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Tohoshinki + Arashi + Gackt on Music Station = MAJOR FLAILING. I FLAIL.

...I have developed a strange obsession with Chris Pine. I am also bizarrely attracted toZach Quinto's use of the English language.

...that's it.

So, right now, I am enjoying SuJu's Neorago more than DBSK's Japanese releases.

...I am ashamed.

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Gods I love this show so much, and this episode was all kinds of awesome. ( somewhat spoilerific )

I've been watching so much tv lately it's ridiculous.

The Norwegian entry could probably win with this little boy smile and fiddle. His heavily accented vocals made me laugh. His semi-final performance was a rousing clap along, which was sort of bemusing considering that the lyrics appear to bemoan a hopeless love. And it was bizarre how one of the redundant acrobatic dancers on stage earned his own smattering of applause while the contestant was still singing.

Holy, Denmark, Ronan Keating to a tee!

Estonia is my favourite entry from this second batch of semi-final winners. I like atmospheric stuff.

Eurovision week! First semi-final round is over, and the winning performances were on the whole less campy than would be typically expected. I particularly like Portugal and Israel.

And somehow, I wound up youtubing Teresa Teng. I'm not a fan, but I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that few Chinese people will not know or have not heard her music... that is to say, 月亮代表我的心 occasionally plays on a loop in my head for no apparent reason.

This, though, is so bloody awesome. Kuko was her breakthrough hit in Japan, and it gave me goosebumps just listening to the way she uses her voice in this one. Fantastic.

Also, randomly, the famous Spirit of the Peacock by Yang Li Ping.

So Keitai Sousakan 7 has finished at 46 episodes, and holy crap it made me cry. T__T I really, really liked this drama.

Holy Shit, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Again, not a sequel but a retelling that will purportedly follow the manga more closely. Er, are we running out of material to work with already? Or you know, I could probably stomach a live action FMA movie better than Dragon Ball.

Also, if rumours are to be believed, Keanu Reeves has decided to take on Cowboy Bebop - which could probably be really awesome, if someone else plays Spike, please, please.

Holy shit, Dragonball Kai. This makes me so very gleeful. OTOH, it makes me scratch my head in some puzzlement as to Toei's motives. Kai is apparently a retelling of Z - or not even that, maybe just reedited and digitally remastered, though it will leave out a couple of the more minor villian arcs. Which can't do much worse anyway, after the disaster that was GT trying to inject new life into the franchise, despite Toriyama Akira's refusal to do so. Still, why though? New market? Nostalgia?

Still, the new opening is fantastic. ♥

...Goku!! ♥ ♥ ♥

...Chigusa. Chigusa! T___T

STAR TREK TRAILER 3, WHY SO AWESOME.

I despise bandwidth limits.

Michael Jackson is the star that cannot die.

YES, a debut not to be ashamed of! Oh, boys. So, so much better than the PV, thank gods. Also does not hurt that Junsu ♥ carries much of the melody in this one. Be still my fangirl heart.

1. Whut, Konami Takeshi's new series is... New Prince of Tennis, post-Nationals. I don't think I've tackled even the semi-finals yet, orz.

2. Also, DBSK on Music Station, woot!! While I am deliriously gleeful, it pains me somewhat that their debut on the show is with their new single Survivor. There's a difference between J-pop and, you know, J-pop, and Survivor is such a painful regression back to bubblegum mediocrity after Doushite and Bolero. (BUT I STILL LUV U BOYZ) Still, that being the case, there should be very little chance of mucking up the song in MS.

3. Belated reaction, but Sex Pistols OVA EEE!!

I kinda sorta really dislike Taylor Swift's single Love Single. Let the bashing begin.

No~~ Federer =(

So my cousin who is ten years younger than me has been accepted into the same university.

Where I have been. For the last nine years.

If I don't finish this year, I will commit seppuku. Especially if her sister joins her next year.

It is very sad when I have to admit that I enjoyed Twilight more than The Day the Earth Stood Still. The latter was somewhat tedious and anticlimatic - John Cleese was the best part of the film, all two minutes of his appearance. Also caught Tropic Thunder, which was shamelessly hilarious.

Have been sucked into the new BBC series Merlin, which unabashedly panders to the slash community. It is all about destiny and sacrifice and heartfelt declarations and significant looks (I kid you not). Arthur is wonderfully representative of my favourite brand of prat (see Echizen Ryoma and Ishida Uryuu). Merlin is gangly, impulsive and idiotically likeable. Arthur's father is nicely realised as the harsh King Uther, though I sometimes find it hard to take him seriously, because Anthony Head is pretty much synonymous with bookish librarian in my head. (Bradley James, who plays Arthur, is a closet Buffy fan, which makes me lol)

In DBSK news, I am so, so in love with the upcoming new Japanese single Bolero. I know I say this every single time, but wow, the harmonization for this ballad is so bloody amazing, and the climax of the song damn gave me goosebumps. I cannot wait to hear this live.

I took four of my cousins out yesterday, all girls, aged 15, 16, 17 and 23 respectively. I feel compelled to stress this qualification as my excuse for choosing to watch Twilight. The irony does not escape me, given that just over the weekend I'd professed to nekomancy that I had no interest in the current mania surrounding both the books and the film. But it was either spend money on that or High School Musical 3. I still have some self-preservation instincts.

Sometimes, the advantage of walking into a movie theatre with little or no expectations is the possibility of being surprised. While it suffers from the occasional awkward acting or cringeworthy dialogue ('it's like you're my own personal brand of heroin' GOOD GODS WUT?) it is not a terrible film, and by some accounts that I've now read, it's better than the book in some ways - which unfortunately says alot about the (painful) quality of the latter. In any case, it's easy to see why tweenies are eating the film up. It has all the hallmarks of a shoujo anime, which is probably why I didn't mind it so much.

In other news, while Arashi no longer pushes my buttons the way DBSK, does, I really dig their single Truth, probably because Ohno dominates the song as the lead vocalist more so than usual.