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| Topic | My wife is applying for MAID (Medical assistance in death). |
| KaZooo 05/13/23 8:08:14 PM #433 | Good to hear it was a salvaged situation. Generally hope you and the wife are able to get along with the day-to-days in the meantime. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | My wife is applying for MAID (Medical assistance in death). |
| KaZooo 05/01/23 1:37:02 AM #417 | Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted... Like I'm a bad person for being ready to move on and not be a care giver to a slowly dying wife. I believe in some degree or another, everyone thinks about this when someone else is dying, whether it be age, or ailment. My dad, being someone who was already difficult to get along with I was thinking the same thing. No, in all honestly I didn't want him to die, but the reality is that he was. Spending another 3-4 months to stretch his life with chemo, having to contend with his struggles and needs, and the person he persisted on being...unfortunately that didn't sound pleasant at all. My mom was looking at having to quit her job, me possibly having to stop helping my brother and sell my own car. All this in attempt to contend with a few months and no safety net to getting back to where we left off afterwards to still make a living. This wasn't some kind of hinderance from climbing the ladders in life or prospects of how this could affect me starting a family, this was putting the ability to support ourselves, period, at risk. Thinking like this really sucks. My uncle is now in a similar place, but on a longer timeline. He can't always catch himself losing his bearings but he's been trying. I do get frustrated about what that takes out of my time and funds. Not frustrated at him, but at the situation. Obviously not trying to make him feel bad, and me getting involved is in return for how much he did for my family. I have a clear bottom line I'm not just going to turn a blind eye to this. So through that, I've come to accept the fact that being frustrated is inevitable*. You just learn to show it less or in a different way. It's not like your fundamental stance or care for a person changed. I imagine the people in question know it's a matter of time, and the things they can and can't do. My dad did have the thought cross his mind that he didn't want to become a burden. He had to drop everything before to take care of my grandmother, so he's aware of what it takes out of everybody. I'm sure my uncle's looking at life now as if all he's doing is passing time to watch the sun rise and fall. News and material things, they don't matter. He's absorbing the past more than the future now. You enduring your wife's process for so long is a pretty heavy weight, and blessing at the same time. Some people never are able to digest and accept the transition to death because they're taking it in under a shorter timeframe. It sounds like you've been able to go back and forth with it as well. I hope the appointment in Vancouver goes through how you and your wife see fit. *won't get too into it, but I do believe the biggest target of frustration may be the infrastructure of society itself. Case in point, your long-winded journey in pursuing MAID. Arguably what goes into the resource depletion concerns for me is the US healthcare system and all the other legal work of attempted collection. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/26/23 10:29:33 PM #500 | Eh, I'll just do it. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/26/23 10:24:27 PM #499 | https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80392310 Someone free to go for it. 7/26/22 to 3/26/23 8 Months exactly --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/26/23 6:07:00 PM #497 | paerarru posted... https://www.reddit.com/r/kpop/comments/12050b7/newjeans_hyein_vogue_korea_x_louis_vuitton_april/ Without knowing, I originally thought she was the oldest of the group. Also thought she was also going to be the group's more central focus when seeing the Hype Boy video and distribution. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/26/23 1:29:53 PM #495 | https://youtu.be/pNDNk79haQ0 --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/26/23 12:41:24 AM #494 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO9VkglQKgg I think these scenes were more impressive than their showcases. Lisa as a choreography coach is always cool to see. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/24/23 10:32:32 PM #493 | https://youtu.be/wpvtB4oSxwI Ariana covers can be tough to live up to. However Sieun probably would be of the only in the industry that I think can make something of it. Iirc she is bilingual tho --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/24/23 12:35:12 AM #492 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOI67IDlNMQ I thought this started well, and I'm a fan of just staying to what I assume is his natural voice. It's just that sometimes lyrics and notes get mushed up together as the song escalates. Similar to what I was saying about Lily. I was in the camp that didn't like the auto tune direction of "Set Me Free Pt 2". That rubbed off like it was adding voices, and detracting from the solo being an exhibition of just him. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/23/23 10:43:54 PM #491 | This promo slaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSM24F8L62A --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/23/23 12:07:30 AM #490 | Ryujin looked amazing in the recent Vogue shoot https://www.reddit.com/r/kpop/comments/11y357a/itzy_ryujin_vogue_korea_april_2023_issue_pictorial/ Elle did Lia a lot of justice. He stage looks looks tend to be a bit overdone. Granted their MV and Stage stylist kinda throw together likewise outfits. https://www.reddit.com/r/kpop/comments/11xzub6/lia_itzy_elle_korea_april_2023_issue_pictorial/ --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/21/23 3:49:28 PM #486 | Producers: "We need to give Chae more of an edge to set her apart from the others" Stylist: "say no more fam"--- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/21/23 12:33:04 AM #482 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8a2gZO2-Gc --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/20/23 6:44:16 AM #481 | https://youtu.be/EDnwWcFpObo Was looking forward to this. There's a bit more cohesion compared to past high tempo singles. Kinda makes me think it's an ITZY song, just with better vocalists all around (and ITZY is already pretty good). It still has this sort of random pick-and-choose visual setting like most JYP songs. There doesn't seem to be a dedicated concept to follow, but I like that they used some runtime against a simple white background for choreography. Will get played out if reused, but it's one of the better cuts I've seen in their MVs. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/19/23 9:52:33 PM #480 | Yikes Blind stylist decisions strikes again. Actually, I kinda have seen this in Asia in general. The way stateside things get distributed and picked up, most people don't really seem to know at all what a print suggests/says. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/2/AAHRm5AAETAq.jpg --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/18/23 10:35:30 PM #479 | Momo amazing outside of a twice song *hides* https://youtu.be/qpR5-nbs_Kw --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/18/23 1:57:22 AM #477 | Did we need more dance practices? Apparently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNlCGt9agA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mYGh268vmA I'm not even mad. Not that I'm on crazy repeat, but usually by now a song in this industry would wear out on me this far after release, and they've been staying a legit no-skip for me. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/17/23 10:30:49 AM #475 | KainWind posted... omg Heejin, Kim Lip, Jinsoul, and Choerry signed with Modhaus. Same company as tripleS.I like how the Not Friends gang stays together --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/13/23 10:53:36 PM #465 | Hybe backing out of the SM acquisition. I can't say for better or worse that serves. paerarru posted... Hmm okay real quick Nmixx still confuses me but I also can't believe they sampled Morning Bells hahahaha yeah THAT is the trippiest thing I've ever heard in Kpop!I can't say I'm too into it lol, but I think it was a smarter direction to try to be more relatable to their audience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCQkEGcT0A8 Probably in the minority, but I do think Lily really gets to the edge of her range like when she belts out "Symphony". She clearly is trying to stay on key, but I'm thinking despite how much she can get behind louder notes, she might be better off not always pushing that out and hitting it a little more conservatively. Amazing outside of that (literally the entire song otherwise), though. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/12/23 9:31:55 PM #461 | Thing that strikes me about Pixy is they've got consistently nice choruses. I like how they went about it with Villian. Believe the street setting is the same one as used in Antifragile. Windows on the left. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/11/23 10:36:43 PM #459 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7LJUS6oDn8 Interesting they put Yoon and Sieun on the rap verse. I'm not sure how well Teddy Bear is going exactly, but just kinda interesting they're capable of many different concepts, and they went that way. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/10/23 4:57:23 AM #457 | https://youtu.be/w4cTYnOPdNk Sounds decent. Visuals pretty good Still a little directionless imo with concept. And I realized this with a lot of their singles: I don't know why it's like this, but they're a little dead when it comes to facial expressions apart from Sana, Dahyun, and Jihyo. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/09/23 10:43:52 PM #455 | I had a hunch that Lesserafim would Nike ambassadors to counter Blankpink's partnership with Adidas. But apparently NewJeans was lined up for Air Max month. https://hypebeast.com/2023/3/newjeans-nike-air-max-campaign-photos-info --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/08/23 10:30:14 PM #454 | omg --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/07/23 10:30:03 PM #453 | Aespa at Outside Lands this year. Wonder how they're gonna fit in. It's quite not like Coachella --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/06/23 8:13:58 PM #452 | Not sure how it is in Korea, but I find McDonald's chicken sandwiches meh https://youtu.be/QEZSigcGokE --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/05/23 1:51:24 AM #451 | Twice at the Billboard awards was kinda impressive. Jihyo tried to make the most of it. https://youtu.be/jjcRl8Jgd7U --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/04/23 3:45:09 AM #450 | After hearing the other songs at Hyper Line, I can't really say I have high anticipation. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/03/23 12:05:27 AM #449 | woop woop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6WbbU_lLCA I can't say I'd have this on repeat, but J-Hope/Suga/RM have had some cool solo projects. It's cool to see them just do what they want. If I had tickets to Agust D, I'd probably go. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 03/01/23 10:40:40 PM #448 | Like some, I would've expected a ballad solo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tKVwXhoz7o --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/28/23 10:00:41 PM #447 | I heard complaints about lip synching during their concerts. Shame. High notes would be cool to hear live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E93bQfYSeJ4 --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/28/23 12:03:14 AM #446 | Hanni at Gucci and A$AP Rocky they grow up so fast --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/27/23 9:00:40 AM #445 | It is def not summer --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/25/23 10:56:53 PM #444 | So SM is creating no more subunits after Tokyo. Not so much I predicted it, or was for/against the infinite expansion, but it makes sense. I feel like it was going to be a "decide as we go" situation. Would've been interesting to see how big of a vision this would've been, but realistically they're probably gonna have their work cut out with the Japanese market. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/23/23 9:31:56 PM #442 | Fromis supposedly having a comeback sooner than later? --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/20/23 6:05:48 PM #439 | Read this out of context for a second thinking you were still commenting on Twice lol paerarru posted... Yeah, not to mention (always) quite impressive on the visual side. That takes effort, too, I mean. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/19/23 8:17:17 PM #436 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix62ySKlxb0 Stance on Twice is still the same, but credit to Jeongyeon working on getting back to where she was. I mean of course aesthetic standards are pretty unrealistic, but as far as trying to stay in such a game with her setbacks, and all the bad noise that probably went her way in the process, she's been at it. TripleS "Rising" has grown on me a bit more. Bit of a sucker when a group slips in a song/chorus title in a verse. Performances/stages are a little bit of a miss for me. Choreography is pretty decent given the number of members it has to accommodate. Much of the isolation, however, is focused at the center. A high member count already makes it hard to make choreography dynamic across the stage, and lack of lateral shifting/focus hurts that more. Outfits aren't quite it. Individually they look well dressed, but together on a stage it's a bit mushed together visually imo. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/17/23 9:30:19 PM #435 | Dodo Bird sighting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT-jpoa69Lc (The Yiren split!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRX-2r1W_lw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQbHt4Ze2PI I hate to touch on the subject, but I think EU might have gotten some work done. Cheeks, nose, mouth and chin all seem different. The group generally looks in form imo. Yuehua just has to give them something to match the talent. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/17/23 2:42:12 AM #433 | KainWind posted... I can't tell if I like Teddy Bear or not. Some parts are cool, others seem off. I like Poppy though, I never really noticed the Japanese version. I probably give StayC girls the benefit of the doubt. I've been trying to bite my tongue on this one because I don't want to come off like I'm trashing them. But honest opinion is both singles feel like a loss in direction. I'm guessing the mild reception to Beautiful Monster (which I generally thought was alright) threw off the production team. I'm bit of a stickler with bland hooks/choruses, and Poppy kinda threw that in. The lyrical concept of both didn't seem all that well-vested in, and while this is a Pop industry that is driven by things that catch on in the moment, I do think overall conceptual depth continues to carry more weight it's what makes a recent group I stan what they are, and I don't know what to make of StayC as a group with these two tracks. But this is just me. It seems Teddy Bear at least netted views relatively quick to some past singles. I could be in the minority that believes the Young Luv album was the actual direction they should've stayed true to, being a vocal showcase and all, Sieun hitting the whistle notes in Butterfly, Yoon blowing out high notes and they seem to back all that up really well live. But this is a business, and I guess that wasn't doing enough for the group to gain the traction they're after. And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Y6FtngQ1w --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/16/23 11:11:30 PM #431 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfhsEoGAA-4 --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/16/23 2:13:57 AM #430 | And I'm not sure we learned anything today. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/13/23 9:24:18 PM #428 | https://youtu.be/ErFpr-1vt5c They run their choruses with heavier background vocals. It adds volume but kinda just turns into noise at some points. Album was decent. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/12/23 1:02:31 AM #426 | Maybe I'm just becoming too much of an NJ stan, but I just haven't caught on to "Ay-yo". But then the MC's and iono maybe the Hybe/SM thing.....jk. This is a surprisingly very clear encore tho. If it's not a talent issue, it's usually a mic issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmiCY3bhsnQ --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/11/23 2:38:05 AM #425 | I heavily favor Left Right over Shooting Star. Just kinda find Harvey's parts a bit ear-piercing, but I can also see she wouldn't fit with any of the other parts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gONVUl1A-4w --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/09/23 7:43:34 PM #422 | Danggit, if this gets in the way of an Aespa comeback --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/08/23 10:08:03 PM #420 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trLfw70-8ws Release is really far away. Would be interested if they put out a much different sound. Maybe let Momo go with a more realistic vocal pitch. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/07/23 10:18:47 PM #419 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PerOrqTnh38 Haven't really enjoyed recent NCT singles, this included. The choreography is still there. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/07/23 12:47:47 AM #418 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aPXoc9FriM --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/05/23 1:38:06 PM #415 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCN3xgEPEwo quite the age gap if I follow right. She's 20. Youngest is 13. This is another w/e showcase to me. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
| Topic | K-Pop summer topic part 2 |
| KaZooo 02/03/23 10:35:49 PM #414 | YamaChan posted... I'm really vibing with XG recently. There seems to be a dispute over whether they're jpop, kpop, internationalpop or whateverpop (I blame their company for this confusion), but I really like their songs, and their rap line is the best I have ever heard.I meant to touch on this earlier. I've really liked their sound. I'd like to believe the vocals are legitimate. Right now they've been able to make good sounding songs, and it comes off like a test/exercise. Just nothing hits me like it's gonna be a staple. That's probably the only thing that's keeping them from spreading like a wildfire. They do need a promotional catchy track to gain traction. But the idea is really good. I don't know exactly how many attempts at building a global talent (I know they're mostly Japanese though) with a western sound exist, but considering the US has been empty of vocal pop/R&B groups, that's a market waiting to be filled. --- Competing every night, both ends, shoot inside/outside, fast break, transition, Monta Ellis have it all |
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