Talking Head - 77
Grand Funk Railroad - E Pluribus Funk
Kasabian - Kasabian
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Spiritualized - Amazing Grace
Whisbone Ash's Collection
Deep Purple's Anthology
Was pretty stoked when I saw Spiritualized's Amazing Grace in Rock Corner. It was a no-brainer. A definite buy. Was pretty glad to be able to get Doves too. Basically just thought I'd want to actually physically own these albums :D
Bought V for Vendetta, and a belt cause one of my jeans is really loose.
Had a week off for the CNY break but cause of the work load that we have I decided to get back to Sunway early to do it. So far knocked down only one and a half out of... 5.
All the print shops are closed for a week. And I need to print some stuff, anyway no rush cause that assignment that I needed to print for is only due on Wednesday.
We're proceeding to the usual poster assignment for our Mix Media Illustration, so I've decided to do a concert poster for Coldplay.
But what I really want to talk about is my childhood dream - I wanted to be a pilot. I guess it was a combination of video games and TV shows.
There was this seriously kick-ass air plane shooter games called Raptor: Call Of Shadows, I remember playing when I was a kid on our super old PC, which still ran on DOS and Windows was a separate application on its own. And I remember you had to "park" the drive before you turned off the PC. Anyway why was it so kick-ass was the amount of weapons you could purchase (if you have the full version that is, which I had on that PC). And the detail on it was amazing, I mean it was just mere pixels!
And then there was this other educational game called Mathcopter. Where you're given a math question and you're suppose to shoot down these floating numbers scattered around. However this one had a flight simulation format.
And then there was Disney's animated series TaleSpin. It was the Baloo (that funky hepcat of a bear from Jungle Book) version of Chip And Dale Rescue Rangers, come to think of it CnDRR was kinda like the A-Teams. I mean even the look and the theme song was kinda similiar. I remember Baloo was a carrier pilot and his plane was an amphibian plane. That series was cool, just that it didn't run as long as CnDRR.
However it was just a childhood fantasy. Fitness was vital to be a pilot and there was no commitment to keep fit, I wasn't a fan of exercise - even as a child. And... yea just mere fantasy. But I remember when we were to fill up forms during Primary school my list of ambitions were: 1)Teacher 2)Drummer
I can't be sure if I wrote "artist" but a certain amount interest was there when I was a kid. There was this one classmate of mine who was really good at drawing. He would draw Rockman and this funny comic strip featuring 2 antromorphic Pigs and a dude ala Crayon Shin Chan style storytelling. Can't remember what the stories were about but I know there was a healthy dose of pooping jokes. Anyway he was really good at drawing, not colouring or painting. Would just sit there with an empty book and nothing but those normal Papermate pens. Wouldn't need to have a pencil outline sketch, just ink work. And he had quite an audience. I think I got him to draw a Rockman comic for me. Think I threw it away. Anyway it was then that I started to draw. Really embarrassing to look at your childhood drawings, but it's still me who drew it and it's part of my life. Still embarrassing to look at my drawings now. Paintings I'm fine.
Makes me wonder if there will be a market for me when I graduate. Tell me to paint and I'm really confident, but to draw or do some visual drawings? Wouldn't dare.
There is the nagging thought of doing music. But I wonder if its just a form of escapism, and if I'll end up spoiling the interest like the situation I'm in now. But changing from an art/design line to music? Out of the boiling pot and into the fire. Being in Malaysia doesn't help.
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