Mirotic

Released September 26, 2008

1. Mirotic
2. Wrong Number
3. 노을..바라보다 (Afterglow)
4. Crazy Love
5. HEY! Don't Bring Me Down
6. 넌 나의 노래 (You're My Melody)
7. 무지개 (Rainbow)
8. 낙원 (Paradise)
9. 악녀 (Are You A Good Girl?)
10. Flower Lady
11. 잊혀진계절 (Forgotten Season)
12. Love in the Ice (Korean)

About the Mirotic new look

Since Mirotic was released last September there has been a storm of comments regarding the new looks of TVXQ’s boys. I guess fans were shocked to find out they had sort of left their cute image behind and adopted a “sexier” look. Yes, the change was shocking. I always try to focus on their music and I’ve managed to do that so far because I could not relate to their boyish image in the past days. But now that the boys are gone and 5 handsome men are there instead I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep my mouth shut....
At least I have to comment on Micky’s new look. Boy, when I saw the Mirotic pics I was like “quien es ese chicooo, who’s that boy?” (Madonna’s music in the background). It’s like I was seeing Micky for the first time in my life. I knew he was there because of his voice, yes, but I had never looked at him twice in the past. It’s not that I thought he was unattractive or anything, he simply didn’t catch my attention before... Now, thanks to his stylist he has ALL MY ATTENTION!
First of all, in the Mirotic MV when he was inside the crystal cage and tilted his head to the side showing his neck, that was the exact second I discovered him! Ke ke, why do necks have that effect on me...aish. But then with the pics! I just thought: absolutely smexy. Not so many people are happy with his new hair but I ADORE IT. I think it brings out the best of him. Oh and he hasn’t stopped showing me his neck or half opened eyes/mouth so he now has me drooling all over the keyboard like an idiot! I have to say 10 points to Micky’s new look (the pic in this entry is the one I’m using as my desktop background right now).
About the others: Well, Changmin has certainly grown up. A lot. I’m not so enthusiastic about his hair color or do, doesn’t he look like that guy from Shinee? But he’s my favorite TVXQ ♥ so I’ll support him anyways. Even if I get bricks thrown at me, I like his hair when it’s long and messy.
Junsu: I understand that everybody had to have a new look but in his case I think the Becks style (gelled spikes) he had during the “O” period was the one that suited him best. Since he has a sort of rounded face, the O style made his face look thinner. In any case, his new look was ok in black. I didn’t like it when he changed to a deep red a few days after the Mirotic showcase but I forgive him; I think he has the sexiest body of them all. Junsu should adopt Jeans and black T-shirts as his uniform; he looks so damn good in them!
Jaejoong: Well, we all know anything looks good on him. I really like his new haircut and color (I think it was kind of plum color). I’m not so eager about him showing his body any chance he has; he’s way too thin. I’m glad he kind of stopped putting his hand over his mouth when he laughs, it really got on my nerves when he did that.
Yunho: I’m really worried about him. If he was a girl I’d say he looks... anorexic. I won’t add anything else not to sound mean but boy please start eating cheeseburgers, you look so much better with a couple of extra kilos. Haircut is ok, not so sure about the color.
All in all I like the new Mirotic image. There certainly is a before and after this look and we fans are more than happy to see a sexier side of TVXQ ^ ^ .

TVXQ goodies finally arrived!

After waiting for 2 months I finally got my TVXQ goodies and I have to say that I'm quite impressed to say the least. I had already downloaded the O album – sorry guys- because it takes such a long time and all my savings to buy TVXQ music online (as explained in other posts, due to devaluation in my country CDs cost us 3 times as much as if we were buying them here and in any case they don’t sell them here). But since the sound quality wasn’t good I thought it over (for about 2 seconds) and placed my order with YesAsia. It took them 2 months and all my anger on the phone to get my stuff here but it was worth it.
CD was really nice, unfortunately I will have to ask a Korean friend of a friend to translate TVXQ’s dedications but the pics are really nice. I already knew the O album was superb. It also comes with another CD with extra footage, interviews and photoshoots.
But the DVD.... People! I have to say that all TVXQ overseas fans should buy these DVDs since we cannot attend those concerts on the other side of the world.
The DVD is 3 hours long, it comes in a nice box containing 2 CDS and 1 calendar. Unfortunately mine was defective and it only had 4 months instead of the 12 that should have been included boohoooo... It also comes with a small photobook with images of the concert.
The concert was really good although I didn’t understand the war images concept. Maybe because I loathe war images? I understood that they were showing them as if saying “we are against this” but I’m not sure if it is wise to show that kind of imagery to an audience mainly consisting of teens. In any case, the show was great. I wasn’t very happy when I heard they started with “Phantom” since it is one of the 2 songs in the album that I do not like but it was ok. The performance of Hey Girl with the girls and the chairs was really good. I loved the images before “Remember” with all the portraits on the wall and the little girl apart from the fact that I adore that song. The images and theatrical performance before “One” were magical and the song was simply beautiful (and soul-wrenching at the same time, I don’t know why this song makes me feel like that whenever I listen to it). There was one thing that I really enjoyed and that was Junsu’s solo performance of “My page”. I was like “what the hell??” When he started dancing like that I almost fell off my chair! When did he learn to dance like that??? Did he learn to move his hips with our Colombian Shakira??? I think that out of the 5, Xiah has a body to die for but if anyone needs evidence to confirm this please watch that performance. Changminnie got me smiling at the screen like an idiot when he sang “When I first kissed you” but that’s the effect he has on me almost all the time... I also liked Micky’s “One last cry”. I definitely did not like Jae’s solo “Crying” not because of him but because I do not like the song.
All in all it is a great show, they even showed footage of Changmin’s birthday celebration on stage and some extra footage (making of DVD), I’m really happy with it.

My gin tonic

Do you have a favorite drink?
I do; mine is gin and tonic with lemon. I really enjoy having one whenever I go to an Irish pub with friends. And with salted pop-corn they can be so addictive. I’ve tried other drinks and cocktails but I always find myself asking for a gin and tonic when I go out. I have an English friend (actually he is Scottish) who says gin and tonics are drinks for old ladies with cats in Britain (??). I don’t care, I just like them (maybe because I AM an old lady??? In any case I have no cats, I like dogs better...)
The title is this entry is also the title of a song by Andres Calamaro “Mi Gin Tonic”, lyrics below. It seems this drink inspired him to write a song...

Para ver bailar voy a un club mientras muerdo el limónde un gin tonic usado … en tu cadera,no me digas que voy a tener que ir a ver a tu grupo del siglo pasado,en la bombonera.

Hay días para quedarse a mirar,

hay días en que hay poco para ver,

hay días sospechosamente light,

hay un deseo que pido siempre que pasa un tren.

Para ver bailar voy a un club mientras muerdo el limónde un gin tonic usado … en tu cadera,todo bien porque voy a comer como un reyen tu agencia de coches usados … entre colegas.

Hay días para quedarse a mirar,

hay días en que hay poco para ver,

hay días sospechosamente light,

hay un deseo que pido siempre que pasa un tren.

También hay un deseo que pido siempre, que pasa un tren.

Hay un deseo que pido siempre, que pasa un tren.

Rain in BA

Today it rained cats and dogs in BA. This is a sight of the city at 9 am.

It suddenly became so dark as if it was night already and I knew a hail storm was coming. And yes there was hail in some parts of Buenos Aires, fortunately not near my home. Hail can be very destructive; years ago we had a hail storm that destroyed thousands of cars, roofs, terraces, appliances... People had to wait for 3-4 months to get their cars repaired since so many had been smashed and there were not enough spare parts for everyone. Insurance companies almost went bankrupt.
In any case, it rained cats and dogs today. I didn’t feel like working at all, I just wanted to stay in bed for as long as possible....