Gong Xi Fa Cai

Is that even right? I forget.
I haven't really engaged too much with asian culture over the last few years except for Dance Machine. But that hardly counts.

Happy Chinese New Year yo - Year of the Dog, of which I am (1982).

MOVIE REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Mona Lisa Smile). Starring the usual trio of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. They are joined by Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes who perform the newly introduced charachters.

Another successful instalment to the untouchably successful Harry Potter franchise. As my favorite of the books, the combined levity of the romantic sequences and the most violent action yet in the series, makes for a more varied and substantial experience than it's predecessor Prisoner of Azkaban, which was largely dark from beginning to end. The performances and production are of the high level we have come to expect from Harry Potter films and continues to set the benchmark for the children's fantasy film and any other would be contenders in the family market!

However the film did suffer from the most prevalent problem in adaptations from novel form - brevity. As the books get sequentially larger, the maximum length of the films do not grow by anywhere near as much and ultimately many sequences are lost entirely, transition shots are kept to a bare minimum, and the pacing of the films are increasingly rushed. As part of a series, continuity also demands inclusion of details and plot fundamental sequences too which further burden the screenwriter and director. Unfortunately I must realistically shelve hopes of the 6'th or final installments being anything like the smooth and complete film The Philosopher's Stone was.

I also didn't like the dramatic change in the performance of Dumbledore, Michael Gambon, who's charachter suddenly (from previous films) becomes far, far more energetic, aggressive and impatient than the same charachter in both films and novels. Brendon Gleeson was entertaining as Moody however I felt the animator's and the director could have made him more intriguing with extended use of his 'mad-eye' which was largely underutilised I thought, and in unimaginative shots. In a personal dislike, I didn't imagine Cho Chang with a heavy scottish accent!

All in all a very entertaining film - Oh! And it had Dragons! Score!

DVD Reviews 11: January

Zoolander - Ben Stiller [+D], Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell
Comedy - Roxor the boxor. Funny ass satire. Countless cameos and Magnum ftw.
4 stars


Luther - Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina
Religious BioPic - Pretty average. Loosely scripted narrative and feeble direction does not make for compelling viewing. Fiennes is earnest but alone in his performance. Molina is satisfyingly zealous but like most charachters in the script, is underdeveloped and underutilised. 2.5 stars


Lolita - Stanley Kubrik [D], James Mason, Peter Sellers
Drama - Based on the book, focuses on obsessive love, not paedophilic love as most would suspect without viewing the film. Peter Sellers appears as the principle antagoniser of the jealous lover who is the films main subject, Mason. 3 stars


Mr and Mrs Smith - Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Doug Liman [D]
Action, Comedy - Director Liman continues to build on his impressive body of work Go and The Bourne Identity. "True Lies" on steroids and in Gucci glasses! Brilliant pacing, clean and varied camera work, fantastic production values and wardrobe, wardrobe, wardrobe! Pitt and Jolie are gorgeous and fill their roles easily and are obviously having fun. Some set design is a little over the top (ultra futuristic) and some might not like the constant barrage of tongue in cheek 'husband vs wife' jokes and allusions (I loved em!). It's a pity the whole Jolie/Pitt secret romance tabloid hype obscured a very fun movie. 3.5 Stars


Land of the Dead - Simon Baker, George A. Romero [D]
Horror - Titled George A. Romero's Land of the Dead... but who cares? Pretty awful. Based on awful script of the same culprit. Not scary, zombies that are stupid as door knobs taking over the world? I don't think so. Aussie Baker heads this talented but distinctly B grade cast including John Leguizamo and long forgotten Dennis Hopper as 'generic evil rich man'. 2 stars


Heat - Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Michael Mann [D]
Crime, Action, Drama - A fantastic film by a wonderful movie maker. A well written, superbly acted and directed heist film set in Mann's hometown Los Angeles (a set he returns to for equally gripping Collateral). All the actors are terrific and well cast including the supporting cast including Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd, and a very young Natalie Portman. 4 Stars


The Nightmare Before Christmas - Tim Burton [W], Henry Selick [D]
Claymation, Family - A brilliantly imaginative modern fable from the mind of Tim Burton. Wonderful songs by Danny Elfman, and directed well by Selick with just the right combination of darkness in this creepy childrens romp (Selick went on to direct the god awful MonkeyBone, but I might give James and the Giant Peach a try anyway). 3.5 stars


Angela's Ashes - Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Alan Parker [D]
Drama - Based on the autobiography of Frank McCourt, traces his impoverished childhood in Ireland during the depression era. Wonderful performances from the children who play Frank in particular. Parker has an impressive body of work I will try to get through, his only movie since Angela's is The Life of David Gale. 3.5 Stars


Enduring Love - Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans, Roger Michell [D]
Thirller - A creepy homosexual stalker becomes obsessed with a man who he meets in a chance freak accident that results in the death of man. A side narrative of the nature of love threads through film as the anxiety driven script progresses. Ifans is fkin creepy! 3 stars


The Skeleton Key - Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Iain Softley [D]
Horror, Thriller - Hudson and Sarsgaard are joined by veterens Gena Rowlands and John Hurt in a horror about Southern American Bayou voodoo magic. John Hurt has literally 1 line (of 'speach') in the whole film! Decent direction. 3 stars.


The Road to El Dorado - Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh
Childrens, Animation - The Lion King duo of Elton John and Tim Rice fail to recreate a memoral soundtrack in the mold of the former. In fact the songs sucked. However the tightly scripted dialogue, expertly delivered by Kline and Branagh was wonderfully funny and charismatic. With Branagh playing the live wire, and Kline the stickler in a cute and successful role reversal. Excellent animation too. 3 stars.


The Jungle Book - Disney
Disney - Old school disney, with the classic songs The Bear Neccessities and I Wanna Be Like You. The stuff that built Disney into the global brand it is today. Interesting to note that the primary animation has barely increased except for techincal quality, but back then the stories were more faithful to their original material (despite criticism then and now) and not everyone needed an American accent! 3 stars.


The Tiggr Movie - Disney
Disney - New school disney. Retains the faux handrawn, 'sketchy' animation of the tv series and water colour backgrounds. Loved the Tiggr song at the beginning, but the rest was pretty much 'Christmas Special' quality with a pretty generic storyline. 2.5 stars.



Beauty and the Beast Special Extended Edition - Disney
Disney - More Disney, and this is a classic if you haven't seen it. Wonderful songs, wonderful story, entertaining charachters and gorgeous animation. Features an additional song. Not sure if it was actually previously planned and then re-inserted or made specially for the DVD. Slightly changes the pacing and adds more focus to the plight of the servants who are suffering alongside the master in their transformed forms. 3.5 Stars


The End of the Affair - Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Neil Jordan [D]
Drama - Based on the book of the same name by Graham Greene, is a story of obsessive love intertwined with religious devotion. Very good, intense performances in a well produced and directed dramatic film. Pleasantly not what I expected, from the director of Interview with the Vampire. 3.5 stars

Moi Wishlist

Check it - I made a Froogle wishlist. Not too many items on it. I am pretty content. Added it to the sidebar too.

Couldn't find "My hair that dum ass hairdresser cut off" alas...

Worst Hair Cut Ever

OMG mutha fucka bs bullshit ommg wtf bs mofo hairdresser fkin tool banging fool fuka wtf!?!

cut all my hair off dum mutha fucka omg

unhappy.

10 Days, No Post (Rant)

Wow, has it been that long?
I've been moderately busy. Work at the nursery occupies my weekdays, which leaves me either exausted at the end of the day, or with only a few minutes to shower, change and rush to where ever I am meeting someone for whatever I am doing.

Week 1 involved a triple header weekend away from home, but within Canberra. A night out with Steph and Ranse since Steph was back in town and Ranse was destitute (hehe). We only lasted till 2am cause Canberra was dead. The next day involved a small foray with Steph and Cassie (Penfold) house hunting. We saw a nice but small apartment in a Braddon townhouse type building, and then the ground floor apartment of The Avenue apartment building on the corner of Northborne and Barry in the City (also Braddon incidently). They seemed to like it (Avenue), I thought it was gross, sif live on ground floor on an intersection across from Maccas! Who wants to pay $400 a week to get milkshakes and 30c ice cream cones hurled at their windows on weekdays, and then have drunk passersby vomiting into your postage stamp concrete verandah on weekends? I can say this now cause they have found a place, and that's not it! Anyway the main event that day was Chris Wall's 30th Birthday bash which was prettey coo to say the least. Apart from the barbeque in the park, there was a Jumping Castle and Inflatable Sumo Suits! I partook only of the former, and only a little, but enough to know the coo-ness thereof. Then we went out to pubcrawl (which was ok even though it's not my thing) but only after playing Disney Trivial Pursuit at Ranse's place, which is coo, with his housemate who is flamboyantly gay. Not that I have a thing against flamboyant gays, but I do have a thing against people who reckon they know more than they do, such as because they are of a class or position inherit all the stereotyped traits of that group. BS! (Incidentally again, I have picked up writing this on Sunday after finding half of my lost post was autosaved in drafts! yay). And while I'm on the subject of people who annoy me - THAT FKIN HAIRDRESSER OMG grrr.... and VJ's mate Zane who is full of it too.

Finally on Sunday...? Got some movies to watch at my place with Steph? Maybe? I can't remember. Will continue when my memory returns. Oh yeah, it was animation, but at Steph's not my place. Beauty and the Beast, The Tiggr Movie (T-I-double Grr-Rrr spells Tiggr!) aaand can't remember. Then watched The Road to El Dorado and Jungle Book on Wednesday Night.

Oh yeah, so Wednesday went to the Aus Day Concert on the lawns of Parliament house. Rogue Traders were coo, Steph liked Leore(?) and Russ Crowe (mate!) was pretty crap. Weather was not awful although could have been. The maze of toilets was interesting, but I don't think it will take off at festivals and fairs around the country.

What else? Went to Mike and Mark's (? probably) place for their Aus Day Bash (and I don't mean of Lebs in Cronulla hehe...) which was pretty coo. I remember last day's one to be better, possibly cause everyone mingled a bit more (i'm a pretty terrible mingler (hehe sif that is a word (lols triple interior brackets)) so i need the minglers to be more actively mingling on my behalf!) and cause Alicia Molik was having her fairytale run which was live on telly only to get cut short by a dodgy line call in her game vs Davenport, and finally cause me and Steph then went to another party after which was decidedly less coo! So party was pretty groovy, I took VJ's copy of Pro Evo 5 over and I owned for the most part. Played a bit of SingStar and then could have, but didn't, win poker. Alas. I'm still not very used to the whole tournament poker style of play where you have to aim to knock everyone else out, and this was the first time I've ever been infront. I should have used my position to start knockin peeps off, but instead pretty much sat on my laurels until my position was overtaken before I got into gear again. Eventually my two pair queens over community pair got beaten by two kings over community pair. Alas.

In the world of Dance Machine I am now beginning to play Heavy Mode. Coo ya? I can only do 2 songs though, and theres only 4 songs of the lowest levels I can feasibly tackle at the moment - 3 level 5 and 1 level 6.

My application to the PFA Football Conference with Aime Jacquet next weekend was accepted so I'll be headed up to Sydney for the weekend. They are throwin in Sydney's final A-league 'league' game too vs Adelaide which will be coo, + then Aime will present his analysis of the game the next day. Coo yah? However given it's on Friday I might be so fucked for it, cause I might work Thursday till 5 then have soccer late in the evening and THEN drive to Syd to get up at 9! followed by A-League that night. Tiring. Also the Men's club are being tight assed fuk heads and refused my first request for money. Biatches.

Oh and speaking of Biatches, these lil tuggers tarts wanted to use the dance machine and put up a coin (reserving next spot) so we let them on, and then when we put up our coin they tried to play again! Biatches. I told them we were up next and had to play before movie and she's all like "Oh.. but I put my coin in already" and I'm like "So, take my coin." Biatch! :P Then they left hehe.

Ended up missing out on Fun with Dick and Jane, and Valiant at cinemas, so will have to catch em on DVD.

MOVIE REVIEW: Munich

Tremendous movie. Whether the events are true to history and the victims the criminals attributed is irrelevent to this powerful drama about state violence and the responses to it.

***This review contains no spoilers!***

Directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Eric Bana as Avner, an Israeli secret service agent who undertakes Israel's vengeant hunt for the Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes to the 1972 Munich Olympics.

The direction was superb, leading the audience intimately through the emotions felt by the partipants, Avner especially, but also the western public in 1972, and the other members of the team each in a different emotional state and moral position. Together with screenwriter Tony Kushner, who helped direct dialogue scenes, the movie combines powerful drama, violence and even comedy to truly grip and move the audience. Although some scenes, particularly strong dialogue scenes, often seemed 'play-like' (theatre) in their delivery and set position, the story entranced me until by the end I was frightened and anxious for Avner's plight.

Viewing Tip: The film is full of subtle and clever metaphor, not all of which I was fully aware. One example you might miss is when one of the team is retrieving a spent bullet casing lying in spilt milk as blood runs into it. A Jewish rule of Kosher cooking, which are based on principles from the Jewish holy book, says never to mix milk and blood (the mother and son).

The casting was similarly excellent. Co-starring Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush, lesser known actors Ciar'an Hinds, Matheiu Kassovitz and Hans Zischler make up the rest of the team. Mathieu Amalric and Micheal Lonsdale are also two more examples among the entirely solid cast who play their roles, as the underworld information dealers, perfectly. Eric Bana is a standout, and his transformation over the course of the movie is palpable, realistic, and moving. As in Troy and Bana's other history of work, as an Australian who's grown up with him on cheap, slapstick comedy programs, he has to work even harder as an actor to displace that unwanted presumption, which to his credit and my constant awe he does. Only once, and unfortunately in a supremely solemn and otherwise touching scene, did I force myself to stifle a grimace!

As can be expected from a Spielberg film, especially with Jewish interest (e.g. Schindler's List), no expense or detail is spared in the production aspects. Never for an instant in the film does the viewer think they are anywhere but in 1972/3 London, Lybia, Germany or any of the other locations in the film. Critical to this is the excellent set dressing, and immaculate and natural costume design. Incidently, Bana, like in Troy, is gorgeous and must have been a designer's dream to dress for this film.

The movie is by it's nature exceptionally political due to it's subject matter, and subtle attention is drawn to parallels with 'modern terrorism' - the film is indeed bookended by allusions to September 11. In this way it differs from Schindler's which had less modern relation. You can however see this film without fear of being preached to (too much!) for it is more a charachter drama and exploration of what violence does to people and society and how those within, around and removed from it rationalise and ultimately condemn, embrace or 'compromise' their principles.

Award Predictions! :
Win - Best Director, Best Actor (Bana), Best Costume Design
Nominated - Best Film, Best Adaptation, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Score

Creationism

Sooo... I attended a lecture in Creationism.

Creationism by the way is the Christian belief that the Earth was created as it was in the Bible and also the science those people refer to (basically).

The lecture was given by Dr. Andrew Snelling (Geol.). Some of the evidence was compelling, but not directly related to the conclusions he was ultimately proposing (evidence of the biblical flood, God created the earth).

The most interesting parts was eloquent, evidentially supported argument against existing radio-isotopic dating systems, a hypothesis for accelerated radioactive decay in those systems, a hypothesis that archeological and geographic observations are based on significant destructive phenonomena, and a loose 'young-Earth' theory.

Basically:

• Uranium radiohalos in rock record radioactive decay.
• Polonium radiohalos are observed but can only be explained by a much faster than previously accepted rate of radioactive decay due to the extremely short physical life span of Polonium
• This indicates accelerated rate of radioactive decay at the time of creation of these halos.
• Rock samples from various single sites (lava flows etc) were tested independently by multiple laboratories and showed significant discrepancies.
• Consistently differing conclusions, but at inconsistent magnitudes. Some correlations suggesting reasons why but inconclusive
• This an ends in itself showing existing dating techniques to be inaccurate, and the assumption of consistent radioactive decay rates to be false.
• Theory that most fossils and coal deposits must have been created in cataclysmic events. This makes common sense.
• Geological obersvation of distinct levels of rock strata showing periods of little to no erosion followed by significant deposits of foreign material.
• Used together loosely as evidence of the biblical flood corresponding to the Paleo-Mesozoic era (?)
• All of the above underpin a theory of Biblical Genesis literalism, that God created the Earth in 6 days, and Man, several thousand years ago, and then flooded the world in the time of Noah. (?)

The (?)'s indicate conclusions that I felt were not sufficiently supported by the evidence which was primarily based on disputing dating techniques, which it did well. When I asked Dr. Snelling about his conclusions about a 'young Earth' and a possible age of the earth (the name of the project!) he did not answer me convincingly, referring merely to his philosophy of Biblical understanding of existence before science and not the other way around. Which I think is fine as a theory and shouldn't prevent the openness to research based on that thinking, but it wasn't what I asked!

None the less, the evening was interesting as it ultimately can conclude that there is serious inaccuracy in Radioisotopic dating mechanisms that we take for granted as largely accurate. Furthermore the evidence tends to point to wards, at the least, a much 'younger' Earth. Apart from the importance of such a hypothesis to Biblical literalism aside, it throws into doubt many aspects of Darwinian evolutionary theory. Time to go and actually read The Origin.

For more information see the ICR website and read the bits about RATE (Radioisotopes and Age of The Earth project)

In a side note, before I left I overheard another question asked of the Professor before I departed, or rather his answer which was, "Dinosaurs and Humans lived at the same times, and there were dinosaurs on the Arc. Little ones. That's why we have dragon legends". It is afterall once of many possible conjectures that follow from the theories proposed.

Other thoughts.
They didn't think highly of evolutionary theory, or indeed a list apparantly of historical figures who have led us astray apparantly, Darwin among them obviously.
In the other lecture before the RATE presentation, was a more generalist treatise on Intelligent Design (a Creator God), but it utilised a circular Christian argument that I have seen repeated. Constantly they use God as evidence number 1, and the Bible as evidence 2. And back again. Congratulations, you have a religious that isn't incongruous with itself. Well I should hope not in the first place. NOW, try and prove either or both with another source please! I don't mind if the ultimate answer is faith, but saying, oh but look at exhibit A, now look at exhibit B, now look at exhibit A is just stupid.

Now to go and find some of the criticisms:

• Helium in Zircon crystal diffusion rates

You Suck

Luke.

You Lose

We got trashed in summer comp. 3-0.
Technically I played better than last time, only lost posession once, and only shot selfishly once. However couldn't get a single shot on target including the best oppurtunity of the game one on one with the keeper.

3-0 flattered them. A blocked shot bounced kindly for lil bec to poke in with the final touch of the game. Our only male sub got injured early on and I was not the only one knackered in the oppressive heat and long grass after the first 15 minutes.

Also my projector broke sometime last week. It won't turn on. Hopefully it's nothing major. I think I have 2 or 3 weeks left under warranty, now to find that pesky receipt. I have a feeling I might have traded it in to save $10 gst in singapore! :|

You have failed

Today I found out I failed Labour Law. How lamo. Deserved, but lamo anyway.

Saw Broken Flowers. Will write small review tomorrow, basically not so very good.

Gosh it's hot.

Awake/Anew

Awake.
Unburdened neath downy darkness,
Tumultuous slumber kept.
A flicker o hazy lids creep to upon some scape.
Small light be true?
Tis and nigh the glimmer shines reveal the sky,
and all the ominous chill,
Grey.
Twixt silver, white and enveloping black,
Wintry silence inlaid with nature's shrill filigree,
the birds, the birds.
Yonder and about,
Through yesteryear's stony columns,
Neath rooftop, o'er tile,
the chamber fills, bright as the moon,
So long from my eyes her face declined,
Anew.

A poem from earlier in the year.

MOVIE REVIEW: King Kong

Outstanding movie. 3 hours is too much of a haul for some people, but I enjoyed the movie from beginning to end as it was well paced, excellently cast and shot, and really brought the classic to life with the incredible graphics.

Naomi Watts did much more than just scream (although she did a lot) and the relationship between the beauty and the beast felt authentic because of it. Probably deserving of recognition for the difficulty and success of her acting ability, whether or not a fantasy movie (albeit a hollywood classic) will come up in the big awards is a different matter. Excellent direction from Peter Jackson made for a well paced movie. Some will complain the movie was too long, and it could easily have been shorn here and there, but none of the scenes in the theatrical release felt overly long or unnecessary. As you would expect given his directing pedigree (Frighteners, LotR Trilogy), CG composite shots are brilliantly framed and realised. Excellent casting including Jack Black, Adrien Brody and especially Naomi Watts completed the picture.

Kong himself is wonderfully animated and acted. The emotion portrayed, and the expression within his eyes take digital charachters to a new level both graphically and artistically.

It's difficult to find much to criticise except for small scenes and moments that I personally didn't like. Maybe a bit stretched in the motivation behind Blacks charachter early on in the flight from New York, and I thought the savages were a tad too sterotypical. But altogether an excellent summer blockbuster!

MOVIE REVIEW: The Chronicles of Narnia

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Not a terrible movie but not the 'movie of the year' as the advertising suggested. I quite enjoyed the first half of the movie as the world is explored and the direction is subtle and images fantastic, creating a palpable sense of wonder. The second half of the movie was the epic battles, which although good, was rather PG and bloodless, which in itself isn't a bad thing either but failed to really excite me. By the end I was rather wishing I had tried Fun with Dick and Jane instead.

Graphically, the images were by and large very well done, but oddly slipped during the middle of the film where there are some particular scenes that looked like the children were standing in front of posters. Aslan was exceptionally animated, however the animators (as is common these days) couldn't resist going over the top, and his fur ruffles and waves in the wind far too much to be realistic which is a shame. Had the director insisted on a more subtle effect, Aslan would be truly photorealistic.

The actors were decent, but lacked the quality of better cast movies such as the Potter series. The children were decidedly average with the exception of the little cutie who played Lucy - Georgie Henley. Tumnus looked sleazy and I was put off by this half naked man taking a little girl home with him and then drugging her! Tilda Swinton was ok as the witch but also displayed a penchant for over dramatising ordinary scenes and then failing to pull off the climactic ones. The voices of Rupert Everett, Liam Neeson, Sam Winstone and Michael Madsen were all very good (Fox, Aslan, Mr. Beaver and Maurgrim respectively), but putting those wages into better live actors might have produced a better overall product.

le melbourne oliday

Our trip to Melbourne (VJ and I) had a French flavour. This was due to the influence of Gof, his French roommate Richard and French girlfriend Adelaide. Soon poor, not so poor, and genuine French accents abounded.

Basically the trip consisted of alcoholic sojourns to restaurants, cafes, clubs and bars around the trendier regions of Melbourne. Namely Toorak (where Gof resides in a run down 70's flat behind a suburban GP), St. Kilda and the City. We also took in a stint at the Casino, a day shopping along Chapel St. and 3 hours worth of King Kong - which was incidentally, fabulous.

I looked awesome throughout having packed appropriately with enough room to mix and match. Adelaide had plenty of photos on her camera but alas, I have not been able to retrieve them, and they may well be lost to the wolrd forever. Hopefully she will store them and get them to Gof. I only bought 2 items on the trip. A white on white embroidered Gucci Baseball Cap, and black on black embroided Dolce & Gabbana Tie, both a few seasons old and worn but appropriately discounted.

Gof's place is a lot like my old house at Torrens. Flimsy wood panelling and cheesy, peeling wallpaper. High ceilings and large living areas but small cloistered laundry, bathrooms and kitchens. Not exactly modern living, but very comfortable despite the moth eaten secondary couch that VJ and I alternatively slept upon.

New Years itself was spent beneath a spectacularly choreagraphed fireworks show on the Yarra. A rest on the warm St. Kilda beach proved invaluable as Gof and I then chased VJ down for the next several hours before abandoning the pursuit to catch a packed tram home, only for him to beat us there.

On the last day sped through the Stanley Kubrick exhibition, only to run out of time having woken and arrived too late. In the end we missed the flight but hopped on the next one with no harm done. Now I guess it's time to get into a routine, slog through some work to get back in the black, and maybe catch a few more movies over the summer before soccer and uni begin to re-exert their influence.

Also, I owned at Dance Machine in Melbourne. I am now lvl 6 standard and can finish lvl 7 songs but fail them.