ratios.

Monster Cat Demos – Kitty Formalities

Download here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?n22j4nzowwq
We’re recording new songs soon. 

www.myspace.com/monstercatmusic

don’t sleep on it.

memento mori.

frustrating lack of music, proper column spacing and fonts.

moving back to rongjun.livejournal.com for nonsense rambling and bad language.

this site will be kept as proper portfolio of future work.

 

through jogging, i’ve learnt eagles and snakes reside in my hdb neighborhood.

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when sam cooke sings, you listen.

consuming

sufjan || BQE + A Sun Came + Live sessions

volcano choir || island, is

tokyo police club || your english is good live 06

 russian circles || geneva (damn kickass)

the ventures || wipe out live 

thom yorke & new friends || skirting on the surface

grizzly bear || while you wait for the others – spinner live

grizzly bear || ready, able - spinner live

jay-z || death of auto-tune

white stripes || the denial twist

the gossip || love long distance

watching their spinner live and then listening to the album again makes all the difference.

saw this off someone’s blog. drummer is awesome. damn classic. we could cover this with max distortion. haha

 

FINALLY. someone reuploaded basin street blues. high on the list of songs i want played at my funeral.

this is what singing should sound like. and black man singing on primetime tv in the 60s. yes, this was a BIG deal then.

basin street blues is more than just a song. to me it’s an anthem of resilience.

this could be the song you hear when you lose a job, become bankrupt, get beaten to the floor and yet you sit there staring out the window, tears dried up, smiling, because you know you’re still alive. though the song’s probably about a world without racism.

i can write a full essay about the many things this song makes my heart feel.

- do download this before someone takes it down again. the sam cooke version is ass shit difficult to find.

the tv shows then had no color but it sure as hell beats what we have today.

 

 

and a lot of bss live sessions from canaddiction. where is a live version of windsurfing nation?!?

and still, this my favorite version of fucked up kid.  slightly faster than most versions, yet makes maximum difference.

From 3:44, it’s a beautiful swirl of sound. 3 guitars but they just melt and flow into each other.

all is love.

very rough two weeks. – mainly due to unappreciative people and on my part, delayed realisations.

solemnization at klee wasn’t that fun for me for certain reasons, but still very happy for them.

widjaya of klee is a very nice man. i appreciate nice people even more so nowadays.

looking dishevelled from stress and bad tempers. i guess everything turned out fine though.

now for wedding dinner.

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my bullshit ceiling shattered.

too many times ive been the sideshow, a handy standby tool, a dumping ground, an easy punching bag,  a backup plan, the dispensable item. it sucks to be collateral damage. i cant help but feel that way. it feels horrible. now i know i deserve people who treat me much better. 

thank you so much to various friends for being around.

dora as usual. sari. rndm meetup with justin, guang and shaun while they beat my face on an iPhone app.

amelia for the late night coffees and rachael b for the very pleasant surprise –  damn touched. and very tasty i must admit.

kev i hope you’ll be fine. and congrats to jeffrey on a job he loves.

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troy lim of Ogilvy is a very nice man too. took a full 30 mins of his own time to look at my portfolio and give me advice. 

i didn’t expect that out of the ad industry. very grateful. job hunt continues.

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neil gaiman talk + fred perry x kyte event + ‘mock’ interview with artist Michael Lee at tiong bahru on a tuesday morning.

accompanied sari to neil gaiman. never read a single book of his in my life. but a charming man indeed.

fred perry x kyte event was erm. interesting.

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installation by artist chun kai qun at esplanade jendela.

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in short, these few weeks can be summarised as 

‘the universe is trying to tell me something.’

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photos taken by various photographers.

for the voyeurs out there:

http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=207608301872

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?page=1&aid=158662&id=588803473

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anyway air guitar is not a skill. the same way golf is not a sport.

this does not warrant argument.

wouldn’t you be embarrassed if someone gave you a best-in-the-world-at-air-guitar award? 

they’re simply saying you’re the best at doing nothing.

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everybody knows you using voodoo.

 

went for suit fitting today.  last time i went, im lucky i read up and studied the details and options.  making suits is an art man. 

and i had no idea wearing one was this bloody empowering.

 

the car door was open and bobbi the cat suddenly popped in, climbed all over me, peered out the glass window and sat on the drivers seat.

CATS CAN RECOGNIZE CARS. WTF. they can open doors, sense death, anticipate rain, climb 12 floors to find a house. what else cant they do.

 

 

later i witnessed a live botox session. wasn’t as queasy as i thought. steely thin needles going into your skin. they serve great green bean tea. learnt much about botox and other procedures today. terribly insightful.

i can no longer deny it. my life is a bloody  odd  mash of experiences.  

i also got stranded alone at changi restricted area a few nights ago and had to call a cab. and something involving a rndm stranger apparently having the worst day of his life.

 

speaking of botox, i am damn fascinated by the korean pop industry. they can match the american genre on every level.

it is a precise empire built on the perfect clothes, auto-tune, overload of synths, crazy dance battles and excessive group numbers.

You know one hot girl might not do the trick, but throw in like 8 girls, each with a different (tailored) personality and surely any guy will see a type they like. marketing genius. same works for the k-boy groups.

 

I admittedly am transfixed by their MVs, the sets are extravagant,  the cuts and pans somehow warrant repeat looks.

The girls ALL LOOK THE SAME. tall, leggy and all dance damn well. i seriously can’t tell one group from another.

take a look:

@0:16 – i am transfixed and i don’t know why.

@1:34 – very Usher-esque dance move + camera angle

@1:53 – the korean mary j.blige. HAHA

@2:22 – dude has some hilarious pink thing hanging by his balls.

 

Guilty pleasure. They are plastic, but oh so perfect plastic. After i while i get a headache though.

It’s as if someone keeps whacking my head with a giant rainbow paddle pop. Painful but you won’t complain cos its ice-cream.

i’m not making sense here. i feel exploited. sob.

Someone must write an essay on kpop industry.

 

 

and i got my hands on the new russian circles and  the full rolling stones’  Satanic Sessions.

Japandroids on Spinner is kickass. the Mew one was damn disappointing. 

never knew sfk – pinstripe live was so much more thumping than studio version.

 

 

must find the new sufjan.

 

 

there is a cat at the wheel. PANIC.

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bad karma.

 

 

 

 

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