Friday, February 10, 2006
I took a slightly different route on my walk home today and saw a sign i never realised before:
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imagine parang-brandishing MPPJ officers knocking on your front door one morning for that piece of tissue you chucked into the drain last week thinking no one was looking.
just realised it was Grammy night a couple of days ago. i stopped following this award show ever since i stopped listening to radio. Well, coz it's become an award for any artiste whose single is most repeatedly played to boredom on the airwaves.
Anyway, i was happy nonetheless to find out in today's papers that Mariah Carey only grabbed 3 out of 8 nominations she garnered while patrick's fav U2 was the big winner of the night, taking home 5 Glistening Golden Gramaphones for the 5 categories they were nominated in. I'm not a big fan of Bono & co. but they beat Mariah Carey on my list anyday. Kanye West got 3 as well, while kin ming's future wife bagged 2 awards.
The only category i actually cared about - Best Alternative Music Album was expectedly and rather dissapointingly won by The White Stripes..not that i don't like them. Jack White is one of my all-time favourite songwriters. But it goes to show that even in a supposingly 'Alternative' category, the most mainstream act got the award.
The fact is that among the nominees -- Arcade Fire, Beck, Death Cab For Cutie, Franz Ferdinand & White Stripes -- most radio-listening, mtv-watching people probably only heard white stripes before and some probably heard of death cab, ff, and beck, thus the obvious winner..
was kinda hoping the brilliant musical geniuses of arcade fire would finally be recognised even though Funeral was actually out the year before. alas, music is still controlled by radio & mtv and until that changes, great music like Arcade Fire's will sadly be underappreciated. give it a try,
mp3:
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
(the file's kinda big-7MB, but I assure you your patience will be amply rewarded =p)
saw the star today? check out the Shoe comic...freaking hilarious...see it here.
