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Just Heads, At the Entrance

There's this place in Singapore, a theme park if you will, that has this gory, strange, Ten Courts of Hell diorama. The park is known as Haw Par Villa. And the reason I visited it early this year was because John Taylor of Duran Duran visited it last September. Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself.

One of my regrets last year was missing the concert of Duran Duran in Singapore. They had a world tour, you see, for Paper Gods. Unfortunately they did not include Manila (Philippines) in their Asian Leg. The first time they dropped by Manila I did not have the resources to watch them live. Last year I did. But it was also on the heels of my trip from Singapore to catch Foo Fighters. By the time I recovered, I couldn't find tickets to the Duran Duran show (it was during the F1 Singapore thingy) or maybe I didn't know where to look or how to look hard. Then I checked Japan sched (last stop of the Duran Duran tour, I think) and there were no tickets I could buy. So I followed them in Singapore virtually. And John Taylor visited the park, had some photos taken and stuff.

Early this year, while it was unheard of in Singapore to rain the entire weekend, I found myself trekking Haw Par Villa and looking at the sculptures for the Ten Courts of Hell. There were other structures, other stories set up obviously (it was a theme park) but I practically savored hell that rainy morning. And these beheaded men and women welcome you to the place.

Okay, enough word vomit for the day. Let's see if I can keep this up.