moments I am sure - what I missed in Brasil :

Credit : brunohostil

Love his black tee and new hat!

"Don't mind my nerve

You can call if fiction

But I like being submerged

In your contradictions..."

This Boy.

I want to be in Brasil, where you are.

Love Love Love from Hope and J

Are you in love love love?

There's Hope.

Source : atlanticvideos on youtube.

Thanks to Nad for sharing this :) His voice is so soothing and calming, no? Breezy summery song that's perfect for when - yes - you're in lurve :) Jason writes so happy now that he has TP. And we pray Holmes is somewhere warm and sunny too.

It also helps to comfort my heart and fill what seems like a little 'void' in the J part of my brain.

My Magnificent Obsession :)

She Said Yes. To The Man.

This just in.

Here I am waking up from a short nap on Christmas Eve.

And along comes Twitter news from Jason that :-

SHE SAID YES.

Woooooooooohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! I would LOVE to know how he proposed to Tristan! At the same time I got teary-eyed because Jason will be a taken man and so not available; boohoo!

Anyway, truthfully I am very happy that J and T are finally getting their happy ending after all these years.

Congratulations you two!

Jason - I love love love you still!

Later On..(later on!)

It's Christmas next weekend!!

*happy dance jiggity jig*

So, of course, my favourite thing to listen to will be our man's rendition of Winter Wonderland which I am sure all of you know and can never get enough of at this time of year.

Credit : megan732

Love his woolly hat and gloves here.

Let's all get warm and cuddly with J, as we dream and conspire by the fire :)

I'm In The Mood for This Dude.

This song should have 480, 259,678 views on Youtube and counting.

I alone probably contributed to 10,000 views so far, haha.

Beat that Gaga, eh I mean Bieber.

But then again, not everyone is crazy about Jason. Yupp, I was reminded of that once.

He's only for those who get it. Get it?

Heh :) JM - for the lovers, the dreamers ... and me.

There's No Love For Me No More.

'This is the anti-love song. It requires a lot of love to sing it'

So said the man.

Somehow this song fits perfectly in my playlist for balmy, grey rainy afternoons.

Credit : msy2e

"She's a warrior"

Can I just say that apart from the Ootmarsum Garden Party, there are pretty awesome videos of Jason performing live on the Korean EBS?

Simple, from the heart performance. AWESOME. Is there a better word?

Just Jason and Toca; I think if I were in the audience, it would be one of those died-and-gone-to-Mraz-heaven moments.

When next in KL, J?

Weird J.

What do you make of this haunting song from J?

I think it's one of the weirdest yet. Is it about God? Death? Suicide? Darkness? Helplessness?

Even the lyrics are very dark.

Credit : Sowhatt on Youtube.

Who I am, we're told to toil at mouth
Now louder answer the firmest fist and kisses
Ask me again
How gameshow season never ends
The same old reason I won't win
Suspended in this animation
I could use a new vacation
Aimlessly the nameless and the faceless go to make up
Tell me I'm not spending too much time on happy endings
And my life does not rely on how much love you might be lending me
Above there's so much I'm depending on, remembering more instead
You send me door to door to have the family cat attack the strangers
back by popular demand, stand as you were
Before you saw your parting gift in stores
You poured your empty heart in it but finished what you started
When you practiced and rehearsed
To find that God before He finds first
In dirty words and poison dreams
like girls who flirt while boys are teens
You're only asking for one thing
It's never only make believe to me
Tell me I'm not spending too much time on happy endings
And my life does not rely on how much love you might be lending me
Above there's so much I'm depending on,

remembering more instead of war with me, myself and I;
I'm headed for the stranger in the sky
Resort in Paradise
Now louder answer the wish and kiss bids goodbye

Time For All The Wrong Reasons?

I am feeling so sleepy today.

And guess what song from Jason that I am drawn to? Yupp, Sleep All Day.

Found this from Youtube, thanks to AnaCostaCtx. Apparently taken from his album, A Jason Mraz Demonstration.

I am so used to the faster version this one sounds oh-so-mellow and Sunday-morning like. Love!

'...and they knew it was time, time to take a chance here
time to compromise our little lives for just a little while...'

You know, if I ever see Jason from afar I think I'll shout out to him, 'Hey love!'

That would be so AMrazing, no?

Come Drift Away With Me

Apart from Ootmarsum, another favourite 'series' on Youtube is from one darrenshimizu, who has put up videos of Jason performing live at MIX 106.5 FM. (San Francisco? I am not sure)

Thank you Darren, wherever you are. These videos are lovely and priceless. They help me to stay sane in times of severe bouts of Mraziositis.

Every time I listen to Jason perform live and acoustic, I drift away to Mrazlalalaland.

Yes. It exists :)

I listen to every layer, grit, patch, pitch, dulation in his voice, singing those beautifully written words, and wonder - where have you been all my life? And his expressions - every wrinkle crinkle scrunch of his face - reinforces the words even more and tugs the cockles of the heart.

Like someone wrote, his talent is an embarrassment of riches. A voice like no other.

"I remember everything you sang..."

When you're finally out of words - may that day never come.

Happy Monday morning and Happy November!

Mraz is Love,

A xoxo

More Words Than I've Ever Heard

Having a case of Mraziositis and thus am entertaining myself with the man's Ootmarsum performances.

Real men wear pink. And look good :)

Credit to : Ottowanabe.

I think I have never mentioned it before, but this is one song that can make me feel happy and sad at the same time. Melancholy.

Oh, maybe it's more accurate to say it makes me feel ... wabi-sabi?

"Well I'm almost almost finally out of words"

Can't Go For That ?

I think Jason should sing this more often.

He sounds out of breath a bit, but hey, he sings from the soul :) And I can almost imagine the way he crinkles his face and purses his lips...

Hall and Oates would be proud.

Credit : iChoosetoBeHappy on Youtube.

Love you, J!

Back.Still.Lucky.Glee.

Whoa!

No, don't write me off yet.

I'm still here :)

Still Mrazing. Still Mrazed. Just like the rest of you, I hope!

Anyway, the other night I caught a snippet of E! News showing an peek of a Glee Episode, where there's this new guy (exchange student?) was singing Lucky with Quinn? (*they sounded okay I guess. Not bad, not great either)

Mraz is Glee-fied now, which is a Good Thing, no?

But of course, there is no way anyone can sound better than the man himself :)

There is No Other.

Visions, But Only Illusions.

Mellowing with Mraz on a lazy Tuesday afternoon.

I'd LOVE to see him perform in such an intimate setting like this in Ootmarsum.

Some day we'll find it, the rainbow connection,

The lovers, the dreamers, and me.

Credit : BloEmpJe

Tell Me What Else Is Magic For?

He makes my day.

XOXO

J in G

It is very very seldom (read : next to never) that Jason gets any column inches in our local newspaper.

I think I forgot to post this, so much for being his No. 1 fan :), but better late than never. This article was around the time he went to Ghana, so that's like... in June?

My cool dude, always awesome :)

p.s. Don't you just love that he posts quite frequently now? And I was 1st commenter for a few times. Okay I know I know there are no awards for that but just let me gloat for a bit ya?