Underworld

No, no... It's not Karl Hyde and gang.

It's the new Kate Beckinsdale movie where she acts as a vampire warrior and decks out totally in leather. Wooo ....
Recently, I've been noticing that I've been talking a lot about leather.... Hmmm, thk I need to see my shrink soon.

See her ass *hehheh* (I kill myself totally) in leather here and here

My Daredevil Review

Here's my 2-cents worth of comments after reading a few of my frens' comments on the show.

Well, first of all, it's a fan-boy, geek movie, that's for certain. It adheres pretty strictly with the comic with a slight change to the origin where Matt Murdock was blinded as a young boy when a truck containing, what else, radioactive waste overturned and spilled onto his eyes while he was saving an old man from being knocked down by the very same truck. Yeah, I know, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles copied that. Secondly, he was taunted as a kid when he was young and given the nickname, "Daredevil". Hence, that's where the moniker came from. Anyway, I've always thought of Daredevil as a poor man's Spiderman with the origin of Batman thrown in.

As for the plot, as what my friend, Kelvin said, it's rather convoluted in a way. But hey, it's a superhero movie. What did you expect? However, I thought it was definitely different from the other superhero movies in the treatment of the villians in the end. They didn't friggin' die !! Amazing!!! Alright, okay, Magneto walked away unscathed and so did Lex Luthor in the Christopher Reeves series. But hey, look at what happened to the Joker and Green Goblin. Well, Bullseye did kill Elektra in the comics. However, she was resuurected due to her immense popularity with the pre-pubescent crowd. So expect her to return in the sequel (yes, it's already in the works) as well. But hey, this time, Jennifer Garner will be decked out in red leather (yup, just like Ben Affleck) with a red bandana to boot. So, for you guys out there, with a fetish for red leather and bandana, get ready to cream in 2 years time. Overall, I'd say it was pretty decent but nothing that pumps up the blood, except for the concluding 20 minutes which got pretty intense. However, the soundtrack sucked goats' balls with waaaayyyy too many "alternative-rock", "nu-metal" tunes hogging the background.

Personally, I thought Ben Affleck did a great job as both Matt Murdock and Daredevil. He had both looks pat down so in a way, I disagreed with Roy's review. You don't have to be superbuff to be a superhero. Look at Micheal Keaton. He just looked psycho, though not as much as Jack Nicholson did. But seriously, who will dress up in tights to fight crime unless they have some serious issues. The costume was great. Couldn't find fault with it, unlike Spiderman's rectangular webbing on the body. The leather and sculpted muscles ala Batman was a nice touch and it kept to the original design, in fact, enhancing the original design. Affleck is known to do some good acting, once in a while. Being a major fan of Daredevil himself, he definitely put in major work into this. You can tell his passion for the material in the movie.

I'm not a fan of Jennifer Gardner and I don't watch Alias (most of the time) as well. Though she can have her moments of immense beauty, she looks like a simian to me the bulk of the time. I've to fight the urge of jumping on her and picking at her hair to pick for fleas and munch 'em. Nah,she has lovely hair. I give her that. Though I guess when she was cast, it wasn't expected much of her to act anything beyond what she does on the small screen. Well, not that it was that much of a stretch for her anyway. Well, at first, I thought Jessica Alba might be a better choice (she's hot and not as expensive as Gardner) but well, she looked fierce in her role and doesn't suck. So, that's alright.

What can I say about Micheal Clarke Duncan? Find me a white dude with the very same imposing demeanor and that bloody voice.... Though the Kingpin was supposed to be a white dude. What more can I say? I was sold when they casted him back in June last year!!!

Colin Farrell has the shit-hot potential of Ewan McGregor and Bencio Del Toro combined!!! The fucker has been putting amazing works for his last few shows. Seriously, if Tom Cruise wasn't given his obligatory screen time in "Minority Report", Farrell would have stolen the whole friggin' show. Loved his portrayal of Bullseye which, in the comics, was an utterly campy supervillian to me. In the movie, he manages to balance the right amount of camp and utter menace in his performance which was obviously over-the-top in a good way. One film I'm looking for to catch, besides all the superhero movies (inclusive of the Matrix sequels, what men in tight leather and trenchcoats not superhero enough for you?) will be his "Phone Booth". It sounds like a movie with a Hitchcockian premise. Fuckin' interesting cuz the whole bloody movie takes place in, well, a phone booth. However, it might suck just because Joel Schmacher is directing it. I'm keeping my mind open for this.

Oh my gawd!!! Not again!!!

Just visited AICNews. Saw the trailer for 'Ghosts of the Abyss', thought the worst scenario was it could be a sequel to James Cameron's 'The Abyss' or something like that.

But NOOOOO !!!! It's way far scarier... it's about a group of scientists and filmmakers going back to the bottom of the ocean to a ship where "1500 lives were lost". Nonononono.... not the Titanic again!!!

see the trailer ... it's gonna be a turd for sure!!!

It's gonna be a turd, i swear

Watching the Grammys

Man, seriously, I've never heard any of Avril Lavigne's songs b4 tonight. I'd thought I'd never liked them... and what the hell!! I was right. But woo....check out those pucky lips of hers. I've coulda crooned her the Peppers' song that my band (no, no, not Spooning With Satan aka the Ass People From Uranus, the other one) is covering.

'Baby, your mouth/ was meant to suck my ..."

Yeah, where was I? The Grammys, ah yes...
A self-congratulatory, masturbatory event indeed. And I couldn't believe I sat through the whole thing though I missed Faith Hill's performance. Damn ...
However, to me, the highlights were the supergroup formed by Bruce Springsteen (with his long-standing guitarist, Nils Lorgen?), Elvis Costello, Dave Grohl and the bassist from No Doubt did a cover of "London Calling" as a tribute to Joe Strummer, the fallen frontman of the Clash (kinda overdone if u ask me but it was a lovely gesture, nonetheless) and Eminem performing "Lose Yourself" with the Roots (!!!). The Roots were amazing as usual as my 1st introduction to them was Jay-Z's MTV Unplugged set. A real hip-hop band that plays everything themselves with a hard hitting groove. Kinda reminded me of those Motown/Stax session musicians in the 60's and 70's. Always on the money...

1st jamming session in 2 months

Since Yeeyong came back from Australia, we haven't hit the jamming studios once. It was great to have all the "memberssss ..." back on the same spot of land for the weekend with Andy flying all over the place nowadays ...

As what Yeeyong was telling me on the train back home, he expected today's session will totally suck goat's balls which was what my fear was as well. Surprisingly, it turned out pretty good. Well, maybe if ur expectations are low, if things turned out well, it's a bonus!!! heheheh.... We did Red Hot Chili Peppers' ' Suck My Kiss' which needed more tweaking to be tighter but I guess... hope we are getting there... soon !!!!

Felt great.... that's all I can say!

My ass feels like it's been manhandled by a 10-foot pole

Just sent Sujin and Kavan off on Sat. It's pretty sad to see people who you hang ard with leave but those fuckers better be back soon!! hehehe ...

Well, after that, me, Alvin and Melvin went down for their Hall 6 Night Cycling event. It was pretty alright til the CBD area where it's still a pretty interesting experience. However, from Fort road til the ending point, East Coast Park, it was a total killer. My ass died on the way there and my thighs felt stiffer than Saddam Hussein on Viagra (apparently, he takes them to screw his mistress, according to my friend). What the fuck did I get myself into? I dunno!!! Whose fault was it, besides Melvin who couldn't resist the charms of the hall queen who invited him ... SLUT !!! Fuckin' Sujin's of cuz!!! The fucker told me and Alvin that it'd be fun with all the people who up-ped the lorry, banging away on the water cans and tablas, singing and acting if it was Glastonbury or something. Bastard, it was as somber as a funeral and we didn't know any people there...

With that all said, the hall queen did have a nice rump of which the 3 of us enjoyed a very nice view by cycling behind her most of the time. Heheheh.....

Meeting up with old friends

Heheh, so far, "jar-gar-ing" the stall was pretty fun.
Been bumping into a couple of old frens here and there.
Met Brandon who went for his interview.
So was Felicia whom I haven't seen for half a year or so ...
Ezza Benjie, an ex-JC schoolmate happened to work ard the area, walked by the stall.
It's great to catch up with him after 4 years of not seeing him..

Bumped into Sanjay today while he was doing a roadshow for Citibank.
Being the slack fucks we are, you can imagine the amount of smokes we had ... at a corner .. of cuz!!!

Growing some balls

Yes, that's what I'm trying to do nowadays...
was out with my usual kopi kakis last night and came upon this epiphany.
" I need to grow some balls ", instead of being the shy, pathetic fuck I am ...
sigh ...

any fertiliser to spare?

Selling pinhole spy cams

As Andy, a fren of mine has left the country to visit his gf in Melbourne for Valentine's Day, his partner, Edward was short-handed. Since I'm free with nothing better to do, I went to help him out at his stall at Raffles Place, Change Alley. Heheh, it's pretty funny, I must say and actually met a local couple who is based in Khazastan!!! Amazing... din get to ask them what it was like. However, the impression I got from them wasn't that rosy. Apparently, a 30 cents lightbulb can even get stolen from their lamp at the front door!! Anyway, I'd be there until this Friday. If any of you guys out there have nothing better to do, you can come and visit me... I need the company. btw, I sold a GRAND TOTAL of 3 today !!!! yeah .. pretty weak, i know.

btw, Amelia, my fren who works nearby dropped by today, told me something interesting...
b4 I continue, a typical Amelia (aka Hamtaro in certain social circles) ancedote: When she came by, I actually started selling the spycams. In her usual fashion, she started claiming credit for it all, saying how her presence perked up the sales. Ahem, exskew mi hor, I thk, it's called the lunch crowd. But thanks for the burger anyway!!! heheh...

Alright, this is what she told me:
Someone went out with someone last Sat for coffee at Spinelli's. And apparently, he was "stiff" and "looked rather awkward". Awwww .... hehehehe .... isn't he such a shy boy? Come here, lemme pinch your cheeks ...

U.S. Senator Robert Byrd's Speech upon the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, February 12, 2003

by CommonDreams.Org read about it here

The following are some excerpts which I thought were pretty interesting.

Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences

by US Senator Robert Byrd

Senate Floor Speech - Wednesday, February 12, 2003

"This nation is about to embark upon the first test of a revolutionary doctrine applied in an extraordinary way at an unfortunate time. The doctrine of preemption -- the idea that the United States or any other nation can legitimately attack a nation that is not imminently threatening but may be threatening in the future -- is a radical new twist on the traditional idea of self defense. It appears to be in contravention of international law and the UN Charter. And it is being tested at a time of world-wide terrorism, making many countries around the globe wonder if they will soon be on our hit list. High level Administration figures recently refused to take nuclear weapons off of the table when discussing a possible attack against Iraq. What could be more destabilizing and unwise than this type of uncertainty, particularly in a world where globalism has tied the vital economic and security interests of many nations so closely together? There are huge cracks emerging in our time-honored alliances, and U.S. intentions are suddenly subject to damaging worldwide speculation. Anti-Americanism based on mistrust, misinformation, suspicion, and alarming rhetoric from U.S. leaders is fracturing the once solid alliance against global terrorism which existed after September 11."

"In that scant two years, this (Bush) Administration has squandered a large projected surplus of some $5.6 trillion over the next decade and taken us to projected deficits as far as the eye can see."

"In foreign policy, this Administration has failed to find Osama bin Laden. In fact, just yesterday we heard from him again marshaling his forces and urging them to kill. This Administration has split traditional alliances, possibly crippling, for all time, International order-keeping entities like the United Nations and NATO. This Administration has called into question the traditional worldwide perception of the United States as well-intentioned, peacekeeper. This Administration has turned the patient art of diplomacy into threats, labeling, and name calling of the sort that reflects quite poorly on the intelligence and sensitivity of our leaders, and which will have consequences for years to come."

My fave:

"Calling heads of state pygmies, labeling whole countries as evil, denigrating powerful European allies as irrelevant -- these types of crude insensitivities can do our great nation no good. We may have massive military might, but we cannot fight a global war on terrorism alone."


One of the better anti-war articles out there.
At least, it states out the internal problems so rife within the world's remaining superpower.

Jason's blog

Ha!! Another of my drinking kakis has a blog out there...
well.... this is Jason Siau, in case ppl out there get confused .. since Jason is such a common name.

Jason's blog

Here's Sujin's again.

Uncle Tom's Fish Shop

Hehehe, I learnt how to make links in HTML; must milk it for all it's worth!!!

John Lennon has done it once or twice; Mick Jagger did it a couple of times; David Bowie had done way too many times...

All musicians have a burning desire to be actors....?
well, today I was helping out Billy's Bitch (aka his gf, but that's what I call her anyway), Grace, (nah, she's a nice girl lah) with her Final Year Project.
Both of them are from Nanyang Technological University in the faculty of Communication Studies.I played the role of a busker in her Chinese comedy short film. It was pretty fun with all the Beta camera and the small TV monitor ... and the boom mike. This is what I learned today:

1. I can't act for shit .... well, when I told Billyabout this, my slutbitchwhore from way back has this to say: "I warned my gf about this... (fucker!!!) but you are too self conscious." See !!! I ain't lying when I told you bitches that I'm shy !!!! So, I hope Grace wasn't pissed with my total lack of ability but I was getting the hang of it towards the end of the shooting. Well, it was fun !!!

2. I'm really getting old. Can't run around the whole day without feeling totally shacked out anymore.

But... heheheh, the lead actress ( very pretty girl ) who was present on the shoot complimented me on my guitar playing though the whole intonation was totally shot!! Hurhur, of cuz, I was. as usual, treading the line of hypocritical humility and sheer embarrassment. However, needless to say, my ego was stoked the whole day. Dammit, I knew I should have worked harder on my "More Than Words" when I started learning how to play....

Do You Spoon With Satan?

Spooning With Satan was formed when Alvin "eh... memberssss ..." Anathan and lim peh aka me were drinking kopi at S-11. We were wondering how come no one has ever thought of combining death metal and country together. That'd make a lethal combination. As what Ah-neh aka Alvin A. has aptly described our sound, "It's simple lah. Slayer-meets-Dolly Parton". Well, we decided to call the "memberssss ..." in. Sujin heard about it when he came back from Oz in Nov; he took to it like a Russian to vodka.

The Band

George, our latest "memberssss....". He supposed to play the 'death harmonica', whatever that is supposed to be.

Melvin, Alvin's room mate volunteered to play the spoon. Y'see, Melvin who is classically trained in drums, percussions and vibraphone. As you can tell, he has a passion for skinning the drum and vibrating objects. Ah... what more could you ask for someone to join your band?

Billy, my good fren from my secondary school days. Yup, we go a long way back. He was supposed to play something ... but I've no friggin' idea what ... or is he here to ensure SWS can capture the gay market age group from 16 to 25? That could be it ... Hmmmmm..

Sujin, guitar whore extraordinaire. He knows like everything from how to identify the year of production from looking at the headstock. What a slut!!! You gotta love him. He handles all the metal stuff in the band, all those palm muting lah, squeal harmonics lah, etc.

Willy, me... I play the guitar and make up all those pseudo-country licks. I thk I've a cowboy hat lying ard somewhere in my bedroom. Yeeee-ha ...

Alvin, No. 1 slut .. of ALL TIME !!!! He's supposed to do all the Malmsteen stuff and provide the comic relief. As for now, he looks like a Rastafarian who's escaped from Jamaica to this overpopulated isle to look for a bigger bong....


Discography

I thk we are supposed to have some songs ....
Hmmm .... but we are too busy currently with the press kit, preening for the photographer to do any real work.
Though we are practising very hard at Kopitiam or some other, well, kopitiam, with our right hands on our Tiger beer mugs, we managed to eke out an incomplete song, "Ballad of Sally Yoshino", which will be our 1st single backed by the b-side, Iron Maiden's "Number of The Beast". But then that seems too much work lah.


News

Unfortunately, both "memberssss....." Alvin and Sujin are Christians/Catholics... something along that line. So, if their mums ever hear their sons are playing in a group called "Spooning With Satan", the two of them will shift the demographic in the homeless population in S'pore. So, officially, now we are known as The Ass People From Uranus. Hmmm.. after this name change, perhaps we can convince Sujin's dad to play accordian for us. Rawk siah, Uncle Thomas!!!


FAQ

We get this question all the time: "Where's the drummer?"
We have only one thing to say: "Fuck you and fuck your drummer!!!"
Drummers are overrated and we don't want any Spinal Tap problems like spontaneous combusting drummers or shit like that. So we are using a drum machine, simple as that !!!

Most likely, one of us will ask one of our Malay barbers to sit in as the bassist. Malay barbers... they ALL are veterans of the music scene. dun believe me? The next time, you cut your hair, ask him about which band was better: Rainbow or Dio?

just went to Suijn's blog ...
hahaha ... the bugger is trying to convince me to get the Les Paul Custom ... on his blog page !!!!
hurhur ... i dunno lah...
i must admit .. i'm fuckin tempted man ...

'Catch Me If You Can' review

'Catch Me If You Can' was pretty good .. all-round well acting with high speculations that Christopher Walken might walk away with an Oscar for his role as Leonard DiCaprio's dad in the show. Well, if you ask me, he's way too cool for shit like that .... fer fuck's sake, he was the archangel, Gabriel in the Fallen/God's Army. He's evil man .. evil, i swear ... but of cuz, in a gd way lah ... In the exact way, I avoided 'Gangs Of New York' cuz I believe, still do, that Leo. DiCaprio is way too boyish to act as an Irish immigrant ruffian. But he totally slays in the movie, capturing your attention and acting out fully the character's age within the show, ranging from 13 to his early 30's. Well, personally, Amy Adams was a stunner as the ditzy, God-fearing nurse with braces, Brenda. Totally vulnerable and wide-eyed .... Tom Hanks, well, given his standard and back catalogue of work, turns in his high level of performance and doesn't disappointed. While it isn't exactly a comedy or thriller which the movie was being marketed as, it's really a dramatic movie, albeit with a strong sense of nostalgia, harking back to the good ol' 60's about a young boy finding his place in the world.

well, i guess i'm gonna review the new CD which i bought a few days back.
'Stevie Wonder - the Definitive Collection'. wooo hooo ...

just saw the trailer of "the Hunted" starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro...
looks pretty interesting and all...
i guess 2 heavyweight actors. might be gd stuff.

http://www.huntedmovie.com/home.html

well, today, Yeeyong came my place.
was supposed to practice some songs for the next time we go jamming and all that ....
which looks kinda bleak nowadays .. as everyone is so busy with their lives and all...
hard to even meet up.

was reading in Guitar World funnies:
94% of all bands break up due to the inability to co-ordinate jamming and practice sessions ...
that's shite man ...

but he came up with some gd stuff ...
we'd see how it goes from here ...

http://www.toneknobber.blogspot.com/

well, that's the link to Sujin's blog ...
have fun there...
Heheh... decided to make a link to his page since my name was mentioned several times in it .. hurhur ...

Anyway, it's Feb 14th.. Valentine's Day... or otherwise known as in geekland, the release of 'Daredevil' in the States...
man, I'm waiting to catch that flick!!! But as for now, I'd be watching 'Catch Me If You Can' with Sujin and Kavan and a bunch of their friends...

just finished watching 'Son of Godzilla' on Channel 8 ...
was bored and there was nothing to do...
I was never really that into Godzilla as a kid but it seemed pretty fun to do at 1230am ... Anyway, the movie was about miniature-sized buildings being crushed by a man in a rubber suit... but in this particular one, it happened to be 3 guys in rubber suits ... The main nemesis is this dude, Space Godzilla which actually grew from a cell stem (the PAP should look into hits as a source of revenue) of Godzilla that was hurtled into space, being bombarded by cosmic rays and all that shit. It became this bad-ass muthafucka... and destroying everything on its way back on Earth ... only to be stopped by, no prizes given if you guess it right, Godzilla ... God, I love these movies ....

Moral of the story:
I'd hate to be one of those folks who stays in Toyko if those shit in all those Godzilla and Ultraman shows. Imagine the amount of screaming and running I'd to do .. way too tiring .. Secondly, the only person that can save your city's ass is another dude who is as big as the one that is thrashing it. The downside? While that dude who is trying to save you, he gets karate-chopped and thrown into buildings. He probably causes as much as , if not more, damage as the space monster. As your condo goes up in smoke, you'd be crying..."Fuck!!! There goes my $10,000 B&O hi-fi set..."