‘Oh caveat emptor - open the atom’s core’
Eid Mubarak! :)
My Idul Fitri day was okay, but too bad the Catholic branch of the family couldn’t come due to reasons like being hospitalized or away in the USA. The Protestant ones came, though, and laughed over our Catholic relatives’ Latinized Christian names. I had the feeling to say “Actually I think Claudius is a nice name…” but thought better of it. Ah, let everyone be merry for the day.
++Things++
Film
The Tarix Jabrix
As a band, what more can The Changcuters wish for this year? Starting out as an indie band under Peterpan’s Uki’s label, they built a massive fanbase in Bandung, then got signed to a major label, had some hit singles, and starred in their own film! The film itself is okay, a 3 out of 5; no sophisticated plot, but quite funny and interesting. Watch for cameos including from… Budiman Sudjatmiko! Whatever happened to… oh never mind.
Music
The whole Partie Traumatic album by Floridan Black Kids: throw away those white trashes - what we need is more black kids on the rock stage (with some added gender confusion). Ah, jealousy and heartbreak - the ingredients of teens everywhere.
Alex Turner’s The Last Shadow Puppets so far sounds BETTER than Arctic Monkeys - sounds grander, at least. It’s as if Alex has been immersing himself in classic anime soundtracks.
British Sea Power’s Do You Like Rock Music? is the album of a band that has found the niche where they feel convenient in. How good they are? Hmm, let’s just put it like this: I don’t drink, but when Yan sings ‘Beer is not dark, beer is not light / It just tastes good, especially tonight’, I feel like a drinker myself and I sympathize.
Bloc Party’s new materials are okay, but I’m hoping for more emotional songs like Kreuzberg and I Still Remember. I really love it when Kele pours his heart out like in those songs.
Keane’s Spiralling is amazing. Reviewer lacking British reference often sums up Keane as another one in the footsteps of Coldplay - but Coldplay Keane ain’t, and I like their continuous transformation. ‘When we fall in love, we’re just falling in love with ourselves’. Well said.
Am also listening to materials by Phantom Planet, The Rosebuds, Cats on Fire (ugly ugly name - signed, cat lover lol), and some other bands, like The Kooks’s take on Coldplay’s Violet Hill (which is nice).
Project
Am working on the second volume of that stupidly titled ‘BL x BL x BL’. It will be coupled with another comic, but I haven’t decided the name for the compilation. Any suggestions?
Bigger image here. Done rather hastily - I didn’t even ink it.
++IMPORTANT++
Manic Street Preachers are having a gig in Singapore this November. Does anybody want to go with me? Singapore will be a new playground for me, so having a mate along would be very nice.
My Idul Fitri day was okay, but too bad the Catholic branch of the family couldn’t come due to reasons like being hospitalized or away in the USA. The Protestant ones came, though, and laughed over our Catholic relatives’ Latinized Christian names. I had the feeling to say “Actually I think Claudius is a nice name…” but thought better of it. Ah, let everyone be merry for the day.
++Things++
Film
The Tarix Jabrix
As a band, what more can The Changcuters wish for this year? Starting out as an indie band under Peterpan’s Uki’s label, they built a massive fanbase in Bandung, then got signed to a major label, had some hit singles, and starred in their own film! The film itself is okay, a 3 out of 5; no sophisticated plot, but quite funny and interesting. Watch for cameos including from… Budiman Sudjatmiko! Whatever happened to… oh never mind.
Music
The whole Partie Traumatic album by Floridan Black Kids: throw away those white trashes - what we need is more black kids on the rock stage (with some added gender confusion). Ah, jealousy and heartbreak - the ingredients of teens everywhere.
Alex Turner’s The Last Shadow Puppets so far sounds BETTER than Arctic Monkeys - sounds grander, at least. It’s as if Alex has been immersing himself in classic anime soundtracks.
British Sea Power’s Do You Like Rock Music? is the album of a band that has found the niche where they feel convenient in. How good they are? Hmm, let’s just put it like this: I don’t drink, but when Yan sings ‘Beer is not dark, beer is not light / It just tastes good, especially tonight’, I feel like a drinker myself and I sympathize.
Bloc Party’s new materials are okay, but I’m hoping for more emotional songs like Kreuzberg and I Still Remember. I really love it when Kele pours his heart out like in those songs.
Keane’s Spiralling is amazing. Reviewer lacking British reference often sums up Keane as another one in the footsteps of Coldplay - but Coldplay Keane ain’t, and I like their continuous transformation. ‘When we fall in love, we’re just falling in love with ourselves’. Well said.
Am also listening to materials by Phantom Planet, The Rosebuds, Cats on Fire (ugly ugly name - signed, cat lover lol), and some other bands, like The Kooks’s take on Coldplay’s Violet Hill (which is nice).
Project
Am working on the second volume of that stupidly titled ‘BL x BL x BL’. It will be coupled with another comic, but I haven’t decided the name for the compilation. Any suggestions?
Bigger image here. Done rather hastily - I didn’t even ink it.
++IMPORTANT++
Manic Street Preachers are having a gig in Singapore this November. Does anybody want to go with me? Singapore will be a new playground for me, so having a mate along would be very nice.