Lonely Summer

He doesn’t have to do these things but he still did, he just wanted to thank everyone sincerely and this is the best time to do it 😫

[062819 - INFO] UT.O.PIA’s Twitter update about T.O.P’s discharge date and plan

*He will be discharged on July 6th

SJK’s REAL INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT IS PRIVATE (I will not post the username)

But I just had enough today.. whoever handles this account fooled millions of people, deleted the wedding photos and stirred up another drama. If this poser is truly a fan, why can’t they respect SJK’s and SHK’s request?!

Some of you may know this already, but only realised today that these pieces of paper Seungri throws around in BigBang’s SOBER MV are a clear reference to John Carpenter’s movie They Live.

They Live is an American satirical science fiction action horror film released in 1988. The story is set in LA. The main character, John Nada, finds a box of sunglasses and keep one pair before hiding the box. When he puts the sunglasses, he discovers a black & white world revealing advertising and media actually hide subliminal messages (source: Wikipedia).

Nada sees through the sunglasses that most of wealthy people are actually aliens with skeleton face (gosh, those aliens are so creepy).

And now, about the reference in SOBER MV, it is actually what money looks like in the black & white world: pieces of paper with “THIS IS YOUR GOD” on it.

In SOBER MV, we can see that BigBang are in two worlds: a green natural environment, in which Seungri throws bank notes, and an empty white world, in which bank notes are substituted by the pieces of paper with “THIS IS YOUR GOD” on it.

the white world is the reality as we all know, and the green natural environment is the imagination/dreams

and we all know the song itself titled Sober as in being aware of the reality, and being the opposite (drunk/numb/day dreaming/even sleeping/etc) is bringing the dreams and imagination

noting that wherever there’s smoke, means they’re dreaming as it’s fueling their imagination

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Jiyong trapped in a closet with one bed smelling a few roses > field full of beds and him jumping and being with the one he loves

Stop acting like you’re all that You’re actually the most pathetic It’s hard for me to be sober I can’t do anything I hate being sober I can’t fall asleep without you (this part is like so straightforward, he can’t be with the one he loves if he was in the real world)

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Daesung playing on imaginary drums > playing on actual drums

Time is so damn slow, I’m just growing old, I live like I’m dead I have so many damn things to do but I have nothing that I want to do (metaphor which he portrayed them as he always wanted to play the drums but never got them, only in his dreams)

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YB tripping and falling > running in a field sitting in a weird colorful car (also the glass cage one can be like sth blocking his imagination or dreams cuz he’s clearly in his dreams but can’t get to them ‘save me’)

Hey doctor doctor, please save me Because I’m about to go insane / Hey TAXI TAXI, take me away Because this place is too hard to be in (save him and take him from reality, these are some of the best lines imo)

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Seungri counting the ‘money’ where it says ‘this is your god’ and trying to catch them because this is the reality > throwing away actual money and that never happens in reality as if money doesn’t/shouldn’t matter

If you only chase after money, power and fame Your crotch is gonna rip and you’re gonna fall (no need for explanation really, “don’t let the money control you”)

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TOP jumping around on the floor with a hours toy > in a field with an actual living animal and super powers

The world is cold to me People’s eyes are prickling on me I seem like an adult but I’m really a child that’s really tall My young dreams are just faded fantasies (it’s literally what TOP is doing in the mv, letting loose without anyone judging him) / People don’t understand me So I just wanna lose it without even knowing (even top himself said many times how people don’t get him/think he’s awkward why he acts as a kid) / I’m like Popeye without spinach (in reality he’s a superman without super powers)

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At the end we see them all together in the field running after the smoke as if they’re holding into their dreams, first u see them running as if every and each one of them was in their own reality and now they broke free (cuz they’re still in the cloths of their reality where they were trapped)

Happening right now in Hong Kong - the police is firing rubber bullets and using batons, pepper spray, tear gas and water cannons on peaceful protesters who took the streets to protest against the passing of a controversial law which would allow China to extradite people.

Protesters set up camps, gave out snacks and surgical masks before all of this started. Tanks are apparenrly out in the streets as well and people are being hurt as I write this, but they are not backing down.

Most of the protesters are young people, university students, even high schoolers.

Meanwhile, the police had since blocked other ambulance vehicles from passing through and arrested the injured.

Video of a man coughing blood 

Urgent medical supplies the protestors need:

I received the second slightly misprinted version of The Rose’s makestar photobook with only the typo on the cover and not the messed up spreads and gutter and don’t need to keep both this and the correctly spelled one.

The only difference between the messed up version is an extra “l” on the cover and spine and that some of the photos are slightly more cyan (to the point that it’s unnoticeable unless you hold them side by side) than the corrected version, but all of the pages inside are the same.

I honestly don’t know why they shipped out replacements cause like I have tons of older k-pop merch with English typos lol it’s not the end of the world

I’ll be giving away the photobook with the typo on the cover, the second set of early-bird mini posters I received, and the second set of photocards

Rules:

Reblog or like to enter (you can do both for two entries!) 

Must be 18 or older or have parents permission to provide your shipping address 

Must live in the USA since I’ll be shipping with a flat-rate box (or be willing to pay shipping to outside of the USA)

No giveaway blogs

Please like The Rose and don’t just enter cause they’re a k-pop group :(

I don’t care if you follow me ( @ceohan ) or not, but it’d be nice! 

Enter by 5/31/19