Undead Astronauts

The Guild is a comedy web series about a group of online gamers, and how they interact online.

Here is a Bollywood style vid.

For the fun.

Charice Pempengco is an 18 year old Filipina singer who is joining the cast of Glee. She basically became famous a few years back for being a short, young girl with an amazing singing voice. Recently, she’s made some headlines because she has opted to have Botox treatments in preparation for her Glee performances. The official explanation is that it is to relieve pain(???), but the general sentiment is that it was done for aesthetic reasons, i.e. to make her round face a bit less round.
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2009 Lights On Merrimac Ridge Animated Lights from Merrimac Ridge on Vimeo.

omg i love it.

The popular music being produced out of Taiwan and Hong Kong was an important part of my emotional life growing up. I remember my aunt brought me one CD of a successful pianist in Taiwan who released covers of popular Chinese hits. The CD included a small booklet with the sheet music to the songs on the CD, and I was so taken by the music that I brought this small booklet to my classical piano teacher – a red-headed lady who had once threatened to chop me up into little pieces after a poor practice session – so that I could learn one of the songs on it. The pianist was Eric Chen, and I can’t seem to find any solo performances of his, but here is an MV of him accompanying a singer on piano:
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This is from the Japanese Horror/Comedy/Musical ‘Happiness of the Katakuris’, loosely based on the Korean film ‘The Quiet Family’, which wasn’t a musical.