Preacher
Vertigo Comics' 'Preacher' is going to be adapted as an one-hour HBO TV series. Read more about it here.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Life Without Dreams
Fuzz, Eswandy and Daniel Lim's band. It's pretty much a side project for all of them. They have this song 'Magnhild' for download on the right. I call it "Fuzz's chee hong song". He sings on it, wearing his David Sylvian influences proud. But you could disturb him and tell him right in his face that the song sounds like Starsailor!
Check out their MySpace page for more tunes.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Straight guys who love music by gay guys...
Last night at the final Bar None Monday Session (as in really, the end. No more.), Bryan "Man of wise words" Goh, Billy "I don't get shit" Tan and I were talking.
Billy had an idea to set up a new blog for music reviews. However, the twist would be we'd only cover music by gay men. And he'd ask Seng "President of the Anti-Blogging Movement" Woeiyuan to contribute as well.
Seriously, I was skeptical lah. I mean, how many good gay artistes are they out there? Billy mentioned we can cover Scissor Sisters, George Michael and Pet Shop Boys. Well, it piqued my interest but I was still slightly unconvinced. Then I remembered and mentioned, "Hey, we can cover REM, Rufus Wainwright and Judas fucken Priest!!!" Yes, singer Robert Halford is gay. 'Breaking the law', indeed!
This is going to be good. So we are all just waiting for Billy to start the blog which is "Straight guys who love music by gay guys...".
In other news, I, the President of the Anti-non-DJ Association", have been invited by Sujin to be a non-DJ at Coccolatte on Friday 8 December 2006. So I think I should go in as the moniker DJ Straight-hearts-Gay and press play on the tracks by my favourite gay artistes. I wonder if I should play some Kylie?
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Friday, November 24, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Lied - Sexyback
Adlin of Lied told me last week that they were playing for an all-boy's school prom. And they were going to cover Justin Timberlake's 'Sexyback'
Here you are. Download it ASAP!!! I love these guys! Good friends but like what Morrissey said before, "You hate it when your friends do it better than you..." I wanted to cover this song but is beaten to it by Lied. Looks like I've to bring out Beyonce's 'Crazy In Love'.
And the Lied boys would be coming down next January to perform. Of course, I requested that they play this and I do the Timberland parts. Heh.
Confession Of Pain
The synopsis:
In a city of love and prosperity, a city of lost hope and premature death, veteran detective Hei (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) feels it all: the hurt, the helplessness, the horror. When his father-in-law, the billionaire benefactor Chau, is gruesomely murdered in his palatial mansion, he enlists the assistance of his former partner turned private detective, Bong (Takeshi Kaneshiro).
On the surface, the murder smacks of a vendetta that has taken a lifetime to fulfill. But no sooner has Bong agreed to crack the case with Hei than he realizes nothing is what it appears to be. Undoubtedly, they are after a monster in a perfect crime: every detail was meticulously orchestrated, every motive conveniently justifiable, and every culprit and potential witness mysteriously eliminated.
But Bong has his own demon to fight. Ever since the suicide of his pregnant girlfriend, he has lost his joie de vivre, even though he still retains the finest instincts of a man hunter. As he digs deeper and deeper into the case, all evidence seems to point to Chau’s daughter and Hei’s hysterical wife, Susan. But then the killer ups the ante by murdering Susan as well. Bong starts grappling with the suspicion that the man they hunt is someone very close to them, someone on the verge of a total breakdown.
Like lost souls in a city of fallen angels, the cop, the private detective, and the killer are doing what they must. Every step of their journey takes them closer and closer to one another, until a shocking denouement in which no stone is left unturned and no one can escape unscathed.
Repeat, this is not a date movie. If anything, it's prolly a chick or dick flick, depending on the group you watch it with. I mean, are you sure you wanna bring a girl to watch a movie where she spends the next 90 minutes drooling over the 2 male leads while you are trying to make out with her in the cinemas? I guess not.
The trailer is here. The movie opens on 28 December and the official site is here. Just don't read the official Mandarin synopsis. It practically gives away the ending.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Cardenales - Mientras Duermes
A Spanish/Portugeuse/some-foreign-language cover of My Bloody Valentine's 'When You Sleep'. The comments are hilarious...
Seafood at Gelang Patah
Serene and Jay-S
Went to have a great seafood dinner with Jay-S (the gangsta rapper formerly known as Jason Siau), his biatch Serene and Maggie to this small Johorean village near the 2nd Link. We've got played out by Billy in the end. It wasn't cheap though. RM55 each but I, for one, was pretty happy that we made all crusteans a little bit more endangered...
Can't wait for a 2nd round...
Monday, November 20, 2006
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
Her Ass Is Righteous
After Weiyuan and Yeeyong mentioned to me that I’ve not run the 'Her Hair Is Righteous' thing for some time. So here we are.
Reon Kadena.
According to Wikipedia,
Reon Kadena (かでなれおん Kadena Reon?), also known as Kadena Leon or Minamo Kusano, (born February 19, 1986) is a Japanese model and actress. Kadena is a female Japanese idol who is distinguished by her innocent appearance and large breasts.
Earlier in her career she did nude photoshoots, but since becoming more famous she no longer does nude photoshoots or videos. Her current videos and photobooks largely feature her in costumes, bikinis or lingerie.
But I’m sure many of you guys out there are very familiar with her body of work, (Haha, I kill myself…) especially my good friend whose name is very similar to mine. Just that his starts with a ‘B’.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Hmm...
Everyone loves MySpace. Well, almost, lah.
So as some of you guys might know. I oversee like 3 bloody accounts, Aging Youth’s, The Lard Brothers’ and The Love Experiment’s. Interestingly, I’ve gotten an add friend request recently from this local band The Question Fades. This is their site. And I click on it to see who the hell they are and what they play. So the music genre is Christian and rock. So I rolled my eyes and read through the bio. More eye-rolling. Sorry, doodes, Christian rock and me are mutually exclusive subsets.
Then they said on their bio that it was an all-girl band. Wooo… interesting.
So I clicked on their pictures to take a look and saw this and this. They were all in their CHIJ uniforms cause they have to wear it every morning!!! As some of you might know, I’m quite partial to the uniform since I’ve worn it last year for Halloween.
Somehow, I feel slightly guilty for adding them. I’m not sure if you guys’ve been to The Love Experiment’s MySpace page but take a look at our Top 8 Friends.
I feel like I’m corrupting the young… Sigh. Just when I’ve so many friends who are paid monthly to do that as an occupation.
Star Wars: Fix You
Got this off Billy too. A mash-up of Coldplay and Star Wars. A TV advert for an upcoming Star Wars marathon. It just shows how brilliant a man George Lucas was 30 years ago and how much he has fallen since then...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
I love the Internet!!!
I was talking to Fuzz online when I saw this little advertisement on the bottom of the window.
"Can you swim during your period? Find out now at beinggirl.com"
So I did.
Monday, November 06, 2006
Shows…
Not feeling too well. Running nose and feeling slightly feverish. Must be the late nights I’ve been keeping these days.
Workplace is being fumigated and there’s like a thick layer of smog… Making me feel worse.
In any case, some of our friends (yeah, I can count them with just one hand) have asked about The Love Experiment’s album. It seems to me that it’d be placed on hold yet again. Sigh… But it’s just as well. Not that anyone really gives a shit anyway.
On a brighter note, The Lard Brothers are almost done with the first track ‘Democracy’ with me and Max recording his vocals overnight at his place. I think we’d need one more set of vocals and we should be done. We started a little on the George Michael tribute song ‘Monster’. Max was guffawing all the way, “This sounds like a gay anthem…” Should be good. I hope we can sell the song to Georgie…
Friday, November 03, 2006
Hmm…
I’ve just noticed this. The hit counter rate is actually quite high. I’ve about 120 – 150 unique hits a day for this blog. So I’m thinking in terms of sales strategies. You call up 10 guys for an appointment, 3 would be interested to meet up and only 1 would take up the offer. So it’s a great opportunity for me to slut certain things to the masses if you'd consider 120 -150 people the masses.
1) Based on the abovementioned sales strategy, only 10% will take up the offer. So I’d see at least 12 of your asses next Monday at Bar None for The Love Experiment’s show.
2) If every reader were to contribute 10 cents to me on a daily basis, that’d be around SGD3.00 a month from each of you guys. 150 x SGD3.00 = SGD450.00. Which is quite a bit of money. These are the few options which I can spend the money on.
a. Taking more girls on more expensive dates. Oi, you at the back, stop sniggering. I saw that!
b. Get more gear. I’m thinking of getting a 41 key MIDI keyboard controller. Do I know how to play the keyboards? HELL NO!!! Would playing and serenading a chick with Coldplay’s ‘The Scientist’ score you immense brownie points with her? HELL YES!!!
c. If not, there is always other gear to get on a monthly basis. I need a new guitar amplifier for starters.
Okay kids, let’s get this ‘Donate 10cents daily to the Evil Lair’ fund thing started already!!!
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Brett Anderson and Suede
Brett Anderson - Scorpio Rising
Got it from Billy. Apparently, he's releasing his solo album, (imaginatively titled) Brett Anderson. It was a pity that The Tears didn't live up to the hype...
Here's one of my favourite Suede song 'Europe Is My Playground' which was from the post-Bernard Butler and was co-written with bassist Mat Osman. Gotta love replacement guitarist Richard Oakes' e-Bow parts...
Suede - Europe Is My Playground
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
The Love Experiment @ Bar None
We'd be playing at Bar None on Monday 6 November at 9pm. We'll be playing with ETC and our good friends Fishtank. Drop by and say hi. This will be our last show of the year before we go up deep into the mountains (probably, just Bukit Timah) and find a sifu with long flowing white beard to impart us new songwriting skills. These songwriting skills will prep us for our 3 shows next year in January.
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