Epik High’s Tablo revealed that he has a habit of recording while half-naked. On KBS 2TV Star Golden Bell that aired May 10, Tablo said, “I have a habit of taking nearly all my clothes off while recording.” So what does he not take off?

Tablo explained that while rapping, he moves around a lot and his clothes make a lot of rustling noises. Thus, to prevent background distortions he started stripping … (just imagine that shirt slipping off his shoulders).

In addition, Epik High members feel comfortable being naked in the studio when they are together. However; ocassionally, a few food delivery men (probably delivering the ubiquitous jjajangmyun -black bean noodles) get a shock when they see them in the studio without any clothes on.

Tablo also revealed that when he’s too lonely, he goes to Mithra Jin’s room and sleeps, saying ” It feels nice to hug and snuggle up to Mithra because he’s soft.” Right, because Mithra is Tablo’s giant teddy bear!

Regardless of their eccentric ways, Epik High makes some awesome music.

In fact, Epik High finally snagged the Mutizen Song Award for SBS Inkigayo on May 11. They made their first successful attempt to overcome fierce competition and block MC Mong’s grand slam on various music charts with their hit title song, “One.” So far MC Mong has thrown all the music shows into a circus, winning 3 mutizen awards already - 2 from KBS Music Bank and another from MBC Music Core.

However, Epik High has always ranked 1st in album sales so they must be happy because they’re making lots of money.

Last, but not least, Tablo transforms into a ‘Batman Waiter’ in SBS Change!

So you’re probably wondering what a ‘Batman Waiter’ is…me too.

Anyway, Tablo guest starred on SBS Change to show his love for his parents, disguising as a waiter at a fancy restaurant. He felt that if he disguised himself as someone else, he would be less shy towards his parents and be able to show his true emotions.

He planned out a special project to thank his parents, who have worked all their lives for their kids. Tablo also got help from his brother, Dave, who graduated from an IVY-league, for the surprise. (His family has some smart genes.)

Are you still wondering why Tablo is the ‘Batman Waiter’? Well, here comes the explanation. So while the Tablo was serving his parents, Dave threw out a dangerous question, “Doesn’t the waiter look like Tablo?” At that moment, Tablo’s mom looked at the waiter (her son) and said, “He looks like Batman!” Luckily, his parents were not able to recognize him until the end.

Tablo and his parents also went up on stage and danced to ‘Love Twist’.

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Devastating news for the people involved with the movie Speed Racer…..it only made 20 million 18 million dollars (actually 18.6 million) over the weekend, which here in the US is seen as a BIG FAILURE. Since movies like this take over 100 million dollars to make, and having noteable directors and producer this is a very big disappointment. But not only that Speed Racer is now seen as the first (and maybe the only) flop of the summer.  

Speed Racer came in a very distant 2nd place after IRON MAN which brought in over 50 million in it’s second week as #1. Also Speed Racer barely made it to the second spot beating out the CORNIEST movie of this summer WHAT HAPPEN IN VEGAS (coming in around 20.1 million) by only a 100,000 dollars. 

EDIT: Well official numbers are out, Speed Racer actually only made 18.6 million and came in third place behind WHAT HAPPEN IN VEGAS. Sad so very sad.

Rain’s Hollywood debut as for now can be seen as a huge leap for a native Korean, but as for a break out star and in the movie language (money) not so good. Lets just hope he has a better chance with Ninja Assassin.

Also in news Rain’s first feature in a major gossip magazine, PEOPLE magazine is not starting off so good either. People magazine wanted to shed some light on the upcoming star with a Q&A, but the only problem is that they used Karl Yune’s picture (who is also in the movie) instead of a picture of Rain.

WTF! And if you notice the author is ASIAN. You telling me your @SS is asian and you can’t tell the difference between the two asian stars. At least as an writer for a magazine that your getting paid for, and is seen by millions of people you could at least do some research. Actually not even that, but use YOUR FREAKING EYES just a little. IS THAT TO MUCH TO ASK?!

Anyways it seems that Rain’s official US debut as an actor is not jumping off so well. Oh well I hope for a better next weekend. OH SNAP! Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian comes out next weekend. Damn! well better luck with the DVD sells. 

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Cast : Jeong Jae-Young, Son Byung-Ho, Lee Young-Eun

Director : Ra Hee-Chan

My rating : Laugh Out Loud

If you’re currently in need of good laugh, or looking for some smart comedy to fill your boring weekend, or if you are just a 23 year old worn-out worker with no boyfriend, no parties on weekend, no energy left to move your ass downtown on saturday night (to make it simple : no life), you might wanna watch this movie - Going By The Book. This sure will crack you up.

It’s about a traffic police Jung Do Man (Jeong Jae Young) who was chosen to act as the robber in a bank-robbery drill. Being a dedicated officer (or perhaps a talented actor) as he was, he pulled his best as a robber, and put the police force’s dignity at stake. The supposed to be ‘fun’ drill, turned out to be a whole-day drama with 8 dead victims (meaning 8 people with ‘dead’ tags on their chests)…and one raped (yeah, just the tag too).

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You can feel Jang Jin’s signature in the whole movie as he was one of the scriptwriters. The witty dialogue, weird situations that led to your bursting laughters, and even Jeong Jae Young.

( Just like Pavlov’s conditional reflexes, i’ve learned to associate Jeong Jae Young to Jang Jin, as you can find him in most of Jang Jin’s works. Check Someone Special, The Big Scene, Guns and Talks, or even the migrating birds in My Son, where Jeong Jae Young dubbed the clueless father-bird) . (And yes, i’m a big fan of Jang Jin, and Jeong Jae Young. Maybe one day you can see me next to the red carpet of a movie premiere, screaming like DBSK fangirls, “Jang Jin Oppa!! I wanna have your baby!!”…just that i might be the only one who scream cos,well…unlike DBSK, Jang Jin is not “The Most Handsome Man in Asia”, and he doesn’t dance nor sing nor whatever boybands do, so perhaps not so many girls would be willing to join me fangirling a movie director…)

Anyway.

Jung Do Man was not the only character worth-notice in this movie. The negotiator with his terrible voice problem somehow had liven up the scene, especially when he paired up with Jung Do Man’s mum, who instead of asking her son to surrender~as the negotiator wished, she asked for Do Man’s seal-stamp cos she needed it to lease her house.

Do Man’s co-officers also drew laughters since the beginning. Check what this officer had to say when the chief ( the one with glasses) asked about his plan to solve the string of bank robberies happened in their city.

and a little romance won’t hurt nobody.

well maybe except for this two.

By the end of the movie (a very dramatic ending for just a training, by the way), you’d realize that you just laughed at the irony of how the cops couldn’t even take down a solo robber in their own drill.

So see, who needs a nagging boyfriend on a saturday night when you have good movies to watch?

Enjoy,

Louise (A freakin 23 year old worn-out employee, a single who chooses to be a couch potato at the end of an exhausting week)

p.s : for those who are recently busy looking for the flaws in SYP posts, yes, i do know it’s not a new movie. it’s from 2007. That’s what the number on the title for. 2007. that’s for the release year. not for the number of the cells you have in your tiny brains.

Going By The Book trailer

Poster from koreanmovie.com

To all those people a.k.a boa fans said that she really did cut her hair…..well people here is proof that your sweet, innocent, angel Boa lied to you, KIDDIES. Boa showed up on MUSIC STATION May 9 sporting long, brownish orange, weavy and also dry looking locks….

Of course I knew she didn’t cut hair into what I like to call a “Dust Mop” do. But NOOOO people keep saying “Look at the Hite Beer CF video. She really did cut her hair”, which wasn’t much proof because they really didn’t show her getting hair cut. Also I knew that she wouldn’t have the balls to do something without the permission of her owner (Oops I mean her….OH WHATEVER! 8P). LSM wouldn’t let his money maker use her own brain (especially when she turns to alcohol in times of stress) because he knew that if he did she would surely ruin her medicore career.

BoA - Kissing You [Live]

Also to Boa……WHERE IS THE BROKEN LEG? Your leg sure do look ok to me, to even stand on too, or is that just another lie? Are you trying to get simpathy from people in hopes that they will go to your concerts? Psst…because we all know that your ticket sells are low.

Or maybe you’re trying to make up excuses why you will not be debuting anytime soon in the US? Check out that news here.

It is so sad to see stars lie for publicity.

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Rain is back in Berlin training for new Hollywood movie, Ninja Assassin. Hmm…maybe he needs to take his ninja skills and have another competition with Stephen Colbert. Rain’s dance off with Colbert on The Colbert Report on Monday (5th) wasn’t anything special. Rain only appeared after the show for the dance off that led to a DDR machine blowing up and Rain winning the dance off! Even though it was very fun to watch, it didn’t impress me much, as Rain barely spoke english and showed up looking like Michael Jackson with that long hair of his!

Click here to see the dance off

Speed Racer came out today…did anyone go watch it?! I read some of the messages left on the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) Speed Racer message board and there were lots of good comments and some bad ones. Even though the movie is a family movie and for kids, I guess it’s worth a try watching it ^^ I’ll consider watching it…but I don’t want to waste $10 watching a movie that’s not worth the money.

Se7en will be having his 3rd album preview party on the 23rd. This time, it’s in San Francisco, one of the unannounced stops. Info on the Houston, Chicago and Toronto, Canada stops still haven’t been released yet so whether Se7en will be going to those cities is unconfirmed yet…but I hope the info will be out soon!

When: Friday, May 23rd @ 10PM-4AM
Where: 1015 (1015 Folsom St., San Francisco)
Cost: prices are going so get your tickets fast!!

To order tickets, please visit http://synergystore.stores.yahoo.net/index.html or here

Se7en’s Myspace has been updated, but not much has been done to it. I just wished it was actually Se7en using the account and hopefully his PRs will update the page and make it look more like an official Myspace.

Oh, and also, there will be pictures posted up from the preview parties soon!

While back in Korea, a bunch of celebrities are participating in a 24 hour marathon to help raise
money for kids who are less fortunate. The marathon started yesterday (9th, Korea time)
and will go on until 6:40PM Korea Time today (10th).

SuJu boys Eeteuk, Kangin, Shindong, Yesung, Sungmin, and Eunhyuk participated in the actual run
with their fans and Korean citizens for the full 24 hours around Seoul. See how their fans can scary one moment and angels the next? haha! Yesung injured his leg during the marathon and it seems that Eeteuk has too, as I saw him limping ealier.

Click here for more info about the marathon

Speaking of SuJu…they’ll be coming back with a new image on June 7th, the day of the Dream Concert! SuJu, DBSK and a whole bunch of Korea’s most popular stars will be performing at the concert! DBSK will be making a comeback this summer at the Super Triple Concert on June 15th. The Super Triple Concert will consist of DBSK, SuJu and SNSD but the main performers is DBSK as they’re making a comeback! More info on the Super Triple Concert will be released soon!
Click here for more info on the Dream Concert

woot! Three great concerts to look forward to soon! Just a reminder, Hollywood Bowl is on Saturday, the 17th @ 6:30PM! There are still tickets available @ http://www.koreanmusicfestival.com!! So if you still want to go, get your tickets soon!! This year’s concert will be aired by SBS instead of MBC.

Anyone remember the Peace Concert?! Well, it is now unknown if the Peace Concert is still going on because more information was supposed to be released last week but when contacted, they kept saying things along the lines “call back next week” for ticket and hotel refunds because of the postponement. For those who don’t know, the concert was postponed to June 28th and an updated list of artists were to be released and that never happened. People are now filing a lawsuit against the Revolution Entertainment, the promoters of the concert, who also happened to be the promoters of Rain’s US concerts! If you’ve bought a ticket to the concert, you can help try to get your money back. Contact me (Michelle) in the forum for more info ^^
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