i blame it on the black star (i heart radiohead!)

48 hours away from my laptop + hundreds of mp3 blog links = radiohead bliss

i get home from work...

i seem to have a really weird hangover. i have less than 8 hours sleep in the last two days, and i must be crazy if i'm still up at one a.m. surfing instead of sleeping. it's not that i can't get enough of the internet, it's just that there are some things that rank higher in my list of priorities. namely, love. pair that with one of the greatest rock bands in history. it's a no-brainer.

i think it was last week or so that my best guy bud and ultimate mp3 resource (the boy's name is mike by the way) sent me a link to a blog that featured a thousand covers of leonard cohen's hallelujah. here i thought jeff buckley was the genius behind the song. and man was i overwhelmed. not only does my old kentucky blog have gazillions of other bands featured (like, the ones you never hear about) as well as an opinionated commentary on rockstar:supernova, it also lists an impressive number of mp3 blogs. i'm telling you, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

it started with me downloading patrice pike's performance of my iron lung (pretty neat), and then one click led to another... and i'm drowning in links to various radiohead live mp3s. it was like having my birthday three months early. if i'd been on dsl i would have downloaded them all according to show, but since i don't i had to pick and choose and leave the rest for another day. listening to the live performance of black star in copenhagen gave me a rush much like staring at my phone wallpaper of lee dong wook. 10 minutes after my last listen, my heart has not stopped pounding.

disclaimer: i'm not really a big, big fan of radiohead. i'm yet to buy the rest of their albums because at the time they came out i was just a poor college student. or a poor entry level actuarial student. only last monday tower gave me a big surprise when they put out 3 cds on the shelf: kid a, ok computer and hail to the thief. i don't think it's ever happened before. so when i've stopped being a poor actuarial analyst (hopefully by next week ) i *might* get ok computer, arguably their best album. so that my copy of the bends will have a companion, finally.

here are some of the other blogs that quenched my thirst for the boys from oxford:

http://musicisart.blogspot.com the kroq performance is here
http://gillmoreboy.blogspot.com linked to musicisart
http://neileslife.blogspot.com copenhagen and other stuff
http://www.bestweekever.tv/category/mp3/ start here

another btw: thom yorke just came out with his solo effort, the eraser. nope, the band is not breaking up.

song of the week: trapt, lost realist

sunshine on a cloudy day

fridays are not for working, they're for thinking about sunshine

the past few days have been unbearably inconsistent weather-wise. i probably didn't need to say it, but what the heck.

one day this week i rode the bus to work and i was surprised when i came upon a janitor mopping up the puddles at the buendia mrt station. but as i was walking on that dumbass pavement they called a sidewalk, i started feeling the heat -- and not from the conversation i was having with my bud from work. i went out lunchtime armed with my rain jacket and an umbrella, just in case the downpour from the previous hour gave a repeat performance... but nooooo. the whole time i was out on the streets, the sun proved its might as if mocking me and my just-pampered-newly-trimmed hair. yeah, the one time i did not need the hassle of breaking out in sweat.

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my sunshine, julian.

hey nic, wasn't it you who wrote about keeping tabs on some korean telenovelas in the us? have you seen mai geol yet? yep, it's airing here right now on channel 2. and i'm so totally in love with seol gong chan (hereabouts known as julian).

to think that i was a bit amused at the idea that my friend ness bought the dvd box set (from lei's suking pirata). and even my recent fascination with princess lulu did not prepare me for this ultimate fanaticism. but the hopeless romantic in me just can't resist the charms of the stoic but caring grandson. and after the marathon session at ness' place last night (i still have 3 more discs to watch -- a total of 6 hours of torture), i could hardly think of anything else. really. i was so unproductive at work today, it's a wonder i even remembered to have a cake delivered from aristocrat (i'm telling you, their chocolate supreme is even better than polly's, though also more pricey). and it took all my willpower to wait for lunchtime to view my friendster page, to get my lee dong wook fix. for once, having lunch was not a priority.

see, who can blame me for complaining about real life? fiction may be insubstantial, but temporary happiness is better than nothing at all.

song of the week: top suzara, sabihin mo na (cheesefest! but my girl is sooo worth it!)