Category: Music

  • Easter YAM! YAM Issue 003, that Is…

    I just posted YAM 003 over at my portfolio~~

    There’s a lot of international flavor in it… all by chance actually. It really wasn’t planned, it all just came together like that. There’s a couple of rant articles on movies and music, loads of reviews including complete non-fanatical reviews of Ao Akua, Utada Hikaru, DBSK, Hathaways, U2, Madeleine Peyroux, and Michel Gondry/Bong Joon-ho’s Yu Aoi’s Tokyo!

    ALSO! A special on the Peruvian film winning the Berlinale’s Golden Bear top prize~~ The Milk of Sorrow, and some of the discussion regarding the original name “La Teta Asustada”.

    YAM - Issue 3

    Head over there now!

  • Back with Eminem – We Made You

    Sooooo, Eminem’s Back.

    Back again. Tell your friends. ~~ Thoughts? Not really that catchy, but it is kind of funny. Noticed how he pokes fun at loads of tabloids’ fave celebrities? Also… Joseph Khan! He’s worked with Britney, as you might well know.

    Anyway, I found the lyrics, though they don’t seem to be right. John Mayer must be in cloud 9 with being mentioned in the song, and Sarah Palin *snorts* that bit was funny… – I do feel kind… of… sorry for Jessica Simpson. But seriously, Eminem could’ve poked fun at other ‘celebrities’ other than Rock Star dude, and the Kardashian chick. It makes it seem a bit outdated.

    *sighs* pop culture isn’t what it used to be. Have you noticed it now changes every other week? Every other week there’s another dumbass celebrity on Twitter posting photos of their wives’ asses and then asking for privacy. Long gone are the days of true movie icons… shame.

  • Yu Aoi – Yesterday – Fanmade Vid by KenKen

    Yu Aoi - FanMade Video - KenKen - YesterdayI almost never (almost sure) post fanvideos… especially if they just center on a real person, you know? I’m pretty sure I’ve never posted one… usually they make me eye-roll. It’s a whole other thing with shipping (not real people)~~ I can get a little nutz over shipping videos… though many suffer from what I’m about to describe below.

    This video, however, I thought it was pretty good… like not Windows Movie Maker related. The music too, kinda reminded me a little of Kobukuro. xD

    I’m pretty sure it’s all software/plugin related… and it’s really just a cool slide presentation, but still… like this screencap – looks good. Those bits at the beginning, very simple… very clean, and not showing Yu’s face. Mystery! xD

    I really wish more fanmade stuff were like this, as 90% of everything out there is just put together with crappy-ripped/cam videos or widescreen footage stretch out like it’s fullscreen. Keep the aspect ratio, people!!! And then there are the ‘slides fanmade videos’ that just show photos one fading after the other… Come on, this video certainly could’ve gone the corny way~~~ being the video with a shot of Yu’s cute face next to the name on Comic Sans. O.O COMIC SANS!!! [why exactly designers hate comic sans] [7 examples of inappropriate use of comic sans] –

    So here you  go… follow this link to watch the video.

  • Lily Chou Chou – Kokyu Re-Issue

    So this totally slipped my mind! I got the re-issue of Breathe!!! The Lily Chou Chou album from the Lily film by Shunji Iwai. The first time you see the film is so SO difficult~~ it’s such a hard theme, and characters you just want to slap around. I was a kid not long ago, and I felt so disconnected from THAT reality… yet, the film. You go back to it, and absorb it. The visuals, the music… it’s heartbreak.

    Salyu, her voice~~ I fell in love with the soundtrack. The album is an experience all on its own… perhaps more than Salyu’s other albums. It’s the film, it’s because the album is strongly connected to that reality that it works so well… perhaps, a bit poetic. It’s THAT magical. At least to me, and to all the people that had bought the first issue of the album~~~ and maybe the reason WHY it was re-released.

    I just want to know, from the people that bought the first run of copies… is it the same as the re-issue? Or has something changed? Hence, the re-issue credits in the album (including a re-design credit) ~ your thoughts?

    Lily Chou Chou - Salyu - Kokyu

  • A Little Over a Month of Music

    I was horrible last time, and I’m actually pretty horrible at keeping track of the music lately. No idea why though~ Also, I’m pretty sure I might be repeating or missing some albums hahaha ~~ go figure that one too. Annyway, the list after the break!

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  • Artist’s Random Music Meme

    Forgive my ignorance, but why is this a Meme? LOL I don’t get why call them Meme. xD

    Julz didn’t tag me, but I’m doing this anyway~~

    INSTRUCTIONS:
    1. Choose ONE band/artist and put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
    2. For each question, press the NEXT button to get your answer.
    3. You must write that song name down no matter how silly it sounds.

    Picked band/artist: Faye Wong ‘coz I felt I needed an artist with a fair amount of songs… and now that I think about it, I also could have picked Shiina Ringo. BALLS.

    1. Are you male or female? 迷魂記 – Vertigo
    (though English name doesn’t seem correct)

    2. Describe yourself: 蝴蝶 – Butterfly
    (awww, metamorphosis? xD)

    3. How do you feel about yourself? 浮躁 (Fu Zao) – Impatience
    (hahahahaha, now imagine myself with other people. No wonder!!)

    4. Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend: 小題大做 (Xiao Ti Da Zuo) – Making a Fuss
    (I still think it might be the wrong translation)

    5. Describe your current boy/girl situation: 掃興 (Sao Xing) – Disappointed (hahahaha)

    6. Describe your current location: 嗶一聲之後 – After the Tone (*beep* I’m not here hahaha)

    7. Describe where you want to be: 人間 (Ren Jian) – Mortal World
    (why????)

    8. Your best friend: 精彩 – Spectacular
    (oh, geez… they get the bust in self-esteem? And I get all the depressing ones~ LOL)

    9. Your favorite color: 夜妝 – Concealed Night
    (ok, you lost me there. Sounds like that SJP ‘barely mint’ color description. GAY!)

    10. You know that: 悶 (Men) – Bored
    (I’m bored?? xD)

    11. What’s the weather like? 無常 (Wu Chang) – Sporadic
    (Gosh! Talk about precise. First hot like humid hell, then fresh.)

    12. If your life was a television show what would it be called? 空城 – Empty City
    (hahahaha, my own version of I Am Legend??? BALLS.)

    13. What is life to you? 你喜歡不如我喜歡 (Ni Xi Huan Bu Ru Wo Xi Huan) – You Don’t Love as Much as Me
    (WTF, man. That’s sad. Damn it! Love as much as me!!)

    14. What is the best advice you have to give? 想像 (Xiang Xiang) – Imagine
    (sounds a little bit like me… or John Lennon)

    15. If you could change your name what would you change it to? 如果你是假的 (Ru Guo Ni Shi Jia De) – If You Were False
    (changing your name is false!! LOL’ or… I will have a very long name apparently)

  • Natalie Portman is an Elephant! And other Sesame Street Presentations

    TotalFilm.com has ranked Natalie as one of their best Sesame Street appearances xD Yes, the one with the elephant… cute as a button. I always thought Sesame Street (aka. Plaza Sesamo) was a pretty good kid’s show… and I always thought Elmo was cute, plus! he doesn’t speak like a stupid Teletubbie. “nuff said.

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  • My Reasons Why the 90’s Ruled or Not – Part VII

    … well more like making you remember. LOL I think I might have perhaps talked about this on previous Why the 90’s Ruled or Not editions. But here it goes,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirBaUq0aPU

    You LUV it, right? The video, LOL –  you’re free to go after the break to keep on reading… travel through time!!! xD

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  • Juri with WOWOW~ and with Jiji no e Tegami

    WOWOW + Juri!!!! Exciting!!

    As you know, I LOVED WOWOW’s Camouflage with Yu Aoi. *hearts* So the prospect of a WOWOW project with Juri (before she goes off to Europe to film more Nodame – Julz, this is your cue) is NUTZ. The current working title apparently is:
    GI~TA~ KE~SU no Onna –> A Girl with a Guitar Case, but you know that could change just like Camouflage switched titles.

    As you know, I liked Hito no SEKKUSU (Don’t Laugh at my Romance) and Hyakuman-en (One Million Yen Girl) which had WOWOW attached… of course that might had to do with Yu Aoi as well ~ but these prospects are the same. ^^

    ON OTHER NEWS!

    There’s a trailer out for Juri’s North India Documentary with NHK on the Jiji no e Tegami project, or Grandfather’s Letters… which in case you didn’t know~~~ Juri has a song for… (just like she has Onara Taisou for Nodame).

    The documentary will be on NHK March 20th (Friday) from 8pm to 9.29pm (LOL, 29? haha… sorry). Set your clocks, and I will set my own time… 6am??? GOSH~

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    For more some photos and graphics, head over to Juri’s LJ community.

  • MixTape – Remember the 90’s-o-Mix

    Weeeeee

    1. TLC – Waterfalls
    2. Christina Aguilera – What a Girl Wants [Video Version]
    3. BSB – I Want it that Way
    4. Shania Twain – You’re Still the One
    5. Hanson – Mmmbop
    6. Britney Spears – Baby One More Time
    7. *NSYNC – Tearin’ up my Heart [Extended]
    8. Faith Hill – Breathe
    9. TLC – No Scrubs
    10. BSB – Everybody (BackStreet’s Back) [Extended]