10.27.2002

 

feeling particularly blu today, no apparent reason, it's just a feeling.

x'ho sounds so sad opening his very last say it with music on p10. its always struck me as being odd, how someone who was the antithesis of pop could host a dedication programme chockful (in joke... x'ho's the chocomon on say it with music) of boybands, girlbands, disposable pop. i remember the time when life! ran something on him a few yrs back, think his cd x'ho with an x - a, nay, the first, local spoken word album - came out at that time, and sbdy accused him of selling out (by way of hosting say it with music) to make ends meet. i beg to differ - alternative and non-mainstream (thanks to the music industry they do mean different things) music aren't always more sophisticated than pop, only that they pander to fewer people by virtue of their definition (and maybe theyre more artistic...). so there. thats something i found myself pondering this am/ last night working out the soundtrack to the video clips.. how i had to search thru for pop that was appropriate for the content, stuff that everybody could relate to yet fit like a glove to whatever was happening on screen. okay, not quite pro-quality timing sync, but, um, close enuf.. =]

how touching, many people have written in to say bye to x'ho.. once again ive joined the silent majority. here's hoping he doesnt disappear from radio altogether. do drop by xhosux.com, his site. am thinking of buying his latest book - tho i dunno wat my mum wd say - featured in the book pages of 8days, Attack of the SM Space Encroachers. i guess he's a local icon, and it could only happen here.

anyway here's a very blu song that's on the 'fan OST now.

Coldplay - The Scientist

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Martin/Berryman/Buckland/Champion. 2001©coldplay

Come up to meet ya, tell you I'm sorry,
You don't know how lovely you are,
I had to find you, tell you I need ya,
And tell you I set you apart,
Tell me your secrets, and nurse me your questions,
Oh lets go back to the start,
Running in circles, coming in tails,
Heads on a science apart,
Nobody said it was easy,
It's such a shame for us to part,
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be this hard,
Oh take me back to the start

I was just guessing at numbers and figures,
Pulling the puzzles apart,
Questions of science, science and progress,
Do not speak as loud as my heart,
And tell me you love me, come back and haunt me,
Oh and I rush to the start,
Running in circles, chasing tails,
Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy,
Oh it's such a shame for us to part,
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be so hard,
I'm going back to the start

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no wonder u2's "electrical storm" sounds so good... william orbit ("Barber's Adagio for Strings") produced it..

im sorry to everybody who keeps coming back only to find my blog full of music, music and nothing but music. i do want to blog about other stuff, but every weekend when i get the time to blog im always so drained there's only one thing left on my mind and that's music. besides i dont exactly keep up with what's happening outside any more- not til i 'graduate' from training next jan. blogs, esp communities of frens blogs, shd be interactive - interactive in a way only the web can offer, dynamic content, reacting to others' posts (on their own blogs) or comments (on yours), basically thinking aloud. really there's been a lot - i do mean thinking stuff - on pris' and grace's blogs ive been wanting to post about, but never had the time/opportunity to. and time's running out on me again, theres just tons of unfinished work and ive gotta head back to work again. if ure wondering, yes, im reading, and im responding - only ull probably never hear the response. that sounds so inane, doesnt it? i feel like im leaving all my frens behind. in some cases, my frens really are away. but i digress. is it true that ive changed (yet again)? i dont know. that's so me.. i never know. how the @#@$ can i ever become a proper leader - since that's what my job description states - when i continually fail to get anything in order, not even myself (dont even get me started on managing people and equipment)? but this isnt a dumping session, to borrow a phrase, if ive changed, its cos now im not as dependent as i was in the past. in some ways ive become numb, i guess. theres really nothing more to my life now than work and music. work, cos the assignments they give are just endless and leave us - or is it just me in particular? - with literally no room to catch my breath. music, because that's the one fundamental thing my life seems to revolve around now. work leaves me with next to no time for friends, and its with a heavy sigh and a large twang of regret that i say that. whatever time i get off its never at the hours that ordinary people off with real lives are out at, much less *up*. sometimes i feel isolated from the world, and that's not very far from the truth. what more can i say? life will only get worse.. culuminating around xmas when were in ROC for 3 wks of back-to-back assessment in realistic situations. til then, thank goodness for streaming audio and bbc radio one's on-demand shows. cheers if ure still standing wif me at the end of it all, a teary goodbye if ure not.

*sob* just heard it on radio - how much longer will i hear the H*I*P*P*A*R*A*D*E stinger for x'ho's hip parade?

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