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Monday, September 14th, 2009

Subject:Aaand another post on manga...
Time:10:09 pm.
Music:girl talk - hold up.
...this time Otapyon's *Shacho to Hisho* )

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Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Subject:In which I am the H1N1 of 韓流
Time:9:15 pm.
Music:poe - hey pretty.
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

Subject:I was going to do another post about manga...
Time:11:40 pm.
Music:deltron - positive contact.
...but instead I give you SurveyFAIL '09. Hours and hours of WTFun!?!? for all!

Seriously, it's stuff like this that makes me regret not getting my Masters in gender studies after all.

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ETA: [info]metal_dog5, last paragraph in this link and Bride of Fail. Did I call it, or did I fucking call it?
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Time:10:43 pm.
Music:ghostland observatory - robotique majestique.
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

Subject:So as I've been watching Orthros No Inu...
Time:11:42 pm.
Music:hybrid - last man standing.
...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

Subject:Mini Revelation is Relevatory
Time:8:13 pm.
Music:nine inch nails - i ghosts i.
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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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Subject:Oh, Japan.
Time:10:41 pm.
Never change. )

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Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Subject:In which a Kdrama may actually defeat me...
Time:11:26 pm.
Music:雨音.
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

Subject:I which I ramble on at great length about Frozen Flower...
Time:10:29 pm.
Music:apex - base design.
...and why conscious attempts to make a "yaoi movie" are doomed to failure from the start. Rampant spoilerage and plot elision below the cut. )

Anyway, these mixed signals left me curious as to how much of the plot is historical fact. The wiki article was most unforthcoming in this regard. But then I remembered the horseback painting. )

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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Subject:As some of you already know...
Time:11:16 pm.
...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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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Subject:More Novel Porn
Time:11:55 am.
Music:dire straits - why worry.
Namely, Takamura Yuiko's Ayashi no Koi no Monogatari, which was actually really good. )

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Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Subject:How to fail with historical porn.
Time:11:51 pm.
Music:nick-k - bad mofo.
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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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Subject:Although the idea behind getting the バイト...
Time:9:04 pm.
Music:axwell - submariner.
...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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Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Subject:In which there is awesomeness and sadness...
Time:10:46 pm.
Music:dj emma - space vox.
...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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Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Subject:Fandom of One!
Time:11:50 pm.
Music:electric six - heavy woman.
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

Subject:More on 容疑者X/Galileo...
Time:12:25 pm.
Music:the apples in stereo - sunday song.
...mainly for [info]fragilistikal and [info]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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Subject:Oh dear lord, help me.
Time:1:17 am.
I appear to be writing 容疑者Xの献身 fanfiction. Read more... )

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Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Subject:I haven't been ficcing recently...
Time:11:48 pm.
Music:ghostland observatory - heavy heart.
...so I give you six recent Asian movies in fifty words each.

Go. )

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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Subject:In which I am full of unashamedly inarticulate squee...
Time:12:55 am.
...for Red Cliff, which I finally saw todayRead 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

Subject:Okay, so I've watched "Boy Meets Boy" a couple of times now, and...
Time:9:23 pm.
...spoilers! )

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