Two more songs, two more questions

[petronia]

Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
Rilo Kiley - Dreamworld

I'd actually never listened to Rilo Kiley (though I'd heard of them) until a couple of flisters stuck them on mix CDs a few weeks ago. Cursory investigation seems to indicate that they didn't use to be this intent on splitting the difference between Fleetwood Mac and Stars, but I'm really not

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[izkariote]

Yay for music~ ♥

That manga sounds interesting. I'll try and look it up when I'm off my KHR high. o_o

[tsutanai]

Danza just resists fast reading, doesn't it? (It took me a vacation before I could finish the model town story.)

The time travel one is lovely, but also somewhat harsh about reality--what with the rules, as explained by the time traveller. I'm torn with that one between being touched, and railing against the unfeeling universe. XD

[petronia]

I think Ono Natsume is like the manga equivalent of the Slow Food movement. XD

[lazulisong]

I dunno, Lala runs some seriously weird shit sometimes.

[petronia]

But chapter upon chapter of intricate Imperial court politics???

[lazulisong]

well, they ran HaruToki, which is basically just that, only with male harems in, and they ran .... oh god, my mind is blanking on the exact titles, but I remember last year they were running a supernatural thing quite like Mushishi and I am pretty sure they've run court politics type stuff before. ...what is Vampire Knight but a court politics manga, come to think of it.

[flemmings]

Though of course Chinese historical dramas will give one an actual girl and not a murderous psychic bishounen.

There's a girl in Hi Izuru. Two of them. You just have to wait. (You *didn't* watch Woxin then. Gou Jian pwns Xi Shi all over the map. No contest.)

Isn't it kind of like writing a story in which King Arthur or George Washington is a murderous psychic bishounen...?Yyeeeesss and no. Shotoku Taishi has a flipping cult going, great and wise and birth foretold by agents of heaven and choirs of Buddhist angels singing when he was born outside the stable door. *But*. There's been some revisionist work done on this cultural view of him- oh here, found the email passage

[petronia]

Woxin is unusual though! I've never seen anything like it. XD; But in the mainland ones you often get quite complex, strong female characters. (Xi Shi in Woxin is cast/portrayed as a modern "cute girl" and comes off as vaguely anachronistic, to me. Like Keira Knightley doing Elizabeth Bennett.)

Thanks for the info, this is really interesting. :0

[flemmings]

Woxin is unusual though!

So everyone tells me. Doesn't encourage me to watch other mainland drama, alas. (Are modern cute girls that milk-and-watery, really?)

You do know your layout doesn't allow one to highlight with a view to cut and paste in the comments? Start to highlight words and it highlights everything, and one has to force ?style=mine. Just mentioning.

[petronia]

The modern ideal seems to be. I'm not very impressed. XD

o_O Highlighting works fine for me. I do want to change this layout but I don't know what to change it to...

[penguinparity]

Rilo Kiley is pretty good, I really like their CD. Dreamworld is definitely one of my favorite songs on the album! I saw them in concert in San Diego back in October and while I like their music, it was a bit too mellow for a live show.