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Uploading the Korean dream
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 27/03/2015
» Nathamon "Nutty" Kongjak was only seven minutes late, but she apologised profusely, to the point of mutual embarrassment. For a net idol with 3 million followers, and a budding artist who has just released an album in Korea, Power Of Nutty, there's something disarming about Nathamon, especially when the general consensus of net idols and K-pop stars tends to lean on the negative side.
Wonderfruit bears more than music
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 28/10/2014
» Thailand is never short of festivals, all year round. From EDM, nostalgic, broken heart to song for life festivals, we've become both immune and suspicious whenever the word "festival" comes up, as one often looks, feels and sounds like another. But Wonderfruit Festival, taking place from Dec 19-21 in Chon Buri, aims to change all that.
Lazarus, paper-bound
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 29/09/2014
» For many years the notion that "print is dying" has been repeated over and over. Countless studies and articles detail how technology is robbing the world of its on-paper reading sources. But the advent of publishing house Salmon Books and its gradual rise in popularity has given print-lovers a glimpse of hope.
Clued in and caustic
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 18/07/2014
» Showtika Somjid’s pseudonym was suggested by the names of a mentally disturbed couple, Nola and Nolee, who lived rough in her neighbourhood; they were familiar faces, often seen roaming the streets, but they never caused any harm to anybody. Showtika said she never meant to spark off speculation that there might be deep, philosophical reasons for her adoption of “Nolanolee”, the moniker she uses to sign the art she creates. She just thought it sounded like a “cute and friendly” tag and said she sometimes wonders what combination of events brought that pair of homeless people to that juncture in their lives.
Musical journey
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 11/09/2013
» Jason Mraz lives in a beautiful, bright world that most of us can only dream about. The wave-riding, bare-footed, guitar-toting musician sings about love in the most positive, the most saccharine-sweet way that the entire human race will ever hear.
Not such a capital idea
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 11/07/2012
» If the world doesn't end in 2012, it will probably end next year when Bangkok becomes "Book Capital of the World".
Going crazy over GAGA
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 29/05/2012
» How long was Lady Gaga in Bangkok again? In the space of a mere three days, pop's current biggest princess unknowingly courted more controversies than she'll ever know or, actually, care.
Hoot property
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 01/02/2012
» Conducting interviews at a music festival must be the bane of any sane journalist's existence. Running from one stage to another is hard enough, but when thrown into a pressroom near the stage where it's too loud and stuffy, it can get even more frustrating. That's what happened during our short slot with US electronica act Owl City, aka Adam Young, at the recent Silverlake Music Festival in Pattaya. He was propped up on stage while I was fielding him questions from a chair off stage _ communicating through microphones. It looked like a scene from an Asian arthouse movie where, at any minute, Young might get off his high stage to bite off my head, and then butterflies would rise from the ground to eat my corpse.