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jihoonslattee · 6 years

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Snowball Fight! Kim Jaehwan

christmas collab with @cannedapricot @alliwannado-w1 !

honestly i wish it would snow here so i could just throw random balls of snow at my friends LMAO but anyways i hope you all will read this and if it isn’t snowing for you either LETS JUST CRY TOGETHER

low and behold the christmas season was here

which meant the giving of presents and just taking in the christmas cheer!

and by christmas cheer i mean by playing music until you have memorized every single song by heart that you can literally sing it by itself

(istg people have alrdy play all i want for christmas is you 254 times, i aint sick of it but like dhjfklhd)

at your music university it was all decorated with cute christmas decorations and instead of the actual music playing it was covers of every christmas song with different instrumentals!

literally wherever you waked everyone was taking in the christmas spirit

especially your best friend kim jaehwan who you also had a crush on but he didn’t need to know

you guys were walking through the campus because jaehwan insisted that since exams were coming up you both might as well take a good look and be excited for christmas

“jaehwan christmas is literally 15 days away i’m sure we will have more time to look at it later”

“Y/N remember that one song you wrote about how even if something is far away you would still like to spend it with someone you like? this is basically what we’re doing now so just enjoy it!”

he also didn’t need to know that you wrote that about you enjoying spending time with him

“okok fine, but even with all these decorations it doesn’t really feel like christmas because you know, in all those christmas movies they all have snow during the season”

“but do the christmas songs talk about snow?”

“um no bu-”

“nope i’ve heard it all, as long as the songs don’t also talk about snow then it should feel like christmas either way!”

jaehwan felt a little TOO excited about this upcoming holiday and you were just a little sus about it because least year when you both were walking around in this same exact spot he was complaining about how this one person on his team was cooperating with him and they were just messing around

but now this year he’s so excited you can’t help but wonder

why

but even with your face literally scrunched up with you trying to figure out why jaehwan was so excited he kept on talking about how snow shouldn’t define whether it feels like christmas or not

“okay but why are you so excited this year?”

jaehwan stopped in his tracks and just kind of gave you a blank stare

“well i’m excited for all the presents you’re going to give me!”

now it was your turn to give jaehwan a weird stare

“um jaehwan i’m pretty sure you can relate but i’m a bROKE CoLlEgE sTuDeNt. yknow someone who DOESNT have money to spend on anything except top ramen”

“i actually really can’t relate because i already have your present”

this

this took you by surprise because woah last year you gave jaehwan a present and he was complaining about how he was broke

but ohohoho look how the table have turned

before you could respond though you looked up and behold you both were back at your dorm which seemed like such a short walk but then again jaehwan was rambling most of the time so you didn’t really mind

because yknow you could listen to him talk forever and it would be okay

“i would love to hang out at your place and eat all your cookies that you made for your guitar class but i gotta prepare my presents for everyone since you know, i’m such a nice guy”

“sure son of music kim jaehwan have a nice night”

as you were closing the door to your room you heard jaehwan call out something which made you smile

“hey that was something that Seongwoo gave me for christmas last year and don’t deny it!”

to be honest you couldn’t deny it, he had a lot of talent in music that low key had you jealous

the next morning you woke up to a bunch of ringing at your doorbell room

being very clearly irritated and tired to send the message that you did not want to be bothered on your only day off of school you opened the door to see seongwoo and daniel giving mischevious smiles while also holding a camera pointed at you

you glared at the both of them and just looked back and forth between the box in daniel’s hand and the camera in seongwoo’s hand

“so are you guys pranking me right now by giving me a fake christmas present when it clearly isn’t christmas right now?”

“by the orders bestowed upon us we have come to deliver a box for you!”

daniel pushed the box towards you and you took it

opening it you saw a huge large jacket and a pair of gloves

“seriously?”

you literally gave them a tf face

“i’m not here for this let me sleep in peace please”

as you were about to close the door daniel stuck his foot in between the door and the wall (rip daniel oof that must hurt i mean at least you weren’t trying to slam it tho)

“Y/N literally it’s freezing outside, go outside and check it out, you can even see it from you window”

seongwoo spurted out while pointing at your window which was bright letting in some light through your curtain

walking towards you window you opened the curtains and squinted at the blinding light to see

snow

hmm that was unexpected

since yknow you expected to be pranked

and along with being surprised about snow you saw jaehwan holding a sign up towards you

let me repeat

jaehwan is holding a sign for you as if it was going along with what seongwoo and daniel were doing to you

the sign read

“come down and lets play in the snow”

you looked over and noticed that daniel and seongwoo had disappeared which made you slightly irritated because you wanted to interrogate them about what was going on

because as much as you wanted to know what was going on

sadly all of your intelligence went towards music instead of something important like figuring out what tf jaehwan was doing

well anyways

you got ready very quickly and basically ran down to where jaehwan was

but he wasn’t there anymore

“gosh why are you all disappearing on me! i’m not here to play hide and seek right now i want to sleep and eat and then sleep again”

as you were literally saying that sentence you heard some footsteps behind you

turning around you were instantly pELTED with a huge snowball on your face

you heard a little bit of giggling and when you wiped off the snow you saw the eyes and face of kim jaehwan laughing his butt off about how he got a face shot

“I can’t believe I hit you in the face! i was just aiming for a head shot but you turned around!”

smiling a little you bent down and started gathering up some snow in your hands too

“wow that sounds great jaehwan, should i try for a face shot too?”

instantly the smile that was on jaehwan’s face went away and he started backing a little

“uuh Y/N I wasn’t actually trying to hit your-”

before he would finish the sentence you got your face shot on his face causing you to laugh at your victory

“ohoho this calls for a snow ball fight right here right now”

as soon as jaehwan declared this he instantly started pelting random balls of snow at you-

wait there weren’t even balls of snow they were like disfigurations of snow being thrown at you

which caused you to duck for safety behind one of the walls of the building gathering up some snow for you too and waiting for a while to throw some snow at him too

it was pretty easy to know where jaehwan was standing because of his constant laugh

like literally he kept on laughing you were so confused

so it was just a couple of minutes (20) of you guys just throwing random balls of snow at each other and literally laughing at being able to hit each other

after a while though jaehwan stopped laughing

like it was in the middle of his laugh and then he just stopped

you were so concerned

like had he been running towards you and just tripped on snow and fell face first into snow?

you were very very very (hehe get the reference lMAO) concerned for him

so you stepped out of your very trustable hiding spot and walked out seeing just a bunch of white anywhere and now the black large coat jaehwan was wearing

“jaehwan? kim jaehwan? where are you did you just decide this wasn’t fun anymore because i was winning?”

as you were saying that you ONCE AGAIN heard LOUD footsteps running towards you and your trustable skills helped you to turn around

you were so excited to like stop jaehwan in his EVIL PLANS to just one up you

but this was not what you were expecting

okay so listen up to this situation

the second you turned around jaehwan was very VERY close you to like you know the distant people have when they kiss, you guys basically had that distance

AND HE WAS HOLDLING A BALL OF SNOW ABOVE YOUR HEAD

which eventually dropped out of his hands because yknow he cant just keep it there

but literally your breath went away because this is situation you were not expecting and it didn’t look like jaehwan was either because he literally had these wide eyes looking at you so confusedly

“well well hmm”

you just kind of look down because you both were not budging

i mean you didn’t want to budge but lmao

“i cannot believe you still one uped me by dropping snow on my-”

“i think i like you Y/N”

you looked back up at jaehwan with very confused eyes

“wait now i think that sounds like i’m unsure of myself i mean i do like you. I was trying to confess this whole time but I guess that turned into a snow ball fight”

this literally has not become the situation you had expected it to be

literally

YOU ARE SO SURPRISED RIGHT NOW

and instead of responding

you laugh

you literally start laughing

which causes jaehwan to laugh awkwardly

literally so awkwardly like he is so nervous right now but here you are laughing like there’s no tomorrow

“i’m sorry i don’t mean to laugh i’m just surprised. i like you too jaehwan but you literally did not have to do this all like buy me a jacket and wait until i was done getting ready to confess to me- well i mean try to confess to me since you decided to pelt me in the face with a snow ball and declare war”

this caused jaehwan to actually laugh and for some reason pull you into a hug

which you took as a “wow hey i’m so excited and happy let me just hug you”

“i’m really cold happy and excited right now so i hope you don’t mind”

“i don’t think i would ever mind”

you chuckle a little and just hug him back

“so am i able to tell people that you’re my boyfriend now and also tell seongwoo and daniel to never record me in my darkest times again?”

you now heard jaehwan chuckle and also you noticed he nodded his head which made you smile and chuckle too because you guys are just the laughing type of couple

“sure but can we go inside your dorm and eat food and just snuggle up which watching solorman’s perjury because i’m freezing right now”

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asicmind · 7 years

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All The World’s a KISS Stage (well, it should be...)

Im not alone in thinking that the greatest picture ever taken in rock and roll history is the picture that is the gatefold of the 1977 double album KISS “Alive 2″. This picture totally defines what it would be like to see KISS in concert. I have been to thousands of concerts and none will ever surpass my first KISS concert two years after this iconic photo was taken. I have a numbered and signed print of this photo (by the photographer), waiting for the right frame to put it in.

now, Im very aware that this photo is staged. it did NOT happen during a show, but I can tell you that ALL OF THAT PHOTO HAPPENED IN THEIR CONCERTS!! It happened when they started in 74, and if you go to a KISS concert today, this photo will come to life. Excitiement like this photo is what I look for in concerts I see today. Some bands do know how to put on a stage show...Rush, Pink Floyd, Flaming Lips . In fact, 5 months after my first KISS live experience, I saw Parliment/Funkadelic who learned from KISS on how to make a concert stage work with great music.

So, it got me thinking...what if KISS and their stage show were a part of every other artists’ concert. The WORST concert I have ever attended was Crosby, Stills and Nash. You know why?? here...

look at that!! How boring is THAT! Seriously, I know they are icons and all that but..what propells people to shell out a ton of money just to see 3 guys under three spotlights strumming on a guitar? Now, if they even had just one member of KISS on that stage, or a tiny explosion..WOW!! That would take it up another notch. So ASICMIND is proud to present to you some unearthed nuggets of music history...artists that have influenced KISS, or were influenced by KISS at some point in their career.

We all know James Brown was the godfather of soul, but did you know that he was also the godfather of Gene Simmons? Thats right. And on several occasions, back in the early years of KISS, you would see James Brown front and center at a KISS concert. And Gene would always give him his propers ( thats what is was called back then..propers...look it up). Gene would say, “I’d like to dedicate this one to the godfather of my soul, James Brown...this is Black Diamond”. It was at these shows that Gene got the idea for crazy dance moves for KISS.

Both Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley will tell you that when they started KISS, they wanted to be The Beatles. They wated to be BIGGER than The Beatles. Both bands were a quartet, made up of a bassist and a guitarist that seemed to be the leaders, and a second guitarist and a drummer who contributed their fair share (although Gene will argue that all the way to court about Peter and Ace). KISS had to make themselves different from The Beatles. The makeup, the outrageous costumes, the fire breathing, bloodspitting, and 2 hour pyrotechnic extravaganza of a show didnt set them apart enough from The Beatles. What did they do? They tried out a fifth member to join KISS that just so happened to be a big influence on The Beatles. Needless to say, Ravi Shankar didnt cut it because he just sat there.

In 1968, Tiny Tim peaked with his rendition of “Tip Toe Thru The Tulips”, his number one hit that only charted at number seventeen. It was his staple. He was only known for that song and playing the ukulele. He wasnt even tiny! He was over 6 feet tall! After years of touring for that one song, he finally decided to change it up a bit in 76 by hiring KISS and the whole stage show to back him on his “1776-1976 Ukulele States Of America” World Tour. He died of a heart attack 20 years later.

Everyone thinks that it was comic Sam Kinison that merged comedy and hard rock. There had always been comedians that blended music into their act. Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, The Smothers Brothers..all acts that incorprated wholesome music with their comedy to give their joke an added punchline, if the music itself wasnt the joke. Richard Pryor, on the other hand, had another idea. His “That Ni**ers Crazy” tour featured a hard rock backing band consisting of four guys in whiteface wearing S&M clothing...who were they? You guessed it...

1979 brought change for KISS. They had just released the album “Dynasty” which saw KISS “progress” with the music industry by recording a disco song, “I Was Made For Lovin You”. While it did suprisingly well on the charts, it didnt fair well with most of their fans, and The KISS Army was dwindling down to cub scout status. They tried a number of things... Im not sure why they agreed to back Frank Sinatra on a tour, but they were fired after the second performance when Gene got blood on Sinatras tuxedo.

Nobody tours like Loretta Lynn. She has one tour bus just for herself, a second tour bus for her dresses and three pick-up trucks for her band. One tour, Loretta Lynn was traveling from a show in Fargo, North Dakota to the next evenings show in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her bus and the bus full of her dresses arrive the next afternoon at the venue but the pick up trucks werent there. She figured they had stopped to eat (as it was a Wednesday, the day Loretta lets you eat), but as showtime was approaching a few hours later, the band still hadnt arrived. Well, as her opening act started to play, about twelve 18 wheelers pull up. It was the crew of KISS and they were playing the next night. She politely asked the crew if any of them could play country. None of them could, but they said Paul and Gene always blasted her music on the tour bus and they were coming to see the show. Maybe KISS could be your backup band. Sure enough, when the 5 stretch limos arrived to bring the four members of KISS to the show, they heard the news and agreed to not only perform, but let her use their stage. It was a magical night. The photo shows the exact moment she realized what happened to the band. “Oh my God, they ran out of gas because I forgot to give them their per diem!”.

“Cant Touch Kiss” was the working title for MC Hammer, as he was a huge KISS fan back in the day. One night, Hammer was watching a KISS show from side stage. They started playing “I Was Made For Lovin You”, and Hammer couldnt help himself. He came flying out on the stage, parachute pants and all, and started dancing. After the show, Gene pulled him aside and said “If you ever pull a stunt like that again, or try and use our name in a song, Ill sue your ass so fast, you’ll be broke before you reach triple platinum”...and, now you know what happened to MC Hammer.

Believe it or not, for all of their evil “devil music” and demonic stage shows, their biggest hit was a ballad by drummer Peter Criss, “Beth”, a song with vocals, piano, and a string section. When “Beth” was performed, Peter would come out and sit on a stool and throw roses out to the ladies in the crowd while he sang against a backing music track. One night the band wanted to mix it up a bit. They re-arranged “Beth” to be done by the four members, and Gene called his old buddy from Hebrew School, Barbara Streisand, to come sit in on the one song. She agreed, but only if she could make some changes. That night, and only that night, the song “Beth” became known as “Babs”.

If you have ever seen or heard an interview with Gene Simmons, he is all about the swagger..he is all about being cool. He is cool when flying 50 feet in the air and blood flowing from his mouth. He thinks he invented cool, so much so that he tried to trademark the word “cool”. He was denied because another artist, Miles Davis, already had it. Gene invited Miles to a KISS show. Miles arrived with his trumpet and walked out on stage unannounced. Gene ran over to him and whispered, “Miles my man, I only invited you to watch, not play”. Miles looked at him and said, “dude, shut the fuck up start playin “Love Gun”. Thats my jam”.

Charlie Daniels wrote the song “Devil Went Down To Georgia” based on seeing a KISS concert in Dahlonega, Georgia. He truly thought that they were the band brought there by Satan himself. Years later, Charlie Daniels still tours with that song being the only one anyone ever recognizes. He makes more money from jukebox residuals than touring. Now with YouTube and all, who needs jukeboxes, so this past year he was invited by Paul Stanley to perform “Devil Went Down to Georgia” at that same venue in Dahlonega. No shocker hear, Paul played the part of the devil. Not sure how they got a stripper pole on that small stage.

A few years ago, KISS was finally inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (RRHOF) One of the traditions at the award ceremony is to have someone who was very influenced by, or influential to the nominee introduce them at the award cerfemony and perform with them.. Well that list was too long to pick one person, so the committee pondered on it. Who or what means the most to KISS? The answer...money. At this point during the meeting, the secretary of the RRHOF had just left the room to take a call about her sons babysitter being sick so she had to leave and pick up the boy from the bus stop. Not asking what else was said in the meeting, she went ahead and booked Eddie Money to play with KISS at the ceremony. To this day, KISS doesnt even know why but they made the best of it... Eddie Money blew a blood vessel that night.

Today, KISS is still a major influence all over the performing arts. Even the cast of the broadway sensation “Hamilton” has special once a month matinee performance with KISS as the pit band.

..and even Paul Stanley is a huge “Hamilton” fan..

Today, THE hottest ticket is Adele. No band on stage, no pyro, just ...her...and that voice... people are paying thousands to see her/hear her. but..she knows... she gets it.. she needs to figure out something to boost that stage. Well, she is on the right track.. recently she got former KISS guitarist, Vinnie Vincent who has been a recluse and not been seen in years to come and play guitar for her. He asked if he could wear the makeup and outfit for old times sake. She said, “Sure, as long as you dont spill me coffee, mate”.

Get it?

#kiss #concerts #hard rock #gene simmons #paul stanley #peter criss #ace frehley #adele #concert photography

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