Category Archives: Music

Music related posts that I would like to proclaim my liking (or the opposite of liking) for.

Cab Calloway — St. James Infirmary

Just thought I would share a piece of our col­lect­ive cul­ture, or what is still access­ible for now before cor­por­ate interests man­age to con­vince law­makers for another indef­in­ite exten­sion of copy­right law. Folks, I’m goin’ down to St. James Infirm­ary, See my baby there; She’s stretched out on a long, white table, She’s so sweet, so

Merry Christmas

There is a quiet joy to enjoy­ing a day most people asso­ci­ate with going out for din­ner parties, alone, at an animal shel­ter, with dogs for com­pany, sur­roun­ded by chirp­ing cica­das with the mel­an­choly of Sakamoto Ryui­chi with the snow­flakes turned on.

君の知らない物語

I have a fet­ish for good music. It’s been a while since Bake­monogatari made the news, and its been a long while since I listened to another cover of the ever incred­ible supercells’s 君の知らない物語. This time by the unfairly tal­en­ted TAM. The beauty of the strings, is simply orgasmic.

So That’s My Missing Ingredient

In which I real­ise all my vegan cook­ing should be accom­pan­ied by heavy black metal music, plus a sum­mon­ing cere­mony for Satan who will appar­ently bring about the steams of hell.

The Yoshida Brothers

are incred­ible. If you have never heard of them, here’s a music video of them tear­ing away at the shamisen. Here’s their col­lab­or­a­tion with Mon­key Majik This is Nikata, the first music video that intro­duced me to the Yoshida Broth­ers when I was still tun­ing in to the NHK when I had access to the

Amir Yussof Will be Performing!

Amir Yus­sof will be per­form­ing at the SPCA-KK fun­draiser amongst a few other Malay­sia artists. Here’s what you may expect from the night. Also, check out the anim­als up for adop­tion on our adop­tion blog.

SPCA-KK AGM 2011

A bit of a shuff­ling around of the com­mit­tee this year, the pres­id­ent remains Mohammad Iskandar Ali. The most vis­ible change is the new vice pres­id­ent, who is singer, song­writer Amir Yus­sof, who has decided to make fun­drais­ing his num­ber one pro­ject, since SPCA-KK is offi­cially broke. As such, a major fund-raising event  (in addi­tion