Squee list

- I Finally got my hands on Sarah Rees Brennan's 'Demon's Lexicon'! (Okay, so I suppose finally normally implies that one had to wait more than 2 days after the book came out, but it feels like finally, because I've been waiting for this book in theory ever since she announced she had a book deal (that would be Sept 2007), and more concretely since I read the first chapter after she posted it on her website. (I uh, don't know when that was.) So far I'm still on that first chapter, but any way. Yay!

- I've decided I need more dorama in my life, and to wit, spent yesterday perusing darkeyedwolf's dorama pimp journal, laughing hysterically and deciding I wanted to see every single show there. I think I'll start with this one though.

- Yesterday Cy and I went to go see 'The Brother's Bloom', which was quite good, in that it is a film about con men that manages to con the audience, not once but several times. It was also really cute, and also slashy, and I am very very surprised that no one in fandom has written a bandom AU of it yet.

Dorama I want to watch

This is mostly for my own reference. *All text from rainscenes

1)
Kou Kou Kyoshi.
She's the schoolgirl in love. He's the terminal teacher using her to offset the loneliness of his impending death. Together, a doomed co-dependent mess masquerading as romance!

This drama is sort of awe-inspiring in the new and creative ways it gets UTTERLY FUCKED UP. It's about a girl in love with her teacher, who is slowly dying from a brain tumor, who leads her to believe she's the one with the fatal illness so he'll have someone to UNDERSTAND HIS PAIN. Toss in some sex, suicide, rape, underage prostitution, middle-aged men lusting after schoolgirls (yes, more than one) and you might as well slit your wrists now. It's what the characters of this drama would do, anyway.

2)
Katagoshi no Koibito
She's an office lady dreading the approach of her 30th birthday. He's the sixteen year old runaway who crashes at her apartment. Together... well...


3)
Nodame Cantabile
He's the talented but arrogant conductor. She's the messy, disorganized spaz who can replay the classics by ear. Together, Beethoven!

Another classic! If you haven't seen Nodame, drop everything and check your sanity at the door. Herein lies quirky romance, gay voyeurs, musical misadventures, mismatched fashion, electric violin, purple ooze, stalker afros, mongoose costumes and flying pink sparkles, and it's all set to Mozart and Chopin.


4)
Utahime
He's a solider who washes ashore a small town in 1950s Japan with no memory of his past. She's his spunky pseudo-sister fighting her feelings for him. Together, they listen to Elvis!
Utahime ends vastly different from how it starts, and that what you think is zany 1950s silliness will come to own your soul with love and heartbreak and poignance and well-rounded characters. It starts cracky and only brings out the big guns halfway through, but this is a drama where everything was planned from the first episode, and the sheer level of detail in how everything comes together is fantastic.

ETA: Also want to watch: Tatta Hitotsu No Koi, and PRIDE.

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