Filed under: Music, Randoms & Quick updates, ♥ Reviews | Tags: harajuku, headphones, Japan fashion, japanese, mix styles, yesasia.com
At least I think so.
Mix styles are contemporary headphones that have been through much press exposure. They’re slightly pricey but I love mine and they are completely worth it. Having done my research I was slightly put off, reviews on YesAsia.com are mixed and reviews elsewhere also have a very mixed view.
Admittedly these headphones are far more aesthetic aware than product aware. Ofcourse I bought mine with the same subject in mind. However the quality is decent, not as good as the Dr.Dre headphones, obviously. But for looking good and working well it does it’s job.
Here are some statistics:
Mix-Style Headphone features:
• Closed-style headphone
• Driver: 40mm
• Sensitivity: 99dB
• Freq. Response: 500〜20000Hz
• Power handling capacity：0.2W
• Impedance：32Ω
• Weight (w/box): 300g.
• Cord length: 50cm ~ 150cm (20 ~ 60”)
Celebrity Promotion :
Credits to Yeeun.wordpress.com
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Credits To Soompi.
Many people have claimed the cord to be either too long or too short, I didn’t have an issue with this personally. It did not bother me.
With such a wide variety of colours, Mix styles are must haves for the fashion conscious and those that enjoy their music. They are also easy pack, folding perfectly into a compact shape, you need not worry too much about storage.
Thus ofcourse, no blog would be complete without me taking the pleasure of displaying myself with my very own mix styles. If money were to one day become an abundance for me. I’d collect the rest (:
For more info head to the main website: http://mix-style-headphones.com/english/
Filed under: Epik High, Music, Randoms & Quick updates, ♣ Interests | Tags: DJ TUKUTZ, Epik High, Korean Music, Mithra, Tablo, Underground Hip Hop
Today is a happy day. Why? Today marks the release of Epik High’s sixth album. Named [e].
[e] consists of 30 tracks split between 2 cd’s on an album that comes with a book also. I have already pre-ordered my copy and am extremely exited to be receiving it! (Hopefully sooner than later)!
Epik High’s album will be consistent of what they’ve been producing but the tracks are fresh, tranquil, catchy, and oozing with creativity and experimentation. This music I find truly inspirational.
If you have been a long running fan of Epik High you will probably be anticipating this album as much as I am.
For those new to Epik High (tsk tsk!) they are an underground hip hop group known for their excellent skills in rapping and producing music that is not the kind of black gangsta wannabe rap that revolves around “hoes & hookers & homies & cash”. Their music although containing rap is often lyrically deep and thoughtful, the words are motivational and the voices are comfortable to the ear. Not only are the beats catchy, Epik High’s music also likes the use of keyboard-Piano, Guitar & Violin. A mixture of instruments, this music is never old, never cliche, never the same and never boring.
For brand new listeners I recommend some of Epik High’s more mainstream music for starters; we’ll start easy and if you like them you’ll find exploring their music an extremely rewarding experience.
Try:
Epik High – One
Epik High – Love Love Love
Epik High – 1 Minute 1 Second
Epik High – Fan
Epik High – Paris
Also, please check out the Epik High website; MapTheSoul.Com
Filed under: Movie, ♣ Interests, ♥ Reviews | Tags: Aliens, Crop Circles, Jo Seung-woo, Kang Hye-jeong, Korean Film, Love Phobia, Romance Movies, Tablo
What a strange title! You must be thinking. Well it is none other than the 3 words I chose to sum up Popular Korean Film “Love Phobia” (well that was it’s given title anyway). I sincerely felt that this film required a review, why?
Because I’m a sucker for these type of films. Sad, Cliche and a slightly strange love story.
Love Phobia tells the touching tale of two lovers, destined not to be together forever.
I for one, love a good cry after a sad film maybe I’m just a masochist but just like any other girl a sad love film is always bittersweet to the heart.
This film stars Kang Hye-jeong and Jo Seung-woo.
Love Phobia tells the tale of a young boy who meets a strange girl in a bright yellow raincoat claiming that she is cursed and whomever she touches will befall great misery, she also convinces him that she is an alien from outer space and her curse is related to this; however the story is not as complicated or as extra terrestrial as it seems.
Despite being warned several times by this weird yet cute girl, the boy follows her around and quickly commits to being her friend until one day she disappears. This also prompts the boy to seek out the girl and with great difficultly he does, just to let her disappear again, well why does this keep happening, you ask?
Is it just another pointless love story chase where they’ll find each other and live happily ever after in the end?
Well, yes and no.
*Spoilers – as per*
[ Watch the film and THEN come back? (: ]
The “curse” that this story describes is just a series of coincidences, our female lead character is not an alien, nor is she cursed she just claims so to protect those around her (which are not at all that many). Her story is that on a completely normal day out she and her family are driving around until they suddenly crash, ending the life of her father and her mother yet leaving her saved because of a blood transfusion. One she probably wishes she never had. The blood transfused into her was infected with the lethal disease AIDs. She is saved, to die another day. In being young and now orphaned she lives with a monk/priest who picked her up and decided to care for her.
The idea that she is an alien (or calls herself one) comes from an encounter with a doctor whom she asks (at a young age) “What is AIDs?” To which he replies “It is an Alien’s Flu.”
Embracing this idea she lives her life convincing others around her that she is an Alien.
She wore an eye-catching yellow raincoat in the pockets of which she hid a Lizard with a long name. This Lizard was her pet but also something else, he was used to scare off teachers that touched her. Obviously still believing that she is cursed! I think the Korean name of the film was related to Lizards somewhat too… Anyway…
The story then continues to follow her and the boy who fell in love with her, after her every disappearance they’d meet again, his love never once extinguished or wavered, she; strange in essence loved him back even though sometimes not wanting to, perhaps because she know that they wouldn’t end up together. After some Kiss and Chase the final scene is brought about, by this time he already knows of her condition and tells her that he’ll help her get back into space, because she is an alien and she told him that the aliens will come for her and she’ll have to go. He also painstakingly made her a crop circle just to signify his love and her leaving. It’s extremely confusing at the end because the story ends itself inside a metaphor, making the viewer believe that she’s actually left in a Spaceship.
However this meant heaven for her, that her last breaths have been drawn and that her last steps have been walked.
At this point I broke into tears for a good 10 minutes or so.
I guess the reason I was so intrigued by this film was because the mail role featured Tablo’s girlfriend. [Anyone that knows me will know that I am an Epik High/Tablo obsessive]. Admittedly I didn’t think she was very pretty, however she has this free, down to earth feel about her. A familiar fresh yet friendly face. I guess she’s average, cute. There must be something very special about her personality for her to be with Tablo. I give them credit for that. [Other than being a sickeningly good-looking pair]!
For this movie I loved the metaphorical references, that in itself was unique, the tale also unfolds itself nicely.
I reckon this movie ticks all the boxes for a romance, with a twist. Others may view it as too jumpy, unresolved and pieced together badly. But for me, who approached this film with an open mind and artistic view reckon it was a movie worth viewing.
Mistune – 3/5 ~ !
Filed under: Fashion, ♣ Interests | Tags: Fashion Blogger, London, Susie Bubble, Susie Lau
Being an Avid reader of Fashion magazines and other girly cliche stuff like that. I stumbled upon a girl worth admiring.
The september Issue of Elle featured fashion blogger Susie Bubble. It is obvious to anyone that she is already prominently praised upon fashion bloggers and readers alike. Having being interviewed, drawn and partaking in other publicizing activities Susie Bubble is quite well known.
Her blog is very worthy of visiting and the way she writes is also itself very sophisticated and reader-friendly. Almost like a chat about what’s new and happening on the streets.
Blogging from London; Bubble is in the centre of high fashion and she herself is a part of it. She is an inspiration to me plus I’d love to meet her.
I highly recommend you check her site out!
stylebubble.typepad.com
Filed under: ♥ Reviews | Tags: 3d film, Final Destination 4, Horror, Movie, Review
Although I have only seen Final Destination 3 I know that the Final Destination films are not connected through the series, however they all have one moral; when you’re supposed to die you will die.
… Or something morbid of similar sorts. That’s plenty tag-line for me! So, being heavily urged by a couple of friends I sat myself down for some first-time 3d goodness. (Yes my first 3D film had to be a gory one.) Final Destination 4 tells a story of 4 20 somethings that foresaw death and made their best attempts to escape it.
The film is full of comedic irony and in-your-face 3D action. However I don’t think it that this film is actually “all that”. Making full use of the 3d effect at almost every action scene, the weapons, people and various other things come at the screen which made for a few good jumpy scenes and required me to hide behind my jacket for. Besides the appeal of 3D action, Final Destination had very little going for it.
*Spoilers ahead*
The film was short, the deaths were unrealistic and the characters were not relatable.
For a film to be successful it has to have characters that viewers are willing to attach some sort of relation to. A likable character. However I deemed the main characters, semi-stupid. Then again, after all it was Final Destination and everyone IS meant to die, but I think that even story-line-wise that the old Final Destinations were a lot better. At the very end, the 3 left that had managed to escape death die in a tragic “lorry crashed into coffee house and kills them all” – accident.
It was a good spur of the moment movie but that’s all I’m willing to give. I actually thought G.I Joe was a dozen times better. I don’t think Final Destination 4 was worth it’s cost in money however it was a fun waste of time.
My opinions may have been overly harsh but I just don’t think this is a film for me.
I give Final Destination, a tragic 1/5 stars.
(Just because zero seemed harsh).
Filed under: Movie, ♥ Reviews | Tags: Byung Hung Lee, Film, G.I Joe, Mistune, Review, Sienna Miller
Having tagged along for my friends cousins birthday party a bunch of us went to see new film exclusive G.I Joe.
G.I Joe boasts a 2 hour something action packed explosive film starring popular actress Sienna Miller who I assume was the main attraction for the film. Not knowing much about G.I Joe’s origins apart from the fact that it was the rival action figure of mighty action man himself I expected the film to be based on some guy named “Joe”. As it happens, G.I Joe happened to be the name of an organization that consisted of high standard technology and military training, in the film anyway.
Having entered the film with pretty low expectations (since the papers and critics as such gave this film a shoddy 2 stars out of 5) I was pleasantly surprised.
The General casting of the film in my opinion was pretty good, I liked the characters that each person was given, however cliche that may be. There was the trendy Hero and his funny friend, the sexy villain (Sienna Miller) and a few baddies with slight deformities, however one in particular stood out for me ( and I’ll admit was the reason I went to go see this film) Byung Hung Lee – “Storm Shadow” the baddy ninja was definitely worth seeing. Having never before seen him in any film I was impressed, sadly not by his acting, but because of his aesthetic values.
Seriously, I’d watch any film with those abs included. Having many think he is 25, when he is actually 39 is pretty extraordinary. Lee plays the role of a ninja who has a rival with another character inside G.I Joe’s forces and there was a badly mashed together story-line behind it. Another thing that let this film down.
As said before, the casting was lovely. The visual effects, not bad. But the story-line was a really big disappointment. To make the film interesting there were 3 interlinked mini stories behind each one, first of all was the love & history between our Hero & the Baroness, Second was the Technology vs Technology of the goodies/baddies and then there was the ninja story between G.I Joe personnel “snake” and “Storm Shadow” played by Lee.
The story line seemed put together really badly, as if 2 puzzle pieces that did not fit each other were slammed together in the desperate hope that they’d fit and no one would notice, however obvious that it’d seem. There was a slight comedy element thrown in with the action however at times but when this did happen, I reckon it was timed badly.
Still I’d say it was money well spent, for me & my obsession with Korean men and abs. Plus for any male with an interest in Sienna Miller. Honestly, I reckon 2 stars was a little harsh for this film, I’d say it deserved a 3 maybe, but if the plot had improved a little it’d be well on the way to perfection.
Another Pet peeve the film gave me was the way the film itself ended, extremely abruptly and obviously implying the fact that there WILL be a sequel, I put my money on that. Those that have watched it will know what I mean.
Nevertheless; this film was pretty average, cliche and typical, pleasing to the eye, but not for the movie goer that knows good movies and expects good movies & good movies only.
A Deserving Two Stars From me also.
