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Faces: 105 of Cinema’s Most Beautiful Close-Ups

After some flame from their compilation of 135 Shots That Will Restore Your Faith in Cinema [1], Flavorwire is back with a new compilation~~~ this time around focusing on faces, their emotions and their beauty… to relative success. I don’t think I could fault them… I had enough with Wong Kar Wai (included multiple times), multiple Zhang Yimou shots (and a double appearance of Gong Li to boot!), there was Park Chan Wook, Guillermo del Toro, Leslie Cheung’s face.

It was a thing of beauty.

The only face I could possibly suggest would have been Greta Garbo’s last shot on Queen Christina, but I’m content.

Posted on November 10, 2012 In Chinese, Clips, DVD/BR, English, Films, French, Japanese, Korean, Sharing, Spanish, Swedish audrey tautou, brad pitt, contemporary classics, darren aronofsky, faces!, faye wong, gong li, gorgeousity!, greta garbo, guillermo del toro, jean pierre jeunet, juliette binoche, kate winslet, maggie cheung, movie classics, norah jones, tony leung, wong kar-wai, zhang yimou

I’ve Been Thinking About Yu…

I haven’t actively looked for Yu Aoi fan-made videos in a long time, but here we go~ I hope this one doesn’t get deleted, coz we’ve been suffering from that a lot lately. Regular Yu Aoi film footage applies, with nice additions of Tamatama, and Otouto… though, Raiou would have been nice to have.

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LivingSocial Albums~

November 21, 2010 — 1 Comment

Previously known as TuneSocial? xD

Recently listened to~~~

Divided on whether or not buy the Monkey Majik Best collection because the album doesn’t have the oh-so-sweet Forever version with the kiddos and the old people. As if I could hate rainbows and puppies!

Then there’s Mavis Fan 1999 album, I Want Us to Be Together – so SO freaking-tastic. Frak! This type of albums is what makes me wish I could understand Mandarin, and makes Chinese music all sorts of awesome.

In Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, On Rotation, Screencaps, Sharing 2ne1, brown eyed girls, lala xu jia ying, laure shang (shang wenjie), maika, maroon 5, mavis fan (fan xiaoxuan), mika nakashima, milk@coffee, monkey majik, norah jones, taylor swift

Best Songs of 2000-2009 – Part 4/5

December 30, 2009 — 1 Comment

We are nearly at the end of our list of 100 Songs of the Decade~~~

Some really great songs on this one, with loads of variety
with music of many genres and different languages.

Best Albums of 2000-2009

December 23, 2009 — 7 Comments

Well, I’ve found it easier to narrow down the number of albums for this Top100 Albums of the Decade, than to narrow my list of songs to 100. LOL I have around 350 songs at the moment. This is gonna be difficult… and also in every possible language xD

Anyway, I’m sure that I had to take out some albums to include other albums. It was all a very difficult process to figure out what to include… going from “do I really have to take this song out?” to “OMG, I really love all these songs from this artist!!! Which one should I choose!- So please, bear with me, and comment what to add.

In Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Misc., Music, Sharing, Spanish, Swedish alejandro sanz, alicia keys, andrea echeverri, best of, bibi chow (zhou bichang), bjork, brad paisley, brokeback mountain, canada, cheer chen, china, coldplay, crowd lu (lu guang zhong), darren hayes, dixie chicks, eminem, fatboy slim, faye wong, france, franz ferdinand, gianmarco, glen hansard, gwen stefani, hanson, independent, japan, jay chou (zhou jielun), juanes, justin timberlake, keith urban, kent, korea, latin america, lee hom wang, les chansons d'amour, marit larsen, marketa irglova, maroon 5, mayday (taiwanese band), medula, miyavi, mtv, nelly furtado, norah jones, olafur arnalds, pink, rankings, red hot chili peppers, regina spektor, salyu, seo taiji, shiina ringo, sigur ros, sodagreen, soundtrack, spain, sweden, taiwan, tegan and sara, the ting tings, white stripes, yeah yeah yeahs, yuguo

Grammy 2010 Nominations

December 3, 2009 — Leave a comment

Well, I certainly don’t keep track with Grammy Awards anymore, so should I be adding the event to my Award Season calendar? Or should I just wait to run into it when it’s airing?

Grammy nominations were announced last night, and I’m glad I’m not the only one wondering why are the Grammy nominations so similar to MTV, the AMA and every other music-related award show? Just take a look at the General Field nominees to see what I’m talking about.

Record of the Year
Beyonce – Halo
The Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
Taylor Swift – You Belong with Me

Album of the Year
Beyonce – I Am… Sasha Fierce
The Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D
Lady Gaga – The Fame
Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King
Taylor Swift – Fearless

Song of the Year
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
Maxwell – Pretty Wings
Beyonce – Single Ladies
Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me

Best New Artist
Zac Brown Band
Keri Hilson
MGMT
Silversun Pickups
The Ting Tings

Good Music for a Good Cause

November 2, 2007 — Leave a comment

After feeling guilty over hearing Britney’s Blackout, I checked on iTunes and found a good compilation from one of my fave actresses… and for a good cause!

Big Change: Songs for FINCA was initially just a celebrity playlist that ended up as a one big project. This will probably be one of the best deals with music that you’ll get… not only you get 16-tracks that include Tokyo Police Club, The Shins, and Norah Jones just to name a few… it’s only $7.99 on iTunes Canada -and if you buy the whole album, you get a digital booklet with some pictures. Best celebrity playlist ever.

$$ is going to help FINCA, an organization that helps individuals (mostly women) with microcredit and financial support, so they can improve their quality of life, and that of others. Here are some small pictures of the digital booklet!

Songs for FINCA 2

In Celebrity, English, Illustrations, Music, Reviews, Screencaps, Sharing apple, cd, itunes, natalie portman, norah jones

New-old articles up

September 25, 2007 — Leave a comment

I’ve given up, this is what I’ve been working for a while… Continue Reading…

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