Saturday, 1 September 2012

Frederic Chopin

I learned piano when I was 4. My grandparents were and still are great musicians. My grandfather is one of the more prominent classics composers in Malaysia. That's why I think my mother put me up to playing the piano. But I never liked playing the piano, because I think that most of my songs that my teacher taught me were generic, boring songs. But I don't know, I was a kid back then, how was I supposed to cherish classic songs? The only piece I loved to death by playing it was Sebastian Bach's 'Prelude in C major'. I stopped playing the piano at the age of 12, but every time I had the chance to play the piano, I will always and always play that song.

But anyway, I loved piano songs with a lot of emotions, that was written with a lot of sadness and tragedy, instead of written happily. I always like piano songs that take the worst or the best out of you, makes you think about the things you did, kind of like post rock music such as Mogwai or Explosions in the Sky.

I just recently saw 'The Pianist', a brilliant film by Roman Polanski, Chopin must be one of my favourite composers of all time.


Comedy central

We laugh at things. I tend to laugh at random things, sometimes I laugh at shitty lame jokes and other times I laugh at sophisticated British humor or I'll laugh at things that people don't usually find it funny. For almost three hours now I've been watching Russell Peters and Louis CK I didn't realize how funny it was. I sometimes have a problem with finding something funny because it's not always the right...funny.

I love David Shrigley, Lev Yilmaz, George Carlin and the Coen Brothers. They not necessarily fit the 'comedy club' but something about those people in their work made me giggle.

I particularly liked a scene in the film 'In Bruge' while Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Finnes were on top of a tower in Bruges trying to settle a bit of tension between them, Brendan gave Ralph a thoroughly touching speech that made Ralph think twice about shooting him. After that, there was a short awkward silence, but Ralph shot his foot anyways. I found it awesomely funny.

Sometimes I feel like a potential psychopath, because I sometimes laugh at things that shouldn't be laughed at.  But some artists can make people laugh at death for example, like the scene from pulp fiction, the part when Marvin was shot in the head. But I don't think I was the only one in the world who laughed at that, but I don't know why, I just found it extremely crude and funny.

Maybe I like straightforward jokes, but what I think about being funny is just your ability to be funny. I was told that it was about timing, but I had a hard time believing that. I found funny just funny

So now you have met with my post 10 o'clock at night side. I usually go to bed by 11, but since it's Friday, Fuck it, right?

Philosophy

Every now and then when I check facebook, people seem to have too much philosophical ideas. I think it's a way to make themselves seemed smarter or agree with

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pardon me, when I write about things I tend to lose focus, I tend to go "the fuck am I writing?" it's some sort of problem I have with myself, I'll cover that one later. I remembered one time I had to write a personal paper for my theater lecturer, I didn't like at all what I was writing, and it's a habit, and it's the few reasons why I never liked writing, for a blog or for a paper. I never liked it at all.

But I have to try it one day, I'm hoping I can start now, This post seemed to not make any sort of fucking sense but oh well, I was pissed off at myself for not knowing what to write.