South Korea’s 2-0 win in their opening World Cup game against Greece saw the sale of condoms jump five-fold back home as fans celebrated the victory.
What will happen if South Korean bring home the World Cup? The whole country will be banging?
Unrelated: Didn’t watch the game, but Switzerland beat Spain? How did that happen?
This film documents The Prince of Darkness performing one of his breakthrough albums, Bitches Brew (currently on heavy rotation in my iPod), at the 1970 Isle of Weight Music Festival. The video also featured interviews from Davis’s sidemen (Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarret), his admirers (Carlos Santana, Joni Mitchell) as well as his hater (Stanley Crouch). Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue could be viewed on YouTube (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). What are you waiting for?
Being dubbed as the star of the stars, Dam Vinh Hung continues to make commercial success out of mediocrity. How does he do it? Mr. Dam simply mastered the art of promotion. With every album release comes a whole backstory with it.
As usual, the music on his latest release, Khoang Cach, sucks, but the concept behind it sells. Weaving together a bunch of sugary, campy ballads, Mr. Dam heightens the drama of his eight-year relationship. He told the press, “I started to have feeling for the opposite sex when I was in third grade, began to fall in love in eighth grade, but I respect the most the relationship I had in the past eight years. Unfortunately, I fell for another girl while in the relationship. She was a very nice girl who gave me the green light and led me into the trap.” Mr. Dam is not ashamed to admit that he is as faithful as his options.
Except for “Bien Noi Nho Va Em,” in which he has done a decent job of covering Phu Quang’s tune with his slightly over-sentimental style, Khoang Cach comes together like a theatrical soundtrack. In the slow opening “Chuyen Phim Toi,” Dr. Dam connects his love story to a chick flick. In the title track, he wears his heart on his sleeve over the Chinese-inflected melody. While “Doi Em Trong Mo” is for the club heads, “Dung Hoi Vi Sao” is for the twisting feet. Love him or loathe him, Mr. Dam will be around as long as his fans still enjoy his music acting.
My vacation time is already up. Two weeks went by way too quick. Work is going to be crazy until the end of this month as we’re moving our web pages into the content management system; therefore, I won’t have time to watch the World Cup.
Last night, Cu Dao threw up all over me after he drank some milk. He woke up this morning coughing. I hope that he’ll recover quickly so he could go to daycare tomorrow or else one of us will have to stay home with him. The poor guy is resting now. Be strong, my son.
Have to root for the home team. I’ll be in Eden cheering for the US team with the Vietnamese fellows. Go USA and make us proud!
The US scored a lucky goal and tied up with England. The US team definitely has quite some work to do, especially the defend line. Mad props to goalie Tim Howard who did a phenomenon job of keeping the ball away from the net.
Dana’s first anticipated match. She’s rooting for the ARG. Good luck NGA!
I am watching Duke more than the game so can’t really follow too closely. ARG is dominating for sure with the first goal within 5 minutes into the game.
Asian pride baby!
First Half: KOR was well organized and impressive in technical. KOR scored the first goal within six minutes into the game.
Second Half: Another goal for KOR. The Asian boys had definitely stepped up their game.
Shakira humped the speaker (cue in at 3:30) on “She Wolf,” shook her booty on “Hips Don’t Lie” and torn up the stage with “Waka Waka.” Damn, that chick is HOT.
I was talking to my man Hoang last night and I couldn’t help laughing at these wise words:
Married women want to change their men; married men want their women to stay the same.
Why is divorce so expensive? Because it’s worth it.
Good luck to the underdog!
First Half: URU was actually very impressive against the powerhouse FRA. Even though FRA had the ball more, URU hustled hard to keep the ball away from the goal.
Second Half: No score on both side. FRA clearly dominated the attack, but URU did a great defend job for a 10-men game.