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winterspel made a great post promoting music clips of Japanese singer/actor Kamenashi Kazuya and Japanese boy band "KAT-TUN". I have been listening to these clips on and off and I am pleasantly surprised. The standard of music and voices is quite high. The standard of dancing is even higher, in fact, it is probably one of the best of what I have seen so far anywhere . Saying all this, I was never especially keen on pop music so I can safely say that I probably will never turn into crazy "KAT-TUN" fan girl. But much, much thanks to winterspel, it is very interesting culturally to get to know more about Asian entertainment.
And yes, I have almost forgotten, – I liked Yamashita Tomohisa the best in the video clips. To celebrate this, I am watching "Nobuta wo Produce" and "Kurosagi" at the same time. I love love love quirky and clever and crazy "Nobuta wo Produce" to bits (and more about this later) and I liked the first episode of "Kurosagi" very much too. I am not sure about the quality of the script and the swindling story was somehow very naïve, but the presence of Yamapi compensates for script’s pitfalls in spades.
Supernatural, Simon Said This was the story with super-persuasive-power twins which didn’t look like each other. It is not like this is impossible, it just added to a little voice of "What?" in my head . But they are back to the main arc about THE DEMON and this made yours truly very happy.
BSG, up to episode 5 (or 4)I finally caught up with BSG watching and episode "Exodus" was awesome. OK, not fully awesome, but Lee has saved the day and this was enough for me. :)
Though I can’t say that episode "Collaborators" was so good. It reminded me largely of “Litmus” in terms of witch hunting. Later in the episode Starbuck was behaving strangely , though Anders was behaving even stranger and broke up with his wife for no apparent reason.
But worst of the worst moments was (and I really want to erase this scene from my memory) when Lee boasted to Adama that he lost half of stone and Adama condescendingly said "keep jumping". It was said in a very very wrong way for me.
Films: The truth about cats and dogs
EEEEEEEE! This is such a fabulous film. I don’t have much time left and have to rush home, but - OMPH! Clever articulate girls rule! Dogs and cats rule! Female friendship rules!! Usually female friendship is shown as weakish and falling under the blows of stronger attachments, but not in this film! I just want to hug the writer for this.
Fabulous
winterspel made a great post promoting music clips of Japanese singer/actor Kamenashi Kazuya and Japanese boy band "KAT-TUN". I have been listening to these clips on and off and I am pleasantly surprised. The standard of music and voices is quite high. The standard of dancing is even higher, in fact, it is probably one of the best of what I have seen so far anywhere . Saying all this, I was never especially keen on pop music so I can safely say that I probably will never turn into crazy "KAT-TUN" fan girl. But much, much thanks to winterspel, it is very interesting culturally to get to know more about Asian entertainment.And yes, I have almost forgotten, – I liked Yamashita Tomohisa the best in the video clips. To celebrate this, I am watching "Nobuta wo Produce" and "Kurosagi" at the same time. I love love love quirky and clever and crazy "Nobuta wo Produce" to bits (and more about this later) and I liked the first episode of "Kurosagi" very much too. I am not sure about the quality of the script and the swindling story was somehow very naïve, but the presence of Yamapi compensates for script’s pitfalls in spades.
Supernatural, Simon Said This was the story with super-persuasive-power twins which didn’t look like each other. It is not like this is impossible, it just added to a little voice of "What?" in my head . But they are back to the main arc about THE DEMON and this made yours truly very happy.
BSG, up to episode 5 (or 4)I finally caught up with BSG watching and episode "Exodus" was awesome. OK, not fully awesome, but Lee has saved the day and this was enough for me. :)
Though I can’t say that episode "Collaborators" was so good. It reminded me largely of “Litmus” in terms of witch hunting. Later in the episode Starbuck was behaving strangely , though Anders was behaving even stranger and broke up with his wife for no apparent reason.
But worst of the worst moments was (and I really want to erase this scene from my memory) when Lee boasted to Adama that he lost half of stone and Adama condescendingly said "keep jumping". It was said in a very very wrong way for me.
Films: The truth about cats and dogs
EEEEEEEE! This is such a fabulous film. I don’t have much time left and have to rush home, but - OMPH! Clever articulate girls rule! Dogs and cats rule! Female friendship rules!! Usually female friendship is shown as weakish and falling under the blows of stronger attachments, but not in this film! I just want to hug the writer for this.
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Date: 2006-11-02 01:30 am (UTC)Oh, you didn't have to be! I really really appreciate it!! And I think many other people enjoyed it too!
but there are many live clips that sound less good in terms of being on key. But for me, and I think for most JE fans, it's something that we accept as part of the package
I understand this so well! They are also amazing entertainers indeed! Their dancing is so fabulous, even for my old-lady tastes. I think this is what must be of great value in Japan ( I am just guessing here) - the whole personality of the band members, The fact that their fans see them in shows and on stage. It is like Kame is not just Kame-the-singer, he is Hiroto at the same time!
And again, this is so interesting culturally, because, of course, I am forever comparing with Russian approach . And in Russia, especially in Russian rock, the words and poetry of songs is what matters the most, not music, not dancing. A lot of band leaders are not even pretty by any stretch of imagination. What I am trying to say is - I see how different things are. And I LOVE IT!
For example, Takuya Kimura's group, SMAP features one of the very worst Japanese singers ever
I must say that I had ventured to listen some of their clips after "Long Vacation" and was scarred for life. Though I am trying to keep open-minded approach and will probably try to listen to some "SMAP" later. But Senna + Takuya of "SMAP" = I can't comprehend this yet. :)
I was less interested in the swindling and more interested in Kurosaki's relationships with Katsuragi and with Tsurara and with the character development
I think this what I like too! And also Yamapi!