Mild Surprises.


I think my biggest delight this week so far is the discovering of a rather obscure and utterly refreshing band/artist known as Sotte Bosse. She’s/they’re Japanese, and is/are unknown enough that the fine act of Googling yielded little information; as you can probably tell by now, I don’t even know if she/they is/are a band/artist. But the music is done - quoting someone from Youtube - in a bossa nova style approach, quite rightly Jazz with a mix of light samba. And maybe because I was not partial towards bossa nova type of songs before I picked up a slow but growing liking towards Jazz which is why I’m so darned addicted to them now.


She’s/They’re simple, sigh-to-the-spring sweet, like a day out by the hillside staring out at daisy plains and listening to the wind.


Note, though, they she/they does/do cover songs; whether entirely or just mostly I don’t quite know, but from what I found, I learned they did the cover for Yamazaki Masayoshi’s One More Time, One More Chance (incidentally, I actually posted Bosse Sotte’s cover some months ago, which should be about the 5CM/S anime movie), SMAP’s Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana (and made it sound nicer) and some Fish Leong song which I recognised from tune.


Two of the songs I have are entirely hums or sighs with music. Sweetness.


(Like the kisses goodbye, the smiles from afar, the remnants of a hug in the creases of the sleeves, the most beautiful eyes…)

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Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, is a good movie.


Unfortunate as it may be with a story that didn’t quite develop into something away from regular (it felt like Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer; it doesn’t quite suck, but it’s… normal), it makes up with some rather stellar action and some of the most imaginative creature designs ever, making it a world behind the curtains that is as bizarre as it is enchanting.


(Del Toro was given free reign, apparently, and didn’t waste any time implementing the best of Pan’s Labyrinth into this.)


It’s funny too. But it’s humour that I can’t place. I just can’t help but laugh like a moron.


Verdict is; Goodness. Watch it, and it’ll be a favour to yourself.

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Sitting at the back of the car with Bryan is an… erm, interesting(?) experience.


It also somehow manages to traumatise Pauline to no end, who had no choice but to call shotgun or sit with us (an act that, no doubt, will have her end up both lobotomised and discomforted all the way to 1 Utama since Bryan’s huge and I’m a walrus).


Ah… I don’t know what else to say about it >.>

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