J. August Richards: Are there really that few roles for young, handsome, talented black actors?

Really, what's he been up to since Angel ended? This guy should have a starring role already. While chatting with lesbiassparrow earlier, we realized he hasn't really done much since Angel, and we consider this a crime. As such, I am willingly sacrificing my sleep to spread the love.



Gunn was the sole regular minority character in Angel(depending on how strict in defining "minority" you want to be as far as Willow being both Jewish and homosexual, but white, some would say the entire Buffyverse. Whedon and minority representation is something I refuse to get into, as both sides are rather rabid. And I don't count non-humans here as minority representatives), showing up near the end of season 1 of Angel and becoming a regular from season 2 onward. Introduced as the buttkicking (and smart) leader of a street gang of vampire hunters, he joined the Angel team at the beginning of season 2. Aside from Cordy, he was the only one who really got, on a regular basis, the monster just beneath Angel's skin. I love him almost as much as I love Cordy, and some of you know how all encompassing my love for Cordy is. Sadly, he was also a rather underused character. I remain sorrowful that they did not keep Gwen so she and Gunn could become a buttkicking, electrifying, monster killing, occassionally thieving OTP.

But that's ok, nothing could detract from his awesomeness. He is so awesome that Supernatural TPTB felt compelled to create a character who was essentially Gunn gone horribly wrong as a sort of twisted homage, I supect.

( spoilers for Angel 1.20, as well as season 2 of Supernatural, and an MV of Angel 1.20 )

And, of course, a picspam:

( clicky )

I shall now go pass out.

J. August Richards: Are there really that few roles for young, handsome, talented black actors?

Really, what's he been up to since Angel ended? This guy should have a starring role already. While chatting with lesbiassparrow earlier, we realized he hasn't really done much since Angel, and we consider this a crime. As such, I am willingly sacrificing my sleep to spread the love.



Gunn was the sole regular minority character in Angel(depending on how strict in defining "minority" you want to be as far as Willow being both Jewish and homosexual, but white, some would say the entire Buffyverse. Whedon and minority representation is something I refuse to get into, as both sides are rather rabid. And I don't count non-humans here as minority representatives), showing up near the end of season 1 of Angel and becoming a regular from season 2 onward. Introduced as the buttkicking (and smart) leader of a street gang of vampire hunters, he joined the Angel team at the beginning of season 2. Aside from Cordy, he was the only one who really got, on a regular basis, the monster just beneath Angel's skin. I love him almost as much as I love Cordy, and some of you know how all encompassing my love for Cordy is. Sadly, he was also a rather underused character. I remain sorrowful that they did not keep Gwen so she and Gunn could become a buttkicking, electrifying, monster killing, occassionally thieving OTP.

But that's ok, nothing could detract from his awesomeness. He is so awesome that Supernatural TPTB felt compelled to create a character who was essentially Gunn gone horribly wrong as a sort of twisted homage, I supect.

( spoilers for Angel 1.20, as well as season 2 of Supernatural, and an MV of Angel 1.20 )

And, of course, a picspam:

( clicky )

I shall now go pass out.

quickie question for dorama fans

I know some people get their dramas from goksdvd...can anyone tell me what their prices are?  Also, do they have good subs, or traumatizing chinese retail subs?

quickie question for dorama fans

I know some people get their dramas from goksdvd...can anyone tell me what their prices are?  Also, do they have good subs, or traumatizing chinese retail subs?

randomly

1.  One of my coworkers has us voting all night on one of those little girl beauty pageants.  I feel like I have sold my soul as I utterly despise those things, but I have been promised free food.

2.  Remember my mentioning a coworker named Meghan Marx?   When I got my paystub today, I didn't even look, just grabbed it and went back to my desk.  When I opened it, I almost panicked when I saw 1/4 thr vacation time I have listed...then looked and saw they had given me the wrong one.  I gave it to Meghan(who was literally 5 feet away) and went to get mine.  Got a slightly suspicious look when I said I had given her her checkstub, but got my stb after forging her name.

3.  I am reading Naomi Novik's Empire of Ivory, which is just as good as other books in the series, but I am annoyed by a back cover blurb, saying "Enthralling reading-it's like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon's Christopher Paolini."  Now, first of all, please don't compare and excellently written and characterized series with  some of the worst fantasy to ever be published.  Second of all...these books are the Napoleonic Wars with Dragon's...if you're going to compare it with something, compare it to Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series(though, unlike Sharpe, Lawrence doesn't have a new girl every book, even if he still has the girl from a previous book) not Jane Austen...completely wrong  type of story expectations there. 

4.  Ordered from Amazon: 10 books, 1 DVD set, all in 1 order.  Shipping from Amazon: 5 boxes, all arriving the same day.

5.  How lost will I be if I watch season 1 of Stargate: Atlantis only having seen s1-4 of SG-1?

randomly

1.  One of my coworkers has us voting all night on one of those little girl beauty pageants.  I feel like I have sold my soul as I utterly despise those things, but I have been promised free food.

2.  Remember my mentioning a coworker named Meghan Marx?   When I got my paystub today, I didn't even look, just grabbed it and went back to my desk.  When I opened it, I almost panicked when I saw 1/4 thr vacation time I have listed...then looked and saw they had given me the wrong one.  I gave it to Meghan(who was literally 5 feet away) and went to get mine.  Got a slightly suspicious look when I said I had given her her checkstub, but got my stb after forging her name.

3.  I am reading Naomi Novik's Empire of Ivory, which is just as good as other books in the series, but I am annoyed by a back cover blurb, saying "Enthralling reading-it's like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon's Christopher Paolini."  Now, first of all, please don't compare and excellently written and characterized series with  some of the worst fantasy to ever be published.  Second of all...these books are the Napoleonic Wars with Dragon's...if you're going to compare it with something, compare it to Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series(though, unlike Sharpe, Lawrence doesn't have a new girl every book, even if he still has the girl from a previous book) not Jane Austen...completely wrong  type of story expectations there. 

4.  Ordered from Amazon: 10 books, 1 DVD set, all in 1 order.  Shipping from Amazon: 5 boxes, all arriving the same day.

5.  How lost will I be if I watch season 1 of Stargate: Atlantis only having seen s1-4 of SG-1?

GACK!

 So, just as I make a dent in the manga "to buy" backlog, ALL THIS comes out in one week:

Fruits Basket Vol 18 GN
Good Witch Of The West Novel Vol 1
Rose Hip Zero Vol 4 GN
Samurai Deeper Kyo Vol 25 GN
Basara Vol 25 TP
Hayate The Combat Butler Vol 5 TP
Togari Vol 3 TP

Not including a couple new series i shall look through before deciding whether or not to check them out.

And somehow, I have bigger manga releases weeks.

GACK!

 So, just as I make a dent in the manga "to buy" backlog, ALL THIS comes out in one week:

Fruits Basket Vol 18 GN
Good Witch Of The West Novel Vol 1
Rose Hip Zero Vol 4 GN
Samurai Deeper Kyo Vol 25 GN
Basara Vol 25 TP
Hayate The Combat Butler Vol 5 TP
Togari Vol 3 TP

Not including a couple new series i shall look through before deciding whether or not to check them out.

And somehow, I have bigger manga releases weeks.

someone explain to me...

Why we're watching some dumb movie with Adam Sandlerand Kevin James pretending to be gay?  And why is was necessary for me to see some random guy's tattooed butt.

*annoyed*

*finishes reading Yurara* 

PS-my LJ has been linked to twice today.  I feel flattered.

someone explain to me...

Why we're watching some dumb movie with Adam Sandlerand Kevin James pretending to be gay?  And why is was necessary for me to see some random guy's tattooed butt.

*annoyed*

*finishes reading Yurara* 

PS-my LJ has been linked to twice today.  I feel flattered.

Yurara Vol 2

When I read vol 1 of Yurara, I liked it, but was a bit disconcerted by how shojo-like it was.  That may sound odd as, like Chika Shiomi's other books, it is shojo, her books tend to be shojo more because they're about girls who kick butt than for the usual shojo hearts and flowers and romance.  Canon destroys the idea of the romantic vampire, portraying even the "heroic" and apparently eventual love interest as a near monster, and Night of the Beasts is  like a romantic fable gone horrible dark and wrong in the best way possible.  Yurara, about a teeny, clumsy girl who sees ghosts who meets two boys-cold and slightly sadistic but secretly nice Yato, and open goofbal with a darkside Mei- who are exorcists, respectively using water and fireas mediums, was just so tame and mainstream in comparison.

But I'm over that now, and while I don't love it quite as much as Night of the Beasts, I do love it.  It's more of the normal shojo high school adventures and romantic triangle than the other two, but not so much so that it annoys me, and it works well.  While either Aria or canon could squash Yurara(normal Yurara or Guardian Spirit Yurara) like a bug, I do like her, and I find Mei, with his outer goofball and inner dark angster very engaging.  I'm still most interested, however, in the oh-so-serious and repressed Yato.  Who, sadly, seems destined to be on the losing end ofthe romantic triangle, and hasn't got as much attention as Mei yet.

I admit, though, that I wish there wasn't so much emphasis on "spurred by love/desire ghosts."  In this volume, there's the girl whose boyfriend dumped her while she was dying for another girl, the pervert ghost who hit on any female ghost he could find and tried to keep them, and, of course, the ghost of Mei's dead love, who was herself possessed by another ghost to try to kill him(yes it sounds a bit convoulted, but it makes perfect sense in the book.)  Balancing it out, though, we have the ghost of Mei's mother, who won't move on because she knows her husband and three sons are the world's biggest skirtchasers, and is convinced  that the moment she's gone, they'll be bringing girls home.

On an unrelated note, I'm a bit disgruntled with the new Novik book.  In terms of quality, plot and execution, it's just as good as the first three books, but for some reason, it isn't grabbing me the way they did.  I tore through each of the first three books in as close to one sitting as I possibly could, but with this book, I put it down after reading the first part to read Yurara.  But I'm picking it back up now.

Yurara Vol 2

When I read vol 1 of Yurara, I liked it, but was a bit disconcerted by how shojo-like it was.  That may sound odd as, like Chika Shiomi's other books, it is shojo, her books tend to be shojo more because they're about girls who kick butt than for the usual shojo hearts and flowers and romance.  Canon destroys the idea of the romantic vampire, portraying even the "heroic" and apparently eventual love interest as a near monster, and Night of the Beasts is  like a romantic fable gone horrible dark and wrong in the best way possible.  Yurara, about a teeny, clumsy girl who sees ghosts who meets two boys-cold and slightly sadistic but secretly nice Yato, and open goofbal with a darkside Mei- who are exorcists, respectively using water and fireas mediums, was just so tame and mainstream in comparison.

But I'm over that now, and while I don't love it quite as much as Night of the Beasts, I do love it.  It's more of the normal shojo high school adventures and romantic triangle than the other two, but not so much so that it annoys me, and it works well.  While either Aria or canon could squash Yurara(normal Yurara or Guardian Spirit Yurara) like a bug, I do like her, and I find Mei, with his outer goofball and inner dark angster very engaging.  I'm still most interested, however, in the oh-so-serious and repressed Yato.  Who, sadly, seems destined to be on the losing end ofthe romantic triangle, and hasn't got as much attention as Mei yet.

I admit, though, that I wish there wasn't so much emphasis on "spurred by love/desire ghosts."  In this volume, there's the girl whose boyfriend dumped her while she was dying for another girl, the pervert ghost who hit on any female ghost he could find and tried to keep them, and, of course, the ghost of Mei's dead love, who was herself possessed by another ghost to try to kill him(yes it sounds a bit convoulted, but it makes perfect sense in the book.)  Balancing it out, though, we have the ghost of Mei's mother, who won't move on because she knows her husband and three sons are the world's biggest skirtchasers, and is convinced  that the moment she's gone, they'll be bringing girls home.

On an unrelated note, I'm a bit disgruntled with the new Novik book.  In terms of quality, plot and execution, it's just as good as the first three books, but for some reason, it isn't grabbing me the way they did.  I tore through each of the first three books in as close to one sitting as I possibly could, but with this book, I put it down after reading the first part to read Yurara.  But I'm picking it back up now.