Enjoyment evaluation: I really had a fun time. I was fully mentally engaged, which isn't common ( Read more... )

Enjoyment evaluation: I didn't regret buying my ticket. Had a few laugh out loud moments ( Read more... )

Lots of the classic male gaze anthems take on a new life when the queer gaze gets involved. It can be a little difficult to get too irritated with songs extolling the virtues of the ladies when you, well, empathize with some of their sentiments. ( Read more... )

I watched all 5 seasons of episodic commentaries for Leverage, and it was an embarrassment of riches with regards to insight into the production, writing, and if they could get the director in on the session, directing and cinematography aspects of making live-action audiovisual stories ( Read more... )

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Is this what the SMTown documentary is like? Well, minus the awkwardly-glossed-over moments of dissatisfaction. Lol Gene don't give a fuck. He can speak bluntly if he want to.
Lena is speaking so carefully. Or at least right up until that commissary crack. Oh, burrrrnnnnnn ( Read more... )

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Bharatanatyam-inspired choreography set to big band swing jazz arrangements of Russian opera music accompanying a story in Caliphate-era Baghdad, wherein all of the leads are played by white people ( Read more... )

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Bob makes a good showing, but can he ad-lib down the stairs safely?

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Most greatly amused by the moonwalk predecessors around 1:30 and the ubiquitous "running in place" moves all of the rage in Kpop (They forgot G-Dragon's Heartbreaker dance!) at 1:36.

The greatest Smooth Sync team ever:

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They make it look so easy. T_T ( Read more... )

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(See the opening and first few lines of the show here)

( Long meandering thoughts here )

I'm currently sloooowly working on a Legally Blonde: The Musical post, so in the mean-time, have THE BEST ESSAY ON THE MAGICAL GIRL GENRE EVER, from Tumblr.

On the importance of Magical Girl Heroines & Weaponized Femininity

Although, as always, I have my own questions about if a piece of media's transformative power can be diminished by the way ( Read more... )

Holy cow, Marilyn puts all modern idols to shame. Talk about gap moe.

Here's what I previously wrote about idols of Monroe's style, couched in terms of the girlgroups members who are usually designated pink. I've revised it with the editions in bold:

There's something about Jpop girlgroups where the bubbly pink member is the actually the ( Read more... )