• Amelia Trailer~

    Not feeling it though… O.o
    Are you?

    [iframe width=”560″ height=”349″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/ioZCEpRLpxo?rel=0″]

  • Han Hong – The Woman with the Wonderful Voice

    I know I’ve tagged this with “new talent” and “new music” when in fact it’s not.

    First, a little about Han Hong – according to Chinese Wiki – She’s won the award for the Most Popular Female Singer, as well as the Best Female Artist Award (in mainland China). That means she’s critically acclaimed, and popular among the public – which doesn’t happen often on this side of the world. LOL

    Her voice is often compared (by the fans) to Sarah Brightman for her unique style… music and lyrics. – and everyone loves Brightman… she was even on the Beijing Olympics Opening.

    Now, a little on my story. I first noticed her at the Beijing Paralympic Opening Ceremony – with Andy Lau singing Flying with the Dream – but I didn’t have much luck getting her name or clips back then, so I kinda forgot about it until the day I was watching those music concerts on CCTV back in April and she appeared on stage. My mom thought what an amazing voice! While I added I had seen her in the Paralympic Ceremony… totally forgetting she’s also featured on the Beijing Welcomes You music video (thank you, whoever did those annotations! It’s hard to keep track of so many singers…) – Anyway, that day… I ended up discovering Chris Lee instead of Han Hong… but the wait is OVER!

    Since the beginning, I’ve always thought she had an amazing voice, but the video above moved me so much. It gave me shivers, and almost brought tears to my eyes. No, really. It’s THIS video in particular… this performance. She’s an amazing vocalist! I would love to see her perform with Sarah Brightman herself, or maybe even the lovely women of Celtic Woman – or Meav *tsk tsk*

    I’m not completely sold on her videos – like on most vocalist I follow – but her live performances are so much more worth it. Here are some of her other performances…

    Ommani
    Qinghai Tibetan Plains

  • Michael Jackson R.I.P

    This not just in… but I’ve been watching the TV since it was announced.

    Surprising news… Michael Jackson died. O_o

    NOOOOOOO! Before I get to see him in concert. Damn!

    Read all about it here.

    MJ changed the music industry, and was an idol that went across the generational barrier inspiring tons of people of many different ages… including my uncle and aunt, my older cousins, me and my younger counsin. His video for Remember the Time was the first video I remember ever making an impact as a kid, and will always regard him as a musical visionary.

    —

    Well it’s been a few hours already. I can’t still believe it – this has actually been a day of a lot of deaths (3 more) announcements aroudn here – *sighs* And it seems this has shocked a whole lot of people. My dad was following this story with me… and even my mom, who doesn’t generally give a crap about entertainment news.

    I also found the following entries~~~
    Igor + Andre MJ Tribute
    Cinencuentro.com
    TimesOnline
    – Stage Thriller who Took the Music Industry
    – Fans Mourn Artist
    – In his Own Words
    – Searching for Jackson’s Doctor
    – Death Linked to Painkiller

    — June 29 —
    Pitchfork
    – R.I.P
    – Michael Jackson News and Reactions
    – Music and Videos

  • Rebirth with Cheer Chen, by Keng-Ming Liu

    I just officially joined Vimeo – not entirely sure why, but we’ll see…
    In the meantime, this rocking video and song!

  • Best Remedy to Fight 4?

    Nothing better than the 8! xD
    [reference here]

    LivingSocial: Albums - 888 Album Count

    I just hit the 888 albums on my LivingSocial Album application on Facebook – and with 8 lists! xD – I listened to 4 albums tonight… Monkey Majik with Sora wa Marude (The Sky is so…) and “thank you”, as well as Regina Spektor and Shiina Ringo’s latest~~~ Far, and Sanmon GOSHIPPU (Superficial Gossip, Sanmon Gossip) – whatever your pick on names is…

  • Oscar Best Picture Noms to Expand!

    This just in via InsidetheGold and TheEnvelope

    The next Oscars derby will be more heated – and crowded. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences just announced that the best picture race will now include 10 contenders instead of the usual five.

    I don’t know what to feel. On one side, I feel sort of happy that there will be more films to be included as Best Picture – on the other hand, I think it’s a very bad idea. On a voting-side, having 10 nominees means that each film has a 10% chance… the film that get’s over 10% has the better chance of winning. Let’s say the Academy has 5000 members (just saying…) that means only 500 votes.

    I also don’t like the number 10 for nominations. Seems to chunky a list. LOL

    I would be very happy with the decision of making it 10 Best Picture nominees, if the rules for foreign films were to change, and all countries are allowed to send more than one film. Moreover, independent films should be included or at least get a chance against big studios who spend tons of dollars to promote it just for Award Season. Otherwise, we’ll just end up with a 10 big studio film list. What’s up with that?

  • Inglourious Basterds Trailer

    Looks pretty good, I must admit.

  • Experiment Awards’ Warm-up

    We’re almost about to finish up with June – still haven’t reached 20 films listed on 2009 @ IMDb… and I’m still way short on my quota to be legible on my own awards.

    I thought it’d be interesting to see how this works, so I grabbed the IMDb Power Search Tool and looked for all films listed on IMDb following this criteria:

    • All films must have over 50 votes on the site (you know, just to make the list shorter)
    • I must have voted it over 6.

    So I made my list of the regular categories – All acting categories, best animated feature, best director and best picture – without caring about the language they’re in. Just a reminder~~~ this year’s awards should include all categories except for Documentaries and shorts~~~

    Here are the ones of the would’ve beens of films released on 2000 – Oscar 2001 –

    (more…)

  • Which Student Are You?

    Funniest post here.

    From there, I’ve concluded I’m…
    A dirty anime 1.0 student with strong geek and brown noser (?) tendencies. LOL
    I also had one or two from the hip hop, metal, goth/emo, gamer, loner.

    DIRTY STUDENT
    – glasses or sunglasses depending upon what they smoked, drank or ate last night
    – paint, food, and god know what else splattered all over ripped up jeans
    – tragically hip retro t-shirt
    – messenger bag: markers, old bag of potato chips, cds, crayon, broken watch
    – designs but usually wrinkled, bent, spit on, folded

    ANIME STUDENT
    – Glasses, wai-wai!
    – buttons with witty sayings about nothing in particular, gasp!
    – chews on weird flavored asian gum simply coz it’s asian.
    – backpack filled with art supplies, and with asian candies, yum!
    – sketchbook with story ideas, whee!

    STUDENT 1.0
    – Up until 5am on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and various forums.
    – External harddrive (full of illegaly downloaded movies)
    – Always plugged into the internet.
    – shoes have lasted 4 years

    COMIC BOOK/GEEK STUDENT
    – Knows everything about every movie.
    – professional blue pencil is the only way to draw – anything else is foolishness
    – full of supplies, various inking pens

    BROWN NOSER STUDENT
    – always has a smile and a hellow for everyone.
    – always on time
    – wears overalls

    HIP HOP STUDENT
    – Huge enormous headphones to block out teacher’s instruction.
    – No watch to tell what time to come to class

    METAL STUDENT
    – Band T-shirt (black)
    – Oversized droopy pants

    I’m off to do this Meme – will post my doodle when I’m done.

  • Ponyo Gets a US Trailer

    First, see it for yourself~~~

    https://youtu.be/TCg1RYahEG4

    Now, I wasn’t to OMGWTFGOD when I saw the film. I liked it… I thought it was okay. The thing that I loved was singing that Ponyo song with the little girl – Ponyo, Ponyo sakana no ko!!! – Plus, Juri sings it too and that made me laugh so hard. I just had to mentioned that… just so you could see that part of the charm of the film is THAT song. This is why I think this trailer fails, makes it look all epic and sh!t… it is kinda, but it’s mostly cute.

    People will feel mislead. I can feel it in the air… and critics will bash it as childish.