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1. Self, the title of Azar Nafisi’s memoir is Reading Lolita in Tehran, not Reading Lolita on the Train. This will not change no matter how many times you try to call it Reading Lolita on the Train. In fact, there is absolutely no reason for you to keep doing this!
2. Does anyone know where I can get the 2001 series for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? From what I’ve located, I can tell it won’t be nearly as good as the movie, but I understand it covers a lot more of the plot from the book. Unfortunately, all I can locate is the severely edited version that was released in the US. And by “severely edited,” I mean “they crammed a 20 episode series into a little under four hours.”
Here’s, I think, a trailer. (I know it’s not the opening credits. I’ve seen those. There’s more kissing than every other cdrama I’ve seen combined. I‘m scandalized, I tell you. Scandalized.)
A link, since DW is finicky about embedding vids.
Yes, that’s baby!Peter Ho and his wig as Lo.
3. Between Camelot, A Game of Thrones, and The Borgias there are going to be so many people in historical costume having sex on my screen that I might go blind. I may have to, like, watch purely wholesome things to balance things out.
4. On the subject of upcoming TV, White Collar and Covert Affairs are back on June 20th! About time for Covert Affairsignore the fact that I didn’t even watch it until well after the season ending but that’s a rather short break between seasons for White Collar. Not that I’m complaining, but I haven’t even gotten around to watching the season finale yet.
5. Also, I watched the Marie Antoinette movie with Kristen Dunst. I don’t really know how I feel about it (mostly, I think that fiction that tries to present historical figures in a similar light as modern celebrities and tries to attach that vibe to them just doesn’t work for me) but I spent most of the movie going “Marie Antoinette, why are you not engaging in repressed courtly love for your crossdressing, gender conflicted bodyguard?”What do you mean, Oscar is a fictional character?
6. Kodansha USA is going to be re-releasing Sailor Moon, or so I’m told. Whee!
2. Does anyone know where I can get the 2001 series for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? From what I’ve located, I can tell it won’t be nearly as good as the movie, but I understand it covers a lot more of the plot from the book. Unfortunately, all I can locate is the severely edited version that was released in the US. And by “severely edited,” I mean “they crammed a 20 episode series into a little under four hours.”
Here’s, I think, a trailer. (I know it’s not the opening credits. I’ve seen those. There’s more kissing than every other cdrama I’ve seen combined. I‘m scandalized, I tell you. Scandalized.)
A link, since DW is finicky about embedding vids.
Yes, that’s baby!Peter Ho and his wig as Lo.
3. Between Camelot, A Game of Thrones, and The Borgias there are going to be so many people in historical costume having sex on my screen that I might go blind. I may have to, like, watch purely wholesome things to balance things out.
4. On the subject of upcoming TV, White Collar and Covert Affairs are back on June 20th! About time for Covert Affairs
5. Also, I watched the Marie Antoinette movie with Kristen Dunst. I don’t really know how I feel about it (mostly, I think that fiction that tries to present historical figures in a similar light as modern celebrities and tries to attach that vibe to them just doesn’t work for me) but I spent most of the movie going “Marie Antoinette, why are you not engaging in repressed courtly love for your crossdressing, gender conflicted bodyguard?”
6. Kodansha USA is going to be re-releasing Sailor Moon, or so I’m told. Whee!