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Sep. 16th, 2010

hold your nerve

[review] Me watching Watchmen, long overdue, Yet..



Why Watchmen?
Yes, i hate that Angels in America whatssisname person. he's forever a Mormon in my mind.
no i dont think i remember Billy Crudup.
Do i think Snyder just flopped ? perhaps. but I'm never the strong-minded, so I'll just confuse you with my mixed feelings.
I watch three hundred like i eat Sunday cherry trifle. each layer, foreground, midtones, regalities, dominant color, scenes, Gerard Butler, dialogues, are meant to be savored.
this was far cry from three hundred. That against 300 hot half-naked roman. mwwraaaRGH..... blasphemous.
but this was not 300, no?
shameless fact : an hour before i saw it, i got caught up watching Wayne's World 2
and i have no etching clue why somewhere along the death of Comedian and Jupiter and Daniel's pointless alley-fight i went completely adrift and suddenly one particular comedy-cliché scene became very very vivid,
a scene where Wayne got stuck in a gay bar with three other guys wearing YMCA attires.
A proven point that even my subconscious was trying with all it's might to advise me of surreal sacrilege.
it's trying to tell me not to undergo this three hours session of god-knows-what, that would later make me want to write stuffy tirades on the previously stated topic.
yet i clung to it because i did pay money and because somewhere inside is a glowing optimist who believes there's an actual END to everything agonizing;
to this point-blank social sentiments got underlined in just too-forward saturated characters.
--i have not read the comic book so please pardon my charming cockiness--
they tried too hard to huddled characters in the middle, to obscure the narrow culmination of right and/or wrong,
that so many are left in limbo of being too useless. too good. to drunk.
too busy keeping people away from taking sides, although we have not long taken sides since Pulp Fiction. and maybe beyond (rack your own brain, or dvds)
whereas all people could twitch about in the end was it's not Right/wrong vs. xxx, it's just another rendition of Right vs. not-Right.
we could see where everything was going.
we could see the blonde ken-barbie bastard would soon reveal himself as a predominant Lex Luthor who, eventually, prevails.
i mean, nobody with that hair could ever possibly be anything less than twisted.
(oh hold on-- was that a blue glowing genital i saw earlier?)
we could see the wayward political indetermination of then americans trying to subdue Nixon's perky yet huge, no-, Ego.
a cultural sentiments toward a dystopian carcinogenic society. It didn;'t happen but its Outcome is yesterday and today.
one of its core postulation that those at stake are every single important thing that happened in one particular epoch of time.
nevertheless you were lurched side to side trying to grasp the focal outlining you've got to find answers to from time to time of "is it 'what could've happened' or what -in its own realm-- did happen?"
(those kind of mental notes that might make your movie-watching buddy actually go mental)
We know we weren't there, but supposed we were. Where would we be? life outside the Watchmen circle of friends were frigid and mere ornamentation.

Rorschach
The protagonist/antagonist, Rorschach, I found impossible to overlook


In the end there were too many scenes where you can not do nothing else but make a unanimous grunting sound of 'oh, you have got to be kidding me' between clenched teeth and fists.
A malaise-triggering storyline cluttered with overly-used spittle spitting and america-this-america-that android-speak.
of occurrences happening sporadically and languidly, yet ironically being very linear.
it was built around someone as real as Pat Buchanan, but was also eroded by a bunch of irritated yet perplexed bunch of Mr. Incredibles.
With characters made to appeal like nostalgia, but with this air of inappropriateness that makes you want to kick and punch yourself in the tush, and then kick THEM in the tush if they still linger.
a blue alienated glowing man sulking to mars? WT bloody F?
i'd sleep better in tomorrow might someone explain me what they make of Mars here.
why mars? and i beg you not to answer 'why not?'.
a. planet?
b. red planet?
c. a nirvana on which genetically altered protagonist come to contrive its outré nature to distance himself from his bleak diaphanous past?
d. commies?
e. err... confectionery?
only reprimand of mine would be:
e. symbols are just an untidy mass of things when you do not do something as much as put a meaning to it. basic.
sometimes we don't like to be left with things to ponder about where there were no enough tools to ponder with.

Like those posh movie reviews those posh publications make, i might as well be both-sided and should very much be obliged to praise Snyder for his ample efforts on exerting contemplative monologues. no matter how repetitive and adrift.
the spot-on characterization of 'no, there meant to be no heroes here. despite the robes '
Jackie Earl Haley's deliverance of Rorschach's moral absolutism.
But i guess any character with name as throat-clearing as Rorschach would generate that same effect.
of accentuating otherwise-banal music in offbeat scenes. soundtracks we've heard before but we wouldn't mind hearing for the gazillionth time anyways.
unparalleled flair (though, arguable) in aptly bringing out the locos in all of us, making gory suddenly very haute , very statuesque.
never before have I vanished from my uncomfortable theater seat straight into this galvanized gawping, as when I was exposed to that much of thick, viscid, beguiling blood and snapped bones.
(yum)
not since 300 at least, no.
maybe i was just drifting and feeling like jerking someone off. pardon my french.
Also pardon this basic human degradation of being suddenly very articulate when seeing something missing, something so, nearly there, so near the very apex.
semi-dystopian denunciation are the best of socio-conscious modern cinema has got to offer. (says the small, crippled, and decaying idealist in me. )
the truth is I'd just very much like to cherish this endlessly as long as my numb-arse possibly could.
in another word, while its still hip in the ever- oligarchic realm of film industry. (says the Me, just Me. )

some few movies made me denounce so much in the dead of the night, unpaid, while i could be better off, i don't know, doing my now-lethargic mac osx maintenance work?
this one is just one of those very very poor exhibit.
not Bad. not Bad at all,
It's just, dare i say.. stimulating in a blue, glowing way.

(Tho in fact i you might be right afterall and I really have got no clue whatsoever of what I'm talking about. )

cheers.

Oct. 5th, 2009

hold your nerve

not so much of a [review] of "The Boat that Rocked" (2009), disguised in Tom Sturridge picspam




I think most of us are quite familiar with Richard Curtis' works. No? how about try to draw similarities between these line-up :
Mr. Bean's Holiday, Bridget Jones' Diary, Love Actually, Notting Hill, and ultimately, Four Weddings and Funeral.
apart from re-appearing british actors, Yes, Richard curtis writes and co-produces most of it.
So this year, should we all not get excited over his latest work? The Boat that Rocked? (Pirate Radio in the US)
No?
Well..

Let's see, shall we?

 
*What I know for sure, that girl on the poster (third row, middle) is seriously insignificant I don't know why she's there at all.
If not just for boobs and frock, i assume. But oh Hell her boobs aren't grand either, neither her frock.  So beat the shit out of me.


What About?
Pirate Radio of the UK, in the 60s, when Pop/Rock music was on its peak, but tragically lacked exposure because according to the film's on-screen caption "Pop Music was played not more than 45 minutes per day", so there fans across the British Isle would seek refuge to Pirate Radios.  (or Radio? cant tell) , and The Boat that Rocked is just a hilarious tale of one. A Pirate Radio on a Boat. (hence the Movie Title. unless in the US, where the title is much obvious. d'uh)

The Rock Boat crew sunbathing..obviously. (i'm really bad at Photo Captioning)

Who?
Great cast, which samples lots of today's comedy spectrum.
There's Rhys Darby (that's Carl in the Flights of the Conchords)

Bill Nighy (he's, um, everywhere? practically.)


Phili Seymour Hoffman, charismatic here, but not so much. Mainly it is because he's a minority here.

Rhys Ifans (him too, everywhere. not complaining, tho)


Nick Frost

seriously, don't they have any other comedians? AGAIN, im not complaining but, really?
I personally think the Brits have the most layered sense of humor.
There are lots of different kinds of comedic thereshhold one can endure,and seriously not that much people could GET british's dark, languid, self-depreciating, and seldom tragic sense of humor.
This i know.
But this can only means that there's no comedy that the Brits do not get.
(I seriously believe if they can set aside their chauvinism, they could rule  the world back.)
Meaning, by birth, the Brits have sense of humor that kills. I don't know how they do it.
So why? its the same old ones that they're importing?

(WOW... talking about drifting off... Back to the Movie's cast, shall we? )
last but not fucking least...
(In fact, he is sort of the reason i'm watching the movie at the first time–Well, not really– but oh shut up and blog, W. )
(DUM DU DUDUDU DUUMMMM...) as Carl , 
TOM STURRIDDGEE!!!!!


Yes, this is a bit out of character for this blog to do this pic-spamming (which is ironically so very LJ). So in we go... here he is, if you need to be reminded how he looks like (poor you, but fear NOT! here I come to the rescue..)

Stills, from The Boat that Rocked









Here's just some more, for your viewing pleasure..
(and maybe some bashing (read: plurking)  if you could ever.. hehe)









 


ALL AND ALL?? Despite Tom Sturridge? Seriously?
Ok..
Serious fun, though lacking in substance. I got the impression Curtis was trying to go the Nick Hornby way,
but you know nothing is Hornby unless it's Hornby.
A good good laugh (in fact, the best laugh i've had since Kablooey, actually.) thanks to ridicilously awesome characters. (Curtis' just unsurpassable at this.), great music, awesome cast, but it doesn't get you as much as thinking let alone reflect or relate. Musically, personally, and all more --llys.

ta.

 

Sep. 16th, 2009

hold your nerve

[rather late] September Music Round-Up

I've kept this for awhile, so this post is actually a bit late. But i just feel like I should blog it here so I could sleep without twitching so much.
So, we talked about The Gossip's Heavy Cross video being superbly glittered with sublime guitar riffs and actual glitters. gold glitters.
But unfortunately, way before i listened to the original release of Heavy Cross i was exposed to Fred Falke's  mix on their song.

I believe Heavy Cross is a bit underrated. despite being such a complete song --lyrically steady yet easy, catchy tone, vocals that induces shivers--, yet in ways it is so raw. in terms of  of how it can be morphed into any kind of song, in the hands of a good DJ.  it's easily beamed up to a completely different ground.

here's the single / vid :




And here's the mix i like best by Fred Falke :

Download Heavy Cross (Fred Falke Remix).mp3

there's another killer remix by Burns. but i almost sprained my wrist from all the linking, so... NEXT.


I think i'll tick a lot ppl of when i say im nowhere near being a fan of John Legend. His songs are well put and sung but ive got a low threshhold over overplayed pop songs. So when this song isn't yet so much on the radar --despite being blogged endlessly--, i got this ironic sense of glee : meaning : small chance i'll get tired of this song quicker than i should.
a very goosebumpy way to get to know MSTRKRFT -read as you like it--
I've got to post this video because the boy in it is rather hottish. haha



Here's an MP3 Link from Tympanogram Blog

LAST but not least, Deadmau5's Ghost and Stuff, featuring Rob Swire of Pendulum.
They're releasing the single this september, and have put the video up on youtube.




Deadmau5 Ft Rob Swire - 'Ghosts & Stuff' (Mau5trap)


If you are not yet familiar with Pendulum, they're this popular/palatable side of Drum /n Bass from Perth, Australia.
Might want to check Granite and Propane Nightmare, just the best dnb song ive heard in so long.
need i say how good they play live? and how cute Rob is. -dies--
guess i'll just stop. and link.

Listen Pendulum - Propane Nightmare at Hypem

Hope the links don't go bust.
Enjoy!

Sep. 9th, 2009

hold your nerve

[recommends] DELOREAN - Ayrton Senna EP




remember the car from Back to the future series that we all just gawked at and officially declared as the coolest possible thing ever?
well, that's obviously not what I'm going .  
i haven't got the EP, for this one i sense i'll just need to be patient and to persevere.
but i've listened several Delorean earlier singles and it's impressively out of 09 electro pop.

but people, THE RECORD TITLE..
i couldnt care less what kind of noise they might as well be playing.
anything that named after you-know-which-Brazilian should get the heigh-ho.

See, apart from being not musically apt at all, i would never write music reviews because once in a while some musician would name their anything after some racing team/driver/owner/insignia then i'd be totally sold.




Sep. 4th, 2009

hold your nerve

(no subject)


In the hype of ‘the fourth Ferrari driver this year' (the most driver Ferrari had in 1 full season since ’82) let’s force ourselves to want to get to know Fisico better. All the while i was ready to compose farewell eulogy for his retirement. I mean, driving for Force India. –despite Spa- That’s no less than a dead end right? like a last supper kind of thingy? oh, well.
And what better way to do that than to dig up my not so well preserved copy of an old, mad and daft GP magazine, GPX ( an F1 yellow journalism media blip so frivolous and very amusingly non McLaren-boring, it only lasted for, uh, six editions? Or such) from July 1998.

Hell I'll just google him, you might say. Well, it’s up to you then, no?
It’s just that out of nowhere –quite literally— this copy which bears Fisico on its front cover, suddenly reappeared in my desk.
And i really missed GPX and googling Fisico isn't my kind of thing today, so.. let's just get along, shall we?

*Trivia : what year was it when Ferrari had the most number of drivers in a year? 1952.
How many drivers?
(Answer at the end of the post. If you’re still reading this, you’ll want to know. :p)

--one more thing, sorry to annoy you my valued reader. But i cant help but comment. Hence the italic bit—

Interview, GPX Magazine, (July '98 edition) with Giancarlo Fisichella.

and here's the funky Cover. haha :




GPX : How Ddid you get the nickname “shag”? (An understated start is the key to good interview – ed)
Fizzy : Er, that was from the mechanics at Jordan. My real nickname is ‘Fisico’

GPX: Oh yeah, right. Have you, seen the website where your Japanese female fans send you love poems?
Fizzy: Yes. I’m delighted to have fans all over the world — every nation has its own special way of showing it.

GPX: Oh yeah, right. Seriously, just how difficult is it to avoid temptation?
Fizzy: formula one is a world wherer you are surrounded by girls all the time, after the attentions of the drivers. But i don’t like it because, before i got into the business, no-one would give me a second look. I’ve been with my girlfriend, Luna, for five years, so i know that she doesn’t just love me for being a Formula One driver. We’re also very busy when we’re at the track, so there’s not enough time in any case.
(*yawns*)


GPX:So what’s your dark secret?
Fizzy:If it’s a secret, I can’t say.

(he’s been boring for long then, eh?)


GPX: You’ve done motor racing. You’ve done modelling. Any other jealousy-inducing projects in the pipeline?
Fizzy: I had a meal with Sylvester Stallone at Planet hollywood in Rome and he told me that a character in his new F1 film might be based in me
(eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww!!!
I mean, eeeeewwwwwwww...
good thing we all knew that movie didn't happen. *PHEW* The world’s saved from unnecessary flawed depiction of F1 bravado)


GPX : And I suppose you’ll be flying off to play for Italy in tghe World Cup Final agter the British GP?
Fizzy: I wasn’t a bad footballer and i wouldn’t mind playing for the ‘azzuri’, but only if i can fit it in a around my work. Life is very good at the moment.
(haha. but the croats beat the crap out of you so you're not missin out anything, mate)

GPX: Formula One drivers get younger every year. How come?
Fizzy: It’s partly by chance and partly because the latest youngsters have shown the team managers they really can drive. And they’re cheap.

GPX: Are you still cheap?

Fizzy: I’m getting more expensive

GPX:Benetton is the youngest and hippest team of them all.
Fizzy: Yeah – last year it was Jordan, butnow it’s Benetton. There’s a really friendly atmosphere in both teams, but Benetton have a bigger budget and have won the championship. Me and Alex
( Alex? Who the f—OH ALEX.as in the gigantic Wurz?? Oops.. That sounds, erm..nevermind. )are good buddies and we work well together.

GPX: Is that why he’s the only teammate you haven’t bashed into..yet.
Fizzy: No, that’s because we are intelligent and we have worked.dlgfkfdsl;kgd%^^ good buddies yadda yadda (enter here : the same as ever PR bullshit these drivers are paid millions to shit to journalists) the only time I had problems was with Ralf Schumacher last season – and i don’t think that was my fault.

GPX: What you were saying to Eddie Irvine after your clash in Spain?
Fizzy: I said t hat I’d been racing by the book, and then, the moment I tried to get past him, he booted me off. That didn’t seem right.
(*sigh* dont we miss Eddie now...)

GPZ: You ended up US$7500 worse off after that – sounds a lot, but how much is it to you?

Fizzy: Money doesn’t matter to me. What’s important is being a decent team in Formula One. That shows I’ve come a long way. But i do have a place in Monaco and I’m looking for a new house in Rome. Oh, I’ve bought myself a Porsche too.

GPX: Didn’t you have a little ‘moment’ in that as well?
Fizzy: Yes it was a stupid accident. Someone drove out of a side street in Pesaro and hit me. He was really sorry, but at the time he didn’t realise who I was. (And you are....who exactly?)

GPX : He would have it you’d been racing for Ferrari. Does it annoy you that italians still cheer when Ferarri beat you, no matter who’s driving?
Fizzy: It’s a bit annnoying in Italy that all they talk about is Ferrari. But I think It’s now almost all Ferrari, with a hint of Fisichella (for real??) One day I’d love to drive for Ferrari, but I have a long contract with Benetton and I’m very happy here. I know I’ve got my own public and fo them there is nothing else – not even Ferrari.
(awwww..how touching it is to see firsthand how an italian boy —boy, did I say boy? i meant— an italian F1 driver (near) burnout's livelong dream come trueeee.... sheesh, that second spot at spa seriously made writing this article much trickier than it should)



Answer to the Trivia : 17. Seriously.



Aug. 25th, 2009

hold your nerve

[review] West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum



Four years after its release. im still knee deep in Kasabian's self titled album. The album with that graphic. given that you've met me, there's a good chance you've seen on something i wore. Oh, have I turned this campaign into a crusade. that the album is underrated, whilst not underexposed as plentyhad been in too many commercials and TV promos/bumpers, etc. more in the uk than anywhere else. up to this second. (2009)
when they've released two more albums.
two?
yes. that means I've bypassed Empire almost completely. not because it's bad. not because it's forgettable. Because debut was so much more. its the pièce de résistance. (uh oh. fancy words. yes i googled this. too make this post just half lame)

then it goes the third album. Now where should i start.....
Serge in a shady interview pointed out "Sgt. pepper made music for the lonely hearts, and we're making music for lunatics" well, he did say it completely stoned.
but this time i sort of i hear shared 'Ahh' said in unison, regardless.

it's called <b>West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum</b> for a start.
in today's modern rock aphorism, dementia is rad.
That's all the emo kids are trying to make us believe. that they all are so much in the top of mental upheaval, so completely messed up that there's no way anybody else --except the Band, dude-- would possibly understand. and if i dont sing and cry while at it i'll strangle myself with my iPod cord and let you watch.  
(than why do you yell ur arse off you pillock? sulk in ur room like other teenangst. sheesh. )

but, this post being : a. from me. b. not about Emo. Then,you've probably guessed that I'd put Meighan's singing spree so far at the other end.

Lunacy sounds sincere. and plain. and ..overpowering. and soulful. concise.
Brit angst rock has this tendency to sound pushy to the side of "being very angry at something. at everything. or at nothing"
at the suburbs. at the atm machines. at kebabs your employer is throwing at you.
well, they sound good alright. most of the time. but when there's someone like me, who live in a city like mine.
wtf?
i want to tell ppl to stop importing these music. but how the blegh?

so when you want to sing psychosis to the edge of entropy, and pain, and exasperation, give me real ones you think you know of.
i don't care if you're making things up. make it up like its completely awry.
im not sure Freud actually observed that many lunatics anyway. at some point he must have made something up, eh?
noises that wanting to represent weird buzzing sound you hear every time you feel like you're about to punch your own gut. that spasm every time you dodged real venom.
subconscious as an uncharted territory everyone should peek through, as no one's nailing down poles just yet.
hav a go at it. Take Aim
lord, should i start at Take Aim..... How did they do it?
 More importantly how could Serge do it?
to make his presence so apparent more than ever before?
[but if i knew i would be there instead of here writing shoddy review would i?]
and all the while looking insanely hot. har har...
With the help of Dan the Automator maybe the answer. But i'd say not the only answer.
It also goes along with the role it plays. It is meant to "Sounds like Syd Barrett." slash early Pink floyd.
All i can say for the moment is that WRPLA is no music for the brokenhearted. The fact that I need abbreviate the title because it takes time to remember the whole train of words, should hint you to a greater complexity, far more than your average feel-good-listen-repeatedly record. it will disillusion you. sidetrack you. bash you with a massive sitar -not that they used any, but. erm, hardly my point-  like you were the partypooper.
if you sulk in the corner tom's lulls and serge's riffs would just spit you in with psychedelic spit. ewh. maybe for some of you this is a good thing. or maybe not.
where did all the love go is a single for a reason. an anthemic single for a reason.
crammed with proletarian aggravations, to Get yourself a million miles From the concrete jungle because The rivers of the pavement Are flowing now with blood.
Whereas Underdog is the new reason is treason. in a more resistant mob kind of way.  

-can i just slip one note that meighan look SSOOO much better with short hair. i dont like guys with silkier hair than i--
When a friend would say Empire is just OK. I'd say don't make the same mistake of mine. Their album mostly need time for digesting. This might apply to Thick as Thieves, see pass the chanty lalalalas, its riddled with well, pretty riddles. metafiction. or just dope. you make the pick.
check :
There we were thick as thieves
Frightened by shadows and the autumn leaves
And it's a nice show
The ones we perform
Performing them day and night
 
 
and if you happen to see the song list and were not curious of how a song called Vlad the Impaler would effing sound like than you gotta be lying your socks off.
it's Beasty boys if they found Leicester just a tad interesting. and if they meet Led Zeppelin on their way there.  and decided to talk about heretics with random beings. just to decide to 'get loose get loose' that this time it might do you good to stand on the side of the enemies. or what they think is the enemy.

The trip ends with Happiness which was a ballad not fit around anything that's in this album. That, and the song that bears [two fifth] of the album's name. that also bears the name of actress Rosario Dawson doing a bit of a narration thingy.
and that Krautrock in the form of Swarfiga. are about the only thing that made me winced a bit even after several playback

but i would still say this is the greatest pack of songs coming from my favourite band. well, not all time but its somewhere up there.
[i would safely say they're my most fav. band coming from, erm, east midlands. [eh?] ]
 
its like these guys signed up for life in the asylum, and decided to put out a last circus for anyone that cared. or not. [doubt they did ]
I'm just worried they'll somehow decide to sober up.

If you cared squat about what i've been writing for a thousand or so characters,
then i'd just ask you to go buy the damn album.
it's one of those album that whether you love it or loath it, it'll just definitely stick out amongst your cds like a sore thumb.


THERE..
finally got everything off my chest. Now i can get back to the damn album in peace.
and maybe hear out Happiness from another askew point of view.



Aug. 10th, 2009

hold your nerve

MADONNA: CELEBRATION




It's just as if Hard Candy never happened. Co-produced by Paul Oakenfold and Madonna herself, Celebration is a squinty peak of --hopefully-- whats more to come in a form of her Greatest Hits due out this year. Im never that soft over Greatest Hits whatever but if Celebration does represent the rest of it then, what the heck.
this tune is what should have been. An album chockful of trancy synths. no? :p well ok, maybe its not that much for lots of ppl. but its definitely my kind of thing right here right now. bearing in mind that lots of radio/record shop/TV station might casually put the tune under POP. yowzee.
ooh ooh! and check out a remix of Benassi as he chips in with a bit of bassline we always crave from a Maddie single!
*little rave dance little rave dance*






p.s : im still trying to get around that fancy in-site media player thingy. Until i get it straight, its just mp3 links for now. : p


Feb. 18th, 2009

hold your nerve

Lady GaGa : putting the fame out



"Just Dance" left me expecting much.
The girl is a mere 22, and she wrote songs for The Pussycat Dolls and whatnots. So i figured i had to know whats more to come from the LP

err..
let's juts say i dont remember much of it.
at times i get the shivers because i seriously thought had Ashley-annoying-Simpson on. *barfs*
or Gwen Stefani. which had massive debut solo singles. Enormous.
but it was 04.

there were good placements of drums and clappings.
and there were overused drums and clappings.
 streaky, nifty, and tuneful verses.
(i doubt you'd skip too quick on "we like boys in cars, boys boys boys, buy us drinks in bars")
catchy, but a slight too forgettable songs.
or maybe i just listened too much biffy clyro the other day.
you just dont get that many sense of what songs identify what part of the day you should be listening to this song at.
its like listening Madonna teaming up timbaland five yrs too late.
maybe i 'm a bit too late with this record.
but Gaga is just as late.
she'd picked up other popsters strands way too much. You should be expecting a lot from a bundle of spark and static like she is.
nevertheless, she's much more abundant and layered stage/antics/outfit-wise.
pop-electro/dance's answer to winehouse.
so listening to her album, for me, was a bit of a stretch.
though right on time to overthrow Madonna. (she should just tone down and play her boy toy in peace.)

Nov. 4th, 2008

hold your nerve

*EPIC-SIGHHHHHH*

a very very bad time of year.
if you're as much as a melancholic Ferrari tifosi as I.

i slept throughout the race after i'd found out LH was fifth.
And the floor director/cameraman/wanker/whoever cant stop taking that Pussykat whtssername's bad-acting anxiety.

then i woke up two laps before finish.
and LH was sixth.
too good to be true?
damn fucking right.
then I had to see those premature celebration --learn from the best of early celebrators, NEVER celebrate early-- on Massa's corner.

and that you know which bimbo doing whatatbout trying to look hows, oh whatevs.

losing by one point.
tragic.
if this hadn't happened all the way around last year.
i would've done something critically demented.
like, killing all my mum's plants that reminds me of a Woking factory.  the ones that spit poisonous gas..
(FINE...she doesn't have one yet.. I'll encourage her tho...)
or.. blowing raspberries to Rob Smedley's tummy?
*gyahahahahaha*

God I'm a nutcase..

Oct. 13th, 2008

hold your nerve

Diana Meradaaaaaang!!!!! hhhooohhhsssshh......

Post ini awalnya dimaksudkan sebagai email personal kepada nona[info]balaclava23 ,
tapi saya merasa perlu melemparkan wacana ini ke dunia maya supaya sedikit lebih on-the-record.

Masih perihal stalking men-stalking. autograph-hunting, photograph-snapping, hugs-or/and-kisses-scrounging di Singapore GP 2 minggu yang lewat.
Tentang seorang Singapura sesama marshal, yang saya kenal ketika awal-awal pelatihan jadi observer/comms.
Lama tidak kontak, tiba-tiba kami mengenali satu sama lain ketika lagi antri ambil walkie-talkie. (1st shake down, 25 September 2008)
Antriannya luar biasa panjang (yaa karena panitianya lelet, ya karena kita ternyata salah ngekor antrian. rumit lah hidup),
jadi saya banyak waktu untuk ngobrol tanpa juntrungan. Walau dengan kemampuan men-decipher Singlish yang pas pasan.
Tapi inti paling besarnya, dia sampai pada tahap menunjukkan kepada saya sebuah video yang dia rekam beberapa jam sebelumnya, "just when i was meeting my friend, near Bugis Junction"
Alangkah Saya terkejut bukan kepalang ketika yang muncul di LCD kamera/camcorder mungilnya adalah dua orang berseragam merah-merah, tidak lain tidak bukan, Felipe Massa dan Kimi Raikkonen. (tidak lebih dari satu jam sebelumnya, saya dan nona [info]balaclava23  menemukan fakta bahwa FM dan KR terlibat media event di Purvis St... dimana itu? entah. pasti hanya undangan yah? ya betul. jam brapa acaranya? jam 4. sekarang jam berapa? 5.30..*garukgarukgaruk..*)
hmm.... tragic, strike 1

Untuk menambahkan bumbu kehidupan,
si pembalap Finlandia di video teman saya itu terlihat sedang memasuki Ferrari 612 Scaglietti.
mobil yang walau bukan idaman betul, tapi tetap bikin saya nyaris ngompol setiap lihat satu.
tragic, strike 2

Reaksi saya terhadap video tension-charged in tidak bisa jauh dari mangap dan megap megap.
SIALAN..

kata teman saya ini "I saw this huge crowd, so i approached them. They appeared to be someone famous so I took videos.."
"........."

"oh yeah, and i got so close to them actually. i could get autographs and sort.
but i didn't know who they were so,.... umm, they're one of the F1 drivers right?"
"......................................."
[sebaiknya dihentikan sampai sini. terlalu pilu.]


LALU,
malam tadi, beberapa jam yang lalu, saya bertemu dengan teman saya ini di dunia maya, lewat MSN messenger tepatnya.  Kami pun mulai bertukar kisah mendebarkan (emm..gak sih.) seputar aksi drivers-spotting masing-masing.
Berhubung tidak lebih 2 minggu yang lalu anak ini masih sama sekali gelap gulita urusan F1, maka saya pun cukup terkesan dengan portfolio pembalap F1 yang berhasil dia buntuti :

Nico Rosberg (with PROPER picture--term ajaib dari Nona [info]balaclava23--
yakni tubuh dan pandangan mata objek tepat ke arah kamera. gak ke kamera sebelah.)
lalu
Hamilton's Brother (with PROPER picture), di hotel Conrad. Orang yang ini, tentu saya gak bakal kenali apalagi samperin walaupun dia nari serampang 12 di depan orang banyak.

dan beberapa orang lain.

Dia pun bilang kalau yang dia sebenarnya incar adalah Kazuki Nakajima,"because he's cute".
Sayang, katanya, malahan cuma dapet Nico Rosberg..
(Yah, menurut saya memang Rosberg memang kelewat pirang dan tampan bak nampan sehingga membuatnya sangat children-of-the-corn. hiih....)

Lalu sampailah saya pada pernyataan bahwa sebenarnya saya tidak terlalu nafsu kejar pembalap manapun,
 dibuktikan dengan perjuangan saya nongkrong,ngomel-ngomel, nahan kentut,nahan pipis,ngupil,ngomel-ngomel lagi sampai jam 4 pagi bersama 2 orang aneh lainnya untuk mendapatkan sekelumit sosok...
Robert Smedley
*izinkan saya daydreaming semenit*
.
.
.
....

Ok. selesai.

Lalu dia tanya : "Which is he in this picture ? the one with earpiece?"

*d'oh....ternyata teman saya masih sedikit berada di ambang kegelapan.*
"umm.. yes. the big red cool Ferrari embossed earpiece"
"hold on..i might have something for you"
"what....thing?"

lalu dia kirim gambar berikut sambil bilang :

"Is this the guy?"




GYAAAAAAAAAhosh...AAAAAARRRRRRRGH!!!

(FYI, teman saya, Huiying, ya yang ditengah itu, bukan yang kiri, apalagi yangdi kanan....
*stab-own-heart-several-painful-times*)

yak saudara-saudara,
TRAGIC STRRRRIKE THREE. millions.
*jab*
*jab*
*jab*
*jab jab jab jab jab endless jabs on the wound i created earlier*jab*

ya amplop.
CAKEP PARAH. *yang paling kanan, hanya mengingatkan*
oh Lord...........
biyuuunnnnggg...

Teman saya ini, memang baik, tapi luar biasa tidak sensitif terhadap lubang penderitaan temannya karena dia terus tambahkan
"he is so.. cute,and very nice...
and approachable"

Rob...
Teganya.......

selesai sudah hidup gua.......

(ok that's one big FAT lie--
Karena saya tadi sudah terlanjur bersumpah akan ke GP Singapura tahun depan,
walau harus nebeng kapal tongkang dan melipat badan jadi tiga)


cheers.

Diana
desperate-for-her-fix-of-a-Ferrari-employed-perfect-italian-speaking-hot-thirtysomething-brit.. 
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