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Insanity.

A lesson I learnt today from talking with one of the must successful insane people I know.

What are you insanely passionate about? What makes you stay up late, forget meals, disregard events to spend your time on?

I remember when I was a kid I used to build Rube Goldbergs. I’d spend hours on the things, making sure the last thing would fall and trigger that textbook to slide down the cardboard slope at the right angle, hitting the marble and finally turning the page. I’d forget there were TV shows, meals, even people. I was lost in my own world.

Then I grew up, and getting lost became a bad thing. You were told to be normal, not insane. Fit in. Grow up. All that crap.

I love music, but maybe I haven’t been as insane about it as I should. I want to be insane again.

I will be insane again.

Whoa, it was a year ago I played at Moonshine with the band.

This month, the 21st to be exact, I’ll be doing it solo with metal strings on a wooden bod at The Apartment in KLCC. Show starts 9.30pm and admission is FREE.

More details in the flyer below:

And if you’re on Facebook (pfah! -who isn’t?), here’s the event linky link:

Facebook Moonshine Event Link

See you there!

Come end of this month, I embark once more on an academic journey; I begin my specialist course in the areas of film scoring, sound design and more.

Ironically, what seems to be a guiding thought for this segment of my life is this quotation by Claude Debussy:

“There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.”

Well said, Claude. Wish me luck.

I’m a big fan of Seth Godin.

No, he’s not a rocker. He’s not a musician either (although he’s a music lover who started a label that didn’t quite go anywhere).

Seth’s a marketer. The kind that helps, not sells. The kind that builds relationships, not PR connections. The good kind.

Here’s his take (actually, more his mother’s) on Mother’s Day, and man, is it good:

Click this link to go to Seth’s post

The Factory, which comprises of The Factory Music Studio, Movie Studio and Design Studio…

… is producing a movie!

Yesiree.

Gangsters. Blood. Drama. Guns. Car Chases. Sex (ooooo!)

In collaboration with J-Blockbuster, directed by Julianne Block and Adrian Lai (with soundtrack by Yuri Wong -me!- and music score by Lim Hong Bee)

It’s competing for a competition called FromHereToAwesome, where the winners get to have their movies distributed internationally!

All you have to do it watch the trailer below (trust me you’ll enjoy it - the guy getting tortured and singing in Hokkien is my brother!), comment/favourite/rate it on YouTube (click on the video once you’ve finished watching it) and we’re on the way to getting our gangster movie worldwide!

Elaine forgets my name, and asks me the same question right after JP. Woohoo!

Watch it here:

Amaaaazing voice.

Guess what? Che’nelle’s in town.

Guess what? She’s performing her slow-jam song ‘2nd Nature’ this Saturday.

Guess what? I’m playing guitar for her.

It’s gonna be bangin’ yo.

I love this amp.

(I’m playing the intro to Satellite at the first bit and parts of Freefalling near the end. At the very end, I’m just wanking heheh)

I got me a new guitar amp!

Not any new amp, but a Ceriatone Expression. Hand-wired point-to-point circuitry, premium components, fantastic sound, all finished black tolex with a red racing stripe decal.

Here it is: *proud*

and here’s it’s happy owner rockin’ out…

I haven’t tried it out at FULL VOLUME yet. In fact, I’ve only tried it out at 1/4 volume so far. It’s scarily loud.

Hm.

Wait,

Come to think of it,

How can someone buy a rock amp and not crank it up?

Hmm…

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I hope the neighbours like rock.