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what inspires you?
Sunday, Sep 27, 2009 5:20PM / Standard Entry
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.
Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.
—Jim Jarmusch, The Golden Rules of Filming
If you can recreate, reinterpret and make them yours -
I guess that's what really matters - that you made a difference.
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星光part 2...
Wednesday, Sep 23, 2009 12:50AM / Standard Entry
好爱这首歌,
原本想自弹自唱, 才选这首<第一个清晨>... 想很feel很feel地带出这首歌...
不过制作单位觉得太单调,没有起伏...
所以我只好来一个full band version...
感觉没有很对...也并不是我所想要表达的...
但是也只好硬着头皮唱了...
说真的,我觉得听起来有一点牵强啦,
所以老师所说的feel我觉得并没有做到.
不过,可以趁机穿boyfriend shirt录影... 好玩哦!
非常重要的人物...娟...
她陪我到台北... 陪我soundcheck...给我意见...听我诉苦...
爱你!!!
还有布伟!
我唱的好多demo...都是他写的...
他也来现场看录影!
指定PK团!
我们的口号是 jewellery!!!
因为PK团vs星光帮, 赢家会得到jewellery!!!
彩排时狂练吉他...
技术也真的有点烂...
i'd like to shout out my thanks to someone who spent much time teaching me the guitar bit for this song...
it meant a lot to me,
and some part of me bears regret that I couldn't perform it on TV as i wished to...
but at the same time, having your support is already more than enough encouragement for me :)
新加坡团万岁!
可爱的小熊宝贝(右二)... 她自称我们得Julie... ("助理"),
对我们无微不至的爱与呵护....
爱你噢!
坐着...感觉比较亲近...
想要营造just out of bed的整体感觉...
表情凝重... =P
大团圆
我和晓郡在猜拳...
没有啦!!! 开玩笑.
上台湾电视节目之旅...
划上句点 :)
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back from Xi'An, and 5 weekends away from home...
Monday, Sep 7, 2009 2:56AM / Standard Entry
这5个周末,到了澳门,北京,西安,过演唱会的和音瘾...
也到了台北2次 PK星光...感觉很奇妙,第一次在电视节目上唱歌...
在youtube上也得到好坏参杂的回响,
不过感受到很多朋友的支持和爱护...真的很感谢 :)
好喜欢出国的感觉,可以跳出自己的comfort zone,
认识新的朋友,每一个对音乐的热忱,
让我不断有新的启发...
也学会从不同的角度体验生活,
每次的新体验,都让我更想提升自己...
刚从西安回来...这次力宏很尽兴的演出,让我很感动,
很希望能够在自己的范围内一样感动别人 ^_^
力宏(的mic)...的确离我有一段距离...
这次也认识了中国的作曲家/制作人曹轩宾,
还有中国湖南卫视<快乐男生>的亚军苏醒
难得有缘,可以享受道地的西安麻辣小吃,
也彼此share了好多自己在音乐路上的艰辛与梦想 :)
Music-Man DVD上市了...
刚才在飞机上看了一些...好震撼! 好...不可思议!
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220809 Leehom Concert in Beijing
Wednesday, Aug 26, 2009 2:40AM / Standard Entry
so... i have yet to blog about my virgin experience to PK at 星光大道...
but honestly I had so much 感想 and 感触 about the experience that it's hard to summarise quickly.
so before i get into nitty gritty,
i thought i'd share about happier times in Beijing :D
it's been a while since we've been to China,
and i forgot how huge the stage would be at the outdoor stadiums :)
insanely tall LED screens
rehearsal rehearsal
backing vocals :)
i loved the 盖世英雄tour by the way...
i have a series of Microphone@Stadium pictures... lol
we were at 北京工人体育场surrounded by happening clubs
and we had our dinner here...
i guess they meant Fine Dining? aka opposite of Fast Food...
where they served....
spoilt for choice!
concert day we tried some 云南酸汤鱼
leehom's spaceship
magic man tries a hand on drums
and eric (our drummer) rocks the stadium!
See the thing about China, is always the endless throngs of 公安
and these people who sit on little stools facing the audience,
making sure they all behave like obedient schoolchildren.
the audience slowly fills up the 50000 stadium...
this may be what heaven looks like for some leehom fans
Jackie Chan!!! he appears and surprises the hell outta leehom
this is the closest i've gotten to jackie chan's back view! haha
and i love the way leehom looked after the very successful surprise,
看得出他真的好感动,好开心
he sang his own chinked-out erhu version of Man in the Mirror as a tribute to MJ,
and i love it :)
everyone in the audience got a copy of the limited edition CD for free as well :)
fans and signboards galore!
thank you dear nic for making a Kewei and KLGoh sign! my very first lightboard!!!! *muaks*
i tried to take a picture but it didn't turn out well
力宏状况很好, 心情也似乎很好,
所以整场演出, 都玩的很尽兴, 唱的很精彩 :)
50000歌迷的热情 也让我好感动...
thanks nic for these photos at the concert!!
at the post-party!
ona side note,
we went to a post-post-party at some bling ktv club,
and the toilet was absolutely the highlight of the place!
i think i saw an MTV like this before
next stop Xi'an!
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PK rambling...
Thursday, Aug 13, 2009 2:57PM / Standard Entry
so i'm just back from an awesome trip to Macau -
had fun jamming all David Tao songs again (after our last show in Jakarta last OCTOBER!)
and hanging out with the DT band :)
and our post party lasted right till 10am when i left for Singapore...
so i was pretty much a wreck the next day,
sleeping till 3pm...
vegging out at home.
and i had this insane cough throughout the concert, till NOW.
i braved through my Wala Wala set just now, trying not to strain my throat too much.
this cough, it's the kind that just spontaneously occurs without warning,
in the middle of singing, talking, or just breathing.
i think it's called the dry cough.
no phlegm, just a weird uneasiness in my throat.
now it has metamorphosised into a full-blown throat infection.
not the best condition to PK in Taipei for 星光大道this weekend.
so before i can get my act together, it's already Wednesday,
and my hair needs a cut-and-dye job,
and I just chose my songs this morning,
and the Taiwan production team is chasing me for a picture and an audition video that I would have to film by myself, to be sent immediately.
Great.
And it just feels really strange since nobody understands why the hell I'm going to PK,
since there was this big hoohaa of a competition that so many great singers joined,
and finally earned an opportunity to go,
and here I am just secretly flying there by myself.
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...
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It's a long story (I actually tried typing out the story, but after 2 paragraphs I gave up since it was Too Much Information), so in a nutshell,
I have auditioned for 星光5 before, but couldn't commit to the competition,
so they did tell me there was a possibility I could come back to PK.
I didn't know if this was for real, until after the Singapore selections,
when I called them again to check.
(I wouldn't have joined the Singapore selections anyway as I am waaay scared of competitions)
I think the 4 Singaporeans who went are sooo awesome, and honestly I'm sure if I joined the Singapore selections I wouldn't have made it.
I've long seen myself unfit material for competitions.
I'm just going to not think too much about it, not make myself nervous, and just do my thing.
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