Vanessa da Mata — Vermelho – Vídeo Oficial

It was great wandering around on the newly blazing Summer streets over the weekend, but I think I overdid it a bit; after rushing around all day I got home with a splitting headache from sunstroke. I had forgot to respect the Aussie sun!

I love it! “Door bitch Indonesia”! Geopolitics made easy.

Pornthip Rojanasunan is not an actress or (despite her punky look and shock-dyed and spiked hair), a singer. She is a doctor, or forensic pathologist more precisely and the go-to woman for the investigation of violent crime in Thailand. As the head of Bangkok’s Ministry of Justice Science Centre, she has pioneered the use of DNA evidence in crime investigation in Thailand.

Her efforts have included one of the world’s least enviable jobs – heading up the post-tsunami autopsy operation in 2001 – as well as presiding over the investigation of actor David Carradine’s recent death in Bangkok.

But she has become a wellknown media figure in Thailand for her daring attacks on authority; during the Thaksin government’s “War on Drugs” she spoke up against the extrajudicial killings that claimed up to a thousand lives, and recently presided over an investigation that found there was an 80% chance a jailed Southern Muslim activist had been murdered in custody.

What a hero for democracy, human rights, feminism and fashion, although her striking look has not always been admired:

Crime Scene Bangkok 2

The last one is odd: “no metrosexual attire, no aggression”. So they want men who dress like real men ‘… yet don’t beat the shit out of each other?

One fun aspect of Korean pop music that is, in my opinion, under-utilised in the West is the “teaser”. This is where artists produce highly stylised, brief , often slightly cryptic clips – with little or none of their own music – to announce to the world that an album/ single is indeed on the way. Basically they hint at the “concept” the artist has decided to follow, in the hope of whipping up a flurry of interest.
Here, boyband 2PM – fresh from having sacked their hugely popular frontman, Jaebum, for his recent myspace indiscretions – announce their return, with each member filming a monologue, while apparently in intensive care.

But even that is nothing to the chilly brilliance of girlgroup Brown Eyed Girls’s recent effort:

[MV Teaser] 브라운아이드걸스 (Brown Eyed Girls) – 싸인 (Sign)

MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS | I AM NOT A ROBOT

The world’s most stylish man strikes again: