because dramas and wine go well together
I like Korean dramas. Sometimes I watch them while drinking wine
DAY6’s new album, The Book of Us: Demon came out a couple of weeks ago, and since I’ve had some time to sit and listen to it (a lot) I wanted to do a review of the album. I know that by doing a review of a group I consider one of my top groups is probably not something I can necessarily do truly unbiased, I still wanted to mention some of the aspects of the album that I really liked and talk a little bit more about my feelings of the album on a whole.
Read MoreLittle….ok a lot late. But still. It’s here: May dramas
Read MoreThis week I’m recommending some of my favorite YouTube channels to watch. I’ve divided up the list into the two groups of YouTube channels: kpop centered and misc.
Read MoreI’m late on this post I know but I’m terrible and this week has not been that great for me mentally so here we are with a late Anime Friday that isn’t even going to be about what I talked about last week. I have in fact started Please Save My Earth, but am not done with it yet so here we are with this post about my favorite anime opening songs. Riveting original content, I know.
Read MoreToday’s throwback is from the variety talk show, Happy Together hosted mainly by Yoo Jae Suk. This was the 2015 “Oh! Brother” episode that paired stars with their friends who are more like siblings, and also stars Kim Young Chul (comedian) & Jung Sung Hwa (musical theatre actor), and Jinusean (hip hop duo).
It’s long, but the entirety of the episode is worth a watch. The beauty of it is the pure culture shock the hosts and guests face as Amber and Henry do what Amber and Henry do best.
The episodes set in the sauna really were a comic goldmine, so if you ever feel like doing a marathon I recommend starting there.
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Last week I talked about some of my favorite podcasts to help pass the time, and this week I’ll be talking about some of my favorite things on Netflix that I think you should check out if you haven’t already. There’s a lot of content on Netflix, but I centered this list based only on things that I have personally watched.
Read MoreDid you ever think to yourself, “Self, I know that bathtubs are one of those overused symbolic music video things that is used a ton. I wish I had a playlist of some of the best ones!”?
Read MoreI posted a haul of all my goodies from a Zen Market box I got recently on YouTube:
If you ever wanted to know what I spend my money on, this is it.
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I’ve been slowly going back the side of anime (we all knew this was going to happen, really) and have decided to take you down with me!
No, seriously. I’m going to be incorporating more anime again to my watchlist and thought that it would be fun to have a series on Fridays where I talk about anime. Let’s say that I’ll commit to every Friday this month and then we’ll see how frequent it becomes after that. I don’t know if it’ll be all reviews, or lists of shows I like or what, but some sort of content focused on anime. Anime is the reason I’m watching dramas while drinking wine in the first place, so might as well pay homage to it.
One of my main goals is to watch a lot of my favorite animes from the past (which is from, oh god, like 20 years ago). Since I spent hundreds of dollars on them and they are just sitting on a shelf collecting dust, it feels right to start from the very beginning. I’ve already decided on my first anime: Please Save My Earth which I personally feel is criminally underrated show, both now and when it aired. It’s a reincarnation story that follows the main characters’ journeys and how they are connected. The story is just beautiful and am excited to see it again after so long.
So sorry this post is a little boring and more of just what I’m going to do, but I’m super excited to see how it evolves. I’ll end with this post with a video to give you a sense of the show:
Just hearing the opening theme again gave me butterflies. I love it.
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We’re at the point in all this that I’ve started rewatching all of the old kpop videos I loved that I can find, because why not? I also decided that you should be given the opportunity to watch them as well.
My first true kpop love was SS501, and one of the very first variety-type shows that I was introduced to was the Thank You For Waking Me Up series with the comedian Park Kyung Lim:
The managers waking up and not knowing how to function gets me every time. They just don’t make em like they used to.
Every Wednesday this month I’m focusing blog posts on things to do with all this extra free time we have. This week, it’s all about podcasts.
Read MoreHello! Since we all are stuck at home (and if you are like me, stuck alone AND with no job!), I figured that it would be the best use of time to really focus on the blog again. I have some specific series planned, as well as some things I haven’t been able to do or work on because I was too busy during the year with work. I’m hoping that some of the posts help take your mind off things and for me as well. I’m also going to be doing more YouTube content, so if you aren’t subscribed to my channel yet, you should!
Read MoreI wasn’t going to do a blog post today but figured that too many Japanese releases came out that I haven’t talked about here on the blog that a last-minute post was in order. I’m sure I’m missing some more, but things are crazy right now.
Read MoreI’m finally back! Ladies’ Code’s debut anniversary was at the beginning of the month and I had plans to release this post then, but work was a little too crazy for me to have been able to do that. Now that I’m officially off from work for who knows how long, and staying inside I was able to work on getting it up.
Read MoreThis month was supposed to be relatively quiet on the music front for me, with Dreamcatcher and Monsta X being one the only groups that I had my eye on, but then all my favorite Japanese artists decided to put out new music videos within days of each other. Today’s post is going to highlight them all because it’s a lot (and because you should all listen to them).
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