Tag: why the 90’s ruled

  • Some Things Happen: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

    Russian be gone! xD I’ve spent the last week watching Bollywood films!

    First official Indian films with musicals, excluding A Wednesday (which didn’t have musical numbers, but does star Anupam Kher), Slumdog Millionair (which isn’t officially Indian), and some random Punjab film that I caught once when I was living in Vancouver and randomly watched the Punjabi channel. LOL

    First thoughts? I’m loving it. It cost me a bit to get accustomed to the 3hr running time of most films, but I think I don’t care… that much any longer. Fluff musical numbers are still fluffs, and that’s what irks me the most… but at least they’re good for exercising.

    It’s been my first week and I’ve already seen a couple of few Shahrukh Khan films, and I’ve already learned Kajol and Rani Mukerji’s names. Already reviewed Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and this is my second time watching Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. I think I took to the song because it’s one of the few that I can actually pronounce. LOL

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-j5pzoN670

    I love the complicated melodrama they get into. I can totally get why people in Peru are into Bollywood films and numbers.

  • The Sword of Omens is Real Yo!

    I still haven’t been able to locate a photo of me as a child in my family’s house garden waving the yellow and lime green plastic Sword of Omens I had as a child. However, these guys are designing weapons or designing pretty awesome real props, and have made my dorky childhood dreams come true.

    Its amazingness is beyond words.

    And YES. Even though Thundercats aired in the mid-80s, I saw them in the early 90s in their dub version, and it was still pretty goddamn awesome.

  • Kaze Fuiteru~~~

    Who grew up watching the Street Fighter II series?

    I used to tape this every afternoon because I was never on time from school, they used to show it after Gargoyles on Frecuencia Latina, and then after we got cable for the first time- actually a few years after that, I think — Cartoon Network Latin America got all big on showing anime series, and among the Inuyasha or Rurouni Kenshin episodes they used to broadcast, they also had some of this.

    I remember they also used to show Sakura Card Captor and Corrector Yui [1, with latino audio].

    Around that time, it was when I was trying to google this song online but back then it was nearly impossible to find song information if you had very little info, especially if you didn’t speak the language. I did eventually find that this song was called Kaze Fuiteru (aka. The Wind Blows, 風吹いてる – by Yuki Kuroda), and that my friend had a CD with songs that were anime themes that contained the track.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pOqYuKIGZo

    Of course, the Spanish version they did [1] is not as good as the original. But I’m glad that they at least kept the original music, instead of changing it to something “hard rock” like in the American broadcast.

    Lookie 1, lookie 2

  • Cindy Crawford by Mariano Vivanco for Muse

    We all miss supermodels. And damn, that’s some crazy pose Cindy Crawford is pulling for that hourglass shape (as hourglass as we can pull nowadays, anyway) she’s got going on this shoot for Muse mag by Mariano Vivanco [1].

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    I’m sure there’s a photoshop tweak here and there- after all, it IS a one-color wall.

    And though Crawford remains quite flawless, there’s this bit weird about her face that you can notice faintly in some of the shots [which you can check out on Fashiontography], it’s even more noticeable on the cover for Muse, sadly. I would have preferred this shot.

  • Ninja Turtle Nostalgia~

    This just doesn’t seem quite right :/

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  • It Doesn’t Matter that You’re Lying in the Gutter

    Oh, man~ after a few couple of years of waiting for information on Barlow, on a quick google- he’s finally back online with Twitter and Facebook. I’m probably one of the few people with the actual physical album in their collections. I’m even very tempted on ripping it and unleashing it on the net for a while~

    Remember Walk Away?

    Well, Malcom’s got his image, his rock and his crack,
    and if he lives to see twenty, he wouldl’ve beat the clock.
    He’s got his ride and his pride, and girls by his side,
    he makes his stands with a gun in his hand,
    he saw his best friend lying on a stainless steel tray,
    and he walked away.

    That written image reminds me TLC’s Waterfalls [MV].

    By the way, I’m aware Barlow is not 90s music, but TLC is. xD

  • My Teenhood Crushes

    I ran into this after a series of related links on websites.

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    “I never took the fame too seriously, it was a great period in my life, but it doesn’t define me.”

    So I went down a bit on memory lane to think about my favorite guys.

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  • Kodomo Ningyougekijou – Me lo Contaron en Japon

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    This is the first time I ever found the Japanese name of this show. Kodomo Ningyougekijou (こどもにんぎょう劇場) or Children’s Puppet Theater, known in Peru (and maybe Latin America) as Me lo Contaron en Japon.

    Though the DVDs are available on Amazon Japan — at a whopping price of nearly $50USD (over 4500 Yen) per volumen at 3 episodes a bundle [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], which results into over $600USD for 36 episodes. WHY, Japan? According to its Wikipedia page, the show possibly has over 50 episodes, running from 1990 to 2011.

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  • Remembering Breakthrough Music Videos

    Except for that 3-year break MTV took off the Breakthrough Music Video category, they had continued giving away the prize — which had been given to the likes of Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham — until 2010, when they officially removed the category.

    So I ask again, what happened to Breakthrough Music Videos?

    As a reminder, I put together a list with all the winners.

    [iframe width=”580″ height=”326″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLE88395EDFAA954B7″ /]

    If I had been picking winners (from that past post), I chose:

    • 2006 – U2 for Window in the Skies [MV]
    • 2007 – Tom Waits for Come On Up to the House [MV]
    • 2008 – Bjork for Wanderlust [MV]

    For the other two years, you know I’m probably partial to SunnyHill [1], but I’ll go with Salyu’s Tadano Tomodachi [1] concept because it’s much more a production concept than a music video concept. For 2012, despite its serious hard-hitting concept [1], I would have to go with Graham Coxon’s What’ll It Take [MV] due to its imaginative execution using fan footage.

    So what are some of your favorite music videos?

  • TINY-G’s 90s Dancing

    I don’t want to say “POWERFUL!!!” because I will feel like the captioning person on Korean variety programs. However, I just stumbled upon this video of TINY-G doing the choreography of their debut [MV], which I liked more than the actual music video. For one, you can actually see what’s going on without much distractions, and you can appreciate that they’re bringing a lot of HMPH! to their dancing in the way that 90s pop music used to have women dancing in not-high-heels and stomping their feet looking that they’re dancing instead of seducing you.

    There’s still a long LONG way to go for TINY-G, and we still need to see if their management ever dares to push the girls for a super girly concept for a comeback single like they love to do in Korea — which, sadly, seems like a huge possibility from the few comments I’ve been able to read asking why these tiny girls need to wear such baggy clothing when they’re so minuscule. Apparently people have issues with baggy clothes. Is it not feminine enough?

    Would you rather see them stomping with high heels and minis, so they can eff up their kidneys… just so they can look feminine and show their slender bodies to you?

    Looking at TINY-G, it brings back memories of me rooting for Britney.