Chester & Mike

Hit The Deck & Bode Broad Art Shows

Mike će postpisivati skateboarde za Hit The Deck, originalnu izložbu čije su umjetnine radili umjetnici diljem svijeta koristeći ploče za skateboarde kao osnovu.
Hit The Deck će se održavati od 13. do. 15. veljače u Resort Hotelu u Las Vegasu. Dio prinosa od prodaje Mikeovih skateboarda će ići za školarinu koledžu koji je i on pohađao.Više na Bode Broad

pošto dugo, zapravo nikad nisam stavila na blog nešto što me opisuje, eto prilike. Prošle godine u jesen sam napisala pjemu (jednad od mojih hobija) pa sam je odlučila staviti na blog....

Sacrifice

I always look so strong
fight for my rights
my believes
Fight for people I love
'Cause daylight doesn't let me
to give up
and I can sacrifice myself for them
I love everybody I know or don't
and try to help
But when night falls down I lose
myself.

Sacrifice is painfull
and in every sense we go so far
we pull ourself right
on the side we want to
it's not important is it, good or bad,
you just need to do that.

I'm dreaming about
things I can't have
I realize: That things are impossible
And every thing I do, with every step
I take somebody must get hurt
I think of that
And many things make me
feel so sad
we have to choose
between the things we love
between man I love and my dreams
like people around me

only thing people do is fight
beat one another
and thats really awful
when I go to sleep,
I always think about that
so long
I make pictures of future in
my head
I understand I can't do anything
to change destiny
don't want to let them destroy
their lifes
I know, believe me,
how is to feel faithless
betrayed, and lost inside.

I have realy big hole in my soul
Something inside breaks
my heart like glass and killing
me slowly
dies
my and is coming, and I'm not
afraid, I'm not afraid die
for love....

Mike je dao novi pregled o albumu "Rising Tied" (FM).
Cijeli pregled je ovdje

Novi intervju s Mikeom



došli su linkovi video clipova Mikeovog novog albuma. Pogledati ga možete u osam odvojenih clipova ovdje ili downloadirati windows format ovdje i ovdje., pa uživajte....

Happy Birthday, Rob!!!!

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Evo, vidim da me ljudi nisu zaboravili.......weeee....
eto, pronašla sam nešto zanimljivo na LPTimes. To su Mikeovi i Chesterovi citati....prevela sam ih, ali su zanimljiviji ovako na engleskom.

MIKE:



Writing songs and sharing them with people is a very rewarding experience...I can't think of anything more gratifying as seeing people from different backgrounds come together to enjoy music. Thanks.

We are renaming the band to Blink-Nsync 182.

We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs.....some of us like to go sightseeing.

When I was little I was a brat.

Mr. Hahn is god.

A lot has been made of the contrast between me and Chester because we are totally different in a lot of ways. He's crazy for a start off. I'm sane. He used to run around at the age of two singing Foreigner songs. I certainly didn't. He'll show you his butt. I wouldn't inflict that on anybody. We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music. Our guitarist is a huge Britney Spears fan.

Thank you, Brad. Brad is so kind. He's here for my moral support. Without Brad I think I'd be pretty bummed out on tour, because he's the only one who gives me any moral support. Everyone else makes fun of me -especially Mr. Hahn!
Mike: I'm not a very reading person, I like to look at pictures.
Chester: Mike likes porno.
Mike:I don't like porno. I like graphics...

Mike: The best thing I'd ever done is when my brother went to oversea and I came back home as a Christmas present.
Chester: In a box.
Mike: Yes, in a box.

Mike: Some kid told someone else they can get banned for calling us assholes.
Anna: Mike, you're an asshole.

Phoenix: Chester likes to grab his package like Michael Jackson.
Mike: I didn't know Chester had a package?
Joe: Yeah its somewhere down there.

MTV: Let's talk about your success. You've sold over a million records...
Mike: We've sold a million records?
Chester: We did?
MTV: Have you?
Mike: Whoa!"

Mike: We're not like other bands you know. We actually visit our website and care about our internet fans. We visit as many fansites as possible.
Joe: Yes and I like to send threatening emails to people.
Phoenix: No you don't.
Joe: Yes I do! Shh, it's supposed to be a secret!
Chester: Oh man...I think I disconnected or something.
Interviewer: What type of machine are you using?
Chester: It's called a computer."

So how important has the Internet been in your development.
MIKE: Well, www.linkinparkporn.com has been a very important part of our lives....

Mike: We're famous?
Chester: Are you sure?
Phoenix: Sub-famous!
Mike: That's craptacular!

Mike: Hey, Joe!
Joe: What?
Mike: Go away!

CHESTER:



When Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington sings lines like "a scene I kept locked away/ No one can ever see the wounds so deep that they never show", obviously about the time he was sexually molested as a kid, does he still get upset? "They affect me a lot," he told Christie Eliezer of Australia's Beat magazine. "You want the original emotion that inspired the song to come across. I had wondered how we'd do 'Breaking The Habit' onstage because each time I did that song, I'd get very emotional. I can't break down and cry onstage, it's not going to work. Eventually I had to take control of those emotions."

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I think about ketchup, because I know that the truth is that its just sitting there in a bottle, by itself. Im pretty sure its real. Sometimes when I'm ketchup, I think about sitting alone, in a bottle. Standing next to the mustard all day.

I tried never to listen to what people were saying about us- either good or bad. I never wanted to sit down before a show and read about how many copies we had sold that day, or how many rotations our video was getting on MTV. That was all way too distracting for me.

My hand doesn't matter, you can cut it off for all I care. As long as my voice works. If I lost all feeling from my neck down, if you could string me up and I could sing, I'd be there doing the shows. The fans come first and the shows come first too and that's all that matters to us. We really don't care about anything else except for the music and the kids.

What I enjoy most about being in the band is having the opportunity to create and perform music with amazing musicians who have also become closest of friends. I would like to thank all who support us and make all of this possible.

I was an ambivalent kid. I floated around, coasted through. I have two sisters and a brother and we're all half sisters and brothers from my parents' first marriages. It's interesting because none of us look alike. We have blonde hair, red hair, brown hair and we come in all shapes and sizes. We were a real good family until my parents split when I was 11. It really traumatized me only I didn't realize that until way after. By the time I was 14, I was into heavy drugs. At the same time, I discovered I wanted to be a musician.

I don't come from a musical family, it's just something I've always been interested in. I started singing for fun, I just went around the house trying to mimic my favorite band. I always dreamt about being the fifth member of Depeche Mode. I dreamt that they flew their plane out to my grade school, picked me up and took me on tour with them.

I've always been a good student and a person who grasps new things easily so homework was pointless because I understood it already. So I failed classes but they couldn't throw me out because my tests were perfect. The teachers actually hated me.

I got on the bus and went straight to Arizona State University. I never enrolled because I couldn't afford it but since classes were held with 200-500 people in there - except for advanced philosophy, where there were 10 people - I got away with it. I think the philosophy guy knew, but he turned a blind eye because he enjoyed my presence.

(on Samantha) I'm a pain in the ass and she's perfect.

I've signed enough boobies in my life to be done with boobies... to sign, I mean.

The best thing I'd ever done to my parents was learning to use the toilet.

You live, you die... and somewhere in between you'll have children.

Oh, my God. I hate spiders. Squish! Kill! Die! Eww!

I don't think you should ever be ashamed or afraid of who you are, or anything that's happened to you. Life is good, man. You can either feel like a victim all the time, or you can get off your ass and do what you want to do.

People who see me perform have one view. The thing I am on stage is all the elements that I don't like about myself. I'm angry, aggressive, and surly and I wouldn't give a second thought about spitting in your face on stage, but in the real world I wouldn't even dream of that. If I don't get an applause then I'm crushed.

I love to hear the crowd sing along. I get the biggest hard-on from that. Of course, it means I have an erection for a whole hour every night. (talking to Phoenix) I hit your bass with my dick last night. I still got the bruise.

I chew my fingernails a lot, I think that's my little nervous habit. That's one of my ways to relieve stress. If you see me chew my nails, I'm probably nervous about something.

Everyone died at 4:20 man!

I'm a fashion bitch!

Family values means to us that Mike can wear a dress on the bus and we'll still love him!!

There's a Lincoln Park in every city in America. There's no real meaning behind our name. We just changed the spelling so that we could afford to buy the web domain name.
Q: "First question is, how did you get the name Linkin Park?"
A: "Are you kidding me?" (laughs) "Shove it up your ass"

Chester: Brad has stinky feet! It smells like a skunk died in both his shoes!
Mike: Yeah Chester likes to smell people's shoes.
Chester: My shoes smell spiffy! Wanna sniff?

MTV: Yes. Two frontmen, it's not something that's common.
Chester: I think one of the ideas behind it is, in my opinion, bands up to this point that have tried to mix different styles, especially in hip-hop and rock and stuff, there's either a guy who can rap but isn't a very good singer, or it's the opposite: He's a good singer but not necessary that talented as a rapper. Our idea was basically not to even worry about that. We have a really good rapper.
Mike: And we have a very good singer. From my point of view, the thing we saw in Chester right away was he's someone that's been singing his whole life, and I'm somebody that's been rapping my entire life, so it just seemed natural. We've spent a lot of time working on what we do.
Chester: And for some reason we like each other.
Mike: He likes me a lot, and I can't stand him.
Chester: Oh. I guess not, then

Chester: I don't even get on the Internet any more, I don't mess around with computers.
Mike: I'm the opposite. Rob and I are both really, really bad.
Chester: I'm sending him to Computers Anonymous!

Chester: We're sooo boy bandish, aren't we? I think it's because of my strikingly good looks.
Mike: I think it's because of your strikingly bad looks.
Chester: I totally disagree. I think I'm the most important person...ever.
Mike: I think Chester's full of himself and I think that's really hot!
Chester: Yeah sometimes at night you're full of me too.

MTV: Let's talk about your success. You've sold over a million records...
Mike: We've sold a million records?
Chester: We did?
MTV: Have you?
Mike: Whoa!"

Mike: Chester, why do you have to wear all those spikes? You're gonna poke someone's eyes out. That's all he does is pull that thing up because it's always slipping down his wrist.
Chester: (starts punching Mike in the arm) It's art! It's f***ing art!

Interviewer: Who has the worst habits in the band?
Chester: I would say that I'm probably the most annoying. There's a reason for it.
Mike: NO!
Brad: C'mon Chester!
Chester: I'm always touching them in their privates!
Brad: Yeah, Chester the molester!

Chester: Oh man...I think I disconnected or something.
Interviewer: What type of machine are you using?
Chester: It's called a computer.

Ovaj video clip prikazuje da nisu svi savršeni.:-) Chester je prošle godine nastupio na Metal Skool Show, i pjesma koju ovdje izvodi Rainbow In The Dark, a čini se da nije znao riječi cijele pjesme....mislim da će vam se svidjeti, barem ćete se dobro nasmijati....clip je baš fora...
Chester from Linkin Park Surprises Metal School on Stage!

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eto, s ponosom mogu reći sve je vraćeno i sada je upravo onako kako treba biti. Ljudi iz LPTimesa su zamijetili da imaju jako jako veliku i krivu osobu i maknuli su je. Šalim se. Još se ne zna što se zbilja dogodilo i kako se kriva osoba našla na krivom mjestu, ali LPTimes je ponovno LPTimes...
I opet, Thanx LP Association Forum (osobito Dereku koji je dojavio da ljudi imaju grešku na site-u.!!)

OBAVIJEST.
Za posjetitelje LPTimesa.

Danas je Linkin Park zamijenio neki glumac na "NJIHOVOJ VLASTITOJ STRANICI", ne znam kako se zove, ali uglavnom, on se naslikao na stranici LP-a, a njih tamo više nema. Bila sam na LPAssociation Forumu i pitala sam ih što se događa, pa sam dobila odgovor da je Derek poslao Jas-u e-mail hoće li stranica ostati takva (ovakva) i što će zapravo biti sa stranicom LPTimes. Uglavnom, kada saznam više javim vam.

Chester Charles Bennington



Rođen je 20. 03. 1976. godine u Phoenixu (Arizona), gdje je pohađao osnovnu i srednju školu. Na zidu jedne škole je napravio grafit "Chester '93." tako da ga nikada ne zaborave.
Roditelji su mu se rastali kada je imao jedanaest godina. Poslije rastave je živio s ocem. Nedugo nakon rastave se počeo drogirati te je poslije nekog vremena prešao na teške droge. Za to razdoblje svog života kaže: "Ne znam jesam li pokušavao pobjeći od stvarnosti, jednostavno mi se svidio taj osjećaj dok si drogiran. Ali, danas se osjećam kao grafitna olovka kojoj si sastrugao nekoliko slojeva."



Droga nije bila njegov jedini problem. Očev najbolji prijatelj ga je jako dugo zlostavljao. Bio je policajac, no nije imao kontrolu nad njim: "Moj otac je snažna ličnost, poludio bi svaki put kada bi vidio da plačem...tada me nazivao djevojčicom, što me jako boljelo." Kada mu je majka, po zanimanju medicinska sestra, došla u posjet zgrozila se je. Imao je 17 godina i samo 50 kg. Rekla mu je da izgleda kao da je došao iz Auschwitza. Tada je shvatio da je vrijeme da se sam pobrine za sebe. Počeo se ozbiljno baviti glazbom, te je zasvirao u bendu Grey Daze. Preko dana je radio u Burger King-u, a noću je svirao. Pisao je lyricse za Grey Daze i jednog dana je odlučio otići iz benda. Bilo mu je dosta da radi najveći dio posla u bendu.



U Linkin Park, tada zvan Hybrid Theory je došao na prilično glup (zanimljiv) način - poluaudicijom. Na njegov 23. rođendan ga je nazvao šef diskografske kuće iz LA-a i rekao da ga neki bend želi čuti. Snimio je nekoliko demo snimaka i poslao ih. Nakon nekoliko dana ga je nazvao Mike i rekao: "Ako si u stvarnosti upola toliko cool kao na snimkama, imaš posao." I tako, došao on u Linkin Park:-). Sa Samanthom se oženio na Noć Vještica, te s njom osnovao obitelj.



Samantha mu je rodila sina, koji je dobio ime po liku iz filma "Vrana", Draven.



Nakon deset godina sretnog braka, on i Samantha su se odlučili rastati. Razlozi su nepoznati, izjavili su samo da su se rastali zbog nepremostivih razlika. Dosta dugo je trajala borba oko Dravena, a Chester je izgubio sav novac koji je imao. Dugo mu je trebalo da se vrati na noge, to je bilo veoma teško razdoblje za njega. No, onda se pojavila Talinda Bentley, koja je ubrzo postala njegova supruga.



Dobio je još dva sina, jedan je Talindin, a drugi naravno, najmlađi član obitelji Bennington, Tyron Lee.



Chester je pun tattoo-a. Do prije nekih par godina ih je imao dvanaest, a sada sam prestala brojati. Mislim da ih sada ima oko 16. Najnovija je ruža iznad koje su inicijali njega i Talinde. Prvi instrument koji je svirao bio je klavir, a još zna svirati i gitaru. Ima starijeg brata (13 godina starijeg brata). Imao je nekoliko najboljih prijatelja od kojih su dva umrla. Jedan je poginuo vozeći se na skateboardu, a drugi je umro od raka. Nedavno je kao i Mike ostvario svoj side projekt Bucket Of Venies i snimio solo album "Snow White Tan", skinula sam na internetu nekoliko pjesama s njegovog albuma, dosta su dobre.



Prije nego što je operirao oči, bio je jako kratkovidan, a pošto se morao razbacivati po stageu nije mogao nositi naočale. Jednom prilikom je pao s pozornice i razbio se, što je njgovim obožavateljima bilo cool. Glasovne sposobnosti su mu jako jako velike. Na LPTV njihov producent (tadašnji) Don Gilmore kaže da je nešto čudesno u njegovom glasu. Kada pjeva agresivno u njegovom glasu, kao da se nalaze dva ili tri različita glasa. Što još reći? Ništa osim da samo tako nastavi...:-)

(LPTimes)


Dodatak:

Našla sam Mikeovu sliku dok je bio beba....guci buci...jako, jako slatka beba...:-)




slike koje su šire od pozadine bloga (ulaze u boxeve) pa ih cijele možete vidjeti ako kliknete na njih ili ako ih spremite.

baš sam maloprije prevodila članak iz Kerrang magazina, intervju u kojem Phoenix i Chester otkrivaju svašta o novom albumu i tu su se našla dva tri citata koja je rekao Chester. Malo su me bacila u razmišljanje, jer ovdje ima stvari koje je vjerojatno mala količina ljudi znala o njegovom životu zadnje dvije tri godine, pa sam ih evo stavila ovdje, mislim da će vam se svidjeti...

NA KOJI NAČIN STE PISALI TEKSTOVE ZA NOVI ALBUM?
Chester: "Pjesme su o iskustvima koja smo prošli. Sada smo stariji i zreliji i u ovih nekoliko godina smo prošli kroz mnoge promjene.

KOJE PROMJENE?
Chester: "U posljednjih nekoliko godina sam se razveo, oženio i imam još jedno dijete. Izgubio sam sav novac na rastavi i nastojao sam se vratiti na noge. To je ono: jedan dan si oženjen, drugi nisi. Jedan da si bogat, drugi nisi. Sada sam sretan, ali povremeno sam se osjećao kao da se gušim, mučim i lomim na dijelove."

JE LI BILO IZLJEČUJUĆE IZNIJETI TE OSJEĆAJE KROZ TEKSTOVE PJESAMA NA ALBUMU?
Chester: "Bilo je teško. Bio sam u stanju pisati o svim svojim iskustvima koje sam prošao. Zanimljiva razlika između mene i Mike-a je ta da Mike piše poetične tekstove. Njegovi radovi su prekrasni. Pisali smo odvojeno, pa smo onda zajedno počeli mijenjati neke stvari. Tu je više ranjivosti i melodičnosti u načinu na kojem sada pjevam."

PRODALI STE 37 MILIJUNA PRIMJERAKA ALBUMA DILJEM SVIJETA, OSJEĆATE LI VELIKI PRITISAK S S OVIM NOVIM ALBUMOM?
Chester: Ako ovaj album bude prodan samo u milijun ili dva milijuna primjeraka, to će biti golem neuspjeh. Mi zbilja nećemo biti sretni ako se to dogodi. Ja bih bio jako uzrujan, jer sam unio puno ponosa u to što smo radili. Znam da i sotatak benda misli tako, mislim da to ljudi ne kuže. (citat: People just don't fucking get it.) Ali ne bih nagađao o tome što smo napravili. Ljudi će razumjeti da je to zbilja sjajan album. Možda će im trebati vremena da ga "progutaju". Jednostavno smo pokušali napraviti najbolju glazbu koju možemo napraviti."
eto, cijeli članak je preveden na LP& FM

Chesterova očekivanja od novog albuma

Chester očekuje da će se novi album prodati u više od 2 milijuna primjeraka, u protivnom će značiti veliki neuspjeh. Meteora, njihov posljednji album snimljen 2003. godine je prodan u više od 3,5 milijuna primjeraka. Album je očekivan zadnje 3 godine i Chester je uvjeren da će se dokazati kao na prošlom albumu. Kaže: Ako se album proda u samo milijun ili dva milijuna primjeraka, biti će to veliki neuspjeh. Stvarno ćemo biti nesretni ako se to dogodi. A ja ću biti jako uzrujan jer sam uložio jako puno ponosa u to što smo učinili.
Bernardino Sun je istražio nova postignuća u 2007. i album se očekuje u kasnije proljeće 2007. A BarterBee.com ih je uvrstio na svoju listu potencijalnih najprodavanijih albuma u 2007. godini.

ova fotka je s Camp Freddy novogodišnjeg koncerta...čini se da su se Chazy i Talinda dobro zabavili. Linkove za ostale slike imate na LPTimes...

Chesterova biografija slijedi najvjerojatnije sutra jer ima jako puno materijala....

Mike

Rođen je u Agouri, 11. 02. 1977. Njegov otac Kanji je Japanac, dok je majka Kim Ruskinja(koliko znam, negdje sam čitala da je majka Argentinka). No Mike ima i brata, koji se zove Jason. Kada je Mike bio u pubertetu, njegova ljubav za glazbom je bila jako vidljiva. Zajedno sa Bradom Delsonom (gitaristom LP-a) je pisao i snimao pjesme kod kuće. Prvi instrument mu je bio klavir, dok je kasnije tijekom sviranja i snimanja naučio svirati gitaru, te je bio vokal rap izvedbi. Pri kraju srednje škole, Rob Bourdon (bubnjar LP-a) se pridružio njihovoj glazbenoj avanturi i njih trojica su se formirali u bend Xero.



Poslije srednje škole, Mike se upisao na Art Center College of Design, studij grafičkog dizajna. Na studiju je upoznao Josepha Hahna, pa su se Hahn (D. J. LP-a) i Bradov prijatelj sa studija, David Farrell (basist LP-a)pridružili bendu Xero. Mike si je osigurao posao nakon diplome, gdje bi radio u struci (grafički dizajner). No, to je bio samo prioritet u zadnjim godinama studija, kada je u bend (tada već Hybrid Theory) došao vokal Chester Bennington (frontmen LP-a). Poslali su EP na koji su snimili samo 6 pjesama, i potpisali ugovor s Warner Brothers Records. Samo je postojala jedna sitnica: morali su promijeniti ime benda jer je već postojao bend pod imenom Hybrid. Prema dogovoru dečki iz benda ime je postalo: Linkin Park.



Prvi album je bio Hybrid Theory (2000.), za koji je Mike nacrtao naslovnu stranu (Hybrid Theory Soldier), te su zahvaljujući tom albumu postali najpopularnija nu-metal grupa.



Od početka je Mike bio umiješan u sve tehničke stvari oko stvaranja svih albuma. Sve sitnice bile su pod njegovim nadzorom, a nakon Hybrid Theory producirao je cd Reanimation (2002.), na kojem su se nalazili remixevi svih pjesama sa prvog albuma. Na njemu su sudjelovale mnoge zvijezde koje su slale demo snimke pjesama od kojih je Mike izabrao najbolje. U Meteori (2003.), njihovom trećem albumu, nastupao je ne samo kao vokal, već kao i gitarist. Iduće godine dobio je čast da sam stvori album za MTV. Naravno, radi se o suradnji sa Linkin Parka s Jay Z-em s kojim su dečki snimili vokale za Collision Course (2004.), te stvorili album koji sadržava 6 pjesama. Za Numb-Encore su dobili Grammy.



2005. je ostvario svoj side projekt, u kojem je radio na glazbi koja mu je najdraža: hip hop. Osnovao je side projekt Fort Minor, te snimio album The Rising Tied, te je producirao sve Linkin Park Undergroun CD-e.



Samo je maleni problem što jako slabo vidi; nosi leće. I oženjen je. Supruga mu se zove Anna Shinoda, nekoć Lovejoy. Vjenčali su se 10. 05. 2003. i sudeći prema njima, jako jako su sretni:-)



Sve što se može naći u Linkin Parku i Fort Minoru, Mikeova je zasluga. Čovjek svira sve instrumente, pjeva na sve moguće načine, repa na svaki mogući tempo, slika naslovnice albuma, nedavno je imao izložbu svojih radova...nema sumnje, čovjek je jako talentiran. Kaj ćete, jedan je jedini Mike Shinoda.



Iako mi baš nije drago kad me drugi ispravljaju, imala sam dosta grešaka u postu, jer su podaci preuzeti s neke stranice bili pogrešni. Pa je došla Papercut 9 i napisala mi kaj je bilo krivo. Bilo mi je malo žao da sam radila tolike i ti jako glupe greške, pa zato hvala Papercut na pomoći.

Hello!!!
pošto je Nova godina tu, odlučila sam otvoriti novi blog. O Mikeu i Chesteru. Ispočetka sam mislila za svakog posebno, ali nema ništa bolje nego kad su njih dvojica zajedno. Sada za početak sam ga samo napravila a materijale moram napisati na komp jer su na papirima, pa ću ih staviti ovih dana. Pa Uživajte!!