of sound and men

What's up with soundmen in singapore? It's been much more often than not that i've attended or played at gigs where the soundman is either incompetent, or has a totally crappy attitude. If you don't like your job, at least do it properly, and don't take it out on the musicians. By doing a shitty job, you're not doing justice to the musicians, who have spent many precious hours rehearsing and making sure they sound good and tight on their side. Then during the gig, it all depends on the soundman to make sure the band sounds good. And what do they do (all too often)? Mess up the sound. Slack off. Do a shitty-heck-care job. Not put in any effort. Or just plain suck. Sighhh

Today's gig at earshot was good in terms of how the musicians played. Life Without Dreams played well. So did Camra. But, the soundman was just plain CMI. And i think many bands have had it with bad soundmen. They rehearse hours and hours, only for their set to be spoilt at the crucial moment with a terrible job by an incompetent soundman. How sad. Kudos to LWD and Camra for good sets today. =)

On to other news… I'm happy that Vegas Sands won the IR bid.
Thank goodness they won! The other bids weren't strong in my opinion. Who needs a multi-million or billion-dollar multimedia attraction? Sounds pretty lame though. It's not gonna be something that will make people want to come to singapore for. I mean, sure, it'll be novel and cool for a while. But you're gonna end up spending lots of money always revitalising the attraction. And looking at singapore's track record of revitalising attractions, not very optimistic. I'd much rather have a huuuge sky garden with awesome views of the financial district skyline. That's one thing that is gonna keep people coming back for more. And the wind up there? Oooh. I can't wait for it to be up. It would make a great place to chill. Just hope it won't get too crowded.

I have actually blogged about it before in my old blog. Maybe i'll post the link up another time. Too lazy to find it and link it now. hah.
Now to wait and see how it turns out.

I'm still GAS-sing for a new cymbal. Heh. Terrible.
For the uninitiated, GAS = Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
Frequently happens to musicians.  My bandmates are all GASsers. Well, one could always do with another cymbal, or another snare drum, or another pair of novel sticks. And as for guitarists, there is no such thing as enough pedals. haha.

Oh yes. X-men 3 is a lousy movie.
Not recommended. Only the visual effects are cool. It sorta twists the phoenix storyline (for those who follow the xmen comics),  and the storyline is quite thin.
Hope superman returns won't be a flop when it's out. But then, the director of the 2 previous instalments of X-men is directing that. And the 2 previous X-mens were pretty alright.

ETA to starting work, approx 29 hours.

Maaan.

Oh yes, jolene's blog mentions the NUS business school's latest tv ad.
Sigh, the ad's really quite urgh.
Read more about it there. Tired now, lazy to do a large writeup regarding the nus business school's consistently bad advertisements.