Announcement- We’re back up!

Hello!

I’ve decided to open this page back up and give it another shot

I will be simultaneously running my movie and television program review site: reviewsbykristen.wordpress.com , this will be exclusively MV reviews

WE’VE MOVED! … and repurposed slightly!

Hello all!!! I know I haven’t been reviewing here much anymore, but I’ve been working on formatting and preparing a new site!

reviewsbykristen.wordpress.com

Here I won’t be handling music videos, I will review television shows and movies exclusively!

There is one change though from what you’re used to (other than me finally giving you pictures in reviews!!!): I won’t review entire series, I will review each individual season, since I kept seeing that some seasons are better or worse than others!

Another reason I made the new wordpress is because I intend to buy the domain name! but for now I wanted to let you all know how much I love each and every one of you who have spent so much time browsing this page and giving me nice comments! Please join me on the other page if you’d like to see more!

reviewsbykristen.wordpress.com!

And if you want to follow me on my other websites here are the addresses:

Twitter: @KrissyRem
Tumblr: pretendthisiswitty.tumblr.com/

Announcement- Oh my goodness~

I started this wordpress close to a year ago (I think we’re one month over our birthday), and I have to say I’m stunned.

I expected maybe 5 followers, I still remember when I was excited to have 12! Now there are over 350 of you and I’m just floored~

I know I don’t post much, and I ask that you understand. I’m preparing to A) return to my University in the US, and B) Attend my University in the US for the first time (I had just been approved for transfer when I was accepted to study in Korea for a year, so I’ve never attended my University beyond some summer classes). I’m trying to get back into pace with my sites~

But what I really wanted to say was thank you all. Today we reached 75,000 LIFETIME VIEWS, and that is just absolutely incredible! I’ll get better at posting here, I promise to work hard at it, and seriously, thank you all so much~~~

Announcement- One Last Goodbye

Today I am leaving my campus for Incheon, I’ll stay in an airport hotel tonight and tomorrow morning I’m off to Chicago~

I’ll get back to posting around Saturday, just let me get settled and I have some appointments, then I’ll jump back into the reviews!

Announcement: Oops!!!

I’m not sure I warned you…

I’m moving back to the States from Korea in 4 days, and I just finished finals, hence my not posting ^^

Sorry!!! I’ll get back to posting from the States!

Announcement- Just Thought I’d Explain Something About This WordPress~

Think of my posts as conversation starters- feel free to reply! I like reading all your comments ^^

Announcement- OMG, Back to the Original Theme!

I liked the old theme, but the video links just appeared as… well… links, so you had to leave the page if you wanted to watch an MV!

I decided to change it back to the original theme from when I first opened the page, since you could view the  MV with the review and so the navigation would be simple.

HOPE YOU ENJOY! ^^

If you don’t… IDK, complain or something.

Announcement: Story time!

For those of you who don’t know: I’m a student studying abroad in South Korea right now. It’s my second semester here (amazing country by the way!! absolutely perfect!). Well, yesterday I had my Intermediate Korean class (where my teacher speaks NO english save single words he looks up before class). So yesterday he gives us a slide with the midterm info on it translated to English (well, he gives me the slide, the other girl in class speaks near perfect Korean, I’m not sure why she’s there). He then opened the book to three very specific pages, pointed at me, and said “You, midterm” then pointed at the book.

So I’m just studying the whole damn thing for midterms, because I have no clue what he was getting at.

I’m telling you this because it means I’m not posting for a few days at least, maybe longer if my professors drop midterms on us next week (I’m expecting two take-home ones). For those of you doing midterms now- GOOD LUCK. For those of you who don’t do midterms or who are already done- -_-

Old Announcements Revisited

The last time I mentioned this was back when I was getting only 15 views a day, and now there are around 30x more of you! So I just thought I’d repeat some old stuff. It’s a long post, sorry! But I think you’ll find it useful.

1. Commenting
If you don’t have a wordpress account yourself, then they want you to leave your name and e-mail address in order to post comments. Don’t be discouraged by this. They don’t actually check to make sure the info is correct. You can invent a totally fake name and e-mail address and post your comment anyways, it appears here all the same. So use your imagination ^^

2. Commenting- Rule
If you agree with a post then you can just say “I liked this part” or “I agree”, but if you want to argue with me then that is COMPLETELY FINE! Especially on Rants I like to hear your opinions as well, so give me some feedback. But the rule here is that if you disagree you can’t just say “that’s stupid”, TELL ME what you think. Either say which part you disagree with, or tell me your own opinion. You can even just agree with me and tell me your stance, I like reading your replies!

3. Editing
If you see a mistake in one of my posts, a fact isn’t right or whatever, then let me know. I’ll look it up and either add to the review itself or post an update for it. And if you want to just point out typos, then go right ahead. I ignore the spell-checker on wordpress because it doesn’t recognize Korean words or names (hell, it doesn’t even recognize “wordpress”), so  if you see something wrong draw attention to it and I will fix it.

3. Artist Profiles
When I go to write a Profile I visit one of the official fan websites or forums for that group in order to get a feel for what the fans say about them. I *do* get busy though, and so it’s been a while since I’ve had the time to do the kind of in-depth research I did for the other Profiles. Any artist here who has had more than 3 MVs reviewed is allowed to have a profile. Please send me a message with any group you’d like me to post a profile on and where I can look to learn more about them. Wikipedia is a legit source ONLY when it comes to CDs, if you have a better place to look or think the articles there are OK, then let me know that too!

4. Want to download?
I only review an MV if it has English subtitles or if it is in English to begin with. A lot of the time though when I go back to get the English subbed version for you all it no longer exists (copyright claims and whatnot). The reason I have the subbed version and yet can’t find it to give to you is because I have a policy: before I even watch an MV I download it. I’m a film major specializing in music videos and variety shows, so I have a quite extensive collection of at least 700+ music videos.

If you’re interested in growing your own collection, or if there is an MV you’ve seen dozens of times and just really would like to download so you don’t have to hunt it down on youtube all the damn time, then go to this site and download their YouTube Downloader.

http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

DON’T WORRY- the download won’t put a virus on your computer. I know you probably won’t take my word for it (I wouldn’t take my word for it if I were just browsing and saw this link on a site), but in my experience it has never proved harmful to my computer. It updates whenever they make a new patch for it, if youtube changes their coding in an effort to break such downloaders they have a solution within 5 days, and you can use the downloader to convert the video into most kinds of media and even to a format that lets you put it on an iPod or PSP.

If you choose to download this program then you can see for yourself what all it does. Again, I’ve been using it for AT LEAST 2 years, and have never had a problem with it. I love this program completely!

A note about how it works though: if the video is soft-subbed (meaning the subtitles are in the form of captions that you can turn on and off) then those subtitles will not appear when you download the video. the reason is that they are not real subtitles on the VIDEO itself, but they are a separate YouTube thing. You need hard-subs if you want to download them- that is text that has already been added to the video itself. If you’re confused, most links I post here with subs are hard-subbed. I try to mention it if they are only soft-subbed.

I hope some questions were answered there! Feel free to ask any more that spring to mind ^^

Announcement- Expect Good Things

I’m really too busy to post now (I have to do a week’s worth of homework overnight so I can go pick up my friend in Seoul who I haven’t seen for a year and a half!!!), but I will soon, I promise!

I’ll review first the MOVIE VERSION of DBSK’s “Before U Leave”, since that CLEARS EVERYTHING UP, then I’ll review 4 Minute’s new song “Heart to Heart”

Both reviews, just warning you, will be highly positive!