deft dissonance.

30th June (Saturday), 8pm (Sharp) - 9.30pm
Toa Payoh Lor 1. Field next to Block 128 (In the vicinity of Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council)
Essentially a day dedicated to the residents of Thomson. Will be playing your standard Sinatra tunes and some old pop charts we haven't played for a while.

2. Jazz By the Beach!!!

Lester
the non-combat spec, for now.

Posted by Lesterizer at 12:41 AM | Permalink

stumbled upon this a few days back:
James Brown dies at 73
One of music's biggest stars passes on Christmas Day

James Brown, Godfather of Soul and one of the 20th Century's biggest musical names, has died this week aged 73.

On Monday, Brown was admitted to an Atlanta hospital after a home visit by his dentist revealed him to be suffering pneumonia. Brown's illness rapidly escalated, and by 1.45am on Christmas day it took his life. James was quoted saying "I'm going away tonight" sometime before he passed away. According to reports, he took three long, quiet breaths, and closed his eyes before dying.

Throughout his remarkable career, Brown would be defined by his energy and dedication to showmanship, with the veteran star over the summer for London's Tower festival, as well as last month's BBC Proms, both part of his "Seven Decades Of Funk World Tour".

A friend who was by his side when he died, Charles Bobbit, said he wanted people to know he was someone 'who preached love from the stage.""

He was a true humanitarian who loved his country," he told press outside the Atlanta hospital. US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson added this week to the Associated Press he "was dramatic to the end, dying on Christmas Day."

"He'll be all over the news all over the world today. He would have it no other way," he said.

In Brown's hometown of Augusta, Georgia, flowers were laid at a statue of star to mark his passing, where Mayor Deke Copenhagen described his friend as "just a wonderful giving man".

James Brown 1933-2006 R.I.P.

Source: http://www.soundgenerator.com/news/showarticle.cfm?articleid=8762&CFID=22908744&CFTOKEN=42548529
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Yup, the godfather of soul left his body.
if i were at his bedside when he heaved his last breaths, i guess i'd go "Get up! Get up!"

the world lost one of the most infectious musicians that day, James Brown was the absolute real deal. he was such a lover of life and it was intrinsically inherent in every note he wrote. He got people listening.

he was infectious.

after all, what is music but the delivery of ideas.

Brown- he would fulfill that definition superfluously.

Lester
rest in peace.

Posted by Lesterizer at 1:14 AM | Permalink

just gobbled up a white chocolate snowman the mom got from mandarin.
curse my deadly penchant for white chocolate!

the flute section came over for the eve lunch party (i'm the king of scrabble);
t'was quite a smashing christmas eve.

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Lester
today's the 25th. cheers.

Posted by Lesterizer at 1:21 AM | Permalink

In "Life!", Pg 9:
Junior College Band Festival
Join the bandwagon to cheer on musicians, under the baton of renowned conductors Kikuo Atarashi from Japan and Joseph Cheung from Hong Kong.
Esplanade Concert Hall, Today: 7.30pm, Tickets: $13 & $16.
Tel: 6348-5555

Oh my. They left out the delightful, ineffably convival Mr. Alan Lourens.
although some peeps from my band would also use "sonorous" and "percussive" to describe him.

This is very obviously a last-ditch attempt to up ticket sales, which are still quite abysmal. Please heed Life! and come down. You'll prolly be able to get tickets there.

Lester
let's play.

Posted by Lesterizer at 1:02 PM | Permalink

i'll be succint: i've been participating in this years wasbe band fest, so as to replace my college juniors who pulled out at the eleventh hour. my compadres would know i'm always dashing around like a busy bee; but they'd also know that i'm always game for something new.

yea! i know; i'm an amazingly spontaneous person.

i'll be on flute at the Esplanade on the 21st (This thurday).
the full day rehearsals have been arduously long. but nonetheless very fulfilling. This is by far the most interesting event on the band college calender. Every band is randomly formed from the different jcs and are instructed by dynamic conductors that wave in different colours to the tapestry of the music played. i really was looking forward it.

i'll stop droning.

PLEASE cell me if u wanna get tickets, even at the last minute. sales have been abysmal completely to the previous yr. (i always knew my batch was beettter)

AH. did i mention rehearsals have been long and tiring.

the cute one of the section turned around and snooze on my stand.
right in the middle of the rehearsal.

arduously long.
just ask her.
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here's your poison eleanor.

stop bugging me for doggie pics.

Lester.
as of this moment, my wunderkind-k9 can shake your hand, give a low-five, and beg for food.
email me for a video of the tricks. It's a short-clip, just play it thrice.
awesome.

Posted by Lesterizer at 12:23 AM | Permalink

little big bad drummer boy Ethan (age 7) doing his thing, near the Paragon.
the little tyke's got a fanbase.
This is the best shot i got.
crowds don't take too kindly to big guys. lol

oh, Crystal had this to say a few days back when we met up: "why aren't u aware that people are always talking about you."

i guess i'm not one to bother.

Lester
-does not have an affinity with passport photos.
PDL

Posted by Lesterizer at 12:12 AM | Permalink

Joy to the world!
for it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.
GAH I'll be home for christmas this year.

I guess good ol' st. nick is gonna be more lovingly avuncular this year. I'll probably be spending christmas with family and friends, gathered at a eve party the mom's got planned out. Despite the fervidly portentuous outlook i had on christmas this year, it's what you get when you make extemporaneous plans for the holidays. The parentals were pretty occupied these recents weeks and kinda made me the designated holiday planner at the most impossible time, evidently. We couldn't get tickets to anywhere nice.
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Having walked the winter wonderland the past 3 years doing christmas- seeing snow suddenly seems gratuitous, especially with the perfunctory (READ: big-is-good) care they took with all thing *SHINY*, like the steamers & the christmas tree "round-thingys" in town.

there's an increase in dead magpies, in town, evidently due to accute exhaustion. Rigor mortis confirms that they died with wings extended forward slightly curl- in a hugging position.

(if you didn't get that i feel sorry for you. and your mother.)

However i do think the relevant authorities should peruse (again, pls) through my proposal to line the roads with fine, imported snow, just so i can relive my white christmases.

Well, let's just say that i develop insatiable cravings for coke when i'm on a vacation, and i like spreading the christmas cheer.

like i've always said- nothing like reliefing the memories.

shoppers be fawned! just not thirsty.

So it's not gonna be a white christmas this year. I mean was surround by white people in New York 2 holidays ago, and the tanning salons were closed during my last holiday trip to Japan.
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First Greeting of the season:
came in the mail bout a week ago.

ho ho ho, samuel lee.

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Will be spending quite some time at bbdc in the coming weeks.
i will get my license to honk at children.
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Lester
it's a holly jolly christmas,
it's the best time of the year.

Posted by Lesterizer at 10:40 PM | Permalink