Big Bang is Back.......almost.

Travesty. Haven't posted in ages. As a student said on Monday, "Who blogs?! That's so sad." Well, I'm a sad, old woman then.

So what have I been watching (always an appropriate question)? Too many things. Burning Flame III, Last One Standing, Rosy Business, 7 Days in Life, Autumn's Concerto. Currently in my DVD player is Autumn's Concerto (after having, excuse the pun, burned through Burning Flame III several times). My passion for Vanness Wu has been reignited. That show is truly one of my favorites, which reminds me I have to finish a review for it one of these days. However, also on my radar is Big Bang's Korean comeback. It's been 2 years and 3 months since they rocked Korea with an album. Luckily I did not have to wait that long as I had yet to start my steamy affair with K-Pop. In honor of my current eye and ear candy, a picture.

 

"Fingers up if you own a mad six pack."

Asian Entertainment News for 4.22.10.

• Vanness makes hamburgers, talks about his girlfriend - and not having sex, or French kissing. Whatever works for them, but I really don't think God objects to two lovers swapping spit.
• Another Chinese quake, another HK benefit, another chance for all manners of stars to wear oversized white tees, black rimmed glasses, and unusually solemn faces.
• G-Dragon's a beast! For those of us who didn't pack the stadium at his Shine a Light concert, here is the MV for She's Gone, featuring a slightly disturbed GD.
• A blogger lists the Top 10 Asian American Rappers of All Time. Kind of heavy, considering 'all time' spans roughly a decade. But it's still a good who's who and includes some of my favorites like Dumbfoundead and Far East Movement. Topping the list is, of course, Big Boy MC Jin.

Vanness gives us a 'Reason' to love him.

(I too cringe at the titles of my posts.) Since I've reconnected to the internet, thus the world, I've been doing the rounds on YouTube and happened upon Vanness's latest Japanese release, Reflections. Gotta hand it to the guy; he's come a long way from his F4 days, and the public thanks him. Credit God for showing Vanness the way, which hopefully does not lead to more bad accidents with facial hair.

One of the more popular hits on this album is Reason, and once again I am forced to admit that I am impressed. Easy when expectations start at zero, but he's bumped up the bar of late. On this song, Vanness's otherwise ordinary voice is boosted by healthy doses of autotune and other forms of electronic interference, making it catchy and slick enough to warrant a video with black leather, a sports car, cages, and um, a forest. He also exhibits some dance moves that would make Korean boy bands proud. Still, the kid ain't no Taeyang.

Check out the video, with guest Tiffany Xu as the hot chick with very smokey eyes. She played Yi Qian, the second love interest to Wu's Ren Guang Xi in 下一站，幸福 (Autumn's Concerto).

Ab-solutely fabulous!

So it's been about a month since I posted. Blame that on my inability to close my old internet account and sign up for a new one. Also, I'm in the process of jumping ship over to Wordpress but as with everything in my life, the task will only get accomplished after much procrastinating. The good news is that I submitted my thesis. The better news is that I'm still in love with this:

The even better news is that I have also acquired another obsession in the form of this:

Now, before we crap ourselves because I just posted a picture of Vanness Wu, consistently my least favorite member of F4 (well, I didn't realize he looked like that), the qualifier comes in the form of a hit Taiwanese drama, 下一站，辛福 (Autumn's Concerto or Next Stop, Happiness) starring him and Ady An. 'Hit' is kind of an understatement; it killed the ratings and surpassed even mega-hit The Prince Turns into a Frog which previously knocked out Meteor Garden, which incidentally launched Vanness's hitherto questionable career. Being no fan of this transplanted American, I approached the show with a healthy dose of skepticism - and was subsequently blown away. I'll save the gushing for a post not written at 3a, but let's just say Mr. Wu, and really the entire cast and crew, impressed me like none other in film or television recently. It had all the ingredients for a disaster in my Asian drama recipe book - unusually attractive, and tall, idols; orphans; single mothers, bitchy mothers; kidnapping; brain tumors; amnesia; and bloody Vanness Wu. Yet somehow, it held itself together and even managed to push forward an actual message about the nature of love, one that overcame the contrived trappings of the genre and managed an affecting honesty. Expect plenty more obsessive posts, and hopefully a review, in the near future. In the meantime, the closing credits song sung by Della and Emil Chow, still sporting a mullet after all these years. I found a series preview but it wouldn't allow embedding. In any case, this song is a treat!