Cursed?

Have you abstained from buying pirated DVDs lately, like a teenager trying not to wank on Christmas morning and gone out to watch a movie (hell...any bloody movie. Pedophile vampires that sparkle, perhaps? Or Tin Man from Wizard of Oz's lean mean cousin fighting to save the world?)

Well, if you haven't (you cheapskate dick), go watch one before it's too late, but if you have, you'll notice a certain Nike ad.

In the ad, there are football stars playing in the World Cup (without the awesome vuvuzelas) running and jumping and kicking but whats more important is the split second before they make their next destiny altering move, their lives flash in front of them and by far Wayne 'Shrek' Rooney's is the funniest.

Anyhoo, the advert showed them achieving major success after the World Cup. Now, lets flip the back pages of the biased newspapers.

It seems that all the players highlighted in the ad are no longer in the World Cup and I know that this is pure coincidence, but isn't it fun building conspiracy theories about the sort of hoodoo Adidas cast upon the superstars of Nike right?

Anyhoo,

For all the cheapskate dicks, here's the ad..in HD..NOT!

Drogba, Canavarro, Rooney, Ribery, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo

Oh..Ronaldinho didn't even make the squad.

Shit on the Radio

Close to two years have passed and I hear same crap on the radio, not same songs but utter crap!

Here's some maths:

+

=

Anyhoo,

If we look at the evolution of the Blues, it started in Africa (a far cry from this Waka Waka nonsense) and it evolved into work songs that African slaves in America sung.

The songs they sung, My Lord...was of a higher intellectual and poetic matter. One that put their hardship, the heat, the long hours, sorrow, pain and even jokes, satirical content and much more into words and melody. Their first born would know of Africa through the songs sung, be it those call-and-return kind or straight up songs. Them working people sung the Blues.

When slavery ended, some Blues Men travelled up north while the others stayed down south. This emigration of the Blues Men proved pivotal for the development of the Blues.

However, we shall discuss Delta Blues, 12-Bar and Zeppelin in-depth some other time.

The Blues as we know it has evolved to various forms including hip swinging Rock & Roll, Jazz, Soul, Rhythm & Blues which all evolved further to Funk, Electric Blues, (now what we call) Classic Rock and it evolved more into Hip-Hop, Rap(Gangsta or not remains irrelevant), Pop, Pop (pronounced: ghey) Rock and much more.

So we have people like Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, The Who, The Beach Boys, Procol Harum, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, Joan Jett, Heart, Guns & Roses, Chicago, Boys II Men, James Brown, MJ, My Chemical Romance, KISS, Queen, Duffy, Aretha Franklin, Deep Purple, Orianthi and many more even a Chinese song I heard (not listened) producing/recording a variation of the blues or at least have some bluesy influence.

There is without a doubt that The Blues plays a significant role in today's music. But how the hell can you compare a very suggestive yet sexual A Whiter Shade of Gray to Pitbull's Hotel Room. It's just rude..ain't it..no taste!

Speaking of repetition, I just cant understand why Hey Jude's
Na....na na..na na na na......na na na na..Hey Jude

doesn't piss me off as much as Justin Bieber's
I'm not even gonna type it..dicks! :)

In conclusion, we have evolved, theoretically, we are a more smarter race compared to some 40 odd years ago. So start writing songs that will actually suit our 'intellect'. Don't insult us with

Your feeling that tonight's gonna be a good good night

or

How lucky you are to be in love with your best friend

We just don't make songs like THEY used to..sigh..

Ooh..have fun with this one:

I Have Faith

I was browsing youtube and I came across loads of things from football skills to magic tricks to google tricks and I found some anti-faith clips. I got pissed off and here's my RANT.

BE FOREWARNED:

I AM NOT ON A "GURANTEED" STAIRWAY(can't help it) TO HEAVEN, AND I'M NOT DOING THIS TO SOMEHOW GET INTO GOD'S GOOD BOOKS.

I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE THIS PISSES ME OFF

Religion to me :

A knowledge of a greater power besides us. Yes, even people that believe in aliens being that greater power, to me, has found a religion. If people think winds and waves or Satan is the greater power, they too have found religion.

Faith:

Now, faith, to me is the manner of which we pay homage to that greater power; a ritual in accordance to religion. Therefore, we have all sorts of mannerisms and symbols of faith, reflecting religion, from praying 5 times a day and abstinence from meat to celibacy and offerings.

Building on this, I feel some youtubers are going a bit too far in dismissing OUR FAITH. Full marks for effort though after watching the audio-visual synchronization, the lengths of research...wow!

I just can't stand the fact that people who don't believe in God, regardless of how we address Him, can't accept the fact there are millions and millions of other people who actually DO believe.


What's up with the proving faith wrong through science?

There was one particular clip who claimed a scientific reason behind Jesus walking on water as, "...freeze water, it becomes ice, then walk on it." I trust the person who wrote and the people who saw the feat can tell ice from water. Moreover, they were on a BOAT...and i doubt they made freezers back then.

What's up with using philosophy to reason God's ability?

Here's the thingy : "If God was so great, could He build a rock so heavy, He can't lift it?"
The argument is if He can lift it, it means He failed to build a rock heavy enough, and if He can't lift it, He fails as a "understrengthed" God.

I think you can't compare the two comparatives on the account that you are comparing two totally different attributes; strength and architecture. Diagnostically, he can do both because they are of two different fields. He can build a rock so heavy because of his building skills and at the same time he can carry it because he has the strength.

The Bible is a work of fiction?

They argue that the Bible and I presume all other documented faith based books are fictitious because of the "unrealistic tales." The story of Abraham or Ibrahim's sacrifice for our Muslim brothers and sisters has been deemed fiction. Of course, we are going through blind faith, but if that is all we have...so be it!

So, in about 3000 years, as people begin to study our present culture and events, how do you think they are going to rate Hitler and gang? Maybe we wont need that long, in the space of 500 years, Hang Jebat has overtaken Hang Tuah to become the new hero.

Final word to faith haters, if we have lived our lives with strong belifs in what you call "bullshit", watching 7 minutes or 70 hours of your "revelations" will not swing us to your side. If for any reason you are right that there's no God and afterlife, well good for you, but I don't think you can really gloat seeing that there is no afterlife for you to gloat...and if you are wrong about God's existance, the afterlife or Heaven and Hell, well at least we can gloat wherever we meet :)

RM 2.70?

Am I supposed to be glad that the two-tiered subsidy didn't come to effect just because I drive a 1.8 Mazda? The increase in petrol price is another thing I needed to FUCK UP my idle Wednesday. Thanks so much!

Some honesty in the build up could have been nice and maybe a little easier to swallow. Nevertheles, knowing Pak Lah, a sudden and stiffening rise as such should have been anticipated. I guess history does repeat itself.

Lets take 3 examples:

1st : I will not get married...he does a while later
2nd : Parliment will not be dissolved tomorrow...next day, dissolved
3rd : There will be no increase(in petrol prices)...now we pay RM 2.70/l

4th : I will not step down...times like this I don't really mind

Have we elected a mind games freak to the helm?
Does he think we like playing guessing games?
Is "subliminal messages" a new national policy?

WHAT THE FUCK?

Even cops in Hindustan movies fire better warning shots.

Now comes the Ubah Gaya Hidup bullshit..
Personally, how else are we going to ubah gaya?

Plant vegetables at the empty spaces of our house and high rise units to plant hydroponic vegetables was their dumb suggestions. From working to the jammed up commute how are we going to upkeep our little kebun?

Along those lines...will the government suggest we start some swine-breeding at home instead of electing them to office? Or are we going to be the FIRST vegetarian country?

MALAYSIA BOLEH!

Are our bosses going to increase our wages to help with the NEW & IMPROVED(not) cost of living? Or do you prefer waiting till August when petrol is rumoured to go up another 30sen?

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

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All You Need Is Love

Dear Emma

Dear Emma,

Thank you so much for dropping a line. If you also have a blog please forward me it's link, I'd love to read it and link it to mine. I guess you are doing fine... I'm responding to your comment not on a personal level nor is it meant to hit your fine country, our neighbour, Indonesia. This is just a part of the debate which I'm looking forward to continuing.

Anyhoo,

I do appreciate on the imput on some facts on the Indonesian market. You do realize that the Indonesian population is some 228 million people, which is roughly almost 10 times more then the estimated 27.5 million people. Therefore, I'd like you to analize the ratio of sales to the "market".

Of course everywhere will be talking about the volume of record sales but here, as we are speaking on local support, let us analyze on how many locals are really supporting the industry.
Even with Peter Pan's record of 3 million copies sold in Indonesia, it's actualy about only one in a million who is buying.

Their "rezeki" on being blessed with good looks or brilliant minds and making money out of it was never at question in the first place. Lets say if they had to rely solely on the music, how would they survive? I take back what I said on the reliability of the Indonesian bands on Malaysia to make them rich. My apologies there. I now agree Malaysia on it's own doesn't put food on the plate for the Indonesian bands, I'm not even questioning the Malaysian devotion towards Indonesian bands. I'm only asking my fellow Malaysians to look and love what we have.

Emma,

How would you feel if your local telco (in our case MAXIS) sponsors a stadium, theme park concert for foreign acts? Indonesian acts included...when on the other side we are struggling to get sponsors, permits, running into trouble with the cops, venues(always some hall or club) for our bands-established and upcoming to perform. Amy Search performed in Limkokwing, Butterfingers performing in Ruums soon.

Thanks Fly Fm for having the Campur Chart, but you could have banged the one year anniversary in a stadium or make it feel real Ozzfest, Woodstock like. Maybe next year...i hope!

Thanx Emma...hoping to hear from you soon.




p.s. Emma was kind enough to leave a comment clarifying some facts on my previous post Local Scene Blues

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