A Long Plane Ride...

Hello everyone...

i'm in Cebu right now and i just can't help feeling nostalgic about a gig here that Soft Pillow Kisses took part in almost 10 years ago...

actually, i was listening to mostly SPK songs while in flight and it was really a feel good thing... Stolen Flowers, Harsh Words, So-Called Friend, Bean Bag, Bathing In The Sun were just some of the songs in the mix... the last 4 was released here as a 5 song casette e.p. called "As You Whisper In My Ear"...

we were still purely indiepop then but nowadays, we've become noisier and a bit new wave-ish... still there's that "gentle-ness factor" in the newer songs that prevents these songs from straying away from what this band have been known for...

listening to newer songs such at The Louder You'll Know, Like Rainbows Do, Lying To Ourselves, Yet It's Been A While and On A Sunday made me ask myself questions like, did we progress? are we still up there with the best of them? did we hit a brick wall?

it's not that i'm not confident with these songs but i am really looking forward to write something far better than It Will Never Last Forever or Just Like The Sky or I Don't Know What To Say...

comparing SPK to my other band Candyaudioline who of which has just recently morphed into into something really mind boggling :)... SPK seems to be just coasting along familiar waters so to speak... maybe it has something to do with age i guess... compared to Candy, Pillow has always been a young band... most members don't last more than 2 or 3 years... with Candy there's Dennis and Arjay who's been with me since 2005 and 2006...

... the last 2 songs that i listened to while we were approaching Cebu was Losing Something and Yet It's Been A While... there's nothing really significant about it but listening to them on the way down made me feel so high... :)

That's that for now...