{"id":484,"date":"2005-11-19T01:22:38","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2016-08-28T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T20:21:41","slug":"why-you-still-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Why You Still Fat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/afdlinshauki.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_BLANK\">Afdlin Shauki<\/a>&#8216;s <b>Why You Still Fat?<\/b>. It was a good laugh. He hit hard at certain new pop stars, taking oppurtunity to show that he could sing. At least he could sing well.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the middle some jokes got a bit obscure, and I laughed not because of the brilliant snideness but because of his facial expressions, in a way, like Rob Schneider. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=356\">he still fell flat<\/a> when trying to fit George W. Bush in a joke.<\/p>\n<p>His modified-lyric songs were hilarious, and the highlight of the show, for me, was the ending, where he wrote a song about <i>Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers<\/i>&#8230; to the tune of <i>Queen &#8211; Bohemian Rhapsody<\/i>! (I&#8217;m not a fan of LOTR but Bohemian Rhapsody is my current favorite rock song.) Pacai, the accompanying guitarist, transposed it lower to something easier for Afdlin to sing, but still, it was a difficult song to sing, as he followed the phrasing and tune to the dot. He &#8216;<i>forgot<\/i>&#8216; the lyrics a few times, stopping comedically. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybersonique.org\" target=\"_BLANK\">DJCS<\/a> reports that in previous performances, he sang the song straight in one go; perhaps his fumbling wasn&#8217;t an act, but he covered up damn well!)<\/p>\n<p>This further compels me to properly transpose the piano bits to guitar; I&#8217;ve only figured out certain verses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went to see Afdlin Shauki&#8216;s Why You Still Fat?. It was a good laugh. He hit hard at certain new pop stars, taking oppurtunity to show that he could sing. At least he could sing well. Towards the middle some jokes got a bit obscure, and I laughed not because of the brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11619,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/11619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}