[TRANS] 091213 Taiwan iRadio FM96 Transcript

HG: iRadio 96 FM Chinese/Cantonese Music. Hello everyone, we are Super Junior [All: M!] Today we are really happy that three of us can be your DJ today. Hello everyon, I am Hangeng.
DH: Hello everyone, I am Donghae
RW: Hello everyone! I am Ryeowook.
HG: we are really happy to come to Taiwan and have the chance to become your DJ.* So our next song is from our Super Junior M’s first mini album. And this time, I think that our album gives us a new feeling, especially our song “Super Girl”, it’s very handsome and has a very mature feeling to it. So I hope everyone will like our Super Junior M’s ”Super Girl”

[Super Girl - Super Junior M]

HG: Alright everyone, you just heard our song from Super Junior M’s new album, “Super girl”. So our company has many many different artists [Ryeowook and Donghae agrees], F(X) and others. And especially our younger brothers SHINee, they’re very cute and very handsome. Don’t know what Donghae feels about them**
DH: SHINee… they’re cool! I think they’re very kind.
HG: Very kind. Right.
DH: *says something in Korean about SHINee and Ring Ding Dong* Everyone, please listen to SHINee’s Ring Ding Dong!

[Ring Ding Dong - SHINee]

HG: Okay, we just introduced our younger brothers, SHINee. And next we have our little sisters. In the group, they actually have two more Chinese members. One of them is from QingDao and the other is Chinese. Our Ryeowook on the side, how do you feel about F(X)?
RW: *sings Chu~<3* Oh, very cute!
HG: Very cute!
RW: And, they have a lot of strength!
HG: Have a lot of strength!
*Can’t make out what they are saying*
HG: And next we have F(X)’s Chu~<3
RW: *sings Chu~<3*

[Chu~<3 - f(x)]

HG: iRadio FM 96! Hello everyone, we are Super Junior [All: M!] And today we are your DJ, hello I am Hangeng.
DH: My sweet darlings, I am Donghae.
RW: I am Ryeowook!
HG: Hello everyone! Well this time since we arrived in Taiwan, we have been really excited because this is Super Junior M’s first time coming to Taiwan and meeting with everyone. Let’s have Donghae and Ryeowook talk about their trip to Taiwan now.
DH: Taiwan… is very beautiful. And the fans… the fans [T/N: he repeats it because he is trying to get the pronounciation right]
HG: the fans
DH: The fans are very kind and very pretty. Very good!
HG: How about Ryeowook?
RW: I really like it.
HG: Really like it.
RW: The people in Taiwan, are very kind and very clean [xD]
HG: Actually, Taiwan has given us a lot of feelings and warmness. So our next song we will put on a song also by our younger sisters, Girl’s Generation. Gee!

[Gee - SNSD]

HG: Alright, next, when we came to Taiwan, we’ve had a lot of *could’nt understand this part* There were a lot of things to eat that we couldn’t eat, but really wanted to. Now Donghae, out of all of the Taiwanese food, what do you want to eat the most?
DH: Taiwan’s Shabu Shabu [T/N: mini personal hot pots]
HG: Ahhh Shabu Shabu.. hot pot!
DH: and….
HG: Stinky tofu!
DH: Stinky tofu! But I haven’t.. I don’t know about Taiwan’s food.
HG: Oh so you haven’t been able to try Taiwan’s food?
DH: Yup.
HG: I wish our managers would take all 7 of us out to eat. I really want to eat Taiwan’s Zhu Xue Gao (Pig’s blood rice cake). It’s really delicious. Well our next song be from our, yes again, our little sister, Zhang Li Yin “Qing Tian Yu Tian”
DH: Yeah~

[Moving On - Zhang Li Yin]

HG: Okay, that was our younger sister, Zhang Yi Lin’s “Qing Tian Yu Tian.” Don’t know if everyone enjoyed it or not.
RW: Ah! Very good!
HG: So after we arrived at Taiwan, there were a lot of places that we were NOT able to go to. And I have a lot of places that I wanted to visit, like th beach, Ji Long, and others (deng deng…)
RW or DH: Deng deng deng deng~
HG: How about you Ryeowook, where do you want to go the most?
RW: Yao Ling Yao.
HG: Yao Ling Yao
RW: Ahh! I want to go to Gu Gong
HG: Oh, Gu Gong Museum? Ah this is a place worth going to, because I wen there before, its very nice. So our next will be David Tao’s “Easy Love”

[ Easy Love "Ai Hen Jian Dan"- David Tao]

HG: iRadio 96 FM Chinese/Cantonese Music. Hello everyone, we are Super Junior [All: M!] Hello everyone, I am today’s DJ Hangeng!
DH: Hello everyone, I am DJ Donghae.
RW: Hello everyone! I’m Ryeowook!
HG: So when we came to Taiwan, we also know about many different Taiwanese artists for example, Guang Liang (Micheal Liang)
DH/RW: GUANG LIANG!
HG: And Cao Ge (Gary Cao)
DH/RW: CAO GE!
HG: Etc. etc.. many artists and singers and actors that we like. Now, who does Ryeowook want to collab with?
RW: “Wo men de ai” by F.I.R.
DH?: F.I.R. ooh~
RW: The girl in F.I.R., she’s really pretty
HG: Then can you sing a few verses from “Wo men de ai”?
RW: *sings F.I.R.’s song*
HG: Wow.. amazing~ now that we’ve heard Ryeowook sing, here’s “Fairytale” by Micheal Linag.

[Fairytale - Micheal Liang]

HG: So after listening to Micheal Laing’s Fairytale, we don’t know if everyone else has heard Super Junior M’s version of it. And also, one of my other favorite songs is from Super Junior M’s first album, “Atleast I Still Have You”
DH?RW: Right!
HG: This song was the first time all seven of us sang Ling Yi Lian’s song. We hope everyone liked it and hopefully when we preform it again on stage, everyone will sing it with us. So here it is, Super Junior M’s Atleast [All: I still Have You!]

[Atleast I still Have You - Super junior M]

HG: So everyone just heard our “Atleast I still Have You”
RW: Very good very good!
HG: And this time, our Donghae and Ariel Lin filmed an MV together. How does Donghae feel about it?
DH: I like Ariel Jie Jie*** the most.
RW: Mei Mei!****
DH: When we were filming the MV, she helped me a lot, so I was really convinient.
HG: Oh very relaxed?
DH: yes, so in the future, if I get the chance, I want to film again with Ariel Jie Jie
HG: MeiMei!
DH: to film a TV drama with her. If i have the chance again.
HG: If I had the chance, I want to film a TV drama with her. Alright so now we’ll let everyone hear Ariel Lin’s “Firefly”

[Firefly - Ariel Lin]

HG: iRadio 96 FM Chinese/Cantonese Music. Hello everyone, we are Super Junior [All: M!] Hello everyone, I am today’s DJ Hangeng!
DH: Hello everyone, I am DJ Donghae.
HG: So very soon we will be leaving Taiwan, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. on the 9th.
DH: Right.
HG: Even though its really a shame, I really hope we can quickly come back to Taiwan and meet with everyone again. But its ok! Because next year’s
DH: February 20th is Super Junior’s Second Concert
RW/HG: oooh~
DH: Super Show
HG: Super Show 2!
DH: hope everyone will definitely, DEFINITELY come to our concert!
HG: Definitely! So don’t be sad because next year on February 20th, we will be at the Xiao Ju Dan and meet with everyone again! Super Show 2! Now our next song is Super Junior’s “It’s You”!

[It's You - Super Junior]

HG: That song that everyone heard just now is Super Junior’s “It’s You”. Don’t know if everyone liked it or not. This time coming to Taiwan, we were really happy but the time was too short. And this show is almost over… It’s a shame but it really left a great impression on me. Especially the fans; welcome and warmth
DH: Right!
HG: And their support, it really gave us a lot of encouragement. Ryeowook, what was your most memorable moment this time?
RW: Today! I was a DJ! Hopefully next time I come to Taiwan, I can be DJ again.
HG: If next time we come with all seven of us, I can leave early! So our last song will be Wang Lee Hom’s “Kiss GoodBye!”
RW: *Sings Kiss GoodBye*

[Kiss Goodbye - Wang Lee Hom]

Made a guess on what he said, I couldn’t understand it*
Kinda like a question directed at Donghae**
JieJie = Older Sister***
MeiMei = Little Sister****

credits:

Source: [X]
Translated by: one_love@sj-world.net

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Interview #3

Sara ~ Lightning:

What did you find most profitable about Christmas Bible Reading?

It’s an amazing Over view of the Bible.  I noticed and learned things that I’d never have learned if I hadn’t had a complete over view from beginning to end in such a short time.

What is your favorite part of this Bible reading?

Reading Chronologically!

What would you suggest to people looking at doing this?

Make sure to spend time with your family and not to over do your self with lack of sleep!

Do you know any trips/strategies to help our Christmas Break Reading?

Get up earlier in the morning and read for awhile. Pace your self and don’t get to far behind, Or you end up feeling over whelmed over the last few days! Remember it’s not a competition! Oh, and if it’s your first time, read in a version you are used to, If you’re used to the version you feel less overwhelmed.

~This is Sara’s second year reading the Bible over Christmas Break.  This year she is reading it chronologically using a NIV Bible, but also looking up passages in KJV and The Living translation.  She is doing it in 3 weeks, but taking off several days for family.~

[Via http://christmasbiblereading.wordpress.com]

Pursuit Press & Ones Clothing Present: David Dallas

Embodying everything we stand for here at The Pursuit, David Dallas is an artist who studied his craft, does what he loves and does it well. Stepping out into the spotlight, his first album Something Awesome took over iTunes and jumped straight to the number one spot. Not slowing down, the man who used to be known as Con Psy has recently toured the States, Austalia and of course New Zealand, so we asked him for a quick minute to see how he’s dealing with people finally recognising his talent.
You’ve gotten recognition from one of the biggest rappers and producers alive, Kanye West. How does it feel to have your work recognised by him?
Wicked. I’ve been a big fan of him since the Blueprint. When I first started to write my own raps a lot of the first beats I wrote to were Kanye instrumentals – Scarface – “Guess who’s back”, Kweli – “Good to you” etc. I’m still a big fan of what he’s doing as an artist and I feel like he’s probably the most consistent dude out there, especially as far as hip hop goes. So yeah, it’s great.
The Smoking Section is one of the most credible online sites for breaking new artists, and they picked up on you quite quickly. Kanye then followed. How has support from such legitimate hip hop heads helped propel your success overseas?
Support from them and the other blogs is pretty much everything. Without them no-one outside of N.Z and a handful of people in Oz would’ve heard anything I’ve done, we’re so isolated down here. The great thing about those sites is that the music is getting to the sort of people who are receptive to the music I make. It’s way more effective than if i was to get on some big label tryna push to mainstream radio stations who’s listeners don’t even like hip hop.
Who influenced you growing up? Is there any artist in particular who influenced your style?
My favourite artists and biggest influences were/are: Snoop, Mobb Deep, Outkast, Jay and Eminem.
You used to be known as Con Psy, what was the reason for reverting to your birth name?
I’d just never introduce myself by that name, it felt ridiculous. Whoever I met I’d always be like “hey I’m
David” – so I figured if thats what I’m comfortable with, I might as well run with it.
You worked your way up, understudying and supporting other NZ artists and producers such as Scribe and P.Money. How does it feel to now be stepping out of their shadow?
It’s cool. I learnt a lot from them and had a lot of experiences I wouldn’t have had otherwise. That time has kinda given me a clear sense of where I want to go with my stuff and things that I’d like to avoid.
You’re bringing a lot of attention to NZ music, what is it that sets you apart from other local artists? Indeed, what sets you apart from other rappers worldwide?
I feel like my sound is definitely different to what’s goin on here locally. It’s soulful and organic and not really keepin with the current climate of synthy stuff that’s on the radio. But at the same time I feel like it’s a lot more melodic and poppy in the song structures and arrangement than the more underground stuff is here.
Internationally I’d say the same thing, there’s a handful of acts who are doin similar stuff but what seperates me from them is my voice and my stories/experiences.
The success of Something Awesome is going to be a hard act to follow, how do you plan to move forward with your next album?
Creatively I want to stick with the same approach I had when I made that album. Just going with what feels good and not worrying about being cool, how it’s gonna be perceived by critics, what box they’re gonna put it in etc etc. Just making some good songs that are reflective of the stuff I like.

You can keep up with the talented David Dallas here or here, and check out his upcoming shows here.
Image courtesy of David Dallas

[Via http://pursuitpressonline.com]

An Interview with Dave Reidy

Live Nude Books: On their surfaces, the stories in Captive Audience focus on the lives of performers.  Did you originally set out to write a collection on this subject?

Dave Reidy: I wrote “In Memoriam,” my imagination of a day in the life of a fictional Abe Vigoda, before any of the other stories included in the collection. Then I wrote a couple of other stories that had nothing to do with performers. But the next two stories I wrote—“Captive Audience” and “The Regular”—excited me very much and gave me the idea that my stories might be larger than the sum of their parts if they were collected around this theme of performance. I was more intentional about writing performer stories after that, but I defined “performer” broadly to include a kid who plays guitar for the girl next door and a guy who makes rock posters for an audience of three.

LNB: Do you consider/think about audience when writing a short story?

DR: I do. I find it helpful to keep in mind that the words I’m writing are for readers, and to remember that I owe those readers some challenge and satisfaction in return for the time they are spending with my work. I guess I try to give the people what they want, but I can only give it on my terms. I have to write the stories that I am most moved and best equipped to write, and I have to write them as I see fit. Visiting the imagined, half-understood expectations of an audience on a story in progress is very likely to kill it. In the end, I think a person who buys a book is buying stories, but also an author’s aesthetic. The reader is gambling that the writer will create characters and tell stories in ways that please unexpectedly, ways that the reader might not have been able to order up even if he or she had been given the opportunity to do so. It seems the best that I can do is try to create interesting, honest characters, tell inventive, accessible stories, and hope those characters and stories please and surprise an audience.

LNB: What was your strategy for ordering the stories in this collection?

DR: My editor had some strong feelings on the subject. We both wanted “The Regular” and “Thingless” to be the first two stories in the collection. We thought they set the tone for what follows. My editor insisted that “In Memoriam,” as the collection’s shortest story, should sit right in the middle, and I agreed. And I insisted that “Dancing Man” be the collection’s final story. I suspected that some of the stories in the collection would strike some readers as bleak, and I wanted the collection to end on a note of redemption—whether the redemption at the end of “Dancing Man” is real or imagined is another question.

LNB: What are you working on next?

DR: I’m working on a novel. I’m about three-fourths of the way through a first draft, which means I’ve got a long way to go before I’ve got something finished. But I’m working steadily on it, chipping away each day for an hour or so before heading into work.

LNB: What have you recently read that you’re recommending to friends and other readers?

DR: I’m only halfway through Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City and I’m already recommending it to people. It’s fantastic. The Manhattan of Lethem’s imagination, inhabited by his exquisitely drawn characters, is even more exciting and more revealing than the Manhattan we know—even as I write this, I can’t wait to crack the book and get back there.

[Via http://livenudebooks.wordpress.com]

TV REVIEW: SRK's Ghar Ki Baat Hai

With Shah Rukh Khan and Aziz Mirza in the helm of affairs, it indeed looks like Ghar Ki Baat Hai. Well, we are talking about the new show on NDTV Imagine Ghar Ki Baat Hai (at 9.30 pm, Friday-Sunday), co-produced by Mirza, who’s a part of SRK’s Red Chillies Entertainment.

After his stint as a host in Kaun Banega Crorepati-3 and Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain, Shah Rukh has now decided to produce a show with an intension to ‘add cinematic value on television’.

SRK’s association with Mirza dates back to Circus days, a popular show with Shah Rukh in the lead. It aired on Doodarshan almost 20 years ago. Since then the duo has made many films together including Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, Yes Boss and Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani.

Coming back to Ghar Ki Baat Hai, it’s a light-hearted show sprinkled with little bit of drama and a pinch of humor, directed by actor-filmmaker Anant Mahadevan.

The show sees Sumeet Raghavan of Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai fame as Rajdeep, his wife Juhi Babbar as Radhika and Swapnil Joshi (of Shri Krishna and Tu Tu Main Main fame) as Sumeet’s brother-in-law Kakku. The story revolves around Rajdeep’s family and the situations they face in their day-to-day lives.

The peripheral cast includes Jayati Bhatia and Deven Munjal and Ali Asgar. Sounds familiar? No points for guessing, as SRK himself admits, Ghar Ki Baat Hai is his tribute to Doordarshan’s popular show Yeh jo Hai Zindagi, a big crowd puller in 1984-1985.

Though SRK claims it’s not a remake, the first episode seemed to be an out-and-out rip-off, where the husband pretends to forget their wedding anniversary and the wife files a divorce case on her brother’s provocation. We can’t help recall (at least those who have seen Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi) Shafi Inamdar, Swaroop Sampat and Rakesh Bedi coming alive on screen once again, fighting over a bowl of gulab jamun. Well, here it’s gajar ka halwa, if we can call that being original…

Jokes apart, Ghar Ki Baat Hai has far too many similarities with Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, the hit comedy that marked the debut of actor Satish Shah, who soon became a household name with his different avatar in every episode. Here, Ali Asgar as the lawyer, a watchman or a cook (as we get to see in the promos) looks convincing.

In the second episode (as we gather from the precap), we find Satish Shah, oops! Ali Asgar as the salesman trying to pacify Rajdeep and Radhika fight over a new couch. This one comes across as a frame-to-frame copy of one of the episodes in Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi. Being inspired is fine, but where is the difference we wonder.

Sumit Raghavan and Swapnil Joshi are good as usual. Juhi Babbar – daughter of Raj Babbar and a prominent theatre artiste – who debuts on TV with this one, also seems to be at ease facing the camera after the debacle of her film Kash Aap Hamare Hote in 2003.

However, if the forthcoming episodes turn out to be half as good as Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, then SRK is sure to hit the jackpot by giving a respite from the regular saas-bahu sob stories.

Surprise, surprise! if sources are to be believed the future episodes may also have special guests like Juhi Chawla, Shreyas Talpade and who knows SRK himself may just pop up one day.

[Via http://reelstories.wordpress.com]

Steve Mannion Interview

Now up at Broken Frontier is my interview with Steve Mannion, from Asylum Press’ Fearless Dawn series, for which words like “cheesecake,” “romp” and “madcap” would be suitable descriptions. He’s a great artist too.

His The Bomb TPB is out now and the Fearless Dawn mini-series has just begun. If you like Tank Girl-like heroines fighting Nazis with tongue-in-cheek action and humour, then it’s an enjoyable romp.

[Via http://comicbookjesus.com]

Politico: Gary Johnson emerges as the next Ron Paul

Jonathan Martin at Politico published an excellent profile piece on former Republican Governor of New Mexico and potential 2012 candidate Gary Johnson:

Former New Mexico Republican Gov. Gary Johnson is a teetotaling triathlete who looks the part of the laid-back Mountain West politician.

But don’t let the jeans and black mock turtleneck he’s sporting on his new website fool you: Johnson is starting to sound like a mad-as-hell populist with an eye cast on 2012 and the building fury aimed at Washington.

 “I’m finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit,” he said in an interview with POLITICO this week. “I’m finding myself really angry over what’s happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I’m angry about cap and trade. And I’ve been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.”

 Is that enough to design a presidential campaign around? It might be, at a time of tea parties, rage at bailouts, job loss and general voter discontent. And there is plainly an opportunity for some politician to harness the anti-establishment, populist grass-roots fervor that is right leaning but untethered to any party at the moment.

 It’s what Ron Paul tried to do in last year’s presidential campaign, but Johnson may better positioned to ride the populist wave than the longtime Texas GOP congressman. For one thing, the anti-establishment energy was not at the fever pitch then that it’s nearing now. And, unlike the unlikely Paul, a 73-year-old who got interested in elected politics when Richard Nixon abandoned the gold standard in 1971, Johnson is telegenic, is media savvy and, equally important, has twice been easily elected to statewide office.

 A libertarian-leaning Republican, Johnson this month launched “Our America,” a group that aims to draw attention to the principles of limited government at home and noninterventionism abroad.

 But as the subtitle on the website indicates, “The Gary Johnson Initiative” is also designed to elevate the profile of the ascetic and unconventional former governor, who is known nationally — if at all — for his support of legalizing drugs.

 Johnson is doing little to knock down the idea that he may be looking toward a 2012 presidential run.

Read the rest of the article at Politico.com >

[Via http://garyjohnson2012.wordpress.com]