I have solved one mystery..why i'm feeling depressed and miserable..not bcoz the mrs is away and enjoying heavenly food in AS...but i've been listening to lots of depressing songs...the story goes like this..since i want to finish up my download quota...i've been on a downloading binge of mp3s and movies and games. Frankly speaking, i'm not up to date with the current tunes, so i would go back to songs i've listened during school days...the likes of Metallica and Nirvana...yeah..the tight jeans and big mullet hair...rock on!!....most of their songs are abt death..or suicide or something horrible and alot of screaming....maybe i was trying to relive my younger days with those songs..but it gave me headaches instead.....so i did some research...meaning googling and looked for a lesser deafening music and found couple of good albums with a more relaxing tunes...such as jack johnson, newton faulkner and pete murray....their songs are manly..not lovey dovey type but full of happy thoughts....thats the best way i can describe it...another artist i found is Kimya dawson...her song was featured in the movie Juno - Anyone else but you, in the closing credit where Ellen Page and Michael Sera sang the song....kinda quirky but fun to listen....but i like this song better...
Ok..coming back to my weekend...didn't do anything productive at home except for figuring out how to be more effecient in the kitchen...i so plan to cook more oven type food so i would reduce the usage of the frying pans with greasy oils on it...With the oven...i can just cover the baking tray with tin foils and let it cook without any human intervention....the cleaning process will easier buy chucking the foils away...less grease and other gooey stuff....
Starting June till Sept..sydney got this art thingy going on all over the place..so i decided to go out and check it out..I went to Pier 2/3 in walsh bay...1 km from the Rocks.....and there was like 3 exhibitions...and i'd pretend to be an art connoisseur...so bare with me on this
1. The car crushed by a huge boulder....i didn't see any description on the meaning of it...but i can assume to be more careful and obey road signs..rocks falling from the sky 1km ahead
2. A wooden box with cone like attached to it...i did read the description..but i still dun get it. But who am i to judge....
3. The coolest of all.....art are usually weird things one see with eyes...well that's my lame uneducated ignorant interpretation...but here it's about surrounding yourself with sounds...and sound only....this duo artist setup about 40 or so speakers around the wharf...speakers on the chairs..hanging from the ceiling...on the floor and audience would just sit around this old looking speaker and listen to a 30 minutes story....it starts with a single narrator voice from the old speaker...talking abt dripping blood ...creaking floor...wind gushing..kinda like a thriller movie...then thunderous sound of waves and musics in between the scene....the way they set up the speakers really engulfed me in the story....coz the sounds travel between one speaker to another...so a footstep sounds like somebody really walking around you..or away from you...it did scared the living daylight out of me on certain scene....it was so immersive....after the show ended i checked out the sound system..it got 20 units of Yamaha DSP amps...whoaaaaaa....i need to get one of these....mental note...put this in my wishlist...
Okay...enough adventure for 1 day...tomorrow should be more interesting i hope.............
