BoA's new Bump Bump single with Verbal/mflo is awesome. Its basically what I love about jpop and BoA stuck in one song.

...except maybe its just me, but BoA sounds like she's a kid in some of the verses. Like Jessica from SNSD kiddie. It's really creepy.

Other than that, I like it very much. <3

BoA, just stay in Japan. America is a waste of your talent.

This is like the third post of today...

Haha, take that, Physics. I finally got the lab done.

alkjfalkdjfl *dies*

I just downloaded a shitload of Johnny's stuff. That's not healthy.

And I just found out that one of the guys I like (who's actually my age) was in 1 litre of tears. The tv show. You know, that amazing tv show that even though ryo was there, the family was the real costar? Yeah, apparently he played the younger brother.

...what.

He looks nothing like what he did before.

Ok, I lie. He looks like what he did before, but this is probably a perfect example of people who age very well.

Too lazy to pull up pictures of him before and after, but if you google his name, you get pictures of him before, and if you youtube him, you'll get what he looks like now.

Apparently, he's like Junsu. Everyone loves picking on him. A lot. So, yay.

It seems that I tend to like the abused, and the abusers.

*face palm*

Yamashita Shoon....

1. You're too skinny
2. You're too muscular.
3. Your voice... its... so DEEP
4. You look... pretty. And scary.
5. This entire thing was so wrong, but I still love you anyway. And Namie Amuro.

I totally feel bad for Keito next to him... he looks incredibly not thrilled.

...ruins my life.

And so does that drama my mom watches. Does it never end? How much longer do I have to hear obnoxious taiwanese actors crying and speaking loudly? It's been maybe 3 weeks, and she's been watching it pretty much every day. Well, or not really watching; she sort of leaves it running even when she's not paying attention to it. But, gosh, its long. Insanely long.

( More on Johnny's )

So I decided to look at my play count on my ipod to see which songs I have played the most since getting this particular one a year ago... and yeah... I surprise myself.
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So today I finally realize that all this time, I've been using the wrong Minho in my fic. I've been using F4's lee Minho rather than Shinee's choi minho. Oh perfect. that's just great. And soompi won't allow me to long in so i can't change it yet. At least I could change it on my lj account...

For once, I have to thank Sandara for the save...

Okay... so I can't decide if I like the name for SM's girl group or not. On one hand, its cool and doesn't look as stupid as say SHINee or SNSD or Super Junior or DBSK. In fact, after 2pm and Big Bang, I'd have to rank it as one of the best group names in asia. On the other hand... it just reminds me of math. In particular ,the fundamental theorum of calculus that never seems to go away no matter what I do. >_>

I just watched the mv. I think... that its the opposite of SNSD. As in, I like the people (except for Seohyun who I'm meh with, and Sunny who I hate), but I hate their image, songs, and dances. In f(x), I dislike the majority of the group, but I like their song. I'm a little confused on what exactly IS their image. And their dancing is meh. Their voices are decent; they don't make my ears bleed like with SNSD. But I hate Victoria Song, think Sulli is ugly, and have mostly 'jessica is so much prettier' with Krystal. Actually I don't find those three attractive at all. I'm meh with Amber. She's cool. But its a little weird hearing a girl's voice coming from what looks to be a man. When I want a hot man, then I want a hot MAN. When I want hot girl, I want a hot GIRL. Call me sexist or whatever, but I won't fangirl over Amber even though she kind of looks hot. I fangirl over hot girls who don't need to look like guys to make me go OMG HOT. Like Meisa Kuroki. That being said, it doesn't mean I hate Amber. I just don't love her like all those girls out there do. She's okay. Different, thank god. Her rap is so awkward though. Its not her, its just the lyrics. They sound cheesy and don't follow a rhythm nicely like rap lyrics should. SM apparently doesnt know how to write english rap lyrics. I don't care if they're rapping about ponies, at least make it SOUND cool (oh big bang...). Anyway, I really feel bad for Amber. As my sister says, she's probably the most straight girl out there, but SM is going to market her as either a male or a lesbian. Poor Amber.

The only one I really like is Luna. First her name is cool, second she is... kind of sexy? Like her dancing is the only one that stood out for me. I'm not digging some of her outfits. Speaking of outfits, Amber has some interesting ones as well.

Anyway. I've got another livejournal out and it features my fanfics. Its shinroito. The username took me forever to think of...

Nakayama Yuma is the best form of jailbait I have ever seen in my life. I mean, he looks like Jae Joong, he's got a DEEP, kind of sexy voice, he has pretty much a fully developed adam's apple, he's hot as a vampire.... but he's younger than TAEMIN. Meaning he just turned15. 1994 baby. >_<

The ultimate jailbait... and here I though Chinen Yuri was the ultimate one. Apparently not.

This is so wrong. Damn you Johnny. *goes off to stare at the real Jae Joong for detox*

Well now.

I miss Jaebum terribly.

2pm lost their leader, and their triangle of American boys.

Nickhun's going to return to be boring by himself, and Taec will have to be a sleazy old man by himself.

How wonderful, itunes just decided to play 10 out of 10. It has got such a great sense of humor.

Who knew? A song as craptastic as that can be so depressing.

I hope he comes back.

Someday.

I did this meme a while back, but since I feel like it, I'm doing a new version with some new characters

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I kind of want to smack the people who think that a person can summarize all the important points of things like "women's suffrage", "World War I", "Imperialism/ Manifest Destiny", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Taft", and "Wilson" in less than half a paragraph. Especially the presidents. What idiot thought of that in class? Isn't identifying what they did more useful than identifying who they are. Its such a general topic! ARGGGGGGHHHH. I have to study for other things too!

And it doesn't help that I had to listen to "the Chicken of the Sea" be sung on the TV like 30 times. >_< Fortunately I have music.

Why am I writing a review on an anime that's already almost 2 years old? Because its too good. And also because I just read three reviews from people who absolutely thought that this anime sucked. They... are in the minority, and I seriously wonder what they consider good anime.  At least they had the decency to say that FMP was good. But whatever, I don't care about them. Anyway, here is my review.

Baccano! is awesome, funny, and gets really complicated. Its written very much like Pulp Fiction-style, or as I thought, Robert Cormier style. While I absolutely hate Robert Cormier's books (After the First Death left a very bad impression, and I refused to try I am the Cheese), I absolutely loved Baccano!

Story: The storyline of this anime was set up in such a way that you actually have to think in order to know what the hell is going on. There are three separate times in this story that range from 1930-1932. Each year has its own storyline, and, if I remember correctly, sometimes there are more than one story going on in a year. One episode, however, is set in 1711. So yeah, the story can get really confusing. Surprisingly, I totally did not mind at all. The writing in this story is quite amazing. The first episode might blow your brains out, but if you continue watching, everything gets pieced together.

So the question is, what exactly is this story about? Hahaha, that's a really hard question. It has immortals, mafias, alchemists, and normal, of seemingly normal people. What I view as the "main" storyline, and also my favorite, would be the one with the train, the Flying Pussyfoot (yes, engrish, but its been worse). Why? Because every other storyline seems to be explaining the one on the train. So, the story with the Flying Pussyfoot is about... three different groups with completely different goals who want to hijack a train, and the adventures of our lovely and idiotic "main" couple, Isaac and Miria, the adorably precocious Czeslaw, of Czes-kun for short, and the ominous Rail Tracer. I absolutely love the scene where the three groups all barge into the dining car in order to take over; I felt so bad for the passengers. As for the three groups, one is led by the homicidal maniac, Ladd, who is simply there to kill for fun and hopefully get some money, another is led by the mute and lovely Chane and her companions who are there to take the train hostage in order to release their beloved leader, Huey, from jail, and finally there is my favorite group that has the most focus. This is the only group where all the members on the train from this group were actually fully introduced. The leader is crybaby, adorable Jacuzzi Splot (yes, I did have a WTF moment there, though his name sounds better when they pronounce it), his bomb-loving lady is Nice (I love her seiyuu, BTW), the ridiculously enormous guy, Donnie (no seriously, its hilarious when he's trying to walk through the train), and Nick (Despite the fact that I do like his character, I couldn't really think of a nice, short description). This group's motive is simply to steal some bomb from the back of the train, not kill. So basically, the other two groups have their own bloody war in and on the train, while everyone else gets involved. Really, I am amazed at the dexterity of these people. Since when were trains so easy to fight and run on? But still, they were some awesome fight scenes.

The other storylines... my second favorite would be the one involving how the characters became immortal, and how the characters all tied in together. The "main" character for this one would probably be Firo. I love Firo. Not only is he adorable, he is also a really cool fighter, and gets a pairing. He just joins the mafia in the beginning of the story, and is great friends with many others, even ones not in his family. The two most significant friends are Luck Gandor, of the Gandor family, and Maiza, of Firo's family. Maiza has his own storyline, but I'll stop talking about it here.

Then there's the storyline with Eva and her brother Dallas. It... was probably my least favorite, but it was alright and did relate to the story. It did show more about the mafia families than the other stories, and Luck Gandor had a bigger part in it. Luck Gandor was probably that character in the anime who if he was real, I wouldn't mind marrying jkjk but really...(he's not young at all and he's a mafia leader, I know, but he's so suave, charismatic, and charming).

There are other storylines, and the all interweave with each other. If I had to rate the entire anime's storyline from 1 to 10, 1 being the worst, 10 being the best, I'd say it would be 8.5.

Characters: The thing that stand out the most about Baccano! is how many characters there are. In the opening alone, they show 17 of the characters that have been deemed "main characters". Thing is, the did miss out many other important characters, so that brings the count to at least 25. Of course there are the side characters as well, so the actual cast just continues to grow. Normally, you wouldn't think that any anime could build up 25 characters satisfyingly, but Baccano! manages to do it, and in only 13 episodes. Of there are a few characters, like the quiet, stoic, probably masochistic Lua. She remains a complete mystery for the entire series, and even the OVA does not mention her. It's such a pity since she seemed like such an interesting character.

For the first time ever watching an anime, I didn't have one character that I despised. Even though I tend to hate stupid characters, the idiots Isaac and Miria didn't bother me at all. In fact, I loved their antics. Maybe thats because for once, characters don't get hurt because of their stupidity,and that's the couple's charm point. Also, none of the girls were annoyingly weak or had to constantly protected. Okay, there was Eva, but she wasn't really stu- okay so she made a stupid mistake in an episode, but it was not so bad that I disliked her.

My rating for the characters would be 9/10.

Art/Design: The art for this anime was pretty good. It wasn't terrible, it wasn't OMG AMAZING (I haven't seen many that were like that). The quality was nice, the action scenes were nicely done. I'd have to say, though, I thought the art for Chane and Nice outshone the art of the males. Being a girl, I guess that's something big. I'm sorry, but they looked so pretty. The art in this series gave me a different, and more realistic feel than the other series out there, and it suited it well.

My rating for the art and design would be 9.5/10. Okay, so it may be a little high, but I LOVED the sequences where the immortal characters healed, or came back to life. And the train scenes.

Sound: Probably the best I've heard. While Joe Hisaishi is still the best composer, the jazzy tunes in this anime completely suited the story. The music is noticeable, but in a good way. It doesn't distract you from the scene, but it leaves an impression on you whether you were really listening to the music or not.

As for the seiyuus, they did an amazing job. What made me laugh was when I recognized both Isaac's and Nice's voices. At first I was worried that I was watching too much anime, but the I realized I only watched one anime series of each voice actor. Suitably enough, stupid Isaac's voice actor was the same as the rowdy, not so equally stupid, Momo-sempai from Prince of Tennis. Nice's voice actor did the ninja Sarutobi? from Gintama. The masochistic one in love with Gintoki. That was hilarious.

My rating for the music would be 9/10. The voice acting would 9.5/10.

Overall: This anime was probably the best anime I had ever seen. Period. I usually don't watch anime because they tend to fall short of expectations or die out toward the end (Darker than Black), but I thought this anime was amazing. I wouldn't mind reading the manga if I have time for it, but I don't think that anyone's really scanlating it (its unfortunately not popular). Anyway I highly recommend this anime to those who don't mind bloody things. I really hope there's a sequel.

My rating for this entire anime would be 9.2/10.

If my ratings don't add up to the overall, its because I decided to lower it  a bit for some weird reasons.

I drove home from school today... Its been a while.

Its also been a while since I had steak...

Changmin is the Asian Chuck Norris, fo sho. Jae Joong is the Asian Aphrodite. Junsu is an Asian muse. Yunho is the Asian Apollo. Yoochun is the Asian American.

Lol.

Just had to put it like that.

Sorry Micky.

...text twist... is so damn addicting.

Hmm...

Kimi wa Petto Matsu jun and Mei chan's Butler Mizushima hiro really look alike. On A side note, I can't stand Mei chan, and it figures, the manga it was based on was some mangaka whose females make me tear my hair out with frustration. They're so annoying.

Hey! Say! Jump makes Shinee look OLD. Chinen Yuri? He's like 14-15 but he looks like he's 12. And he's freaking adorable. Fortunately I don't like him in the way that would make me feel a pedophile.

Kamiki Ryuunosuke is a very nice actor. Its just that he looks... really girly. Like Almost on the same level as Lee Junki in King and clown girly. Especially no that he grew out his hair. His look-a-like Kanata hongo is faring very well it seems. Its sort of hard to believe that Kanata is actually like three years older than Kamiki. They look the same age.

I'd have to say Bloody MOnday was probably one of the best dramas I've seen in awhile. I don't know whats so great about Ryuusei no Kizuna that makes it so popular, and I personally don't feel like knowing. The storyline seems... meh. But Kaname Jun and Nino are in there so it must be a plus. But then again Miura Haruma, Sato Takeru, Narimiya Hiroki, and Nana Katase were in there. And Michise... like how can you beat that? The acting was superb.

Seriously, Chinen Yuri makes Taemin look really old. In fact he makes many people around his age look old. When you have a guy your age saying aw... kawaii, you must be insanely young and cute.

I sort of feel that I'm most productive with my school work when I watch dramas... which is sort of weird.

1 litre of tears... I wonder why they bothered to have a special. It seems kind of... superfluous. And I have Only Human in my head all the time now. Thanks mom.

Angela Aki.

Words can not describe how amazing of a singer she is.

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Its incredible how my sense of taste in guys work.

So recently I finally decided that Ben Barnes is actually ridiculously attractive. Before, I only thought, he's alright, even when I scanned through his pictures in his soompi thread. Never watched the Narnia movies, since I rarely watch movies, period, so I really didn't know how well he acted. And then I was sitting in the dentist's office, looking at a Nickelodean magazine, of all things, on Prince Caspian, and finally I go, "oh, he is a rather attractive guy." I'm not sure if I thought this before or after I read his interview, but the interview itself made me think that he seems to be an interesting character. There was this one question where I was like, wow, just wow, you actually said that out loud? I totally would have thought the same thing, but I don't think I'd ever say that... I'm not entirely sure what kind of impression I got of him I had after reading the interview, but he interested me enough to look him up on the internet.

You can call me blind for not realizing how attractive this guy is, but hey, my eyes have been on Jae Joong and his perfect features way too long.

You know, maybe I started liking because he gave me the same vibe as Miura Haruma. Yeah, probably.

I'm hopeless.

And I'm really really weak for guys with nice/charming smiles. Lets see... I like these guys mainly for their smile (well, I do like these guys for other reasons, particularly the top two, but I become slightly obsessed with solely looking at pictures where they smile):

Miura Haruma
Ben Barnes
Minho (from SHINee)
Ki Bum
Kim Bum

And maybe some more. But really, those are the main ones.

The unfortunate part of these guys being on the list, is that I find their sexy looks incredibly awkward to look at. Well, I just find it slightly awkward to look at most guys with the whole "sexy" and "hot" thing going on, (except TOP, he does it naturally for me... and maybe Jae Joong, but he really doesn't need to do anything to look... "hot"... I hate using that word... and he's actually more... pretty/masculine guy with perfect features) Like it doesn't suit them at all. Yes, that includes Ben Barnes. Maybe not Ki Bum so much... ok scratch that, I'm having mental images of him in Don't Don... he looks really... stupid trying to be "sexy". Minho looks the most awkward when not smiling. Heck, when he's not smiling, he's not that great looking. Well... Ben Barnes looks good when he's not doing anything, kind of like Jae Joong, but its not really... "hot". It's just, wow, you have some nice features, very charming. And you stand really awkwardly when in a suit, not so charming (but that's ok, awkward makes you who you are). Maybe you're too tall? Miura looks alright when he's not doing anything.

Ok, I'm starting to ramble.

Basically, I have another piece of eye candy, who's talented in acting (I actually bothered to watch some clips of his acting, and thought it was rather good, but I can't really tell since the roles aren't very... er, "challenging"), and based from his interviews, intelligent. Those two things, are a huge plus for me.

Thankfully I have not really gone rabid fangirl over Ben Barnes despite all his good points, but that may be mainly because I respect him a lot more than I "love" him. Like how much I respect Se7en. Then again, I respect Joe Hisaishi, but I still fangirl over him. But then again, I love his music. Love, love, LOVE his music. It's beautiful. He wrote the best piece in the entire world, Sixth Station. It brings me to tears.

I should wrap this up, I'm starting to not make sense.

Junsu's voice is really... nice. Everyone else's... BAOALKJSDLFKJ:SIDFJ:LSKDJF:L JAPAN!!!!!!! I love you so much because of your awesome anime and music, but really, though your music is wonderful, I can't stand the nasal >_< Only Junsu's voice has not been "ruined", but that's mainly because his voice was slightly nasally in the first place.... 

The opening for the Olympics was WONDERFUL. Even my mother was amazed. I mean, she always mentions how Zhang Yi Mou only casts girls who sleep with him, but even she thought it was beautiful. Unfortunately, most of the time while the ceremony was going, my mom, who was already really upset with me, kept on saying things like "See? China can do these things, and they're much more beautiful than anything that you're beloved Japan does."

...I don't think that my mom gets that though I really like Japan, I am proud of my Chinese ancestry, and know that  it is a wonderful place filled  with wonderful and amazing things. It is history. And almost everything in Korea and Japan basically did come from there.

I just hate the entertainment industry, and their talentless entertainers who are really not even that attractive. My parents look so much nicer than almost all of those people who are considered "pretty", "sexy", or "hot". Ok, maybe I'm really referring to the Taiwanese industry when I say talentless, because based on some videos, China does have talented singers albeit not very attractive. I actually don't care about looks, as long as they have talent. Get plastic surgery if you're really that fugly and people can't looks at you without turning into stone. If they don't have talent, I hope they got the looks. Taiwan... has a severe lack of talent in their entertainment industry. And their girls aren't that pretty. And the guys are decent, but only a few are attractive.

But I think the main reason I don't listen to many Chinese songs is because I hate the sound of Chinese being sung. I only like it being sung by certain people. I'm not entirely sure why. I mean, I only like listening to Jay Chou, Tsai Ching, FIR, Jacky Cheung, and maybe some other miscellaneous singers (including most of Suju M, ok, maybe mostly Donghae) sing in Chinese. Maybe its the way they sing. But sung by anyone else, I simply get really annoyed.

Ok... I'm going to stop now...

Big Bang's new minialbum is amazing.

First, I'd like to say I'm terribly disappointed with Eunice, A'st1's fanclub, if they participated in this. Because seriously? There was absolutely no reason. The girls gave A'st1 rather good advice, and A'st1 also had to go through similar BS when they debuted with the whole "tado Suju" thing. Over at the A'st1 forum, we've been trying to keep up a good name and not bashing other groups... but... well...

Respect. Don't parents in Korea EVER teach their children about respect? I'm sure they do, with the whole "respect your elders" thing. But it unfortunately seems as though the children did not apply this to performing artists.

Artists thrive on applause. They deserve it. They work their asses off in order to please you. Though some still might not please you (SNSD's songs and singing annoy the crap out of me), at least give them credit for working hard. So this comment from Shenyue made me rather upset: "There are plenty of reasons WHY fans are so pissed off, because believe it or not idiot soshi fans your so called STARS are riding on their seniors coat-tails of success, where some have worked hard, they have gained without effort. Where some have spent endless hours perfecting routines, perfecting songs, they get number 1 by kissing lollipops."

Right. So their 7 years of vigorous SM ent training was just a joke. Then why would Tae Yeon attempt to run away if she was having such an easy time? They worked as hard as DBSK, and they're GIRLS, meaning not so strong and athletic as their male companions.

Right. ALL SM artists ride off their seniors. SHINee rode off DBSK and Suju, Suju rode off DBSK, and DBSK rode of Shinwha. At this point I become not too familiar with the groups because I was too young to. But the point I'm trying to make is that SM is just a cycle.

So this is why I don't think that SNSD deserves the silent treatment. They are just like any other entertainer. They work hard to please you, and please you or not, SOME applause recognizing their effort is good.

Onto the fanclubs.

I can only hope that if I become an artist, I have a nice fanclub.

ALL fanclubs are to blame for this entire mess. Not solely SNSD's, not solely Cassie, ELF, and Triple S. Its all the clubs, because each one is seriously getting out of hand.

I am aware that SNSD's fanboys are rude and whatnot, but I highly doubt that they beat, stabbed, and raped fangirls. We only have fan accounts. First, don't you think the professional news would be reporting about this? It would be a HUGE issue, and I'm sure parents would forbid their children from going out to support their own favorite idols. But people still have gone out to support. Next, I'm sure you know what happens to a rape victim. Most of the time they are too ashamed to say ANYTHING about what happened. Rape has HUGE psychological effects on people. So why would they tell other people so readily? Its already hard enough for police here to find rapists, because victims don't want to tell, or are too scared to. The sad thing is, people are taking in this crap so readily, believing anything and everything they read.

THINK people. THINK.

Do you think people who were raped would say such a thing? That supporting their group would still be first thing on their mind after being raped?

It just doesn't add up.

What sickens me the most is that people are carelessly throwing around rape. That's just sick. Do they EVEN know what it ACTUALLY would be like if they did get raped?

Seriously. I know that SNSD fanboys are as insane as the female fangirls. But I'm sure no one actually got KILLED or RAPED.

Both fangroups are... just... hormonal teenagers. That are taking things way too far.

Also, I can't trust any fan account. How am I supposed to know if its true or not? I can't trust SNSD fans when they "boast" about beating up girls, because they just might be writing it for the attention. And we don't know what fully happened. I'm basing my ideas on what I interpret from the situation, and what I think of it.

Insanity is coming. Wait, no, it has already come.

Maybe I just don't understand, me who likes and enjoys all the groups out there in one way or another. Me who appreciates the effort that these people put into their work. Me who thinks that performers should be respected and clapped for.

Think about, if these people weren't famous, would you treat them the same way? Or would you treat them differently? You can't answer this question, right? So you don't know whether or not you hate or love them passionately.

At this point I'm starting to confuse myself...

And yes, I'm sort of a hypocrite. I can't stand Tiffany because I find her obnoxious, unnatural, rude, disrespectful, and I don't appreciate her effort, because it doesn't look like she does put in effort compared to the other girls. After those many years of training, I'd expect her to be able to DANCE THE CORRECT STEPS. Making mistakes once in awhile is fine, but all the time? That's ridiculous.

Perhaps I'll edit this later to add more points...

But I hope I got my point across.

I feel extremely bored. This is the first time I've had nothing to do since spring break. The last two weeks have been like hell almost.

Well, maybe not THAT bad.

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When will people ever learn?

Yunho got injected with estrogen.