you are my star

okay so SNSD's hot new song and video are out. SUPER GENERATION was good. SO NYON SHI DAE (boy's generation) and mubank was even better. these are the moments when i'm so happy i'm in this fandom. but as much joy as glorious performances like these bring me, this fandom is also going to be responsible for my first heart attack.

this week has been insane. the real world is STRESSFUL enough as it is, with important people dying left and right (RIP farah fawcett and michael jackson), and north korea threatening to wipe my neighborhood off the map. but then fandom decides to make things worse. the whole SUPER JUNIOR SITUATION  is a source of constant worry. i mean leg injuries, depression, the possibility of someone leaving the band, the possibility of the entire band breaking up, future military service, and just the uncertainty of wtf is gonna happen to them is driving me nuts. and then SUNGMIN gets a freakin' knee injury, which he needed STITCHES for (poor baby) and he didn't have to be on mubank but he decided to go anyway because he really wanted to perform. so he did, and he was SINGING and SMILING through the pain, dammit. gah he's such a SWEETHEART. and then SHINEE decides to contribute to my steadily increasing blood pressure, in the form of GIANT METAL LIGHTING FIXTURES wanting to eat onew. but then SIWON (with backup from kyuhyun and you know, GOD) caught the damn thing before it could crush my beloved ondubu, so another coronary averted.

i swear this fandom is gonna be the death of me.

so now i shall cheer myself up with the cutest thing i saw all week and hopefully it would be enough to get me through another week in KPOP: THE DEADLIEST FANDOM EVER.

1. so i wanted to make up to JAPAN for neglecting it for the past few weeks and i went to kinokuniya yesterday. and who do i see on the covers of the music magazines? DBfSK. then i went to the counter to look at all the announcements and free postcards they have lying around and what do i see there? a postcard that says JAPAN AND KOREA UNITED and it's an announcement for like monthly meetings of japanese and korean people for friendship or something. i swear even japan is pimping korea now.

i went to the manga section so i could get away from korea for a couple of seconds and focus. and i'm sooooooo glad i did because that's where i found (and 2 seconds later, bought) this:


me: we could take any train on the red line, get off at this stop, then switch to any train on the....
sister: what? any train on the what?
me: the purple line.... I GOTTA INTRODUCE MYSELF.

then we started laughing and people were looking and yeah. that was a good day.

4. speaking of purple line, i always thought that was a funny song. ever since the first time i heard yoochun say "i really wanna touch myself" when ayisse made me listen to it in her car. but because of this remix, my views on this song are slowly changing:


i still think purple line is a funny song but why have i had this video on loop for the past hour? this remix somehow made me pay attention to yoochun's voice and i find that i like the quality of it better than jj's now. it's more manly. and a bit husky. and i like that.

5. speaking of yoochun, i think i love him now. i've always liked jaejoong because my sister showed me the balloons video a long time ago (yes) and then recently changmin because i thought he was extra hot in the mirotic video. but this week yoochun somehow ninja-ed his way onto the top. and i think it happened when they were guests on ontama and they were asked to sing lines from songs that started with each syllable of the words secret code (shi-ku-re-tsu-to ko-do in japanese). jj was serious about it and sang really good lines from songs but whenever they hit tough spots, yoochun takes over and wins my heart. for the syllable KU, yoochun goes "ku-gun, ku-gun" like the sound you hear when the shark stalks swimming humans in the jaws movies. then when they get to the syllable TO, yoochun starts singing "tonyo tonyo tonyo sakana no ko" you know like the studio ghibli film except that was PONYO. so yeah that's the reason why i love yoochun now. oh and because he has tattoos.

6. speaking of tattoos, jaejoong's are hot as well. and in grammatically correct english too. unlike a certain suju member i know who had "actions are more PRECTION than words" tattooed on his back. yes kangin, i'm talking about you. you would have been better off tattooing "korean number 1 handsome guy" on yourself. at least even if it's not true, all those words exist in the english language. prection. honestly.

7. speaking of korean handsome guys, let's talk about dong hae for a sec and how his charisma has gotten him parts in other artists' music videos: BoA's Key of Heart and SNSD's Kissing You. i love how in korea musicians often collaborate with other musicians in songs and videos even if they're not from the same management (wonderboys and wonderbang lol) and i rarely ever see that happen in japan and dong hae why are you so cute flirting with all nine members of SNSD and getting killed in a motorcycle accident on the way to BoA's gig??? sigh i love video whores. and collabs. which brings me to number 8 and i swear i've been postponing talking about them because of the sheer monumentality of the task but here i go anyway:

8. BIG BANG BABY.

hmmm.. i think i'm gonna postpone after all. my brain turns to mush when i think about big bang. more specifically, TOP. oh god, i think i'm gonna go change my underwear now. i'll talk about this burning hotness of a man next week. in the meantime, i leave you with this. because masamixes.com is GENIUS.