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read between the lines
recent items i wanna take my mind off work life now sohere are a few things i found interesting during the break week... 1)adrian mole finally has a new book (or shud i say sue townsend)....the latest series, of which i saw at MPH tonite, was a nice thick hardcover version of Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction....that means the book's relly recent! cool! i cudn't believe my eyes because i had just seen it on the Top 10 List in Malaysia in the Star papers this weekend. unfortch, it's RM52.95 so i'd rather wait til next year for the price to go down....i haven't read the book prior to this yet, the Cappucino Years (it's the only adrian mole book i haven't yet read), so i'm not exactly in a rush to get the latest one cos i dun wanna spoil the surprise by reading. hopefully they'll still have new stock coming in next year, or at least one book in good condition. i take extremely good care of my books, cos they're like prized posessions to me. that's partly why i find it so hard to lend ppl my books. another is becos they forget to return it. 2) duran duran's new album is finally out! they're one of my fave all-time bands and the fruit of their reunion (with the original band members) after 20 years has finally seen the light! it's called astronaut and their latest single is the remixed oldie sunrise, which i've been hooked on for months before the thing was released. i've also listened to a few of their tracks in the new album prior to its release on officially-released sites online. i was frequenting the official site a few weeks before their album came out last month, n i got to see the news headlines leading up to the big day. it's a pity the sunrise album was done rather poorly though. not for its time i think, more meant for the 80s. and i noe duran duran mtv's can do better than that cos they did. all the same, can't wait to get the album when it's here. nick rhodes is a cool pianist and simon le bon has this thing of using his hands to gesture different motions when he's singing, which i think is really appealing too. 3) kevin max's latest E.P. album, between the fence and the universe, which was out in september. this is his second solo album since he took a short break from dctalk. i was lucky enuff to happen to visit around the week before his album was due to be released, so i got to join in on the action. his 6 songs are played as a background track on a preset player on his official site, so it's really cool that i got to listen, cos his album's prob gonna reach here in a year or two's time :(. he mentioned releasing the full album next year, but this E.P. is a preview of what's in store for the coming album. pretty good stuff, reminds me of stereotype be, his first album. |
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