Movies

Caught Ghost Rider with Robin 2 weeks ago. Even though I’m a huge comic book fan, it was an absolute piece of trash. I’ve discouraged both Roy and Weng from watching the show. But they are adamant to catch as it’s “Ghost Rider, dude, I must watch it!”. That’s what I thought too. Well, give me a call for supper after the movie, guys, provided you don’t choke on your tongues watching the show.

Went for ‘Dreamgirls’ with Lin Lin last week. The show was pretty decent. It kinda reminded me of a black version of Velvet Goldmine where they chartered the rise and fall of a 70’s glam rock star who was based on David Bowie. Eddie “I endorse fat suits for a living” Murphy was really great as James “Thunder” Early, to me, a cross between James Brown and Marvin Gaye. Jennifer Hudson was pretty decent but her vocals on her solo tunes were like vocal ‘shredding’. She’d out-Mariah Mariah Carey lah. Too much lah...

One really amazing thing though. Beyoncé apparently shed 7 pounds for the show but that ass… wooo, it’s still intact man! Very nice.

Anyway, here’s the Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer TV spot. Nice.



In case you haven't been keeping tabs, it's slightly more than 2 months to go to Spiderman 3. \m/

World's End Girlfriend - Scorpius Circus (live)

Recommended by Bryan. I thought the mosaic on the main man Katsuhiko Maeda's face was just hilarious. Like Japanese AV...

Lily Allen - Alfie

The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (live)

This is supposedly from the final show they've ever played. You can catch this documentary about them here. Morrissey: That quiff!!! That quiff!!! Johnny Marr: Still fucken cool (or even cooler) after all these years.

Haven - Til The End

Max introduced Haven to me 2 years ago. I like them quite a fair bit. Singer Gary Briggs has a great tenor. I'm helping Max to flesh out one of his songs which he had written 10 years ago "about the girl who broke (his) heart when she left (him) after 2 months of dating". When he mentioned that he was gunning for an Oasis/ Ride feel, I rolled my eyes. No way lah. If I could, I'd rather give it a Haven or Suede sheen, that'd be nice.

Here's the video for the Johnny Marr-produced version.

Not very shiny...

The design looks okay only. Nothing fantastic (ahem...) but it's no rocket science to bring this character to life. Still, I'd pay $9.50 to see Jessica Alba in blue spandex again.

Sex on legs...

Charmaine says:

cam says:
why u never add me on friendster?
cam says:
why so lousy one

So I did.

Calexico - Alone Again Or (live Love cover)

I love Calexico. Not so much for Love but this is my favourite Love song. And it's not even written by Arthur Lee.

Beastie Boys - 3 MC's and 1 DJ

It's true. "Nobody does it like Mixmaster Mike can."

Mute Math - Reset (live)

Recommended by my friend Ian Ho. More Muse than Muse man. Check out the rest of their songs here.

McAlmont & Butler - Yes (live)

This song off their debut album in 1995 is pretty decent but their 2 singles 'Falling' and 'Bring It Back' from the 2002 album Bring It Back were fucken great. An amazing soul singer and his fuzz-pedal-addict guitarist-producer. Great combo. Anyone who can get their hands on Bring It Back please let me know. I've been looking for it for years.

Old skool hip hop joint

Was out at the Good Vibrations Festival last night. Came around 7pm and caught Electrico. They did a pretty good set, except for some mixing problems during the 1st song.

Proceeded to get pissed. Beer going for $8 per can was not funny. Hung out with Jay S (which non-hip-hop moniker is Jason Siau) and his 'hos for a bit. Which I hopped over to join S.T. (known to his mum as Sujin Thomas) and his bitch Victoria and those 2 rockers Caleb and Daniel (they is not hip-hop-non-stop-till-you-drop, yo).

Was great to catch up with MC A (who moonlights as the editor of JUNK, Adlin Rosli) and the soul sista Kim at his booth. The 2 crazy kids are here in town for the weekend. They'd be coming back for the Mosaic Music Festival. MC A introduced me to his posse as a Singaporean from a land with crap food. But we have more music festivals and a year-end bikini fashion parade aka ZoukOut! Take that, you Malaysians! *shakes fist at MC A*

Jurassic 5 was decent but suffered from the stage left array speaker breaking down on them.

The Beastie Boys came on in business suits with suitcases and did a instrumental jam. They were supported by a keyboardist, a percussionist and Mixmaster Mike who was fucken ace. As they meant biz-ness, they were 3 MCs and 1 DJ and they'd be getting down with no delay, throwing out hits like 'Ch-ch-check it out' and old classics like 'Check Your Rump' and 'Brass Monkey'. Though they didn't do 'Fight For Your Right To Party' which I didn't expect anyway, they did 'Sabotage' which was the first ever Beastie Boy tune I had ever heard. So I is happy.

The whole festival was great but I overspent... as usual. Heh

After the whole shebang, I caught up with K-Man (aka Kinho) and B-boy (aka Bowie) from The Breakbeat Theory, a live drum'n'bass act. They went to jam at a studio in Excelsior Hotel and helped me set up a keyboard so that I can jam with them. These guys are good lah so it was pretty embarrassing. Fer fuck's sake, I played a fucken Cmaj7sus4 chord for like 15 fucken minutes. But it was fun and it's been eons since I had jammed with anyone. Missed it terribly. I think these guys will have an interesting sound once they sort themselves out.

REM - So. Central Rain (live on Letterman)

Terence sent me the link. It was a live performance on 'Late Night with David Letterman', taken back in the era where, you know what they'd like to say, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, the police wore shorts and Michael Stipe still had hair.

I love this clip which they did on Sesame Street. I used to have this before my hard disk crashed. Here's one which REM with Thom Yorke replacing Patti Smith on 'E-Bow The Letter'.

I <3 REM.

The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart

From Billy. Fucken ace!

Don't you wish...

... you were a rock star? From NME:

Poison frontman Bret Michaels is set to star in his own reality television show on VH1.

Michaels, whose band scored megahits in the 80s with 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' and 'Unskinny Bop', will be looking for love in the show which is called 'Rock of Love With Bret Michaels'.

According to a statement: "the hard-rockin' Poison front man is looking for a woman who can truly keep up with his Rock 'N' Roll lifestyle and not become jealous of his one true passion - performing, which has been the reason for and destruction of most of his relationships."

The programme will be similar to the hugely successful 'Flavor of Love', in which Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav starred.

Michaels will live with "a bevy of beauties" in his Los Angeles mansion, who will perform various tasks and challenges in an effort to see who will best fit in with his lifestyle.

'Rock of Love With Bret Michaels' will air in July on VH1.

In other music news, Nine Inch Nails is streaming their new single 'Survivalism' on their MySpace page.

Justin Timberlake - Sexyback (live in Paris)

This is for Billy who still hates the song. Hurhurhur... Check out those French chicks in the front row. Woot!

Is Christopher Nolan the new Sam Raimi?

As reported on SuperHero Hype, Aaron Eckhart is in talks to sign on as Harvey Dent aka Two-Face, in the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. Things are shaping up really nicely.

Only if Britney had watched this...

From VideoJug.

AV

Had a MSN chat with the mixing engineer from Focal Pro Solutions who's helping The Love Experiment.

Koffkoff (Joe) says:
shiina (ringo - Japanese rock star) is my rock goddess lol

Twin Peaks (Me) says:
haha

Twin Peaks says:
she's quite hot lah

Koffkoff says:
kaho kasumi the av star

Koffkoff says:
look like her in some angle

Twin Peaks says:
hurhurhur

Twin Peaks says:
i dunno AV (Japanese Adult Video) like u man

Koffkoff says:
haha

Koffkoff says:
i also dunno alot

Koffkoff says:
but main stuff aga i know

Koffkoff says:
need to keep up with trend

Twin Peaks says:
hey... times are a-changing like Dylan says

Koffkoff says:
haha

Koffkoff says:
AV and movies are the same to me

Koffkoff says:
just different content nia

Koffkoff says:
understanding humanity involves observing which industries thrive lol

Twin Peaks says:
so what has AV taught u?

Koffkoff says:
just another form of escapism put into medium

I love Joe. He's a great guy and his stuff is pretty intense too. You can check out his main project Koff Koff here.

What Goes Around Comes Around

Music video featuring Scarlett Johannson



Live in Paris



The man's a genius, I swear!!! Kinho and I had this discussion. I personally think that he's the George Michael of this generation while Kinho insisted he's more like Michael Jackson. Which is true since Timberlake modelled himself as Wacko Jacko.