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 So, last Saturday, I don't have internet access and have to do "skip 140" when I get home.  Today there are possibly 5-6 posts an hour, mostly community stuff.  I see how it is...

So far I have put together a 22 book order, an 84 disc dorama order and a 7 series anime order NONE OF WHICH I CAN AFFORD(hence, none of them being bought...besides, I cheated and ordered some books from Amazon and grabbed a couple manga w/ a 30% off Borders coupon)

I could go to fanfiction.net, but A)  I refuse  for my boredom to be used for the purposes of mass amusement a mere 48 hours apart, and B)  I'd probably just go back to the Eragon section again(there are ALMOST TWO THOUSAND SUMMARIES LEFT!!!) and my sides hurt just thinking about it.

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 So, last Saturday, I don't have internet access and have to do "skip 140" when I get home.  Today there are possibly 5-6 posts an hour, mostly community stuff.  I see how it is...

So far I have put together a 22 book order, an 84 disc dorama order and a 7 series anime order NONE OF WHICH I CAN AFFORD(hence, none of them being bought...besides, I cheated and ordered some books from Amazon and grabbed a couple manga w/ a 30% off Borders coupon)

I could go to fanfiction.net, but A)  I refuse  for my boredom to be used for the purposes of mass amusement a mere 48 hours apart, and B)  I'd probably just go back to the Eragon section again(there are ALMOST TWO THOUSAND SUMMARIES LEFT!!!) and my sides hurt just thinking about it.

icon meme

Yoinked from crumpeteersome time ago, but never got around to it until now.

Look at your LJ userpics list. If you have fewer than 50 icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, what significance does it have. 

( it's a very good thing it wasn't  )

And somehow, I managed to NOT have 2 icons from the same fandom in there...I'm actually kinda surprised by that.

icon meme

Yoinked from crumpeteersome time ago, but never got around to it until now.

Look at your LJ userpics list. If you have fewer than 50 icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, what significance does it have. 

( it's a very good thing it wasn't  )

And somehow, I managed to NOT have 2 icons from the same fandom in there...I'm actually kinda surprised by that.

jdrama: Pride

I have finished Pride and loved it to the end.  For those who aren't familiar with Pride(which i probably no dorama fans on the f-list as I believe I'm the next-to-last person to watch it)  Pride is about an extremely driven hockey player named Halu.  He meets Aki, an office lady, after her friends drag her to a hockey game, convinced she needs a new boyfriend.  Halu rather transparently hits on Aki, but soon learns that she's spent the last few years waiting on her boyfriend, who's been working in the states.  Not wanting to pass up on the opportunity, he makes a contract with her:  They'll date with no obligations, but if her boyfriend does come back, they'll break up amicably, with no hard feelings on either side.  At the same time, the coach Halu respects, Anzai dies, and Halu takes on the responsibility of looking after Anzai's wife, Youko, and son, Wataru.  Halu immediately clashes with his new coach, Hyodo, not only over hockey, but over the fact that Hyodo is Youko's old flame(and Anzai's best friend...Hyodo and Youko broke up when he left to play hockey in the states, and she started seeing Anzai soon after) and what seems to be Hyodo's desire to get back together with Youko.

Now, while I don't think a romance told through hockey with a sound track by Queen has been done before, but almosdt every plot point has.  Halu and Aki's romance, Halu's personal and professional relationship with Hyodo, his disapproval and eventual approval of Hyodo and Youko's relationship, the storyline with Aki's boyfriend, Yamato and Yuri's relationship, Yamato's crippling and recovery, Makoto's coming of age, even what bits we get of Tomo's private life...it's all been done a hundred times before.  Pride just takes it all-and it's a LOT of stories and story types-and tells it extremely, extremely well.  It helps that it's pretty much perfectly cast, and the entire cast played their roles winningly.  It also KNOWS most of its paths are well trod paths, and treads them accordingly, which, really, is always what makes the difference.

( random thoughts and a couple vids )

jdrama: Pride

I have finished Pride and loved it to the end.  For those who aren't familiar with Pride(which i probably no dorama fans on the f-list as I believe I'm the next-to-last person to watch it)  Pride is about an extremely driven hockey player named Halu.  He meets Aki, an office lady, after her friends drag her to a hockey game, convinced she needs a new boyfriend.  Halu rather transparently hits on Aki, but soon learns that she's spent the last few years waiting on her boyfriend, who's been working in the states.  Not wanting to pass up on the opportunity, he makes a contract with her:  They'll date with no obligations, but if her boyfriend does come back, they'll break up amicably, with no hard feelings on either side.  At the same time, the coach Halu respects, Anzai dies, and Halu takes on the responsibility of looking after Anzai's wife, Youko, and son, Wataru.  Halu immediately clashes with his new coach, Hyodo, not only over hockey, but over the fact that Hyodo is Youko's old flame(and Anzai's best friend...Hyodo and Youko broke up when he left to play hockey in the states, and she started seeing Anzai soon after) and what seems to be Hyodo's desire to get back together with Youko.

Now, while I don't think a romance told through hockey with a sound track by Queen has been done before, but almosdt every plot point has.  Halu and Aki's romance, Halu's personal and professional relationship with Hyodo, his disapproval and eventual approval of Hyodo and Youko's relationship, the storyline with Aki's boyfriend, Yamato and Yuri's relationship, Yamato's crippling and recovery, Makoto's coming of age, even what bits we get of Tomo's private life...it's all been done a hundred times before.  Pride just takes it all-and it's a LOT of stories and story types-and tells it extremely, extremely well.  It helps that it's pretty much perfectly cast, and the entire cast played their roles winningly.  It also KNOWS most of its paths are well trod paths, and treads them accordingly, which, really, is always what makes the difference.

( random thoughts and a couple vids )