Hello, All — hope everyone out there is enjoying their May so far!
In this week’s episode: new music from W & Whale, Sandee Chan and Chae Yeon, plus an interview with Mads Brugger, the director of The Red Chapel. And you wrote and I answered your letters and comments.
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Happy New Year Everyone!
This year end special of POP 88 brings you my personal favorites of 2008. I really tried to be diverse, and made every effort not to repeat songs I’ve already played this year. It is, however, rather bias as you will see/hear. It is MY personal favorites list, afterall.
Again, I find some trouble finding a decent new years resolution and resolve to use the word “actually” less in my podcast … although listening back to the show, sounds like I’ve already failed miserably even before the new year started. Someone run a bean counter on that – thanks.
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I hope you all out there are enjoying your summer and I also hope it’s not as wet as mine is. We’ve broken a record with the amount of rain that has dropped in Toronto which means I cherish each good day of sunshine and heat that we get.
This episode brings you a Q and A interview with kung-fu cinema legend, Gordon Liu. He was last seen as Pai Mei as well of one of the Crazy 88′s in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Plus, I play some requests and new music I found.
As always, if you have any questions, comments, feedback, requests or suggestions, either leave a comment at POP 88 or send an email. I love hearing from you!
And if you enjoy any of the music I’ve played, I ask that you please go and support the artists by buying their CD’s from the links provided.
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While Canada was having a nice Victoria Day long weekend, I was down in LA at the Korean Music Festival held at the Hollywood Bowl. I originally had not intended to go, but then all the signs were telling me that I should … so I bit the bullet and went. And as expensive as it was, it was worth every penny. It was also my first time getting drunk at a concert.
I even saw DBSK and Yoona from SNSD in the hotel lobby – course, I was only there to see one person – regular listeners can take a wild guess – everyone else will just have to listen to the podcast.
For questions, comments, suggestions or requests please leave a comment over at Popcast88.com or email me at christine [at] popcast88.com.
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(I fell out of my chair laughing when I saw this the first time.)
After Akrypti’s enamored post on Ms. Nguyen (whom in my opinion reminds me of a slick, neatly trimmed version of Peaches. *I love Peaches!), I joked how my next post would be on Chae Yeon. Actually, I’ve mentioned my obsession with Chae Yeon in 8Asians and on Pop88 on more than one occasion already and so I figured, why don’t I just go ahead dedicate a post to her. (ok, so it’s her birthday today and I’m THAT kind of fan. Happy 29th Birthday, Chae Yeon! )
Chae Yeon is an above average singer and dancer who debuted in 2000 in Japan but currently resides in Korea where she was born and raised. In her 4 years of activity in Korea, she’s released 4 full length albums and 1 Best of Collection and is referred to as “Sexy Diva Chae Yeon” by the Korean media. I often describe her as a cross between Kylie Minogue and a Pussycat Doll, but don’t be blinded by her tendency to expose much of herself on-stage as in actuality, she’s a tomboy at heart.
*Going up & reaching for the stars. Tis the same person; I kid you not!
And thanks to her numerous variety show appearances, not only is she smart, witty and articulate, but very playful and a big joker. (YouTube search: Xman, Love Letter, High Five) She recently launched ‘Cy Closet’ her own lingerie company which, despite her busy schedule, managed to find time to take part in designing the items in the line. (Think Victoria’s Secret with a dash of Fredrick’s of Hollywood.)
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