Entries from June 2008

June 30, 2008

This is how pop music should be done!

“They have crash helmets on,
Just like Major Tom,
They are the space troopers,
Super duper!”
Thanks to Popjustice I found out about this band last year and have been in love with it ever since.  It has brought some cheer during the winter, shaking my bon bon to this tune while doing the dishes:

Absolutely [...]

June 27, 2008

Kids are at it still

Well, the first New Kids come back single… that sounded like a left over from the Backstreet Boys catalog. *sigh

Poor Jon, has to play straight guy and frolic with bikini chicks…
The whole thing is kinda rubbish… really!
Now, wash your ears to this amazing remix of Alphabeat’s “Fascination”, my [...]

June 26, 2008

Girlfriend

My second summer anthem.

Great vid and Annie is class!
I can’t wait for the album to come out!

June 20, 2008

A mocking reality I can’t be rid of?

“Is it so terribly inconceivable to comprehend God with one’s senses? Why does he hide in a cloud of half-promises and unseen miracles? How can we believe in the faithful when we lack faith? What will happen to us who want to believe, but can not? What about those who neither [...]

June 18, 2008

Handsfree

My first summer anthem…

The album is pretty good too.

June 15, 2008

Sir McKellen and Melancholy Pop

Sir Ian McKellen and pop music… what a brilliant combination!
Love the vid!

Beautiful!

June 6, 2008

Fragments

I…
am troubled by the fuel hike issue in my country
got myself a macbook
fear and loathing my future
comforted by friends at various point of chatting
reading “The History of Love”
wandering alone in Seoul
cried a couple of times listening to Elliott
rediscovered a 黄韵玲 album that was my 20 something soundtrack
had hearty laughs from various interactions
affirmed by my [...]