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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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A Song from Your Preteen Years

By: forourjxms August 12, 2018August 9, 2018
30 Day Song Challengemayday, younhaLeave a Comment on A Song from Your Preteen Years

“While walking in the wind, today’s sunshine becomes tender”

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#tbt: 2012 highlight

By: forourjxms March 8, 2018December 7, 2019
tbt3rd line butterfly, busker busker, jang beom june, mayday, william weiLeave a Comment on #tbt: 2012 highlight

Highlights of 2012, featuring Mayday and Korea’s annual spring anthem.

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#tbt: 2016 highlight

By: forourjxms August 10, 2017July 9, 2018
tbteli hsieh, lang lee, mayday, urban zakapaLeave a Comment on #tbt: 2016 highlight

Read our #tbt picks, highlighting music that won the hearts of the local mainstream in 2016

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@jaziimun

Soooo, what am I up to this creative season? 🌼🌼 Well, in March @ayebbey & i as #jabscollabs will be starting a 3 month artist residency with @artstartsto! Leave a msg if you’re interested in a studio visit / hanging out 🥰 Additionally, this season I’ve also received my FIRST EVER literary grant from the @ontarioartscouncil to work on a book-length manuscript 😭😭😭☺️ So so so grateful and excited to be indulging in both studio experiments and writing at the same time. Pls keep an eye out for upcoming work! 🥰
依舊。依舊。
我想山的另一端是我尚未見過の美好。我想腳底踩的是我尚未到過的宇宙。我想落寞疲憊不堪的時候，還是一直走。
goodbye. you always give me perspective on the things i need to remember. i will come back soon. 😊
Finally made it over the weekend to MacRitchie & hangs w/ premature uncle @mister_tay 😂 Forgot to take photos so here’s a portrait of another creature that had a great sunday ☺️😊
Grateful for the flowers blooming overhead, regardless of direction.
of the heart. a view.
for my kin, @patternsandportraits
Precarious Joy is @projectx40c’s final LooseLeaf Magazine, in the form of a group exhibition!! Precarious Joy honours our community by grounding ourselves in the now. Rather than focusing on the past or the future, this exhibition invites artists to address the presence of Asian communities, to recognize our existence as radical acts, and to activate joy as communal resistance. In our particular geographical, historical, emotional, and cultural landscapes, joy is sometimes fleeting, nonverbal, and distorted. We want to creatively and communally trace, with multiple forms and expressions of joy, the outlines of who we are. Full details at looseleafmagazine.ca 💘 DEADLINE: March 22nd, 2020 at 11:59 PM This exhibition is funded by the @torontoartscouncil Swipe to see @ayebbey & I around two min after receiving notification from TAC that this exhibition had been funded ☺️

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#SOTD: 華晨宇 (Hua Chenyu) - 好想愛這個世界 It’s hard to find @huachenyu’s music on YouTube as they are largely released on Asian / China-specific streaming platforms. Once in a while though, something makes its way to this side of the world and I am always grateful. This song is called “I Want To Love This World”. - 不想離開 也許嘗試過被愛 if I don’t want to leave, it’s because in trying to be loved 會開始仰望未來 i started hoping for a future - 👉 Listen at link in bio. #huachenyu #chinesemusic
It’s that time of the year!✨Discover @jaziimun and @miraelxx’s top 3 songs/albums of 2019 on ourjxms.com (link in bio). . . . . . #koreanmusic #chinesemusic #taiwanesemusic #baekyerin #foolandidiot #jangbeomjune #bemelodramatic #rainieyang #stellajang #lilice #becky #topsongsof2019 #top2019
#jxmsMixtape: season transition ☀️🍂 dedicated to days of summer warmth becoming days of autumn breeze. one of our favourite mixtapes. listen at link in bio! - featuring @dalchong, @ayalkomod1974, @band_monni, @astrobunny_, @autumn_vacation, @nopartyforcaodong, @halfbasement9395, @juliawu94.
#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) 🌺🌼🌸

@miraelxx

토토로가 쓰는 잎사귀 우산 같은 귀여운 베이비들! he got baby totoro leaves this weekend!
caught @codaculture’s opening exhibition at their new space, feat. one of my favourite works by teck lim. a little late to posting because they have a new exhibition up now! // very excited to find a space like theirs here.
// Personal Belongings, 2018 with @ayebbey (@projectx40c), as part of @belindakwan + @takpham’s “CONVENIENCE” exhibition for @myseumtoronto. - how do personal belongings carry memories? what is an object that carries your stor(ies) of migration and place-making? an object passed down. an object given as a gift. an object that you will never throw away. in this artistic-archival workshop, we began with a show & tell. then participants chose someone else’s object to respond through drawing, which was after given to the object’s owner who responded through paper cutting. a communal exchange. a communal documentation. ... remembering all the workshops i’ve facilitated with abby, and the generosity + trust that people gave to me, to us, and to each other. carrying these as i move forward into new adventures here in sg.
and that’s how february began. without an alert that it was here. a lingering remnant from last month that lasted so long yet ended so abruptly. 한 달동안 반년 만큼의 수 많은 일들이 있었던거 같다 그리고 오늘까지 이어가고 있다. @conceptzine__official 이 물었다, “지금 당신이 가장 듣고 싶은 칭찬은 무엇인가요?” 잘 하고 있다고. 그냥 긴 말없이 잘 하고 있다고. 내가 나한테 해야 하는 칭찬.
been gallery sitting at @the_substation for “stealing public space,” curated by iola lenzi. an impressive collection of work by artists from across southeast asia, challenging the status quo and activating the public. it’s refreshing to have works that actively invite visitors to physically interact, whether to barter an item for an artwork, to touch or wear an artwork, to take a piece of an artwork, to play with the dolls and the piano; where trust is an underlying societal value. where people can trust each other to respect each other’s work and space. some of my favourites: • bui cong khanh, “hymne national” • restu ratnaningtyas, “hidayah” • jakkai siributr with folks at shan refugee camp, “there’s no place...” • sarah choo jing, “waiting for the elevator” • dinh q le, “texture of memory” • sutee kunavichayanont, “history class” • tang mun kit, “the other singapore story”
this morning watching the trees move along with the wind. rain falling right after i watched a video of hail falling in australia. i hope friends and all are safe.
a peaceful moment until a grab delivery man came in my way. 아직 여러모로 적응 중이지만 잘 지내고 있어요!
house of hummingbird, dir. kim bora, 2018 // to find yourself in the world seen through the fourteen year old eunhee is a magical experience. eunhee has given more to us than we could ever do. just like how teacher kim youngji has given more to eunhee than anyone did. - “어떻게 사는 것이 맞을까. 어느날 알 것 같다가도 정말 모르겠다. 다만 나쁜 일들이 닥치면서도 기쁜 일들이 함께 한다는 것. 우리는 늘 누군가를 만나 무언가를 나눈다는 것. 세상은 참 신기하고 아름답다.” - i’m glad i got to meet eunhee during this time of my life. // “what’s the right way to live? some days i feel like i know, but i really don’t know for sure.” 영지쌤의 말이 계속 머리에 맴돈다. #벌새단
i don’t feel like this is a closing of another year. every month felt like a new start; all these starts leading up to new starts. 이번년에 내가 얼마나 고집이 쎄고 성급한 성격을 갖고 있는지 확실이 알게 되었다. 사람 관계에서도 고집이 쎄고 목표가 생기면 불안감 때문에 계획을 철저히 짜야되고 해야하는 것은 빨리 해야 하는 마음 뿐이다. 하지만 이런 성격이 나쁘다고 생각하지는 않는다. 이런 성격 때문에 나는 지금까지 혼자 잘 해왔다고 믿는다. 그리고 이번년에 새로운 도전을 망설임 없이 할 수 있었던 거 같다. 장년에 썼던 글을 읽으며 오늘도 똑같은 말을 할 수 있다. 이번년도 많은 것을 배우고 느꼈고 아직도 항상 매일 불안하다. every month was a constant anxiety, from the first day to the last, and i’m learning to take care of my feelings and expectations; to rid the harmful and fill with the good. 이천십구년의 해로운 것들은 다 지워내고 이천이십년은 좋은 것들로 채워지는 한해가 되기를.
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