Archive for July, 2009
Animal Collective – Bluish
Posted by Kim in Foreign, Indie, Music, Music Videos on July 29th, 2009
Hey, listen to this. My current sound trip.
Glory that is Wimbledon
Roddick gives his all and falls for the ball
I know, I know, this was supposed to be the beginning of an all-music blog, but while I haven’t got a place to dump all the other fancies in my head, I will always try to come up with a way to squeeze music into the equation.
In the form of a soundtrack.
On a warm sunny spring afternoon at the Wimbledon center court, two heroic figures meet at the finals of the most classic tennis tournament. For either players, it would be a historic bout. One is vying to break Pete Sampras’ record by winning his 15th grand slam victory while the other is a man who used to be the world number one, disappeared into obscurity and decided to get back in shape to reclaim his glory by orchestrating one of the biggest upsets in tennis history. Federer and Roddick had a lot at stake.
They play each other until the 5th and final set, on what seemed at first to be an almost impenetrable gameplay from both sides. Roddick serves splendidly and is stunning his opponent with uncharacteristic volleys. Federer on the other hand holds out even though he appears exhausted, giving it his all when Roddick finally show some cracks at 15-15. I was rooting for Federer at first but seeing Roddick’s spirited and utterly jaw-dropping performance, I wanted him to win in the end.
But like any sport, someone has to win and the other lose.
I am dedicating this post’s song to the courageous fight put up by the American, Andy Roddick. Roddick, I’m sure you’ll remain in the conversation on the next grand slam. We’ll be watching you.
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Reimagining Michael Jackson
Posted by Kim in Dailies, Foreign, Mainstream, Music on July 5th, 2009
Dangerous album cover
In the summer of 1995, I snuck into my uncle’s room with keys to his bottom drawer containing his most precious special edition tape of Michael Jackson’s ”Dangerous” album. The album is said to be the last plateau of Jackson’s music career before it went downhill relative to the high standards he himself set with previously historic sales. I played the tape every morning while I stayed at my grandmother’s house that whole summer. Every morning the first song I’d play would be “Black and White” which my uncle told me was my generations version of Stevie Wonder’s “Ebony and Ivory”. I never understood it until much later, upon hearing Stevie’s song throughout my life.
Every legend or celebrity we tend to render some respect to are often intertwined to a personal memory that we could connect with their creations. It shows that some mementos are created not only by people we personally know, but who leave a mark through their art or performance.
RIP Michael Jackson.
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Southisms and the July bash
July is the birthday of this website as well as mine. Who knew that it would go on for years and would end up reinventing itself every chance I get. Then I realised the website which started out as a simple music blog was able to attract a wider range of multimedia topics. So it has been everything I wanted it to be except the niche blog which Blogie and the rest of the blogger pips keep encouraging everyone to make their blogs in to – and there is a very good explanation for that. They say the more you write niche topics, the likelier chance of getting a “niche” following. But it’s never been easy for me to get that ever elusive “niche” following. I often rely on the random traffic I get from the random posts I happen to come up with.
I also realised that the website is also a semblance of myself, of my ever fluctuating interests and at this point in my life when I want to stay focused, I seem to want to implement it on this blog as well. Finally.
If music is what got this blog rolling then expect that the next few months will be ALL ABOUT MUSIC. Let me know what you think about that, if the random content is more your thing or a blog about music seems to sound more like my style.
Again, happy birthday Southisms.
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