Shadowman – K’s Choice

it is six thirty in the morning, it is drizzling slightly in the cool silence of the city  and all is salient, transient. i have a propensity to spam shadowman on such days when i am at peace at myself and when i am apt to profound moments of melancholy and maudliness and today has been the first time in centuries of days that i have done that; it cannot be one or the either, it has to be both and and, but i suppose i don’t make much sense, as i always do.

everything is coming to an end, and there has to be a counterbalance for an equilibrium; today i met bryan in switzerland and i just finished marinating my karaage but there is an immense fear within me that it won’t be as good as the first batch i ever created but tomorrow, we shall find out.

tomorrow i shall discover the truth in cooking and it is my perception of absoluteness in this world because there is no in between between good and bad and i have a tendency to repeat identical words with different meanings in this post.

not much time has passed, but everything has changed and returning never felt so empty.

What a Wonderful World – Tony Bennett and K.D. Lang

two nights ago the 2007 NBA Draft also known as the Greg Oden Draft was held, reputedly one of the deepest drafts in recent histories, ranking along with the 96 and 03 vintages due to the presence of collegiates like, well, greg oden, kevin durant, corey brewer, yi jianlian, joakim noah, jeff green, brendan wright, julian wright, acie law iv, mike conley jr, al horford and etc. and i was reading www.freedarko.com today and i stumbled upon a segment which wonderfully encapsulated my thoughts that day:

[Boston gets the fifth pick.]

Shoals: ha
Billups: ohhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Billups: hahah!
BR: hahaah
Billups: holy shit!
Shoals: did silver just say “wow?”
Billups: DOC’S DA NAME!

[Memphis gets the fourth pick.]

Billups: WOW
Shoals: HOLY SHIT
Billups: THIS IS QUALITY TV
Shoals: this is the future
Shoals: there’s a game after this?
Shoals: silver is like the thing that lives inside stern’s stomach

[Atlanta gets the third pick.]

Billups: PORTLAND
Billups: PORTLAND
Shoals: holy shit
Billups: COME ON
Billups: GIVE PAUL ALLEN A BREAK
Shoals: i get to spend all next year with oden or durant

[Seattle gets the second pick.]

Shoals: DURANT MOTHERFUCKER
Billups: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Billups: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Shoals: the northwest just became the epicenter of the known basketball universe
Shoals: this turned out perfectly. i feel so helpless
BR: they’re totally letting rashard lewis go
Shoals: no way.
Shoals: shard + durant=nowhere to run
Shoals: what could be more effective than having two identical players on the floor
Billups: Durant/Aldridge/Zach/Roy/Webster
Shoals: god, aldridge/oden is SCARY
Shoals: like not even basketball scary
Shoals: i am for real stunned right now
Shoals: yet somehow i am the only one talking
BR: so, atlanta gets to keep that #3??
Billups: Yeah
BR: AND #11, right?
BR: they get indiana’s pick, too
BR: that atl pick is hilarious because they STILL need a point guard, right?
BR: but, conley is not the third best player in the draft
Shoals: they’ll take conley
Shoals: and thaddeus young
Shoals: who is more 6′8″ than thaddeus young?
Shoals: AND HE ALREADY PLAYS THERE
BR: they CANNOT have thaddeus young, josh smith, marvin williams, joe johnson, AND josh childress
BR: yeah, they’re still going to draft him
Billups: Acie to ATL?

DLIC: i’m not even in front of a tv
DLIC: i heard portland got #1
BR: seattle #2
BR: atlanta #3 (meaning they keep it!)
DLIC: new t-shirts
DLIC: STOP TANKING
DLIC: wait…this shit is nuts
DLIC: simmons is crying

simmons refers to bill simmons, of sportsguy on espn fame who is reputedly a huge celtics fan; the boston celtics threw games to lose so that they could get the worst record and hence an incredible chance of obtaining the top two picks, which would translate to greg oden/kevin durant, franchise saviours due to the games they possess. it was karma, because no team should ever deliberately lose games just to have a better future; it’s a cheap way out, it’s a coward’s way and it goes beyond every fundamental rule of competing. it was all in all, a bloody amazing night, and i was happy except for two things:

atlanta gets the no.3. pick, which means they get to keep their first round draft pick because IF it didnt fall into the top 3, it would have gone to the phoenix suns, who would have been able to bolster their already incredible lineup. and of course, the sixers were in the running (faintly) for the top 2 too, and having oden/durant with sammy d, kyle korver, iggy, and andre miller would have been a dream come true. but oh wells, portland deserves their run of karma, and having oden/durant together with brandon roy, lamarcus aldridge and sergio rodriguez almost guarantees them of having one of the best young teams ever.

the celtics should just sack danny ainge for being such an absolute twat. ’nuff said. poor pierce.

p.s. meanwhile the nortwest becomes a monster division; denver, utah, seattle, portland and roflol minnesota; somehow i think k.g. will be leaving town soon.

Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! – Sufjan Stevens

You. Can. Only. Type. One. Word. No. Explaining. From. Grace. Chua.

1. Where is your cell phone?
floor
2. Relationship?
nonexistent
3. Your hair?
short
4. Work?
nabei
5. Your sister?
unborn
6. Your favorite thing?
rain
7. Your dream last night?
dreamless
8. Your favorite drink?
coffee
9. Your dream car?
z4
10. The room you’re in?
small
11. Your shoes?
birkenstocks
12. Your fears?
failure
13. What do you want to be in 10 years?
dreamer
14. Who did you hang out with this weekend?
guests
15. What you’re not good at?
music
16. Muffin?
banana
17. One of your wish list items?
zegna
18. Where you grew up?
singapore
19. The last thing you did?
work
20. What are you wearing?
inadequately
21. What aren’t you wearing?
much
22. Your pet?
pet-shop
23. Your computer?
dying
24. Your life?
maudlin
26. Missing?
orluat
27. What are you thinking about right now?
rent
28. Your car?
boo
29. Your kitchen?
sexy
30. Your summer?
basketball
31. Your favorite color?
white
32. When is the last time you laughed?
long
33. Last time you cried?
6/3
34. School?
September
35. Love?
unobtainable

Cloud Age Symphony – Okino Shuntaro

“love is uncompromisable. because it is.” said emilyn during one of the languid conversations we have in the late afternoons and nights; gems of letters conjured together and we should catch them with dreamcatchers lest they dissipate into the passing of forgetfulness.

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“you’re like a child to me.” tung bui, assistant manager and cunt when i confronted him about trust and he retorted with a cold mocking smile on his face.

and so i will grow up, if it means vesting less trust in people because sometimes, most of the times, people whom you think you can trust should not be trusted; because the emotional attachment involved isn’t always of an equilibrium, like friendships, like love and everything gets caught and snared and distorted in an intangible but profoundly effective net of heart treads.

Sister Jack – Spoon

human transformers

and this is a whole kinda geek-awesome.

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running by the post office and an alfresco cafe, i saw a middle aged man in his old beemer blast his radio and sang along to the tune of an italian opera piece; it was quaint, it was antediluvian but it was entirely lovely and beautiful and i am certain now, more so than ever that basel will remain one of the loveliest cities i will ever stay in.

(excluding the fact that another man touched my chest and went ςa va at me; ςa va yours balls sir wtf.)

An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy – Final Fantasy

You scored as 6-12. your just a kid! 6-12 100% 49-65 83% 13-20 50% 35-48 33% 66-80 33% 21-34 25% 86-110 17% how old am i? created with QuizFarm.com

there’s one question that goes: do you like to watch cartoons, and i do, really. so this should utterly disprove of my age :D

yesterday i served a 17 year old boy who looked like cristiano ronaldo who was utterly effervescent with the food and the service and he kept showing me the thumbs up while i gave him a lopsided grin. there was a gorgeous black lady with a huge, fine afro that she had to hold up when i had to tie the bib around her neck; there was a former prizefighter with the chinese character hu3 around his right wrist who told my manager that should the guest sitting opposite him who made racist remarks about the black people sitting on his left come again into the room, he would beat him up and i think that was a remarkably noble, dignified thing to do.

i am beginning to love this job and the people, but days are finite.

Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down – Interpol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Love_to_Admire

july, july is a fabulous month.

The Water – Feist

there’s something about tamara nadzhafova that inspires a certain form of fearlessness and immense confidence that seems to sweep everything away and tell you that everything is alright; there is fecklessness, insouciance and a certain gaiety in her actions that is almost unimitatable other than someone who isn’t a russian chick.

going back to school never seemed so fun.

Intelligence – And You Will Know Us By The Trail of The Dead

i love how my itunes is so prescient.

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF210-Wishing_Well.gif#198

awww yeahhhh

This is the Dream of Win and Regine – Final Fantasy

it rained throughout the entire day and there’s nothing that can make me happier than that; on the rowing machine looking through the glass i watched grass sway as the wind gently blew by and there is peace and tranquility for the first time in a long time.

i try and try and try and try and try and try to keep the crowd away

but i wish that i could play the violin like owen pallett, be musically apt in a way or another because instruments are another facet of a life, an extension of a soul and it’s rather saddifying that i will remain pitchless, tuneless and undexterous to wield a physical manifestation of music for the rest of my life.

words, words are all that i have to go by, and that is why i am afraid to learn more languages because i will be nothing without this; displacement happens all the time and i am worried that i will not be able to speak again.