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The Popseoul! Interview

Please watch it and never again tell me that Rain’s English is better than mine. Popseoul! sounded harsh in their review of the interview but after listening to it I realized that not only is Rain’s English is not great but he  also seems so out of it. He asked Popseoul! if they’d seen the movie…. dude, how could he not know that the world wide release is next week…

Anyway, I completely called it about Rain going onto Colbert, but that was a long time coming. I like that Rain’s going to be on Colbert, because I do think Rain’s talented and I LOVE Colbert but my only problem is that Rain’s going on for an interview… I don’t know if that’s the best idea seeing as he had to conduct most of the Popseoul! interview in Korean.

I just want to thank Popseoul! for their interview. We finally get to see that one sentence of English in a trailer is not the perfect English speaker prove.

What do you think of this?

[EDIT: Found a better interview transcript! See above post!]

EDIT: Just realized that when you search “‘Hee Chul’ Nose Job”, the first page of results is linked to that post I wrote. And I’m so badly misquoted it’s frustrating.  

I was misquoted over on Asianfanatics and the soompi forums and the comments there, near the tail end, all basically say: this is untrue, this was originally posted by Popseoul! and they hate SuJu, NYCST is another blog to the add to the ignore list etc. etc. 

My final say on the matter is this: I got this news from Soompi. Hee Chul on his minihompy even explained his falling down (and for some reason decided to take pictures of his bleeding nose (is this evidence or something?) There has been no mention of Hee Chul getting plastic surgery to fix his nose. I hate to spread rumors so I don’t want people to be misled by my other post. Hee Chul has not confirmed getting rhinoplasty it just seemed like he did because his nose looks rather different. (Which would be the result of….)

I hate having to backtrack on what I say on this blog. It’s actually alarming when I have to. I really don’t want random people to get worked up about something I wrote in between eating breakfast and filming something for homework.

But I want to say sorry, I think an E.L.F. has died somewhere because of my previous post. I apologize, now everyone quick, before more ELF’s die–”I do believe in ELFs! I do! I do!” 

Hee Chul is sort of like Madonna, they are both, in their own ways, queens of reinvention. What better way to accompany a new nose than with a beard and a hairstyle fashioned after Death Note’s L?

Hee Chul kinda looks strung out on drugs. A little… Maybe it’s just the morphine for the pain?

Hee Chul pre Rhinoplasty:

This a big change guys… HUGE. Hee Chul has… become a male. *tear*

I love this, I just flipped to The Korean Channel to see what might be on and it was…ON AIR!!!! I was flabbergasted. Once again my mother gave me looks of confusion (and maybe slight shame?) as I laughed giddily at my find. So I watched On Air with subtitles…on a television. What a breath of fresh air.

By the way, there’s a show on Imaginasian called Tracking Your Ex-Boyfriend. Yes! Bad reality TV from all countries… I shall be tuning in (it’s subbed!).

Rain has his 2.5 seconds in the Speed Racer International trailer. From the extent to which he opens his mouth,  I can tell that he’s trying really hard to enunciate and speak English properly. What a fraud. No I’m kidding, I’m actually hoping to go to the New York premiere of this movie (it’s closing Tribeca Film Festival) and I’m pretty excited to see it (even though the CGI already makes me cringe). What do you think of Rain’s Engl(r)ish?

Not completely, Kanye West is at a whole other level of self-obsession. The similarity between Rain and Kanye is this: Rain and Kanye have these ridiculous aspirations to be the world’s biggest star. I’m not saying it’s impossible but to constantly say things like, “I’m gonna be the world’s biggest star” or “I want to become the worlds best actor” is kind of tiring.

Rain: “Actors playing the role also have to experience restrictions on their outward appearance. In actuality an Asian’s single-eye-lid appearance is considered very essential in the eyes of the Westerners. However, outside of the appearance alone, if one does not have his/her own unique charm, it wouldn’t work either. By diligently paying attention to these kinds of details, one can eliminate the restriction that Hollywood has on Asian entertainers, thus paving a brand new direction for Asia. Until the day when this restriction is eliminated, I will work hard continuously and become the world’s best actor.”

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They’ve learned to recycle their music… for Japan.

Big Bang has their second Mini Album coming out in Japan on May 25th. It’s disappointing because it’s simply a repackaging of some of their older songs. The album has one Japanese song on it. I don’t think that YG is dedicating enough to Big Bang’s work in Japan at all. If they really want to break into the market they should stay in Japan for an extended period of time, learn the language, record a bloody song in Japanese.

Tae Yang does the only Japanese song on the album, “My Girl” (which is another recycled song). The title song is “With U” which is also the name of the mini album.

I really like Big Bang, but please start doing things that make sense.