Huge long catch-all post before my trip
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dangermousieI am leaving today to go on vacation to Scandinavia and won't be back until next Sunday. Net time will probably non-existent when I am there, so this is one large catch-all post.
Pretty excited though. Also, since I only have one small backpack (we are going to 17 billion places and lugging suitcases is unappealing), I solved the reading problem by printing out a bunch of books from an on-line library. That way I can throw each page away once I read it :)
So. First topic? The super-awesome Korean drama Time Between Dog and Wolf. I am only on ep 5 but I read spoilers through 14 and OMG. Seriously. Could it get any better? Also, have the makers been reading Lymond or what? Because OMG, he's been trying to kill himself repeatedly now, because of the guilt and pain, and just the fact that he became something he loathes most, even if it wasn't his fault. And I think gives it up only because he has a mission. And of course, we also have the girl who loves him and whom he loves more than anything, but he has to push her away because he shouldn't be with her. So there is rough kissing because he want to insult her and just...OMG. He better have a happy ending and get therapy and live happily with JW and have cute kids. Or else. Seriously, all that angst and hurt with no happy ending will be horrible. The poor woobie has suffered enough.
On that note, here is a huge picspam of episode 4, the first one where hurt/comfort really reaches crazy levels: there is cuteness on the beach, and his capture and torture, and rescuing, and a bed scene and...LOVE.
Trying to locate an 'in' to the mob (to commit a revenge killing. Oh you poor thing!)
Talking to emo!brother:
Having yet another one of his PTSD nightmares (why does he always angst at night, it's hard to cap!)
Awesome heroine:
OK, you can't see it, but she is soothing him in his sleep:
He wakes up to see her beside him:
And he tucks her in! *dies*
And then he just stares at her:
And strokes her hair:
They have a date :) (Did I mention he thinks he will probably die after this, after killing mob leader)
He is being such a dork:
Water fight:
More shippy cuteness:
Did I mention that neither of them know at this point that her biological Dad is the man he's sworn to kill?
He takes her to her childhood home and he thinks he will never see her again and he is off to die:
If only it was that easy:
*insert cap here of his being knocked down to the ground as it came out too blurry :(*
She is worried as he isn't back yet (did I mention her sheer kick-ass awesomeness?).
Emo!brother doing something right for once and coming to the rescue:
In case you can't tell, it's our hero, being hung up and beaten into oblivion. For days, I think (I'd cap more but it was fairly dark and caps didn't come out so well):
Resulting in this:
Emo!brother rescues him though:
Ji Woo is sitting by him, in a hovel, seriously:
And stroking him:
She is so clever and strong and awesome and got the rescue going. I love her:
So does he:
He finally tells her the truth:
That's why we love you.
And she puts his head on her shoulder.
And he lifts himself to kiss her!
YESSSSSS! Doing it :)
Awww, she makes him grin:
But of course he is still emo:
The source ep wasn't great quality dl so that is why there are not so crisp. But I think the other eps are better quality visually, dl-wise.
Hmmm, what else? I know. Bollywood movie. One of the ones I am really looming forward to is Khoya Khoya Chand with Soha Ali Khan and Shiney Ahuja. Not only do I love both of them to bits, but the story, apparently, is set in the Bollywood of the 1950s (!!!!!). It is the story of two talented people. 'There's an actor-director (Shiney Ahuja) who liberates an actress (Soha Ali Khan) from the stranglehold of a powerful actor (Rajat Kapoor), and then begins to use her himself. In the end, he realises the folly of his ways and atones for it.'
I looooove movies about movies, and period flicks are even better. And if it's a love story? JACKPOT. Plus, the trailer looks incredible. Here is the trailer.
Plus, the pics are adorable.
Last but not least, watching Bednaya Nastya indirectly reminded me of a book I like but haven't reread in a while. It's one of Dumas' less-known works, The Fencing Master, but it was translated and in print in the USSR because it was about the Decembrist revolt (short summary: a bunch of aristocrat officers revolted on death of Alexander I and demanded reforms. It was suppressed, the leaders were executed, and the rest to Siberia).
The novel is relatively short and since all the characters are real people (with either their own names, or with names changed), and it wasn't written so long after the events, does it mean I like 19th century RPF? The protagonist is a French Fencing Master (a real person-eye-witness with whom Dumas apparently cooperated on the book, named Augustin Grisier) who goes to Russia to teach aristocrats swordfighting. The book has so much fun 'exoticism' (at least I assume, for the French): of snow everywhere and people going on a bear hunt, and furs. In fact, the book is half a travelogue and half a love story. While in St. Petersburg, the Fencing Master meets and ends up liking a bit a French modiste Pauline, who works there. But Pauline is a mistress of a young Russian aristocrat, so Fencing Master and she just form a friendship. Then the Decembrist revolt happens and Pauline's lover, who was one of the rebels, is sent to Siberia. Instead of doing the sensible thing and going back to France, Pauline instead gets permission to join her lover in Siberia and goes there, where they end up marrying inside a jail. (I still remember the scene where they take off the chains from him for the wedding and put them back on as soon as the wedding is over. Which is apparently a true story. But more amusingly, I am pleased to note my tastes in what I like in fiction have remained consistent since childhood).
Actually the whole thing is a true story and Pauline did end up joining a whole bunch of women, as the 'Decembrist wives' as they were known, abandoned normal life and society and even though they were all society women, begged and got permission to go to join their husbands in Siberia and live in exile, outside of jail where their husbands were, and then eventually with them when they were confined to villages. Guess love matches are good after all :P
Apparently this book (which portrayed Decembrists as awesome, and I remember drooling a bit over Pauline's lover) got Dumas in a lot of hot water in Russia and he was banned from the country until Nicholas I's death. Anyway, I am rereading it and it's fun...Especially the Fencing Master's fixation on snow.
And hey, it remains the only book I read which has a bear hunt, though that perhaps speaks more of my normal book taste than anything else :P
ETA: I lied. I have a book rec, too. It's Wuthering High by Cara Lockwood. I don't read YA really often, but this is priceless. It's about a 15 year old Miranda who ends up being sent to delinquent school. Turns out the school is being run by ghosts of famous authors. It's snarky, and funny, and the heroine is adorable, and I like the little lit allusions.
Pretty excited though. Also, since I only have one small backpack (we are going to 17 billion places and lugging suitcases is unappealing), I solved the reading problem by printing out a bunch of books from an on-line library. That way I can throw each page away once I read it :)
So. First topic? The super-awesome Korean drama Time Between Dog and Wolf. I am only on ep 5 but I read spoilers through 14 and OMG. Seriously. Could it get any better? Also, have the makers been reading Lymond or what? Because OMG, he's been trying to kill himself repeatedly now, because of the guilt and pain, and just the fact that he became something he loathes most, even if it wasn't his fault. And I think gives it up only because he has a mission. And of course, we also have the girl who loves him and whom he loves more than anything, but he has to push her away because he shouldn't be with her. So there is rough kissing because he want to insult her and just...OMG. He better have a happy ending and get therapy and live happily with JW and have cute kids. Or else. Seriously, all that angst and hurt with no happy ending will be horrible. The poor woobie has suffered enough.
On that note, here is a huge picspam of episode 4, the first one where hurt/comfort really reaches crazy levels: there is cuteness on the beach, and his capture and torture, and rescuing, and a bed scene and...LOVE.
Trying to locate an 'in' to the mob (to commit a revenge killing. Oh you poor thing!)
Talking to emo!brother:
Having yet another one of his PTSD nightmares (why does he always angst at night, it's hard to cap!)
Awesome heroine:
OK, you can't see it, but she is soothing him in his sleep:
He wakes up to see her beside him:
And he tucks her in! *dies*
And then he just stares at her:
And strokes her hair:
They have a date :) (Did I mention he thinks he will probably die after this, after killing mob leader)
He is being such a dork:
Water fight:
More shippy cuteness:
Did I mention that neither of them know at this point that her biological Dad is the man he's sworn to kill?
He takes her to her childhood home and he thinks he will never see her again and he is off to die:
If only it was that easy:
*insert cap here of his being knocked down to the ground as it came out too blurry :(*
She is worried as he isn't back yet (did I mention her sheer kick-ass awesomeness?).
Emo!brother doing something right for once and coming to the rescue:
In case you can't tell, it's our hero, being hung up and beaten into oblivion. For days, I think (I'd cap more but it was fairly dark and caps didn't come out so well):
Resulting in this:
Emo!brother rescues him though:
Ji Woo is sitting by him, in a hovel, seriously:
And stroking him:
She is so clever and strong and awesome and got the rescue going. I love her:
So does he:
He finally tells her the truth:
That's why we love you.
And she puts his head on her shoulder.
And he lifts himself to kiss her!
YESSSSSS! Doing it :)
Awww, she makes him grin:
But of course he is still emo:
The source ep wasn't great quality dl so that is why there are not so crisp. But I think the other eps are better quality visually, dl-wise.
Hmmm, what else? I know. Bollywood movie. One of the ones I am really looming forward to is Khoya Khoya Chand with Soha Ali Khan and Shiney Ahuja. Not only do I love both of them to bits, but the story, apparently, is set in the Bollywood of the 1950s (!!!!!). It is the story of two talented people. 'There's an actor-director (Shiney Ahuja) who liberates an actress (Soha Ali Khan) from the stranglehold of a powerful actor (Rajat Kapoor), and then begins to use her himself. In the end, he realises the folly of his ways and atones for it.'
I looooove movies about movies, and period flicks are even better. And if it's a love story? JACKPOT. Plus, the trailer looks incredible. Here is the trailer.
Plus, the pics are adorable.
Last but not least, watching Bednaya Nastya indirectly reminded me of a book I like but haven't reread in a while. It's one of Dumas' less-known works, The Fencing Master, but it was translated and in print in the USSR because it was about the Decembrist revolt (short summary: a bunch of aristocrat officers revolted on death of Alexander I and demanded reforms. It was suppressed, the leaders were executed, and the rest to Siberia).
The novel is relatively short and since all the characters are real people (with either their own names, or with names changed), and it wasn't written so long after the events, does it mean I like 19th century RPF? The protagonist is a French Fencing Master (a real person-eye-witness with whom Dumas apparently cooperated on the book, named Augustin Grisier) who goes to Russia to teach aristocrats swordfighting. The book has so much fun 'exoticism' (at least I assume, for the French): of snow everywhere and people going on a bear hunt, and furs. In fact, the book is half a travelogue and half a love story. While in St. Petersburg, the Fencing Master meets and ends up liking a bit a French modiste Pauline, who works there. But Pauline is a mistress of a young Russian aristocrat, so Fencing Master and she just form a friendship. Then the Decembrist revolt happens and Pauline's lover, who was one of the rebels, is sent to Siberia. Instead of doing the sensible thing and going back to France, Pauline instead gets permission to join her lover in Siberia and goes there, where they end up marrying inside a jail. (I still remember the scene where they take off the chains from him for the wedding and put them back on as soon as the wedding is over. Which is apparently a true story. But more amusingly, I am pleased to note my tastes in what I like in fiction have remained consistent since childhood).
Actually the whole thing is a true story and Pauline did end up joining a whole bunch of women, as the 'Decembrist wives' as they were known, abandoned normal life and society and even though they were all society women, begged and got permission to go to join their husbands in Siberia and live in exile, outside of jail where their husbands were, and then eventually with them when they were confined to villages. Guess love matches are good after all :P
Apparently this book (which portrayed Decembrists as awesome, and I remember drooling a bit over Pauline's lover) got Dumas in a lot of hot water in Russia and he was banned from the country until Nicholas I's death. Anyway, I am rereading it and it's fun...Especially the Fencing Master's fixation on snow.
And hey, it remains the only book I read which has a bear hunt, though that perhaps speaks more of my normal book taste than anything else :P
ETA: I lied. I have a book rec, too. It's Wuthering High by Cara Lockwood. I don't read YA really often, but this is priceless. It's about a 15 year old Miranda who ends up being sent to delinquent school. Turns out the school is being run by ghosts of famous authors. It's snarky, and funny, and the heroine is adorable, and I like the little lit allusions.
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Date: 2007-08-31 07:44 pm (UTC)I loved Soha in RDB, so I'm rather interested in how KKC will turn out.
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Date: 2007-09-01 07:44 am (UTC)That Bollywood movies looks really interesting (and pretty). I'll have to find a way to see it.
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