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Shinsengumi! a.k.a., The Kondo Isami Fans Club
I'm gonna totes skip ahead to episode 4 of "Shinsengumi!" because episodes 2 and 3 was the acid test. I really had to power through those. Nothing really important happens except maybe a couple of cameos from characters who will be important later on.
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Epic Flail - Shinsengumi!
The 3am fangirl bug has bitten me yet again. What are you gonna do when it's the middle of the night and you can't sleep because your stupid interests are pic-spamming your brain? Until someone tells me there's an app for that, there's always LJ to the rescue ( Read more... ) -
Top 5 Mangaka (...so far)
Recently I've taken a more serious interest in manga. Scans of English translations have become rampant, and I'm grateful to all these anonymous souls who have taken the time to translate and upload all these wonderful works from artists we would otherwise not have had the chance to discover. Here are my top five mangaka so far ( Read more... ) -
Fight The Signs of Aging
Hitched a ride from work with my team the other day, and one of them posed this question - "Which artist's concert would you spend money to see, even if they're old and no longer in fashion?"
"OMG! Debbie Gibson!"
Blank stares. Crickets.
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Media Map 2011 - Part 3: Music
In 2011, I rendered most of the songs on my iTunes obsolete as I got into some music from Japan to go with my Japanese movie fix. Who knows why I turned my back on songs written in English last year? If you were to ask me who my favorite new artists from 2011 were, I wouldn't be able to tell you, but I can tell you who my favorite new discoveries ( Read more... ) -
Media Map 2011 - Part 2: Japanese Movies
Last year, I heavily got into contemporary Japanese cinema, to the extent where I can recognize and name the actors who keep appearing in the movies I watch. My favorite actors from these films:
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Marketing Killed the Livejournal Star
Happy to have read a blog entry that didn't have Marketing-fuelled content.
This is why I still log on to LJ every so often.
Stay real, LJ friends.
