See, I want to learn how to play the guitar for the sole purpose of being able to play The House of the Rising Sun, the version of the song done by Brand New Sin makes me really happy.

But that aside, a Supernatural fic rec; Last Outpost Of All That Is . I cannot articulate how much awe I'm in of this fic. It is both epic and deeply personal, I- I'm at loss. So, I’m just going to re-post what eighth_horizon posted about the fic.

The boys struggle to deal with a world that's almost unrecognizable. Searching for what they need keeps bringing them face to face with each other.

Leave her a comment at here, after you finish all 61,700 words. Yes, 61,700 words, it is sheer awesome.

So, I have been informed that I've been rather, um, Supernatural focused, so, to show that I still LOVE my Korean boy bands with an obsessive dedication, I'll dedicate this post to DBSK and the SuJu boys.

About 2 weeks ago DBSK (Dong Bang Shin Gi (동방신기 - Rising Gods of the East), a 5 member acapella/boyband, returned to Korea to star on NUMEROUS variety shows, many a fangirl expired at the thought, for all of us has missed the boys on Korean variety shows. There is a certain level of crack that the boys never manage to reach on Japanese variety shows. There are many reasons as to why I adore them enough that I was contemplating naming my first born after certain members (shut up perseid, I have passed that stage, kind of) I love them; for one they can actually sing. In fact I got addicted to their songs well before I ever saw them perform, and their performance of Rising Sun pretty much blew me away, and there was just no looking back. Despite their success they are still so damn humble, and considering their average age is 21 I think it is just an amazing thing. I LOVE them to bits because they are honestly nice people yet still manages to be such big dorks!

For the MOST AWESOME OF PIMP POST on DBSK. There are PICTURE, VIDEOS, and SO MUCH MORE!!

Tohoshinki (their name in Japan) on HEY!HEY!HEY! there is Talking and an AWESOME performance of Purple Line, their #1 Oricon chart single.

Purple Line Rehearsal because they ARE DORKS, and decide to do a few moves of Tell Me song done by a GIRL GROUP! I LOVE them LOADS.

Or just go HERE, LOTS of current DBSK stuff.

Super Junior, the 13 (possibly 14, because of the violinist, don't ask) member boyband, just had their FIRST official concert, and OMFG! I am stupidly HAPPY for them. Considering the amount of crap they had to deal with to have this concert, this is EPIC! First, it was Heechul being involved in a car accident that left him with a metallic nail that spans the length of his WHOLE thigh, then it was the car accident in April 2007 involving 4 of their members that left 2 of them heavily injured; Leeteuk had 170 stitches, and KyuHyun suffered from a fractured hip, and pneumothorax from fractured ribs. He has only really begun to recover later/early this year, and everytime I see him performing I get stupidly TEARY.

For a cool PIMP POST on SUJU go HERE! This is more sharing of LOOT; profiles, pictures and music!!!

And ANOTHER SUJU PIMP POST!!! MUCH Youtube LINKS! There are so MUCH JEWELS here!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!

Or just go HERE, LOTS of current SuJu stuff.

The truth is that my LOVE for them CANNOT be TEXTUALLY RENDERED! Also, consider this an EDUCATIVE post on the study of ANOTHER CULTURE, because d00ds, seriously, there are other forms of media-entertainment beside English. OK, so the eye candy goodness help quite a bit, but sometime I just want my pretty hairless boys. And if they are talented? All the better for it!

DBSK has made it into the The United World Chart at #19 in sales for their album T beating individuals such as Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Celine Dion. They sold 52,000 copies, now they just need to sustain the level of sale for another, oh 10 weeks or so to make a lasting impression.

Also, last week (I think), it was confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records that DBSK had the biggest official fan club - over 800,000 active members. I'm impressed.

It was YunHo's birthday yesterday; leader-shii's fans are insanely organised; they bought him many expensive presents. Amongst the insanely awesome present there is a New Mac Pro, 2 LCD monitors, laptop and food. I'm both impressed and slightly scared at the level of organisation and fund-raising ability of DBSK's fans. They would make excellent fund-raisers for politicians.

So, liking one Korean band is like opening the doorway to the Korean entertainment/music industry (or at the very least, the SM family). I know of ShinHwa, Rain, BoA and so forth, I have even heard some of their music in the past, but omfg, since SuJu and DBSK, I now know who the hell Jujin, Tony, Sunday, and many others are. X-man is no longer just a Marvel character anymore, oh no, it is my main fount of entertainment.

On X-man celebrities make fools out of each other and themselves, it is about having a laugh and seeing just how competitive famous individuals are. It is where Yoon Eun-hye flirts with Kim Joong Kook, where Kim Heechul rules at the “Of Course” game, and where celebrities are dorks. I love X-man. Also, Chae Yeon and Lee Hyori are hot, the fact that both singers are not in their early 20’s makes me really happy – older women are hot.

I love the fact that ShinHwa have been together for 9 years now; their music has evolved so much. Despite the fact that they are with different companies now they are still supportive of each other; writing for one another's solo albums, appearing at their concerts, and still working on a ShinHwa album to be released this year. I have for to admit some of their later music is awesome (solo or otherwise). Minwoo’s (M’S) Stomp is just wow. I love that Andy still does his Heart dance; it is as spastic as ever (I can’t stop laughing every time I see it). Eric and Hyesung’s relationship break my brain – I mean what?! And Dongwan is hilarious and so amazingly kind.

Also, Tony An, formerly of H.O.T. is awesome, I think it is the way he interacts with his employees, despite the fact that he is a CEO now he’s such a dork with everyone. The whole break up of H.O.T. hurts my fangirl heart so very much. Also, KangTa and Tony doing the Candy dance break my brain on many levels. BTW: Candy is a fecking infectious song; I can’t get it out of my mind!

I really, really, really LOVE the Korea K-pop scene – I may possibly opened a youtube account to keep track of my favourite K-pop related vids.

I have been going through a patch of insomnia, so rather than focus on work I have been watching DBSK and SUJU (more like Kim HeeChul clips) interviews on youtube. It has been glorious.

The differences in the DBSK boys since they debuted back in 2004 to now are truly stunning. They were such dorks back then, compared to now they are much more, um, actually they are still dorks, but less gleeful and obviously more comfortable with interviews and themselves, dorks. Their image has come a long way (omg, they suffered a series of truly awful hair-styles); visually they are much more sleek. Their vocals has improved, which I think is partly due to their Asian tour. Having to sing so often and to a live audience must had been an awesome learning experience. Their music is much more experimental nowadays, though I wish they would allow Changmin and JunSu to really push their vocals, I’m fascinated with just how far the two of them can go. Also, the fact that they are considered to be elders in the music industry when the oldest of them is only 22 this year makes me laugh.

My favourite DBSK picture; Japanese version.



Nowadays YunHo is very smooth, and I’m really glad they stopped pushing for the whole bad boy image and allowed him to be more mature. However, his current thinness is kind of, um, concerning, I mean, his face was so ROUND only 3 years ago (wants to PINCH it, and those teeth!). The problem is that YunHo's height and body structure makes the loss of weight very obvious. Yoochun on the other hand has gained weight - this I approve, looking like a twig that could be snapped in half did nothing for him; I’m also very glad that his voice has become much more smooth. Changmin, that boy, have truly grown, he is taller than YunHo now (I think he's 1.85 or 1.86m), and he’s so much more confident and articulate than he use to be, it is extremely obvious in interviews and even when he’s on stage performing (and let’s NOT forget the SPECIAL videos he watch – AHAHAHAHA).

JunSu is has dropped the ‘cute’ image and is much more mature nowadays, it is suddenly him (or Changmin) who pick up the slack in interviews when YunHo is obviously feeling under the weather; I like his short hair-cut so much more. Finally, JaeJoong, is it me or has he become less camera shy and much more blunt than he use be? I mean he was pretty blunt back then, but now it is like he’ll go out of his way to be as blunt as possible. Actually, present JaeJoong sort of reminds me of a less insane HeeChul, in many ways that is a scary thought. The world can only really house one HeeChul at any given time; two would possibly make the world implode on itself.

This brings me to Kim HeeChul who is like- like- you know what? HeeChul is indescribable. He’s insanely pretty (yes, more pretty than most of the female celebrities), and when you see him you kind of automatically assume he’s going to be soft-spoken and nice. HeeChul is neither soft spoken nor nice - when I first saw him in one of SuJu’s MVs I wasn’t really impressed, pretty boys tend to bore me, then I saw him on a variety show. It was an experience, Kim HeeChul is truly amazing; he’s hilarious, extremely sharp, and is very blunt. Though what I said does little justice for just how glorious he truly is; he’s the type of guy you would love to be your friend, but would never want to date because he’d drive you to murder.



The Great Kim HeeChul, because despite the pretty and snark he can be a bit of a retard.

OK, now I shut up about Korean bands. Oh wait, one more thing - I LOVE "O Jung Ban Hap". My love for this song is pure GLEE.

Alive!

Work, work, work, and watching a stupid amount of Korean variety shows and music clips because Dong Bang Shin Ki (DBSK or DBSG), also known as Tong Vfang Xien Qi (TVXQ) in China, or Tohoshinki (THSK) in Japan is LOVE! Their name, in any of the above countries, pretty much mean the same thing - Gods Rising from the East. It is an awesome name on several levels, unfortunately when it is translated into English it loses quite a bit of its poetic flow. I thought it was the title of a new WuXia drama when I first heard the name.

The amazing thing about DBSK is the fact that they can actually sing and dance, compose their own music, and is actually semi-successfully transferring from a teen-boy band to something bigger. They were marketed as an acappella group but they mostly sing K-Pop. No matters, I have big mushy loves for the band, they are such dorks who honestly deserves to be where they are in the Asian music industry. For those who don’t know - DBSK is the biggest thing in Asia, not just Korea itself, but they pretty much got China, Japan, Thailand and Taiwan eating out of their hands. It is pretty damn impressive.

I’m especially endeared to YooChun and YunHo.

So, I have been reading/watching everything related to Super Junior... SHUTUP perseid! Anyways, as a result I have begun to read about the whole 'fan' culture in Asia, of course this is more related with the Korean fans, but since the suicide of a father a few weeks ago because of Andy Lau, the whole Asian fan-phenomenon is mind boggling. Anyways, apparently a Korean fan put chewed bubblegum in HanKyung’s mouth (one of Super Junior’s member), it is kind of insane. Also, I'm not even sure what to say about the anti-fans; making death threats, poisoning a pop-star, and admitting to sabotaging a vehicle that caused a major accident is just insane.

In conclusion - the Western fans have nothing on the Korean fans.

Currently trying to work out my superannuation, taxes, and trying to figure out the new changes to the Australian Tax legislation post-budget - ARGH!!

Moving on, perseid, remember how we chatted about your, um, mental age due to some of your interest, well, you can laugh at me now. I'm terribly infatuated with Super Junior, yes, the South Korean 13-member boy band, this is so embarrassing. But omfg, their Full House is hilarious, and their dork-like actions is just priceless. I’m still having some problems keeping track of all of them, but we’ll see. (There is ENGLISH fanfiction on them! OMG!).

Also, 陈楚生, the winner of the Chinese (all male) version of American-Idol continues to pwn me. His voice and his talent continue to blow me away.

Youtube is awesome.