I slept 11.5 hours, after days of bad-to-no sleep.

Yay for good stuff!

This is a two-episode Chinese epic film based on the Battle of Red Cliffs and events during the Three Kingdoms period in Ancient China. The first episode is going to be released next week.

The film is directed by John Woo and stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Lin Chi-ling and Zhao Wei. It looks amazing. ( Read more... )

Really simple one :p


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Was hopping about last night chasing mosquitos again. *shakes fist at the little buggers* That's it with the excitement for this weekend. ;) Well, that an ominous phonecalls. Anyone here from Hamburg who might have accidently dialed my mobile number? *peers around*
Alright, before you fall asleep... it was about time that my ranger got a new signature. ;)


Random picspam, as usual. ;) Rosamund Pike, Elijah Wood, Marton Csokas, Billy Boyd, James McAvoy, Freema Agyeman, Rachel Weisz and Heath Ledger.
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For my curious cousin, you can play "Finding Mr K" in this Purikura. But no prize for guessing the correct answer. =P

Ух! Какая отвязная гоночка Формулы-1 в Великобритании пока получается! Дождище в Сильверстоуне  льет, как из ведра, народец в машинках балуется пируэтами и синхронным плаванием... Красота. :)

Funny things have been happening this weekend, and I can't remember what some of them were.

So first, awesomeness - Katie crocheted me little TOKIO dolls!! :D THEY'RE AMAZING!! I don't have any pictures of them yet because Taichi needs a cardigan so we were going to wait til they were totally done, but this picture of the Gimli doll she made should show you what they're like. (The LOTR dolls are all amazing - here's Sam and Merry.) Of course, the LOTR babies were easier cos they have one costume and one hairstyle, so we just sort of had to find outfits that suited them. She's making V6 next, and they're going to all wear variations on one of their Jasmine costumes - cute brightly colored shirts and dark pants. ::bouncebounce::

Having the TOKIO dolls is amazing! We watched the 10th Anniversary Concert, which I adore way too much, and I was finally able to squeeze them when I wanted to!! :D Like when Taichi cried, I got to give tiny!Taichi snuggles!

Also, episode 7 of Kuitan was AWESOME! I found episode 6 a big let-down, the plot was really weak and lame. SO I was very happy that episode 7 was so fantastic.

Yes, this is what we spent the fourth of July weekend doing. Our parents went to help our brother move, so we stayed at home with grandpa. It was great! I really needed to relax. We also created a new hobby of (somewhat sloppily) drawing muttonchops onto pictures of JE boys. . . I have an icon of the results of this but I really wanted to use my new Makoto Nagano icon. :D Aaaaaand we also got into a whole discussion of Jun touching people with his penis. It started with us not understanding why he was a heartthrob, because we both love him and find him adorable, but why is he so popular and why is he considered sexy? Katie and I both agree that we would not let him touch us with his penis. And that became a whole discussion about Jun running around, trying to touch people with his penis. ::pokepoke::

I also decided I really want to see a 3000 steps with Levi Meeuwenberg, free-runner and very impressive Ninja Warrior competitor.

Oh man, I just realized my birthday is two days after our first 20-day turnaround time for analyzing financial disclosure statements for doing business reports begins. XD This one shouldn't be too bad in some ways, because we have 20 days, but as the first one that's more than 4 people (WAY MORE) a lot of problems could crop up. Also I'm not fully trained yet. XD But I've got a little more time!

Also, does anyone know why I've suddenly started getting a bunch of comments on the TOKIO pimp post lately? It's awesome and always makes me really really happy, except a lot of the youtube links no longer work and it's really embarrassing. I gave some thought to putting them on Megavideo but now I was thinking I'd just wimp out and write a "if the youtube link doesn't work, I'm sorry, just ask me for the video if you really want it cos i've probably got it."

_harry potter cast (dan radcliffe, emma watson) + harry/ginny; _gossip girl (filming of season two); _lily allen; _twilight cast (kristen stewart, robert pattinson); _scarlett johansson

   

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'OUTSIDE FROM THE START'


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What does the hard look do to what it sees?
Pull beauty out of it, or stare it in? Slippery

heart on legs clops into the boiling swirl as
a pale calm page shoots up, opening rapidly

to say I know – something unskinned me, so
now it bites into me – it has skinned me alive,

I get dried from dark red to dark windspun
withered jerky, to shape handy flyports out

of my lattice, or pulled out am membranes
arched bluish, webby, staked out to twang

or am mouthslick of chewed gum, dragged
in a tearing tent, flopped to a raggy soft sag.

Yet none have hard real edges, since each one
is rightly spilled over, from the start of her life.

How long do I pretend to be all of us.
Will you come in out of that air now.


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Black shadows, sharp scattered green
sunlit in lime, in acid leaves.

Hot leaves, veined with the sun
draining the watcher’s look of all colour

so a dark film moves over her sight.
Then the trees glow with inside light.

Hold to the thought if it can shine
straight through a dream of failed eyes sliding

to the wristwatch’s face, wet under its glass
a thickening red meniscus ( tilting across its dial )

The Canadian and I finally watched Kung Fu Panda yesterday and enjoyed it. The audience with which we watched the movie also seemed to greatly enjoy it judging by the constant laughter.

I found out that apparently Kung Fu Panda is causing a lot of discussion here in China.

</b>"Kung Fu Panda" prompts soul-searching in China</b> by Simon Rabinovitch

BEIJING (Reuters) - More than just a box-office hit in China, animated Hollywood comedy "Kung Fu Panda" has led Chinese artists to find fault with their own film industry and call for fewer government controls on culture.

The movie, which tells the story of a fat panda who dreams of martial arts glory, was faithful to Chinese culture and laced with good humour, but China itself may have been incapable of producing such a film, a Chinese filmmaker and opera director lamented. ( Read more... )

Забавненький результат социологического исследования, проведенного в Японщине. Тема:  "Что является великим в Японии или в отношении японцев?".  Среди опрашиваемых были только сами японцы.


 

While everyone else was watching the DW finale last night, I was watching Damian Lewis as Soames Forsyte in the entire first season of 'The Forsyte Saga' and, consequently, rocking my world.

Has anyone else seen this? With Rupert Graves and Ioan Gruffudd as well? It's like high-grade OBASC crack.

I had a ton of thoughts about this episode in my head this morning, but they didn't all want to come out. Still, I got some of them!

( Spoilers for 4x13 )

I just took this entertaining quiz found from olde_fashioned's entries, and got this hilarious scenario of my period drama: ( ... you were on a ship overtaken by pirates without puffy white sleeves ...  )


... I'm knee-deep in Amazon.com wishlists and Austen/Hornblower/swashbucklers/regency suggestions, and am like 40 pages away from finishing Persuasion.


Oh. And did I mention not a WINK tired?? ;D

( That was ... kind of epic. )

I'm almost terrified to click on oh_she_knows and time_and_chips. The sheer volume of posting must be bloody amazing.

Previews at my journal

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I would love to see any graphics made from these. Please reply with a link so I can take a look.

Please don't rely on the photobucket tags as I have not tagged many photos yet.

This PV is about a man who, after decades of his high school graduation, comes back to school with a group of friends to dig up a treasure box that they have buried long ago. Memories of his school life comes back - of a girl who he has secretly in love with whom he did not dare to confess to her. And secretly, he wrote a song to her as a confession - thus the name of the song, "Kokuhaku," which means confession.

The PV really reminds me of a high school movie, and it gives you a nice and nostalgic feeling. I like it the most amongst FMB PVs :P



( Kokuhaku )

Man, Moffat must have a lot of fun writing them. Mind you, he must have had a lot of fun writing them while he had a Mills and Boon romance propped up in front of him, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. And I can't wait for whatever companion he writes because there will be wank like there's never been wank before.

( Spoilers for those two episodes behind here )

Is it 'o[...]-te shimai itashimasu', rather than 'o[...]itashite shimaimasu' (for instance)?