That long already huh?
I would have completely forgotten had I not had to click my profile for something, but this is a monumental day I suppose. Ten years ago today I made this journal. According to the stats, I've made 1258 entries not including this one, posted 2388 comments and received 2058. I'm kind of tempted to go back and read every entry chronicling the past 10 years of my life, but that would take a long ass time and I'm not sure I want to read how I went from a bright eyed, bushy tailed 18 year old going off to college to the bitter and jaded person I am now. It'll probably just depress me. Soooo yeah. Happy birthday LJ.
Aside from that, I've been on a Korean drama kick. I went to a site with the intention of possibly watching Garo (awesome J-drama) again, and there was a giant picture in the background for City Hunter. I had vaguely heard about it and that it was pretty good, so I downloaded it. It was awesome. I don't know how close it is to the original manga since I've never read it, but it was an excellent interpretation. Nice balance of action, drama, suspense, and sap. I watched all 20 eps in less than a week. I'm hoping they do a special of some kind since the ending made me go, "WTF That's it?!?!?! You go through all of that and you can't even shake hands or something?!" Then I realized that the final episode had only aired about a week and a half before I watched it so there's still hope.
Hope, unfortunately, didn't exist for the next one I watched. A Love to Kill looked like it had a decent plot, and Rain is never bad to look at, so I gave it a go. It made me angry. The lead female annoyed me to no end; spoiled, overprivileged, whiny, clingy, and kind of psychotic. She gets progressively worse as the eps go on. Despite all that, I trudged through it, mostly because I wanted to see her character completely ruined, but the ending was trite and cliched. Ugh. So I watched the Speed Racer movie to wash the bad taste out of my mouth and listen to Rain's engrishy lines and see him in a dress. XD It's a pretty good movie if you haven't seen it. Definitely keeps the campiness of the original cartoon and it's colorful as hell. It's like the Wachowski Brothers crapped a rainbow on to the movie. Fun shit.
I'm watching this now. Don't really have much of an opinion on it yet since I'm only on the third episode, but it seems ok. One glaring difference I've noticed between K and J dramas is the scenes where any sort of intimacy is required. The Koreans actually put some feeling into it, especially kissing scenes. It's actually believable and doesn't look like two half dead fish touching lips with one another. I'm just going to chock it up to cultural differences. And since I'm on a circles and lines kick, have a catchy song I found while randomly clicking stuff on youtube. Off to make cookies now. Later~
Aside from that, I've been on a Korean drama kick. I went to a site with the intention of possibly watching Garo (awesome J-drama) again, and there was a giant picture in the background for City Hunter. I had vaguely heard about it and that it was pretty good, so I downloaded it. It was awesome. I don't know how close it is to the original manga since I've never read it, but it was an excellent interpretation. Nice balance of action, drama, suspense, and sap. I watched all 20 eps in less than a week. I'm hoping they do a special of some kind since the ending made me go, "WTF That's it?!?!?! You go through all of that and you can't even shake hands or something?!" Then I realized that the final episode had only aired about a week and a half before I watched it so there's still hope.
Hope, unfortunately, didn't exist for the next one I watched. A Love to Kill looked like it had a decent plot, and Rain is never bad to look at, so I gave it a go. It made me angry. The lead female annoyed me to no end; spoiled, overprivileged, whiny, clingy, and kind of psychotic. She gets progressively worse as the eps go on. Despite all that, I trudged through it, mostly because I wanted to see her character completely ruined, but the ending was trite and cliched. Ugh. So I watched the Speed Racer movie to wash the bad taste out of my mouth and listen to Rain's engrishy lines and see him in a dress. XD It's a pretty good movie if you haven't seen it. Definitely keeps the campiness of the original cartoon and it's colorful as hell. It's like the Wachowski Brothers crapped a rainbow on to the movie. Fun shit.
I'm watching this now. Don't really have much of an opinion on it yet since I'm only on the third episode, but it seems ok. One glaring difference I've noticed between K and J dramas is the scenes where any sort of intimacy is required. The Koreans actually put some feeling into it, especially kissing scenes. It's actually believable and doesn't look like two half dead fish touching lips with one another. I'm just going to chock it up to cultural differences. And since I'm on a circles and lines kick, have a catchy song I found while randomly clicking stuff on youtube. Off to make cookies now. Later~
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