So I’ll post a video I took at the Samiam show.

Ronny comes to Melbourne next friday and we catch Metric on Saturday! Hopefully I’ll be able to take him to a couple of other shows while he’s here. We need to inspire the boy!

In other news, early bird tickets came!

I predicted 2010 is gonna be a fan-fucking-tastic year. The only downer is that after Xmas break I won’t be back in SG till January 2011 and I honestly don’t even know if I want to go back anymore. Ronny and I were discussing the possibility of moving here for a couple of years but haven’t come up with with a solid plan just yet. We’ll just wait and see.

Miss you guys mucho!

Yes? YES!

Birthday wishes.

credit: Knight Cat

I’m trying my best to figure you out, but time is working against me.

credit: hedi slimane

Haha I just had to post this! Omg, FMS Society and all our nonsense.

Photo Credit: Hedi Slimane

You have to admit La Lohan doesn’t exactly have the best rep in Hollywood but I won’t deny it, I love her. So here’s to the talented La Lohan who just happens to be my birthday twin too.

To view the rest of the photos go here.

via the Jak & Jil blog.

food I’d try on thisiswhyyourefat.com

The Ditch Dog

Two hot dogs topped with mac ‘n cheese. I’d probably try the Sausage Egg And Cheese On A Chocolate Glazed Donut too. But cheese over chocolate for me any day!

Sloppy Joe On A Krispy Kreme via thisiswhyyourefat.com

Its so sick but you so know you’d be willing to give it a try. hahahah.

I think this isn’t the first time this issue’s been brought up because I know Jbarks once wrote about it as well last year or the year before but a certain photographer at a show I went to a couple of days ago has forced me to want to write this post.

Gig photography has grown increasingly popular the past couple of years and while I do appreciate what they essentially do for us the audience (take pictures for us to remember said show/performance and capturing important moments in local music history) the increasing number of young punks who think they’re bona fide photographers just because they own a dslr is becoming such a problem, its become irritating for us the audience.

These young punks basically had their daddys or mummys buy them cameras and they suddenly think their good enough to be gig photogs. They come into shows carrying their camera bags with pride but basically don’t know shit about basic photography or know the photo taking etiquette when shooting shows. They take photos lousy in composition, stand in front of you for way to damn long blocking your view of the band and are unaware of their surroundings.

Said show I attended last week was an event I had to cover for work and said photographer basically stood in front of Ronny and I for so damn long we couldn’t see anything unless we leaned forward which then caused us to block the people seated beside us. Yes it was a seated show, you’d think he’d have been more aware that he was blocking us when he stood there but no he didn’t at all. Every other photographer in the venue knew what to do except for this young punk.

He was even given an official photographer tag so I knew I was going to end up viewing his pictures and passing them to my editor. I’ll send anyone his official web link if  you wanna see the pictures. They were as predicted, horrible. Bad composition (hello learn the 1/3 rule please! Also, chopping some one’s head or arm out of the picture automatically makes it a lousy shot cuz you made the person look like he’s decapitated and learn how to focus please. Also if you don’t know how to work with light don’t be a gig photographer cuz you clearly overly relied on you flash which you didn’t even use properly) and told no story whatsoever. The performers ended up looking horrible in the pictures too. I predict the designer’s gonna have one hell of a time trying to make those pictures work for the publication. Wayne Umehara would have screamed at him till he pissed his pants if he was in our photog class.

So kids, what I’m really trying to say is, if you don’t know the basics and you don’t know how to use light and you don’t know the proper etiquette then don’t bother being a gig photographer. Go learn the basics and improve before you dive into it. We have enough extremely talented people taking pictures (even if they rarely come out to shows to shoot nowadays) for shows for the time being. And no, just because a scene kid tells you your pictures are awesome that it really means they’re awesome.

People are so harsh really, I had a 50 word limit for the review and I already went past that. I didn’t get to write a full length review for the album like I got to do with ATC’s but I did the best that I could do with such word limit.

And seriously what parts of “nothing short of magnificent, and to say it is anything less than that would be a crime.” and “Reasons To Leave is definitely one of the best releases to come out of the Singapore music scene this year.” make it sound like its a negative review?

I’m sorry I haven’t reached the stage in my writing to be able to write like Yeow Kai Chai and I don’t have the balls to be a bitch of a critic yet.

Ah screw this, say whatever the fuck you want.