udderiffic indulgence.

…at least we’ve got Play List up already, in terms of arrangement. In this order, it’s:

1. Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)
2. Constant Craving (k.d. lang)
3. Parallel Lines (Kings Of Convenience)
4. Wild Horses (The Rolling Stones)
5. Buffalo Soldier (Bob Marley & The Wailers)
6. Vindicated (Dashboard Confessional)
7. Stockholm Syndrome (Muse)
8. Boys Don’t Cry (The Cure)
9. True Love Waits (Radiohead)
10. After Hours (The Velvet Underground)

Nice?

I just have to finish writing Buffalo Soldier and After Hours and I’m done. But I’m so totally not in the mood to write anymore today.

Also, I wanted to put the songs up on Muxtape, but I don’t have all of them in MP3 format (the only format which Muxtape accepts so far), so we’ll have to devise another way around this.

Because over here at laremy.sg , we create solutions, not more problems.

ADDENDUM: I’ve finished my paper on Buffalo Soldiers, the Buffalo Soldier I mentioned earlier is a short play on migrant workers in a collection of plays I’m writing for EN3271. The Buffalo Soldiers paper, if you are really bored, is publically viewable here. One day when I’m more free I’m going to put all the papers which I’m moderately proud of up here. Sort of like, you know, my very own scholarly journal. Lol. We’ll call it Rex. Hurhurhur.

Could and still can feel the anger boiling and bubbling like molten lava inside.

If you can visualise a T. rex bellowing and showing its teeth and all, this is how I feel. Really, it’s like RAWRRRRRRRRRRR and this time, it’s not funny. It’s serious business.

I don’t like it and I don’t like myself when I get so angry but I think you should know that it takes a lot to get me so pissed off about something.

Anyway, I have made up my mind already. More details soon.

…yet which selection process is without weaknesses, such as favouritism or irrational biases? And if there is a process of selection then there has to be a mirror process of de-selection, but it seems that the elite of Singapore hardly ever sheds members. They merely move up and down the ranks of the elite itself. It’s a jolly little old boys’ club, and there is no need to be accountable to anyone outside the circle.

– ‘Farquhar’, The Government’s Great Getaway.

Truth be told, it’s a sad fact of life because it’s true. It happens everywhere: in Singapore theatre, even in Singapore literature, perhaps.

You might say that it is the work of the Singaporean Ideological State Apparatus, so that this mode of thought is ingrained even in - lo and behold - the theatre scene.

But when it comes down to it, I think everyone just wants a powerful voice that can be heard, everyone is afraid of losing that powerful voice when they have it, and most importantly, everyone is afraid of losing this power to the ‘terrifying’ Other.

On a sidenote, Sweet Emotion is going to be performed as a staged reading in Short + Sweet Singapore 2008. I’ll give more details when I get them.