#kim ho

[duskofthemind]

After Pavel/Mingi and Ping/San...i now need a Garfield/Hongjoong/Bumjoong meeting

[newsatsix1986]

Beautiful key art of six of our main mates from Season Two, courtesy of Ben King's website!

On Sunday afternoon, just before Greed And Fear made its telly debut, my mum and I finished Season Two on ABC iView. I still mourn the fact that we lost the six week roll out and I felt that pressure to rush through the season purely to avoid spoilers, hence the reason I have been absent from Tumblr this week, but oh my goodness.

I am abiding to my no future episode spoilers conduct here, to be fair to everyone. But what I wanted to say was WOW. This season has been nothing that I could have predicted, aside from some of the real life historical references influencing the direction of the show. The ability of the writers, the actors, to challenge our perceptions and add flaws to characters that we love, and give us more empathy and understanding for characters that we have historically disliked in Season One, it's beyond incredible. I definitely feel as though my brain was rewired through this season.

The bravery to take the show in frightening, more harrowing directions, to not resort to easy choices and options for all the characters, even the characters who got "happy ever afters" still have that layer of nuance of imperfections that still exist within that dimension that they are now occupying. I have been challenged in ways that I could never have anticipated with some of the storytelling decisions this season, but we will all be richer for it. Because stories are always richer when risks and unexpected twists are taken, and this show has catapulted into a brand new space for me.

I can't begin to tell you how proud I am to be a fan of this extraordinary show, to help further tell these stories, and more importantly, even more proud of the incredible team behind the show. They have DONE. THEIR. JOB. How brilliant to see an Australian story so carefully constructed and so well received by viewers everywhere.

AND! In another unexpected twist, Season Three was confirmed today! The welcomed chaos of Season Two will truly get the chance to be further explored, and looks like you're stuck with me and my fangirling shenanigans for another couple of years! 😂 Well done, Team Newsreader, well bloody done! 💖📺🌟🇦🇺📰🎥

[zhaozi]

lacuna performing ‘sloth’ on concert culture warehouse

[shohasama]

Lacuna - 라쿠나

.. my fav kband ever

[deadlyromance]

[fyeahcindie]

Listen/purchase: North Acton by Thud

New single from HK dreampop/shoegaze/synthpop unit Thud. =D

Andy Tsang-gtr, Siuyum Kung aka Sky Kung-gtr., Kim Ho-Voc/synth, and the Chan brothers Wang Cheuk-bass & Wai Cheuk-drums.

All of their releases are spread over different bandcamp pages; wearethud is the newest. Sometimes you might think a band has disappeared, but they’ve just migrated to a new site, or changed their fb address, etc.  o.0

More links:  YouTube,  Thud Bandcamp (wearethud), Thud Bandcamp (Thud HK has the 2015 ep),  Instagram,  Songs For Children Records bandcamp (has the 2017 single)

Kim has a new solo synth project: @michaelplant426 (IG) Michael Plant (fb)

Sky does ambient solo music: @theblacksea555, The Black Sea HK SoundCloud

Thud were in NYC for The New Colossus Festival last month, and they posted a short live clip of North Acton at Instagram, it sounds just as swirly and dreamy as the studio recording.  =D

I'm kinda shocked that Thud travelled to NYC at that time, because mid-March was when the USA began to close down for COVID-19 social distancing. Recall that a bunch of bands canceled their SXSW shows and USA tours, even before SXSW was called off. 

[pandragon10]

SIRANG looks so hot!

[zhaozi]

lacuna performing ‘flower’ on concert culture warehouse