¶ the incandescent subfusc wants a life away from greed and hypocrisy:

artificially peppy, chemically imbalanced, hardly easy, polyphonic colophon…

an unprecedented treble of two domestic cups 


liverpool football club, curently 6th in the english premier league, is the most successful english football team, having won 4 european cups and 18 league (english premier league, formerly first division) titles. their home ground is the 45,362 capacity anfield, which is about three miles from the city centre of liverpool. the club was founded on march 15, 1892 by john houlding, the owner of anfield. houlding decided to form his own team after everton fc were evicted from anfield in an argument over rent.

on july 30, 2004, the liverpool city council granted the club planning permission to build a new 60,000 seat stadium, nearby at stanley park. it is hoped that if all goes to plan, construction of the new stadium will begin in the summer of 2005 and it will open in 2007. the old stadium will then become a public plaza surrounded by apartments, offices, bars, restaurants and a hotel. the treatment of the old stadium requires some sensitivity as a number of deceased fans have had their ashes officially scattered on the pitch over the years.

the club was especially dominant in the 1970s and 1980s. great players from this time include ray clemence, mark lawrenson, graeme souness, ian callaghan, phil neal, kevin keegan, alan hansen, kenny dalglish (102 caps) and ian rush (346 goals). the club was also present at two of the biggest tragedies in european football - at heysel in 1985 and hillsborough in 1989. they completed an unprecedented treble of two domestic cups (the league cup and the fa cup) and the uefa cup in the 2000/01 season. however winning a treble was not something new to liverpool. in 1984 they were victorious in the european cup, the league cup and the championship. this was the first treble of major honours to be completed by an english club.


i am no ziggy stardust 

audio for visuals, visual for audio


big me to talk about it 

  • i do exist.
  • while we’re still on the topic, i am also a little unsure of the purpose of my existence (but i guess we all do think about it some way or another)
  • i am a singapore citizen.
  • my passport number is S7604166/J.
  • my blood group is o positive.
  • the schools i have attended are: blangah rise primary school; victoria school (1989 to 1992); catholic junior college (class of 93/94); computer science at national university of singapore (1997 to 2000).
  • in primary school, i was occasionally picked on and bullied.
  • "an eye for an eye" is not something i subscribe to but when i am provocated and subsequently lose my head, the proverbial gates of hell break wide open. that might give you a fair idea how the bullying in primary school stopped.
  • i served my (one quarter of a decade-long) conscript national service in the singapore police force.
  • the employers & freelance agencies i have worked for include formul8, generator, angel dynamics, red square and xposure pte ltd.
  • adidas is my preferred choice of footwear.
  • i wear my watch on my left hand.
  • i hate clipping my fingernails.
  • currently, i play hockey for the prisons sports & recreation club.
  • there comes a day in almost every man’s life when he realises that he’ll never play professional sports and i have too many of those days.
  • a long time ago, my screen name used to be macphisto. (oh yes, i am a fan.)
  • i hate seeing myself in photographs and hearing my own voice.
  • i drink way too much coke and much too little water.
  • occasionally, you would be able to find me on the msn messenger network -- to circumvent the fucking spam bots, i have to kind of cryptically tell you that my username on the msn network is jaffry at dullneon.com.
  • my apparent skepticism in religion is somewhat analogously reflected in my frequent unhappiness with (and consequent afterthoughts on) all the computing platforms that i use. that doesn’t necessarily make me an non-believer or disloyal, of course.
  • breakfast is probably my favourite meal of the day.
  • sometimes, i just talk too much.
  • other times, i don’t say much at all.
  • "everytime i see you falling, i get on my knees and pray" is the line bernard sumner is singing in my headphones as i write this.
  • i discovered calculators at the age of 11. my mathematics went downhill from that day on.
  • on reading euclid more carefully, i, like isaac newton, formed a high opinion of it as an instrument of education, and would like to record my regret (like newton) that i had not applied myself to geometry before proceeding to algebraic analysis.
  • my field of work is design and i am in the advertising industry.
  • to be honest, i kind of work in a vacuum; i put my head down and don’t think that much about the world.
  • no, i don’t have any tattoos or body piercings. i just don’t like them. and some folks who have body art on them seem to have ‘issues’ anyway.
  • someone once said, “never let your morals get in the way of doing what’s right”.
  • an extracted premolar, a chipped bone in my left ankle and a history of frequent dislocations on left shoulder are 3 of the most important medical facts about my now out-of-shape body.
  • being a terribly soft, sentimental wussy, i cry very easily, especially at movies.
  • and it might surprise you that i can handle pain pretty well.
  • at this point, i’d like to say i am not a gay man.
  • if i were a star footballer, i’d be a skilled, stylish & silky midfielder who’s also a fierce, combative tackler, precisely because i have none of those attributes.
  • to quote sam seaborn, most of the time i am just acting smart.

intro & beauty : how was your single term so far 

though somewhat pompous, my current cd collection contains the following artistes (in no particular order and excluding movie soundtracks) : u2, underworld, primal scream, darren emerson, tosca, kruder & dorfmeister, daft punk, anthony pappa, portishead, amon tobin, bonobo, gilles peterson, lo fidelity allstars, rem, david holmes, the free association, the stone roses, chemical brothers, prodigy, james lavelle, unkle, foo fighters, fatboy slim, dj shadow, aphex twin, aphrodite, carl cox, blur, ashley beedle, dust brothers, leftfield, red hot chilli peppers, fluke, lunatic calm, coldcut, moby, olav basoski, south, dave clarke, the beatles, saint germain, radiohead, futureshock, layo & bushwacka, the karminsky experience and tortoise.


my mind is in a state 

I Zwicky 18 :The two major starburst regions are the concentrated bluish-white knots embedded in the heart of the galaxy. The wispy blue filaments surrounding the central starburst region are bubbles of gas that have been heated by stellar winds and intense ultraviolet radiation unleashed by hot, young stars. The redder stars are slightly older stars and star clusters, but they are still less than 1 billion years old. A companion galaxy lies just above and to the right of the dwarf galaxy. The companion may be interacting with the dwarf galaxy and may have triggered that galaxy’s recent star formation. The red blobs surrounding the dwarf galaxy are the dim glow from ancient fully formed galaxies.
but there is only one way out of here


flowers are the things we grow, secrets are the things we know 

as a subject for reinterpretation, the music of m83 presents a unique set of challenges. while many of m83’s electronic contemporaries manipulate discrete, compartmentalized units of sound, m83 craft music that could most easily be categorized as monolithic-- sizzling walls of noise sculpted into moving, memorable songs. where so many electronic musicians are content to simply create atmosphere or bring conceptual experiments to life, the songs are as integral to m83’s music as the sounds that inhabit them-- in fact, the two often seem inexorably linked. because of this symbiosis, reworking an m83 song, whether by cover or remix, would seem a difficult undertaking.
“by far the most accessible track on dead cities, this stands as the obvious choice for first single. a perfect representation of their strengths, the song is remarkable for both its intensity and its tenderness. its hushed vocals, juxtaposed with glorious swells of digital strings, are the beating heart of dead cities, providing a locus of humanity amidst the album’s surprisingly wrenching synthesized arrangements. by contrast, the song’s remixes seem rather ordinary; in two out of three cases, the ostensibly shoegazey tendencies of the original are eschewed in favor of a more familiar beats-and-cuts aesthetic.”


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