Visiting the Chiropractor

I started going to the chiropractor again after some serious aches and pains. The chiropracter says that the car crash earlier this year definitely jerked me out of alignment. My left-hip is further back than my right hip and my middle and upper back muscles, all the way into my shoulders, are extremely tense. I've noticed it too, but more in my jaw. Sometimes I become aware that I'm clenching my jaw, only then do I realise that I am all tensed up. The tension is definitely part of the musculature that is out of balance combined with some familial stress.

The chiropractor is not cheap, unfortunately, so I'm not sure how often I'd be able to attend these sessions. Luckily, he told me today that today's session was on the house -- what they call in Korea, "service."

Something for the girls . . . or is it the boys?

An interestingly strange Ukrainian boy band, Kazaky, using a homo-erotic theme as their selling point, has the web ablaze. The marketer (one of the things I studied) and trend watcher in me finds it curious. Is this Soviet Union group playing the same marketing strategy that the lesbian themed duo-act t.A.T.u did a couple of years back? Is it a satire of girl bands and their overly sexual dancing routines? (Read more about the marketing strategy of girl bands in Korea here.) Is this merely an extreme version of the sexual objectification of boy bands? Is it merely a choreographer's work of art, jived up for the masses, as the second video below with the statuesque stills would suggest? (Kazaky's act is more focussed on their provocative dancing and chiselled bodies, than on their rather blasé singing.) Are they committed to some form of social commentary? Are they really a band aimed at the LGBT community? Or is their perceived audience women?





On a side note, as a martial artist, I'm terribly jealous of that dudes flexibility.

Mika's Show, Last Year

Last year I attended a Mika concert in Seoul. I had been saving up for a video camera and had just bought it before the concert and took some clumsy shots during the concert. I downloaded them onto my computer but then they disappeared. I thought that I accidentally deleted them, or that they went missing when my one hard drive died. While searching for a completely different video on my computer I stumbled earlier this evening on a folder, and lo and behold, here I found some of the video files from the Mika concert. I just now uploaded two onto YouTube.