Ohhhh, Tim/Lyla, you do something funny to my insides.

Seriously, someone is being very KIND to me. A lifelong, Church-going, steady good girl who was doing things because she was supposed to, not necessarily because she wanted to do them, and is beginning to discover what she wants may not be what she is supposed to want. And a screwed-up bad boy best friend of her paralyzed boyfriend with enough issues to start his own magazine.

Oh YES.

I always go for the dysfunctional ones, don't I?

Side note: Lyla's "I have feelings for Jason so let me stuck my tongue down your throat" rationale for continuous make-outs made me lol and lol. I never thought anyone used the song "She reminds me of you" as a real-life excuse.

In other news, my incipient love for Matt became a full-blown adoration during that 'fight' with the rival team - of all the teen characters, he's by far the best guy, the most decent one. The way he takes care of his Grandmother and the way he doesn't feel secure in wanting things, and the way he is inarticulate. Oh. I want Julie to like him back because he should have everything he wants.

I adore Mr & Mrs Coach - this is the best, most realistic portrayal of a functional adult marriage I have seen on American TV.

I continue to dwell on the emotional poverty/desperation of this small town where high school football is the most important thing - it's such a proxy for everything else. You can dwell on it so you won't have to dwell on actual emptiness of life.

I am a bad person, but I am getting bored with Jason, even if he is a lovely person. Blahblah being a paraplegic sucks and it's a slow road to recovery. All very true, but I am not interested, thank you.

In conclusion: Tim/Lyla! Ahhh, American TV OTPs, I missed you!

Sometimes going thru the infinite turns and surprises in life, you are often brought to situations that you believe you were the first one to experience. Some of these are pleasant and you feel privileged to be a part of it... Then again there are times where you simply dont like having this 'experience'. You look left, then right and then left again but there is no let up.

Some choose to sprint away and ignore the situation till the situation disappears into the background. Some choose to face it and fight their way out. Some find their own unique solution... Whatever we choose deep down we hope that we never have to be in that situation ever again.

Then one fine day you notice someone else going thru the exact predicament you went thru. You see the way they are handling it and it reminds you of what you did. All of sudden you see flaws in what you did and what you should have done. You wonder if you had stepped back for a moment and looked again could it have worked out better.

And then you realize the important thing is not how you handled it or how it should have been handled but rather it is the lesson that the situation carried along with it. Sometimes its subtle and sometimes more pronounced but in the end there is always a lesson.

V6, Tonisen, Kamisen, Nagano, Sakamoto and a couple of Okada pieces. :D
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Episode 19 of IRIS was so very excellent.

But it was also so dark.

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It's snowing and freezing here. For the first time in many years we are supposed to have a white Christmas. I am not too keen on snow, but I must admit it's beautiful looking out on my tiny garden. Okay, back to the spam.

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We all know it's about romance!

Please vote for up to THREE choices in each category (if you vote for more, I will arbitrarily discount additional votes - i.e. if you vote for 5, I pick which 3 I would count - and I am sure you don't want that).

Any drama any part of which aired in 2009 is eligible.

Hmmm, looking on that list, it's pretty clear - I am much more of an epic/period drama gal than a romcom one.

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for all the wonderful Magnificent Seven fans. :D

May you all have Happy Holidays full of love, peace, happiness, health and prosperity. :D

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HAVE BEGUN OUTLANDER.

At long last.

We shall see if all the hypes and recommendations actually mean anything.

I am also downloading the last ep of Tatta Hitotsu no Koi, which is one of the best takes on Romeo and Juliet that I've ever seen.

My life is happy.

Eeek! Stay warm, guys on the east coast!

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Cast: Koji Yakusho, Eita, Satomi Kobayashi, Junichi Sawayashiki, Fumi Nikaido, Kaoru Yachigusa...

Story: Tokyo teen Takuya (Eita) is carrying on a long-distant relationship with Hikari (Nikaido Fumi), who lives in Yokosuka. Takuya falls into a coma after a car accident, leaving negligent day-trader father Takuro (Yakusho Koji) and loving mother Erumi (Kobayashi Satomi) in a bind. Still, the parents take in Takuya's delinquent buddy Akiba (Sawayashiki Junichi), who is fresh out of youth correction and has nowhere to go. One day Hikari calls looking for Takuya. Takuro takes the call and pretends to be his son, which sets off an unpredictable chain of events.

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