Thanks, Mang!

We are done with 'Just A Tool', the Depeche Mode tribute track. But Robin veto-ed my cheesy synth solo. Fucker hurt my feelings...

Thanks!!!

Benita


Inch


Mark


Melissa

This all just proves that it's okay if you are talentless, it's more important to have talented friends.

Thanks for helping out on vocals!

"Hey, you are blogging..."

"Yes, I am."

Recording Benita and her Echo-Oh-Oh-Oh girls (made up of Inch, Melissa and Evelyn - who couldn't make it today) for the title track of our next album 'Simply As Designed'.

She was wearing the headphones with tissues underneath them. Yes.

I will find the photo and put it here.

Remixes

Hmm, it's strange but life as a bum seems to be way busier than one of a corporate slave. There's no time or any thoughts to blog about. I reckon when you are working. You tend to slack off all the time.

That could be me. Heh.

Just completed the Stellarium remix with a final mixdown and mastered it at The Love Studios aka Woei Yuan's studyroom. Sounds pretty fun. Azman liked the I / D remix we did so he asked if we could do one for Stellarium.

So now he owes me one! Yeah, a remix.

So far, it's pretty fun doing all these stuff. It's like playing with Lego. Using the bricks and forming a whole new structure. With additional bricks from some other sets at times.

Nice. Still have the Analog Girl and Plainsunset ones to go. The album is still in stagnation for recording. Hopefully, that's all done.

Maybe, I'd just pack it up after both projects end.

Rudra - Hymns from the Blazing Chariot trailer

Jacen directed it and I think it's still in post-production.

Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn - Realtor (live)

The tune is taken off their duet album Break Up. She really sounds pretty decent here. Much better than the warbling on the Tom Waits tribute album last year. And that awkward shuffling she calls dancing. That's cute. Scarlett, if you were not married, we should hang.

She looks absolutely divine here in another live performance.

Dirty Projectors - When The World Comes To An End (live)

Wow, holy crap. The vocal harmonies.

There's another video of them (filmed on an iPhone by The Roots's drummer, Questlove no less) rehearsing in the dressing room for this 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' episode. The bro with the 'fro had Tweeted that this was prolly one of his favourite musical guests on the show ever. Even guitarist The Roots guitarist Kirk Douglas chipped in his 2 cents in the phone video.

Mindblowing.

Kate Bush (feat. David Gilmour) - Running Up That Hill (live)

The hair is very big in this old live video.

Black Dynamite

I'm still waiting for this to come out!!!

Inch Chua - Devotion In Reality

Not many people would know that I held up the reflector in a couple of shots in this stop-motion video. :(

Apparently, Inch is in the list of FHM's Top 100 sexiest women in Singapore. Haha, that's interesting.

Elly Tran Ha

It's been a long while since I've posted anything on this blog. But went over to Noel's blog and saw his post about this Vietnamese model who decided to plunge her neckline to win some blog competition or something.



She's quite the cutie as well. And that is just the nicer geeky girl look. Check out some of the other images.







Yeah, sweetheart, I know your eyes are up there.

Even, Wikipedia has nothing on her yet. But when it comes to such situations, you can always rely on AskMen.com for some answers. This chick will move Maximisers by the truckloads.

Why can't we get someone like this to be our Miss Singapore World?

R.E.M. - Spooky (live)

I love this tune. First heard it when Dusty Springfield sang it. Hopefully, I can find another copy of that. Her version was more Rhodes driven which is uber-cool.

Michael Stipe does a very decent job on this.

Jay-Z - Run This Town (feat. Rihanna & Kanye West)

Not feeling it yo!

Rihanna tries so hard to be gangsta by flippin' the bird. Wow, try smoking crack like Amy Winehouse!

Inch Chua - The Bedroom

Click on the picture!

Galaxie 500 - Ceremony (live)

In my never-ending quest to embarass myself and my friends musically, I've always sought to find some new music (or stuff I like) to ape. As some of you guys might know, me and some of the boys formed a nonsensical shoegazing band called Galactica a few months.

We wrote and recorded a few tunes on the spot for the fun of it, releasing the (intentionally, we hope people could tell) badly recorded and mixed EP Galactica Lives!.

Barring that there will be time (and money), we will like to carry on with this nonsense and do a follow-up EP. However, being the "consummate" artists we are, I believe we should keep evolving... Ahem, yeah, so instead of doing more early 90's British shoegazing rock, we will mine the late 90's American slow-core movement.

I love Low who I mentioned to Bryan. He digs the mp3s I've sent over. Interestingly, he reminded me of an old 80's (now defunct) American act Galaxie 500 which he said are pretty much the pioneers of the whole slow-core genre. Atmospheric and very sluggish in nature.

He's right.

So I'm revisiting all my Galaxie 500 CDs right now. That's the Bostonian band covering Joy Division's 'Ceremony'. Interesting trivia: They were actually friends with talkshow host Conan O'Brien when they were all undergrads in Harvard. I love Wikipedia.

Pulp - This Is Hardcore (live)

Wooo, nice live version.

Pulp got to release this as the first single off This Is Hardcore cause Radiohead released a highly successful sprawling single also known as 'Paranoid Android' the year before in 1997. This didn't do as well as expected.

Could be the fact that frontman Jarvis Cocker is not really a singer than an observant exhibitionist. Could be the issue that the song draws an allegory between his personal demons and all the porn movies he watched in the hotels the band stayed during their European tour.

I love this tune anyway. Great stuff. Lovely and underrated album too.

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?

Apparently, Zooey Deschanel got together with her '(500) Days Of Summer' co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt to do a video for her band She & Him. Shot by the movie director Marc Webb, it's sorta like a promo thing for the indie flick.

But it's real good.

Zombieland trailer

Cannot wait to see this!!!

U2 - Bad (live)

An old video. One of my favourite U2 tunes.

Check out 'The Unforgettable Fire' here. Amazing playing by The Edge.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

This looks really cute! Based on the Roald Dahl's children novel and is stop-motion! George Clooney, Bill Murray, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman and Willem Dafoe star. And it's directed by Wes Anderson so it should be fun!