#Eli Hsieh

[dear-indies]

hi cat and mouse! i was wondering if you had any fc suggestions for a taiwanese ( preferably half, though full is also fine! ) woman around the ages of 21 - 25? could pull off sweet / bubbly sort of pixie dream girl kinda vibe? i hope you have a wonderful day and i thank you 1,000x over for your help!

Naomi Watanabe (1987) Japanese / Taiwanese - older but has the vibe!

Stephanie Hsu (1990) Taiwanese / Chinese - older but has the vibe!

Olivia Liang (1993) Taiwanese - older but has the vibe!

Julia Wu (1994) Taiwanese.

Meg Lu (1994) Taiwanese.

Chih Siou / Liao Chih-siou (1995) Hakka Taiwanese

Ely / eeelyeee (1996) Taiwanese.

​​Ma Chia-ling (1996) Taiwanese.

Cindy Chen (1997) Taiwanese.

Natalie Wufeili (1997) Taiwanese.

Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman (1999) Taiwanese.

Tzuyu (1999) Taiwanese.

Yeh Shu Hua (2000) Taiwanese.

Kiki Hsieh (2000) Taiwanese.

Ashley Liao (2001) Taiwanese / Chinese.

Wang Yi-chia (2001) Taiwanese.

Here you go!

[zhu-xingjie]

i wasnt prepared

[chiveburger]

年 - 謝震廷 Eli Hsieh

[cho-mingi]

I was tagged by @so-na-gi for favorite albums of the year (sorry for being so late and taking so long it was realllllly painful to choose, but thanks so much for tagging me! this was a good kind of pain. I had fun!)

Here are the albums pictured above in order of appearance (not preference):

偉大的渺小 - 林俊傑 JJ Lin

Sun and Moon - Sam Kim

未 LIVE (FUTURE LIVE) - 張杰 Jason Zhang

PURE - 向幷太一 Mukai Taichi

仲夏夜 - 朱星杰 J.zen (MY MAN MY KING I LOVE YOU)

愛麗絲 Where Are We Going? - 謝震廷 Eli Hsieh

The Light EP - JAMES

我要給世界最悠長的濕吻 - 蔡健雅 Tanya Chua

Preparation for a Journey - GAHO

Other favorites I couldn’t fit in with the pictures were:

Jinah Restaurant Full Course - Lee Jinah

I am NOT/WHO - Stray Kids

Radiant by TANGRAM (and who could forget about fo fo fo Focus?)

Youth Pt.2 - DAY6

I don’t really talk to many people on my main but i’ll tag @snufkim and @svhjohnny (of course, only if you feel like doing this)

[solipseismic]

2021 poetry rec list

after the revelation that i am, in fact, a poetry person (wow!) i’ve gotten a few requests for favorite poetry recommendations so i decided to put it all in one post for 2021 :) separate section for joan tierney ( @/filmnoirsbian on here! )bc her poetry is just That Good

top seven:

beginners egyptian heiroglyphs is on tuesdays - @/plasmapop

dog bite - h r webster

dogfish - @/chipcookies

do you speak persian? - kaveh akbar

in the beginning god said light - mary szybist

portrait of the alcoholic stranded alone on a desert island - kaveh akbar

what the dragon said: a love story - catherynne m valente 

general:

anglerfish - @/serizaba

black hole wikipedia poem - @/headspace-hotel

for m - mikko harvey

heliocentric - keith s wilson

i’m not a religious person but - chen chen

i think love is something that happens to other people - michael gray

i was popular in certain circles - gabrielle calvocoressi

jessica gives me a chill pill - angie sijoun lou

meditations in an emergency - cameron awkward-rich

more dots - @/chickpeamcb

most wanted - mohja kahf

muttnik - @/fateology

night tennis - kimmy walters

one act play in which we float facedown in the center of a lake, a position known as the dead man’s float - dalton day

pigeon riding subway - @/kosotree

september is a weary month - yasmin belkhyr

the last scene in the movie - eleanor hsieh (suicide tw)

there’s a lot of good reasons to go out west - excerpt - s k osborn

the tenor of your yes - mary ruefle

the war of vaslav nijinsky - frank bidart

the wind - dafydd ap gwilym

the winter - dafydd ap gwilym

what do i know - noah eli gordon

your catfish friend - richard brautigan 

JOAN TIERNEY

a love letter from a vampire to the sun

art philosophy study group

conversation w/ a snared fox

gangrene

how to build a table (abuse + self-harm tw)

how to draw a circle 

interview w the machine woman

last thoughts of a bee drowning in honey

lift

love letters from various kitchens

no title

palpitation 

the color red is hereditary 

THE WATER DOESN’T MAKE YOU STRONGER / ALL IT DOES IS DROWN

trauma + the things we convince ourselves to survive 

why are you haunted? 

[jig-sawpuzzle]

20170211 謝震廷《尋找查理》 @ 新加坡華藝節

謝震廷說， 「好好活著，因為那纔是推翻一切不幸的籌碼。」

[yinzhengs]

dude you cant post that and then not link some of ur fav music. i need a list, 10 stuffs on it at least my man. fess up. u know u wanna.

alright alright alright. disclaimer: this isn’t a list of my favorites per se, because i’m too fickle for that, but i’ll at least link what i’ve been listening to on repeat tried to keep it varied in vibe and genre (’: 

imo all the artists on this list are worth checking out! i think in terms of both music and background, they bring really diverse strengths to the chinese music scene that i love: some are classics at this pt (eason, gem, jj lin) and some are a little lesser known (+ even some web originals / utaites at the end)!

撒野 - 凯瑟喵 | wild - kaiser meow

永遠飛行模式 - dear jane | airplane mode - dear jane

我的天空 - 南征北战 | my sky - NZBZ

因为爱情 - 王菲 + 陈奕迅 | because of love - faye wong, eason chan

光年之外 - G.E.M. | light years away - G.E.M.

���途羔羊 - G.U.T.S | lost in connection - G.U.T.S.

人质 - 张惠妹 | hostage - a-mei

我继续 - 林俊杰 | eagle’s eye - jj lin

离心力 - 楊乃文 | centrifugal force - naiwen yang

魚仔 - 盧廣仲 | fish - crowd lu

你的行李 - 謝震廷 ft. 徐靖玟 | your belongings - eli hsieh ft. chingwen

 清明上河圖 - 李玉剛 (cover by 排骨教主) | along the river during qingming festival

錦鯉抄 - 雲の泣 + 銀臨 (original) OR cover by 排骨 + 西瓜JUN (yeah, they’re both guys) | the legend of koi

of course, bonus shoutout:

一生所爱 - 尹正 | love of a lifetime - yin zheng

[route22ny]

“You have to imagine it as it was 50 years ago. Folks would roll down ol’ U.S. 95 in their two-toned, fishtailed Buicks, headed for Las Vegas. As they approached Downtown, they would be dazzled by a parade of neon: tumbling dice and roulette wheels, crescent moons and shooting stars, signage for blocks of motels and auto courts. Back before 1-800 or dot-com, the night’s accommodations were chosen upon arrival and a cascade of lights above a cool swimming pool or a sign advertising 'color T.V.’ and 'air-conditioning' promised luxury to weary travelers.

“Today, the lights are dark and the only vacancies are the lots where the Blue Angel and the Par-A-Dice Inn once welcomed visitors; same goes for Lucky Cuss Motel, whose legacy still sparkles up Las Vegas Boulevard traffic medians, thanks to the Neon Museum.

“Most of the motels are empty—broken neon tubes, weeds sprouting between faded parking lot lines. The Gables still advertises 'nice rooms' and curtains still decorate many of the boarded-up windows under its fairy-tale-peaked roofs; the shell of a payphone hangs on a red brick wall. The Alicia 1, 2 and 3 were once the Las Vegas Motel, Fremont Motel and Star View Motel, respectively. Now they all sit vacant beneath crookedly nailed particle board. The Travelers Motel, with its elaborate gateway, terracotta-tiled roofs and radio tower, seems like someone could whip it into shape and fill it with hipsters like they do in Austin or Joshua Tree, but it’s doubtful any well-shod feet will tread these grounds until they become a parking lot.

“Whether open or closed, the same sign hangs in the window: “No visitors allowed after 10 p.m.” Even motels still serving patrons seem to have one foot in the land of the dead—broken signs, drained pools, doors hanging open into darkened rooms. An anti-meth poster hangs near a notice advising patrons that there will be a “$5 storage fee for all items left in room” by the check-in at the Safari. Bedspreads fly on a line outside the Sky Ranch. Desert Moon Motel seems the most prosperous, but the neon advertising “free XXX movies” probably has more to do with that than the well-maintained cacti. These days, surviving on Fremont Street takes more than pretty lights …”

“The swimming pool is filled with rocks at one boarded-up motel. A short walk away, pigeons rest inside a motel sign whose missing letters make it all too easy to fly in...

“The fenced-off, decades-old properties are on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, and all are owned by Zappos chief Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project.

“Hsieh has pumped money and foot traffic into the city’s core, giving the area a sorely needed boost of commerce. But for the most part, his group isn’t doing anything with a cluster of closed motels on Fremont that sit blocks from the street’s nightlife scene.

“Formed in 2012, Downtown Project went on a real estate buying binge as part of its $350 million campaign to fund tech startups, restaurants and other ventures. With a $200 million allocation, real estate constituted the bulk of Hsieh’s plans, with his group assembling a portfolio of some 90 properties.

“Among other things, it operates apartment buildings and retail complex Downtown Container Park, and it partnered with Arizona real estate firm The Wolff Co. to develop Fremont9, a five-story apartment complex under construction next to Atomic Liquors.

“Hsieh’s group also bought motel properties farther east on Fremont, in an area that was a 'hotbed’ for drugs, prostitution and other crime, according to management. And it bought them not knowing what it would do them.

“It launched redevelopment efforts at the Fergusons. But otherwise, its Fremont Street motels are boarded-up and fenced-off, with a noticeable touch-up: Plywood sheets covering doors and windows were painted to look like cartoonish doors and windows.

“Downtown Project’s real estate portfolio manager, John Curran, spoke with the Las Vegas Review-Journal last month about the motels and other properties. The interview has been edited for length and clarity:

Do you have plans to develop other residential projects besides Fremont9?

We don’t have any specifics to share, but it’s certainly something we’ll be looking to do. Fremont9 is going to open by the end of the year. We’ve gotten an incredible outpouring of interest, more than 700 pre-leasing inquiries, and we’re still a few months away from opening.

It looks like the only motel with any notable project plans on file with the city, and the only one you’ve started any work on, is the Fergusons. What’s being built there?

Tony Hsieh lives in what we call the Airstream Village, which is condensing and moving to the back of Fergusons. A section of the motel has been demolished, and that will be a courtyard with Airstream trailers, a pool, a small stage area and lounge area. That’s basically Tony’s residence with a bunch of his friends and other downtowners. The next phase will be for the front of Fergusons. We hope to have two food and beverage anchor tenants here. There will be boutique retail, and the second floor would have office space. We would do major renovation work on the inside.

Do you have a next motel in mind for redevelopment?

The next block will be the Travelers. We’re not prepared to share anything about that; it’s still very fluid. Candidly, we bought all these blocks a few years ago with no idea of what we were going to do with them, but they were a hotbed for a lot of unsavory activity — crimes, drug use, prostitution, all those things. We knew someday that market conditions would allow for redevelopment, but in the meantime, us boarding them up, fencing them off, really gave us a buffer from a lot of that activity. It’s not great to look at a boarded-up motel, although we have stenciled designs on the doors, so at least aesthetically, it looks a little better than just plywood.

Why buy all these motels and sit on them?

People think, ‘Wow, $350 million, that money’s going to last forever.’ Ultimately, we’re restricted by bandwidth and resources. If we opened a major development on 14th and Fremont today, I don’t know if the market’s ready for that. It doesn’t get the foot traffic down there just yet. It’s not uncommon for developers to buy things and sit on them and wait until market conditions allow for development. We have a massive portfolio of real estate; a lot of them are ripe for future developments. We can’t do it all at once. We just opened a bar, Corduroy, for instance, and that was a major production. We’re focusing on Fremont9 and some other renovation projects. We’re never not busy.

For the motels, do you get calls from developers looking to do joint ventures? Like the project with Wolff, is that what you’re looking to do?

Definitely. We recognize two things: One, everybody’s bandwidth is limited, and we also figured out what our core competencies are. With Fremont9, we recognize that Wolff can take us further and better than we could on our own. We’ve talked to boutique hotel operators about renovating these motels and other properties. It’s definitely something we’re open to.

Have you considered knocking the motels down, scraping the sites and starting from scratch?

We have; we’ve even probably got hard demo numbers. But from an urban design perspective, I think it’s much more aesthetically appealing to look at a boarded-up motel that has some sort of history — perhaps some people find some charm and character in them. I think it is actually more interesting looking at a vacant, boarded-up motel rather than just pieces of dirt.

Do you get vandals or people climbing the fence?

That happens. It’s a never-ending battle. We’ve got around-the-clock security presence in the neighborhood. They usually report graffiti to us before the city gets it. We’re usually pretty quick to address it; we paint over any graffiti. But it’s always a moving target.

Following up on a recent post about apparently doomed midcentury motels on the east side of Las Vegas’s traditional downtown, the two articles above clarify the status of these properties: Top and middle photos taken August 23, 2018 by me.  Bottom photo by Bizuayehu Tesfaye, accompanying the second section of text above including interview, from the September 2017 article Downtown Project’s closed Fremont Street motels remain stagnant by Eli Seagall in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, copied here in full to spare you the pop-ups, adblocker detection, and other BS on the Review-Journal website.  First section of text from No Vacancy: The Last Motels on Fremont Street  by Lissa Townsend Rodgers, December 2016.

[mixyns]

A List of Songs Yanjun has Gifted to Fans

✫ =  songs with certain meanings behind them ♥ =  my personal favourites / recommended listens

Shared songs: yanjun’s personal favourites shared to fans via his personal weibo or mentioned during interviews

Ice Cream (Original By Sarah McLachlan) — William Fitzsimmons ♥

Ohio — HyukOh (혁오) ♥

100个梦想 (100 Dreams) — Li Junyi (李俊毅) ✫ written and produced by li junyi for the 100 idol producer boys, shared by yanjun on mother’s day

Beautiful — Crush ♥

Uneasy Romance — Echae en Route (이채언루트)

I See You Everywhere — Eric Chou (周兴哲) ♥ ✫ yanjun said that this song brought him warmth during the cold winter nights in beijing 

Wonderful U (Demo Version) — AGA ♥ ✫ yanjun shared this song when he announced his fandom name, Evanism

花 (Flower) — Hello Nico

Something Just Like This — The Chainsmokers ♥

Really Really Miss You (很想很想你)— Eli Hsieh (謝震廷)

Time Decides — Trent Dabbs ♥

Before You Exit — Clouds ♥

Still Will (還是會) — Weibird Wei (韋禮安) ♥ ✫ this is the song behind yanjun’s sealion joke in his idol producer introduction video

Covered songs: songs yanjun has sung before in predebut shows, interviews, and trainee18 evaluations * song names are linked to yanjun’s cover & original song is linked inside the brackets

PK — Gary Cao (曹格) & Fish Leong (梁静茹) (x) ♥

你瞒我瞒 — Jason Chan (陳柏宇) (x) ♥ ✫ yanjun said that this song is in his top 2 cantonese song picks

Cracks Of My Broken Heart — Eric Benet (x) ♥

Say Something — A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera (x)

FLY OUT — G.U.T.S (兄弟本色) (x)

Red Bean (红豆) — Khalil Fong (方大同) (x) ♥

不是说好的吗 — Guo Ding (郭顶) (x)

Time of Your Life — Kid Ink (x)

Forsaken Patient (孤独患者) — Eason Chan (陳奕迅) (x) ♥

After Turning Away (转身之后) — Bii (毕书尽) (x) ♥

思念是一种病 — A-Yue (張震嶽) (x) ♥

Covered songs with Trainee18:  * song names are linked to trainee18’s cover & original song is linked inside the brackets

We Own it — 2 Chainz & Wiz Khalifa (x)

Energetic — WANNA ONE (x)

Don’t Wanna Cry (Vers. 1) | (Vers. 2) — SEVENTEEN (x)

One Wish — Ray J (x)

Party — Chris Brown ft. Gucci Mane, Usher (x)

X — Chris Brown (x)

24K Magic — Bruno Mars (x)

Manolo — Trip Lee ft. Lecrae (x) ✫ first song cover trainee18 released

Trainee18 songs:

Rock the Show — Trainee18 ♥ ✫ trainee18′s first original song !

Original Lyrics: 

Right Here Right Now ✫ lyrics written by yanjun (i really couldn’t find the original version of this song! if anyone knows, please tell me!)

Original Unreleased Songs: yanjun’s wonderful creations that have yet to be released

Waiting for the Entire Winter 等待整个冬天 — Lin Yanjun (林彦俊) ♥ ✫ i really need this song to be released please yanjun please

↳ list will be updated as yanjun shares new songs with fans ! ↳ by no means is this list fully fully complete!! if anyone knows any other songs that yanjun has shared, please tell me so i can add them ! it would be greatly appreciated c: ↳ all songs, but the ones especially in the ‘shared songs’ section, strongly reflect yanjun’s music taste and what he wishes to say/share to evanisms through music ↳ this list was made with the intention for fans to learn more about yanjun and his musical preferences ↳ BIG FUN FACT: although he hasn’t shared any songs by them (yet), yanjun is a huge WINNER fan !

[100dayswrite]

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0707 Thu 燈光, Eli Hsieh

承諾這件事 要放多少在心上

不是自己給出去的 而是別人給的。

我會記得 前任說他要離開位置去外面看訊息 因為如果是處理工作app 臉上不可能露出那種微笑

我會記得 聽友說要跟我分享美日歌單的心得 要記下一本書給我 持續關注我寫的電影評價

自己給的承諾要守好 別人的 就聽聽吧。

[zhu-xingjie]

this is so good it’s not even funny

[fyeahcindie]

Eli Hsieh 謝震廷 with a beautiful ballad and a powerful message!

最想到達的地方 The Fearless Place: Music/Lyrics by Eli Hsieh

"Hey, are you okay?" 

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), among the three major diseases in the world in 2020, depression ranks second, second only to cardiovascular disease, and even more so than AIDS. By your side, your friends or relatives might need your help; or you actually are the one who needs to be helped, but too afraid to say it. As a patient of depression, Eli Hsieh hopes that more people can understand depression in a more positive and clear way. After deeply discuss the script with the director, and guide the emotions and feelings of the actors, Eli Hsieh hopes tell every listener who may be suffering or confused by this music video : If you feel tired, just take a rest. No matter what kind of difficulties you are facing, please remember "Unfear doesn't mean not afraid. It means that even when you feel afraid, you still go brave to the place you want to reach the most."

Full credits back at YT, but let’s acknowledge the musicians:

Background Vocals：謝震廷 Eli Hsieh、張瑀 Yu Chang、盧子杰 James Lu、徐靖玟 ChingWen Hsu

Acoustic & Electric Guitar：謝震廷 Eli Hsieh

Electric Bass：簡道生 Dawson Chien, Drums：黃亮傑 Jay Huang

Strings Arranger：羅恩妮 Annie Lo

First Violins：蘇子茵 Daphne Su、李毅銘 Yi-Min Lee、陳宜琳 I-Lin Chen、金昫祈 Leta Chin

Second Violins：羅景鴻 Leo Lo、黃瓊齡 Chiung-Lin Huang、朱奕寧 Yi-Ning Ju、駱思云 Ssu-Yun Lo

Violas：許哲惠 Che-Hui Shu、甘威鵬 Wei-Peng Kan、袁繹晴 Yi-Ching Yuan

Cellos：林鴻霖 Hung-Lin Lin、王品文 Pin-Wen Wang

Electric Piano：蔡政勳 Andy Tsai

[cho-mingi]

hi omg okay. I saw ur favorite albums post and I was wondering if you had a playlist on spotify of mandarin songs. my mandarin playlist is dry as hell (also my name is eli hsieh and i was so scared before I remembered he’s a singer)

hey! thanks for sending an ask. you have the same name as eli hsieh thats so cool! i didn’t have a list just for mandopop before but i just went through my favorited songs list and put them into a playlist here. it’s not an exhaustive list since i don’t keep a consistent record of all the songs i’ve listened to, and a lot of songs that i have listened to aren’t on spotify. oh and i think some of the songs might be in hokkien since im taiwanese so not all of the songs are in mandarin, but most of them are.

that said, i’m always !!! when it comes to mandopop bc theres not really a big tumblr following for that aside from the ip/produce101c/npc/rocket girls fandoms. no one cares when i ramble about other mandopop artists on my IP sideblog OTL so please! feel free to send me recs because i’m always looking for new music. i sometimes enjoy the Generic Mandopop Sound™ like i enjoy junk food, but im always looking for stuff that’s not just that Generic Sound (its partly why i love eli hsieh so much). i used to have a really hard time finding stuff that doesnt fall into that same kind of sound, but i’ve realized that its usually the not-as-popular artists that write works with different kinds of sounds, so it takes quite a bit of digging and sheer luck ;;

so yeah tldr i hope you find the playlist helpful, i always have more recs (esp for songs/artists that arent on spotify), and feel free so send me recs as well!

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謝震廷 Eli Hsieh【你的行李】Cover | 秉篆 秉辰 BrotherKe【4K】

[hoticetaipei]

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