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SOTD: 치스비치 – Summer Love

By: mirae August 28, 2019September 2, 2019
Song of the Daycheeze, lovey, park moon chi, stella jangLeave a Comment on SOTD: 치스비치 – Summer Love

A new 90’s summer song we’ve all been waiting for.

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mixtape: notes for breakfast

By: forourjxms August 19, 2019August 24, 2019
jxms mixtapescheeze, deca joins, peterpan complex, standing egg, sue, sweet johnLeave a Comment on mixtape: notes for breakfast

Whether you are refreshed and ready or still struggling through yesterday’s fatigue, we have a song for that.

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SOTD: 玫瑰少年，蔡依林/阿信

By: jasmine August 13, 2019August 24, 2019
Song of the Dayjolin tsai, maydayLeave a Comment on SOTD: 玫瑰少年，蔡依林/阿信

The song is a love letter to 葉永鋕, and by extension to all those who are navigating social spaces tenuously because of their sexualities.

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#tbt: 2010 highlight

By: forourjxms August 8, 2019August 6, 2019
tbthebe tien, okdal, soft lipa, supreme teamLeave a Comment on #tbt: 2010 highlight

Highlights of 2010, featuring the hip hop artists you need to know.

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Review: 末路狂花，魏如萱

By: jasmine July 31, 2019August 5, 2019
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末路狂花 (Run! Frantic Flowers!) is an exploration on the theme of running away, and how sometimes that is exactly what needs to happen for us to find ourselves.

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mixtape: soup noodles + soy milk 🥣

By: forourjxms July 22, 2019July 21, 2019
jxms mixtapeschamsom, linying, minsoo, o.zic, stefanie sun, yo leeLeave a Comment on mixtape: soup noodles + soy milk 🥣

For your calm days of solitude, slurping soup noodle and warm soy milk.

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Between RA festival season and Indiegogo frenergy, I’ve been looking for the caesuras. ☺️
Overshare jasmine 1/3: LooseLeaf Magazine has been a staple at P40 for the last 4 years. The production schedule and launch events have always been anchors in my year: 2 months open subs, 2 months edit and format, 2 week print turnaround, launch. Rest 1.5 months. Repeat. They are always the most well-attended and well-documented of our events, maybe because so much of the community is inevitably connected to this humble, imperfect but earnest publication. We’ve now published over 100 pan-asian creatives and had the rowdiest launches in all kinds of venues, vended with so many people, and hosted musicians, performers, and filmmakers. From vol 1 wtf-how-is-this-real launch jasmine to vol 7&8 uncontrollable-cry-my-heart-is-full launch jasmine ☺️😂, i’m often just speechless at what she’s been given. I love all her iterations, and am so thankful to all the people who have graced her life with their support, faith and understanding. 🌱🌸♥️🔥 Lastly, if you’ve been supporting us by collecting LooseLeafs so far, consider preordering Vol 9 as part of our current Indiegogo campaign or get caught up with our backorder options!
it’s been a quiet but wonderful blooming season.
that time @p.ko___ & i poured our souls into an EP. that single moment we performed it live. that moment talking to me still to this day. reminding me to reach for beginnings, for truth, for beauty. even without blueprint, even without precedent. even when in doubt. even when uncertain. here i am to stillness. to the coming of promise. 我想說的是，誰也不可惜。我所有的何妨，何必，何其榮幸。
my heart full of bougainvillea
Was feeling the light and down for the selfie then got photobombed by a little mochi bear 😂
And so, little carp scroll of mine, leaping over the waterfall into full-bodied story, all scale and tooth and wonder, tumbling into the unknown expanse of some other person’s life. Thanks for surfacing on my tongue three years ago. Thanks for flashing in the dark. Thanks for your slippery, evasive beauty. I have followed you and found myself at a roaring gateway. I have known grief sonorous and so raucously deafening. I have known memory in gaping and soundless breaths. I have been silent in the face of your power. And then, as all poets do, I have tried to sing. Thanks to the hands that put this work together with me. To the guts that leapt into the waters. To the hearts moving upstream. To the lungs flowing over. To the bodies in the room peering into these words. To the arms opened wide to unravel the dragon. To the fingers carefully tucking away a fish. I bear witness. I am grateful. I remember. And so, “This journey will not teach healing or even anything about you. Only how a beam of searchlight can linger like hope sullen in the darkness. Only why I am still searching for all the breath you sent that never made it back home.” To all those who grieve and those who hold space for grief, this is for you. #carpdreams #alaunchisanotherwayofsayinggoodbye
My street rescue; my love at first sight; my tough but needy floof; my cautious, charming bun; you have my whole heart.
Foraying into adjacent disciplines as always 😌 tryna milk Jak’s PhD library access till the very end. — “The fact that oral peoples commonly and in all likelihood universally consider words to have magical potency is clearly tied in, at least unconsciously, with their sense of the word as necessarily spoken, sounded, and hence power-driven. Deeply typographic folk forget to think of words as primarily oral, as events, and hence as necessarily powered: for them, words tend rather to be assimilated to things ‘out there’ on a flat surface. Such ‘things’ are not so readily associated with magic, for they are not actions, but are in a radical sense dead, though subject to dynamic resurrection.”

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#SOTD: 치스비치 CSVC - Summer Love - A new 90’s summer fresh song we’ve all been waiting for.☀️Four indie female artists - Dalchong of CHEEZE, Stella Jang, Lovey, and Moon Chi - have joined together for a summer song so perfect in aesthetic of the 1st gen female Kpop groups, with added sweetness of their great vocals. - “나의 모든 걸 다 너에게 줄게 i will give you all of me 저 푸른 바다와 너만 있다면 as long as i have the blue ocean and you” - 🍬 Check it out at bit.ly/ourjxmsCSVC (link in bio)!
#jxmsMixtape: Notes for Breakfast ☕️ Whether the morning is rainy, cloudy or sunny, whether the floor is cold to the feet or warm and sticky, whether you are refreshed and ready or still struggling through yesterday’s fatigue, we have a song for that. Take a listen at bit.ly/jxmsbreakfast (link in bio) - Featuring @standingegg, @decajoinstw, @peterpan_complex_official, Sue, @dalchong, and @sweetjohnofficial.
#SOTD: 玫瑰少年 by 蔡依林 / 阿信. “I love it when multiple versions of the same song emerge into the world. I love how both versions are deeply personal responses to tragedy and both calls to action and change in different ways. It’s one of the few times I look into the mainstream music scene and feel a deep sense of hope.” - Read the full post! Link in bio ☝️
#tbt2010 This was the year Hebe, the veritable goddess, began her solo career. This was also the year the folk duo Okdal debuted with a love letter to the days we’ve felt the lowest. Soulful & lyrical hip hop was growing as Supreme Team reached its peak, while rappers like Soft Lipa gathered a loyal group of followers. - Check ‘em highlights out at link in bio 🍑
#SOTD: 새소년 - 긴 꿈 / Se So Neon - A Long Dream 💫 - After a thrilling debut in 2017, this alt rock band announced their last concert in December 2018 as the two male members had to go for their military service. The vocalist & guitarist @sleeep__sheeep went solo, until early this summer two new members joined to restart the band. - The title song that put them on the radar, “긴 꿈” also made everyone fall in love with So Yoon’s husky voice. From xylophone beats to drum echoes, it’s a surreal adventure through a long-winding lucid dream. - “수상한 밤들이 계속되던 날 when mysterious nights continued 언젠가부터 나는 좀 달라졌다 suddenly, i began to change 빛 바래간 내 웃음이 눈치 없이 삐져나올 때 when my faded bright smile left me without a hint” - Check out the song, including its fun music video by Japanese animator Hoji Tsuchiya at http://bit.ly/ourjxmsdream 🌝
#AlbumReview: 魏如萱 - 末路狂花 / waa wei - Run! Frantic Flowers! — At once playful, brooding, gentle and mildly creepy, waa wei’s approach to her music has always been to slip out of easy categories. The tracks have an Alice-in-Wonderland feel to them, where the fantastical, dream-like and real elements are a perfect blend of music. — 我是比較危險的花 末路中的優雅 I am a more dangerous flower, the grace on the road to the end 犯賤中的瀟灑 狂歌中的飛花 the recklessness in indecisive regret, the flowers flying through the wildest songs 落在哪就綻放在哪 堅持到最後的煙花 blooming wherever they land, fireworks holding out till the end — Check out the full album review at https://bit.ly/2SUllMt (link in bio) 🌺🌼🌸
#SOTD: 逃跑計劃 - 閃光的回憶 / Escape Plan - Shining Memories — "被貼上‘搖滾’標籤的樂隊 只要試圖用溫柔的方式抵抗這個世界，就會被評論：‘不夠反骨，不夠叛逆，不夠搖滾."
“For bands and musicians that have been given the "rock' label, any attempt on their part to resist this world with gentleness invites the critique of "not opposing enough, not rebellious enough, not rock enough.” — 那曾經的不知疲倦 (The fatigue and helplessness you knew) 怎堪柴米茶與時間 ( How could it withstand banality and time) 奧 年華 (Years on years) 唯有你曾攀越的山峰 (Only the mountains you have climbed) 和曾給予的寬容在記憶中 閃閃發光 (And the grace you gave; in your memory; shine) 怎堪柴米茶與時間 ( How could it withstand banality and time) 奧 年華 (Years on years) 唯有你曾攀越的山峰 (Only the mountains you have climbed) 和曾給予的寬容在記憶中 閃閃發光 (And the grace you gave; in your memory; shine) — Check out the song at https://bit.ly/30Orpsm ✨ - @jaziimun
#jxmsMixtape: Soup Noodles & Soy Milk 🥣 For your calm days of solitude, slurping soup noodle and warm soy milk. A selection of lo-fi, acoustic and chill tunes by Yo Lee, Cham-Som, Linying, Minsu, Stefanie Sun and O.zic 🎶 Check out the mixtape at link in bio! - (Photo: @real_chamsom’s [붕 Pt.3] cover by @toclamp)
#ArtistFeature: 김예림 Lim Kim Well-known for her romantic R&B grooves and gentle acoustic voice, Lim re-enters the world after a 4-year hiatus as a fierce charismatic warrior dabbling in experimental mixing and rap. As a fan since her SuperStar K days, the total transformation took me by a big surprise. - Read the feature at link in bio—dedicated to her entire musical trajectory so far & the beginning of her career as an independent artist, just in time for her successful crowdfunding project. @miraelxx

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When I met up with @jaziimun on the summer of 2016 over bubble tea (of course), I had no idea what I was signing up for, let alone what community arts meant. Being overly awkward and presenting an overly enthusiastic persona on @projectx40c social media, I began to slowly open up as I met, talked, and listened to numerous artists, creators, creatives, art enthusiasts and supporters of all kinds. (More to come in two months.) - The space that @projectx40c has created has been incredibly important for me — a community where I felt welcomed, and hopefully where many other folks also feel welcomed — where they feel like their stories and art can be shared and heard. - We are in the second half of our final year — the Inheritance Year. Recently the PC government cut arts funding, and like many folks, we have been left with no significant funding. We have many projects planned to end off our five year adventure and we need your support. - 🌱Choose a cute herb or spice (drawn with love by me), and be part of our exciting journey. Link in bio.
the arrival of the sweater weather means the time is nearing rather fast. it’s been living inside me for awhile and i’ve slowly been sharing to a close few. but with a little more than two months left, i guess i really need to tell myself it’s happening. i’m moving to singapore this december to pursue my masters and challenge a new life. i’ve been wanting to escape and branch myself to asia. the stillness and familiarity i feel towards this city had begun to make me anxious. 언제부턴가 이 도시에 안정감이 생기며 답답해지고 불안해졌다. 아직 젊은데 하고싶은것도 많은데 여기에 계속 머무르면 어디에도 못 갈거 같은 마음이 들었다. the process since getting accepted has been nerve-racking and heart trembling, and filled with lots of worrying. (my heart also flutters at the idea that my family who i have been an ocean away for seventeen years, will only be a day ride from toronto to vancouver.) i can’t thank jasmine, abby, jing, justin and gihee enough, and will definitely be due much more gratitude once december comes. the sweater weather also means a hectic theatre festival season and actually having to accomplish the list of things to do. 내가 향하는 목표가 너무나도 설레고 믿기지가 않아서 벌써부터 모든 의욕이 사라지고 나의 마음은 여길 떠나고 있다. 그래도 후회없이 여기에서 남은 바쁜 두 달을 열심히 해내야 된다는 마음 가짐으로 달리고 있다. - photo by abby from our trip to singapore last year, which was part of the catalyst to this decision.
love these two 💕 such a delight to have worked with them to make their first exhibition come alive! @projectx40c #wearwecamefrom
From the Opening Night of “Wear We Came From” exhibition✨People looking at the photos taken by @in.step.with.steph, and listening to/reading the interview conducted and edited by @izzayd. Featuring stories of migration, familial history, tradition, belonging, and identity of ten individuals which are stored within clothing and accessories. Up until September 20th at Crimson Teas! Thank you to everyone who stopped by so far and shared kind words! - Photos taken by @jingdraws. @projectx40c #wearwecamefrom
an august ending in the ontario tranquility - “일요일 아침의 게으른 시간 속에서, ‘언제였더라! 그때 참 좋았었는데’ 하고 저절로 떠오르는 기억들, 그 기억들 속에서 근심은 힘을 잃고 사라진다. 현실의 속박들도 잠시 사라진다. 졸음 속에서 여행을 한다...시들지 않는 즐거움이 함께한다. 마음은 다른 것이 아니라 다시 그런 기쁨을 누릴 수 있기를 갈망한다.“ - 정혜윤 <인생의 일요일들>
endless fields of peace interrupted by sounds of crickets while i pranced around with my wool blanket wings // 답답한 도시에서 평온한 자연 속으로 놀러 가 그림 같은 맑은 하늘 아래 자유로운 풍경과 오랜만에 매미와 귀뚜라미 소리를 들으며 너무나도 신나 나방처럼 뛰어다녔다.
2 // Favourite quotes from talented folks featured on the first “Creator to Creator” on @projectx40c. 1 Ness Lee; James Lai; 2 Haaris Qadri; Hatecopy; 3 Christie Wong; Jean Yoon
When Steph reached out to me about this project, I was excited. I love the idea of using apparel as starting points to tell stories. Clothing and accessories hold abundance of experiences that we often forget or remain oblivious to, as they travel through multiple lives, times and lands. It astounds me what stories my mom’s scarf holds and how I will never know them, while I’m also giving it more stories. Steph and Izzy have been working hard for the past months, interviewing, photographing & now editing and prepping for the exhibition. They met with ten young folks around the GTA who have kindly shared their journeys, memories and histories—each person’s narrative so unique and so important. I’m delighted to support these two wonderful women in creating this project, which we hope to be the beginning of a dynamic cultural preservation. - “Wear We Came From” exhibition runs from September 5-14 @crimsonteas. Please join us for the Opening Night on Thursday, September 5th, from 7-9 pm (doors open at 6:30)! Go to @projectx40c for more info!✨ #WearWeCameFrom
this summer is probably the summer that i ate the most ice cream & my goal is to continue this trend in winter & the heat awaits me to make this dream possible. // 맛있는 아이스크림 더욱 더 많이먹자🍦
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