The End

The end is where we start from.
-T.S. Eliot

This is the last post for 23PSI on blogger. 23PSI now has its own home at 23psi.com. Do drop in.

It's Better To Burn Out Than To Fade Away

February 20, 1967 - April 5, 1994

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Top 5 Debut Albums

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I was happily wallowing in idleness after not updating this blog for a good 2 months when I got tagged by the Anfield Devotee who pens fer fook's sake. That perhaps was the kick in the butt I needed to get going again. In my defence, I'm waiting for the back end programming for my new blog to be completed before I get going again.

Anyways, here's my top 5 debut albums in no particular order. Seeing how much effort this is going to take, I'm not going to bother with getting the album covers. Anyways, it's not the artwork we are interested in.

Fugazi - 13 songs (1989)
You could argue that this isn't an album since it's a release combining the band's first 2 EPs - Margin Walker and 7 Songs. But fuck that technicality. It's got 13 songs. That's an album in my books.

Rage Against the Machine (1992)
I'm with the Anfield Devotee on this. Album artwork with the image of a monk's self immolation proved to be the perfect cover for the material on the inside. Need a soundtrack for people power? This has got to be it. Protest songs that governments should worry about. (N.B. de la Rocha is an open supporter of the Zapatista in Mexico. Who says they are terrorists? It's movement for self-determination.)

Fudge Tunnel - Hate Songs in e minor (1991)
Just how much noise can 3 people in a band make? I thinkFudge Tunnel answers that question perfectly. Aural paint stripper. Also great for drowning out the little voices in your head. Well it worked for me.

Minor Threat - Out of Step (1983)
In the beginning there was Minor Threat. Great seminal HC punk band out of DC which Ian MacKaye fronted before Fugazi. The song Straight Edge inspired the movement of the same name - no smokes, booze and drugs. Proof that you can still fucking rock all the same without it.

Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill (1992)
Songs for a late night drive. Or when you are just lying there in the dark waiting for sleep to claim you. Anfield Devotee, this is for those late nights when you sit in a darkened room with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

Chinese New Year Greetings

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Youth 08: Recap

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Youth '08 was a 3-day event covering the areas of careers, entrepreneurship, music, IT and such other stuff that are supposedly to be of interest to those from 18 to 30 years of age. So from the word go, I fall outside the demographic of young people that was being targeted. That said, it was in more ways than one, an event sanitised by corporate sponsorship and government endorsement. And it was tough if you were selling anything priced above RM$30 (US$9), as I was.

Corporate-sponsored graffiti. This would eventually morph into something for the brand with 3 stripes. :-(


Here's my table. Behind me happened to be some folks I met before...


I met Helen (flo3tic)[2nd from left] who has her own line of handmade polymer clay jewellery and Chun Woei (urban cr3atures) [3rd from left] at the figure eight event end of last year. I had bought one of Woei's creatures for my wife for X'mas.


Luk (3rd from left) and his team at Futurewave were next to me. Web designers now trying their hand at toy design and retail.

Youth 08

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I will be at this event. 3 days of arse-numbing fun. That said, it would be good to see who shows up and buys what.

how&why

23PSI is now stocked at how&why on the 1st floor of Bangsar Village 1.
You know you'd have found it when you see a shop with no signage.

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Independent Day Out: Recap

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2000 people. Hot as hell. Slogan t-shirts sold like hot cakes, especially from the guys across my table. The bands? Didn't get to see any. Would I do it again? Yes. Because I get to actually see who buys my stuff, which is of some importance I'm told. The thing is, the people that do never really seem to be ones whom I think would. But I'm glad all the same for the experience.

Happy New Year Everyone

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Since 2008 is only 2 days old, a New Year greeting isn't out of the question yet.
Well, it's good to be back after a 2-week break. I'm gonna ease back into things starting with preparations for this event this coming Saturday. I was on the phone with Joe Kidd a little while ago and the good news is that Carburetor Dung will be part of the line-up.

Some changes are in the pipeline, one being this blog, which will be moved from blogger. This will happen in tandem with the new site/online store. More of that later. Until then, here's to a great 2008!

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Independent Day Out

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I will be here. Hopefully, so will the new t-shirts. Join in for a day of indie music + art.