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Onew @ Japan Arena Tour_Tokyo 120531
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source: leejinki.kr reup: vivz
Okkervil River — No Key, No Plan
You never earned your soul. I know, but I'm gonna try, though, I'm gonna try.
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(…) Arnold leaves us with indelible images ingrained by the camera in much the way Mia might remember them years down the road. A dying fish lying on the grass sucking its last breath, a dog eating the guts of that same fish on the kitchen floor, and a cracked windshield held together by blood and human hair all linger long after they fill the frame. The meticulously placed long shots cementing the viewer’s omniscient perspective of Mia’s transition are even more telling, like when Mia and Connor face each other knee deep in a calm river, or Mia is framed by a background of epic cranes, and finally when two small children traverse through tall grass as storm clouds roll in. In a film about the suffocating stranglehold of barriers and limitations, Arnold cuts wide to hint at the growing possibilities beyond the frame. — [from the review by Glenn Heath Jr.]
Fish Tank (2009; dir. Andrea Arnold)
There is no joke more overdone and simply unnecessary in K-Pop fandom than, "My friend just mistook this male idol for a girl! LOL."
#i don't care much about onew chicken jokes and the like because it's part of his personality and it's CUTE#i don't care about being reminded that it's CUTE#but this is just so basic#and all kinds of gender icky#and also also also#i get the feeling that it plays off of stereotypes about emasculated asian men and different cultural attitudes toward masculinity#though i'm not really qualified to comment so take it with a grain of salt#but my point: it's just not that funny and we've all heard it a million times before so s t o p
I listened to J-Pop so long ago that BoA was primarily known to Western fandom as a J-Pop artist.
a cool story about my dad's taste in music is that when i was 12, he made me spend an afternoon listening to french folk music on vinyl, and he was like, "so do you like it?" and i said, "it's okay." and a couple minutes later, he went, "she's singing about nursing a baby wolf from her breast."