Libera me, Domine, de morte æterna, in die illa tremenda

I watched Antique last night. You were right, darkeyedwolf. It really IS about gay and cake! (I'm not doing a full review, check out the GREAT pimp post on rainscene instead!)

It was... interesting. In a GOOD way. Though honestly, I prefered the second half a ton more than the first half.

Like I've said before, I'm a lot harsher on movies than on dramas. So if this were a drama, I've love it (speaking of, I totally have to watch the jdrama now, because TAKANO IS THE GAY PASTRY CHEF). As it is, I liked it quite a bit, but didn't love it ala Eternal Summer.

The thing is, it was hilarious. I was seriously laughing out loud for a good portion of it. And the later part was poignant and dramatic. Plus, it was gay. VERY gay. Which was quite nice.

BUT I wasn't shipping at all. I'm glad Jin Hyuk didn't end up gay. I liked the friendship between him and Sun Woo a lot better than I would have liked a relationship.

And Choi Ji Ho reminded me a TON of Lee Un for some reason, and that made me sad...

Kim Jae Wook isn't really my type, but holy shit, Jo Ji Hoon totally is. I found him attractive in Goong, but I was more impressed with Kim Jeong Hoon. But he's perfect in this movie. Longer hair + stubble = total hotness.

And yes, I took a TON of gratitous caps.


( JOO JI HOON WILL YOU MARRY ME? )

Also, I forgot to post this picture awhile back. I was watching The Rose, and saw this;
( What did I see? CLICK MEEE )

I'm watching this uber dramatic scene in The Rose, but I'm giggling like mad, because KUI! How can he be SO AWESOME?!
(I keep talking to him through the screen too, like a freaking psycho. I'm like "Joe! Go get her! Get her Joe!! NOW! She's right outside!", or "Oh no! Joe! You're not a bad guy!") Dude! Some guy just offered Kui a shitty ass apartment for NT$18,000 a month!!!! Even I know that's a horribly horrible price. HORRIBLE. Which resulted in me yelling at the screen "Don't do it Kui! He's cheating you!"

And wow. I'm not such a huge fan of Jin, but Ah Wei just did this amazing angsty sliding down the wall thing that was totally hot.



Angsty wall slides...


Gay incestuous makeouts...


Joe Cheng's glorious hair...

What more could you want?!

ALSO! Still not getting email notifications for comments on LJ. It's fucking pissing me off. So, sorry in advance if I don't respond to stuff, because it's likely I haven't seen it.

I'm in a drama dry spell. It may not seem like it, since I am actively watching four shows right now (BBF, Superstar Express, Love or Bread, and My Queen), but believe me, it's a dry spell.

( More.... )

So yes, basically the main point is; I will finish watching The Rose sometime this week. (I meant to start yesterday, but then I did the top twenty tw-guy thing, and stayed up until 4am. Yay 3 hours of sleep...)

Two additional things; I am way more tired than I have any right to be (I HATE working on weekends, weekends are when I catch up on my sleep. I average 3 1/2 to 4 hours a sleep a night on weekdays), and my workplace is ALWAYS so damn cold. I'm seriously getting a breeze here. It's SNOWING OUTSIDE. I DON"T NEED A BREEZE.

I have 6 Ikuta Toma icons, 5 Oguri Shun icons, 6 Jiro icons, 6 GD icons, and 8 Zai Zai icons.... Plus, at least one icon for each member of F4. Interesting.

At this point in my watchage of The Rose, I'm starting to get kinda depressed. I'm utterly in love with Kui, and he's going through this whole journey of self discovery, and stuff, and it just does not end up well for him. As much as I like Jin, I just don't like him as much as Kui, who is an awesomely dynamic character. Jin is kinda emotionless and wooden... (Kinda like the difference between Sano and Quan (Hana Kimi vs Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu)).

I thought Xiao Zong was intensely attractive in ISWAK, but then I had my Mike He phase, and was like "meh" towards Joe... now I'm back to thinking he's extremely hot... but honestly, I think a large part of it is his hair. I have this thing with long hair on guys... Jerry is extremely atractive too. His face is beautiful. Oh! Funniness -> in The Rose, they kinda insinuate that the reason that the family is so attractive is because they're all part white... I mean, really? Personally, as a white person, I tend to envy Asians... I love their skin color, and their hair. I guess we all want what we don't have.

I kinda hate it when I end up shipping non canon pairings, because I get all heartbroken... *cough*Bull Fighting*cough*...

I'm alternating between Gokusen, The Rose, and Gokusen fanfic (more than anything, I'm addicted to fanfic. It's my crack). But I've also recently wanted to rewatch Coffee Prince. I never did post my epic Coffee Prince post... I should do that at some point... and finish the ep summaries for Love Contract...

EDITS! - I forgot to mention... today I bought this wallet/purse thing (in green). And I wish I could say I spent only £40 for it... but I didn't. It was kinda a birthday present for myself. But jeez, is it pretty! AND it's big enough to hold all my stuff. I have wallet overload. My last one broke today.... the clasp snapped off because it was too full! So yay for big wallets!

MEEEEHHHHHHH! LAST MINUTE!



*dies* I love Kui so much!

The Rose is like a screwy Marmalade Boy. It's sooooo good! I love it to death. And I'm totally and irrevocably falling in love with Xiao Zong again. He's so insanely awesome in this drama. His character is so different from Zhi Shu in ISWAK, I can really see just how good of an actor he is!

In The Rose, Kui is totally my favorite character. He's so childish, and funny, and heartbreaking... You know how I fell in love with Lee Wei in Bull Fighting (aka, the guy who DOESN'T get the girl, but should because he's totally awesome, and MUCH better than the other guy)... yeah, that's going to happen to me in this drama too.... except far more angsty.

I have to say, right now, The Rose is probably one of my favorite dramas ever (And I'm only up to episode 7). Sometimes it doesn't make sense, and it's relatively convoluted, but it's perfect for me.

BTW, Ah Wei totally eats flowers (roses in particular). Seriously, he just takes a handful of petals and downs them. I've eaten flowers before (mostly in food art, though there was an incident with my eating roses... long (boring) story), but it's not like they're tasty and I want to eat them again... unless they're candied, I really see no point. (Granted, I like flower FLAVORED things... *sigh* this is getting off topic)

Tired now! Am going to go to bed, and read some Love Com prior to sleeping. Also, I'm totally wanting to watch ISWAK again... I watched a bit last night. In the last episode they parody a couple things Joe's been in; Ah Sun's MV for Ye Zi, and one of the scenes from The Rose (a scene I have yet to see!). Back before I was into the twdrama/twmusic scene, I was all confused. However, I did know The Rose. Incidentally The Rose was the third twdrama I'd ever heard about. Thanks ISWAK!

I just found out I don't have a tag for ISWAK... how is that possible?! It's my first, most beloved drama! Maybe I was writing about it before I started my tags. Crap. Now I'm going to have to go back to July to find posts to tag. I'm anal about being organized.

Am really freaking hungry! *sigh* I don't get to eat for another... 7 hours... I don't eat lunch. Or breakfast. I go around 12 hours without food. That's how I roll.

So last night after I watched the first episode of The Rose, I was like "OMG I NEED TO WATCH MOOOORRRRE".... but alas the torrent is REALLY slow. There's only one seeder (which is honestly more than I can say for a lot of other older twdramas), and it was like at 90.7% when I left this morning. It's killing me. I'm going to die of anticipation. OMG YOUTUBE! I just found out that youtube has the episodes with english subs! And I just found another torrent that looks SUPER promising! Yays!! I loves the internet! *dies of awesomeness*

In other news, I completely stumped on what to get people for Christmas. I have an idea for my mom (I was going to get her an ipod shuffle or a portable DVD player), but I'm absolutely stumped on what to get anyone else. Well, that's not entirely true, I've already about some things for people, but it's only a partial gift, not the whole thing... (Note: I'm an awesome person to have as a friend gift wise, because I LOVE giving people stuff, and try to be highly original. I also usually go fairly large gifts, or a bunch of smaller things.... because I'm terribly awesome like that)

Also, it's REALLY cold today. It was 13F this morning. It's not the worst it could get, but it's still pretty cold. Last winter was really bad, so I'm predicting this winter will be relatively mild, snow wise. It's snowed twice already, but only a tiny bit each time.

Oh, and each winter (and most of the spring) I put up bird feeders in my yard. We've been getting a ton of birds (and squirrels, I have a squirrel feeder). I love them, but I get nervous that they might become prey for one of my cats. Hasn't happened yet though.

I'm trying to figure out what to watch next. I still have a bunch of stuff to finish, but meh. I want something new.

So two options!
Ma Que Ai Shang Feng Huang (or, Calling Love) - currently being subbed by Intangible FS. Stars Lee Wei, which is enough for me. LOVE Lee Wei. Only 12 episodes, but they're like 1 1/2 hours each.

The Rose - Have wanted to see it forever. Stars lots of good people. The only BIG problem is that it's pretty damn old (2003!), and while there ARE subs, I fear it's going to take AGES to download because the damn thing is not being seeded anymore.

I could also watch Tokyo Juliet, or like, something else.

*sigh* So much quality stuff, so little time.

And yes, the next drama I watch will most likely be taiwanese. I've been watching japanese stuff almost straight for a few weeks.