Got plenty of Bangkok stories to tell you, but not today. Today I’m writing a grant application and listening to a dvd of top 40 songs from around asia I picked up in the market there. This has led me to discover the intense lameness/awesomenitude of Super Junior, who are kind of like an all male, thirteen member, semi-acrobatic Korean version of S Club 7, but with a revolving door cast like in Young Talent Time. One of them is slightly chubby like Gary Barlow was in Take That. He’s my favourite.

There are now spin-offs, the most successful of which is Super Junior-M. I like them in particular because they’re not afraid to use bad early 90s rave pop orcherestra hit lead parts in their songs. It sounds awesomely tacky. I suggest checking out their track Super Girl, which I’ve included below.

I started working on some new material while I was in Bangkok and it’s pretty surprising to see where my songwriting is going. The album after the new one will be pretty interesting. Don’t want to say too much yet though, it’s bad creative juju to talk about the process to much while I’m in the middle of it.

Anyway, who wants to talk about me right now? I just want to talk about Super Junior.