the telly series 'Boys Before Flowers' was a huge k-drama hit
what can i say about metrosexual bidanshi flower boyz 'cept that i absofreakingly luv them - scrumpilicious - yummy yummy yummilicious!
"Boys Over Flowers (花より男子 Hana yori Dango) is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Yoko Kamio. It was serialized in the bi-weekly anthology magazine. Magaret, which is aimed at high-school-age girls. The manga series ran continuously from October 1992 to September 2003, and was collected into 37 tankobon volumes. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo. Recently, the series has started to be released in a deluxe edition (larger pages and with all the color artwork from the magazine reproduced).
The manga has been remade into 3 drama productions in Japan, Taiwan and S. Korea (with a 4th rumored for China), along with one spin-off, 2 live action movies, 1 anime movie and also an anime series. Hana Yori Dango is the best-selling shōjo manga in Japan of all time" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_Over_Flowers
i have not yet watched it yet coz it's not my cuppa tea, but i'm thinking that it would not be a bad idea to get a hunka hunka dosage of one of my F4ers
... no, not the ones in the show
... i mean "THE REAL F4ers" best friends forever (bff) - on a surprising side note, considering the intense competitiveness in the korean muzik industry and the fact that hyungjoong (boyband called 'ss501' under daesung entertainment) and top (boyband called 'big bang' under yg entertainment) belong to two different companies that are extreme competitors of jaejoong and yoochun's group (boyband called 'dbsk' under sm entertainment) then it's a wonder that these guys are friends (or that they were even allowed to become friends based on some of the rumours that are coming out of that industry) - kudos to them ... (the nn's {nicknames} are my own made up nn's for them)
"THE REAL F4ers"
joong joong (ss501's hyungjoong) currently acting in Boys Before Flowers - he's the second one from the left in the pic above
toppy top (big bang's top)
chunnie chun chun (dbsk's yoochun)
joongie joong joong (dbsk's jaejoong)
ss501's hyungjoong's adventure into acting has been getting great - oops cross that - mixed reviews - but i am a fan of his boy band SS501 so he gets my support - don't listen to the haters hyungjoong - just keep on keeping on
anyhooey ......, to get to my original point ......., while i was thinking about the show i started to think of the flower boys that i like and decided to list them each month - kinda like the concept that that great reading magazine has when it highlights a special person each month and gives them their own person of the month playmate of the month - mmmmmmmmmmmm, delectably tasty morsels of flowerness each month - sigh .........
i've gotta start with my all time fave, the one and only, the most scrumptious one of all, taa dahhhhhhhh ** drum freakin' roll please ** mr joongie aka kim jaejoong of dbsk - lordy - hold me back coz i'm about to have a heart attack - talk about VICK - no, not his pet doggie ...... 'tho he is kinda a cutie too 'coz he reminds of the doggie from the 1N2D's telly show - but i digress as per my usual, what i meant to say is that i always have to recover from visual shock whenever i take a juicy look at jaejoong - oy vey - i've been zipped, zapped and zappedoed 'til my brain is fried like the "this is your brain on drugs" adverts - oh hunka, hunka, mess - wow
hold on folks - i need a minute sheesh ........... still on my minute ............. hold on, hold on, hold matey i'm still recovering ............................... oki docki, i'm back and somewhat recovered - what a darn fine specimen for the inaugural flower of the month - joongie - call me - i need me some ;-)
jaejoong with his boy band team members he's the one with the dyed blonde hair)
DBSK Interview About Their 2009 Concert and Flower Boyishness credit eternalmerkamoon4
"Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It is a true story concerning the author's mother, as well as two other young mixed-race Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, in order to return to their Aboriginal families, after having been placed there in 1931. The film follows the girls as they trek/walk for nine weeks along 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of the Australian rabbit-proof fence to return to their community at Jigalong, while being tracked by a white authority figure and an Aboriginal tracker. The soundtrack, Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, is by Peter Gabriel" credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence_(film)
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"The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the No. 1 Rabbit-proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits and other agricultural pests out of Western Australian pastoral areas. There are three fences; the original No. 1 Fence, which crosses the state from north to south, the No. 2 Fence which is smaller and further west, and the smaller east-west running No. 3 fence. The fences took six years to build. When completed in 1907, the Rabbit-Proof Fence (including all three fences) stretched 2021 miles (3 253 km)"
photo of the rabbit proof fence taken in 1927 credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-proof_fence
hyo ri is my fave female korean entertainer - she is not only a hardworking performer, but she strikes me as just an all around nice person - she is also a regular on my current fave telly fun show 'Family Outing' - go hyo ri go!
"Lee Hyori (Korean: 이효리, also romanized as Lee Hyolee and officially E Hyo-lee) was born on May 10 1979. She is a South Korean singer and actress. She started off as part of the successful K-pop girl group Fin.K.L, but has since become a solo artist. Her first album was very successful, winning many "Daesangs" (a Korean award equivalent to "Artist of the Year") for that album. She has since become the highest-paid female singer in South Korea." credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hyori
Lee Hyo Ri - Don't Love Her credit mnet
Samsung Anycall DMB Telly Adverts CF featuring Lee Hyo Ri and Lee Jun Ki credit feyusu
Samsung Anystar Telly Adverts CF featuring Lee Hyo Ri, Lee Jun Ki and Park Bom credit crazyofkorean
Samsung AnyClub Phones Telly Adverts CF featuring Lee Hyo Ri, Kwon Sang Woo and Eric Mun (of Shinhwa) credit importweed
"Paul Albert Anka, OC was born on July 30 1941 in Ottawa, Ontario. He is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese origin. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1990.
Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hits songs like Diana, Lonely Boy, and Put Your Head on My Shoulder. He went on to write such well known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Tom Jones' biggest hit She's A Lady, and the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra's signature song My Way." credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Anka
what?! you thought whitley's only job was to act like a spoiled brat while at hillman? LOL! ok, bad, sad lame attempt at a joke - my apologies. jasmine guy is also a recording artist and is most well known for her song 'Another Like My Lover' released in the 90's.
Jasmine Guy - Just Want To Hold You credit huminature
"Jasmine Guy was born on March 10 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is most well known for her starring role as Southern belle Whitley Gilbert in the television series A Different World.
During the run of A Different World, she released her self-titled debut album in 1990, which spawned three Billboard Top 100 hits Try Me, Another Like My Lover and Just Want To Hold You. The album went on to sell 168,000 copies. In the spring of 2006, Jasmine spoke to the graduating class at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and revealed that she will record a second album. She commented that of all the entertainment industries, the music industry was the worst. She will sell her new album online herself and not through a major label, similar to the marketing strategy used by Prince." credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmine_Guy
ahhhhhhhhh, i can't believe that yejin and chun hee are leaving family outing - ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - why, why, why, just when i am discovering this telly show and it's becoming my latest addiction and i am falling in love in chun - chun, why are you leaving me .......?
the fam will never be the same again - i know, i know, new members and all that jazz, but it will just not be the same - it's like when they played the trick on soroo and told him that daesung was leaving - i feel like he felt - sob, sob, sniff, sniff .... :-(
credit coolsmurf in allkpop http://www.allkpop.com/index.php/full_story/park_ye_jin_and_lee_chun_hee_leave_family_outing/
credit for photo platinumtitan in photobucket family outing - dinner cooking - special guests yunho and junsu (of dbsk) warning ** not for the faint-hearted (fish gutting) credit sel8129
family outing - bed time - special guest won hee credit ramensoupsubs
family outing - wake up game - special guest won hee credit ramensoupsubs
by mid-2009 fly to the sky will be 'inactive' ie not disbanding, just indefinitely inactive - bri will be focusing on acting and hollywood movies and fany will be focusing on being a solo artist and releasing his solo albums - sad to see them go (well, ok, they are supposedly not disbanding ...)
"Fly to the Sky (Korean: 플라이 투 더 스카이) is a South Korean R&B duo, consisting of Korean American Brian Joo and South Korean native Fany Hwang.
Initially marketed as a duo that could sing, rap and dance, their early works featured bubblegum pop and upbeat techno music. The duo later changed their image and style with the release of Sea of Love in 2002. With their subsequent albums, the duo solidified their status as R&B artists and are credited as the first R&B duo of South Korea.
The duo was formed in late 1998 by SM Entertainment. Brian Joo auditioned while he was attending Holy Spirit High School in New Jersey. Hwang Yoon-Suk, later to be known as Fany, was encouraged to audition by a staff member working for the label at his high school festival. Fly to the Sky officially debuted on November 21, 1999 at the LOG-IN H.O.T. Concert and SM Festival Concert '99.
Their 2003 studio album Missing You featured more tracks that departed from bubblegum music and emphasized their vocal skills for an image as serious artists. Performing commercially well, the album gave the duo many awards including Bonsang award from SBS Gayo Daejun and Korea Music Awards. This period is remembered for the highly publicized death of their manager, who was also the manager of BoA, another Korean singer. On a show, both members recalled this incident as an emotionally hard time for them. Fany was especially shocked, because he was on the same vehicle with his manager just hours before the incident.
After Fly to the Sky's contract with SM Entertainment expired in November 2004, the duo signed on with PFull Entertainment. The duo stated that they wanted a smaller label that was willing to promote them as musicians and focus less on commercial success. Under this label, Fly to the Sky released their sixth studio album Transition after a year-long hiatus in January 2006. The album became massively successful, selling over 160,000 copies.
The duo's seventh album No Limitations was release on July 4, 2007. Their first television performance to promote the album was on June 29, 2007. Popular tracks that are included in the album are "Oneuldo Eebbeungul," ("오늘도 이쁜걸" Pretty Today Too) "Geuraedo Sarangipnida," ("그래도 사랑입니다" It's still love) and "Gee-uk Han Joom" ("기억 한 줌" Grain of Memory),[20] as well as "My Angel", which peaked at #1 on many on- and offline charts. No Limitations became the duo's first number one album. The band made a comeback releasing an 8th album titled Decennium in 2009. "Goo Sok" (구속 Restriction) is one of the album's popular songs.
Decennium will be Fly to the Sky's final album, the duo said that they will not renew their contracts and go their separate ways and the group will be inactive. On April 15, 2009, Brian and Hwan Hee announced that Fly to the Sky won't disband. Brian will be in a movie in Hollywood and Hwanhee will release a solo album. They will no longer be singing as the popular group Fly to the Sky. Instead, they want to focus on solo activities. But they will still be under the name Fly to the Sky"
"Larry Chance and the Earls were a moderately popular recording group from the 1960s formed in The Bronx, New York. In 1962, their single "Remember Then" was a hit, and "Life Is But a Dream," "Never" and "I Believe" also charted.
The Earls are one of the great New York City doo-wop success stories. Formed out of the Bronx, and discovered singing on the street corner in front of subway station, the Earls took the original black doo-wop street corner harmony sound, and refined and expanded it for new audiences.
As the oldies revival scene started a strong run in the early 1970s and 1980s, the Earls became one of the most requested groups in the Doo Wop genre. They are still actively performing and remain very popular in the oldies circuit." credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Earls
Robert Peter Williams was born on 13 February 1974 in Stoke-on-Trent. He is a Grammy Award-nominated and multi BRIT Award-winning British singer-songwriter. His career started as a dancer and singer of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to launch his solo career.
Robbie Williams as a solo artist has sold more albums in the United Kingdom than any other British solo artist in history and has won more BRIT Awards than any other artist to date.[1] His album sales stands at over 55 million worldwide.[2]
Williams entered in the The Guinness Book of World Records when he announced his World Tour for 2006, selling 1.6 million tickets in one single day. He has been the recipient of many awards, including ten BRIT and six ECHO awards. In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, after being voted as the Greatest artist of the 1990s. He appears in the list of the all-time Top 100 biggest selling albums in the United Kingdom six times. It is also estimated he is currently the best selling non-Latino artist in Latin America at the moment with over 3 million sold. Despite Williams' immense popularity worldwide, he has still yet to become a major chart or concert success in the United States. He is planning to begin the recording sessions in March and that the new album will be released in late-2009.
Williams, who has amassed a fortune estimated at more than £90 million since he left Take That, announced in December 2008 he is planning to relocate to the UK prior to releasing his eighth studio album in mid-2009 and a possible reunion with Take That. Photos also showed Williams with his new tattoo of the Take That logo on his right arm, in tribute to his former bandmates. credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Williams
i'm sure many folks don't know that don johnson, the one half of the hit 80s cop show called miami vice, was not only a hot telly show vice cop, but also a pop singer, and had a hit song released in the '80s ^_^
my fave k-rap-ilicous kip-hopera group ... drum roll please ... EPIK HIGH
sigh ......, i have quite a serious mind, body, spirit crush on my man tablo, but be still my beating heart for his heart is already in the hands of his lovely girlfriend ...... double sigh
please support their efforts to sell their new book/album and new merchandise on their own through their website at www.mapthesoul.com - album was released on 2009.03.27
a section of their free showcase of their new album - in this section they perform one of my fave songs from their new album called 'scenerio' which can be seen in the last half of the vid Epik High - Live From The Maplab - Showcase 3 of 4 credit mapthesoul
i just love this freestyling of tablo and myk - i ........ the show ........ myself! Epik High's Table and MYK - Drunken Flow credit mapthesoul
Epik High - Fan credit cherryluv77
Epik High - One credit smqksa
Epik High - Paris credit nudeviking
Epik High - Fly credit shouling
Epik High f/ Clazziquai - Being Alone credit outlet722
Epik High f/ Lee Yongin Jin - Love, Love, Love credit epikhighftw
Epik High f/ MYK and D-Tox - Flow credit yokid5674
epik high 에픽하이 is a korean indie hip hop rap group members are Tablo, Mithra Jin and DJ Tukutz
albums 2003 Map of the Human Soul 2004 High Society 2005 Swan Songs 2006 Black Swan Songs (Repackaged) 2007 Remapping the Human Soul 2008 Pieces, Part One 2008 Lovescream 2009 Map the Soul
check out my epik high blog at epiklicious.wordpress.com
one of my all time fave techno songs - his hits make you fall into a trancelike state that you wonder if you will ever climb out - i'd love to see him live
"Ville Virtanen was born in Eura, Hinnerjoki, Finland, on July 17 1975, and is better known by his stage name Darude. He is a producer and DJ. He released the hit single Sandstorm in late 1999 and subsequent album "Before the Storm. Darude is currently ranked #47 on the DJ List as of May 18, 2008 and #116 in the DJ Mag Top 100" credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darude
my interest in everything related to the pop muzik industry - pop, cpop, jpop, kpop, trotpop, doowoppop, rappop, soulpop, afropop, europop, bollypop, latinpop, punkpop, rockpop, metalpop, jazzypop, funkypop, reggaepop, technopop