Some music that I found to be really good that people should listen to #2

Hi guys! It's time for my music recommendation again! The response was good last time, so I'm gonna continue to do so.

First up is "Take me Away" by the Fortune Family. These guys are rapping duos who kick ass in my opinion. This song combines their rapping with an 'feel-good' song.

I found the lyrics and the rhymes especially captivating in this song. Btw, there's a really good video of this music I found. It involves pokemon. Watch the rest for yourself.

The second one on this list is a really old song, but I don't feel like it gets enough attention. This song, of course, is "Closing Time" by Semisonic. It's really kick ass and the vocal is just amazing in my opinion. I listen to this song every day on my bus to school.

Behold, 3 kind-of-old guys singing one of my favorite songs of all time.

3rd one is not really a song. It's a chiptune remix of the Shadowman stage in Megaman 3. I find that not many people in the main stream like game musics, but they are friggin awesome in my opinion. Game musics are becoming better and better as studios realize that musics are part of the game as well, and the old megaman game music just shows you how good they really are.

Shadowman, my 2nd favorite ninja of all time.

FYI, my favorite ninja of all time is Strider Hiryu.

His ninja badass-ness is unmatched!

Thats it for today guys. Stay Classy

John Choi

FYI: Wisdom and Rant grows!

Apparently, some other people want to write/rant with me in this blog. Cool stuff.
So from now on, Peter Shao will be ranting with me.

~Stay Cool

John Choi

Some music that I found to be really good that people should listen to #1

Hey folks, John Choi here. Recently, I found really good songs on youtube that I personally think deserve more attention. Now I listen to all kind of songs, from country to anime songs to game theme musics, so my taste is kinda eclectic. Nevertheless, from now on, whenever I find some interesting music on the interwebs, I'm gonna post it on my blog for the people to listen to.

First in the list is song "Loud Pipes" by Ratatat. Now I'm no pro music guy so I can't analyze and tell you how/why its good, but just listen to it.

It's good stuff no? The other songs by this band are also swell, so give it a try guys!

Second in the list is "This is not a song, its a sandwich" by Psychostick. I personally think these guys are friggin amazing and hilarious. So give it a try people!

I personally think this song may be a commentary on the current music industry, but who knows? All I do know is that it makes for a good head-rocking song on the bus in the morning.

Finally, this is a song that comes from the game "Persona 4" and is called Reach out to the Truth. The English i n this song is bloody terrible and almost laughable sometimes because this was part of a J-RPG game. Nevertheless, tis good and everyone should play Persona 4.

Seriously, this song makes no sense.

Anyway, thats it for now and I'll be posting more songs in the future.

~Stay Classy

John Choi

Rant: Animes and such

OK, I don't usually bring up subjects like these up but there's something I found really disturbing that angers me to a great level recently. As many of the John Choi fans might know already, I friggin love anime and watch it all the time. Animes such as Gintama and Dragonball Z are masterpieces that everyone should watch! But what really bugs me about anime these days are the FRIGGIN MOE and LOLI IN ANIMES! AND THE OTAKUS THAT CONTINUE THIS DEADLY CYCLE OF PERVERSION!

No, it's not this guy. He has nothing to do with Japan.

Moe is basically a japanese term for cute characters, but for those of you who really like more descriptive language,  according to wikipedia, It means "a rarefied pseudo-love for certain fictional characters (in anime, manga, and the like) and their related embodiments." Basically in Japan, the way economy work is that make it cute and it will friggin sell. That why Japan creates Moe personifications of EVERYTHING. Here are some examples for people who have been fortunate enough to avoid this crap until now.

Wikipe-tan, the moe anthropomorphism of Wikipedia. Gaze upon its glory and horror.

Something called OS-tans. Basically the personifications of the Windows OS. For those of you who care, (clockwise):Windows 98SE (in box), Windows 95, Symantec Antivirus(male), Windows 2000 (in front), Windows Server 2003 (fish outfit, with cat), Windows 98 (unusual form), Windows XP(holding skirt). Background, right: Windows 3.1, DOS (not their "official" os-tan). Foreground: Windows CE (fairy),Windows ME (levitated by CE). I'm too lazy to remove the hyperlinks.

So basically, this crap sickens me now. Sure, the I do enjoy occasional cute character, but the entire fucking show is filled with them it pisses me off. THE WORLDS FULL OF UGLY PEOPLE TOO YOU KNOW?? Basically, moes are anime makers trying to grab the otakus by their penis into them buying their merchandises. I didn't know about this until recently, but apparently anime merchandising is where its at. So due to corporate greed and weird otakus, I'm practically forced to see the anime world get run over by large eyed, small nosed, blue haired(Seriously, who has blue hair?) abominations called moe.

This is not a human being. You would kill something like this with fire the moment you saw it if it was in 3d instead of 2d.

So anime world is already bad enough due to all these moes. But its cool you know? I can handle it. I like seeing abominations like these as long as its on 2d, and businesses gotta do what they gotta do in order to please those rich otakus into buying their figurines and all that merch. Of course, I would never buy one of these no matter how much I like anime due to me being the cheap Asian that I am.

I wouldn't be caught dead inside these anime shops. 

But some of these merch are sick you know? and so are the otakus actually. Apparently, a man in Japan married an anime pillow and another dude actually married an anime character. I don't know how a man's mind can be driven to such insanity, but I do hope they find happiness in marriage.

"Mom, Dad, I would like you to meet my new girlfriend."

So the world of anime has been crazy already. But what really grinds my gears are the lolis, aka sexy kids. or as the wiki says,  the term describes an attraction to underage girls (whether prepubescent, pubescent, or post-pubescent) or an individual with such an attraction. It's creepy as can be when this kind of stuff is widely accepted throughout Japan and used in public tv shows. Whats worse is that people use these kind stuff to fap. And WHATS WORST IS THAT THESE STUFF SELL LIKE HOTCAKES! I'm not gonna post any images of Loli is this blog because such things go against my principles! (But also because apparently colleges check people's blogs now and I cant risk getting rejected).

Here, have something badass to look at.

So when an actually good anime comes out, it often performs badly financially, or is at least beaten in a large margin by crappy, yet erotic anime that grabs otakus by their raging hormones. Thing is that, I can understand these people liking the Moe and loli stuff, we're just all mammals right? But pedophilia should seriously be off-limits. Good god Otakus, have some self pride. Why would you ever fap to friggin 8 years olds even if they aren't real? Meet a nice girl in the 3D for a change man!

HAVE SOME PRIDE AND STOP WITH THIS BS!

It just pains me to see great animes, such as nichijou that came out recently, do badly financially against other animes that go straight for the hormones. Yes we are all mammals, but we should learn to enjoy the fine art as well. That's what makes us humans and not Capuchin monkeys. I admit I'm kinda being hypocritical  cause I enjoy a occasional moe as well as anyone, but my main message is that like everything else, everything should be enjoyed moderately and pedophilia is off limits. Thats why to any anime freaks out there who read my blog, I recommend the anime "Welcome to the NHK", which is an anime about an otaku/hikkikomori struggling to get out of his pathetic situation. In fact, everyone should watch that show, its a bloody masterpiece. Anyway, although I will continue to like and watch anime, studios should really tune down on the extremes and go for more plot and characterization.

Everyone who makes animes should read this book.

Rant: Trying to go to Sleep

Well, at about 1:30 AM last week, I was trying to go to sleep after playing a hard but fulfilling game of League of Legends. But much to my furor, I found that I couldn't go to sleep at all. But since I'm not a complete nerd who studies whenever he's not asleep, I decided to just lie on my bed and listen to my mp3 player and the radio until I could go to sleep.

I had recently downloaded a audiobook of the Terry Pratchett's "Going Postal" from his Discworld Series for fun. For those of you who never read any of the discworld series, it is a fucking great series that parodies almost every fanasy/sci-fi genre book. I really got into listening to the book when I realized something; I'm not asleep.

The book was too fucking interesting to fall asleep on because I kept on wondering what would happen next! Enraged, I immediately turned off my mp3 player and proceeded to simply lie on my bed again. But after an indeterminate amount of time, I realized that I was bored now, and decided to listen to the NPR on the radio.

Then I BEGAN TO HEAR SOME SHIT ABOUT SOME GUY SELLING TRUFFLES! THIS IS WHAT THE AMERICAN LATE NIGHT RADIO HAS COME TO, I thought, and just started flipping through all the channels on the radio. And you know what? I realized something; I still wasn't fucking asleep.

At this point, I needed to go wee-wee and I checked the time on my phone just to see how much longer I had until the buses would come. It was already 3'o clock and I only had about three and a half hours to sleep. Now I know some people at TJ only sleeps like 40 min each day and probably thinks I'm a pussy right now as they're reading this blog. But screw you people, I'm actually a human being and need decent amount of time to function properly in everyday life.

So I just decided to give up on sleeping and just study math until the buses would come and you know what happened?

I feel asleep in about 10 min.

Rant: Of Colleges

"Well shit."

That was my first thought when I realized that I would need to apply to colleges at long last. When I was little, I thought colleges were some mystic and fantastic place that only ficitonal beings called "High Schoolers" could go to. But 5 years ago, I saw my sister applying to colleges, I realized that fantasy was much closer to reality than I realized. I saw my sister's rejections and acceptions from colleges and I must now take up the mantle in the Choi family, the mantle of "OH SHIT COLLEGES APPS WTF AM I GONNA DO? IM SO SCREWED FOR LIFE I WILL PROABALY END UP A HOBO" mantle that is!

A mantle. Tad less impressive than I thought.

Now it is the time to prepare for early actions/decisions and im already running into some problems. My biggest weakness is that my GPA is trash, so I will be using the secret technique of "Apply everywhere and you'll at least get into some place". I got so many essays and shits to write now, and must get 2400 on SAT if I am to get into a college with "Asian seal of Approval".

The head of the Asian Association for Approving Asiatic Academies. AAAAA for Short. 

Wish me luck people. Will update my escapades.

Rant: On Squidward and Plankton (An analysis by John Choi)

Sorry guys. I haven't updated this blog in a long time. If anyone still reads the stuff I post on this website, I have been busy for a while, so please excuse my awful behavior. To the rest that don't care, I'm back so read my stuff.  So over the last few weeks, I've been mainly been studying, going to workshop thingy, and been watching stupid videos. Among the stupid videos I have watched are some old episodes and clips of Spongebob.

I bloody loved that show when I was in Korea as a kid. It was called "Spongey Spongey Sponge-Song" in Korean. So when I first came to Amerca, I was confused to learn that Sponge-Song's name was actaully Spongebob. This greatly angered me and drove me to learn English quickly. Ever since that time, I have never trusted English translators and have never relied on them. So anyway, I love the humor and the ingenuity behind every episode of Spongebob I watched as a kid. (Note the word 'kid'. Spongebob has severely deteriorated gradually over time, and its just a pile of junk at this point in Nickelodeon. I actually, kind of pissed with America tv programming in general at this pint in time.) But the two characters I was interested and felth sympathy for the  most was Squidward Tentacles and Sheldon J. Plankton.  

Plankton is a character who I believe to be incredibly complex and deep and only possibly surpassed by Plankton. As shown by the episode "Friend or Foe" of the Spongebob Squarepants, Plankton has had a terrible and traumatic childhood. He was bullied by his friend because he was a 'nerd' and lived in a poor family.  Furthermore, he was raised in a single parent home by his dad.  His mom had obviously had run away from the family due to its rampant poverty that plagued it. In fact, his entire family tree is shown to be full of rednecks and the mentally retarded. His only friend was Eugene Crabs, who would later become his arch-enemy, and even this friendship would fall apart after sometime. When someone has gone through this kind of childhood, it's not surprising that he would become a wreck and be unable to properly function in society. Although Plankton did go to college is shown to have superb engineering and computer skills, he is unable to hold down any job long enough due to his inferiority complex. He is unable to work under other and is forced to create his own squalid business of "Chum bucket". And because Plankton believes that he himself will fail to create anything, he thinks that he must steal from others in order to make something of his life, and to prove that Plankton is not like his countless relatives who fail to leave any mark on society. I think what Plankton wants is to be truly be accepted as a contributing and invaluable member of society who is accepted by others. But due to his traumatic life, he is unable to keep up any long term relations with another being, and creates an artificial intelligence named "Karen" as his robotic life. Sickened by such perverse behavior, others are drawn away even further from Plankton, and Plankton draws further back into his shell. What truly makes me sad about Plankton is that he has the potential to do so much, but chooses to believe that he doesn't, and believes that he is at the bottom of the society, even though he longs to be more. None will help him, and everyone treats him as a scum of the ocean. WHAT TRULY ANGERS ME IS THE PHYSICAL ABUSE THAT PLANKTON SUFFERS FROM CRABS. Whenever Plankton tries to steal from his former friend, Crabs always uses him superior strength in order to beat him down. I think to beat up a former friend, when he just wants to be accepted by you, is the worst atrocity that a sentient being can do.

Squidward Tentacles is the "Straight Man" of the show. "Straight Man" doesn't mean that he's hetreosexual, but that he is the only sane character in the show. If one watches Spongebob long enough, it is clear that Bikini Bottom is actually a representation of madness, with Spongebob as its personification. I actually think that the motif of the Spongebob Squarepants show is One mans struggle to live in a world of madness and stupidity. It is often shown that all Squidward wants are peace from Spongebob and an ordinary life. But his wishes are never granted. Rather, he is often forced into Spongebob's high-jinks, and forced to partake in madness. WHY CAN'T SPONGEBOB JUST LEAVE SQUIDWARD ALONE? YOU MONSTER!!! Squidward is the representation of the auidence within the show, and through him , we can truly see the madness behind the jaundiced square. In my opinion, the sadness episode of the series is the magic conch shell episode, where Squidward accepts the rule of the plastic conch shell toy, when he realizes that he is the only one who doesn't follow its every command. He has learned to accept madness. It shows the futility to stay sane in an insane world. But what is interesting is that in a way, Squidward may be the only insane character in the show. If the world you live in is insane, don't you become insane by being sane? For the insane is only a world used to describe the minority. Whatever may be the case, it was always saddening to watch Squidwards struggles against tides of madness in Spongebob Squarepants.

Anyway, the people at nickelodeon put a lot of effort to making Spongebob the masterpiece it was back in the days. I only hope they can do it again.

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