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August 29th, 2015
12:25 pm
Journal entries are friends-only, but art posts of varying quality can be found under memories. They're also tagged, but memories is (are?) probably more complete because a lot of the earlier stuff was posted to communities not here. Art posts will be left public. There isn't much to see under the friends lock anyway.
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August 21st, 2011
02:44 am
OMGGGGGG PMK VOL. 6 IS OUT IN CHINESE YESSSSSSSSSS
Five years. Five years for Nanae Chrono to get over the fact that yes, this is a series about the Shinsengumi, you're going to have to kill all the characters you've grown so attached to. Five long empty years in which I'd given up hope that this series would ever be continued.
A trip to Kinokuniya first thing tomorrow is in order, I think.
Current Mood:  ecstatic
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August 2nd, 2011
June 9th, 2011
April 17th, 2011
10:11 pm - Manga-buying fail
Would anyone like a traditional Chinese edition of Ima Ichiko's Yoru to Hoshi no Mukou? 《星夜奇譚》 in Chinese. I'm an enormous dork who bought duplicate copies. This happens more than I'd like; I also have an extra copy of Saiyuki RELOAD 9 (trad. Chinese) knocking around, if anyone wants to take that off my hands too. What an incredible waste of money.
Current Mood:  disgusted with self
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April 14th, 2011
May 18th, 2010
01:22 am - IP Man VS. Fe Man
My sister has dubbed it "IP Man 2 vs. Fe Man 2", and Ip Man 2 basically won. I mean, yeah, the Chinese chauvinism is kind of embarrassing, and the plot is basically the same as the first movie's i.e. transparently, laughably structured around the solitary purpose of letting Donny Yen hit as many people in as quick a succession as possible. But the choreography is so elegant. And Donny Yen's acting was actually not bad. Considering the kinds of things I'd said about thespian chops in the past, this is high praise. I really like this gentle, dignified character. He's good to his wife and son! (My sister is creeped out by model-thin Lynn Hung who plays his wife and seriously TOWERS over him. Thinks she's insectile. Is that a word?) He's not interested in picking a fight! He never gets angry with his impulsive young protégé! All he wants to do is sek fan yum cha da gong fu literally eat rice drink tea practice gongfu! He's basically a peaced-out Wong Fei-hong from Once Upon a Time in China, minus the slapstick and the fugly queue. In other words, done completely right; love Once Upon a Time, HATE the queue.
Of course, the price is that the movie gets The Others AKA Not Chinese People really wrong.
( cut for spoilers )
On a completely shallow note, Donnie Yen kicking ass in chang pao without a horrid queue (this is important) is TOTALLY HOT. Lounging around drinking tea and smoking a cigarette is not bad too, although of course the lounging was mostly in the first movie before he lost his fortune in the war.
ALSO: Sammo Hung and Donnie Yen in the same movie omg omg omg.
On a completely shallowER note, I wish Donnie Yen would leave his face alone. Ignoring the rhinoplasty and the double eyelid thing which are ancient history anyway, I'm sure he's had something done to his skin recently. Yeah, he looks okay now. One day he'll go too far and his entire face will melt off or something. Dude, you're 47. You're in great shape, obviously, and I know there are East Asian people who are apparently ageless, but seriously. And does anyone else think he has utterly terrifying teeth? Like there's TOO MANY of them. And they're TOO LONG. AND WHITE. AND SHINING. Or something.
But all in all. Good times!
Current Mood: rambling
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April 22nd, 2010
06:46 pm
It has been far too long, my friends. Here be dragon:
My attempt at a classical Chinese beauty, although he's a little thin and long in the face. Pipang, maybe? I admit the voluminous sleeves are a lazy way to avoid drawing hands.
Current Mood:  busy
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April 7th, 2010
11:51 pm - on The Clash of the Titans
I enjoyed it for what it was, a brainless action movie with loads of action and fancy effects. But of course it would be completely out of character to not shoot all those tempting fish in that loose-adaptation barrel.
( midly spoilerish fish-shooting )
I must say that Sam Worthington the person seems rather sweet, but he does specialise in playing a particularly aggravating brand of pig-headed male. *gnashes teeth*
Current Mood:  sleepy
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April 4th, 2010
10:26 pm - He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
From a really quite brilliant series of ads by UBS. Pity some of the poems had to be truncated to fit the 60-second spot.
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