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searchsoleil) wrote2007-11-05 12:27 am
searchsoleil) wrote2007-11-05 12:27 am
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AGH.
Oh my God. Oh, my God.
My academic is broken.
I have ten pages worth of papers due this Wednesday and I cannot write. Me. Who relishes papers. Who is supposed to be using two of those pages to do a report on fucking Paprika! What is my problem? I mean, why can't I just write?
I have done so many things to avoid this it is actually getting ridiculous.
I read a novella length fic (CC fans: run, do not walk to copperbadge's post on the matter). I watched all of Nobuta Wo Produce (first time; yes, I'm slow; yes, I cried). I watched the first two episodes of Moyashimon (SO MUCH CRACK, CRACK CRACK CRACK). I caught up with La Corda D'Oro. I watched the new KKM OAV raw. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND JAPANESE. This is all on top of my usual FList checking and manga downloading!
I wrote about a page today and it just. It sucks. It sucks so much. It is worse than my LJ posts. Apart from what shows up here a lot of the time, I am usually very articulate in my writing. I am also usually a diligent worker who can sit down and get things done when the need arises.
I DO NOT USUALLY FLIT OFF TO PROJECT GUTENBERG AND STARE LONGINGLY AT THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL.
WHO AM I AND WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MYSELF?
My academic is broken.
I have ten pages worth of papers due this Wednesday and I cannot write. Me. Who relishes papers. Who is supposed to be using two of those pages to do a report on fucking Paprika! What is my problem? I mean, why can't I just write?
I have done so many things to avoid this it is actually getting ridiculous.
I read a novella length fic (CC fans: run, do not walk to copperbadge's post on the matter). I watched all of Nobuta Wo Produce (first time; yes, I'm slow; yes, I cried). I watched the first two episodes of Moyashimon (SO MUCH CRACK, CRACK CRACK CRACK). I caught up with La Corda D'Oro. I watched the new KKM OAV raw. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND JAPANESE. This is all on top of my usual FList checking and manga downloading!
I wrote about a page today and it just. It sucks. It sucks so much. It is worse than my LJ posts. Apart from what shows up here a lot of the time, I am usually very articulate in my writing. I am also usually a diligent worker who can sit down and get things done when the need arises.
I DO NOT USUALLY FLIT OFF TO PROJECT GUTENBERG AND STARE LONGINGLY AT THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL.
WHO AM I AND WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MYSELF?
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...Why yes, I am am up this late trying to get a review finished for work despite crazy writer's block. What made you suspect?
Hey, The Scarlet Pimpernel! I love that book! And by book, I mean the musical and the movie starring Jane Seymour, because the written sequels did not include nearly enough romance to suit me.
Tell me more of Nobuta Wo Produce and Moyashimon. I've heard talk of the first, but not much, and the second I've only seen on the usual torrent lists.
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Nobuta wo Produce stars Kame of KAT-TUN and Yamapi of NewS, and I think it is part of the reason those two bands have captured the attention of the English-speaking fangirl population. Or if it isn't the reason, it helps me to understand that phenomenon a tiny bit more, because phwoar, if Toma wasn't the JE love of my life, Kame totally would be.
Basically, Kame's character is Shuuji, the popular kid--funny, helpful, kind, hot girlfriend. Unfortunately, he is merely putting up a front so that he an have a "normal, care-free high school life." His perfect world is intruded upon in the first episode by
1) Yamapi's character, Akira. He is totally, hilariously eccentric. And also incredibly touchy-feely, with hugs and snuggling and kissy faces, mostly directed at Shuuji. He is totally convinced that he is Shuuji's
soul matebff and refuses to leave Shuuji alone.2) Nobako, a shy and down-trodden girl who is the subject of dismally terrible amounts of bullying. Shuuji tries to deny that he desperately wants to help her, but he sort of spectacularly fails at hiding it. Especially from Akira.
So Akira suggests that they "produce" Nobuko (she quickly earns the nickname Nobuta, and pigs/buta feature prominently in the show), so that she becomes something that "everyone will want."
The thing that makes this show spectacular is that it utterly fails at keeping hold of cliches. It just spirals out of control, to the point where Nobuta never gets produced (actually, Shuuji loses his popularity, instead, kind of like Kare Kano in that respect) and the only thing that really seems to make sense any more is that Shuuji, Akira, and Nobuta have developed such a deeply bonded friendship that you sort of ache for them fondly and wish you and your friends were as heart-breakingly perfect together as they are.
Uh, so yeah, Aja has a pimp post here (http://bookshop.livejournal.com/770783.html), with some more specific reasons why the show kicks butt and also download links.
Moyashimon, from what I can tell from the two episodes I've watched, is about two country bumpkins, one the heir of a yeast factory and the other, a sake brewery, who are going to attend an agricultural college on the outskirts of Tokyo. They are kind of married. Also, the heir to the yeast factory sees microbes with his bare eyes.
...Yes, you just read that right. He sees MICROBES. AS KATAMARI-LIKE, ALIEN, CHIBI THINGS. And there are these two scientists at the college who are interested in him, one old guy who will, I guarantee, make you want to throw up within five minutes of being introduced, and his (uh, I think) research partner, a woman who dresses like she is an S&M madam instead of a scientist.
It's just, lots of crack. Lots and lots of crack that you can find on Youtube. Pimp post by Eck, which leads to a pimp post with download links, here (http://evercool.livejournal.com/282888.html).
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