recent finds

two nights ago, I had trouble sleeping. Firstly, I had a crappy day at work, then it got worse when by midnight, I still haven’t had my dinner and lastly I had to stay up to rush out an article to be published the following day.

Thankfully, I had the strength to carry on mainly because of what had happened inbetween. BIG NIGHT OUT 2010, saw the top three performances of the first quarter of 2010. I would have included the killers but we hate them now for cancelling.

Though of the three bands performing, I was only firmliar with one, I was ready to give the other two a shot. BNO started with Saosin opening the show with a hardcore rock twist then the guys from
Rise Against took over for a punk rock front. I was totally enraptured into ‘Give it all’ and ‘audience of one’ being my favourite songs by them. That said, I have to say that their set was a little messy due to the acoustics and the sound system. But other than that, totally entertaining!

The headliners for the night was muse taking the night out all the way to midnight. Can’t say that they were anything short of awesome. performing Hysteria, Uprising, Supermassive Black Hole, Stockholm Syndrome, Time is Running out and other classic hits from their discovergraphy.

My only qualm was their omission of Invincible from their setlist. Of course given that, I’d be asking for feeling good, pink ego box and new born.

I like Muse

puppet

I could’ve sworn that I am dead, that the very fragment of me that is visible is merely a figment of flesh, skin, bones and cloth. That the eternal punishment I suffer is to go day-by-day without purpose or a worthy cause. It is depressing, it is discouragement.

As much as I try to do what is right, I stumble.

If it were human to stumble, what makes of it to lose all hope?

Legion Review

The Legion, by Sony Pictures, promises to blow your mind away with the most amazing clichés you will ever expect. While most might say that “it was okay.” it probably is. From the teaser trailer alone, you see the first two attacks to the so called apocalypse. First and most memorable would be the scene where this sweet ole grandma enters this diner along a dusty highway route ordering a steak. It later leads to her spider-walking all over the ceiling of the diner and sliding across the ground for a flesh chunk. For obvious reasons, she gets shot and dies.

The second attack in the teaser trailer is the ice-cream man who spontaneously manages to stretch his limbs to spider-walker poise and attacks in full speed while screaming in the expected, high-pitched gibberish. Again, he dies in a storm of iron and gunpowder.

The plot hides under the well-balanced combination of Left for Dead, The Terminator, Zombieland, The Passion and just for laughs, 2012. Yes, you guessed it, it is another world-coming-to-an-end movie only with a religious twist. Only, instead of supernatural, environmental or natural disasters, you can expect to find countless loss of lives attributed by a “God” who refuses to make up his mind. Under that cover, of course lies yet another conflict between archangels Michael and Gabriel over doing what is right and doing what you are told.

Being the Nazi that I am, I enjoyed the movie most for it beautiful choreography of action and twisted-ness. While some might disagree to modern-warfare against god-fare, in the scene where Michael and Gabriel clash in conflicting interests, Michael, who takes the ‘good’ side, battles it off with bullets, sub-machine guns and fists. He manages to put on a fairly entertaining battle against Archangel Gabriel in his steel enforced wings and technologically advanced mace. In the end, the angel wins but gets blown away in an ‘unexpected’ gas leak.

The twisted element of the movie could be simply put in these few words: ‘ever imagined how it would be like to kill the taboo?’ Picture grandmas with bullet wounds between their eyes and kids wielding carving knives shot. While most of the audience gasped at the blood stained handprints on the ceiling, I giggled away in spontaneous fits.

Legion proves to be a good movie for the cliché but if you are looking for something more than action, you might give this a pass.

i won’t go until you take my hand

hold me, i need you.

talk to me, let’s not just speak.

look at me and not just stare.

feel me and leave not leaving a cold heartless touch.

a poem by men

All I want is sexual truth.
An evening of erotic proof