Sungkyunkwan Scandal, episodes 1 and 2

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September 1, 2010

I was never really interested in the premise of this drama because I’m feeling quite blah at the thought of another cross-dressing girl drama. I was willing to by-pass that and watch this if it had a good cast, and I thought that Song Joong-ki and Yoo Ah-in were good choices.

What wasn’t, is Yoochun and to a lesser extent, Park Min-young. I’m very irrationally angry at dramas that cast idols with no acting experience to take on big roles. I know there does exist a number of people who are of one profession, who go into another without ever having done it before and end up being good at that other profession as well. But from what I can tell of the dramas I’ve watched with idols taking on really big roles is that they’re better off as idols.

If they were really better off as actors, they would probably debut as an actor first, then randomly get plopped into idoldom as to boost their popularity, and then go back into acting once they’ve reached that level of popularity (ie, Sulli and Heechul). It makes me angry because it’s not like there’s a lack of good actors in Korea who can do the job a thousand times better than the idols that are chosen for the parts.

More ramble on casting after the jump.

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Song of the day

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September 1, 2010

Happy September!

Eels — Fresh Blood

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I generally haven’t loved the music on True Blood, but the latest episode closer caught my…ear.

Big-ish True Blood post comin’ up soon.


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Far East

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August 31, 2010

I’ve gotten the chance to photograph Far East twice now — once at ISA New York and once at Epik High’s concert — and sometimes I don’t even need to try very hard to make them look good because they always look like they just stepped off a men’s mag editorial. I love their style and it gives me glee to feel like a fashion photog :P


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I really like instant photos

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August 30, 2010



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Scan: Stuff on my desk

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August 27, 2010

Haven’t done one of these in a while:

Was cleaning my pig-sty of a desk and came across so much old ticket stubs, a bajillion instant photos, and so much makeup. From top left, rotating clockwise: photo taken on the day of the USA vs. Brazil friendly, lipstick, mascara, cellphone adhesive thingies that cost AN ARM AND A LEG, eyeliner, expense book (that I kept up with for like a month and then stopped), ticket stub from soccer game.


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