Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Earworms December 2008

"You fucked the suburbs out of me"

The Party's Crashing Us Now, Of Montreal.

brilliant line, hahaha. if you contextualise to Singapore it will be:

"You sex me so good. Like upgrade from HDB to condo like that."


"Beware ! I bear more grudges than lonely high court judges."

The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get, Morrissey


Well, if you are in Singapore, most definitely, the AG and high court judges will be watching u especially if you are an opposition politician or WSJ. yes, they bear a lot of grudges, don't believe me, ask the legal team representing Wall St Journal

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Storm Thorgerson is rachel's 21st century magritte



From the album, Wish you were here (1975), Pink Floyd



From the album, Is it a sin by Deepest Blue



From the album, The Raven by Alan Parsons



From the album, Skunkworks by Bruce Dickinson



From Album, Home is where the head is by Ethnix



From Pink Floyd's songbook, Wish You were here



From album sleeve of Sound of Thunder, Pink Floyd



album cover of single, Wish you were here by Pink Floyd

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Namesake

The Associated Press reported:

< CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands- Hurricane Omar weakened Thursday as it quickly moved away from the Caribbean through the northern Leeward Islands without causing major damage.

The powerful core of the storm, with the most intense winds, passed overnight between St. Martin and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, said Lixion Avila, a hurricane specialist with the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

"It could have been worse," Avila said. "They were very, very lucky."

....Omar knocked down trees, caused some flooding and minor mudslides but there were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage in the U.S. Virgin Islands, said Mark Walters, director of the disaster management agency for the U.S. Caribbean territory.

The nearby British Virgin Islands also emerged largely unscathed, said Deputy Gov. Inez Archibald, noting there was little damage beyond some mudslides and scattered debris.

"We did reasonably well actually," Inez told The Associated Press. "We did not get what we expected." >



"It could have been worse," Rachxf says. "I was very, very lucky."

"I did not get what I expected."

haha.

Sunday, September 21, 2008




I had some dreams,
They were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and clouds in my coffee.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Homer, Brett and George ( not in order)

What did I do today?

I added Singapore's Foreign Minister Mr George Yeo on facebook! He's adept at the facebook applications from what i see on his profile with really cool sepia photos from his university days in UK to boot.

Also in photos: Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and Trade and Industry Minister Mr Lim Hng Kiang decked in retro garb of the 70s/80s and shaggy, almost shoulder-length hairdos. And they wanted to ban The Rollling Stones gig in the 70s because the band had long hair?

But I must say, minister sir, good work on facebook. The social media is the future.



I thought about Brett Anderson again and... dug up from the depths of my room, a photo I took with the Suede in 2002, in an interview opportunity I had or rather I won on Power 98 by sending in a question for the band. I sent in a really dumb question to him in retrospect.

Q: What records would you rescue if your house was set on fire?

A: _______________ ( i couldn't remember anything. i didnt record, i wasn't even a journalist, just a radio listener and i didnt take notes. just stared at his flawless, chiselled face)

And for those of you who know, this fangirl bought a box of chocolates intended for Mr Anderson, but I was too shy and it was really damn uncool to give chocolates to a rockstar, ain't it.

Fate of the chocolates? Left it on the bus, on my way to watch Suede at MediaCorp studios.



A vintage Penguin! I bought this vintage 1960s print of Homer's Odyssey at some second-hand book fair at Tanjong Pagar HDB estate. Haven't started reading it though, I am much afraid , it will fall apart in my greasy hands. Maybe I should start collecting vintage penguins. I should :) And this was a steal, nonetheless along with a 1950s Charles Dickens I bought.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

sheela-ni-gig, ms polly jean harvey



She is THE standard of hot-female-rocker-in-heels. check out her heels in the video. Whoa!

"Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Just like the first time he said he didn't care
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Heard it before, no more
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Turn the corner another one thereeeee"

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Just shoot me, mothership of censorship (i.e: Straits times)

Self-censorship is well and alive in our local press. To find out more, ask me.