Love Me Tender

Sorry for the lack of posting. My trip to Asia was great. I got to have a lot of family time and spend time with my grandmother. I enjoyed it very much. Big thanks to Kazuma for posting while I was gone.

So someone tried to leave a comment on my seemingly popular post about Tiffany from SNSD by leaving a link to an online petition for Tiffany anti-fans for SNSD to disband. What the heck? Seriously, people need lives. If the commenter is reading this, your comment went into my spam folder where it belongs. I personally don’t care about Tiffany or SNSD and while I am an advocate for free speech, I do not want to endorse childish stupidity or bullying when there are so many more serious issues that need the efforts of petitioning.

In other news, has anyone else noticed the increasing reunion tours/concerts/album productions by old disbanded groups? First it was the Spice Girls, and then it was Jewelry (yes, I’m jumping across nations here), then it was X-Japan and now it’s New Kids on the Block. When the Spice Girls first stated that they were going to have a reunion tour I thought to myself, who would be stupid enough to go see them. Well, I found out that there were many stupid people in the world including some of my friends. All I have to say to that is oiy! I didn’t care much for Jewelry and I found their debut song really annoying and sickeningly catchy. I was looking forward to the X-Japan tour and I was hoping to see them in New York if I could get tickets. So much for that. NKOTB…I actually came to Canada just after their craze had died down so I wasn’t really there for their initial hype. Their song Summerdays is really catchy (damn those catchy pop songs!) and I wonder if they will have the same success as the Spice Girls. Anyway, that is all. =)

I really like the music by Ready’O (a Korean band). They don’t get as much coverage as I would like to see, but that’s usually what happens to Korean artists with actual talent. Their first album is really good. I can’t understand Korean (but I can read it…struggling =D), so I can’t translate from what it says about them. But I will put up what is written in English. ^_^;

READY’O members
1. Jung Tae/정태: Rapper
2. Tae Kyung/태경: Rapper
3. Ju No/준호:Vocalist
4. Yu Seok/유석: Guitarist
5. Jung Ho/중호: Bassist
6. Hyeok/혁: Drums

READY’O FIRST ALBUM
1. 회상(回想) (Introduction)
2. 끝이란 말이죠…
3. 너는 눈물이다
4. 보다시피 –> this is my favourite song ^_^
5. 손만 잡고 잘게
6. Crazy
7. 열병 (Feat. Brown Eyed Girls/미료)
8. Wow
9. 남자 대 남자
10. 아름다운 날들
11. 12월의 시

(Read on …)

I have been hearing rumours for a good two years now about the an American remake of the mega hit South Korean movie, My Sassy Girl. Well it’s true and it’s finally here. It will star Jesse Bradford as Gyeon-woo and Elisa Cuthburt as the girl (Jun Ji-hyun). Do I really care? Not really. I didn’t think the original was all it was hyped up to be. I think I was the only person who thought the girl was a complete bitch, the guy was a pathetic pushover, the plot was extremely predictable, and the scene which is supposed to be the most gut wrenching and heart-warming scene (where he lists off all the things that is good about her to a guy she is on a date with) was just…ok. I did not cry for it, unlike the men sitting around me *cough*. It’s not that I didn’t like the movie, but I really did not see why it was so great.

Maybe it was significant compared to all the Korean movies that portray women as docile women waiting for a strong, rich man to take charge and sweep them off their feet. I guess My Sassy Girl can get brownie points for that, but I’d still only give it a 3/5. Anyway, I don’t have high expectations for the American version just because I didn’t think the Korean one was that great to begin with.

Trailor time!

For those of you who want to know more about the movies, here are some resources for you.

1. PopSeoul!: Hollywood remakes My Sassy Girl
2. Wikipedia: My Sassy Girl (Korean)