23 days to SG Concert

David wrote a song for Gong Shi Jia, new singer from Sg. Apparently her producer knew David & asked him for a song for her debut album so David spend some time with her so he could understand & tailor a song for her. How crazy is that? There are probably others waiting for his songs *cough* Taobao.com, Elva *cough* but instead he went & wrote a song for some unknown singer.
He really acts like the true artist not caring for fame or fortune, depending more on mood & inspiration. Ella of SHE also helped out by acting in her mv. Dun know much abt Gong Shi Jia but still must support local artists, so buy her album when it comes & get the bonus of David's song ^_^
Was asked today abt Memoirs of a Geisha coming soon to a theater near you. But strangely not too disturbed by Chinese acting as Japanese maybe cos the book not written by a Japanese writer. I read it & wasn't impressed compared to say Sei Shanagon's The Pillow Book or Junichiro Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters. The movie aimed to make lotsa money with lotsa commercial tie-ins & be a Oscar contender. It has a huge budget, talented people working on it & will have a killer soundtrack scored by John Williams with soloists Yoyo Ma & Itzhak Perlman. It tried to be pc & noble abt the subject matter - geishas treating them with utmost respect cos they are not prostitutes but ladies full of refinement & skills. Give me a break, they maybe highly educated ladies but all their tough & strict training was only for the sole purpose to serve & be subservient to men. Sry if they are any Japanese readers but I am only calling a spade a spade not a harvesting implement with long handle.
So the movie have excellent production values, good restricted acting & a professional score. Nothing wrong with that but what purpose does it serve? Will it improve East/West relations, help foster better understanding of Japanese culture or improve the standing of Asian actor in Hollywood? Not really, in fact the celluloid world will probably not miss it if it has not been made at all. Based on a highly popular book, the movie is superfluous since it brings nothing new to the table not even introducing new Asian talents. The main intention is to entertain, make lotsa money & hopefully pick up a few Oscars. Yeah a lot of things like that in the entertainment world including recently released albums (^__*) Anyway just for fun I use my poetry generator on the title & 2 'original' songs:

November Chopin
Spam, Spam do you know what you am?
To never be caught by Rin-Tin-Tin.
And chastise every I am.

Hair like snow
And they took me away as I screamed "no!no!"
into an oriental fellow
there is no lawn to mow

Paparazzi from all fronts
Madonna said after her ritual dog spanking,
When in the course of horrid events
Hey dumbass, that's "Goering!" said Adolf, imploring--

I swear I did not tweak it or anything, this was what came out, I am beginning to have enormous faith in my poetry generator haha

24 days to SG concert

Interactive update - upload short clip of what I called 'outtakes' in the making of What's Love mv. He strummed his guitar while taking to the two girls, then one of the girls yelled what's love & he retorted are you mad? It was cute ^__^ He demonstrated how to make a sweet note even more sweet, oh yes David can write sticky pop if he wants to.
Also upload 9 animated gifs including above with Lee Hom, sry but sum could look a bit weird cos of the slow server but they r quite fun mostly from davidcn. Really enjoying the interactive site altho still a few glitches with Mutiply, takes forever to upload & the sticky dun work *sigh* so yeah probably will not be moving so soon from Blogger. Not sure if I should keep this as archive or transfer the whole thing to Mutiply. The other attraction is the News Media once I finished it will be awesome, both chinese & english DT news media from China, HK, TW, Sg & Mal all in one place.
Like to share this blog entry cos it's hilarious. Alrite I confess I browse blogs & read them when I am bored - I am a blog peeper heehee anyway this is fun reading & not only that but scroll down for a surprise. The image of two linguists in Shanghai, one chinese one american singing David's songs in karaoke to improve their mandarin just cracks me up. So WKWish dun u think. Seemed David's music quite the fav amongst non-asians learning Mandarin in China. I guess his songs would be more accessible to them.
Go down as smooth as Craig David whose new album The Story Goes is very nice but I agreed with the reviewers who felt that with his 3rd studio album after 3 yrs he could have shown more creative freedom, but it was pretty predictable. Should have been his 4th or 5th album. Basically if you like The Great Leap, you probably like The Story Goes. If you dun well wait for his next album, at least with David we got Black Tangerine for his 3rd studio album. Aren't we the lucky ones heehee

25 days to SG concert

The way the light shine on him make him so angelic, credit davidcn. I like it that he gave up wearing headmike cos he looked more like a musician singing into the mike. I know I am weird heehee Doing the countdown for Sg concert, btw here's 10% discount for NTU students for Love Can Concert. Also contest which ended but there's another one @ Fusion Radio ending 11/18 so dun miss out!
Wake up SGFC! Aren't u guys suppose to be on the lookout for such contests & broadcasting them (^__^) Love Can promo @ Singapore Indoor Stadium
Another fabulous concert pix from davidcn, really like this as can see part of the rainforest stage. David said he might strip in Singapore but really he dun have to cos I think he looks sexy even with clothes on haha
Map of TW concert hall which looks rather small, wonder what is the capacity? But it could mean that the stage will not be too far off for the cheaper tics hopefully. Added sum more stuff to DT Interactive - recipe for Kung Pao Chicken & Love Can Concert Merchandise so check it out!