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Name: Reza
Country: Malaysia
Metro: Kuala Lumpur
Gender: Male
Interests: music, song writing, women, gaming, percussion, comics, hanging out, performing, reading, eating, sleeping, optimus prime, digital photography, anime
Expertise: sleeping, being an annoying dick, procrastinating, being late, making retarded impressions, avoiding education, noise pollution
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Member Since:
6/10/2004
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| My Sunburst Experience And Meeting DJ Killjoy.Things started off way before the actual festival, when I was asked to play the first pre-event show at Pavilion, KL. I played alongside soul crooner Najwa and mega indie act Hujan. Playing with Hujan is always good coz that means I can tumpang their crowd :-p
The night before the festival I attended and performed at the Sunburst Cocktail Party at the Ritz Carlton. Razman (main dude for Pineapple Concerts) asked me and Najwa to sing a bit that night and he asked to recommend a third act. I said Yuna. He said ok. She was so good John Legend's manager spoke to her after. Najwa was so good she got the diaper dude from George Clinton's band rambling about how kickass she was.
The DJ from Incubus was walking around so I decided to go up and get a picture with him:
Reza: Hey Killjoy!
Killjoy: *nods in acknowledgment*
Reza: Do you mind if I get a picture with you?
Killjoy: Yea sure man.
Reza: Cool. I listened to you guys growing up man.
Killjoy: Oh that's cool man.
*snaps photo*
Reza: Yea thanks for the picture man.
Killjoy: No problem
*later*
Reza: Eh I think I wanna pass him the March issue of Junk la. It has his face on it after all.
Melina: Yea yea do it. And while you're at it, slip my CD into it (Melina fronts Tempered Mental)
Reza: Oh great idea. Ok lah I'll slip in mine too.
*waits for Killjoy to be free*
Reza: Hey man...
Killjoy: Do you mind if I go to the toilet one sec?
Reza: Oh yea sure ( - _ - )
*looks around and catches quite a number of skanky hos giving me the evil eye*
*Killjoy comes back out, nods at me*
Reza: Hey man, I work for this mag and I wanted to give you a copy, seeing that you're on it.
Killjoy: Oh yea we get these in our dressing rooms
Reza: .......oh..uh...ok, well I also have these...
*opens mag to get cds out, which decide to wonderfully drop to the floor*
Reza:..................
*bends down to get them*
Reza: Yea here just wanted to pass these to you, if you ever feel like listening to new stuff
Killjoy: Oh yea I'll take those....*looks at both cds and puts them in his back pocket*
Reza: Yea I'm playing tomorrow too.
Killjoy: Oh yea? What time?
Reza: 930 at the Hitz stage
Killjoy: Oh cool. I'll come check you out
Reza: Cool. *yea right you will*
*walks away a happy camper*
Reza: I gave 'em to him!
Melina: Yea I saw. Nice one!
Reza:..........Wait a minute...crap. I think I've been calling him Killjoy all this while.
Melina: Whaaatttt???
The DJ for Incubus is Chris Kilmore aka DJ Kilmore
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The day itself was a long one. I was up at 9AM and I only got home at 6AM. Nice huh. Had to set up the Junk booth which took longer than expected due to organiser delays. It started off ok, with people streaming in and checking out the early acts. I got to see a bit of Tompi's set which was awesome. He did this helium-sounding scat solo battle with his lead guitarist that just blew me away. He's played here before at Alexis but I never got a chance to see him.
It started raining and thank god I had decided to be at the Junk booth at the time. Meng and the rest of LMB's set was in the thick of it but I still saw fans with umbrellas layan-ing them. Bless their souls. Hujan was ok, I've definitely heard them play better sets. May have been the sound system.
George Clinton was nice but waaay too long. He played so long that he pushed everyone back, foiling my plans of being in between The Roots and John Legend. Damn you George. I spent my set looking at the big screen with The Roots on it while I was playing. Only managed to catch their last song.
Thanks to everyone who came to my stage. I was quite taken aback by all the people. Didn't think there would be so many who didn't who The Roots were =) Anyway I wasn't gonna risk it by saying that. Takut ppl just didn't realise haha. John Legend was awesome, but I was a bit disappointed by Incubus. Yea they played a lot of old songs which was great, but something about their set lacked punch. I think I was subconsciously feeling less of Mike's playing coz I know he just recovered from surgery. Had to adjust his playing style and all that.
I stayed till the end, packed up and waited for Hanafi (poor Estranged had to play last due to scheduling issues). A bunch of us hung out at Hartamas and somehow I ended up at home at 5.30AM.
I never slept better.
More shots from my photographer for the day, Cris, soon.
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| Choices choices choicesI received an add request on my MySpace today. It was from a guy (?) named 'si lelaki' and the profile pic attached shows a guy hugging a tiang.
'si lelaki' wants to be your friend it says. ( - _ - ).
I normally accept just anybody on MySpace these days, using it purely as a marketing tool rather than a social networking site and yet I hesitate. Why can't you use a regular name like Rahman or Bob. Si lelaki just sounds dodgy. Ok it doesn't la, but the hugging the tiang thing doesn't help.
Hmm. Mc'Donald's or Chinese vegetarian food for lunch? I love both but the former only requires movement in one part of my body (they deliver). So much for healthy living. This may be the reason why everytime fast food arrives at the office all my colleagues point at me without even asking. Damn them all. I eat healthy stuff you know. Sometimes. I may have had something healthy last October. That's not too bad. I'll stop now.
I had to choose easy songs to play for my slot at Mosaic this Wednesday (8.45PM, Nokia Powerhouse Stage, The Esplanade, Singapore) coz Melina (who plays bass for me) is playing a well deserved slot at the Canadian Music Week with her band Tempered Mental. Super ace bassist Ken Chong is filling but we only managed to squeeze in one practice. Scary. Should be ok la. He's super kow good.
I, like many other Malaysians, made a choice last Saturday. The results were historical. Not since 1969 has there been such a takeover (even then it was just Kelantan and Penang) by the Opposition. This time around BN lost FIVE states. Including mine. Well its about time for a wake-up call and some change.
It's going to be an interesting year.
Oh and if you're going to Sunburst at the end of the week, do drop by the Era Stage at 9.30PM. I'll be playing right. You can check out the full schedule here.
I'm chatting online with a friend about how we're both picky when it comes to going out with the opposite sex. Open, but picky. My best friend recently analysed 2 recent romantic pursuits and shook her head at the logic applied in both. I've made funny choices in the past. It seems that love (or the pursuit of it) does funny things to your brain.
I think my McDonald's just arrived.
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| AgrhhprapfjfpofThings that irk me right now:
- People that speak in a foreign language in the immediate presence of someone who does not speak said language. It's rude.
- People who have no tact and tak malu. Have some dignity and grace la.
- Shady people. I can smell shady. I met someone shady yesterday and I could smell him a mile away. It didn't help that he was a self-absorbed egotestical (yes testical) idiot.
- Being ffk-ed for the 278th time.
You know you need to start exercising when this happens:
*sitting peacefully in popular music venue*
Head waiter: Eh Reja (he's foreign) how are you long time no see. Waah you fat now!
Reja: ........
*later*
Venue owner: Eh how are you! Wah you put on some weight ah...
Reja: ..........
*stops waiter later on*
Reja: Eh...am I fat ah now?
Waiter: Huh? (he's foreign too)
Reja: Fat...gemuk
Waiter: Oh ya...*thumbs up*
Reja: ...........................
Things that rock my socks:
- The Loaf's sugar raisin buns
- The way Bob Dylan sounds like Mr. Burns
- Ellen Page Ellen Page Ellen Page
- Listening to my band
- Blank CD-Rs
- Rambo 4
- Chicks who dig Rambo 4. Except cupcake coz she's not cool.
- Facebook. All other online marketing channels fade in the distance
- Yuna and Najwa. Both new singer-songwriters and extremely talented.
- 9 ball
- Chinese vegetarian food
- Photoshop
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