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suddenly we’re all running out of time; (clipped to polyvore.com)

Completed SHINee sampler on Flickr.

This is now in SHINee’s possession. My friend put it and a note in Onew’s hand 110611 SM Town Paris concert. He waved it around (see video I posted just prior) and shoved it in his back pocket. Something I put a lot of love into came that close to Onew’s ass.

Together with 3 friends I went to Paris on June 8th. We went there by car, so it took like forever. Especially since we couldn’t leave early and even more thanks to the traffic in Paris. We arrived at around 2.30 am after a 10.5  hour drive! Just the last 30km alone took more than 2 hours  -_- 
Anyways, because of this we couldn’t wait at the airport to see DBSK, SHINee and f(x) arrive. SNSD was there already and Super Junior arrived the day after. We met some friends that were there though and were able to see a short fancam of Yunho and Changmin arriving. They told us that it was crazy, people were pushing and everything…

So after sleeping one glorious hour at our beautiful hotel (NOT) we got up pretty early the next day, got ourselves ready and went to the Zenith, the stadium in which the concerts were hold.
Three of us had a soundcheck ticket for the second concert. A few days earlier we got an e-mail saying that both soundchecks will be put together and be held on that day. So we went there thinking we’ll be able to get in and see them. Apparently they sent another e-mail that morning though, saying that the soundchecks will be each before the concerts like originally planned. Honestly, it was a little annoying, the organization could’ve been better since they gave out the infos way too late and no one knew what was going on. I mean lots of people came from all over Europe, not everyone had internet access all the time…

But ok, so when we got there, a few people were sitting in front of the entrance already. To be honest, I was kind of surprised to see lots of punkish/rockish styled people… Guess I just imagined kpop fans differently lol. But more about that later. Anyways, apparently quite a few fans actually slept there o__O We then walked around the building because we wanted to find the back entry through which the bands arrived. And we did! ;) A few fans were standing there already, waiting for the bands to arrive for their rehearsals. So obviously we joined them. Everyone got super excited whenever a car arrived but they were all just random staff members or whatever lol. Those security people told us we had to behave or otherwise they would send us away. Guess they knew about the airport. So all the fans were like ‘Make a line’, ‘don’t scream! Just clap’, ‘Please behave’ and stuff whenever new people arrived. And it actually worked. Well… more or less xD So then… another car arrived. And it was DBSK! Honestly I didn’t really get it at first lol. I just realized everyone was super excited and I actually filmed them (well their backs) but didn’t realize it was really them until afterwards. Since my friends are hardcore Cassies, they went to the other side of the building because you could look through the small holes in the doors and see a little part of the stage. You could only see the legs though haha. I stayed back because I wanted to see the other groups arrive too. But then another bus arrived. It was the dancers and Yunho was standing at the back entrance to greet them!! Some stupid fat guy blocked my view most of the time LOL but I still got to see him. OMG I was so excited! I felt really bad for my friends though ;__; They are madly in love with him, so I wish they could’ve seen him there too. At least I took a picture:
I was standing around there for a veeery long time, but no new group arrived. Later we figured that only after one group is done, the next one arrived. Since I was alone there I met lots of nice people though, so it was still fun. Somewhat later my friends came back too. We couldn’t hear DBSK rehearse anymore so we knew that they were done and the next group should arrive soon. And just about then, another van arrived. It was SHINee! Gaah. I filmed them going it. Unfortunately it’s only their backs again. Except for Minho, because he turned around! From that distance some other guy looked kinda like Onew so I zoomed into the wrong person at first OTL haha. Anyways, here’s the video:

[CLICK] for fancam of SHINee arriving at Le Zenith.

Lots of media was there on that day already too. I think they even interviewed some fans and filmed them doing the ‘Sorry Sorry’ dance and stuff xD
We were still standing there when another car arrived. It was Sunny and Yoona! Sunny kinda looked up to us^^ When they got off the car, Yoona turned around and waved before they went in~ I actually filmed it but not with my camera. Maybe I’ll still add the fancams later.
Afterwards we saw Yunho get into the car again. We didn’t really see Changmin though. Idk if he stayed back or if we just missed him..
Well, soon after that we went back to our hotel too. We actually wanted to do some hotel stalking xD but there were no clear infos on which hotel they were staying at at that time. And it was getting really late anyway so yeah… We walked around a LOT that day and I think I stood there for around 5-6 hours at least too, so you can imagine how my feet and back were hurting… plus I was sooo tired because I barely got any sleep the night before.

So yeah, that’s pretty much it for the first day :3 
Here, have some more photos:

The entrance to the ‘Le Zenith’. Oh and those are the doors with the tiny holes I was talking about btw~

People waiting at the back entrance. I was down there for most of the time. Filmed this from above at the end. I was up there when Sunny and Yoona arrived too, so that’s why she ‘looked up’ ;)
The cars drove down the street you can see on the pic above and then went in through the gate on the left. This is that gate. We made lines so the cars could pass and then everyone was like this so they could see what was going on xD I was at the very front when I took the Yunho picture! When I filmed SHINee I was more on the right side (the uphill part of the street) though. Ugh, that damn grid -_-

skulled to death

David Lynch’s horrifying surrealistic nightmare of a film will be the inspiration for a new Parisian nightclub!  We now yield the floor to Stefon.

Paris’s hottest club is Silencio. This club has everything: plush seats, Naomi Watts, a proscenium arch, a multilingual goateed magician who gives people seizures, and a throaty nightmare cupcake woman. What’s a throaty nightmare cupcake woman? It’s that thing of where a surrealistic Belle Epoque grand dame with blue hair that looks like frosting whispers “silencio” at the end of a performance and you think still think about how unnerving it was eight years after seeing the movie. 

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