Beyond the Rhetoric

This post is geared mostly toward us freelancers who work from our home offices, but it could just as easily apply to someone who works in a more conventional office setting. Most people would agree that they love music, even if they prefer different genres and styles, but what exactly is the relationship between music [...]

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) Continuing on the trend of old fairy tales redone for a modern audience, Jack the Giant Slayer gives us a slightly different take on Jack and the Beanstalk. Instead of simply going up alone and discovering some treasure, he goes up with some of the royal guard to fetch a [...]

Inspired from a George Takei post on Facebook, Ed Lau and I started to wonder how would other popular songs be affected if Spock from Star Trek was given the opportunity to rewrite the lyrics. In case you missed it, the original post from George Takei was a re-interpretation of “Milkshake” by Kelis: My dairy-based [...]

As you may have heard, I’m still in Taiwan. This is my third time here, but I have only ventured outside of Taipei once. That was for a set of factory tours. Since I’m here for an extra week this time around, I wanted to make it a point to visit places outside of the [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these blog posts. Doing a quick search through my archives, I believe the last glimpse into my music playlist was way back in March 2008. My musical tastes are best described as eclectic, so it’s not surprising that I’ve “discovered” some new tunes since then. While [...]