Back in 2022, during Billie Eilish’s concert at the National Stadium, I was sitting in the expensive seats in the house, but I felt that the standing crowd was having all the fun. I made a vow that fateful night that the next big act to grace the stadium, I would be among the standing […]
Read more "Concert (5 March 2024): Bruno Mars"There is a discussion Choo and I will always have when certain songs come up on the iPod in my car. These particular songs will trigger vivid memories which had been seared into the deep recesses of our consciousness. We will start to talk about the concerts we had graced and sometimes we would go […]
Read more "Concert (3 Mar 2024): Taylor Swift"Every year I like to do a write-up on music, movies and TV shows that I enjoyed in the year. It has become a ritual and it’s a ritual that I like. Choo always tells me not to bother because nobody cares. She might be right but this has evolved to become a personal ritual […]
Read more "My Favourite Albums, Movies and TV Shows of 2023"We didn’t go to a lot of gigs this year. In fact we only did 2. It could have been 3 if Lewis Capaldi didn’t cancel his. I got into The War on Drugs with their 2014 album Lost in the Dream. There are bands that write songs with arena concerts in their minds and […]
Read more "Concert (13 Dec 2023): The War on Drugs"Taiwanese pop-rock band 告五人’s debut album 我肯定在几百年前就说过爱你 (Somewhere in Time, I Love You) is one of my all-time favourite mandarin albums. Bursting onto the Mandopop scene in 2017, the three-piece band (lead vocalist and guitarist Pan Yun-an, singer Tsai Hsin-lun (Chuan Ching), and drummer Richard Lin) gave the “too-safe-for-its-good” Mandopop landscape a huge face-lift with […]
Read more "Concert (4 Feb 2023): 告五人 (AccuseFive)"2022 marks the year my part of the world came out of a dark place and the everyday is gradually going back to normal. The virus is still around but the governments of the world have decided it is time to open their countries for the influx of much needed tourist dollars. Concerts are in […]
Read more "My Favourite Albums, Movies and TV Shows of 2022"50 blog posts… I did it. I know there aren’t many readers with regards to my an-album-a-week posts as compared to when I write about movies, but this particular blog means a lot to me. It saved my life. Last year, at about this time, I was in a really deep and dark funk. The […]
Read more "An Album a Week (50): 21 – Adele"I got into Sufjan Stevens’ music through Illinois (2005), a friend’s recommendation and then quickly forgot about him (Stevens, not my friend). Then came his seventh album in 2015, Carrie & Lowell. It was on so many critics’ end-of-the-year best list so I picked it up on a wimp. I can’t remember what other albums […]
Read more "An Album a Week (49): Carrie & Lowell – Sufjan Stevens"This was a recommendation by a friend and he knows my music taste to a T. If you are looking for an album for some love action in the bedroom, this is it. There is no need to make a mixed CD, this is it. From start to end, this is fucking it. I know […]
Read more "An Album a Week (48): Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex"I have always loved the guitar but I am lousy with playing it. However, I did manage to fulfil one of my life-long dreams – to play the guitar and perform a song in front of an audience of at least a hundred. The song was Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours”, my guitar teacher was my […]
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