Redheaded Rants.
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
What's cookin, good-lookin'?
It payes to be attractive. Take for instance the upcomming sci-fi reality show Mad Mad House; the show doesn't even SART for a few weeks & Don the Vampire already has a fanclub. He looks like a cross between a healthy Maralin Manson, & a caucasian version of former Malice Mizer vocalist Klaha, & Klaha is deffinately hot stuff. I hope he has a deep sexy voice! From what I've seen, his one flaw is the yellow teeth; it brings back horrible memories of this attractive seiyuu (voice actor) from Weiss Kreuz who had nasty nasty teeth, Don's teath are at least thankfully not misshappen & his fangs are cute.
Sunday, February 15, 2004
K-Hop.
Back in the 90s, South Korean music was the coolest thing ever! They had all sorts of kinds of music & made breakdancing still look cool. The top 6 bands were H.O.T., G.O.D. Shin-Hwa, S.E.S. S#arp, & Fin.k.l. The top solo artists were BoA, J, Jo Sung-Mo & Yoo Seung-Jun. In the 90's they kept their own thing going; most of the bands regardless of gender went for the cutesy-look while bold bands like H.O.T. went for visual; though not nearly as visual as Japanese bands.
One year, almost every band & artist seemed to be going through a breakout off illness, collapsing on stage, & near-death incidents. A year latter Korean music started to sound overly Americanized. Almost all of the boy pop bands switched to hip-hop, hip-hop bands started to get into rap, cute pop was becoming sex-pop. Yup, the American sound had polluted the Korean style. Now Korea seems completely unoriginal & are dressing rather slovenly these days. I'd say the ultimate blow was when H.O.T. split for financial reasons & popular band after popular band started breaking up.
H.O.T. was as popular in Korea as the Beatles were back in their day. Their departure traumatized many young girls (way moreso than it did me) but my least favorite memories were the degenerating styles of Fly to the Sky & the death of super super cute Kim Hwan-Sung from N.R.G. His death caused the group to reformat their adorable style into some lame Backstreet Boys rip-off. What a complete waste! It was sad when popular techno group CLON split, but at least we still have techno queen Lee Jung-Hyun & tech group Koyotae to lean on.
J-Rock:
Yes, Japan has the best music in the world & many women around the world find them exquisiteness attractive. There are all kinds of music in Japan; my favorites are goth, heavy metal, rock, old-school pop (the cutesy stuff) & techno. There are 3 kinds of musicians in Japan; 1)Cute but no talent; sadly this applies to super super super sexy Hakuei & a stunningly attractive former band known as Due le Quartz, 2)Talent with no sex appeal; SMAP. & 3)Talent & sex appeal; Gackt/La Cryma Cristi. It's sad when people who have it all start to loose it with age; T.M. Revolution/Sugizo, & even sadder when they die; Hide.
J-goth was created by a band known as Malice Mizer who ran a long time & had 3 vocalists. The genre creators Mana & Kozi broke into Eve of Destiny & Moi Dix Mois. Mana created yet another genre with his sub-band Schwarz Stein; Goth-tech. Dir en Grey was the most popular visual band in heavy metal, created by former X-Japan member Yoshiki. When they dropped the visual style their popularity dropped allowing indies band Nightmare to out-do them. The vocalists of the 2 bands are nearly identical in oth appearance & voice; they turned out to be brothers. Even more popular is the super-visual J-pop band Psycho la Cemu.
The most popular male rock star in Japan is Gackt who has been in 3 ands prior to solo; one being Malice Mizer. Aside from being a singer he is a movie star, a commercial actor, an advertiser for Fuji Film, & a fashion model for the super tasteful Yoshiyuki Konishi (he won't wear anything else).
More & more teen girls around the world are drawn into Japan's Visual Kei. They are awed by the incredible androgynous beauty of their crossdressers like Mana & Izam, they become melty around their vibrantly colored goths, its just one of Japan's subtle ways (like manga & anime) to make the new generation warship their nation.
Animation:
Disney really pisses me off. They take good stories & turn them into musical pieces of crap. Long ago, fairy tales weren't even suitable for children. It's like when DiC or some other crappy company takes a great anime & dubbs it into a cut-&-paste piece of crap like Yu-Gi-Oh or Cardcptor Sakura. Disney, much like the world-reknowned manga group CLAMP, have become overly commercialized; spewing out piece after piece of low-quality work at a fast rate purely for profit. Walt would be ashamed & CLAMP's old fans are too. The only thing decent Disney ever did was Gargoyles; fantastic art, the voices matched, it wasn't cheesy, the episodes tied in, & best of all NO SINGING!
I'm really impressed with the french-canadian toon Totally Spies & the Japanese-American Teen Titans; this is what's in & popular & if cartoonists today want to stay on the air for more than 3 seasons, they're going to have to convert to anime style. Anime is top-quality, great story, great plot, great art. American toons are cliche, poorly drawn, in no order, seemingly effortless, & poorly colored. Anime brings in the fans & the big bucks. Screw tradition & get with the program.
Nationalists:
Nothing pisses me off like a nationalist; some unlearned biased person of no culture who thinks that anything he is a part of is right & the best & that if he doesn't like it it's wrong & sucks, & so he seeks a scapegoat. As an American, I have to put up with these kinds of idiots on a daily basis like it's shoved down my throat. As a nation of hypocrites, we will say that we are open-minded & multi-cultural, but that's just a happy dream. We brag about our constitution but Japan's is identical (save the right to own guns) we implore presidency & then elect idiots into office. We claim to be politically correct but stereotyping gets in the way. We claim to have it all, but in reality we have to import it. So we did it first, but someone ELSE will improve it. We claim to be the friendliest nation in the world, but we turn a cold shoulder to others. We claim to be free but have more laws than anyone else to prevent it. Those who claim we are equal turn a blind eye to those who are not. We claim to be the land of opportunity, but at least half suffer from crushed dreams, we pointed a finger at Hitler who was actually inspired by the way our ancestors treated the Native Americans. Everyone else in the whorld knows all of this & THAT is why they hate us.
School Policies:
Since I started college; normal, community, or private, I've noticed that you are forced to take classes you will never need. Like in animation, you need intro to video, the worst class EVER. Private schools are bad enough without having special ed; some people need it their whole lives. Also, serious-attitude math teachers have NO place being in an art school; there's no friction with math on art students.
All teachers use their own grading system & I find that only 1 works; make all test & quiz questions worth 1 point each. & they shouldn't teach kids to raise their hands, because in the real world you get looked at like an idiot for doing something you've been so used to. & all religious activities should be banned from public or private subject-related schools.
I can actually see the benefit in school uniforms; no one can make fun of what you're wearing, you can't dress like a whore, & if you decide to ditch, the cops will know where to return you. Of course Japanese student will agree with me that anything outside the wearing of the uniform should be dropped from the dress-code, like make-up, accessories, slight uniform alterations, & mostly anything to do with hair, piercings, or tattoos.
Animals:
I can't stand people who abuse their pets or don't treat them like equals. Animals are much smarter than humans give them credit for. If ants were human sized or dolphins had legs & thumbs, the human race would be doomed because they're smarter. Add chimps & you have 3 animals species that actually HAVE communication abilities. Did you know that ALL worker & soldier ants are female?
There was this sick bastard who collected cats; over 200. Never fed them or let them see the light of day. After he was arrested & fined heavily, all of the poor kitties were put to sleep. ;_; I don't approve of spaying, neutering, or youthenizing animals because I see them as equals, & if we can't youthenize suicidals & have out children spayed or neutered, then it's wrong for animals too. Also, animals should not be kept in cages; they need large rooms with toys. The pound should put friendly animals in rooms together so they're not so sad.
Stereotyping:
If there's one thing I can't stand it's stereotypes, because they're always outdated & highly inaccurate. Not all gays are queer, not all queers are gay, 50% of asains have eyes larger than anyone else's/are not short/do not have small units/give a crap about honor & family, the French do not speak with phony Cajun accents/where stripes & barrets/like Jerry Lewis/eat snails & Frogs legs all day long, not all blondes are stupid, not all women are smarter & tidier than men, not all men like sports & action movies, not all catholics & christians are hetero, most pedophiles are hetero women, not all people in the south are dumbass hicks, not all blacks are lowclass, some men actually have taste in clothing, not all women find sports boring as hell, not even 1/2 of goths are Satanists, not all cheerleaders & jocks will grow up to be beerbellied loosers, not all nerds will make fortunes, not all redheads have freckles & are from Ireland, not all insane serial killers are religious zealots, & I suppose not all lawyers & politicians are bad.
Gay Marriages:
hurray for San Francisco! It's about time gay marriages licenses were handed out. Hawaii was already ahead of them. (There are an awful lot of Hawaiians who don't like Americans. Some told me that gay marriages were made legal there to piss Americans off.) Naturally there are some yuppies & hicks petitioning to stop this saying it's unholy & traditional. Personally, I hate tradition; it's so anti-progress & pro-hate, & I don't give a crap about the biased opinions of people who need a religion to tell them how to live their lives. I'm not gay, but I adore gay people.
2004 Presidential Elections:
The whole process has become a joke & only the idiots are running, & doing it like some kind of popularity contest. Naturally the Daily Show on Comedy Central is delighted. Most of the people running make Bush look smart & I'm sure not voting for a guy who makes me miss Clinton. American claims to be a nation in demand of change & equality, so when will they stop electing southern white hick with speech impediments who are so old they could die the next day? I want to vote for a not-too-radical radical, I want to vote for a woman, I want someone young who isn't white. All old-male politicians are senile anyway.
