Journal

Some random things.

Now Listening

I got my hands on Muse’s The Resistance. I’ve listened to it about five times. Nothing spectacular, and in fact, far more average than one might expect. I think it’s a bit scattershot, and there’s too much mantra-dropping (“We will be victorious…”) that’ll never be a substitute for good lyrics. There’s also none of the energy or precision of one or two of their earlier albums, so it all seems a little… meh.

That said, Exogenesis, the three part suite at the end of the album is great, and it might be worth the price of admission, though don’t quote me on that.

Mono

Someone with the Beatles Mono Box Set let me listen to Sgt. Pepper’s and I realise the difference with this set of remasters is more significant than I imagined (though less than what would’ve made me go :O ). My own Stereo Box Set is supposed to be on its way (though Amazon is taking longer to process it than I would’ve expected), and I’m looking forward to it more than ever now.

Writers Festival

The Singapore Writers Festival is here again, as Jolie kindly reminded me. I missed out on all the events the last time round, so I’m quite determined to attend two or three things this year. I haven’t made up my mind on what to attend yet, but it’s still a whiles away anyway. Besides, I also need to trick someone to go along with me so that it isn’t all that lonely.

And if you’re interested, here’s the festival calendar detailing the events. [via Singapore Writers Festival]

Hartblei

I saw this yesterday and I more or less have no idea what it really is.

“So we decided to build a camera by ourselves. The camera should be completely open for all MF backs on the market and should use a 35mm lens mount as an interface to support all lenses, no matter whether 35 mm or MF. The plan was to give access to extreme wideangles down to fisheyes or superteles and while maintaining a reasonable price offering (i.e. below 5000 € with TTL spot finder plus electric Film-/D-Backslider).”

I think it allows DSLR on the front and medium on the back, but that’s all I got. What do you really do with it? What happens when I combine this with that, et cetera? It’s not all so clear.

Not that I’m buying it, but it’s fairly interesting.

Midterm Plans

Sure, I’ve got a lot to do for the week, but I’m trying not to let them get in the way of meeting up with my friends. I’m sure I need to eat a meal with a group of them, go out and take photos with one of them, go to some interesting place like a museum with another, and watch a movie with one more. That’s at least. Hmm, we can work it out.

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