this is spazz. currently listening to: Big Bang [Comeback Stage]
i know i only just blogged but gosh i had to talk about this.
this is just pure awesomeness. how many times must i get blown away by bigbang's comeback, i wonder.
the BLUE stage is epic. took me a while to realise that the "BIG BANG" and "BLUE" words raining down the stage was water and not laser lights. and they had a giant three-screen backdrop, oh my gosh, three-screens and when the smoke comes on it's so pretty. not to mention the platform and its 3D effects - GOD where have i ever seen this awesomeness. put all of this together with big bang's rendition of the song, the mellow expressions and the tone and everything. YG, you scored, you really scored.
then from bad boy onwards, correct me if i'm wrong but i think TOP had green contacts. and in fantastic baby he even had green eyebrows. his giant skull accessory is so cool i want one for myself. GD had this badboy, good girl cap that was custom-made to fit the lyrics, i'm sure. because his wisp of hair was partially pink, i think they gave him a faint pinkish tinge of eye shadow or idunnowhat that looks fantastic with the lighting in fantastic baby. this level of detail is amazing.
and fantastic baby is just @!7x32jhx0lostforwords. did you see that set?! the cane GD had was just pure win. the dancers with the black veil was just win plus win. taeyang circling daesung and him circling back was just super cool to look at. put it on HD and i'm even dancing. what?
AND I'M NOT EVEN A FAN.
i thought the coolest stage i've seen so far was mblaq's run (choreography wins though) until this came up. i can't imagine how much YG spent on this stage, and am even more amazed at how much he was even willing to spend on this stage. and was that a 6-track promotion i heard? YES IT IS a 6-track promotion, and these are only 3 tracks. oh. my. god.
AND I'M NOT EVEN A FAN.
i have to make a secret confession here. though i was never a fan and don't really want to be his fan, i really think seungri has a really good voice. either that, or the guy really knows how to make his few seconds in the song magic. he had me in "lies", but just listen to "BLUE". on the other hand, GD's voice grows on me - a lerthagic, droopy kind of feel, like he can't raise his voice any louder than the drilling and knocking that's going on three floors down my unit. then daesung, daesung is just a really good singer, no doubt. it's like he doesn't even need to put in effort to sing well. taeyang is too, but i've heard too many things about his live stages that i can't be sure. TOP is unconventional, in that things really work with that unique charisma in his voice.
AND I'M NOT EVEN A FAN.
hat's off, man.
記憶は明日のために強さになるものだよ。きっと。
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
11:10 PM
fifteen. currently listening to: Heaven [Ailee]
i came across a teenage boy in taipei who wouldn't stop calling me 姐姐and hi-five-ing me for all sorts of odd reasons, just to get me to buy a pen.
i didn't mind buying the pen - it could be a scam for all i care, you know, that awkward moment when someone smiles too kindly at you when you step out of the station. perhaps it was precisely because it felt like a scam that i even bothered to stop.
honestly, i was rather impressed by his relentless pursuit and numerous attempts to make me feel at ease to get me to buy that pen from him. he obviously studied my gestures before approaching me, because he could tell at once that i was a foreigner even though i look chinese and wasn't glued to a map. the only unfortunate thing was that his repetitive calls of 姐姐 kind of annoyed me. i'm forever 19 here alright.
so i asked, with a slight frown, how old are you anyway? he replied, sixteen, how old is 姐姐 then? and i looked at him in the eye and said, fifteen! then silence ensued.
ANYWAY. genuinely, he seemed too good a lad to be touting on the streets like that. while he was talking to me during my internal debate on whether i should reach for my wallet or not, a weird sort of emotion overwhelmed me. for someone of his wits and thick skin (can't find a better word), he could well ace anything he sets his sights on. how the hell he ended up selling pens, i can't figure. strangely though, i'm really really curious as to how he'd turn out 10 years down the road. life is a box of chocolates, and i only hope that societal pressure wouldn't kill that spark in his eyes.
i've been looking at too many people recently who have lost the spark the once had. you can start off really well in life - no need to sell pens, or in our case, credit cards - to pursue your passions, all high and mighty. then life happens to you, and you know exactly when, when you can mask your emotions just to get work done. the feeling that your world has collapsed, but because the greater world around you is still spinning, you put on a smile because you know that you simply cannot expect it to stop spinning for you.
then it dawns upon you, that smiling doesn't mean anything at all.
everyone has their fair share of ups and downs, sweet and bitter moments, things to cherish and things that are lost. the balance between these, perhaps, is all in the mind. but i get worried when someone is so much enshrouded in bitterness, he indulges in the sweet moments only for temporal relief, never really tasting them for what they are worth. the sweetness only amplifies the bitterness, throwing him deeper in despair.
just try to believe, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. it has to make you stronger.
