I just wrote 1000 words in 50 mins, so I figure it's about time for a wee blogging break before lunch and Neighbours.
Block B released a new music video a few weeks ago. I'm a little obsessed with it.
BAP are also back and have returned to living up to their band name (Blond Asian People). Not so obsessed with this song. It just seems to lack all the attitude and awesomeness of Warrior, Power and No Mercy. Still a cool video and song though, and I'm glad they are blond again.
This evening, I was going to post my review of Devil Beside You. That isn't going to happen anymore.
You see, I spent my whole evening altering a document so that it suited me, only to complete my self set task moments before a new version was sent out, thus rendering all my hours of hard work pointless. I had two choices. Start again, or fuck it and watch Asian drama instead. I chose the drama.
However, by this point, my laptop had decided to do that weird mouse thing again where it freezes and just selects everything continuously. More often than not, this happens when my mouse is over the new tab button, resulting in hundreds of new tabs that I cannot cancel or close. I decided to turn my laptop off in the hope this would rectify the problem.
This was nearly two hours ago. Effing laptop is still re-fucking-starting. After it finally does start up, I have a feeling that after closing a gazillion new tabs I'm not going to have the energy to finish Devil Beside You and post about it, so maybe tomorrow, but in the mean time, you get this complain-y post about how useless my laptop is.
Went to see Dirty Dancing at the theatre this evening. It was really good, but a a few things to note.
1) Why throw in all the segregation stuff? I get that it was a huge thing at the time in which the production was set, but it is a stage recreation of a film, in which it was never mentioned. It just seemed out of the blue and slowed down the plot somewhat.
2) Some of the actors voices annoyed me. Namely Johnny. I'm not sure if it was just the accent, but he just didn't sound right. To be fair, it may just be because he isn't Patrick Swayze, but as my mother pointed out, the new guy probably looks better right now.
3) Someone needs to oil the moving stage.
4) I have never heard an audience cheer like that for a half naked hot man putting his clothes on. Seriously, bigger cheers than when he was taking them off.
5) About a quarter of the audience gave a standing ovation for the last number. We were in that quarter. I can understand why the stalls didn't, because they couldn't see that we had, but the other half of the circle must just have been a load of miserable sods.
This morning, I was woken up by the most effective alarm I have ever known.
Imagine the scene ... you are fast asleep, when a strong smell seeps into your subconscious. It is so foul that you wake up. You check around you, the door is shut and there is nothing to indicate the source of the smell being in the vicinity of your bedroom. You decide that someone who had been eating too many sprouts must have had an emergency trip to the toilet. Disgusting and inescapable, you bury your head under the duvet to try and wait it out, but it only blocks part of the stench that seems to be getting stronger rather than dissipating. You crack a window, but all it does it make you cold. You take a hint from B.A.P. and spray deodorant everywhere, but the odour burns through it. Eventually, you contemplate escape options as it occurs to you that you would rather jump into molten lava than remain encased in this stench. And you are up.*
The above occurred before 7 am this morning, and was not a ploy to rouse me from my beloved bed. It was, in fact, the discovery of a load of mouldy beans that stank out my whole house, and it was over an hour after they had been disposed of that the air was even semi breathable again. It was not a pleasant experience, especially so early in the morning. Jumping out of the window, regardless of the consequences, isn't the most ideal first thought of the day.
What was worse was that my father, owner of the worlds most sensitive nose, didn't notice a thing, despite being the one to hide said beans and forget all about them.
I know I said I'd share a load of kpop acronyms today, but that can wait until I have nothing else to share. Today, you get stink.
Yesterday, SHINee and Super Junior released their songs Sherlock and Opera in Japanese, and today, the MV's for U-Kiss's DoraDora and BAP's Power were finally released.
I think people were expecting some form of popularity battle between U-Kiss and BAP, but for me, even though I love them both, there is no competition. U-Kiss may be more established, but BAP just blow you away.
From TS Entertainment's Youtube
So they ditched their platinum blond hair of Warrior, which I'll admit to being somewhat disappointed by*, but the attitude is still as strong as ever for each and every member. It's hard to believe they are still such a rookie band, having only debuted a few months ago, but even though they are still young, in both age and experience, they give such a strong performance. They broke a stage once, and I wouldn't be surprised if they did it again.
As for the MV, the plot is a little unorthodox, to say the least. As I understand it, its about being boys being smelly.
One day, our BAP boys are happily murdering gagged people and having a dance party after crashing their spaceship in the desert.
Not so Blond Asian Person notices that there's an unpleasant smell in the air.
It spreads across the group, unavoidable and disgusting.
Pretty soon, it is so strong it brings our boys to their knees.
This guy knows where the smell is coming from. It's not surprising, though, they have been dancing a lot, and it looks hot and dusty out there.
Forever a team, the other members gang up on the guy with severe BO ...
... and have a deodorant party.
THE END.
I really hope this makes it on to eatyourkimchi's Kpop Music Mondays. Doradora is a good enough song with an interesting enough MV, but Simon and Martina would have a ball reviewing this video.
<3 x
* Even though BAP is supposed to stand for Best Absolute Perfect, I was much more a fan of Blond Asian People. Kinda rendered irrelevant now, though.
I've come across a new band. I can't stop listening to them, their music is pretty catchy and they just have this awesome presence. They're something a bit different, in a good way, and its not often you see Korean bands playing their own instruments.
Having just watched these two videos straight after each other, I realise they are quite similar. Its just these are my favourite two songs, and I ADORE the music video for the second one. There's a 10 min long teaser for it that tells the whole story. Sci-fi and kpop, how could I NOT love this?
I like the blond guy. I'm not sure of his name but I know one of them is called Kyumin. Before, I thought Kyumin was the portmanteaued name of the secret love between Kyuhyun and Sungmin of SuJu*... Why do some Asian guys look so hot with blond hair? I was going to say 'Look at B.A.P.' but have decided against it as they are all FAR TOO YOUNG. Zelo is only 15 for crying out loud. More like 'Why do some Asian guys SUIT blond hair SO WELL? ... OK, I just googled B.A.P. and got a load of bread, so in the interest of avoiding confusion should you have tried to look them up, here you go. Blond Asian People. Makes more sense than their actual acronym.
Two bands that I'm loving right now ... LEDapple and B.A.P.
<3 x
*What? I'm talking about Kpop, I had to get Super Junior in there somewhere.
