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lackingdaze) wrote2021-06-29 06:36 pm
lackingdaze) wrote2021-06-29 06:36 pm
june media round-up
well let's get into it, shall we?
📽 tv shows
nevertheless (2021)
i am song kang "paen". just kidding i know literally nothing about this man but sometimes seeing your current favorite kdrama dude show off his #range as the ultimate fuckboy male lead of all time can be so personal!!! one thing i like about the show is the realism of the setting—i think this is the first time i've seen a vape pen in a kdrama which um. anyways this show is kind of giving me nothing new but i guess the premise [fwb] is sensational in terms of kdramas. oh also if they don't follow through on the one potential wlw relationship in the show i am actually going to be so mad. how can you dangle art school gfs in front of me IN THE MONTH OF JUNE and then not commit?
hospital playlist s2 (2021)
don't have much thoughts but like it's cute?? i sort of care?? i love friendships??
elite s4 (2021)
occasionally watch an ep or so with my friend when she wants to inflict pain upon me and like. this show is fucking terrible god awful HBO PORNO and it's made worse by the fact that it has one of the best soundtracks ever. literally having forever by chvrches on your ridiculous high school soap opera soundtrack can make it bearable for 3 seasons or whatever [but definitely not this season bc ester exposita is no longer on this show]
i promised you the moon (2021)
warning: SPOILERS! SAHJDBASJ. well i said i was going to make a whole dw post about my itsay/ipytm thoughts and i drafted up an outline and then i got kind of lazy so like...sorry i get bored of my own tasks so easily. anyways WHAT AN EXPERIENCE THIS SHOW WAS. i really appreciated having something to look forward to every thursday [which used to be like the second worst day of the week to me bc it was so busy]. i'm going to echo a lot of shakti's thoughts on this, which is basically that um well the ending was as good as it could be considering what an absolute mess the infidelity arc was? i feel like thematically, the story followed through, but this was one of the cases where the intended structure / allotted space of five episode interfered with the organic development of the story. idk it's a fun thought experiment to think about how the story could have been presented nonlinearly, which i personally feel would have been more effective for such a tight space. i also still definitely hate teh and think oh-aew deserves better but like!! it's fine!! i enjoyed what we got of oh-aew's character growth and how he learned to practice self-love and is climbing the ladder at his little marketing gig!! we are all entitled to our bad decisions ! lol but i also enjoyed the tidbit at the end about how...sometimes love isn't really rational and people might not necessarily choose who is the "best" choice for them [aka q rip to that man] but who makes them feel the most [teh]. and that relationships are about work and staying in a relationship/going back to relationships is a conscious decision? cue this_love_isn't_crazy.mp3
⭐️k-pop content
cravity park
ok so maybe this should be its own section/post but also i'm LAZY. big shoutout to girlrock for inducting me into luvity-isms by encouraging me to watch vitypark and feeding me crabity_lore <3
i don't really have the ability rn to explain how much of a grip this show has on me other than to say that i'm literally on ep 25 and i started watching it a week ago. tbh usually i find idol variety shows to be pretty bland but i sit through them anyways for the groups i like out of the kindness of my heart / interest in sifting through interactions but like. WHEN YOU ARE IDOLS WHO ARE ACTUALLY GOOD AT VARIETY? WHEN YOUR GROUP DYNAMIC IS ACTUALLY SO COMPELLING? WHEN YOUR SHOW IS ACTUALLY ENTERTAINING??? this is actually all it takes for me to become a fan, even when you have a discography with songs like MY TURN. it's fine i already stockholm syndrome'd myself into liking it.
also not to say i watched this through a minizsong lens but i watched this through a minizsong lens, which sort of informed my opinions about all the members etc etc. [have you read the life changing magnum opus that is girlrock's minizsong thesis?] AHN SEONGMIN IS THE MOST COMPELLING KPOP IDOL IN THE WORLD. i literally can't believe someone like this is an idol [same goes for jungmo]. then again that's what makes them perfect to me.
lifted from my priv:
i think idols who make no sense as idols are actually the perfect idols. like it could be camp, basically
aside from that, i really enjoy taeyoung and the shenanigans he brings to the table. also moguham real. also why do i feel bad for woobin. also why is allen ma like that.
2pm comeback showcase, "must"
their new album is sooo good. like sorry that they're actually the best bg jyp has ever produced. sorry that junho is still really hot. sorry that ADTOY is still the only song ever and that i'm actively manifesting a heeseung cover. they are kind of the only comphet men idols ever even if they're fossils now! also you know you're old when your MAKNAE can actually drive a van.
📚 books
for some reason, i thought i would be reading way more now that i'm on summer break but i'm not? maybe i'm burnt out or something. idk i'm going to try borrowing more books from the library and consuming content that stimulates my pretentious little brain <3 but here is what i have read this month:
crying in h-mart
this book definitely took a toll on me while i was reading it. i don't have much thoughts on memoirs [as in, does it really get any better craft-wise than in the the dream house?] but as one might be able to tell from my previous round-up, i'm very interested in the way food plays a part in asam identity. which also extends to my one big criticism of the book — i kind of wish zauner leaned more into those politics? but understandably there was already a lot of material at hand so. maybe less is more. my friend brought up that she did a great job of exploring her complicated relationship with her dad, which i also thought was a great part of the book!
how much of these hills is gold
tfw u put off reading a book until the last two days before your hold expires and now ur halfway thru but waiting on the 9 people in front of you in line. i'm fine except it says i have to wait 10 weeks ASDHJABSJ so i'm not fine [i think i'll just go buy the book tbh]. also i told my friend that this book is NOTY and she was like "a friend of mine said that it was too literary and hard to understand" which %$&^$^&?? i'm just a person with pretentious tastes??? but also c pam zhang's prose is everything modern literature should aspire to be etc etc. it's about the ECONOMY and CUTTING VERB USAGE and MANIPULATION OF GRAMMAR TO CREATE RHYTHMS. i'm someone who values craft and style over plot and content so this def hits the spot. so far i do think there are some parts where zhang could have cut back on the style, but also, can there be too much of a good thing? idk i haven't finished the book.
📄 articles
for some reason i feel the need to clarify that i read more articles than this, these are just the ones that left an ""impact"" on me!
the rise of the crypto writer? on what literary nfts might mean for the book world
i'm not familiar with nfts [aside from seeing some tweets about how its bad for the environment] so i thought this was a really informative article, especially regarding who is buying NFT writing and their intentions with it. fave quote: "null_radix has never resold an NFT. He doesn’t even think of his NFT acquisitions as investments: 'NFTs don’t seem to me to have value that can be defined as easily as ‘owning a piece of art.’ It’s more some sort of collective geist. The draw is the insanity of it all.'"
"a$ap rocky: testing" review
why did i read this in the year 2021 you might ask. confession: i ironically and unironically listen to distorted records [+ a$ap forever remix but that's less embarrassing] often, to the point where if i had downloaded last.fm a few months earlier during finals week you would have seen me play that every day. i don't have anything to say to defend myself, it literally sounds like baja blast in a song. so anyways, after being deservedly clowned on by my friend, i wanted to see what the "critics" said about this album. just like every other basic bitch who won't let go of music from 2016-2018 frank ocean is one of my favorite artists of all time and i thought it was so funny that this review basically called this album a bad attempt at recreating blonde's soundscape. which like, yeah!
khaite's buzzy rise fuelled by luxury's old and new playbooks
i'm trying to catch up on fashion these days and i hadn't heard of this brand before, so i looked it up and found this article! aside from like #themoreyouknow or whatever, i found it pretty intriguing how the designer openly acknowledges how accessibility is tied to ideas of luxury and being "too accessible" is bad, despite being a brand that essentially sells luxury, "every day" wear. ummm once again i think the luxury fashion industry is so fucked / reminded me of why i have a love-hate relationship with it etc etc but ig their pieces are cute? its complicated
🎵 music
i made a last.fm so i can accurately report my music consumption like the cool kids! except this is actually so embarrassing.
total scrobbles: 1,211
avg scrobbles per day: 48
top tracks:
1. i&credible — i-land (53)
2. frost — txt (24)
3. all time low — patent pending (22)
4. antiromantic — txt (22)
5. 0x1=lovesong — txt (21)
6. everybody talks — neon trees (18)
7. magic — txt (17)
top artists:
1. txt (161)
2. enhypen (86)
3. carly rae jepsen (57)
4. i-land (53) <-- does this even count it's all i&credible
5. nct dream (53)
6. cravity (52)
7. 2pm (48)
top albums:
1. the chaos chapter: freeze — txt (117)
2. border: carnival — enhypen (49)
3. hideout: be our voice — cravity (38)
4. dedicated — carly rae jepsen (37)
6. border: day one — enhypen (37)
7. hello future — nct dream (31)
like i guess i'm an engine or whatever ? also frost is my favorite song on the txt album, as you can tell. and i&credible is the best song in enhypen's discography even if its not even in their discography.
in terms of hello future, i was actually so surprised that i liked it! bc i really did not like hot sauce! i have to listen to it a bit more carefully to have solid opinions but i think life is still going on and bungee are actually sooooo good.
also i need to sit down and actually listen to the japanese breakfast album, but i'm kind of not in the mood/headspace for it rn? i'm just enjoying my brainrot from listening to MYTURN_BADHABITS.mp3 on repeat. overall i don't think these monthly stats really reflect where i am currently at in my music listening habits [i also tend to leave songs to play when i drive and i've been driving around a lot lately], but maybe next month's will!
✏️ writing
i posted this love is crazy and to rehash my commentary i'm super happy about it + the reception it got! i'm pretty uninspired right now but i guess uh ficmix is happening so i'll figure something out for that . . . and also i am woodshedding a miniz fic that i will work on soon once i get my shit together <3
💌 life thoughts
i'm mostly enjoying being back at home even if i'm going a little crazy. like i had a whole crisis about "well i don't think i'm doing enough" despite the fact that i've gone through a lot this year and deserve a good break, which i think is just a side effect of coming back home / being in the same environment that i grew up in. but i'm working to change the way i think about things? making new associations? it's a process......
as always, dw pretty credits to
girlrock !!
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anyway i'm sooo glad you're enjoying vitypark because that's literally what it was like for me to discover it too!! in december i was like "well this is fun but i don't think i'll become a luvity for real lol." and tori was like You Sure About That? and well now we're all luvitys ❤️ i actually love mcdol wonjin SOOOO much it's so cute how they just let him do all the announcer stuff i'm literally fascinated by his child acteur psyche. wait u know that he and jisung met briefly as children on a historical drama set right??? AND "i think idols who make no sense as idols are actually the perfect idols. like it could be camp, basically" I THINK I ACTUALLY CRIED AT THIS QUOTE... YOU'VE NEVER BEEN MORE RIGHT!
i also didn't really care about serim for a long time but i'm seriously being dragged into selmsong right now so i appreciate him more lately... they only get better in s3 i promise <3
ok ok moving on from vitypark. so true queen @ in the dream house + yeah i didn't really talk about crying in h mart in depth because sometimes memoirs like this are just memoirs and it's weird to project too much onto them but i rly did appreciate how she conveyed her r/s with her dad *___* also love your article reading and why am i laughing at you looking up this random p4k review SCREAM 😭😭😭 love this for u tho!!!
ALSO I CAN'T BELIEVE U'VE STOCKHOLMED URSELF INTO MY TURN AND BAD HABITS BTW YOU'RE LITERALLY TOO STRONG... my favorite on the jbrekkie is slide tackle but i'd like to hear your thoughts later if u ever get into it ❤️ this was rly fun to read so thank you for sharing!! i'm eternally grateful that u wrote "TLIC" since it was deeply formative and i'll be here manifesting a miniz masterpiece from u soon hehehehe
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also i totally did not expect to like cravity this much. i also went into vitypark not thinking much of it and now i'm a LUVITY??? icb child_acteur hamwonjin has been in a drama with parkjisung that is so random!
manifesting a reunion?wonjin is sooo fun and good at variety tbh like i think i watched a cravity weekly idol ep and was so impressed by the way he sort of easily maneuvers around awkward mc moments <3 when you have INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE. also on serim, i appreciate him a lot in the grand scheme of cravity bc i feel like he indulges the members really well as a leader <3 also in the grand scheme of SELMSONG [seongmin all_impossible_flights voice: well i guess people are allowed to have their favorites]i also can't believe i've stockholmed myself into my turn + bad habits...and also yeah re: article reading....I LIVE LIKE THIS ! anyways thank you for reading and being a pillar of luvity scholarship etc etc. i shall listen to the jbrekkie and have thoughts!!
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i also want to finally read crying in h mart but my book consumption is so... well it's not great. and me looking at your scrobbles like well I RESPECT YOU!! it takes a strong person to stockholm themselves into liking my turn it really does<3
and i LITERALLY cant wait for ur miniz fic ^__^!!!!!!! genuinely thank you for your service. LOL
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on eps.21-23: well that was something i experienced!!!! ngl watching the seongmin minhee lights off bedsharing convo shape up throughout the episodes made me kind of lose it like. the way seongmin was so happy to "get his own room" [and then later registered that it meant he was actually going to be alone and was like ://] but then also got sooo pissed off when taeyoung revealed he was in the same room with him ??? AND THEN KANG MINHEE JUST APPEARING OUT OF NOWHERE?
taeyoung true #allyi haven't really kept notes on my thoughts as i've been watching the show but like kang minhee is just so painfully obvious about his favorites [i literally just watched the allen/hyeongjun teampicking thing from ep 32] and overall watching all the moments from the minizsong timeline happen is just!!!!also yeah um my music tastes are well. i am easily swayed </3 i played my turn in the car for a friend the other day with disclaimers and she was like.....silence.....anyways. THANK YOU FOR READING <3
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- nevertheless sounds sort of fun.. i like never watch kdramas and yet!!! i want to watch all of these shows help
- SO SAD THAT YOU WON’T BE WRITING A DREAMWIDTH POST ON ITSAY/IPYTM but also it’s fine like i understand. and yeah the experience of watching the show in real time was just soo fun :’’)) i liked discussing it with everyone on the tl idk!!! and #*@(&%*@ NOT YOUR TEH HATERISM… it’s literally fine. you’re right that love is facking crazy
- lmfaoo your LUVITIFCATION is sooo. well i’m glad it’s happening even if i’m just like…. why is everyone AHNSEONGMIN PAEN. anyways you’re right in that vitypark is perfect variety + cravity does have /some/ good songs (aka realize) but ummmm. idk
- MOGUHAM REAL. sorry i just wanted to say that
- ur 2pm stannery is soo cute. adding 2pm album to my “to-listen-to” list
- i feel the same re: reading like maybe im BURNED OUT… it’s fine. idk. also i added how much of these hills is gold to my to-read list but also.. no promises. i kind of want to be illiterate but i also want to read good_writing_that_isn’t_fanfiction. but idk!!!!
- your article reading is so inspiring actually… once again im reminded of my illiteracy. also i read random pitchfork reviews for albums that i like TOO so like <3 shared vibes
- SORRY YOUR MUSIC SECITONDHSJAKHGKJHSGJSKLGJKLJGKAG. i&credible IS that good and i feel like dive into you would have so many facking scrobbles for me if it was on spotify… alas. ALSO I REALLY LIKE HELLO FUTURE TOO!!!!!!!!!!!! something about the chorus hits idk. also i think it’s ok to not like japanese breakfast (coming from person who cannot listen to music that’s objectively good literally ever)
- YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS LOVE ISN’T CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIC OF THE YEAR ETC ETC!!!!!! btw good luck for ficmix and it’s ok if u drop out… like i wouldn’t blame u… <3333 but i’m also cheering u on. u get it
- also i can’t wait to visit u in california. WATCH OUT! lmfao <3
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>i do have a very rough skeleton outline started for the ipytm/itsay reflection thing but it's just like....pretty much things i have already told you. the longer i think about it, the less i'm bitter about ipytm and i really do appreciate the messaging of the last episode??
>society when predebut sees the ahnseongmin vision.......JK BUT ALSO NOT JK <3 also yes moguham real i have verified it with my own eyes
>PLSSS lmk ur thoughts on the 2pm album if you get around to listening to it! i feel like the songs are so distinctly like...yup this is 2pm....both in good and bad ways but like THEY R KINDA MY FAVORITE HAGDOLS ATM
>++ would love to hear your thoughts on how much of these hills is gold!! i have a feeling you might not like it bc it does lean into very purple prose territory at times but i think its def one of those books that's like....hit or miss
>glad i'm not the only one who reads random reviews like. i simply cannot be trusted with my own tastes !! i've simply accepted that my music tendencies are Like That.
like does it get worse than having sicko mode and then RIBS as your song of the year for 2019 and 2020 respectively. u tell mealso re: dive into you, i-land put out so many songs that are actually bangers yet won't put them on spotify....any chamber 5 fans here???>I FEEL LIKE I WANT TO SAY I LIKE JBREKKIE. EXCEPT LIKE I ONLY KNOW ONE OF HER SONGS [boyish]. i have to be in a very certain mood to want to listen to ""serious"" music....idek
>ashdbajsh. well u already know my ficmix thoughts
>EXCITED TO SEE U IN CALI <333 thnx for reading <333
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definitely planning to read crying in h-mart at some point after seeing everyone else talk about it and also because i too cried in h-mart when calling my mom to ask what brand of [INSERT] we buy. and it’s so nice to see that im not the only one with super pretentious lit taste who cares about the writing style over the actual content <333
looking forward to consuming tlic soon and ur impending MINIZ FIC DEBUT!
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i'd love to hear your thoughts on crying in h-mart ++ literally that is so relatable like are u really going through the woes of living away from home if u haven't gotten emotional over food.....thanks for reading <3