If you are looking for a place to chill out with some decent food and good live jazz music, check out Jazz @ Southbridge (http://www.southbridgejazz.com.sg/home.html). Situated at the end of Boat Quay, it’s cozy, it’s intimate. I’ve heard raving reviews about it and would be checking it out myself. But if anyone out there has gone there, please confirm the credibility of the avalanche of raving testimonials.
Upcoming gig:
I really only dig George Clooney in two kinds of roles: comic or when he’s playing a super cool dude. It’s not that he wasn’t any good in Michael Clayton or Syriana, but somehow he has the ability to make something depressing even more depressing (if there’s such a thing).
I haven’t caught Leatherheads yet, but he certainly brought something to the table in Three Kings, Out of Sight, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? I view Intolerable Cruelty as probably the least of the Coen brothers works, but Clooney at least made it entertaining.
The Men Who Stare At Goats looks to be a riot. I couldn’t help laughing when Clooney with a Hitler-style moustache says with all dead seriousness that he is a “Jedi warrior.” And nobody has been able to out-Dude El Duderino himself, Jess Bridges. Add in always-dependable Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey, and it smells like we’ve got a hit.
There is no shame in preferring the Pet Shop Boys to U2.
The Pet Shop Boys’s rendition of “Go West” is the definitive version of the song.
The Pet Shop Boys’s rendition of “Always on My Mind” is as good as the ones by Willie Nelson and Elvis.
Any viewing of an infuriatingly inane film (e.g., 
Quick newsflash for Stomp fans: If you haven’t heard this, well, get down to the nearest Sistic counter and get the coveted tickets. Fast. The gig is from 6-11 Oct 2009 at the Esplanade. Yes, the price will set you back considerably undoubtedly but it’s defintely value for money. Check it out here.
I stumbled on this website that showcases some beautiful prints by 666 Photography.
I love their vintage photographs and the marvelous costumes (Apparently all props and costumes are made in-house by their very talented photographer).
This reminds me of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.
Here’s a piece of sad news indeed. John Hughes has passed away due to a heart attack. Hughes is most noted for the numerous films that define what it meant to be a teenager in the mid-80s, such as The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, as well as the Home Alone films.
I don’t recall being a particularly angsty teenager, but Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Some Kind of Wonderful forever hold a place in my mind as better memories from my teenage years, and it’s simply impossible for me to see Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, and Matthew Broderick on screen without thinking about the associated Hughes films.
Looking back, I realize I’ve actually seen a lot of what Hughes either produced, wrote, or directed, including screwball comedies like National Lampoon’s Vacation and European Vacation, his more adult-oriented fare (Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Only the Lonely, She’s Having a Baby), as well as his family films (Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, Home Alone and the subsequent two sequels, and yes, even Beethoven and Dennis the Menace). I’ve unknowingly been a John Hughes fan for a good part of my life.
Danke Schoen, oh darling, Danke Schoen
I said, Thank you for seeing me again
Though we go on our separate ways, still the memory stays
For always, my heart says
Danke Schoen
Danke Schoen, John Hughes.
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