Entries from August 2009

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Aimee Mann’s Save Me (The Jane Austen Book Club Soundtrack)

i am not dexterous when it comes to following what’s fashionable. i am into flea markets, retro dance clubs, old book stores, old towns, and older people. There is a certain sophistication, a darkness, an edge that draws me in. Two years after the film, I find myself strangely attached to both the book and [...]

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Theatre: Spirits Play by the TETC

The graduating class of  TTRP (Theatre Training & Research Programme) founded by the late Mr. Kuo Pao Kun put up a multilingual play by the name of SPIRITS PLAY at NAFA, and I was fortunate enough to get a ticket to the gala perfomance complete with a light buffet and wine!
In the black box theatre, the set [...]

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Theatre- Blanc Space Season 2009 Bondage 上身不由己

For a title so titillating, the delivery of this provocative piece of writing is suprising bland.

3 young men and the girl from 881 starred in this production. Butt-checks peeking out from the beige body-suit, provocative sexual positions..with whips, ropes, a pistol, cybersex, hokkien vulgarities, sexual innunedos in every other sentence… In a show that juices [...]