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X Ho

Exposing cheesy ideological one-upmanship

About Me


words & music about the dedication of the Singapore national press
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"The press, the media, they’re not the judge - God’s the judge. The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn’t either of them."
-- Bob Dylan
here to spread the word of words worth believing in
Ever wondered why Singapore’s only metal band to tour Europe don’t bother playing at home? Answer: There’s no REAL scene here; Big Brother-incorp killed it off years ago.
Let’s shroud our work in great secrecy and help Singapore achieve a true underground that can’t be co-opted. Getting national press endorsement is so NTUC, Channel 8 and even National Film Commission. (Just ask Elangovan.) Unless you’re with the corporate-climbing yuppie-league, "come hither glamor-glamor" (well, that’s your pasal); not very hardcore-punk or D-I-Y black, is it?
No worries, The Straits Times will argue sexism away for the good of the nation!
"She must be a witch" - a conservative, TV-loving Singaporean.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/14/2007
Band Website: xhosux.com
Band Members:

"Repression is a habit that grows" - LKY in 1956; poor sales of local English recordings; "no entrepreneurs"; Speakers' Corner; Progress Package; "honest mistakes"; "Live and let live " - MM; ministers' world-record pay; NMPs; stomp.com.sg; "Press is not mouthpiece of govt"; I Not Stupid;66.6%

As a patriot, u must NOT watch the video 'Lee Kuan Yew: I Am Fed Up With Progress' by sgpolitics on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1YJLwM4iPk
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Influences:

Miss Irony, Mr Diabolic, ALLEN GINSBERG, William S Burroughs, Boyd Rice (Non), Cabaret Voltaire, Jello Biafra, Diamanda Galas, Nick Cave, Nicky Crane (RIP), Butthole Surfers, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Crossover, Iggy Pop ("I'm not a f..!!@! product"), Jayne County, Rickie Lee Jones, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley, Bruce LaBruce, Pedro Almodovar, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John Waters, Kim Ki-Duk, the Dalai Lama, the 666-Satan

LKY at 24 (truly swoon-worthy!),
Chee Soon Juan's cheekbone(r), Nares Goose, Oliver Reed as Bill Sykes (betcha didn't know, I also lurve subjecting myself to ego-shattering subservience), Eerie Von during Danzig days, Peaches, aboriginal chick with dick ...so entrapment law-officers know what types to send over ("ALL FORMS OF LAW ENTRAPMENT ARE LEGAL IN SINGAPORE"!). Plse, not a respectable yuppie or celeb-wannabe! I'm into GINSBERG, not Drama On 8 or Star Search.

Oh my... gasp, moan...

"shades of scarlet conquering" - Joni Mitchell

In Singapore, Penal Code 377(A) turns all fairies into easy incineration fodder. So, choke & burn on your pink dollar, Singa-fairies!

Big Brother really hates Singlish because it's really a language of the "hmmph".
How can he condone any one-upping when he demands absolute last say?

You didn't know, cuz you wouldn't have guessed, ya?

Eh, South Park isn't even banned in communist China!

Really? None would've ever guessed,
esp when Singaporeans are always 'upbeat'
according to the national press.

The not-so-cryptic art of Cryptic Visuals

Quick, govt servants, co-opt this man
(before he opts for relief teaching)!
Not as if you've not tried, or given up, yah?
An art award, perhaps? (wink-wink)
"Erase improve erase" (wink-wink-wink)

Post-65-ers may not know but there was a time
in Nanny-State Singapore, when such display
was labelled "American decadence"!
So now, plse revel in our suddenly hip
with all the MTV-twang u can muster, ya?

Our national press is good at many things.
Among them, commodifying 'rock movements',
be it 'underground', 'art-terrorism' or 'forum-theater'.
"We also got!".
Yeah, better co-opt than refute in age of Internet,
or youths may opt out of Big Brother's corporation .
(Shhh... not too loud, might baffle the Channel 8 crowd.)

Tell me I ain't as good in justifying as the Straits Times!
Sounds Like: the government's smarter music vending machine

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Unbelievable Singapore!

The outcome of a JI-terrorist's escape from high-security detention in Singapore was that nine (unidentified) officers from the detention center were sacked, discharged or demoted. Established local w...
Posted by X Ho on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:19:00 PST

Singapore = Renaissance City?

Singapore poet Alfian Sa'at when asked by IS magazine (May 23, 08) at what stage does he think Singapore can truly be called a Renaissance City:"When it abolishes the death penalty, the Political Film...
Posted by X Ho on Thu, 29 May 2008 01:05:00 PST

X’ Ho’s new spoken-word CD!!

Finally, my first spoken-word CD in 10 yrs will be out late May or early June 08. Hope it will make up for the postponement of my protest folk album No Ordinary Country, which I would've released if I...
Posted by X Ho on Fri, 23 May 2008 10:34:00 PST

What I am - neither hero nor martyr

Not easy for an info-overload world to read and understand someone these days. Not least for a Singaporean whose position is governed by a State-controlled media. Hence, this blog. As background... so...
Posted by X Ho on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:01:00 PST

City Of Possibilities? Poss this!

Bruce LaBruce's collaboration with Terence Koh is up now at his gallery Peres Projects in Berlin. Here's what the far-out, venerable Canadian Bruce says:"When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard...
Posted by X Ho on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:16:00 PST

Allen Ginsberg - ahead of high times

High Times magazine interviewed poet Allen Ginsberg in 1992, asking: "Why do you think there's a revival of interest in the 50s' Beat Generation and its literature?"Ginsberg: "The literature and mytho...
Posted by X Ho on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:58:00 PST

What's Hitler Youth got to do with anything?

A pal of mine read the last blog of mine (The Face that launched a thousand ships) and reflected back to me the following, adding that she is too afraid to personally post as a comment herself: "I get...
Posted by X Ho on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:25:00 PST

The face that launched a thousand ships

Call me shallow. A funny thing happened when I saw that pic of the young graduating Minister Mentor (see below, leading my pick of friends). I experience a kind of warm fuzz. Cynics will think I'm lyi...
Posted by X Ho on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:47:00 PST