| Don't eat while reading this. Eeesh. |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|12:52 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | yuletide | ] |
| [ | mood |
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| [ | music |
| | Treasure Planet DVD | ] |
By the way, hearkening back to my earlier post--this doesn't spoil anything, since you can see on the Yuletide list of requested fandoms that no one asked for it--I did not get assigned to write for Richard Adams's The Plague Dogs. I decided, when I accidentally included it in the list, that rather than redo my list I'd just go read the book once and for all, even before the assignments came out, so I got it from the library.
I got through Ulysses easier than this. This is...guys, I have written some interesting metaphors myself in my time, some of them admittedly more purple than should be seen outside of crackfic, but this takes them all:
...Rowf's rump slid suddenly forward as smoothly as a turd from a healthy anus...
I can't even facepalm. It's too squicky. |
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| Also, being by myself, I got to watch anything I wanted on tv, not football. Anime yaoi, ho! |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|10:07 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | food | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  full | ] |
| [ | music |
| | hikaru no go, ep 70 | ] |
I had to work part of the holiday, so I just counted the time I did have off as a good thing, and took it easy rather than make plans with others. I did make time to make a yummy dinner for myself from scratch:
Chicken with sun-dried tomatoes in dijon-riesling-cream sauce
Sesame noodles
Spicy peanut butter soup
Tart green salad with proscuitto and asiago and warm balsamic dressing
Warm butterscotch-maple pudding
I love mixing cuisines. |
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| Wednesday Edition |
[Nov. 25th, 2009|09:00 pm] |
One Shots:
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) snegurochka_lee: Light as Iron, Singed as Pearl - (Harry/Draco, NC-17, *warnings*)
fancypantsdylan: Playing with the Headmaster - (Severus/Harry, NC-17, *warnings*)
torina_archleda: Together - (Severus/Harry, PG, *warnings*)
whitecotton: Mistake Number Four - (Severus/Harry, NC-17, *warnings*)
atypicalsnowman: His Color - (Severus/Lucius, NC-17, *warnings*)
faeryqueen: Little Miss Potter - (Severs/Harry, R, *warnings*)
Drabbles:
alisanne: Wand of Pleasure - (Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione, PG)
janus: Shame - (Severus, G)
thesewarmstars: Anything - (Severus/Dumbledore, PG-13, *warnings*)
[Unknown LJ tag]: Serenity by - (Severus/Lucius, PG-15, *warnings*)
torina_archelda: Jealousy by - (Severus/Harry, G)
ellid: Justifying the Wolf, III - (Severus/Remus, Unrated)
fancypantsdylan: Quidditch Predictions - (Severus/Harry, R)
alisanne: Always Hungry - (Harry/Ron, PG)
Art:
wallflowergirl: All for you - (Remus/Sirius, NC-17, *warnings*)
Community News:
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) snupin100: Challenge 235 - Teeth
lupin_snape: Snupin Santa Contest - Stuff the Stockings!
severus_sighs: Author and Artist Interviews 2009
Newsletters:
dailysnitch: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com. |
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| Tuesday Edition |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|06:57 pm] |
One Shots:
ciraarana: Spoils of War - Harry/Ginny, Harry/Severus; also mentions Ron/Hermione and other canon pairings, R
Works In Progress:
slashpervert: Harry Potter and the Charming Prince - Completed, Harry/Draco, Adult
Drabbles:
alisanne: Cracked - Severus Snape/Kingsley/Shacklebolt, PG
severus_lies: Enthralled - Severus Snape, Charity Burbage, G
ellid: Justifying the Wolf, I - Snape/Lupin,
alisanne: Opposites Attract - Snape/Harry, PG
fancypantsdylan: Being Thankful - Harry/Draco, PG 100x3
Community News:
harry100: New Prompt - prompt 59
lupin_snape: Mod Post - Snupin Santa 2009
Newsletters:
snapenews: New Issue - issue 780
Various:
whitestar: Snupin Icons
If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com. |
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| all ye fans of Lord Peter Wimsey |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|09:56 am] |
( spoiler cut ) |
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| Sunday Edition |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|07:03 pm] |
One Shots:
pre_raphaelite1: Alternatives - (Morfin/Quirrell, Voldemort/Quirrell, NC-17)
alisanne: Malfoy Mistletoe - (Lucius/Hermione, Severus/Harry/Draco, PG)
Works In Progress:
jordangrant: Owned - was updated with part 103/? (Harry/Draco, NC-17 *warnings*
Drabbles:
alisanne: Reminder - (Severus/Harry, PG)
lilyseyes: Sweet Kisses - (Severus/Harry, R)
alisanne: Too Good to Hide - (Severus/Harry, PG)
alisanne: Boggart - (Neville/?, PG)
alisanne: Dangerous - (Neville/Bill, Kingsley/Charlie, Severus/Harry, R)
enchanted_jae: Of Glistening Holes and Pulsating Organs - (Harry/Draco, PG13)
Community News:
snape100: Posted their latest Challenge
Newsletters:
dailysnitch: Posted their Satuday Edition
dailysnitch: Posted their Alastor Moody Special Edition
snapenews: Posted their latest edition
dailysnitch: Posted their Sunday edition
Various:
severus_sighs: Author and Artist interviews - Dementor Delta
Other:
angela_snape: Rug Burns - (Severus/Harry, R) (Drabbles,)
If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com. |
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| And now, for something completely different |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|10:31 am] |
1. I feel behind on fandom stuff, not least my f-lists. If you feel neglected, you're not imagining it.
2. Hello, sexism. And yet I'm totally tempted to install o_O
3. I don't need to run a ½-marathon - it's much more fun to read about ilanarama's marathons!
4. Without being able to say something intelligent about it, I'm extremely fascinated by the fact that I share virtual culture with people whose meatspace culture I don't share. Case in point: 100 Greatest Internet Videos In 3 Minutes. The music is obnoxious as hell, and I don't know all the clips. But the ones I do know are part of an internet culture I share with people from all over the world, but who's not a part of my meatspace culture. Know what I mean? Well, I'm fascinated.
5. I'm also endlessly fascinated with people who can do things with their bodies that I could never hope to do. Point: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1903600
6. Pollz! Poll #4614
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllWhich impressed you most? (You get multiple choice, because I'm nice [and impressed] like that) OT: Camping!fic? |
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| IJ economics |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|09:59 am] |
According to my count of announcements announcements [sic], InsaneJournal has had seven account sales in 2009 (the seventh was just announced).
I find that troubling, but am strangely adverse to mentioning it - because, I guess, I still feel grateful squeaky was so welcoming to us LJ refugees in 2007. At any rate, I get the impression IJ economics are either unstable, or squeaky wants a bigger personal profit out of the site. Which I can't say I blame him for; we all would like to be paid for our work. But I am questionable about the future of IJ. |
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| Saturday Edition |
[Nov. 21st, 2009|11:19 am] |
One Shots:
torina_archelda: Tribbles and Trilobites - (Severus/Harry, PG-13)
joanwilder: Dreams of Home - (Harry/Severus, PG)
katiebell_0408: A Rough Day - (Harry/Severus, R)
Drabbles:
shoeboxes4all: Ouch - (Severus/Harry, PG)
lemondropseven: Wind - (Severus/Harry, PG-13) *warnings*
lilyseyes: Breathing Sweetly - (Harry/Severus, NC-17) *warnings*
lilyseyes: Bleak and Cold - (Harry/Severus, NC-17) *warnings*
Art:
doveypoo: Traditional Wear - (Harry, Ron, and Hermione, R)
Community News:
daily_deviant: Posted a reminder about Kinky Kristmas submissions
wizard_love: Posted an Assignment Confirmation Reminder
severus_sighs: Posted Author and Artist Interviews 2009: Jadzialove
Newsletters:
snapenews: Posted Issue #788: Thursday/Friday
Various:
jin_fenghuang: Posted masterlist of her fics and art
If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com. |
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| now everything is new... |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|12:16 pm] |
... or so the song goes. Actually, the difficulty is that life careens on no matter whether I'm paying attention or not, which means I'm nowhere near unpacked, I'll be sightsinging 11 pieces at tonight's rehearsal (and learning one by ear; the remaining two I've sung before), and I'm daunted at the necessity of getting my house company-ready by Monday.
Also, I ache all over, and I'm not sure if it's residual jetlag, residual-falling-off-a-horse-in-Jordan (I did get back on, go me), climate shock (I wore a bikini top in Tel Aviv last Saturday; today, I'm swaddled in my fleece robe and flannel nightgown, and I'm still cold), resuming my acquaintance with Tennessee Valley allergens, or if I'm succumbing to one of the many colds lurking around me (the BYM has been complaining of a scratchy throat). I better not be - I have high notes to hit! - but I've had to defer catching up with people, just in case, and that's a bummer.
Mopiness and munched-up-by-obligations-ness aside, HI! (For those of you just tuning in, I was in Israel for a month - primarily to attend a friend's wedding in Tel Aviv, but also to indulge my wanderlust while I have the legs and flextime to give it rein. There are more details and photos at my general journal.) I couldn't help but think of y'all while I was over there - there was a sushi restaurant in Jerusalem with a manga-styled girl in its ads; cartoon crustaceans on subway walls; shiny, shiny beach structures and a gorgeous library at the Israel Supreme Court, both of which made me miss marginaliana like you wouldn't believe (and so did seeing the Sesame Street stream of Google-logos (November 4-10) every time I hopped onto google.co.il to figure out buses, trains, and other logistics); and a Woodpigeon cover of "Lay All Your Love Down on Me" that had me remembering geoviki's lists.
(I have been unnaturally obsessed with that song for the past nine days - the Information Society version happened to be playing while I was at the Japonika in Haifa, and somehow rooted itself into my system before I was done with my coffee, and the plane home had the ABBA original in its database, so I ended up playing it over and over from Turkey to Quebec in tandem with dance mixes of "All Out of Love" and "Don't Leave Me This Way." It was weirdly soothing to doze to, although the teenage girl in the seat next to me probably thinks I'm a sad, sad freak. I'll just have to riff on it for My Poem Rocks or some other venue - something in my psyche wants its turn on the dancefloor...)
Um, so, yeah, lots going on, and lots more to say, but I've definitely exceeded my babble quota for the day. Plus, lunch to make and cards to send and files to edit and submissions to assemble. Speaking of the last, there are now poems scheduled to appear at Strange Horizons and Dead Mule in the near-ish future, and just a couple hours, qarrtsiluni went live with both the text and audio versions of I am waiting for the right instant to say your name. (For what it's worth, I feel this is my best reading to date of anything I've written, so I'm extra-pleased about that.)
*hugs you all, bounds off to terrorize the mailman* *eg* |
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| Another *headdesk* moment brought to you by LJ |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|01:09 pm] |
From the Nov 18 Writer's Block prompt: What (if any) books would you ban from a high school library? Are there certain subjects that you feel are inappropriate for teenagers regardless of literary merit? O_O |
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| Wednesday Edition |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|11:22 pm] |
One Shots:
alisanne: A Meaty Proposition - (Harry/Draco, PG)
kennahijja: Resurrection - (Rose, Albus, Scorpius, PG)
lilyseyes: At Last, a Kiss - (Severus/Harry, NC-17, *warnings*)
celandineb: Unconventional - (Severus/Harry, Harry/Draco, NC-17, *arnings*)
ldymusyc: Family Business - (Bellatrix/Draco, NC-17, *warnings*)
torina_archelda: To Sleep - (Severus, PG-13, *warnings*)
rickey_a: The Real Thing - (Harry/Draco, NC-17, *warnings*)
Works In Progress:
the_con_cept: It Sucks to be Severus Snape - Updated with chapter 15/15 (Severus/Harry, NC-17, *warnings*)
Drabbles:
alisanne: Misfits - (Harry/Ron, G)
alisanne: Attracting Attention - (Harry/Draco, G)
torino10154: No Pressure - (Severus/Harry/Drac, NC-17, *warnings*)
lemondropseven: Escape - (Severus, PG)
ellid: Reclaiming the Wolf, VII - (Remus/Severus, Unrated)
sweetmelodykiss: A Pensieve Moment - (Lupin/Snape, R)
Community News:
snupin100: Challenge 234 - The Pensieve
Newsletters:
dailysnitch: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Various:
severus_sighs: Author and Artist Interviews 2009 - Accioslash
severus_sighs: Author and Artist Interviews 2009 - Gingertart
If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com. |
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| Anime rec: Piano no Mori |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|10:08 pm] |
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The Piano Forest (Piano no Mori) (Perfect World of Kai) (2007) #
Genres: drama, tournament. Themes: music, piano.
Status: OVA (101 min)
Anime Start/End Chapter: Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1. Ends at Vol 6, Chap 41.
Director: Masayuki Kojima
Summary: Amamiya Shuuhei transfers to Moriwaki elementary filled with hope and ambition. But it doesn't take long before he gets picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest. Igniting his meeting with an equally enigmatic child that goes by the name of Ichinose Kai, who seems to be the only one capable getting sound out of the thought to be broken piano.
Found: saw it shared in some anime comm and thought the summary looked intriguing.
Manga BU page.
Mangaka: Isshiki Makoto
Genre: Comedy Drama Seinen Slice of Life
Status: 17 Volumes (Ongoing), scanlation ongoing.
Summary: from KEFI: A tranquil tale about two boys from very different upbringings. On one hand you have Kai, born as the son of a prostitute, who's been playing the abandoned piano in the forest near his home ever since he was young. And on the other you have Syuhei, practically breast-fed by the piano as the son of a family of prestigious pianists. Yet it is their common bond with the piano that eventually intertwines their paths in life.
Download: I've watched it at Youtube. |
My notes: I must say it at the very beginning that contrary to my usual way of getting familiar with a new animanga, I haven't read the manga this time. I only watched the anime, so please take into account that everything I'll be saying is only about the anime.
This is a pleasant story: while not action/adventure, it has enough plot to keep your attention, especially around the climax. The boys are likeable. Kai's pretty wild and brash but also kind and has this inner purity and honesty that sometimes accompany raw talent and that influence people around him. I liked his practical reasons for learning things. He can't read score; he plays what he has heard. Once he found that he couldn't reproduce a particular piece of Chopin's, he plays scales to learn to play this particular piece, not because one must learn scales first, nor to become a good pianist in general. And so on. I absolutely adored his literal-mindedness about Mozart. The crowd of Mozarts made me laugh every time they appeared. In other words, Kai is lovely and very refreshing. Shuuhei is a bit more boring because he's very straight-laced for a boy his age and he plays the piano for all the wrong reasons, but doesn't it often happen this way? The two boys meet and gradually change each other. The best about their relationship, as for me, was the ways it didn't go. I can't say much more here but I liked how the dramatic side of it was downplayed rather than milked for all it's worth. It makes Piano no Mori a soothing story.
I think animation and drawing are good. I hear that the main problem people have with the manga is the drawing style. Am not able to say anything about that yet but I can't see what's not to like in the anime, if to speak of the visual side. It's neither cheap nor banal, and it's the only anime so far where a character playing the piano didn't make me cringe.
This leads me to why I give it only one star if I like everything. Not quite everything, as it turns out. You see, it's piano this and piano that, piano this and piano that. In more coherent speak, the story is fine and lovely but, I don't know, very narrow. Not unlike Hikaru no Go. But HnG was much more emotionally affecting and the story was much bigger than just about Go in the end. It sort of turned me inside out, made me live it for months. Here somehow I didn't have the impression that the story is bigger than the main theme. Pleasant? Yes. Interesting? Yes, enough. Can I relate? Nope. Apart from that, I repeat, it's a lovely story. I doubt you'd regret spending 1.5 hours on it, so give it a try!
*Sorry if you have seen some (a lot) of this post before. I accidentally posted the draft :/ |
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| Music: Japanese: J-Rock |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|12:44 am] |
Part 3 of my Japanese music favourites. Today's topic is J-Rock. As usual, some songs are more rocky than others and the range is from Speed Metal to Pop-rock to anything I've found similar enough or fitting, with a generous dash of anime music and some hip-hop. It just means that on the whole, today's selection is gloomier and heavier than the two before it. I've shared three of these songs with you already but not the rest of them.
Files are uploaded to Box.net, which means that you can listen to them before/as well as download(ing). Box.net tends to mess up the sequence of the uploaded files, so I've added links to each song as well as to the folder. I did make it with the proper sequence in mind, so that one song flows into the other smoothly. But in any case, hope you like a few of them! So, with thanks to lyssaphra and kyuuketsukirui for sharing music with me, on to the music!
*Nitemare and Nightmare is the same band. I just kept the song tags as they were :)
Song title Length Singer/Band Album (where it was already in the tags)
Crucify My Love 4:36 X Japan
Curtain Call 5:34 GLAY Beloved
Wind 3:40 Akeboshi STONED TOWN
Kenji 3:51 Fort Minor The Rising Tied
I.V. 4:55 X Japan Saw IV OST
Moshimo Piano ga Hiketa Nara 3:53 Plastic Tree Baka ni Nattanoni
Jisatsu Ganbou 4:39 Due le quartz Best of Due le Quartz
Eternally Beyond 4:25 Moi dix Mois Beyond the Gate
Brave Love: Galaxy Express 999 5:16 The Alfee
Dancing Yooderu Night (Leorio) 3:36 Gouda Hozumi Hunter X Hunter Singles Collection
The World 3:47 Nightmare Death note anime soundtrack
Haiiro no Hitomi 4:24 Shiina Ringo & Kusano Masamune Utahite myouri [disc 1]
Shangri-La 4:37 Angela Soukyuu no Fafner OP/ED Single
Again 4:15 YUI FMA:B 1st OP
D-tecnoLife 3:53 UVERworld D-tecnoLife
Monochrome no Kiss 4:00 SID Monochrome no Kiss (Kuroshitsuji OP)
Coming Closer 5:14 L'Arc~en~Ciel Smile
Kaze no Uta 3:40 Motoda Minako Hunter X Hunter Singles Collection
Kasou 5:09 L'Arc~en~Ciel
Bokutachi no Yukue 4:33 Takahashi Hitomi Bokutachi no Yukue
Alumina (Tv size) 1:13 Nitemare Death note anime Soundtrack
Desire 4:24 Luna Sea Style
Hologram ANIME Ver. 1:41 NICO Touches the Walls Hologram (FMA:B OP)
Talkin' 2 myself 4:53 Hamasaki Ayumi Talkin' 2 myself
MY LONELY TOWN 3:38 B'z
Drink It Down 2:51 L'Arc~en~Ciel Trailer Rip
Blessing 4:34 FictionJunction YUUKA Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto Intro Theme - Koya Ruten OP/ED
Still Doll 3:20 Kanon Wakeshima Vampire Knight
Shinkai no Kodoku 3:58 Kuwashima Houko Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED DESTINY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK II
God Knows... 4:38 Hirano Aya, Goto Yuhiko Oricon 2006-07-03 Single Weekly Best 30
Rolling star 3:09 YUI Rolling star
Kimi Dake wo 5:26 Spitz Crispy
Ain't Afraid to Die 7:15 Dir en Grey Ain't Afraid to Die
Kaze ni Fukarete 4:16 Elephant Kashimashi Ashita ni Mukatte Hashire -Tsukiyo no Uta-
Separation 4:49 Angela Soukyuu no Fafner OP/ED
Memorial Address 3:56 Hamasaki Ayumi Memorial Address
Forever Love (Acoustic Version) 7:54 X Japan X
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