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You, created only a little lower than
The angels, have crouched too long in
The bruising darkness,
Have lain too long
Face down in ignorance.
Your mouths spilling words
Armed for slaughter.
Each of you a bordered country,
Delicate and strangely made proud,
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege.
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| | Tags: | dbsk | | Subject: | THE DARK KNIGHT x YUNJAE ROFLMAO XD | | Time: | 07:18 pm |
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I couldn't bear to desecrate Jaejoong's dollface, so Yunho, it had to be you. I do this out of love~ (◕ ◡ ◕) / ♥
I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE DARK KNIGHT!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO GET ME SOME BATMAN X JOKER HARVEY DENT X BRUCE WAYNE!!!!! HAHAHAHHAHA
Soo I'm off to pilates class then going off to wait in line for the midnight showing~ It's been so long since I've done this. Last time was... Pirates of the Caribbean 3 which went on for way too long ugh which was way too long ago and I'm totally missing the excitement of doing midnight showings!
For those of you who are not understanding why Yunho's face was defiled in such a manner, here: Why so serious?
P.S. I went on to the DBSG comm to check their Oricon ranking and come upon entries upon entries and pictures and downloads of their KBS 30th Anniversary performance, more magazine articles & pictures & fancams and ugh DYING!!! ;____; My brain can't keep up with it all the 20109238192 things they do every single day. When the photobook comes out I'll be truly dead. I need to find like a weekend to get caught up on all that's going on. And flist! I'm so sorry I haven't been checking on you guys either~ ;___; I swear I will soon. I've been busy and kinda sick lately so bear with me pls? ;___;
EDIT: The movie was so crazy intense. I hope I don't get nightmares...! | | whispers: 13 echoes of the wind or whisper to me |
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Original pic here at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) yunnieaday.
ilusm you dorkus. ❤
I wish I could've known you like this, before you became so famous, so handsome, so old beyond your years.
DORK!YUNHO armed with stuffed animal!Bambi NEEDS TO MAKE A COMEBACK! T____T | | whispers: 13 echoes of the wind or whisper to me |
| | Tags: | dbsk, translations | | Subject: | [TRANSLATIONS] DBSK in July Issue of Hanako West magazine | | Time: | 05:09 am |
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| I wasn't planning on translating the Hanako West magazine article since I don't have a lot of patience for translating, but someone asked, so here it is.
All of the interviews are really interesting & insightful: Junsu and God, Jaejoong and learning how to sing, Yunho with a never before revealed fact (I never ever, even heard about this), Yoochun with his childhood dream, and Changmin on being an artist. Several parts were also rather ROFLMAO hahah. Enjoy.☺
※ I translated this really late at night; I did go over them again but please tell me if there are any discrepancies or stuff I missed. Also, I'm pretty sure the author of these articles is not only a HUGEEE DBSK fan, but also a really big Korean Wave ajumma Yunho fan, lol, because of the way she (I'm pretty sure it's a she...) writes & the stuff she knows about them.
♣ Please credit or link back to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) _happy_as_rain_! ♡
♨ Any thoughts on this interview? I spent so long translating this... ;________; | | whispers: 139 echoes of the wind or whisper to me |
| | Tags: | poetry | | Subject: | nihilism | | Time: | 11:01 pm |
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| I don't know how to write poetry
without
being specific.
I could say, she/he (specify Person, identity
indicate gender, Existence or
lack thereof) did _______ (specify Event, time) to
____(who? You?) but then
I am saying
too much.
I can't write poetry without giving
bits
of myself away.
I could
paint my portrait done in
da Vinci oils, with
all that I have
given away.
I could say, I am
drowning
in despair and un
happy,
all that
melodramatic
crap but
what's the point of poetry
then?
So instead I
say,
islands twirl a single
north star sways in the
wind airplanes
and trees roar
high above my head and I am
meaning,
goddammit god
dammit I
like to play
guessing games so
here is
the challenge -
translate for me,
this:
Sand and stone
as you thunder on, and
I did not sleep at home
that night. | | whispers: 4 echoes of the wind or whisper to me |
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In the Midwest, fields of corn are in love
with a scarecrow, his potato-sack head
and straw body, hanging out among the dog-eared stalks
like a farm-Christ full of love.
-excerpt from "Love," by Matthew Dickman | | whispers: whisper to me |
| | Tags: | poetry | | Subject: | pilgrimage | | Time: | 12:08 am |
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| half-stilted and wandering
unnamed vagrant:
your shoulder blades
the canvas of your back
is a canyon
is a georgia o'keefe painting.
these fingers sink into
untouched snow
and your bare skin
is a steady heartbeat
don't dare breathe
don't dare linger like a thief
I come crashing down
and the dream that awakens me
can hardly staunch
the memory of your easy leaving. | | whispers: whisper to me |
| I'm away from DBSK news for one day and I miss the early stirrings of reports from the Dream Concert? Sigh. Anyway, my first thought when I saw this picture was...
DOUBLE THE ARMPIT HAIR, DOUBLE THE MANLY MAN!!!!
...Oh Yunho, I love your divided grand, two-part armpit hair. ♡ And bb, we know you are intense, but never forget that you are also intensely LMAO. Also? I love your scar. Also? This. ;____;
EDIT: YUNHO. OMFGLAKJSF;lskdfjaj ;___; he even ripped off the necklaces. And the cincher? Introducing his UKNOW JUNIOR and touching himself! Oh, Yunho.
P.S. Jaejoong ~~ Your muscle is multiplying faster than a yeast specimen. Please stop~ T____________T Your waist and legs are so thin & tiny and your chest & arms are like this huge upside-down triangle...Jaejoong, your body looks really disproportionate, strange and unnatural!! D:
P.S.S. Sorry. I will heap love on the Yoosumin later T___T I love you guys too~~
P.S.S.S. Poor SNSD~ You guys really didn't deserve that from Cassiopeia & ELF all the fangroups. Why so much drama? T__T EDIT: Actually the SNSD fanboys were really scary too! Why did you knife the Suju banners!! T____T | | whispers: 12 echoes of the wind or whisper to me |
| | Subject: | Thoughts | | Time: | 06:34 pm |
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| "It's not the same. I don't care how close you are to your adopted son or beloved stepdaughter, the love you have for your non-biological child isn't the same as the love you have for your own flesh and blood."
-Rebecca Walker
Do you believe that? Can you believe that?
And that, if you change the "adopted son/daughter" part to "best friend you consider a brother/sister," is it still true? That the love for biological family cannot be the same as love for best friends?
What do you think? Any opinions from someone who is adopted, or knows someone who is adopted? | | whispers: 11 echoes of the wind or whisper to me |
| So I'm back in LA now & am missing the Bay extremely. Still have to do my 15 page research paper due Monday. But...
DONG BANG SHIN GI TOMORROW TT,.TT
I'm so excited I can't even think.
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| | Tags: | poetry | | Subject: | 9:15, the sunday that ends | | Time: | 09:17 pm |
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| There again, is the sound of ships
in the bay.
Night comes late these past months
so I delude myself into
thinking there is the freedom
of abstract time.
There again, is the disconnect.
Wires, pills, a body separated from mind,
like the red scar on my knee,
shiny pieces of skin, wired by nerves
and dissolved by invading flesh;
it refuses to heal.
Mingling and dancing like sunspots on water,
my thoughts, too, fly away from me.
Balloons in the air, trees on the rooftop,
it comes to me in flashes of dizziness,
pixellated lights, screens blurry with black
and white. My eyes, those traitors,
they too, refuse me.
Don't say it. If you say it the spell
will break. More than anything,
it is that which keeps me
tipping forward, leaning by a draw.
Hover, and I will say the words.
Say them across a universe.
And I will breathe for you, swim
to you past a narrowing strait.
Like the wind who howls,
ever narrowing, ever receding,
and still I am in a room
that hears nothing. | | whispers: whisper to me |
| | Tags: | dbsk | | Subject: | Why are you so hot Yunho? T_T | | Time: | 01:06 pm |
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That's the way I like my Yunho: stubbly, pissed off, and wearing green-orange tracksuit thingies.
I know when he's really tired he looks pissed off, but I can't help but think it's really hot
...especially with the stubble T_T
Yunho~~~ I wish I was old enough to be called your nuna T_T
....AUGH NO MORE DISTRACTIONS! SO MANY ESSAYS TO WRITEE!!! | | whispers: whisper to me |
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PRAISE BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YUNHO YOU FINALLY CUT YOUR HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am thanking your stylist like NO TOMORROW. The long hair was making you look about 35 years old and like a host/pimp/gigolo at that, too (especially in airport pics with your five o'clock shadow + pimp hat and/or shades). Seriously, with your pimp hat + flipped hair in Beautiful You you looked like just the hosts I saw walking around the streets at night in Tokyo. The shaggy old man look was kinda hot for a while (especially the Yamaha CF ponytail & before you dyed it) but now just... no.
....AUGHHHHH FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! T_T
Not to mention, your arms... Yunho why are you so hot? Why are you so dangerously close to being the perfect man? T_T
LMAO and with that, my finals are starting tomorrow wheeee. | | whispers: whisper to me |
| Because I just watched the Saitama Super Arena fancam of Love in the Ice. Because then I started listening to the Soul Power live version and searched for the lyrics. Because Junsu cries out 切ないほど美しい愛だから, every time, in a voice about to cry, and I remember why I love and hope and put my heart into this band.
A quick, spur-of-the-moment translation.
The entire reason I decided to translate were for these two sentences alone: 切ないほど美しい愛だから, 儚いほど麗しいこの時を— when Junsu sings those two sentences, every time, I'm so moved. English does not do those two sentences justice; neither did the other translation I read, which, although very accurately translated, was very literal & mangled those two amazing lines. :|
If you haven't already heard it, please do. This is live, and it's beautiful and heartbreaking. Junsu's part starts at 3:18. This is my favorite live ballad performance of DBSK, ever. (Though I'm can't wait until the T concert DVD comes out & I can watch them perform Kiss shita mama, sayonara. EDIT: OMFG I JUST HEARD LIVE RIP OF KISS SHITA MAMA SAYONARA T_T IT'S AMAZING I'M SO MOVED RIGHT NOW THIS IS MAKING ME CRY.)
If you want to use these translations, please direct them to this entry or credit me at _happy_as_rain_ ☆彡
東方神起 - Love in the Ice
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| | Subject: | Please help spread the word about the situation here @ UC Berkeley | | Time: | 10:09 pm |
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| As those of you from California may or may not know, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger AKA "The Governator" has made a series of budget cuts to education. At my university, UC Berkeley, the budget cuts were especially severe on the East Asian Languages & Cultures Department. The budget cuts were so severe that each department (Korean, Japanese, Chinese) in EALC will be cut approximately 50 percent, and the Korean minor will be removed. The breakdown as follows:
Korean: 66% cut
Chinese: 54% cut
Japanese: 40% cut
5 out of 11 Japanese teachers fired
5 out of 10 Chinese teachers fired
4 out of 6 Korean teachers fired
Not only is this shocking because the demand for East Asian Languages is growing, but a 45% majority of our 40,000+ students are ethnic Asians, and from the 3200 students taking an EALC class, especially native speaker/heritage classes this year, 1500 students will cut from next year. For example, all non-L&S (Haas, Architecture, Chem, Natural Resources, Engineering, etc) students and most grad students will be cut immediately.
Also, many of the lecturers fired were on work visas and will probably have to go back to their country of origin. I personally know which of my teachers in both my Japanese and Chinese classes are going to cut; it's brutal & sad to see this happening. I was especially close to my Japanese teachers: they were my mentors, aunts, true "senseis" in every sense of the word.
The lack of transparency in these budget cuts are also worth noting. Not only has it been extremely difficult to find out who is responsible for these specific cuts, but the higher ups have also been completely unavailable for contact and completely disrespectful to the students by releasing this information last week, when I know for a fact the budget cut talks have been in the works for at least a month already.
If anyone knows anyone from any of the Bay Area newspapers, please contact them and ask them to come to the press conference on Wednesday May 7, 11am, 2223 Fulton 6th floor.
If anyone has connections to businesses willing to sponser or donate to the EALC, please ask them to donate.
The school administrators released this information right before finals for a reason: they didn't want students taking action. But we are trying. Please, please help out if you know anything. Anyone who goes to any of the other UCs, please ask around about your school's budget cuts (specifically on East Asian Languages). Any information would be helpful.
For information, flyers, and articles, go to the website or the Facebook.Though the focus is on saving the Korean minor at UC Berkeley, this is also to help save the entire EALC department from being slashed in half.
Please, please help get the word out. If you live in California, especially the Bay Area, we need this information to spread out.
EDIT: Please help sign the online petition! The due date has been changed to May 12, 2008. Non-Berkeley students/alumni can sign as well! And visit the news blog for updates! | | whispers: 9 echoes of the wind or whisper to me |
| You guys, I really like Super Junior M. ♥
I honestly don't know why people can hate SJM so much. I can see why it's divisive & makes fans upset & scared for the future of SJ but not enough for all the hate stuff going on... :/ Eh whatever. Zhou Mi has a Korean fansite! So happy. That boy deserves it so much. Henry too. ☆彡
Was watching 越策越开心 & lol-ed all over the place (especially at Siwon's Chinese & prince complex!!! LMAO). Zhou Mi & Kyuhyun are really growing on me. All of them, really. All of them, so endearing. Let's love, not hate okay? :D
Watch it!! Links + trans here.
Now I'm listening to 至少還有你 on repeat. Augh, amazing song (amazing pronounciation too :O).
SJM, 加油! | | whispers: 2 echoes of the wind or whisper to me |
| When did I
become used to being left behind.
Strange how I
can't say goodbye
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hey guys,
happiness is contagious
infect someone! rawrr
♥♥♥
we truly don't know how wealthy we are in terms of love, safety, comfort, material possessions, education, friendship, family (and more). i think i've been forgetting lately, but today i was reminded. so please, make everyone's collective misery a little less. unburden them with a smile! lmao a little! forgive someone! think positively!
right now i have so much hope. ♥ | | whispers: 6 echoes of the wind or whisper to me |
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