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i got forwarded this link for a g33kworthy, droolsome event in singapore. yeah, of course singapore.

video games live
say that again?

Video Games Live
i didn’t hear you.

FREAKING VIDEO GAMES LIVE BITCHES!

yar. it’s video game music played live by an orchestra and choir + video game footage + synched lighting + do you need more reasons?

too bad square enix is a dick and prohibits use of their game videos/cutscenes/fmvs but all i’m thinking is i want to hear my favourite
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date: friday, 19 june 2009
time: 8pm (2 and a half hours + 20 minute interval)
venue: singapore indoor stadium
ticket prices: S$115, S$85, S$70, S$55 (plus $3 booking fee per ticket)

from the site:

Early Bird sales starts from 13 Mar till 22 Mar 2009. Internet Booking starts on 13 Mar 2009, 9am. Other Sales Channel sales starts on 13 Mar 2009, 10am.

Public sales start from 23 Mar 2009 onwards. Internet Booking starts on 23 Mar 2009, 12am. Other Sales Channel sales starts on 23 Mar 2009, 12pm.

jt introduced me to the bloody beetroots some time in the past two weeks, and i’ve been bouncing up and down to it since yesterday when i casually IM’ed hatim “oooooh bloody beetroots” and he immediately tagged me as his elektroclash kaki or something like that and stopped giving me airy fairy indie pop-masquerading-as-rock, though deerhoof was a nice touch.

sigh, no one else quite does elektro like the europeans.

so hatim was in supposed dj mode yesterday, and i can diss him without fear because he refuses to read “blogs” (said sneeringly) nowadays anyway, and he started on an mp3-on-msn sending spree.

this is his lapsap-inspired list.

bonde do role – gasolina
don rimini – let me back up (crookers tetsujin mix)
MSTRKRFT – VUVUVU
federico franchi – cream
jesse mccartney – leavin’ (MSTRKRFT remix)
robin s vs steve angello & laidback luke – shoe me love vs be (hardwell bootleg)
shinichi osawa – star guitar
timbaland – miscommunication (the bloody beetroots remix)
digitalism – pogo (shinichi osawa remix)
shitdisco – 72 virgins (the blood beetroots remix)
MGMT – kids (soulwax remix)
hot chip – ready for the floor

nice nice. my only fear is that from outside my car, all the hard bass beats will sound like fengtau. coupled with my orange hair, i’m going to be so lalamui. current favourite? the bloody beetroots – dimmakmmunication.

watch me and tell me this isn’t just too awesome. one man ac/dc cover band who sounds like jack white.

cat comes home after going missing for 9 years

wendy’s funny video about growing up

resident evil activity book for kids

blue people

what’s left of the servant

master cgi artists – hyper realistic stuff

palin refuses to fund rape kits

beautiful ramadan photos

questionable content is my current new obsession (i wouldn’t know how else to classify reading a thousand two hundred and twenty one strips in 3 days otherwise).

loved to see the way jeph’s style (may i call you jeph, mister jacques?) transitioned over 5 years. check out the vast difference between marten circa 2003 and marten today.

so alright, i enjoy actually being able to notice the subtle changes and refinements he made and also the sometimes huge leaps he made with the character designs.

my new hero *gush* had a music meme in one early post.

The following is my List. You may post Lists of your own in similar format, but if you talk shit about my List I am going to delete your comments because disagreeing with an opinion posted on the internet wastes my time and yours. The rules are that each component of your List can only contain five bands, so make your opinions count. You may not list a band on more than one category.

here are mine:

SOME BANDS THAT ARE GOOD
Interpol
Daft Punk
The Smiths
The Beatles
Röyksopp

SOME BANDS THAT ARE AWFUL
My Chemical Romance
Black Eyed Peas
Simple Plan (i hate hate hate them with every fibre of my being)
Linkin Park
Kanye West (aka Kanyena West)

SOME BANDS THAT ARE VASTLY OVERRATED
Broken Social Scene
Bright Eyes (yeah technically it’s just one dude, but)
Marié Digby (talentless cookie cutter LIAR)
Björk (trying too hard)
The Dave Matthews Band (boooooooooring)

SOME BANDS THAT ARE VASTLY UNDERRATED
Jack Conte – my favourite digg discovery so far (yeah yeah yeah)
KokoKaina – homegrown malaysian talent writing original songs (what marié digby wishes she was)
Lapsap – local eclectic-electro duo
Amiina – ethereal icelandic tinkling (yeah, they’re not obscure, but they’re passed over too much in favour of Sigur Rós)
Caroline – sweet, raw, tinkly

SOME BANDS THAT I USED TO THINK WERE AWESOME BUT AM NOW SORT OF BURNED OUT ON
Weezer
Goo Goo Dolls
any punk band i ever listened to
The Servant
System Of A Down

more updates later.

despite the fact that they attempted some form of assurance:
oh how it’s been so long
we’re so sorry we’ve been gone
we were busy writing song for you
you don’t have to worry ‘cos we’re still the same band

i found myself listening with growing unease. already dropping the ! from their name killed a small part of my psyche. now, listening to the tracks off the new album (yeah a whole 24 hours before the concert, bitches) i thought “oh god, how… mellow…”

hell, even the track titles aren’t as happening. don’t downgrade me from “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage” and “There’s a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought of It Yet” or my favourite yet “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” (yes, i know it’s a coupland title. it’s also what i named my tabulas blog).

now we have such inane stuff – “Nine in the Afternoon” and “When the Day Met the Night”. titles that i might have written in a fit of adolescent despair. where are the compelling, intelligent, palahniuk-inspired songs? and what’s up with ross’ new obsession with the word “moon” found in at least 3 songs?

and i’m still most shaken up that kellie passed up the chance to try snog brendon urie at the mtv asia awards.

so panic at the disco is coming to town. like soon. adriana contacted me on facebook because of my fanboy status which is of course, dedicated to colin, fuse. who went from “not too keen” on them to “i don’t like them” to “actually, i hate them” in less than a minute’s time.

but why, colin, why?

being my leechy little self, am bugging bryan to get free tickets. initially forgot about him and his long warner arm, and planned to go for the RM68 (pre 2nd august) free-standing tickets. thankfully kellie accidentally reminded me. “you got free tix, babe?” hmmm… not yet.

*crosses fingers*

haven’t been to a proper concert in yonks. in fact, the one and only proper stadium merdeka gig i went for was alanis morissette way back when. the only thing that came close was nofx last year. well, it was probably better thanks to the glorious moshpit.

i need to see urie in his rouge and top hat. i want to be totally sloshed trying to sing the words to “build god, then we’ll talk” and “time to dance”!