I am posting because I need to let everyone know on ever medium possible that I am going to see Gabe Bondoc perform tonight. I LOVE THE ASIANS AT MY SCHOOL. It was sad that I had to miss AJ Rafael because I was still en route to G-ville, but!! gabe ♥__♥ I guess it's a good thing I didn't end up going to Lollicup on Wednesday cause I was going to wear my Gabe the Giraffe shirt. XD now I can wear it tonight!!

My glee cannot be translated into words. ;___________; I am going to obnoxiously sing every song. Or probably not, actually, so I can hear his dulcet tones uninhibited, lmao.

aaaanyway. In kpop news, I actually like 2PM's new MV, including the ~cheerleader move~. Could have done without Junho's and Khun's poofs or Taek's...idek, cobwebs? oh and the rly fug suits, lmao. like. what were those. XD but the song has grown on me, as I knew it would...haha. but I prefer the remix version. :o I like the album; it's pretty solid. And their thank you messages... ): oh 2PM. oh! you know what I've been thinking of lately? soooo back when JYP still twittered (I miss his tweets XD), he tweeted about a song he had written for 2PM and was all 'I just wrote a song for 2PM's new album! It's so crazy! It has no genre!!' and ever since the album's been out, I've been trying to figure out which song that would be...until I read that the bass for Heartbeat are the boys' heartbeats, which makes the song ~unique~ and ~genre-less~ and I was like OMG. I bet Heartbeat is the song that's so crazy it has no genre. XD

...um. yeah. so I watched some Star Golden Bell episode the other day and SHINee was on it. There were some noona fans so Kang Hodong was all 'do you guys have something you want to say to SHINee?' and one girl was like 'noona has four bank books!!' and another was like 'noona has a bank book and a house!!' so he asked another girl, who told them her address. XDD And KHD was like '........wtf why did you just divulge your address' and she was like 'I want them to come over at night!!!' Jonghyun's face. XDDDD behold:



She said she wanted to teach them how to drink, lmao. ohkay lady.

in johnny's news, ( a meme that i stole from crys )

oh and one last note--I'll catch up with everything tonight/tomorrow-ish and then I have to disappear until Thursday. D; exams. Thankfully, though, this is it until finals week. :D so I'll see you all in a week!! (I also started DBGT. Vegeta looks like such a creeper with the weird as hale hair and the pornstache. wtf.)

adieu!

except--almost forgot--

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAKUYA!

So apparently Big Bang will be at the Tokyo Dome. For some fan event thing because only 10,000 people will be attending. In the article it says that Big Bang will be using their new "connections," which they apparently garnered through a major label signing with Universal Records. This is normally information I'd pass over bc I don't really care where people perform, but I was skimming through the comments and people are saying that they like Big Bang, but don't like that they've "cheated" their way into having a concert at the Tokyo Dome. saying they don't deserve it, and saying things like WELL DBSK WORKED HARD FOR FOUR YEARS BEFORE THEY COULD PERFORM AT THE TOKYO DOME!!

okay, I don't care where people perform, like I said. I couldn't really understand why everyone was so mad that HSJ held their debut con there. ngl, johnny's groups are popular from the moment they debut nowadays. It's the power of the name, of the man & his empire. :\ kinki's been holding their yearly cons there almost since their debut (since like 1999 or something, right?). Frankly, I'm not entirely sure why it took Arashi eight years to get there. Either way, waiting eight years or two or none at all--they've all performed there because they're popular johnny's groups. And as far as I can tell, they don't really tour when they have Dome cons. At least, that's what I've noticed.

but anyway, idk. I think it's stupid that people are flipping out over this. D: I think a better indicator of DBSK's success in Japan is their mste perf & guesting on smasma. XD Not performing in the Dome. And seriously, Big Bang is only going to have 10,000 people there. If you ask me, that's a waste. I mean, because only 10,000 people are going to be there, I doubt it's a real con or w/e and more like...an event. Nothing to get our panties in a bunch over! Then again, like I've said twice now, I just...don't really care about this sort of thing? I don't really understand why it bothers people so much. D: or not really bothers. like. why people care so much about where groups are performing.

we all know they work hard. :\ so what makes one group more deserving than another? (I guess people are upset cause the article used the wording "using their connections." Big Bang doesn't have any connections. XD If they did, they be on johnny's shows, lawl. That's how it works in Japaland, bbs. This is not Korea with 384759348573 talent agencies and oversensitive networks.)

but what do I know! I don't care. XD

anyway. ( watched the May shokuras )

Downloaded last week's! will watch tomorrow. will watch today's--err, yesterday's whenever it shows up. Gonna get some sleep now. (: I love all of you! ♥

bye-cycle!

Hello! Welcome to Part 2.5 of the Johnny's Entertainment Pimp Post! This part details the Golden Age, which is sometimes called the Golden Age of Johnny's Juniors. This isn't a continuation of Part 2, and is instead more of a link from Part 2 to Part 3, the latter of which will concentrate on what I call the Golden Age groups or the Golden Agers. That is, almost all boys in the groups from Arashi to KAT-TUN were juniors during the Golden Age period.

To preface, there really isn't that much written information out there about the Golden Age (probably because it's more of an unofficial thing, haha), nor did I write over 4000 words about how Takki revolutionized Japan as a junior with his pedo for Pi or something. XD So corrections & contributions are welcome! I don't claim to be the johnny's authority, ahaha.

( on with it, then! )

So in the same way that SMAP separates the daisenpai from the senpai, the Golden Age defines the line between the senpai and its participants. (That is, Arashi does not act as the Golden Age version of SMAP (even though they kind of are, haha) because it's not solely their fault that there was a new era; in fact, that title more appropriately belongs to Takki.)

...I feel like this is a rather weak ending, but I can't think of good conclusion. XD; sorry, ahaha.

to be continued...
Part 1: The Pre-SMAP Era
Part 1.5: The Importance of SMAP
Part 2: The Post-SMAP, Pre-Golden Age Era

like an idiot I lost my half-completed MA pimp post. ): I had spent like thirteen hours on it already, sad. You guys do not know how hard it is to read japawiki when one's kanji knowledge is...lacking. XD I'M SUCH A TARD SERIOUSLY. crystallekil I'm sorry. )): you'll have to content yourself with that other epic one for a while. XD

but, uh, anyway there's also this. ( because it has to be done. )

I will add more one day. XD I already feel like I'm forgetting stuff, haha. I thought this was a cute idea so I stole it. >>; because it's not like I have a life or anything.

tete ♥

To the surprise of no one, I am going through a senpai phase. XD I suddenly really want to hoard V6/TOKIO clips. >__>; This one I should have seen coming cause right when I was getting ready to get into them properly, my life got taken over by junior year, and the rest is history. XD but omggg they're so funny. ;3; I like old men, what can I say. ): smap's still my current favorite, though.

I was also gripped earlier by the urge to watch HSJ's con. >>; I'm not sure what this says about me, lol.

I watched Best Artist yesterday, and I was going to post about it but I had to leave to go see family. x: For some reason I was really, really tired. And I had a horrendous headache. :\ So I sat around drinking some girly beer like an emo fool, lol. I also forced my family to leave at 12:30 so I could go to bed, and then I promptly slept for twelve hours. >__>; But I woke up this morning completely free from any sickness! So that's good.

( what am I even saying. XD here's best artist )

also, happy new year flist! ♥ and happy birthday kooooichiiii~ thirty now bb! now you can act like a middle aged man while actually being a middle aged man. XD Although your habits have been getting more ossan like lately... >__>; oh well. ilu ♥ Taehwa turns twenty-two (I think) today, and Sungmin turns twenty-three (I think) today too. I can't remember & I can't be arsed to look. XD

countdown is dling...faklejf

and I guess that's it. I'm going to copy old man Izumi from now on. 8D

tete ♥

I'm a posting fiend now! But I'm only posting cause I finally (finally) watched FNS. XD It only took me twenty-four days, right. :b oh well. XD better late than never! Waiting for a full show dl to appear for MSSL. x: Only the cuts are popping up now. If anyone finds a dl for the full show, hit me up! :D

oh, my HSJ & shinee stuff (& ayaownsyou's present) came today! I want to take a picture of my JE collection, but I need my SMAP & Four Leaves stuff to get here, cries. supposedly it shipped on the eighteenth, but I checked the tracking number thingy, and it says that USPS was "electronically notified" by the shipper on Christmas. D8 which means USPS got yesasia's intent to ship on Christmas, which is a week after it was supposed to have shipped. what, postal service. what. cries I want my stuff! XD

wow, I'm babbling. x: sry. anyway, the point of this entry was to finally talk about FNS, so here we go. ( my lack of a life, let me show you it )

well that was four hours of my life i'll never get back. XD ...plus the additional four hours i spent uling caps and stuff, ahaha.

baiccha!

I finally watched the pacific con! Not that's it been sitting on my desktop for two months or anything. >>; It actually took me two days to watch this cause I got really tired and I still had ninety minutes of material to go. T__T; so I just watched the rest today. XD after my pet, which took me almost five hours to do, oh my god.

( pacific con! beware, it's rly long XD )

whew. +__+ that was long. random question--does MSSL take place at the Tokyo Dome? :o

This concert makes my heart ache for JE. T__T just one more month and I'll be sort of back! I can wait a month. XD actually, whenever I finish my TOK oral, I'll be back. >> Definitely by mid-December! I'll probably be scarce this week, though, cause I've got a bunch of tests & then I have to write thyme this weekend. D8

And finally, happy early birthday to Kawai & my chem teacher who will be twenty-one & twenty-eight respectively tomorrow. (: And happy birthday to Junta, who will be twenty-one on Tuesday. and that's it, really. oh wait. I'm really sorry about how crappy I've been about commenting. T__T;; sorry! now i'm done.

baiccha!

Does Youtube sometimes freak out & only play the first two seconds of videos? It did this to me several months ago, but I didn't have the latest version of Adobe Flash installed, but, uh. It's been doing it to me a lot frequently, and I have the latest version installed. :\ I keep reinstalling it only to have it work for a few days before dying on me. D: I need to watch Pokemon, guys!

well. It just doesn't work in Firefox, so it's not megavideo or youtube or adobe or my computer. >__>; It's Firefox. wth, firefox. Has anyone else had this problem? I don't mind watching Pokemon on IE because I fullscreen it, but I don't want to open IE every time someone embeds a YT vid or smth. -__-; I am too lazy for that! XD

I'm almost done with the first season of Pokemon, btw. 8Db I have a place to dl the movies, but I think they're all subbed and I sort of want to watch the dubbed versions of the movies I've seen. >: Even if they do call onigiri "jelly doughnuts." XD idk I am weird like that.

what else...I caught up on shinee perfs. 8D I still haven't seen episodes seven or eight of yunhanamdul, so maybe I'll watch episode seven tonight, and do my Spanish homework during the football game. At least my resource file is due Wednesday, and we're doing a commentary that'll take all class tomorrow (and we're going to be short time, lol), so at least English will go by quickly for once. >>; Hopefully Zacher will have our essays graded tomorrow so I can send in three of my apps. :\ I think I have to make a new common app account because the stupid thing won't let me clear a certain section. DD: wtf. how troublesome.

Anyway, I watched the Mirotic MV a few minutes ago. Yoochun was stuck in a box like KAT-TUN was in the SIGNAL PV; Junsu was dancing around in some green laser lights like arisu in the TSUBASA PV; and I accidentally thought Jae was Yoochun because of their haircuts because I couldn't see properly cause the quality was so shoddy. D8 Aside from making me think of this pokemon, I can't really decide if I like or love the song! The dance is also very, very Korean. XD Not as Korean as Replay, but still v. krn.

oh and back to shinee. so they won some countdown thing! Key & Jonghyun fell apart yo. XDD They made me almost cry because they were crying! Onew broke down after he thanked everyone, and only Taemin & Minho could keep it together. XD; Minho was comforting Key~ awww~~ awww~~~ ;3; so precious.

so, je. I stopped actively keeping up with JE because I watch so many comms and am into so many groups that it would be a disaster. +__+; I end up with nearly a hundred tabs at the end of every week from PSC & Korea & you guys. XD For PSC I only tab scans (seldom, too), and then scans & perfs for Korea. >: Unless it's Battle. XD; so you can only imagine how many tabs I'd have from JE. D: So I don't know much outside of what you guys post about other than releases because I get alerts from cdj, and sometimes I watch the PVs if I remember. XD;

but yeah, my current plans for JE include finally dling shokuras FROM THE BEGINNING!! This has been a plan of mine for over a year, lol. I just hope all those links still work. >: I had all of 2002 dled but then the computer crashed. T__T sob. but yeah, that's probably what I'm going to be doing. XD shokura used to only be twenty-two minutes!! I get to see everyone as babies. 8Db hoorah, the golden age~

( and now, a je-related meme that's really long )

whew. that was long. XD There are uploads coming! :D I think I might also get into Big Bang this week, but we'll see.

Watched episode two of Shinee's show, and enjoyed it more than the first episode. ttly bummed it cut out where it did. XD wanted to see the last of onew's disastrous date & key's. ): oh well. next time. I really liked how in this episode the rest of shinee watched the dates. XD It was pretty funny. I love Minho more and more every time I see him. ;3; And I don't really know what to make of all the taekey. o__O

On an unrelated note, ( some je stuff that's not really recent )

continuing on the johnny's side of things, where the heck are the last twelve-ish minutes of shokura? DD:

sad here.

Interrupting everyone's peaceful lives to say that I have just possibly seen the most amazing thing, uhm, ever.

Higashi & Ryo. Performing Secret Agent Man. WHEN RYO WAS CHIBI. OH MY GOD. no wonder he always performs that song; Higashi did it with him first! I. There are no words. No words can express my overwhelming glee! I tried to squint in the background to see who the backdancing juniors were, but I couldn't really see them, and I was distracted by Higashi flipping around (he was in his thirties doing running backflips people this man is my husband) and also chibiryo, for whom my ovaries flutter.

...uh, anyway. I was trying to spot kids in the background who might be better examples of the era (obviously the 90s...I wanna say 1999? when was Ryo on Playzone?) because Ryo looked five until he was seventeen, so. He's not a good indicator.

but omfg. higashi and ryo aldkjfsdf ;___; crying. I think the only thing that can top this is a perf with all the members of the Andalucia Unit.

I also stumbled across this. *___* good god nicky. good god.

I am also only two weeks behind on je! Two weeks and I'll be at this week. ;___; Of course, I start school again in two weeks, and I have to do all my summer work, and by "caught up" I mean "I've saved nearly everything that didn't have an accompanying zip or rar since February but everything that came in a zip is rotting in some folder and my desktop is covered with rars and there are more rars from over a year ago on my external." At least I'll be able to follow everything presently. >:

I'm going to try to keep up with everything without using jesumm, but if it gets too much, I'll have to follow some sort of system so I don't let everything get so out of hand again. :\

oh and I got the proofs for my senior pictures today. :D when I get the big pretty ones, I'll upload them. I still can't quite believe my secondary education is in its final months.