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As I mentioned in my last entry, I introduced my sister to the art of toploader decorating, and together, we made a few!

Joshua was the first one we made together with those Amazon Christmas stickers because we couldn't find anything else at the moment.

My sister made Sunwoo on her own! Meanwhile, I made Ireh on my own. The Ireh is still my favorite one.

The next day, we worked together on Minhyuk. (We were going for a space theme, but it didn't really work out, as we noticed our lack of cute star stickers. I think it ended up looking more like an underwater aesthetic, since those big stars seem more like starfish.

I made Eunwoo by myself last. I'm not sure what concept I was going for there, but it didn't turn out the way I imagined. I think I was trying for a monochrome white one that could be paired with any picture, but I centered the opening towards the right, due to that being the direction Dongmin is facing, so in the end, it still won't fit for anyone.

Anyway, I hope I get to make more in the future. I'll look for cuter stickers, too, because everything in this picture were Hallmark stickers bought from Walmart. I should get a little case for them too, so I can hang them on a bag or something…

✦ Current Music: Golden Child - Lately
✦ Current Watch: BTOB - Japanese Promotion Behind

Hi. I have neglected this journal for a hot while (besides the sudden ONF album review that popped up last week, but that was unintentional—it was just because I got sick of cramming my sentences into tweets and, in an instinctive flurry, flung the rest of it over here).

There's reasons besides burnout on why I left this journal for dead for over a month. I wanted to provide an explanation—to the approximately zero people who are reading this. It's mostly for myself, a justification to placate my own weltering guilt and discomfort of going quiet on here without a word.

( 记录, etc. )

✦ Current Music: LUMINOUS - Talking Myself
✦ Current Watch: [엄마가 잠든후에] ASMR 하다가 눈알 튀어나올 뻔한 산들 (ENG sub)

i rank the 2010s dream concert lineups in attempt to kill time as i await the huta comeback at 5 a.m. (it is currently 2 a.m.).

disclaimer: this is purely based off of my taste in groups and music and even my mood just this moment. i am, in fact, not putting that much thought into this, as it—once again—is 2 a.m., and i physically cannot formulate comprehensive thoughts right now, anyway. this will be a ranking of only the 2010s concerts for two reasons: 1) i feel like i'm not knowledgeable enough about the majority of the groups in the older lineups, and 2) the 2020s are simply incomparable—and for clarification, i'm not implying that either decade is worse than the the other, but the groups are just so different that it feels physically difficult to compare to the 2010s lineups.

1. 2015 — namely combo: 9muses, lovelyz, 24k, bts, kara, monsta x, sonamoo, exid, secret, sistar, b1a4, vixx, btob
2. 2016 — namely combo: exo, halo, gfriend, tahiti, a.cian, b.i.g imfact, clc, 24k, t-ara, seventeen, laboum, nu'est, b1a4, vixx, btob
3. 2019 — namely combo: n.flying, 1the9, ilhoon, dreamcatcher, ab6ix, gwsn, park bom, nam woohyun, dia, the boyz, jbj95 (taemin and donghan on the same stage?)
4. 2012 — namely combo: boyfriend, teen top, kara, t-ara, ailee, ze:a, sistar, girls' generation-tts, tvxq, infinite, 2pm
5. 2018 — namely combo: rainz, younha, wheesung, iz, unb, uni.t, mxm, in2it, bigflo (the year of survival show groups)
6. 2017 (june) — namely combo: nct dream, romeo, map6, b.i.g, snuper, oh my girl, april, wjsn, twice, btob, vixx
7. 2014 — namely combo: infinite, top dogg, c-clown, beast, rainbow, boys republic, halo, apink, block b, bestie, got7
8. 2017 (november) — namely combo: baek jiyoung, b.a.p, wanna one, exo-cbx, trcng, weki meki, pristin, btob, vixx
9. 2013 — namely combo: t-ara n4, boyfriend, b1a4, u-kiss, shinee, rainbow, speed, girls' day, b1a4, btob
10. 2010 — namely combo: after school, ss501, cnblue, 4minute, kara, wonder girls, f(x), ze:a, shinee, beast, lee hyori, t-ara
11. 2011 — namely combo: seo inguk, 2pm, tvxq, iu, f(x), miss a, shinee, beast, f-ve dolls, t-ara

sorry, i sincerely don't know what this is. the white rabbit asmr videos were playing on the other half (more like two-thirds) of this screen the whole time i was writing, and she's so hot, so i was partially distracted by her face while typing and deciding these—even though, to be fair, i probably shouldn't be watching asmr videos if i'm trying to stay awake. for the record, i don't know what is special about those combos; i just wrote names that seemed amazing side-by-side to me and to my heart's content. i am so out of it. i want to say goodnight, but minhyuk is waiting for me… y'all…

oh well, onto my next item on the list of time-killers for the remaining hours of night.

also, expect an academic thesis of a review for boom within three business days. i'm pretty sure that, after i listen to my first huta comeback in real time, i will be irrevocably reformed.

✦ Current Music: Rocket Punch - Girl Friend
✦ Current Watch: ASMR | Let's Play Make Believe/Pretend (AKA The Most Random Ever ... + Accent!)

I'm slowly clearing my BTOB music video watchlist. (Kill Your Darlings: check. Now, Days of Being Wild: check.) I must say, Show Your Love Changsub just became tenfold hotter than he already was.

Okay, it's been a while since I posted something new here—I've been wanting to, but I somehow just cannot find the time to sit down and ramble for hours on the keyboard recently. My public relations! My new projects! My homework! To be fair, saying it like this makes it sound like I'm a very productive and occupied person, but I'm not. Those things listed make up an incomprehensible jumbled mess in the midst of my life's timeline that is very difficult to work around, but that's a story for another time. There's a lot I need to catch this journal up on… That will hopefully be able to come soon. There's a lot I want to say, alright.

I've never done a movie review before, so I'm a little inexperienced in this, but I do have some thoughts I would like to share about Days of Being Wild (1990).

But first comes my staple unnecessarily detailed account of what led up to the moment I've decided to discuss here.

Let's start from the beginning: for the longest time, I had planned to check out some Wong Kar-wai movies, as I've seen exhibitions of the aesthetics, and they just seemed so wonderful to me. These are the colors and atmosphere I adore; I knew it was right down my alley after MAMAMOO's Wind Flower music video bestowed upon me a transcendental sensation. Then, of course, came the additional boost of finding out Changsub's parodied character in Show Your Love was, in fact, from Days of Being Wild.

Last night, after a day's worth of BBB (self-coined: Beatcom Bingeing Brainrot), catching up on the sweet selection of stages for the 220624 "Summer Workshop" Music Bank half year special (more Moon sibling collaborations… I am begging), and settling in to finally listen to the second season premiere of Korean Cowboys Podcast (it was the social media episode; I cannot say I agree with all of their points this time, but I respect it).

The film-watching-impulse seed was actually planted in the midst of my Chinese lesson—before I listened to KCP, actually, since I was doing that lesson's homework while listening. I love that Chinese teacher so much, but I still don't remember her name. I have gathered information for everything else about her, though, like: she's a '98 liner; she's from Sichuan but, ironically, can't eat really spicy things and gets teased by her friends for it; she has two 妹妹, but they're not her 请 sisters (she's a single child), they're her younger cousins, and they're both taller than her; she went to Thailand to teach kindergarteners Chinese for a learning program in her sophomore year of college, and since she's good with kids, they all really liked her and clung onto her leg to not let her leave; her favorite K-Pop group was EXO; she had a mini-phase in high school where she was obsessed with Ok Taecyeon, but she never spent money on idols since she got yelled at by her parents the one time she bought an album; she really likes the K-Drama Hospital Playlist; she watched Goblin, so she knows 陸星材 (very important to me—she thinks Sungjae's cute like a little brother); she covered Apink's Mr. Chu with her friends once a long time ago; she has seen Reply 1997, based on her description of the plot, but keeps calling it a different one because she gets the different Reply shows mixed up (she doesn't think Seo Inguk is that hot, contrary to everyone around her); her favorite and most built Genshin characters are Ayaka and Kokomi. Sorry, I'm getting sidetracked again. Also, I should probably stop because I realized how creepy this appears now.

Anyway, at some point, our textbook brought up Hong Kong, and I absentmindedly said, "I would like to go there," just trying to say shit and not thinking much of it. But, then, she asked me why. So, I kind of had to make up with a reason in that position. I simply brought up the fact that I liked Wong Kar-wai's film aesthetics, and then we ended up going on another side-tangent over this topic. I cited 阿飞正传 as the one I watched, and everything else she showed me as ones I planned on watching. The thing is, I have actually not seen 阿飞正传 at the time of speaking to her. I decided that my words here would officially condemn me to watching it immediately after the class ended. And so, I did—after speedrunning the assigned homework while listening to Aaron and Joel rant about social media and, when that podcast ended, to Younha's 2007 albums, because why not? (I just saw Sungjae singing 혜성 on a Beatcom episode earlier, so maybe that's what provoked this choice of music.) That is how I ended up browsing through every variation of 123movies for Days of Being Wild (1990) before, eventually, remembering that asianembed.io existed.

There are two sides of my brain fighting over what to ultimately get out of this movie: the first side is trying to genuinely appreciate it as the artful classic cinema it is in the most objective and local mindset as possible, and the other side is trying vigorously to make an entire Changsub-centric AU out of this. It has been a whole night and half a day, and I cannot tell you which side is winning as of now—it may as well be a tie, for all I can foresee.

No, but seriously, I'm going to let the mental illness loose for just a brief moment to admit that ever-so-occasionally my brain would flash the image of Changsub in the place of Leslie Cheung, and I would need to take a quick pause to start praying to god, or something… because damn. ~~Hear me out: this could be a 섭민 and 섭룬 AU. Just think about it. And Hyunsik is Tide—holy shit, everything is coming together.~~ Changsub as Yuddy is just a really hot concept, fuck! The Show Your Love music video director was so real for this; what the hell… they definitely knew what they were doing. Moving on.

So, this movie begins by introducing Yuddy through Sou Laizan. It's not long after their relationship crumbles that we are dropped in the midst of Yuddy's life. We learn more about him through the environment and the dialogue. Though well-off, his familial relationship is unsound. His adoptive mother is an awfully interesting character to me; I think some of my favorite scenes were the ones where he was talking with her—but more on that later.

Yuddy is a rash character; this is presented evidently in just about any action he makes—from the spouts of violence, to his refusal to maintain a stable relationship. Yet, he's not a figure that the audience can resent. I mean, come on, he's a young, nihilistic heartbreaker; what could be more attractive? He's a reckless player, but he is discontented. His physical needs, wants are all readily available for him, but through all this, he is still lacking love. And the one continual drive he had of finding his birthmother eventually lost its meaning when he realized that she did not want to meet him, so where can he go now?

(Yuddy is like a more unsympathetic—perhaps less dimensional—portrayal for the stock character of Kang Yina from Age of Youth.)

This movie concluded with several ends going untied. It wasn't meant to be a satisfying conclusion; it was supposed to reflect the unceasing continuity of time. When one tale ends (Yuddy's death), the others that were intertwined with his story still go on. Do Laizan and Tide ever reunite? Does Leung Fungying ever discover what happens to Yuddy, and if she does, what does she do then? What of Zeb; does he move on? These characters all lead their own journeys in the world, now. More persons like Yuddy will keep existing (as portrayed by Tony Leung's character in the final scene), and the wild days of youth never end.

The lighting was gorgeous—everything I expected. It was beautiful even through the shit quality I was viewing it in. I can't say I have much expertise in cinematography, but from what I could observe, the scenes all had the ideal overlay of an atmospheric cadence and evocative visuals; it was pleasing to the eyes and ears. Though, I'm not sure if it was just the camera lens, or if it was purposefully directed this way to show tension, but whenever two characters spoke face-to-face, they seemed unnecessarily close to each other—and yes, I mean in the scenes that aren't intimate. Like, when Laizan was sulking outside of Yuddy's apartment, Tide was, like, really closing in on Laizan, and I was like 'woah there…' That might just be me, though!

I can see why Wong Kar-wai also ended up directing some martial arts films. There was certainly a lot of smashing and crashing in this. I'm loving the cartoon punch sound effects during the train station fight. Not going to lie, this was not a movie where I thought I would be seeing bulks of violence, but even though some ofthe action was sometimes awkwardly integrated, it looked pretty badass; I'll give it that.

Oh, time to finally talk about the scenes with Yuddy and his adoptive mom. They have an interesting relationship. Their scenes provided delicious food for thought. Between these two distinct characters, it's interesting to see how equally disillusioned they both are. Perhaps, Yuddy was influenced by his mother to become the way he is. Actually, that probably is the cause. Seeing his mother intentionally letting herself being played around by men who merely want to use her for money without even having a father figure himself is discernibly going to leave him commencing… fatherless behavior!

His mother is just as detached from her lovers as our main character, but unlike Yuddy, she has one person whom she couldn't come to terms with separating herself from for the longest time, and that was Yuddy himself. She resisted disclosing his birthmother's details, even when Yuddy asserted that he was upset with her inclination to "let [him] know a bit, and hide a bit." Rebecca plainly stated that she knew he, who has stayed by her side for the longest time out of anyone in her life, would leave her as soon as she told him. Yuddy was yet unfazed by this, in a way that implied to say 'Alright, let's die unhappy together then.' It was this conversation with his adoptive mother in that stuck with me the damned most. It was until sternly declared, "Unless you have died, then we will be happy," that she finally accepted that she cannot keep him. ("…for [he] is not [her] own blood," she knew he wouldn't stay.)

"I'll tell you who your mother is, now. I can't stand it any longer. You've always used this excuse before. You can't use it anymore. You want to go, right? Alright, then go. Go as far as you can. Don't let me know that you are cheating yourself."

Like mother, like son, they are both self-destructive in their treks through forsaken attempts at romance. Rebecca, knowing that her body is getting old, has resolved to make do with whoever can make her feel something even temporarily, finally settling once and for all with a decent man who wanted to bring her out to America. Yuddy, in his lively and still-energetic youth, would continue to hop around until his accumulated karmic debt catches up to him at the end of his short lifespan—a fleeing bird that was doomed from the start.

"There was a bird who flied and flied until it died. It never went anywhere, though, because it died from the start."

He knew his endeavors were aimless. He knew, yet he kept going—kept flying through streets and hearts.

And this brings me to the thematic bird analogy. It's perfect, I think—I can't imagine one that fits Yuddy better. Yuddy's final monologue coming full circle back to this very metaphor implemented into the story at the start is a common form of cinematic parallelism, but it is nonetheless striking here.

"I've heard that there is a kind of bird with no legs. It could only fly and fly… When it got tired, it slept in the wind. This kind if bird could only land once: that was when it died."

Yuddy was a nonstop seeker of thrills, of pleasures. He wouldn't rest—not for any woman, not even when his only known purpose of wandering was lost. He only flitted onwards, ramming head-first into obstacles if needed. Only death, as foreshadowed, could intervene in his endless flight.

"I've said that I never know which woman is my true love. I wonder what she's doing now. Dawn breaks—it looks fine today. How about sunset?"

This next line was interesting, though. In contrast to all cynical moves that we've seen from him, it seems that he does, in fact, believe that there is a destined true love out there somewhere. Despite that, he is utterly devoid of an urge to find her.

To close this off, I'll leave it with a final note of one line. Leung Fungying says in an argument with Yuddy, "A woman comes up suddenly, and claims that this is hers, that is hers; how can I know how many women would come up later? If one comes and says that you are hers, should I give up?"

✦ Current Music: Kihyun - , (COMMA)
✦ Current Watch: ASMR | Jigglypuff Draws On Your Face After You Fall Asleep On Her Singing 💕

LEE MINHYUK (HUTA) 2nd Album [BOOM] track list just dropped today. i am making my predictions.

1. i'm rare

↳ rap track intro—the equivalent of hutazone in his previous album
↳ see: huta - hutazone

2. boom

↳ impossible to tell the genre at the moment, but since the album aesthetic reminds me of wonho's designs, i'm going to assume some type of sexy, bass-boosted deep house
↳ see: wonho - lose
↳ see: wonho - eye on you

3. shadow

↳ dark cunty
↳ see: hyoyeon - mystery

4. 넌 나의 봄이야

↳ sweet and soft, but not exactly sentimental enough to be considered a ballad
↳ see: nu'est - emotion

5. 그대가 모르게

↳ something simple and cute, or a ballad—it's 50/50
↳ see: ab6ix - off the record
↳ see: highlight - our eyes

6. 사랑일까요 (duet. 이창섭)

↳ most heartfelt ballad you've ever heard
↳ see: seventeen - i can't run away

7. 위험해

↳ cunty hype song hybrid
↳ see: huta - hang out (feat. soyeon)*
↳ see: sf9 - 4 step

8. real game (like messi)

↳ gay hype anthem
↳ see: huta - hang out (feat. soyeon)*

*NOTE: either 위험해 or real game (like messi) will be the hang out (feat. soyeon) equivalent of this album—or both?

9. 우리 함께 걸어요

↳ dare i say… ONEUL BAME?
↳ see: huta - tonight (with melody)

10. red wine

↳ whiskey's cousin, or something jazzy and sensual like all day
↳ see: btob - whiskey
↳ see: huta - all day

11. 기다리고 있어

↳ my gut said ballad, just based off the title, but i know he's someone who's going to have more variety; i'm settling with hopeful and touching edm
↳ see: this playlist for examples of what precisely that refers to

12. 끝 눈

↳ gentle resolution; tender ballad
↳ see: huta - waiting for you

✦ Current Music: f(x) - Dracula
✦ Current Watch: [VIXX - Black Out] Comeback Stage | M COUNTDOWN 170518 EP.524

More of me bullshitting some analysis for school—except this time, I add my snarky annotations that cannot be included in the assignment submission for evident reasons.

Prompt:

Collage reflection paper
Once you have everything glued then consider the following:
a. Does you work reaffirm who you are?
b.What area do you like best and why?
c. What would you do different?
d. How was this experience?
Write this evaluation of your work and post it to assignment section.

I believe it does represent myself quite well. The piece is bordered with an arrangement of gradients I like: of sunset hues to various tones of blue. The violet side towards the right is composed of more geometric shapes and sharp lines, while the blue side to the left flaunts a stronger flourish of organic forms and structures—such as a wild spectacle of flowers. The most prominent part is, arguably, two of my favorite photos of my man Yook Sungjae from his photoshoot for Ceci Magazine plastered in the center. He’s one of my favorite singers and celebrities and is quite a big part of my life, at this point, so yes, I do believe his presence reaffirms this collage to represent me more. A variety of fruits make appearances on this piece: peaches, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries (see if you can spot them all!), all of which are some of my favorites! As one can tell, the fruits are quite near Sungjae in placement. This has pretty obvious fruity connotations that you can probably figure out by now. Oh, and the peaches symbolize his thick ass. One may also notice that the majority of the background bordering cutouts display the sky in one location, one time interval, one weather condition or another; for someone who intends on using my life to deep delve into space and astrophysics, the welkin means a lot to me. The last thing I would like to note is the cats. I’m a cat-lover. Those cats (somewhat camouflaged into the elements at first glance, but one is laying her head on Sungjae’s shoulder) happen to be the same cat. That cat goes by the name of Sami, and she is—not mine, but—Sungjae’s beloved pet. I would have printed out a picture of my own cat to accompany Sami if my printer didn’t run out of magenta toner, but alas.

The segment I like best from this artwork is my paper cutting work. I’m unashamed to say I exerted massive energy and spent quite an extensive amount of time on meticulously trimming the flower petals and fruits shapes as to nearly revert it back to its transparent ‘.jpg’ clipart form. So, yeah; please relocate extra attention to any single bud you see and admire the unnecessarily pristine cutwork I put into those. As for my favorite area arrangement-wise, it will have to be my ingenious idea of attaching Sungjae and his cat in the midst of this madness.

Something that began bothering me partway through the process was certain imprecisions of placement. One eminent example—that is on the verge of making this piece become almost unbearable to view for me if I continue to mull over it—is that the leftward Sungjae should have been inched a slight bit to the right so that he covered more of the empty space behind the orange flower. Another thing I would like to do better is the cutwork around Sungjae’s hair; that was only sloppy because, at that point, I’ve almost been completely drained of energy due to working on it for the past six (YOOK?) or more hours straight without consuming any sustenance besides the headstrong spiritual willpower to manifest Sungjae's and Changsub's arrival at Chicago for KCON soon.

This experience… this was certainly a project that I would not have thought about doing if not for a class’s obligations. Originally, I did not intend to spend this much time and effort into it—my agenda today was to quickly finish an assignment and get it over with. That all changed when I had the animalistic impulse to print out Sungjae—no reason or rhyme, just Sungjae in my mind. Then, this became oh-so serious to me. (In other words, I fully intended to half-ass this assignment, until I felt an inexplicable, spontaneous, and unwarranted pull… and printed Sungjae out. Then, it became serious to me.) While I must say: it was taxing, though that’s probably my own fault for going at it for six (YOOK?) hours consecutively. (Music was the only factor keeping me stable during that session; ironically, I was not listening to Sungjae nor his boy group’s songs. I was binge listening to SEVENTEEN's entire discography on shuffle, for the most part, in preparation for my plans to see their concert in D.C. now that they announced their tour dates. Before that, though, I listened to ASTRO's full album comeback four times. I would come up with a review on it, but I regret to inform that my thoughts on most of the songs are relatively middling. I did enjoy the cunty insertion of More and the slightly less cunty—but still cunty—Something Something.) In the end, though, I created something I actually feel unsatirically proud of, which was not something I was expecting from a class I merely took for the credits. Like, this is probably, at the same time, the funniest thing I've ever done and the most brilliant thing I've ever made. I spent a ridiculous amount of energy on this, which, I think, shocked myself more than anyone else because half of the time, I barely have the strength in me to keep myself alert enough to realize I'm existing. Thinking back to this afternoon now, it's still insane that I did that. Something biological in me shifts whenever I have Sungjae in mind. Here's to Sungjae for fueling the artistic outburst? Whatever the case, I doubt I’ll ever be doing anything like this again—the motivation has come once, in a burst, due to graduation pressure, and will be well lost to the wind after this. However, this is certainly a project I’ll end up cherishing.

✦ Current Music: SEVENTEEN - Let Me Hear You Say
✦ Current Watch: BVNDIT(밴디트) - 3rd Mini Album [Re-Original] Highlight Medley

[originally this twitter thread. all that is block quoted is from that account, with some minor additions that weren't able to fit within the world limit.]

i have been sitting on the floor with my newly arrived complete album in front of me for two hours… no, i should really put it away and come back later. whew…

all of its signed and slightly damaged glory! i couldn’t stop smiling.

there were some indents and scratches on the side of the case... i spent half an hour fretting over how to tell the seller and whether my review was polite enough. oomfs said it was; i hope it was, because that seller was pretty kind, so i don't want to hurt their feelings or anything. i was nervous as shit, repeatedly checking the original listing of the item to make sure they didn't already disclose the flaws in the description and i just accidentally missed it. (they didn't, and there wasn't a picture of this side of the album either.) the feedback i ended up sending in, since mercari forced me to: "there was some damage on the case, and i'm not sure if it was there originally? if it was, then i don't think it should've been labeled as "new"! if it wasn't, then it was likely from the lack of a protective wrap inside the the package. it's okay overall; i myself am not one to worry much about indents and scratches, but i just wanted to make note of that in case other people do ^-^ anyway, thank you for the album!"

the amount of stuff in this album surprised me. i forgot to do some physical content research before buying, so when i opened it to nine booklets and an accordion book holding the cd? i was a little taken aback. unfortunately, mine didn't come with a pc, but i can't fathom searching for the photocard amidst that.

okay, i mean, i imagine it would probably be in the main photobook. but still, it would be hilarious if it was at a different place in every copy, and they made you sift through all of those to find it.

i was trying to reorder the individual member/lyrics booklets into the correct sequence of the songs—since the original owner did not—and only halfway through browsing sungjae's did i realize the little flaps inside opened up! that's where the thank you letters were <3

eunkwang's picture flaps had tears forming... how do i explain this is 광냥 at its epitome. this is the very peak of eunkwang's catlike-ness.

and ilhoon and sungjae's phenomenal styling for this photoshoot… what other option did i have besides zoning out on the ground until my brain started hurting. for, uh, two whole hours apparently.

i knew they were placing extra emphasis on sungjae, since they had to capitalize off his rising relevancy from school (2015)—and exposing his toes in the teaser photos apparently contributed to it—but ilhoon's looks in this too… oh man. he’s hot. oh no. what do i do.

i love when they go the absolute fuck out with ilhoon's eyeliner and eyeshadow. they've been doing this since the dawn of time with him; those makeup artists knew what's up.

the dark liner was obviously a common appearance for that generation of k-pop, but i really think ilhoon is one of the best idols i can think of to pull off those smokey eyes. out of the beats he's certainly the most suiting, with perhaps changsub or eunkwang coming in second.

[originally this twitter thread. all that is block quoted is from that account, with some minor additions that weren't able to fit within the world limit.]

anyway, my rendez-vous album came today. way earlier than expected! it's so mesmerizingly beautiful.

i saw a package sitting on the table earlier and did not have a clue as to what it could be. it didn't even cross my mind it could be rendez-vous, since it was said to not arrive until the very end of april. it is the second week of april right now. and the way my heart filled when i unraveled the bubble wrap was indescribable, holy shit.

i was absolutely tearing the fuck up while unboxing it. because it's so... it is so gorgeous. i am so emotional. i was first greeted with speckles of stars across deep, comforting hues of navy—

on the cd, burned with an arrangement of other-worldly songs, including one of the best songs ever (black),
and on the back of the photocard, holding my whole universe, one of the best people ever (sik, himself).

the stickers are so precious. and the boarding pass ticket. and the passport case. the intrinsic yearning for cosmic travel, for an interstellar reach, for galactic love instilled in this album's contents is so touching to me. "flying to the star" is an absolutely perfect fit. even the lyrics complete it.

i think the theme of this album is simply a stunner in on its own. and it's made whole in every aspect, with these astutely selected inclusions. it just feels so heartfelt, as well, knowing that this is completely and utterly him. this is hyunsik to the very core. because i've seen him talk about space. i've seen him express his adoration for the universe. i've seen how passionate he is, and that certain fervor is something that's shared within me, too. so this album probably means much more to my soul than i can realize to delineate. i don't even think i comprehend the full extent to which it influences me, at least not enough to do this sentient justice in english words.

i love space, and i love hyunsik. i love hyunsik and his music so, so much.

( + 我还是觉得我会永远舍不了得用这些 rendez-vous 贴纸或护照壳 T^T)

i said i didn't want to get fingerprints on it and my sister offered me her gloves in utmost sincerity. i accepted. but then, it was hard to flip the pages, so i took them off. eventually, i ended up wiping off the cover with my shirt ever two minutes because fingerprints are so visible on it, since it's so shiny. speaking of flipping through it, even the photos made me emotional, oh my god.

it was so cute, and so wholesome, and so pretty, and hyunsik looked so damn happy, and my heart was trembling. the saturation was turned to the whole fucking max which made it all the more vibrant.

starting with sik in a dry landscape in an astronaut suit that would seem funny in any other situation, but for some reason did not here—it just felt artistic and meaningful. there were also these photobooth-formatted pictures, in those little unfoldable flaps inside the booklet, of him jumping, and i felt like exploding, for real. he looked so happy; that's my boy. i love him so much.

towards the end, the theme takes a rather psychedelic turn—warm, yet electric, pinks and purples with bright neon accessories. the lighting is an essential component here. it looks as if he's in another world. he landed on a mysterious, beautiful, undiscovered planet, perhaps. and it also had sunflowers: the same sunflowers as the beginning. those flowers seemed like a notable figure since the start; with the way he was holding them and the way yellow petals contrasted the cooler-tinted tones dominating most of the previous color scheme, it somewhat gave an impression of a meaningful symbol... which, i'm sure i have the 兴趣 go into a deeper analysis of at some point, but for now i just want to appreciate the rounded return to this object of focus. i think this is such a good photobook—all bias acknowledged.

the graphic design was also incredibly clean and fitting. it had a modern crispness that was very pleasant to the eye and juxtaposed especially smoothly with this concept. i think it's just lovely. i think it was also super lovely how, for half of the songs, hyunsik's name covered the credits from top to bottom—alone—in literally every category. and by 'super lovely,' i mean bluntly that it was, in fact, extremely sexy. i also saw that for dear love, the 'special chorus' was credited to cube trainees? omg... who?

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i tried decorating toploaders for the first time
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