Today’s playlist

Sat, 25 Aug 2012
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Everybody hurts.

This is today’s playlist:

  1. “Where Is My Mind?” by The Pixies
  2. “Everybody Learns From Disaster” by Dashboard Confessional
  3. “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M.
  4. “Where Is My Mind?” by Emmy the Great
  5. “Road to Nowhere” by Talking Heads
  6. “Where The Streets Have No Name” by U2
  7. “Somewhere Else” by Razorlight
  8. “Change Your Mind” by The Killers
  9. “Wherever You Will Go (Acoustic)” by The Calling
  10. “From Despair to Where” by Manic Street Preachers
  11. “Somewhere Out There” by Our Lady Peace
  12. “Read My Mind” by The Killers

Everything But The Girl vs Maroon 5

Tue, 6 Dec 2011
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Ben and Tracey from Everything But The Girl.

I was just thinking how awesome an Everything But The Girl vs Maroon 5 mash-up would be like, specifically, one that combined “Missing” and “Moves Like Jagger”.

Well, with the internet being what it is, someone has already beaten me to it!

Presenting to you, ladies and gentlemen, “Missing Jagger” by mashdoctor:

It’s not quite what I had in mind – the focus seems to be on the melancholy of “Missing”, whereas the version I can hear in my head is a bit more upbeat, because it places more emphasis on the whistling of “Moves Like Jagger”.

But I’m starting to like it, especially the intermingling of the “And I miss you” and “Moo-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooves like Jagger” bits.

Go listen!

Mix-tape.

Mon, 5 Sep 2011
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So it was Teachers’ Day last week.

I think my, er, advice worked – I received enough Ferrero Rocher to set up my own distribution centre.

Jokes aside, one present which stood out was the Teachers’ Day video done by 10A04.

Initially, when they bounded up to me to give me the DVD, I was like, “Wow! Mix-tape for me?”

I was genuinely elated; I remember thinking: Wow, these piglets have grown! They put their PW skills to use and realised that a mix-tape would be a great gift for me because:

  • I like music,
  • Mix-tapes have symbolic value, in that they hearken back to an era that I often romanticise, and
  • Mix-tapes have artistic value, in that the choice of songs are not arbitrary but curated in order to achieve a certain effect on/send a certain message to the listener e.g. I’ve chosen these songs that I know you like because I want you to know I care, or I’ve chosen 12 of my favourite songs because I want to share my music with you (a deeply personal gesture, IMO).

Sadly, my happiness lasted for a while, because I soon found out that:

  1. It wasn’t a mix-tape, but a video, and
  2. ALL THE OTHER TEACHERS THAT TAUGHT 10A04 ALSO RECEIVED THE SAME VIDEO.

Wah lao eh! Felt somewhat cheated lor. LOL… Kidding, ya.

I really like the video; in fact, I like it so much that I want to share it with all of you here:

Click on this link in case you can’t see the embedded video.

Nice right? (BTW if you want to watch more stuff by Ansen Goh and Co., check out “A Measured Distance Away” and ObscuRed.sg .)

I’m so glad they came together to do this, not only because the video shows how much they’ve grown as a class, but also because receiving the gift has made me re-evaluate my ‘preferred present list’ – I’ve just included a section called ‘Digital Art’.

So thanks, kiddos, for all the love. I’m proud of all of you.