#John Park

[thecollectibles]

Ember Sky by John Park

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John Park / On Earth Momentarily (OEM) / Hand Wash Wall Bracket / 2024

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John Park

[k-pop-lovers]

Top rated songs will compete for the best K-pop song of 3rd quarter of 2024

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by John Park

[daily-twice-content]

[ENG SUB] TWICE JEONGYEON Meets Fall Ballad Singers with the Sweetest Voices! EP.13 John Park, JUKJAE

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K-Pop Debuts and Comebacks for the Second Week of August 2024 (Aug 5 - Aug 11 2024)

Aug 5

3piece - Summer Feeling

Rookie girl group 3piece brings back the 2nd gen summer sound in this mature and confident debut!

L (Kim Myungsoo) - What's Not To Love

INFINITE's L showcases his sweet vocals in this solo outing!

Aug 6

UNIS - Curious

Rising girl group UNIS shows they can be the next big thing in this extremely 2nd-3rd gen coded K-Pop track!

Yoon Sanha - DIVE

ASTRO's maknae Sanha goes solo in this gloomy and grown performance!

Aug 7

LIGHTSUM - POSE!

Talented girl group LIGHTSUM shows they deserve more promotion in this trendy and catchy track!

Son Dong Pyo - WAVE

X1 and MIRAE's Dong Pyo debuts solo with a new start in this remake of UN's 2001 classic!

Aug 8

BAMBAM - LAST PARADE

GOT7's BAMBAM continues to grow as an artist in this majestic return!

Bang & Jung & Yoo & Moon (B.A.P) - Gone

Popular 3rd gen boy band B.A.P returns first with 4 members while maknae Zelo is in the military, showing they still got it!

John Park - VISTA ft. Gaeko and THAMA

Talented soloist John Park drops a loungey piece in this smooth collab with Gaeko and THAMA!

Aug 9

SOLE - still LOVE

K-RnB artist SOLE brings the 90s west coast RnB sound in this new track!

Aug 10

No releases.

Aug 11

No releases.

[wordacrosstime]

A Diamond In The Dust

["A Diamond in the Dust - The Stuarts: Love, Art, War" by Michael Dean. 24 November 2022. Holland Park Press Ltd. Paperback. 225 pages. ISBN: 9781907320965]

The brutal murder of King Charles I was followed by the establishment of the Commonwealth of England, a brief republic. Reinstatement of the monarchy with his son Charles ll was accompanied by the execution of the judges - the Regicide Judges - who had condemned Charles I to death. Ten of them were hanged, nine of whom were hanged, drawn and quartered. The ringmaster Oliver Cromwell died naturally. His corpse was exhumed, hanged at Tyburn (in London, now Marble Arch), beheaded, and its head mounted above the building where Charles I had been tried.

They knew how to do things in those days.

Michael Dean's A Diamond in the Dust starts and ends with the show trial and execution of Charles I, with a second book - The King's Art - scheduled to take the story forward.

Shortly before his death, Charles I wrote a (very long and frankly dreadful, but yes, execution was going too far) poem titled (with capitals as written) Majesty in Misery, Or an Imploration to the KING OF KINGS. It's not known if God has read it yet, it could take a while. Mercifully Michael Dean only quotes three lines and then solely to explain the title of the book:

With my own Power my Majesty they wound, In the King's name the King himself's uncrown'd, So doth the dust destroy the Diamond.

Watch those capitals Charles. Upper Class OK, Upper Case seldom.

Michael Dean's delightful A Diamond In The Dust is a very exact account of many of the painters artists soldiers and male prostitutes who flourished around the courts of Europe. Charles emerges as worried about what he felt was his mis-shapen body until he finds he is good at something. That something, in what was perhaps his own language was f__king. And to give it context, music, sculpture, f__king, religious wars, wars, f__king, spending money he didn't have, f__king, and when at a loss for something to while away his sybaritic hours, not-surprisingly, more f__king.

This should not suggest that Charles I was promiscuous. On the contrary he and his wife Henrietta Maria seem, after a difficult start (there was a lot of religion, catholic and protestant, involved - all across Europe and all across their lives) to have been not simply in love, but profoundly in love. Charles I does emerge at times as a bit of a pr__k, but, as the English public of the time might well have said, 'at least he's our pr__k).

Art, politics, religion, shipwrecks. Michael Dean knows his controversies and A Diamond In The Dust is crammed to the gunwales with them. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham is a superbly-drawn (he's real - all the people in the book are, and there are tons of them) character, sexually versatile on both sides, bold, generally courageous, a kind of World-War-II-We'll-Fight-Them-On-The-Beaches lad (he might well have turned up there for a cameo), hated, unfortunately by Queen Henrietta, and in the end murdered. The narrative does slump a bit when he exits, but it's coming to the end (for Charles I) when he leaves the story, and Charles is only going one way.

Michael Dean is expert with history and characters. His novel about the painter Marc Chagall, The White Crucifixion (2018) as well as being a fine novel is a smart piece of work, coming across - like A Diamond in the Dust - with the feel of historical accuracy (only God knows if it's extremely true, but He's tied up with Charles I's Majesty in Misery, possibly for eternity).

A Diamond in the Dust may be one for (1) history experts who long to pick holes in other historians' work while gloating at their superiority; (2) fanatical puritans (OK, Americans), protestants, catholics (it's got lots of all of them, entangled, not always religiously) (3) Republicans (4) Royalists (5) fans of art (yards and yards of art in 225 pages, lots of named works, very detailed biographies of big (and interestingly obscure) artists and patrons. And others who hate being categorised but read The Guardian flagrantly, with a fixed expression of disapproval.

[Image credit: book cover, with thanks to the copyright holders]

John Park

Words Across Time

19 May 2023

wordsacrosstime

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NIGHTCRAWLER

She’s looking for a stranger eoduun dwitgolmok sumeo gidarineun dangerous (Killer on the prowl) Like a predator she crawls in the night Creeping trying to feed her appetite You’re my endless night neoui miro soke gileul ileun deuthae meomchul su eopeo nan I’m fully addicted To this sin we chase Weaving in and out of smoky rooms ireum ttawi moreul rendezvous She’s got the prey in her…

[thecollectibles]

Art by John Park

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Song : The Day You Were Falling

Artist : John Park

Album : Forecasting Love And Weather OST, Pt. 5

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fanfic writers NEVER contemplate or apologise for your fic being over 3-5k words long, we readers LOVE longer fics!! anyways have a good day/night 🙂‍↕️

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I love that everyone in Cobra Kai is in a different genre.

Daniel and Johnny are in a homoerotic buddy-cop comedy, Tory is in a Saw trap, Miguel is in a coming-of-age movie, Kenny is in a coming-of-rage movie, Hawk and Demetri are in a BL sports anime, Sam is in a teen drama, Robby's in a reboot of a hit movie from the 80's, Chozen is literally just there, Kreese and Silver are in a psychosexual thriller, Amanda is in a sitcom, Kyler-