Category: Fun

  • Woah~ Esteman is a Distractor~

    Ever since I listened to Esteman’s feature length debut, I’ve been loving the album. I know I haven’t actually built my Top10 albums this past 2012 (I’m unsure I have enough quality to make a Top10) but 1er Acto is definitely included in this.

    Allen, Keaton y Johansson, Presley, Minelli, Sinatra, Cotillard et Piaf, Funes, Bardot, Gaga, Madonna, Davis, Andersson, Lauren, Newman y Travolta, Taylor, Mercury, Coppola, Almodovar, Cruz, Leguizamo, Winehouse, Lennon, Jackson y Monroe.

    [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/44616062″ params=”color=ff0090&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

    Though, his track with Andrea Echeverri, Aqui Estoy Yo, made it to my Top10 tracks of last year.

  • Spice Girls at the London Olympics Will Never Get Old

    In all honesty, I had a lot of Spice Girls fun when it happened, but the best part of the whole thing will ALWAYS be this animated GIF. Thank you forever and always, Lainey.
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  • Geeky Penelope Cruz for Nintendo

    The commercials for Nintendo featuring Penelope Cruz and her sister work great. They still make me laugh. This one is still my favorite though;

    Though, the other one with Mario Bros still has its charm. It’s also great to see that both versions in Spanish or English are difficult to pin-point which one was the original language. It doesn’t look like it’s been dubbed… or maybe it was shot twice, but it’s hard to tell if both version are slightly different.

  • Famke + MacDowell + Noomi vs. Veerle Dobbelaere – FIGHT!

    I was watching Erik Lamens’ SM-rechter (SM Judge) because… well, because I couldn’t resist the synopsis of a judge being wrongly accused of abusing his wife when they were only into SM. It’s all a true story to boot!

    All throughout the film, I kept thinking Veerle Dobbelaere looked a lot like Famke Janssen had a lovechild with Andie MacDowell — with a dash of Noomi Rapace. I’m still uncertain why I thought of Noomi, but the Famke and MacDowell connections are there at plain view.

    veerle-dobbelaere-famke-janssen-andie-macdowell-noomi-rapace

    I think the Noomi bit could have been due to Dobbelaere’s final outburst. But I could totally see Famke Janssen doing this role, if there ever — heaven forbids!! — were a Hollywood version of it.

  • Josh Hartnett, JeA loves you and WILL meet you~

    Brown Eyed Girls has been very busy this week promoting their upcoming Xmas +19 shows in Seoul. Besides doing SNL Korea, they’ve been doing all sorts of interviews. In the latest one on Guerilla Date, they talked different things like what would Ga-In erase of her past, who’d be the one to get married first…. and they talk about their ideal type (??), which JeA says Josh Hartnett with the following message:

    jea-brown-eyed-girls-guerilla-date

    … which, of course, it’s hilarious.

    I honestly think she did say “I will meet you” (with a really pronounced ‘t’ by the end of ‘meet’). I’m not sure where the “to” in the caption comes from… if it’s either a regular typo happening in Asian varieties, or if it is indeed part of the joke that she said “meet to.”

    You can watch it here.

  • Ai shi Amor, Señorita, Buenos Días~

    I’mma be loving this song, which has been included in Crowd’s latest album Guitar (有吉他的流行歌曲, complete title: Pop Songs with Guitar), strangely titled: One Bento Box (一個便當), even though the official name is simply Bian Dang x)

    https://youtu.be/6s_JDi4Kxuo?t=1m49s

    I’ve always loved that he uses — rather random — Spanish in his songs.

  • Joanie, Hit me with your Best Shot

    While finally watching Joan Crawford’s Queen Bee, I got to watch the finest ‘OMG-I-Can’t-Believe-How-Much-It-Hurts’ on-screen slap EVER [1], even more epic than the whoop-ass that Veda got on Mildred Pierce. It was jaw-droppingly fascinating. xD

    Then I found this compilation and I died laughing.

    Makes me want to watch all her filmography again… but then I remind myself that I’ve still got Crawford movies to watch, so I can’t re-watch the films I own. I must complete my task at hand.

  • I Am Xander~ Female Trio

    buffy season 8 xander female trio

    I always had the suspicion that I was Xander, and this quote just proved it. Destiny’s Child, Shonen Knife and the Dixie Chicks- in one dialog bubble not on YAM Magazine. What else is next? S.H.E, TLC and Acha Tsendep (阿佳组合)? xD

  • CNIEL’s Cheese Monster Commercial

    Look at this cheese commercial shot for CNIEL -Centre National Interprofessionnel de l’Economie Laitière by the EURO RSCG Agency. It’s like a cute combination of The Host and… you know, Cheese. In Paris. xD

    Client: CNIEL -Centre National Interprofessionnel de l’Economie Laitière
    Agency: EURO RSCG – Creative Director : Christophe Coffre
    Director: Ruairi Robinson
    Production: Henry de Czar
    Creature design: Jordu Schell
    Cinematography: Macgregor
    Music: The Moon is Shining for You de Kouz Productions
    Post-producer: Nathalie Delvigne

  • Best Kpop Spanish Subs!

    Recently, I’ve noticed that Kpop YouTube channels have been uploading their content with English subtitles!! That makes them official English subtitles — for some major groups like Brown Eyed Girls’ GaIn’s Bloom [MV] and Miss A’s I Don’t Need a Man [MV] (they’ve even added Simplified Chinese!) are recent examples — rendering in my opinion most (if not all) Kpop fansub groups useless.

    There’s now no reason to upload an extra video with subtitles… at least in English [1].

    Having said that… the quality of subtitles are very important when choosing your fansub group. It is, of course, the content and subtlety of the translation that matters the most, but in terms of hardsubs- it’s also about type-setting. It needs to be readable, and personal comments kept away out of the subtitles [1]. Matters should be as professional as possible… that also means language should be as neutral as possible.

    You know I don’t really mind my songs not being translated… but it’s nice to find your favorite songs done the right way.

    So thank you, JyariKpop, for your quality subs.

    My favorite is, of course, SunnyHill’s Pray [1].

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