Some music that I found to be really good that people should listen to #3

Damm, I haven't updated this blog in awhile, guess I'll post a couple tonite.
So, its the 4 day weekend after the first quarter. Since I finished my early decision stuff for college and did all the end of the quarter assignments, I have been able to enjoy some fine music.

First up is a Korean song called "Ready, get set, go!" by a Korean band called Peppertones. I first heard about this song from my older sister, and these guys make pretty good music.

Heck, I can even understand their English parts.

I don't listen to a lot of 'feel good' music these days, but I made an exception for this one. 

Going off a tangent here, I bloody hate K-POP songs in general. The way the people who sing them dress is just friggin' ridiculous, and all the song they make is just copied from Japan and America. (Mainly from Japan) 

Seriously, it deserves no merit at all. I hate it when some random person asks me if I listen to K-POP music right after I tell them that I am Korean. ARGH! K-POP DOESNT REPRESENT KOREA. Understand that simple fact people. 

f.y.i I HATE GIRLS GENERATION. THERE I SAID IT. 

Actually, I don't even know much about them. But I heard they're what all the rage is about.

Now this is something that I would listen to.

Now everyone who knows me knows that I friggin love games. Although I actually don't PLAY that many games because my computer sucks and I don't have much money, I do listen to a lot of video game musics. Among the most anticipated game of the year is Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the long awaited continuation of the Elder Scrolls franchise by Bathesda, who also brought you Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas if you don't know. Anyway, the trailer for Skyrim WAS AWESOME. There was this guy who was getting chased by this dragon thing, while an old man was narrating some grim stuff. And then, the guy shouted at the dragon thing and summoned this blue wavy thing that looks suspiciously like Lee Sin's sonic wave from League of Legends. And then, the guy killed the dragon and he glowed. Agh, I can't do justice to it by describing. Here, let me draw it out for you.

It was vaguely like this.

Anyway! The music for the trailer was awesome, so here you go!

For all I know, they could be offering me a lobster for $15 off in this song, but its still epic.

Ok, the last one is something that I have been listening to a LONG time now, and is going on to the Choi pantheon of great musical works. All the songs that I post in this blog are awesome, but this one takes the cake and friggin' devours it. No words can do justice to thing song. All I'll say before you listen to this song is to PLEASE listen to all of it. 

Just listen to this and soak up the epicness. God probably has this song on his mp3 player. Ha! You thought that I was gonna say ipod right? Well, nobody gets a free-ride in this blog. If apple wants me to say ipod, they are gonna have to pay for it.

Now I'm off to enjoy the refreshing taste of mountain dew.

The best soda ever made.

Stay awesome my friends.

~John Choi

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.