{"id":661,"date":"2006-07-04T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2006-07-04T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T12:36:07","slug":"blasted-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Blasted Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now, for a blast from the past, more like blast from Blast Off! Season 2, which ended February 2006, but which pictures from various shows I never got round to posting until now:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/blastoff3.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>Left<\/b>: <b>Solsta*<\/b> had a cool britpop vibe with singer bobbing his head while singing Supergrass; <b>right<\/b>: <b>Jiaja<\/b> has the Hendrix riffs and fashion sense, rightfully winning the competition, proving that Malaysian voters have their head on straight. This 2006, at least, compared to the bum notes that were 2005&#8217;s reality TV show winners.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/blastoff4.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>Top-left<\/b>: <b>Fugitives<\/b> rock AC\/DC style.<br \/>\n<b>Top-right<\/b>: This dude from <b>3Flow<\/b> looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashpop.net\" target=\"_BLANK\">smashpOp<\/a>.<br \/>\n<b>Bottom-left<\/b>: <b>The Exilers<\/b> got to the finals. Thank goodness they sharpened up and stopped playing emo punk at the end, excelling instead at power metal.<br \/>\n<b>Bottom-right<\/b>: <b>Mariam<\/b> the hothothot host. I wish I had a clear picture of the hothothot <b>Belinda C.<\/b> too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/blastoff1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>Nuk<\/b>&#8216;s bassist strongly planted the stoic <b>KoRn<\/b> pose for the rest of the band to follow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/blastoff2.jpg\"><br \/>\nYeah, again, the dude from the Fugitives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now, for a blast from the past, more like blast from Blast Off! Season 2, which ended February 2006, but which pictures from various shows I never got round to posting until now: Left: Solsta* had a cool britpop vibe with singer bobbing his head while singing Supergrass; right: Jiaja has the Hendrix riffs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}