20081010

15 days to Jakarta concert

Very adorable pix. Guess he had a great time in Tianjin. It was raining again & he got drenched singing Rain but hoped that he could 'find himself' again in Tianjin. Listen to a few clips posted by DTFC & he sounded great. Powerful clear voice, effortless projection. There seems to be a worrying delay with his new album. Earlier he had said almost dismissively that he had finished the album & its up to his record company now. His record company confirmed that they have his finished album & is doing final promo work but set back the release date to Dec or even later Jan 09. Why the delay?
I hope its not going to be like Elva Hsiao & Warner where she couldn't even release her album. I have a bad feeling abt his working relationship with this new record company. There was some report midyear which said that he was not pleased when they wanted to delay the release of his album ... and you know what David is like when he is not pleased >"< He wouldn't say anything in public of cos but lately his attitude seems to be a bit lacklustre when talking abt his album. Anyway whatever obstacles you may face, DT, we will always support you. With rampant piracy & oncoming recession, there is no guarantee that his new album will sell well esp when he is adamant not to make a crowdpleasing album. Dear DT, just walk your own walk & if you are sincere, all will turn up well for sure.
He promised we will be able to watch his movie next year but I wish he will stop with the hype abt making a breakthrough in chinese movies. I don't know if he is doing it to please his investors but hype usually comes to naught when you fail to deliver. Anyway one Taiwanese movie has already proved that one can be successful without hype. Wei Te-sheng's Cape No 7 has become a trueblue box office success. He borrowed NT$30 million putting himself into debt just to film this movie & it has already made much more & is Taiwan's Oscar entry this yr. If one really has a dream, one go ahead with it no matter what. If David's dream is to film a movie, he would have written a script a long time ago & worked hard to get the funds to film it. Not wait till 10 yrs later when he is famous & is able to get investors interested without even having a finished script yet.

20081008

10/7 Tianjin concert

Oh dear I totally missed his Tianjin concert was yesterday. Anyway here some pixs to make up for it. He looks so wonderfully DT ^__^ And his familiar voice so powerful yet comforting. Will do a countdown for the Jakarta concert as it will be his first one there.

20081006

Nothing much post

Seemed that David didn't turn up in Dongsheng after all. Oh well his Tianjin concert will be next week so hopefully there will be news & pixs. No news abt his album so guess Oct release is out, so maybe Nov or Dec or even possibly Jan ^__^ Have a feeling his record company is delaying the release cos maybe David hasn't agreed to extending his contract yet. In these times of little profit from album sales, a recording contract esp with a HK based company could possibly mean more endorsements & bigscale concerts. I honestly don't think this is a route David wants to take. He probably wants to go on releasing albums but not every year. Dear DT, whatever your future plans, hope they will be successful.
Have been watching some episodes of Slamdunk & must say I am impressed. That they could stretched out the last 3 mins of a basketball match into 2 half hour series & still made them exciting & breathtaking. But it will be nigh impossible to make this into a movie. In fact I wish non-Japanese will stop making anime into movies. As far as I am concerned the most successful anime to movie is Death Note. I am still enjoying anime music. Heard some really cool hiphop with stylish inclusion of Japanese traditional music & sorry to say but is way more sophisticated than any Chinese composer has ever done. At the very least, it did not sound kitsch -- which is what most zhongguofeng music is sounding to me now *anticipating ugly comments from crazy fans hah*
Not saying that Japanese music is superior to other Asian music but certainly anime somehow managed to bring out the best in their creativity in many areas from storytelling to art but still anime does represent a form of escapism no matter how serious the material. Its the same with popular writers like Haruki Murakami & Banana Yoshimoto who indulge in the paranormal time & again in their novels. I guess with their tramatised history, one can understand why. By the by did you know that US is flirting with the idea of selling nuclear missiles to Taiwan. Deja vu eh? But of cos Taiwanese can afford to relax cos u know they can close their eyes & remember those blissful childhood memories. God I can be a bitch sometimes hehe :P