Is it me, or has LJ been kinda dead lately? Is everyone off to tumblr? It's kinda sad, because even though I suppose I can always get my own tumblr, I loved the conversations that used to happen and tumblr isn't much on conversations - pretty caps and gifs, sure, meta, not so much. Boooo!

Surprisingly, the second ep of Big continued to be ( Read more... )

For some reason I've become obsessed by this 1960s hit by Zager & Evans, In the Year 2525.

I have no idea why but I've just listened to it too many times in a row.

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Why am I addicted? No idea.

OMG.

I just found that my most favorite song in the whole world is on youtube. I've heard it since I was little.

Here is Une vie d'Amour, performed by Charles Aznavour & Mireille Mathieu. This is about the most perfect performance of it ever, too.

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( I also found a Russian version on youtube )

I haven't made up my mind yet whether I like it or not *thinking* (I actually really like the sound, but am not sure about the band's performing affectations. Lose the nails, kthnksbye though it's interesting at any rate) but here is some stuff by Buck-Tick, the band that the mangaka of Sensual Phrase admitted she based the band in the manga ( ( Read more... )

OMG.

I have finally discovered a Japanese band I actually might like. Scratch that. I am a fangirl goner now probably, knowing my enthusiasm bug.

Glay.


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This post is not about anything I posted about before. There are no jdramas, Bollywood, or Victorian lit anywhere.

But today, searching youtube, I discovered that it has a number of songs of my favorite singer, Vladimir Vysotsky (he is a very famous Russian bard ( Read more... )

Rewatched two more Veronica Mars eps, Girl Next Door and Like a Virgin. IMo, they are 'lesser' VM eps, but nontheless, I like both of them.

In Girl Next Door, while the B-plot of Logan and Weevil is more interesting, I am also in the minority who likes the A-plot. I think what we are confronted with (again) in this ep, and what Veronica needs to ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to the wonderful and talented alexandral!!!!

I've downloaded my first song. Guess which one? "I can hear the bells." Thus surprising no one on my flist and proving over again what a pathetic V/L fangirl I am.

In my Veronica Mars rewatch, I've just finished "The Wrath of Con" which is, with rewatches, definitely one of my VM all-time faves. ( Read more... )

Firstly, and morst importantly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the lovely, wonderful winterspel. I love reading every single one of your posts and love having you on my f-list! Enjoy the day and (hopefully) lots of cake! (it seems there are a lot of June babies on my f-list :)).

Second, Thank You, everyone, for the music recs. I am actually going to check out every ( Read more... )

Does anyone know what happened to missmarch? She seems to have deleted her LJ. Is she OK ( Read more... )