Trivia about stuff I like
Sep. 19th, 2003 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseThe following is evidence that I am not afraid to be perceived as shallow (this disclaimer, however, is evidence that I am afraid):
May I say that Survivor is the greatest thing on television? I know it's a minority opinion, but it excites the hell out of us here at the house of ethnic escapades. And it was a great season kick-off last night, from the surprise shipwreck opening to the first major strategic mistake by Nicole that got her kicked off. No other show can lead us to so many passionate discussions about game play, human foibles and the nature of society.
Also, I'm becoming a teenage Japanese girl.
For those of you who don't know, there are legions of Japanese girls consuming (and creating) stories about gay boys in love. Some are original characters and some are beautifully produced fan comics featuring the big-robot-action manga characters falling for each other.
I picked up the manga, Gravitation, by Maki Murakami this week. It's about Shindou, a Japanese high school senior who is trying to make it big as an electronic pop composer/performer. One night, walking alone in the dark, his lyric sheet flies from his hand and is caught by a sexy man in his 20s who reads it, openly ridicules it as peurile and then moves on.
Shindou becomes obsessed with this man whom he falls madly in love over subsequent, equally humiliating meetings. The book is romantic drivel, but it is enormously engaging, funny and passionate. Shindou, his earnest and ardent passions leading him from one humiliation to another, is sweet likeable and real. Murakami writes her own goading comments in the margins that increase the level of giddiness: Shindou, up all night trying to find the object of his love, hasn't studied for his world history test and during it is blocked by the memory of the cabbage dish his mother made the night before. He keeps thinking the answer to the question about early Christianity is "Flamenco! Cabbage! Flamenco!" and the artist writes in the margins, "It's Francisco, you idiot!"
Holy shit! The website says it's going to be 14 volumes. okay.
Anyhoo, that's some of the stuff I like now.
May I say that Survivor is the greatest thing on television? I know it's a minority opinion, but it excites the hell out of us here at the house of ethnic escapades. And it was a great season kick-off last night, from the surprise shipwreck opening to the first major strategic mistake by Nicole that got her kicked off. No other show can lead us to so many passionate discussions about game play, human foibles and the nature of society.
Also, I'm becoming a teenage Japanese girl.
For those of you who don't know, there are legions of Japanese girls consuming (and creating) stories about gay boys in love. Some are original characters and some are beautifully produced fan comics featuring the big-robot-action manga characters falling for each other.
I picked up the manga, Gravitation, by Maki Murakami this week. It's about Shindou, a Japanese high school senior who is trying to make it big as an electronic pop composer/performer. One night, walking alone in the dark, his lyric sheet flies from his hand and is caught by a sexy man in his 20s who reads it, openly ridicules it as peurile and then moves on.Shindou becomes obsessed with this man whom he falls madly in love over subsequent, equally humiliating meetings. The book is romantic drivel, but it is enormously engaging, funny and passionate. Shindou, his earnest and ardent passions leading him from one humiliation to another, is sweet likeable and real. Murakami writes her own goading comments in the margins that increase the level of giddiness: Shindou, up all night trying to find the object of his love, hasn't studied for his world history test and during it is blocked by the memory of the cabbage dish his mother made the night before. He keeps thinking the answer to the question about early Christianity is "Flamenco! Cabbage! Flamenco!" and the artist writes in the margins, "It's Francisco, you idiot!"
Holy shit! The website says it's going to be 14 volumes. okay.
Anyhoo, that's some of the stuff I like now.
