What comes around... goes around

One of Justin Timberlake's new MVs (I am really into watching MVs lately), of the song What comes around... goes around. It starred the very voluptuous Scarlett Johansson as well, and it is really supposed to be a mini movie rather than a MV. Looks like he's onto new prey after Diaz.

Cupid's Chokehold

I don't know why but this song keeps replaying on and on in my head. After a while, I thought "Hey this song is actually great!" so I thought I should share it with you guys.

Cupid's Chokehold by the Gym Class Heroes.

Not Locked up

I must admit that I am slow, but that did not stop me from reeling in from amazement as I watched episodes of Prison Break season 1 in succession. The plot's thickening, and as I watched with my eyes affixed to the screen of my computer screen, I wondered what is it that made a good drama.

Is it the ever-so-complex and thick-as-corn-starch soupy plot that wins audience over? Or is it the actors, so charismatic in nature (note: I didn't say handsome and beautiful; that era of beach bums and booby lifeguards is over) that you dream about meeting them on an airplane bound for a lost island? Or is it the billion dollar cinematography effects that the producers had pumped in to re-create scenes that you never get a chance to see in life, like the intestines of Fox River State Penitentiary (for a start, we can try Singapore's Changi Prison first), and the repeating aerial helicopter views that made you feel like you are watching a 20-hr movie instead of a 20 1-hr episode drama?

I guessed its the overall effect then. Audience are now wowed by different elements in drama; sure, there are still the low-budget-feeling sitcoms and laugh-out-louds, but one thing is for sure: dramas now show what the audience fails to expect, in places that they fail to think exist, with creatures and monsters and villains that they fail to imagine. In this cut-throat industry, only dramas with such value will earn a niche in the hearts of audience all over the world (and also a medal or award in some Golden Whatever Awards).

I am an avid drama-lover, especially American dramas ranging from the era of Mulder and Scully in X-Files (still my fav after these years) to the anorexic Calista Flockhart in Ally McBeal, then to evergreens like Friends and Seinfeld, and finally to new acclaimed dramas such as Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Prison Break and tonnes of others. I guessed I learned a lot from them, as anyone with a history of staying up at 11pm to watch a bloody episode of drama which ended prematurely, again, would say. You learn how to dream, how to create plots that twist your guts left and right, how to get amazed and how not to. You learn English (this is true, seriously), although it's more of American lingo than British GCE 'O' or 'A' level English. You cry (so, I do cry watching drama, so what?), you laugh, you shiver in fear and you sympathize. All in all, you live your life as if in the shoes of the special agents, or ER doctors, or lawyers or prisoners, and life, to me, is such a more colourful place even though people around you may prescribe you with a cure for drama-addiction.

Far Away - Nickleback

Mr Black is a current undergraduate who resides in Singapore. This blog is a non-whimsical reflection of his life and the society in which he lives in at large.

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