Oh. I just spent almost a hundred buck setting up my bass and getting new strings. Hope Dean Markleys are as good on basses as on guitars. Mark did an excellent job doing up my bass. Everything feels so much smoother. But I haven't played it yet since I brought it home. I'm a lazy fucker. I just realized I left my cloth with Mark. Oh well. I guess it's time to get a new one. Hope the feel of the bass I got straight after setup wasn't a high but actually feels that way. Happens to me all the time. And I usually just leave it in the bag till jam or gig so will only know on Wed when Samanta is jamming (the only day we're, or rather, I'm free).

You know what day is it today? A boring day. Actually, yesterday and today were like, the most boring day ever. So bored that everything was boring. Even stoning or sleeping or just standing there staring was boring. So bored that I actually succumbed and downloaded Java games on my handphone wasting $20. Should have spent that money to pay for my fine instead. Bloody hell!!!


In case you can't see it clearly. The gig's on the 6th of Aug at the Substation Guiness Theatre. $8. 3pm till late.
Samanta will be playing at 520pm. But do come by 5pm. You know how things are.
ArPee will be playing at 630pm. They're really a good band.

I hope I can save up enough money by next year so I can drop everything and run around stark naked. Figurative speaking off course. But it'll be nice to be able to run care-free. Right now. There are so many things being tied down and are tying down. Anything that needs to be done or wants doing has to be approached with rocket science calculation and precise precision engineering. Even the pockets are weight down even though the wallet is empty.

The past few weeks/months so far has been busy in some sense. Work, band, session, gigs, trying to get my act together with the label. Can't say I haven't been enjoying myself, but I wish I can be 23 again. Why 23? I don't know. Maybe cos 27 DOES seem abit old now that you look at it and looking at the stuff that's needs doing and being done. But if you look slighty to the left, it's just one straight line without a start or end point. You just keep going and try to keep your balance as well as you possibly can.

What the hell?! I have the new Foo Fighters album and I'm not listening to it. What the fuck am I doing?????!!!!!!

Argh! All my slack clothes are in the wash. Not even a singlet. I'm just gonna wear nothing.

Sometimes....just sometimes.....

What will God say to you when you die?
Name
Age
Religion
You will say:	AWESOME! They didn't catch me!
He will say:	You forgot the pepperoni
How much do you deserve to be in heaven? - 55%
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It seems God likes pepperoni a lot cos that's what he/she said to the Bidster too. Hell (maybe not the right word to use now), I like pepperoni too. Maybe that will score me some brownie (or rather, pepperoni) points. Lame-O!

It seems God likes pepperoni a lot cos that's what he/she said to the Bidster too. Hell (maybe not the right word to use now), I like pepperoni too. Maybe that will score me some brownie (or rather, pepperoni) points. Lame-O!

I have every reason to smoke and no reason not to. Why shouldn't I?

Man...Fender Jazz basses are just downright unbelieveable fucking sexy man. They just are. No matter how, who or what, it just oozes with sex appeal. The nice thin neck, the cool curvey headstock, the contoured body. uhhh.....orgasmic orgasms man. uh....

Excellent. Oh just excellent. 'Cos of the events leading up to today where I just KOed some, I've been wearing the same tee shirt for 4 days in a row. Plus I sprained my ankle taking my socks off. Excellent man. Simple excellent.

Aw man...the video of Samanta at POW on Friday didn't turn out well. To much inter-lacing from previous shoots. And it was one of Samanta's best gigs with nicely dressed dressings, high energy impact songs and crazy monkey flying stints with mad orgasmic orgys moves. Or as The Bidster coins, It's not Samanta but Sex-manta.

Lesson:
- Never re-use your old tapes.
- Always use new tapes.
- Always test.
- Always clean.

Injury list from the last 2 Samanta gigs on the 8th and 17th.
- Bruised bottom right hand from hammering my bass with my fist. (8th)
- Bruised just below right thumb from I don't know what (17th)
- Sprained left middle finger from I don't know what either (17th)

I wonder how many injuries I'll clock from Samanta's next gig. It's gonna be on the 23rd. *wink wink* Man.... I love my bass.

So get your ears ready everyone because it's gonna be another crazy weekend.
23rd Samanta at Youth Park
24th Eugene's Moment of Truth at Prince of Wales pub.

I need to learn more dance moves.

Sometimes, all you wanna do is just give up. You wonder to yourself,"Why do you keep going on?" Amd you don't know the answer.

"It's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again "
- Times like these - Foo Fighters

Here we go again. It's been around 2 years and the feeling is back. I can't describe it and I don't I'll try. At least not now. It's like deja vu. Everything is so similar. But I don't think it'll ever work out. Why? Because everything is so similar that it'll probably be just the same. I'm sorry for those I've hurt but this is different. It actually is so similar that it's scary. Did I mention that it's very close to the same thing? Ok. I'll let some out. It's about a girl. It always is.

Ok. I finally cleaned up my haircut thanks to the Bidster Now all I gotta do is lose weight (slack!) and get new glasses (broke!). But i just got freaking fined $70 for illegal parking. The whole buncha bikes got fined too. Damn! That's a lot of money.

Come down to the Prince of Wales pub this Friday 17th June. It could be one of Samanta's last few gigs. NS is calling.

Conversation between Willaim The Sixty-Ninth and me on msn....

William The Sixty-Ninth - Where You End and Batman Begins... says:
what plans u have to take over the world?

plasticblackspecs says:
first, i'm gonna clean up my hair cut.

plasticblackspecs says:
then I'm gonna lose some weight, get rid of my flabby tummy so I can fit into my jeans again, and then get new plasticblackspecs

It was just meant to be a passing comment but after I said that, that's so what I need to do man. Freaking tummy! And no! No matter what you all say, it's not a beer belly. It's from the constant siting around, constant snacking, many lunches in one day and many moments on the couch at work (sleeping lah!)

Samanta @ Hideout was great. I couldn't really hear my bass (which was a turn-off) as the amp wasn't powerful enough and it was being overdriven and the guitars were abit too soft. But nonetheless, it was fun and at the end of the gig, I was totally shacked out and just sat there on the floor looking like some drunk fuck who passed out.

Right now, my current state of mind can only be described as..."could do with a nice hug and close sit next to each other at the kerb by the petrol kiosk talking about sweet crap and drinking soft drinks and eating rubbish" It's one of those days where for the first time, you have nothing to do after work and you're just staying at home contemplating about where everything is going. Like everythng has been either done already, finished, or not worth doing. But that's just for now. Tomorrow will be a brand new day and shit is gonna happen again. And when shit happens, things get busier and the fun starts again. Oh. And did I mention I got a hair-cut?

So far, from as far as I can remember, my state of mind has always been to just chill and relax, stay happy (cept when I'm at home) and not get pissed. So far it has been working real well and everything just falls in place. But sometimes a Zen like mind (wahhh!!!!!) doesn't cut it and anger is the only emotion that'll work for me. It doesn't happen very often but now is that sometimes. Why and what about? Some things are best left unexplained cos they're unexplained-able but a little pouring of the soul usually solves the problem. And hence here's a little of my soul.

Haven't had a chance to really post anything. Mind's a bit blank with all that's happening so far but just a quickie. TAGS was real fun though there could have been more work done on noise control. Next time. PnP CDs are slowly being sold so if you want a copy. SHOUT!!!! Only limited 200 copies out there. Hahahaha...

Things are going real well with SAMANTA though they're taking the ego part of ego pop abit too seriously :P but it'll all work out after awhile. It always does. Just needs more practice and more rockstar on stage. Maybe I'll taking up dancing and exercise more so I don't drain myself out half way thru the set. It's fun to watch SAMANTA on stage. You should come the next time they play. They got a website now too. http://egopop.blogspot.com

E.M.O.T. is trying to get their ass together but we've all been busy with work. But finally we'll be siting down to see what's next for us. But you know EMOT. Just like the nature of teh members, we're all slackers man. And when I say slackers, I actually mean lay-zee. Whee!!!! EMOT should be playing a couple of gigs in June. Do drop by too. Why? Free stuff! dig in your kiasu side and come get 'em.

Opps! There's goes my mind again. Blank. But do come down tonight to Barnone for Barnone sessions organized by the Aging Youth guys. It's Funk night. Ugly in the Morning, Throb and Dancing Nancies. It'll be grooving! Come have a pint with me. Us. Everyone. Blarg! Just come!

Toots and woots!

T.A.G.S.!
The Art of Gear Stomping

Less is more but more is still more. Queries have been targeted towards musicians by both musicians and non-musicians: “Why do you need so many pedals? All you need is maybe 2 or 3 but 12?!” Well, finally, here at the snug and friendly gallery of the Substation, pedal dealers from Singapore are here to show you why. The Art Of Gear Stomping is a showcase of different guitar pedal effects and the sounds they make, featuring brands such as Catalinbread, Z-Vex, George Dennis, MoogerFooger, Line 6, Visual Sound and Fulltone to name a few. Brought to you by the following dealers…

-­ Mr.Misse
-­ Wake Me Up Music
-­ Fierce Design
-­ City Music Pte. Ltd.
-­ Empty71
-­ JM Guitars
Also includes Modders and used gear.

Also for the very first time in Singapore, a clinic by our very own local musicians, Daniel Sasson of Electrico, Wendy Phua of Zhen, Linda Ong of Lunarin, Fuzz of Phorous and IF, Seng Woei Yuan of The Love Experiment, Muhammad Alkhatib of Astreal and Nick Chan of MUON, The Death of Cinema and Astreal. These musicians will be displaying their effects and will show us why and how they incorporate the use of guitar effects in their music.

Date and Time: 21st May 2005 2pm – 8pm
Venue: The Substation Gallery
Tickets: $2 per entry

TAGS is a collaboration by PLATFORM and MISSE Electronics and supported by Aging Youth Production and SUBSTATION

For more information, go to:
www.platformthelabel.blogspot.com
www.mrmisse.com
www.agingyouth.com
www.substation.org

The whole day I've been feelingthe effect of post-performances. Besides being tired. I SOOOoooo wanna gig again. The feeling of performing live in front of a crowd is just toooo.....exhilarating? to describe. Don't talk about the crowd roaring back at you or cheering you on. That's a different thing and anyway here in Singapore, you seldom get that. I'm talking about just performing itself. I couldn't even see teh audience that night because of the lightings and the smoke. But it was great. Getting up that, kicking off the songs. Reaching to point where you get to jump around (for Samanta) or do a spin-a-roo-ni (not Booker T style) or a windmill (for E.M.O.T.). It's just crazy I tell you. I so wanna play again, and again, and again, and again....Gotta work harder to get more gigs. Especially gigs with enough decent space to at least take 2 steps forward and backwards and spin around without hitting your guitar neck on something. "She looks to me and say..!!!"

Last night was fun at Plug and Play. I got to jump around with Samanta and rock it with Eugene's Moment of Truth. I think E.M.O.T.'s contant gigging and anal bitching has helped us get together in some way. I love watching the video. I can now safetly dump the rest cos they're uncompareable to this gig. And people were snapping up the free E.M.O.T. sample CDs we were giving away during our performance. Wow! Unfortunately, Platform didn't make enough to cover cost. I feel bad now that I can't pay the bands. Actually, I wasn't disappointed at the turn-out. I was more disappointed with the sales of the compilation CD. I mean, yea, ticket's are more expensive than the usual gigs going on nowadays but don't forget, there's a wide variety of genres in this gig. AND the CD, which comprises of the band who played that night, is only going on for a measley $5. We're not kids anymore. We can afford $5. And I though that there'll be a stronger support of local music nowadays since it's picking up very nicely nowadays. Maybe I thought wrong. Maybe too many ppl got the free CD. 50 now seems like a lot to give away. Oh well. There's still CDs for sale you know. Just look for me and I'll sell you some. *wink*