set out in the dark, we used to do it out on the park

recently, hip hop has been getting really interesting. this is partly due to the influx of musicians plainly going fuck it and just releasing music, making videos etc. regardless of the market, the industry, or records deals and ultimately getting great response. in most instances, we have youtube and social media to thank for this power of instant publicity granted to a lot of promising talents who deserve it. enough text though, i'm just gonna lay out some shit that got me thinking i'm gonna be an active fan again, i'm gonna step my been-lackluster listening game up and religiously check out for the newest joints again. play along if you're interested in hip hop.

we'll start with the latest hype to hit the mainstream in just one punkish live show:


these guys are okay, but my favorite member from their crew is the infectious (and mysteriously absent) earl sweatshirt whose video went viral and sparked the initial attention towards his crew:


but my favorite out of all the upcoming emcees must be curren$y with the backing of legendary new york producer ski beatz. i listen to this song everyday on the way to work, keeps me chillaxed:


there's also waka flocka flame who with the backing of badass producer lex luger makes fucking gangsta-crunk adlib-booming foes-blasting BOW BOW BOW BOW fuck yeah music:


how about yelawolf, that alabama twang and some indian-american blood equals good shit:


das racist has this one song that i just can't not like, at one point i listened to it almost every hour. the video is too swag:


i just found out about this dude recently. in this particular joint he's got some wu tang shit going on, his delivery is really something:


won't leave out j. cole, some of his songs are pretty hypnotic such as this one (i don't mind drake that much too, but he's pretty big, maybe not that popular in here yet but in the states he is very big):


lil b is not bad too:

bronson and glover

sometimes i physically walk out of myself (i have superpowers) and look at myself (i try to make myself invisible while doing this so as to not creep myself out.) i see a boy who does not know what the fuck everything. what the fuck is he doing, what the fuck does he want to do, what the fuck is really all this. and others.

and then i get back into myself to switch back to thinking from a first-person perspective. i don't have an identity beyond my name and my looks, i find it hard or meaningless to fully identify with an identity and i just can't or won't even though sometimes i do.

i'm inconsistent, nobody reads this blog because it's much too all over the place. but i made a vow to myself to not have a formula, or a trademark, just do what i do and write what i write, this is a blog not a website. i lied, i didn't vow, i'm too lazy to have vows, let alone set rules for myself. even if the rules were designed to absolve myself of rules.

maybe it's because in my past i have moved a lot, from here to there to here. thus developing a defense mechanism engineered to avoid myself from local attachments. or maybe

anyway that's the end of my thoughts for today. now back to being a thoughtless little slob. i'm actually pretty big. still a slob though

some shit i watched

since i don't have much to blog about, otherwise.

btw, beware of spoilers.

louis theroux and the ultra zionists

this was really dope! louie theroux is that dude. it's fun to watch him walk around palestine/israel and just interacting with people. the zionists are arrogant assholes but these type of people are everywhere on all sides, just so happen that they have the backing of big world powers. it's just disheartening watching uniformed armed men do the dance of fucked-upness with kids who throw stones. dude, one second is all it takes for all of this to be nothing, one second, the earth is killed and none of this fucking matters. and dude, your excuse for occupying those lands is god, fair enough, then good luck explaining to him when you face him one day why you had to do all the things you did to get it

a serbian film
extreme? yes, maybe. but not interesting or creepy or wild enough to be entertaining. all in all it was actually very boring. it took a year and a half for the action to finally start, and when it finally starts because of the plot's setup you could just about somehow predict what cluster-shit is about to happen onscreen. or maybe it's just me and my fucked up mind.

misfits (season 1-2)
the skinny loudmouthed guy is quite funny, the quiet geek pretty cool. other than that the story is messy as fuck, not as annoying as heroes but still, messy. the time traveling oh fuck don't get me started on that, it's an endless rage-stamping of butterflies with no effect whatsoever. they're just basically taking a piss into the wormhole of time-space continuum.

season of the witch
great setting, medieval times, horses, robes, dirty gritty everything but this film disappoints. if they were seriously trying to make the whole journey a is-she-a-witch-or-not it's just plain silly and not working because it's way too clear cut that she is, or some kind of other supernatural shit. and to be honest, it was okay until we reach the bizarre out of nowhere ending (i think this is pretty much a solid clue that spoilers will follow) in which an anorexic demon presents itself to the travellers.

this fucking demon could conjure fire out of thin air like nature was his flame thrower yet when confronted by enemies decides to complicate matters and just wake up zombies to attack them instead. idiot. but i understand, if he's been paying attention to shitty movies it's understandable that he was hesitant to reunite mr. ghost rider with flames. and while we're on that subject, nicholas cage disappointed, there was hardly any over acting that could've elevated this movie to at least almost cult-status. hellboy did look like he was taking the piss though.

faster
pretty cool man, and the rock is just badass as a poker-faced badass. however, what really puzzled me was the ending. this movie went pretty much the whole movie utilizing nice looking flashbacks and then decides to fuck it all up in the end by making bad santa hollywoodly explain everything to everyone for no fucking reason. even the guy he was talking to was like, dude, i'm just here for... fuck, TMI dude.

true grit
the dude! man... anyways that young chick is brilliant, so was the dude and matt damon. the dialogue is cool and all but it went by too fast for my snaily-mind so i'm prolly gonna watch this again if it comes out in our cinemas, i saw the trailer before watching season of the witch.

easy a
the girl, she's not as horrible as juno, but still pretty fucking terrible at sarcasm.

my ex - haunted lover
BOOM! it's a puppy BOOM! a vase fell from the table BOOM! it's just the curtains BOOM! wait that last one wasn't a curtain. Fuck man i'm a chicken and all but some horror movies annoy more than they scare.

narnia
i pretty much slept through a dragon fight. this was a zero.

fair game
decent movie.

tron legacy
when tron came out, what made it so phenomenal was its concept both premise-wise and aesthetically (something like what inception did last year.) to emulate that, tron legacy would have to uniquely stimulate your imagination and at the same time raise the bar of presentation. but this just rebooted the old shit and used graphics that are impressive but just on par with the rest which hardly stands out. still i was all warmth inside watching the dude do his thing. "you messin' with my zen, mannn"

adnan sempit
pretty dope despite the linear storyline, the dialogue makes up for that. these funny malay dudes should just all come together and do a dialogue-heavy stoner movie p. ramlee style, fuck a plot.

hantu kak limah balik rumah
it was alright. funny in certain parts

harry potter part 1
very dope and really well made. the shots are beautiful. i was never a big harry potter head but i went back home and watched all the other movies. now i can't wait for part 2

the social network
that guy whatever his name is i hated him before this movie, he was good in this, as were the supporting actors. well-made movie

tangled
pretty good animated movie

bruce lee
the main dude is way too tall, awkward, and unintense looking to be bruce lee

it's always sunny in philadelphia new season

not as good as the other seasons but some great episodes. i'm just glad i got my sunny fix. my favorite tv series of all time alongside the office (uk)

peep show new season
pretty meh

some shit i watched

piranha
piranha is exactly what it is supposed to be, a mindless flick about creatures that swim and hunt actors and extras whom were paid to act like they are taking their roles seriously without taking their roles seriously. i enjoyed it very much.

reign of assassins
cool love story, could have been a perfect wuxia picture if the well choreographed action scenes weren't marred by confusing hollywood-style fast cut editing.

red
what the expendables was to action movies, is what this movie is, to expendables (think a retirement escapade for retirees retiring from retirement homes). add to that a twist - other than bruce willis as the anchor, none of his assembled team members in the story were played by action flick mainstays. instead, the roles were filled by mostly veteran character actors. so naturally the casting was near perfect. in fact, i don't think the whole film would have worked without their collective charisma since everything else is pretty much simple and direct. which is why despite the fact that i quite enjoyed it i still have a gripe - for something so straightforward it needlessly dragged too much.

buried
buried is impressive due to you know, the moviemaker's self-applied limitations. but from a moviewatcher's perspective, i don't really care, what matters is the entertainment value. so ultimately, this movie regardless of how awe-inspiring it should be to me due to how difficult it was to pull off and how many political injustice obviousness it pointed out, didn't entertain me. and the ending *eyes rolling a perfect semicircle* i assume was written in to seem clever and avoid being cliche, but in 2010 it IS cliche. i understand the need to avoid a hollywood ending and maintain 'artistic credibility', but to me a story should flow as well as the story could, and in this case the ending in my honest opinion, felt very contrived. van wilder did good though.


scott pilgrim vs. the world
quite well made. the old school video game elements are heartwarming and all but overall it was pretty boring.

unstoppable
good action flick, and like any good action flick it didn't waste too much time not being an action flick. in short, the pacing was perfect. it was so dedicated to being an action flick that the back stories (usually utilized to give the illusion of character depth and evoke empathy from the crowd) of the two main characters were established mostly through a hurried conversation made up of forced summaries as if they were in a rush to rescue whatever town the railway track ran through from a rogue freight train full of explosive chemicals. after all, they were in a rush, to rescue, whatever town the railway track ran through, from a rogue freight train, full of explosive chemicals. i don't mind this at all, every action movie should be more like this, 5 minutes max to introduce him and him and him or her, this and that, and we're off.

skyline
i had formed an expectation prior to watching this one due to foolishly reading a review. so i was looking forward to a so-bad-it's-good affair, unintentionally funny everything but overall fun experience. i was disappointed, it didn't reach a sufficient amount of any extreme whether positive or negative to be entertaining, the movie was straddling along the line of mediocrity unable to incite anything from me. it felt like it was made for tv, for a channel that i won't be viewing, not even as a brief transit while on a stereotypically male journey of needless multiple channel browsing. but who am i to judge, i shouldn't say anything since i dozed off momentarily halfway through, decided without a whim of a doubt to just walk away and drive home. that was saying something though.

megamind
would have had a greater impact if it wasn't for the concept of adorable villains being already introduced earlier this year, softening the blow. for some reason i felt it just didn't have that extra enough to have an emotional effect because seriously if the storyline had been structured a bit better and the characters just a bit more endearing, it could have been magical. on the other hand, magical is exactly how i would describe viewing it in 3d because in this sense it delivered beautifully. if every 3d motion picture looked like this i would think less than twice about investing in 3d contact lenses.

and another thing i truly have to thank the makers of this for - i have never understood the appeal of jonah hill to movie producers but in this one jonah hill who always plays jonah hill was treated exactly how jonah hill of any incarnation should be treated, as a zero. from now on i don't want to see jonah hill in any other form of predicament onscreen, if only we could also somehow pigeonhole jay baruchel into roles that share the same fate.


hachiko: a dog's story
simple and touching. richard gere and that dog, good acting.

i don't want a new malaysia (part 1)

i don't want to change the world
i don't a new malaysia
i just want to fucking say things
- a song that doesn't exist loosely based on a song that exists.

1malaysia is a great concept, sure it's underlyingly farcical but it will ultimately become the downfall of them racist pricks who rule this country. because the planting of this slogan will unite everyone who actually believe in and aspire for the idea to eventualize. before this the plight against racism was disorganized term-wise but now it's like, yo, 1malaysia biatch, fuck you.

to me in order to achieve the true meaning of 1malaysia, which is defined by me because i am malaysia and not the false bullshit taught by biro tatanegara, we have to forget our international roots. whatever your race is, you have to forget whatever country it's associated with, forget your cousins or your ancestors. the chinese, forget china or hong kong or whatever, the indians forget india, sri lanka or whatever, the malays, forget indonesia, philippines, thailand, or whatever. the whatevers, forget the whatever, or whatever.

let's get back to the basics, and create a new culture, a new us, a new we. disown whatever our ancestors made culturally compulsory and let's create our own.

for example, we love to park lawlessly everywhere, let's officially make it our culture, put it in the history books. in the middle of a roundabout? why not. triple parking? this is malaysia. fuck, if they invented a car that could climb stairs, we'd park right beside the receptionist, reverse sensors all beeping while she's distractedly trying to answer the calls, why the shit not.

what else? greasy deep-fried food? i'm pretty sure that's very malaysian. we've heard of those mediterranean people with very good skin leading very healthy lives and what not what with the olive oil and all that shit but they're faggots and we're malaysians, we produce badass palm oil or something by the dozens so we cook everything with a baldi-full of that ish my man (oh yeah, mixing up various languages and under-pronouncing it, should be our new official language.) you want healthy food? fuck, i heard fruits are healthy, put that fucking banana into that burning hot lake of oily goodness, goreng pisang!

clothes? i'll think of one, the kebaya was already a fusion of malay and chinese right? expose them belly buttons, add a a thin cloth around it and boom! - kebayasari.

malaysian time - i'm proud to say is an internationally recognized trademark. anybody "too punctual" to a government job interview should be compulsorily rejected immediately for bastardizing our culture, how dare they. to be honest, just to prove how malaysian i am i confess i was actually late to writing this entry, i was supposed to do it an hour ago.

this is just the beginning, i am only randomly shitting out spontaneous suggestions and i've already got a few. there are so many things we could employ, it will be so much easier to just refer to our lives and properly brainstorm once we start over together as just malaysians.

of course we can't forget completely where we came from so maybe we could create a hero from a combination of heroes from the countries of our roots and build a statue.

in my honest opinion, to contemporarize this monument, it should be a combination of superstar rajinikanth + donnie yen + ariel peterpan.

and on the plaque accompanying it, is written - "FUCK YEAH MALAYSIA".

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pasar ramadhan

pukul 4 petang, aku tengah round-round pasar ramadhan atau nama timangannya param (soalan kuiz: apakah nama pendek untuk kelakuan sembahyang di dalam dorm asrama? jawapannya di akhir entri ini).

kalau kat param nih, aku suka check out gerai yang tak ramai orang. aku ada teori gerai tak ramai orang nih mesti dia jual yang best best maka orang tak berani nak dekat sebab best sangat manakala gerai yang ramai orang nih mesti dia jual yang tak best maka orang ramai berebut sebab kalau tak best mestilah murah. so far, dengan humble nya aku mengaku teori aku belum cukup kukuh untuk dibuat tesis.

aku approach satu gerai nih jual kuih muih. aku berinteraksi dengan salah sorang akak tuh:
"nak tanya boleh?" 
"lima dua ringgit dik" 
"tak, kak, saya nak tanya" 
"yang nih pulak tiga ringgit satu dik, ada ayam, ada daging" 
"bukan kak, saya nak tanya..." 
"apa yang kau nak tanya actually?" 
"saya nak tanya... kat mana pintu keluar pasar ramadhan nih?".

aku dengan akak tuh memandang muka masing masing. aku dengan muka plain. dia dengan muka plain jugak lah, tapi hidung dia mengembang dan menguncup dengan penuh intense.

sejenak selepas sessi daring tadi dia angkat tangan macam nak bagi penumbuk sambil senyum dan berkata:
"dik... dekat tangan akak nih ada satu jari, jari nih ada banyak guna, kadang-kadang kita guna di jalanraya diselangi dengan menekan hon, adakalanya di gunakan di stadium bola untuk menunjukkan bahawa kita merasai pihak penyokong lawan adalah useless, dalam kes sekarang ini, apabila jari yang gatal nak naik nih naik ia akan mengexpress kan perasaan akak terhadap soalan adik tadi...

...


tapi takpe, hari nih akak puasa, maka jari nih kita simpan dulu


..."

"akak simpan jari tuh... ada dividen ke? he he he amirite? amirite? high five? ... err"

akak tuh senyum lagi sambil berkata:
"kuih yang nih, lima dua ringgit, yang nih pulak, satu tiga ringgit, ada lagi satu kuih nih, percuma je, kalau adik nak akak buleh kasi, adik pernah dengar tak?"


"tak"


"ahh, kuih nih datang daripada negara thailand, nama dia ong bak, adik nak?"


"err.. huhu, apa nih kak saya tak faham"


"okay lah macam nih kalau kau tak faham, akak jawap soalan memula kau tadi... di antara setiap gerai yang bersebelahan ada ruang kecik, selain tuh semua gerai nih menghadap jalan yang besar, semuanya boleh digunakan sebagai jalan keluar daripada pasar ramadhan ini. akak harap adik perhati betul betul, sebab kalau adik tak gerak daripada pasar ramadhan ini akak akan bedok adik macam akak bedok semua orang yang cakap cerita the expendables tak best!"


"eh... akak ke yang dok belasah semua critic yang kutuk filem expendables?"


"ya, kenapa?"


"oh nak mintak autograf boleh?"


"boleh"

*akak tuh sign autograph*


"you are my heroine!"


"jangan lupa tunggu sequel filem expendables akak ada buat cameo sebagai penjaja yang suka belasah orang yang selalu tanya soalan bodoh"

hey aper-daa aku mengarut nih, consider this my review of the expendables. i have nothing to say but a movie like it deserves immunity from critics or reviews. it is something you watch and feel with your heart not think about with your brain. terima kasih sylvester stallone, you could be chillaxing not giving a fuck with all that wealth you have but you chose to hustle and try to gather as much action stars as possible into a brotherhood just to entertain us.

anyways, lapar doh, selamat berbuka puasa.

(jawapan kepada soalan kuiz tadi ialah sodorm).

yes sir, i can boogie

last time aku servis kereta aku tak bawak apa-apa takde suratkhabar, ipod battery tak charge, aku tunggu je kat situ tengok orang, tengok kerusi, tengok papan putih, tengok tangga, tengok t.v. eh ada t.v. kenapa aku tak tengok t.v. nih je dari awal. oh yeah, sebab dia tunjuk hitz.tv, bukan aku anti hitz.tv, tapi hitz.tv annoying sebab subtitling dia ada delay kira kekadang kau tengah tengok beyonce tonggek sekali keluar text kat bawah tuh coldplay - shower in the rain. apa lanch. logik ke annoying?

apa point aku tadi, oh yeah, itu dulu, so semalam aku bertekad aku takkan boring tunggu kereta kena servis. malam sebelum hantar kereta aku buat preparation. aku tak pernah habis tengok flight of the conchords so aku download season 2. aku convert movie yang aku tak habis habis tengok lagi nih the englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain ke format ipod. aku convert jugak the office uk season 1 season 2 and christmas specials sebab nih series yang for some reason aku leh tengok ulang ulang. aku dah set ah nih, macam macam option ada untuk tengok. tuh tak kira lagu-lagu yang aku simpan dalam ipod aku.

keesokan paginya pulak on the way aku angkut surat khabar satu. rasa-rasanya takkan boring lah aku kat kerusi service center tuh. sampai je kat tempat tuh, tunggu giliran. sampai giliran, cakap-cakap, then finally kereta aku telah sedia untuk diservis dan aku buleh mula menunggu.

tiba-tiba aku jalan keluar tempat tuh, duduk kat teksi stand, tahan teksi, pergi one utama. what the fuck.

presenting the malaysian boy who planned an eventful waiting period on the chair but ended up going to a shopping mall.

satu benda dalam ipod tuh yang berjam-jam aku prepare malam tadi aku tak layan. kenapa ini terjadi? ini adalah kerana inilah perangai aku. simple as that.

dalam banyak banyak posisi kat dalam bolasepak, posisi mana yang pemainnya susah nak maintain fitness?

sudah tentulah goalkeeper, sebab apa? pemain lain lari ke sana sini so everytime main bola diaorang dah exercise cukup-cukup. goalkeeper berdiri je mostly so dia kena jaga fitness sendiri even masa tak main bola.