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.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Gone Gone Gigs
T'was a fun MRT ride alone, thinking about all the bands/acts that I would have loved to catch in my lifetime. But most of them have disbanded, making it a nevermore.
Reunions, maybe?
The List:
1) Blur
2) Garbage
3) The Smiths
4) Suede (sorta caught them in a TV studio showcase, but I want the real thang. with bernard Butler)
5) Pulp
6) The Beautiful South
7) Pink Floyd
8) Colin's Appendix (hahah, for old times sake and the day I braved wearing a tape plastered on my shirt, reading "Groupie")
9) The Pixies ( i think they regrouped already)
And I "very scared" Yeah Yeah Yeahs will dissolve soon, so must hurry hurry watch while they are still happy together.
Reunions, maybe?
The List:
1) Blur
2) Garbage
3) The Smiths
4) Suede (sorta caught them in a TV studio showcase, but I want the real thang. with bernard Butler)
5) Pulp
6) The Beautiful South
7) Pink Floyd
8) Colin's Appendix (hahah, for old times sake and the day I braved wearing a tape plastered on my shirt, reading "Groupie")
9) The Pixies ( i think they regrouped already)
And I "very scared" Yeah Yeah Yeahs will dissolve soon, so must hurry hurry watch while they are still happy together.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
report card
One six-pointer said to another six-pointer when they collected their A-Level result slips:
"Eh, I didn't get 4 As. You too right?"
"Yah, so?"
"Instead of value-add, we are the value defects!" he said then breaking into a guffaw.
He was streamed into the exclusive Gifted Education Programme back in Secondary School. She wondered if these alphabetical grades mattered in the greater scheme of things.
To her, golden girls and golden boys are just social constructs. Social constructs meant to stress out the rest of the population into elitism. And she bought into this social construct most of her life, she thought, staring at her classmates who would become doctors, lawyers...
"Doctor, lawyer, Indian Chief. Poor man, rich man, Begger man, thief" went a childhood rhyme for a game where the length of your forearm would magically determine what you will be when you grow up, as your playmate measures your arm so so carefully, criss-crossing her thumbs.
She stared at her result slip. Mediocrity is relative too. What would her 3 As be in the seas of 4 As?
Average.
Value defect. Yes. But so what.
She was never the golden girl and they are just too perfect too be human. To be flawed.
And most importantly, Real.
"Eh, I didn't get 4 As. You too right?"
"Yah, so?"
"Instead of value-add, we are the value defects!" he said then breaking into a guffaw.
He was streamed into the exclusive Gifted Education Programme back in Secondary School. She wondered if these alphabetical grades mattered in the greater scheme of things.
To her, golden girls and golden boys are just social constructs. Social constructs meant to stress out the rest of the population into elitism. And she bought into this social construct most of her life, she thought, staring at her classmates who would become doctors, lawyers...
"Doctor, lawyer, Indian Chief. Poor man, rich man, Begger man, thief" went a childhood rhyme for a game where the length of your forearm would magically determine what you will be when you grow up, as your playmate measures your arm so so carefully, criss-crossing her thumbs.
She stared at her result slip. Mediocrity is relative too. What would her 3 As be in the seas of 4 As?
Average.
Value defect. Yes. But so what.
She was never the golden girl and they are just too perfect too be human. To be flawed.
And most importantly, Real.
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