"My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"

kanye west's self-directed film, the idea is to put all the songs in his new album into a long music video called runaway. the video mindfully arrange all the songs into a simple romantic plot (mr.west dating a phoenix lady), in a marvellous art direction. trust me it worth your 34 minute of your life, of course unless you are a lousy hater. (for better perception don't forget to set the high resolution)

Rihanna "LOUD" Review

one of the few chart-hunting album dropped out this november, it's rihanna and she's back with this rosy-red head feminine i'm not so surprise to see how her look turn out this way at the first time in "only girl in the world". maybe she learned to renovate herself the same way madonna does to survive this long. by the way, it's all about her music though. and, i say yes to pop music so it's not out of my hand to talk about this one. rihanna albums recieves high score on critique reviews in her last 3 albums. she's not showing intimacy with listener (as she described Rated R) and not a hard-core glam anymore. as a result of reducing her lyrical uprightness, each songs become more playful, sympathetic and loud.  to be honest, rihanna looks less wannabe this time.

only girl in the world - first single come out last month (but leaked out way before), up-tempo danceable beat, annoying at first but so pure after a while. the video talks about a reddish girl being in love, dancing around in her drunken fantasy, laughing on the swing, very beautiful.

what's my name - a cooperation with younger rapper, drake. i initially hate this song but after it keeps playing on the radio for few weeks, i ended up humming it. presented in r&b/dancehall style, similar to her achievement "rude boy" less urban, more youthful.

man down - crazier than all songs in "rated r", talking about "mama i just shot a man down" !! narrated by some kind of ice cream jingle music. using the bardadian raggae/dancehall style to pull out her boyish vibe. i love this song.

california king bed - the title sounds like some nasty on-bed music but no, this song sounds very calm, sober and true with that soft guitar.

in conclusion, i think rihanna cannot yet settle down to something like we cannot say "wow this is so rihanna". we have to accept the fact that all radio music are not always the best. everyone leap into eurodance style, everything sounds like david guetta now. however i appriciate what she does so far. as she constantly changing, she is something on the radio that need to stay tune.

"Sigh No More, Ladies..."

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh nor more;

Men were deceivers ever;

One foot in sea and one on shore,

To one thing constant never;

Then sigh not so,

But let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny;

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into Hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no mo,
Or dumps so dull and heavy;

The fraud of men was ever so,

Since summer first was leavy.

Then sigh not so,

But let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into Hey nonny, nonny.

William Shakespeare

(From "Much Ado about Nothing")

Miranda July

after rambling around the week, obsessively looking for a chance to come across the new enchanment in the world of art but sadly i haven't find one. my life has been nothing but switching up the place apartment and campus on and on recently. i wish to have this circle broken before i wither away. i went out some night, met new friends, woke up next morning and met up with old folks. but life won't give up pulling me down...i am recovering from the aftermath. 

so this time i give myself a chance to write something i "adore" so that my wordiness can flow in a bit. and it's about Miranda July, my all-time most favorite person ever. eventhough she currently doesn't have her work come out globally, i refuse to focus on her masterpiece "me and you and everyone we know" i don't want to be the last person on earth to do that. Miranda July should rather be labeled an artist than director or flimstar because she has done everything, writing short stories, playing in a band or even selling pillowcase or sun blind. basically she is a kind of person i perpetually wish to have more in my daily life. though i'm feeling so far away for a big fan, i can't go to her show or meet the real person. all i can do is getting inspired by her film and book "no one belong here more than you" (almost entirely by sexual frankness comedy) and other thing accessible from her. despite the fact the she is not a prolific story maker, there are plenty of her works scattered over youtube which are friendly to my inaccessiblity.

HOW TO MAKE A BUTTON



who wants to know about how buttons are made, but when it comes to Miranda July there must be something. anyway don't try this at home!

"TOP RANKING" BY BLONDE REDHEAD



the most inexpensive stop-motion i have ever seen, not directed by her but very Miranda-ish

ARE YOU THE FAVORITE PERSON OF ANYBODY?



a man randomly ask people down the street "are you the favorite person of sombody" if you don't take this profoundly you may find this idiotic. it's a question of self-esteem. so are you anybody's favorite person?

writer's block

i'm having reality crash, school consumes loads of time and friends don't really fit me so well these day. keeping relationship seemes to be a hard job all of the sudden. Or am i becoming a loner from now? The harder thing is to keep up with something brilliant to blog about. i read a lot but i don't see so much things recently, having so much in my mind but not one thing as good enough. Any how, music can serenade my soul the way it used to, so i pick up one song to represent this weekend, to say i'm still here.

Can I Go Now - Pale Sketcher (Donnacha Costello Remix)

David Hockney

Just want to spice the blog up with David Hockney's 60s-70s works that inspired Almodovar's "Bad Education" pool side scene.

Kim Ann Foxman heats it up!

time for some newsy buzz... yes! it's Kim Ann Foxman, the DJ from the sexual variety electro-disco band, Hercules and Love Affair. The video above is "Creature" the track came out last week for her latest solo debut album, like everybody knew she would! Apparently, the track was built as if to satisfy her passion on 90's vinyl house records. when 70s is too old, 80s is too much, 90s music seems to be the best our generation can brag about. I would imagine her album to come out like H&LA danceable beat but with purer Foxman identity. as we all know, she wasn't quite a singer in her band. now her androgyneous vocal and this classy beat is ready to heat up all the clubs! (i only hope the local DJ in Bangkok would know about this) i am so excited, can't wait to hear the whole album also hoping this won't effect the future of H&LA.