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Monday, September 14th, 2009
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
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Three years ago, I dragged my parents kicking and screaming into the den and made them watch the first episode of Daejanggeum. Last year I did the same to my aunt and uncle. Now I get regular calls asking for recommendations.
During the most recent, my father mentioned that he was busy watching "Queen...Something."
"Not 'Queen Seon Duk?'" I asked, all incredulity.
Well, yes, as it turns out, Queen Seon Duk. Granted, mon pere had only made it one episode in, and from what I can tell he is not using the same set of subs, which might be a mitigating factor, but he was rather bemused by how horrid I found it and I was rather bemused by how tolerable he found it.
This led to a discussion of what he should be watching instead. These discussions also occur periodically, and usually involve mon pere opening up My Soju and reeling off the list of top dramas while I giggle at his horrific pronunciation. Toping the list of doozies during this most recent of conversations was "Kai shight uh-cumma," which I eventually determined was "Koshite Akuma," and which I happen to be rather stuck on at present. For although it's supposedly 吸血鬼もの it is, put simply, the story of ( how awkward it is to be a high school boy whose pretty English teacher keeps making you hard. )
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
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Okay, so several people have been poking me for manga/shosetsu summaries as well. So I will attempt to do them, with three caveats: I don't necessarily read the newest stuff, my tastes don't necessarily coincide with the majority of yaoi fen's, and I'm probably going to have to spoil what little plot there is to explain why I do or do not like a given volume.
And with that out of the way, we will start with ( Sakurai Shushushu's 'Ice Eagle * Fire Hawk.' )
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
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...and boy howdy, do I hate the female protagonist.( Read more... )
That said, I'm probably going to stick around for a few more episodes as the male actors make for nice scenery and the ham-fisted co-optation from Death Note and VC is amusing.
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
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Three friends dragged me to Universal Studios Japan earlier this week. I am a huge fan of roller coasters and not much of a fan of Hollywood, so there was not much there to amuse me.
However, I have been a huge, huge fan of Terminator 2 since it came out.( Read more... )
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So here I find myself with classes over as of last Thursday and about two weeks until BS2 starts reairing Yi San (which has devoured my life for most of the past month, but that's a story for an epic post I don't feel like writing at the moment). What to do with this downtime? Another historical drama, of course.
I chose Queen Seon Duk. I have watched two episodes. I think it is saying something that I, who pride myself on being able to withstand the cheesiest cheese Korea has to offer, may not be able to make it through a third. Because, boy, is this drama ( a piece of work. )
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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...I went to South Korea last week. I tend to make multiple visits to foreign countries, returning to my favorite sites each time. But since this was my fourth (fifth?) trip to the ROK, I decided that this time I was going to go somewhere new, dammit. Thus, before departing I made a list of five sights and told myself I was absolutely going to visit at least three of them.
In fact, one of them was ( the first place I hit up upon arriving in Seoul. )
But anyway, enough of that. What about ( the spoils? )
Anyway, good times.
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Namely, Takamura Yuiko's Ayashi no Koi no Monogatari, which was actually ( really good. )
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The 府 government decided to close down all the schools in the city for a week...and informed students at 12:30 yesterday morning. This means that although I theoretically have seven days of free time on my hands that could be spent engaged in productive study, all of my materials are in my uni research room and I am forbidden by government fiat from setting foot on campus to go get them.
Thus inflicted with a frustrated urge to be writing something, I give you a (rather longer than it deserves) rundown on the ways Sakura Akari's Tsuki to Matsurika ( is made of fail. ) I've already repurchased Natsu no Akebono no Romanse as a palate-cleanser.
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...was to make money, I find that there is a conflict of interest between this objective and the location of my workplace, which is right next to the cinema whose relationship with my uni's film club equals big discounts for me, and a five minute walk from the city's largest Bookoff. The temptation is too much to resist, and I have already plowed several hours' wages into historical pr0n and movies.
( Including Red Cliff II. )
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...in equal measure.
The awesome? Actually winning one of the seats to the uni's screening of Mei Lanfang* and Chen Kaige's speech following the movie. Even more awesome? Meeting Chen Hong and getting to talk to her about the film.
The sadness? Forgetting to bring my freaking camera.
( As far as the movie goes? )
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Or, why couldn't I just have gotten into Hetalia ( like everybody else? )
And if that weren't bad enough, I appear to be writing large portions of the fic in Japanese.
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
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...mainly for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fragilistikal and metal_dog5, because my reply is probably a bit longer than the comment field will allow. ( Anyway, here are the basics. )
ETA: There's almost nothing on the net yet (the DVD only came out today), but I was able to find this compilation of outtakes on yt. Not sure how much (if any) sense it will make to anyone who hasn't seen the film, but it should give a basic idea of what I'm talking about above.
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
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...so I give you six recent Asian movies in fifty words each.
( Go. )
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
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...for Red Cliff, which I finally saw today( Read more... )
Regardless of the probable $40 price tag, on the day the DVD comes out I am all over it like Bush on religion.
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
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