Baaaack (Korean Music Festial 08)

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Yeaaaah it was really fun. My arms hurt like heck (actually, only my right one) but it's all good. xD So this'll be like the whole HB report.

Going to LA was a drag as usual. I just decided to sleep because it got kind of dark ahaha... then my dad called my grandfather when we arrived but he wouldn't pick up so we slept in the car for a while. All because he didn't want to call my uncle who was also in the house for w/e reason -____- he's the one who let us in btw.

Then Saturday... the morning was boring. I finished reading the assigned chapter of "The Things They Carried" and stared at the AP Bio book for a while. Then my dad babbled on about math and jeeez boring. Then Velisha called right around the time I was going to head out. :D Then we got there, saw lots of people in red, and I ditched my family to go talk and hang out with Velisha. Lol :x I doubt they would've done anything interesting anyways. Aaaah she's awesome, and super lucky, and very awesome. 8D I had lots of fun~ I will cut this here since I'm sure you'd all rather hear about the concert than the not-so-eventful pre activities.

Btw, I never did meet up with Sejin. -_- Who told you to go inside-inside so early anyways :< Yeah, so I got my ticket from dahchi and after calling Sejin on my cell, I went "inside-inside". =___=

So the beginning of KMF~ Just going to go in order

The choir people were pretty good and very energetic. JunSu came out to sing the Korean national anthem (which I haven't completely forgotten, surprisingly) and everyone was just kyaaaa~ *stands, SCREAMS, and takes pics* I kind of wish people would have been a bit more quiet because... it's a NATIONAL ANTHEM. >.> IDK how you'd describe JunSu except that the black hair makes him look very pretty ahaha. They showed this animation/ad clip of pics of the artists attending *cue people screaming every time an artist they liked popped up* Aaanyways, then things actually started.

SuJu T was first. xD It was very obvious that either HeeChul was the most popular member or he just knew how to make everyone scream. Every time he had a solo line, came up the extended stage, etc there was screaming. XD The screaming was actually pretty mild compared to the ones I heard later though. x.x I thought I was going to go deaf when DBSK came out =3='' IDK, nothing much to say because I can't remember anything except that green jacket thing they were wearing. IT WAS VERY GREEN. Oh, and their song was very catchy, I still remember the chorus (is that a good thing or a bad thing?). I wasn't going to take too many pics, but I tried to get a few shots for Yolanda. ^^' Also, according to my mom, my dad dozed off and he'd stay asleep till the older artists came up. =.=' (camera said low batteries and everything :| My mom later told me that yeah, the batteries don't last too long. And I think that taking vids+all the zooming which still sucked killed it more)

ChaeYeon... wasn't too great IMHO. She seems like the type that's better on TV rather than lives. I don't remember if she said anything besides her being happy to be here etc. She told the audience to sing the 'na na na na' part and we did for a while then kinda died off lol. She had some issues with her clipped on mic so the dancer kept fixing it and stuff. >.> Very pretty though, and she was nice but just a little lacking performance wise.

Moon HeeJun was pretty good, but if you don't like rock it wouldn't have been a good performance. My mom thought he was the only really disappointing performance haha. ._.' Don't remember a thing he said oops >.> But I enjoyed the songs.

SoShi either had some mic problems or some of them sing too quietly. I think it was mic problems though. I actually knew the songs they sang, but I don't really remember much else from the perfs. =3= They also wore green, but it wasn't the OMG GREEN that SuJu wore. My mom said that when they announced SoShi, a whole load of guys rushed forward and one even came back saying he took pics of their panties. ._______.

Jung HoonHee (?) was next and uhhhh her BRIGHT PINK-ness made me go x.o PINK. I remember her making some comment about her asking someone how old their mom was, and they said 40something and so she was like: then what am I, a grandma? xD My dad woke up at around the time she started performing ahaha. My sis said a lot of the other people went to the restroom and stuff during her perf though >.>' Then she sang with a SoShi member uhhh who was it... Jessica? Anyways, it was pretty nice I think. SoShi would continue to come out to perform with older artists lol...

By this point it had gotten a little darker and people started using the light sticks instead of the other stuff.

Choi Baek Ho was boring IMHO. x.x They introduced him as someone popular as Se7en and (Did they say Bi? I forget) stuff for those in the 40s/50s and my mom's comment (she told me after KMF like everything else)? "OMG BRING OUT BI INSTEAD DDDD: WTH DO YOU MEAN HE'S AS SE7EN POPULAR TO US? WE(aka ajummas)'D PREFER BI TYVM". My dad might've liked him though, who knows.

Shin Joong Hyun was AMAZING. I didn't take pics or anything but just enjoyed the music and performance. He was the last performer for the 1st half and probably the only elder performer who was able to rile up younger crowd. xD;; He had some trouble speaking but omg his live was amazing. His guitar playing was amazing too. He talked about bringing his family along and it turned out that the 3 other band people playing in the back (2 guitars, 1 drums) were actually his sons (he introduced them and stuff). The guitars were electric guitars btw. 8D Very nice. Oh, SoShi came out and sang with him for a song too, but he totally over powered them all LOL. His performance was the longest I think.

So then it was intermission time and Velisha called but I couldn't hear what she was trying to say. I think I killed my ear or my phone continued to suck. >.>'' Wah, sorry.

M/MinWoo was next. A rather short but cool dance performance and uhh he took off his shirt. .__.' If I was the type to kyaa over that, I would've, but as you know, I'm not. I just remember that there was lots of cool dancing, and the shirt thing.

Fly to the Sky was next and I didn't really know much about them (still don't actually) but they seem to be pretty popular. HwanHee walked on the wall-like thing and came really close to us. :D I got a few good pics this time, and I think Brian has to be one of the few artists my mom actually likes. -_- ...unless he's another on the 'ok' list. They talked about their upcoming concerts in CA and stuff and I thought their performance was good.

SG Wannabe are really great singers. I think my dad noticed them too and that one guy that could reach the really high notes was cool. The new guy said stuff about how he was nervous and stuff and uhh don't remember much else. Ock JooHyun sang a song with them. The song started then suddenly stopped so they were kinda like 'wth'. XDDD Then they were just like : uhhh yeaaah we're ready here sooo uhh turn on the song whenever?

Son HoYoung was next and you could really tell that he's an expert performer. My mom doesn't like him (again rofl) but I think he was the most interactive artist. He went on the wall and came all the way to both ends. He also made the audience do things like jump, wave, clap their hands, etc. He sang a ballad first and then introduced himself, so his comment was like: It almost seems as if I'm the only one singing a ballad. He was also pretty hilarious with his LOUD LOUD "THANK YOU"s to anyone and everyone LOL. After his song: THANK YOU, his staff or something gave him water: THANK YOU!

Then finally, TVXQ. Ok, going totally out of order. I thought I was going to go deaf. XDD I don't know if it was because we were kind of close to the speakers or maybe the massive screaming did something, but YunHo's voice sounded higher (actually, a lot of their voices did). XD If I didn't see that he had the mic up to his face and was speaking, I would've thought he was Su or Min. YooChun... he blends in too much. -.- I think I spotted him a few times but for the most part, it was during Balloons when he stood to the side closer to us LOL. The rest of the time I just gave up on looking for him. .__.' Jae stood out a LOT, probably because he was wearing a sleeveless shirt/jacket/whatever it is. XD;; JJ threw a teddy bear to the audience and some dude from SuJu handed these wings to someone too rofl. YunHo was very buddy-buddy with Brian. XDDD Su kind of blended in unless he was moving too (then he stood out because his purple line costume really didn't like to cover his stomach...). I took a pic of the (or what I thought was the) non-TVXQ side only to find that Su was in my picture. O-o;; I seriously did a 'wth how'd he get there' when I saw the pic LOL. >.>' He and YunHo were kind of eeeverywhere so in the end I ended up just paying attention to Jae, Min and Chun who stood in the right side for most of the time.

Oh right, talk. YunHo asked us if we were ready to have fun and made us say 'Dong Bang' 'Shin Gi' 'Dong Bang Shin Gi' and then he told everyone to scream. THIS IS WHY I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO GO DEAF LOL. X.x Dear YunHo, I think people were very VERY loudly screaming from the very beginning, then you ask them scream and it only got LOUDER to the point where there was nothing in my ears EXCEPT the screaming. XD I screamed a bit too, but not a lot. Then they said something about it being 2yrs since the last time they came and stuff. It was all very surreal for me. @-@ But then again, what isn't? Even school seems surreal to me now so it's normal I guess lol.

I wish they performed "O" instead of Purple Line though. Purple Line is nice, but it doesn't really reach my top favs. The screaming lasted aaaaall the way through the performances lol. I think there were a few mic issues during their perfs too. >.> Oh yeah, they actually left after doing Rising Sun, Tonight, and Purple Line, so Brian was like "We can't just send off DBSK like this right? Call for an encore" but I don't think people understood LOL. Those who got it or caught on chanted encore though. I LOVED BALLOONS. You could hear a lot of harmonizing that you usually can't catch and JJ looked like he was having fun. He was jumping/bouncing to the song from the moment he came back out while everyone else just kind of walked out and stuff. XD He also interacted with the fans, touched their hands etc. Min just kind of stood around lol.

Now the misc. stuff... During the whole concert, the staff and security must have been tired lol. People came forward, they shooed them back, more people came up to take pics, they made them go back again. Ahaha... and I didn't look at the big screen for most of it, because I figure I might as well look at the actual people while they're in front of me. >.> The seats were pretty close so I could see their face although it was a little fuzzy because I never did get newly prescribed contact lenses. :x I just wore my old ones lol. There was lots of "ILU BRIAN" and stuff while he and Ock JooHyun were MCing. They talked about people coming from all over the place too and asked who came from Hawaii, Peru but they couldn't see the Peru people. I started not bothering with older performers stupid batteries so IDK when this one duo with guitars did their perf. I seriously wouldn't mind going again, DBSK or no DBSK. :D I had a lot of fun listening to most of the other artists and watching them perform too. Oddly enough, I'm not that tired. I slept for ~5h in the car, but I don't know how that would've helped because I kept waking up every now and then.

I shall upload pics and vids later. I need my mom to transfer the stuff onto a CD for me first. Ok, she did, so I just have to upload the pics and everything. Next time, I want to go with a better camera for one, and I want to stay in a hotel~~ Make things more trip-like instead of dying of boredom while doing MATH with my dad orz at my grandpa's house. My mom said she'd like to sit away from us too and scream and fangirl on her own lol.

Overall, as much as I love dear TVXQ, they were the 2nd or 3rd best performance for me. Shin Joong Hyun and Son HoYoung were just awesome. xP But they ARE more experienced so uhh it was expected? Since I went to KMF 1/2 for TVXQ, 1/2 for music in general, the whole thing was very enjoyable. ^^ (except a few boring songs but that's ok) One bad thing about sitting in the front is that you can't see the fireworks very well. >.>' And the streamer type thingies... they just go over your head and I was wondering what the sound was till I saw the stuff falling LOL. Oh yeah, and the stupid camera man kept going back and forth and blocked my view a couple of times. -_- It's nice to know that you want to film the audience, but could you try to do it without blocking the view at the same time?

All my fancams are ~15sec-30sec depending on the artist lol. Stupid camera -.- Oh well, it was fun just enjoying my time there without just filming the whole thing. Besides, since the camera sucks I was sure there'd be better fancams out there for me to watch if I wanted to remember something. :P

My mom asked me if I wanted to go to Fly to the Sky's SF concert. Should I go? No? :D

There's probably some stuff I forgot... if I remember, I'll add it to my next post

Aaaah yeah. I hope TVXQ has a summer con next year whether it's in Korea or Japan. Same with KAT-TUN too :x but theirs will be in Japan of course LOL. If one of them ends up having a tour, I'm scheduling my trip around it. =3= I don't care if I just end up going to Japan for a few days as LONG AS I SEE A CONCERT. It's like 2/3 the reason I'm going to Japan anyways. >.>