 | Been Listening to: Ash - Meltdown What can i say but...... BRILLIANT. Got the wind knocked out of me again, overwhelmed again, reobsessed AGAIN. Ash, only Ash, eight years and running, the only band that has been able to do this to me over and over and over again. Tim Wheeler, master of power choruses, the one man that has not forgotten how to make good/great rock tunes after all these years, still the one band that's still there, churning out power songs that can still sweep you off your feet. damn! btw... one of the pictures on the left panel has an Ash song from Meltdown for download! ^^ |
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 | Charlotte Hatherley - Grey Will Fade Well i had not checked out Charlotte's album since it came out last year and boy!!! do i regret!!! Her debut album is AMAZING! I loved it! Surprisingly, it's very pop rock. I was expecting something wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more indie but it turned out to be very upbeat, happy, catchy. Although a different sort of catchy from Ash. Great album! I love most of the tracks but mote notably Summer, Bastardo, Where I'm Calling From. Excellent! Makes me quite worried actually, that Charlotte might leave Ash. Since she's doing quite abit of solo work outside of Ash time when Ash is on a break. Of course she has all rights to do so! But it's great to see that Tim and Rick (and i'm sure Mark too) is very supportive of her. But I hope she'll still be Tim's right hand woman... hehe. since they'll never be together off stage, i'm always hoping keep being a great pair onstage at least! Again, on the left panel, there's a picture u can click to download Charlotte's song Summer and I recommend it! |
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 | Been Watching: Samurai Champloo. hahaha... Well, i think i had been told wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy before this to check the series out but i didn't because someone told me that it was very hip-hoppish. So i never bothered. Then i saw abit on Cartoon Network two weeks ago and i got intrigued. So now i am watching it! Commentaries: I absolutely love the graphics in this series. The designs and image in the opening and ending sequences are amazingly beautiful. Took my breath away. I've never seen an ending sequences with such beautiful image. Made me fall in love with the illusion of Japan all over again! On that note though, I don't quite like the character design and also the drawing in this series. It's by the creator of cowboy bebop. And well, the thing abt it though, maybe i'm not used to seeing designs like these but i thought it was very simplistic. For a series whose strength lies in their graphic design, the fusion of hip-hop culture into traditional japanese art, i thought that the animation was really weak. It's like i always feel that there's a lack of detail in some scenes, and the movement of the animation is not smooth. seriously. Neways, I've not finished watching the whole series. I was watching it bits by bits, one episode here one episode there (since i've started watching anime from the END to the begining instead, no thanks to shitty tragic/cliffhanger endings japanese media is so prone to do). So far it's been okay. I think the story has very innovative designs, and i also think that the dynamics of the story is also cool: a girl travelling with a ruffian swordfighter and a rogue but refined samurai in her quest to find the sunflower scented samurai. There were some very hillarious moments in the story but i've yet to really dwell on the deeper stuff of the series, like the motivations and history of Mugen (the main ruffian guy), Jin (the rogue but refined samurai) and Fuu (the ditsy but kindhearted female lead). But i will soon. So there will definitely be more post on Samurai Champloo later! hehe, knowing how obsessive i can get. |
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     | Been doing: 1) Making flash movies for the website i made! and believe me, it was NOT easy. Been using Swish and Flash MX this time! It's been challenging! But well! at least i've learnt how to use Flash MX a little! 2) Making a website!!!!!!!!!! (it's also linked now on my blog under "love", please go check it out) 3) Screen Capturing ALOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT for the flash movie i was making!!!! 4) PHOTOSHOPPING!!!! Ouh man, i can't tell u how sick i am using photoshop lately!!!! Was perpetually using it for editing the pictures to make the Flash movie. Used it aslo to make the website. Used it again for the screen caps. And used it again to redesign the blog! So go figure! Damn i'm doing alot of multimedia these days! |
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 | Been wasting Money on: Well so much for saving up! The rest of the time that i'm not dealing with some multimedia stuff, I've been shopping online for Ash and X-Files stuff!!! Ash CD that i have purchased in the past 2 weeks include: geez, so much for SAVING MONEY elaine! |
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So yeah......... those are the stuff that account for a lack of update on the blog lately.
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