ok the title is just about the corniest thing i've ever written. but nevermind.
had a really good interview with liu thai ker, i am proud to say. he makes a lot of sense, and his argument that censorship is a process backs up our case which shall be that changes can be made, but as he said, they have to be gradual. very nice man.

and i'm peeved, i should've read the censorship review report first before interviewing him so that we could instead question some of the points or something. oh well. especially because my mom just told me about some ratings change article in the paper the other day, which says that the Mandy Moore film Saved! has been changed to M18... which is just weird. Apparently it satirises the religious sentiment in pop culture nowadays, and was originally NC16 and is now M18 because some people objected. Apparently the FCP decided that the film would be "better appreciated by a more mature audience." Which essentially means that 'less mature' audiences shouldn't be exposed to such vile matter. Ok 'less mature' might be true, but I think maybe conservative christian groups might be abusing their power a little bit? i'm now kicking myself because a thought of this nature was niggling at my brain during the interview but i couldn't quite formulate it - the racial/religious peace and harmony are very important and definitely need to be maintained, but due to the government's extreme sensitivity to these issues does he think possibly the power exercised by these people is a bit too much? or something like that. gahhhh. anyway, we can just include that in the report i suppose. atleast this article definitely goes in.

i'm now confused about what i think of the censorship issue. and i definitely want to watch Saved now. i already wanted to watch it when i saw the trailer, because it seemed like a teen flick with a dark twist or trying-to-be-dark twist, which is always fodder for some fun. now that it's an Issue, i want to watch it even more. how's that for rebelliousness under oppression?

we need to get an interview with a film distributor. and note to self: difference between censorship and classification.

haha blogging is really good for me. my thoughts get clarified. i'm going to print out this entire post as a Note To Self sort of thing. oh and i bought a really nice velvety maroon notebook at borders for ten bucks. i'm going broke.

and! borders has alias VCDs!!! season 1. how absurd is that. vcds. 12.90 each, and not the whole season in a set but each vcd pack has a fourth of a season or something. and the dvds are sold not as a box set but as individual packs as well. like, 2 dvds for 24 bucks or someting. that comes up to 72 bucks, which come to think of it is really cheap!

and! besidse having the qaf soundtrack, borders also retails the soundtrack of another homosexual show from the ultimate gay network, showtime (that's the network on which qaf runs. definitely not a republican network. not that there are really -any- republican backing networks around in hollywood.) anyway. this new show i found out about, "The L Word". Lesbian show. So L stands for Love, or Lesbian. whichever. actually it can't be a new show if its got a soundtrack out all the way in singapore. but!!! the fascinating part: rufus wainwright's on the soundtrack. so i think i might buy it when i have enough money.. the rest of the songs sound good too. ella fitzgerald, lucinda williams. ovary electric-ish. and when i find some time i must ponder upon the reasons why obscure gay american shows that will NEVER be shown or sold in singapore have their soundtracks out here. it's a very interesting thought. was talking about it to choon the other day - obviously the gay community here is interested in these things, and obviously nobody can attempt to make money by showing the shows here or selling the dvds because that'll never be passed by the Powers That Be, but selling the soundtracks is the least they can do. meaning that the gay community must have significant spending power. hmmmm.

i think journalism is looking like a very attractive prospective career. christiane amanpour-ish and stuff. travel, and research, and asking people questions. i am interested.

ok, off now to use a lot of paper printing the censorship review report out.

EDIT:
my father is GOD. he is truly amazing. amazingamazingamazing. he's psychic or something.
remember last night i was blogging about needing a dvd lens cleaner? i mentioned that to no one in my family or anyone who might've told my dad. but just now after dinner i wandered to the couch in front of the tv and what do i see there? a brand new dvd lens cleaner! ok so he didn't buy it for my computer specifically, he bought it for the tv dvd player, but still! i wanted one last night and he bought one today!!!! how absolutely marvellous is that??