Scott Yang's Playground

I watched Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow on DVD last night. Interesting idea, boring and predictable plot, really dodgy science, so-so acting – not that I care because of its great post-production special effect. The story is about the “whole world” (which is really just the United States according to the film) freezes over [...]

Only most crazy guitarists would want to play 3 necks at the same time, and the article mentioned that Steve Vai as one, which I fully agree. You also need to have a good build and a very strong back to carry the weight.

Based on Johnson’s story on on-line DVD rental, I have decided to give it a try as an alternative to visiting the video shops. I picked Quickflix from half a dozen other fast growing on-line DVD rental stores because of their decent website and user-friendly interface, and test-drove their one month free-trial offer. Now, a [...]

I watched the movie Down with Love on DVD last night. This romance comedy is about the match between feminist best-seller author Barbara Novak (Rene Zellweger) and woman’s-man journalist Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor). It was actually surprisingly funny with quite a bit of parody to the 60′s. The shots were very “colourful”. The acting was [...]

Mel Brook is working on a sequel to Spaceballs, due to be out within the next year or two. Spaceballs was one of my favourite comedy, which I briefly reviewed here. Somehow I am more excited about the new Spaceballs than the new Starwars movie.

Here’s an album I bought recently and have been listening for the last few days – Steve Morse‘s StressFest. It’s the first Morse album I bought, and I actually quite enjoyed it – much better than Yngwie Malmsteen I’ll say. He is not “lightening fast”, but has nice rhythm and melody, good tone, and a [...]

RollingStone.com rated top 100 greatest guitarists of all time, written last year. I found it via mindless surfing. None of my favourites are on the list (Satch, Vai, E. Johnson, Morse). Oh well, SRV also one of my favourite is at 7th, but he’s long dead. And what, Kirk and Kurt on top 20?!

Tonight, I have just downloaded 150Mb worth of MP3 – all 16 tracks of G3 Live album Rocking in the Free World in 192kbps VBR MP3 encoded by LAME encoder. There is no stupid DRM on these files, so I am free to burn them onto CD’s and play it on my computers at home [...]

So last night I ignored Tim’s suggestion and watched with Vivian the other DVD we rented – My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Written and casted by Nia Vardalos, I actually found it quite funny. Two people from two completely different cultures getting married together – but it is not just two individuals, but two families [...]

Watched Lost in Translation on DVD last night – a drama/comedy that has won multiple awards. Two individuals lost in their lives. One newly wedded fresh grad, and another one facing his mid life crisis. Both of them lost in the crowded Tokyo, in an environment that they don’t understand. The week-long affair between the [...]

SMH has a report on 21 y.o. Chinese star pianoist and how his parents sacrified to bring their goal to fruitation. I actually reckon it is a sad story, especially the part where the mum has to live separately from her husband and son for 9 years. I think only Chinese would sacrifice their lives [...]

Aussie comedian/actor Eric Bana (Hulk, Troy) will be the new James Bound. Yes, mate! But I guess it would be tough to out perform Pierce Brosnan.

Official title for SW Episode III is out, and it is “Revenge of the Sith”. But what?! We still have to wait until May 2005?!

Reading through the spoiler of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 has freaked me out. Even worse that our Johnny’s actually bought what GWB was selling, when most UN wouldn’t. The documentary will be released in Australia on 29 July.

Yesterday afternoon when I was driving home from work, on the radio The Scardies was singing and playing “Old McDonalds Had a Farm” in the tune of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. From “Hello hello hello how low?” to “Ee i ee i ee i ee i o“. I was rolling on the floor laughing [...]