You know how there are some fanvids that just perfectly capture all the feelings and thoughts you have about a show or character? That move you to tears or reveal something you didn't even realise you were thinking of about a character?
That are done so well that from then on you just automatically associate that character to that song?

This is one ( Read more... )

It's official. Miyu from Chase (see previous entry) is an annoying character. She comes from an affluent family, is spoiled and one track minded. I find myself too annoyed to be amused with her antics ( Read more... )

You know you're in trouble when you suddenly decide to follow a serialised story from the very start. It means you have to wait (sometimes painfully) for every update. It's so new that no scanlation group has picked it up.


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Someone I was following recommended this series. So I picked up the trilogy and and finished it over the weekend.

I am so displeased.

[My feelings, they are wounded]The first book was fun, really really fun. It gave me the exhilaration of discovering a new world. A world where magic is performed by summoning and enslaving spirits from the Other World. The enslavement bit ( Read more... )

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Okay, so I finally read Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. And I need closure.

Someone please write me or point me the way of a coda that
[Spoiler (click to open)]has Estraven's order of banishment lifted. And that his family be able to mourn his death with pride.


I don't deal with downer endings very well.
That is all.

Anyway, I finally got round to watching Les Miserables (2012). I had already been mentally prepared and came in with low expectations but lo, I really enjoyed it.

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I have just discovered the music genre called "folk rock". AND Mumford & Sons. The guitar tabs are AMAZING. Am now looking up all their songs.

Discovered thanks to this brilliant video dedication "grace & choice" by youtube user Deductism.

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So I find out that Roger Allam from Cabin Pressure used to sing Javert's role in the Les Miserables Original London Cast. I recall thinking whenever he broke into song in Cabin Pressure that he should be singing in musicals, turns out that he was ( Read more... )

So now I'm addicted to the Lizzie Bennet Diaries AND have become fond of hedgehogs. This is all Sib's fault. :)

Need to find productive work. Guh. The one productive thing I've done today was to get registered at the post office and make an "important" online purchase. Ok, make that two things. But still, whut.

Also, playing You Set Me Free on ( Read more... )