Randomosity

[oyceter]

• rachelmanija has finished her excellent series of posts on PTSD: Parts I, II, and III


• She's also started reading Angel Sanctuary! My joy cannot be contained! Also, spoil her and have your brain taken over by Rosiel.


• rilina and yhlee continue to watch Gundam Wing. My joy is still not contained! OMG people watching and getting into my beloved first anime series despite its mecha-ness!


• I'm sure everyone has already seen the post-apocalyptic cities posters for I Am Legend but I wanted to highlight the fact that they have TAIPEI and SEOUL! EEEEEEE! (I love Hong Kong, but I feel HK is featured much more often than Taipei and Seoul! OMG! Taipei! National monument that is only a few blocks away from my apartment!


• I have taken the plunge, put my Netflix account on hold, and started Blockbuster. I blame my sister. On the minus side, Blockbuster only has DVDs 7-10 of GWing. On the plus side.... THEY HAVE DAMO ON DVD!!!!!


• shewhohashope hosts the 5th POC in SF Carnival and focuses on non-Western fantasy, including... WUXIA! (yes, I am a little obsessed right now) I particularly rec meganbmoore's wuxia primer for those of you like me who only know you like swords and flying people and historical costumes and have no idea what to watch outside of two or three things. And it's good for people who have absolutely no idea what wuxia is too! Win-win!

I should actually catch up on book and TV posting but... oh well. Soon.

Comments

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

Completely obscure obsessions are my thing! Although, try as I might, no-one's out there translating Arabic language telenovelas. At least Asian dramas are somewhat mainstream.

I think I'll write up Nobuta wo Produce (http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Nobuta_wo_Produce) aka the show that made me fall in love with Horikita Maki (http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Horikita_Maki), Yamashita Tomihisa (http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Yamashita_Tomohisa) AND Kamenashi Kazuya (http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Kamenashi_Kazuya). I will now watch almost anything with anyone of them it.

(I'm still disappointed that's there's no end to the Night World Series)

[oyceter]

Arabic telenovelas? Ooooo.

What is Nobuta wo Produce? I keep hearing about it vaguely, but have no idea what it's about. I think in my mind I decided it was a romantic comedy starring a young guy set in a grocery store he owned.

(I know! I want that final blue fire book, damnit)

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

They are CRAZY. I watch them with my mum on Middle Eastern channels. Some of them are about Arabs in South America, and are dubbed in Arabic from the original Spanish and some of them are made in the ME. Anyway they are CRAZY. And I'd like them a lot better if my mother would explain plot points other than during commericals. Or the commercial breaks were longer.

As I once described them: "Arabic Language Soap Operas (one-eyed villains, blind twins, rich girls brought up in poor but loving families, fiancee-stealing sisters, siblings slapping each other for laughs and the most ridiculous wigs known to mankind! Someone besides me and my mother should be watching them!)"

No, no, no!

It's a high school drama (don't walk away yet!), about an unpopular girl (... hold on) being 'produced' to become popular by two boys (a basket-case and a fake popular boy), and they learn to respect each other and stuff!

But it's really GOOD.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Really? Because I'm with oyceter. I thought it took place in a grocery store too...

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

I can see where it's coming from.

But it refers to this meaning:

pro·duce (prə-dūs', -dyūs', prō-)

5. To supervise and finance the making and public presentation of: produce a stage play; produce a videotape.

not this meaning:

n. (prŏd'ūs, prō'dūs)

2. Farm products, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, considered as a group.

[oyceter]

Oh. No Produce of DOOM at all? Woes.

... on the other hand, that makes the Japanese grammatical structure make a billion times more sense.

[oyceter]

You had me at "one-eyed villains" and "blind twins."

Ohhhhhh. Huh! Completely different than what I thought!

[cryptoxin.livejournal.com]

Does that mean that you've watched Suppli & Tatta Hitotsu no Koi? I did the same thing after Nobuta wo Produce, trying unsuccessfully to recapture the magic....

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

I'm watching Suppli at the moment! I like a good office drama, so I'm going to see how it goes.

And Kurosagi totally recaptured the magic, or at least made a different kind of magic for me.