If course I may ignore your wishes anyway, cause I’m a lazy ass =). The Survey is below the stick-figures.

Chaos FTW

2NE1 록-밴드이라고 미친 생각이에요.

그리고, 저 그만 말하고 노래가 볼게요. 들어봐주세요:

2NE1 – I don’t Care (ROCK Version By GuitarWhan):

Mila Feat. Kaew FFK – เถียง (ROCK Version By GuitarWhan):

역시, 록-음악 얘기해서 네 세로운 믹스-테이프 있어요 (아라요, 1주 전이에요):

I really like remixes and mashups. There are many Electo remixes, but not that many Rock remixes. GuitarWhan is one of the rare Metal remixers. He usually remixes Korean and Thai Pop Songs. Before I know GuitarWhan I though that Pop-Songs with Metal isn’t a good idea. Now I wish there where more such remixes.

2NE1 as Rockband is a crazy idea

Anyway, I stop talking and show a few songs. See the links above . Also, since I’m talking about Rock music, my new Rock-mixtape is out (Ok, it’s already a week old). See also above.

Machinae Supremacy의 시작

이거 내가 Machinae Supremacy의 노래 몇개 좋아해요:

Gimme More: Britney Spears의 노래 커버 이고 재미있어요:

Indiscriminate Murder Is Counter-Productive: 이 노래의 가사 재미있어요. 그래서 주의하고 들어주세요:

Force Feedback: 노래의 비디오 있어요:

Machinae Supremacy's Beginning

Here are a few Machinae Supremacy songs I like:

Gimme More: It’s a Britney Spears cover:

Indiscriminate Murder Is Counter-Productive: The lyrics of this song are fun, so listen carefully:

Force Feedback: Well it has a official video:

저는 공포-영화 정말 좋아해, 그래서 이 공포-드라마 (위키백과) 봤을 때 봐야 돼요. 이 드라마에서 윤하나는 여동생 죽을 때부터 동생의 귀신 있다고 만나요. 그리고 시작 귀신 많아 지고  있다. 정말, 윤하나는 너무 뭇어워서 도움 필요해요. 그래서 프로파일러 신류 도워요. 근데 신류 하고 귀신가 나쁜 사람을 죽이고 싶어요.

귀신이 항상 얘기해요

이 드라마는 좋아세요? 괜찮아요. 근대 저는 이야기가 조금 이해 못하고 조금 심심해요.

제 평가: (2/5)

Ok, here‘s the longer version my little review of Soul (혼)(Hancinema), a horror drama. I personally love Horror movies, so when I stumbled upon Soul I had to check it out.

It’s about Yoon Hana whose sister dies and shortly after starts to appear as ghost. Later on Yoon Hana starts to see more and more ghosts. Of course she is scared to death and seeks for help. So Shinryu, a Crime-Profiler, starts to help her. But Shinryu and the ghost also have other plans: To kill bad guys.

Ghosts always tell stories

Well the series starts with this stereo typical scary, black haired ghost girl stuff. At the beginning it is quite confusing and cuts between different flashbacks which make no sense what so ever. However after a few episodes a story starts to crystallize, which is actually kind of neat. It also moves away from the horror theme start to become more thriller style. Unfortunately the story is told very slowly, so it gets somewhat boring sometimes. I think this series would be much better with faster storytelling and more focus on the thriller elements.

Now is it scary? No not really, but I didn’t expect that from a TV series. But it has some nice atmospheric and cool scenes. I also have to mention one very strange scene from the beginning, the suicide-scene. Well, this scene is strange to me because it nearly celebrates the suicide by matrix-style slow-motion camera work. Quite unusual to put that much focus on this kind of scene.

All in all, Soul is all right, but not all that great. I recommend other series  Jekyll, Dead Set etc. with a horror theme. Even some recent Doctor Who episodes have a moody horror atmosphere to them.

Star-O-Meter: (2/5)

The trailer is strange, because I think that many scenes are not present in the series:

Ramyun, yummie

Yes, Boy Ramyun Shop doesn’t need a plot description, it is a cliché driven romantic-comedy. I mean really cliché driven. This show goes along with every cheesy and formula plot point. Basically our two main characters first meet in an ‘accident’-situation. Later on they meet again in a more permanent situation. They argue and hate each other, but can’t really let go of each other and fall in love. Finally they live happily ever after. Oooooooohhhh, how cute.

Given this kind of show, there are countless cheesy and silly scenes. The characters are mostly naïve and fulfill some stereotype. Additionally there is a tons of overacting. Especially the lead actress overacts the shit out of her role. When you think this isn’t enough, they sometimes add small cartoon animations and comic-sound effects to underline scenes. All in all, it is way over the top.

This all sounds negative, and it kind of is. However I nevertheless love ‘Flower Boy Ramyun Shop’. For me it has the exact right balance of ‘over-the-topless’, silliness, foreseeable jokes and enjoyable badness. It is somewhat a guilty pleasure. What makes this show it work for me are the likable characters. I liked all characters, including the ‘asshole’-characters. I don’t mind stereotype characters as long as I enjoy them =).

Can I recommend it? Rationally: NO WAY. Had I fun watching it? HELL YES. It’s one off the funniest series I’ve watched for quite a long time. I think this series has a sharp line between being liked and hated. If you like over-the-top stuff, watch the first (half) episode and decide. Or maybe your already put off by the scenes I’ve liked below =)

Rational-Star-O-Meter: (2/5)
Enjoyment-Star-O-Meter: (4/5)

Trailers: Again, there are no good trailers around =(

Dead-boring English subtitled trailer:

Super silly over the top scene. No subtitles, but gives a better impression. (Well, there are also normal scenes =) ):

Which Cities Did He Hunt?

City Hunter (Hancinema, Wikipedia) is a revenge action-romance drama, which focuses on Lee Yoon Sung’s struggle between revenge and a regular life. He tries to avoid relationships to avoid bringing loved ones in danger. Of course he fails miserable. Additionally he slowly finds out that his foster-father didn’t tell the whole truth about his past.

After watching the first episode I was really fired up. The episode did a great job in setting up the story, was quite action packed and promised a great, gritty and furious revenge drama. A revenge where they endlessly fight, make their lives more and more miserable, end up in a filthy prison cell where they kill each other with toothbrushes. Well the second episode quickly destroyed my hope for that, because the show started with its romance part and side stories. Actually the romance and other side stories are a big part of the content, glued together with the revenge plot. Not that the show is bad after the first episode, but I just hoped for something different. All in all it’s a show with well paced story-telling and likeable characters.

Apparently the series is based on a manga. Well, I haven’t read it and can’t judge how strongly it is related. My guess is that is quite loosely based and that.

What my final verdict? Well I enjoyed watching City Hunter, despite my hope for a different kind of show. However I’m not sure to whom I would recommend it. For an ‘action-thriller’ oriented audience there is probably a little too much ‘romance’ in there. For a soap opera replacement is to ‘serious’. Probably you should just watch the first two to three episodes to get an impression =).

Star-O-Meter: (3.5/5)

Trailers, again without subtitles =(. Well the trailers are so generic anyway.

Doctor Who Series 6

Let’s Kill Hitler (S06E08)

Amy and Rory call the doctor by creating crop circle. When the Doctor arrives Amy’s friend Mel forces the Doctor to go to 1938 in order to kill Hitler. However Mel is not the only one with this plan.

Another fast pasted, but sometimes a little overwhelming episode.  I’ve nothing to add here.

Let's Kill Hitler

Night Terrors (S06E09)

The Doctor is contacted by a little boy who’s frightened of nearly everything in his neighborhood. So the Doctor, Amy and Rory try to find out what is so frightening. Soon they discover that the boy’s fears have life threating consequences.

This episode could be a horror movie. It has a dark and ‘scary’ atmosphere, an unknown thread and even a one person after another gets ‘killed’. Since I really enjoy horror movies I like such episodes. For such episodes I sometimes wish that they could target an adult only audience and be even more like a horror movie. Well that’s certainly not going happen.  And it works well without any gruesome images =).

Night Terrors

The Girl Who Waited (S06E10)

Our team arrives on a top holiday planet. However all the inhabitants are gone. The only thing left are strange rooms and very ‘friendly’ robots. Soon our trio is trouble due to time-manipulations and this little trips ends in a rescue mission.

Another episode with a brilliant time-traveling /-messing content. Great story with a cool concept, well executed. The only nitpicking is that the ‘moral’-talk isn’t all that great.

The Girl Who Waited

The God Complex (S06E11)

The Tardis lands in a ‘cheep-looking’ Hotel. Soon our trio finds a few ‘survivor’ in the strange Hotel. Furthermore the Hotel floors seem to shift and each room contains a ‘surprise’ for a specific person. After the person sees his surprise he dies sooner or later.

This is another horror-movie…eeehm….episode. It even has a cool Monster in it. Love this one!

The God Complex

Closing Time (S06E12)

After the Doctor left Amy & Rory at home he visits Greg from the series 5 ‘Lodger’ episode. And his short visits ends again in an adventure.

This is super straight forward episode, nothing special.

Closing Time

The Wedding of River Song (S06E13)

The final episode in which the Doctor dies, as we already know from the first episode. The Silence are back and kill the Doctor for good this time!

So the final episode wraps up the story with the Silence, the Doctors death and River Song. I think it works quite well. Of course the Doctors situation gets more and more desperate and his death is unavoidable. But in the end we get some super-duper ‘the Doctor tricked everyone’ ending. I was entertained and have nothing to complain about.

The Wedding of River Song

Conclusion

Well first it seems that the budget of this season was a lot bigger than series 5. The production value is a lot better: Better and more variant sets, wonderful big area shots, good masks and passable CGI. Job well done.

There also have been many dark, ‘horror’-style-ish episodes which I really enjoy. The ‘main’-plot episodes are often a little confusing and overwhelming. Sometimes it feels like the writers are just adding one ‘twist’ after another. You could certainly tear this stuff apart and find a quazillon plot holes. But as long as it’s fun to watch I don’t care!

Here’s the trailer for the second half:

Torchwood: Miracle Day is on pause. I don’t like the first three or four episodes. The story is silly (ok, that’s was also in previous series the case), too much annoying ‘morale blah-blah’-ish stuff, no ‘enemy’ or driving plot. I was bored. Has anyone watched the whole thing? Do you think it is worth finishing?

I’m catching up on Doctor Who though, expect a ‘detailed’ review as always =).

Anyway I did watch quite a lot of ‘new’ series, but mostly cheesy and soapy ‘romantic-comedy’ stuff. Feels like my estrogens-hormone levels have risen with every minute of watching those . The point is, this stuff is not review worthy.

For TV related stuff you might want check out @knightASTIC‘s new blog, he’s the bigger TV series junkie than me =).

Mixtapes

A yes, I always need to promote my mixtapes \o/. I added a ‘Mixtape’-section to this page which shows the latest tapes.

Let's Rock, Mixed Bag and Electro-House

Rock Edition October

Hmm, rock tapes are still annoying to do.  I’m just not skilled enough to get a good flow through the tape. Anyway this tape it very moderate and could be played on Pop radio stations. It also has some very cheesy songs in there:

Gamlor Rock Mixtape End of October by Gamlor

November Electro Tapes

The first one is mixed bag of electro-pop, –house and other electronic music. I really like this one:
Gamlor Electro Mixtape Begin of November 2011 by Gamlor

My latest one is a straight forward Electo-House mixtape:
Electro-House Mid-November 2011 by Gamlor

Now the some comments about the cameos (*tiny spoilers*): First the cameo of BoA as herself. Well that was somehow random. Why the hell should terrorist hide their stuff in the stage equipment of BoA? I mean all the security and people around her surely don’t help? Furthermore the main character, Jung-woo, and BoA then just hang out together for like one episode. That felt like they just shoehorned that story arc in there to give more screen time to BoA.

The second thing is the reappearance of Seon-hwa, my favorite character of Iris. They bring her back to just kill off  their family. There’s no further involvement of her in the story. That’s just pointless. Unless it’s supposed to be setup for a sequel and Seon-hwa goes on a revenge rampage there. That would be AWESOME!

Star-O-Meter: (3/5)

Trailers:

Again I couldn’t find any trailers with sub titles, strange no? I also included my favorite song from the sound track.

OST: Athena: Goddess of War: Please

40-Sec Trailer:

3 Minutes Trailer:

TV series junkies

Being Erica

I already review it here. I really like it. I think that the forth season has started, but after a weak third season I’m not sure if I keep watching it. Anyway, still good two first seasons.

Start-O-Meter: (4.0/5)

The Shadow Line

After the murder of a major crime boss both sides, the police and the criminal organization start to investigate his death. On one side Jonah Gabriel, who just returned to the police after he got shot and lost his memory. On the other side Joseph Bede, who actually just wants to get done with his last deal and then leave then criminal past behind him.

The Shadow Line is a dark, slowly developing drama about the police, the criminals and a concrete murder case. It’s mostly driven by its shadowy atmosphere and characters instead of  fast paced twists and turns.

Anyway, I’ve seen the first three episodes and like it so far. Will watch the rest of it.

Start-O-Meter: (4.0/5)

Suits

Mike Ross is a brilliant guy who unfortunately dropped out of school. He earns his living by taking exams for other people and distributing drugs. By luck he gets hired as a trainee attorney and now tries to do his best.

Suits is a legal drama, it’s about arrogant people being assholes to each other, showing off, intimidate and manipulate each other. A very testosterone loaded atmosphere with tons of ‘who’s got the bigger….’.

I don’t like Suits, it just bores me and I never got interested in it. The show isn’t bad, but it’s just not my cup of tea.

Start-O-Meter: (2.0/5)