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time waits for no one (impatient son-on-a-...)
I know I've probably missed a few things but I did some light housekeeping here at the ol' journal. New layout (which only consists of a new header & colours, because I'm lazy), a few tweaks to the userinfo, and a teeny purge of userpics ( Read more... ) -
Begin with that most terrifying of all things: a clean slate.
So, uh, hi. It's been awhile. (27 weeks?! I swear to most applicable deities, I didn't mean to be gone that long.) And, yeah, new name-- hopefully to go with the definitely not new but hopefully improved me. (It's Vik, the prodigal blogger previously known as maechi, by the way. Just in case the name change confuzzles you or you've forgotten about ( Read more... ) -
[psa] re: youtube
A long time ago, YouTube modified their embed coding (to be HTML5 compatible, I think; relevant blog post here). Fast forward & it appears that they're now making it the default way to embed. That's leading to big blank spaces on LJ.
There's an easy fix:
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[movies] the silver loafers are magical
I wanted to get at least one more movie in but, blegh, so tired. :(
[No trailer. :| The internet does not favour movies with generic titles.]
Thoughts: ultimately predictable but great; everyone was good, especially Masami
Robot Contest (Robokon) is yet another movie about a group of misfits working to overcome obstacles so, yeah, things go ( Read more... ) -
[movies] time machines, turtles, & cyborgs -- oh my!
Ugh. I wonder if there will ever come a point when making uncomfortable phone calls won't make me physically ill. :( But it's done so I can now go about my business.
So, movies. \o/
( Trailer: Summer Time Machine Blues ) -
[movies] warau michael & swing girls
I'm having a very Ueno Juri-kind of day. I watched two of her movies this morning, at least one more is my stack of things to watch immediately (or sometime today). I guess she's one of my favourite actresses for a reason. ♥
( Trailer: Warau Michael ) -
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Usually I'm pretty much *eye-roll* when it comes to American remakes of, well, pretty much anything but... SyFy has a pilot for Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) in development. Commence bitching, right? Except it's being written by Jane & Drew from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It might actually be good!
