bluelovesorange: (sepia dream boy)


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he's so beautiful

I like a man who wears glasses )

next project: Innocent Love photobooks, tsp comm. [x]
bluelovesorange: (destructive)
well, it's the internet, clearly it must be true

Kim Hyun Joong is apparently set to be in a Korean film adaptation of Kimi Wa Petto. First it was being Korean Hanazawa Rui, now he's going to be Korean Momo? HE IS SINGLE WHITE FE(MALING) all the members of F4.

CLEARLY SHOTA IS NOT SAFE.


I think he's a great personality and oddly funny and endearing --- but he is no actor. And I quite enjoyed Kimi Wa Petto, when I wasn't being severely skeeved out by it. So. Please.

(I may or may not have been completely facetious for this entire post)
bluelovesorange: (boy over flowers)
Picspam Monday. Because Columbus Day isn't something I celebrate.

Jaejoong (TVXQ) as photographed by Mika Ninagawa, FRAU 10/10



Yoochun, and more samples of Mika's work )

Following catboy, it's only appropriate to show off a boy with a cat - Mukai Osamu in Chou Chou. These scans are not mine, they're slightly tweaked versions of ones from baidu.com




You're welcome, Internet Ovaries. YOU'RE WELCOME. I don't know who's cuter, Osamu or the cat. IT'S A VERY CLOSE CALL. LOOK AT THAT FACE.

and yes, you can use these scans for graphics and such. All scans are mine unless otherwise stated, credit would be nice.
bluelovesorange: (dreamers do)
that when someone asks you, "Do you want to die?" the only obvious answer is to reply, "Actually, I would prefer some cake."

Thank you Eddie Izzard.

But really, consider that kdrama staple. Along with standing in the street and yelling, "YAH. [insert name of love interest you loathe but secretly can not live without]" which, by the way, is also apparently the key to ensnaring Kim Jaejoong's heart for your very own. Clearly there are some things that are just bred into the bone. I wonder if there are bonus points for running after his bus.

Me, I'm mostly lazy and prefer to win over people with my effervescent charm and delightful personality. And also I bake.

And another shortcoming - every guy that I've ever intensely disliked, I've really hated their guts. I never had a secret yearning to look at them soulfully in the rain. Because world, sometimes you just hate that person's face. And witty banter? Doesn't work on stupid people.

But it is a plot device for a reason.

The life and times of Saff, unemployed superhero is ticking along smoothly. I've had quite a lot of sleep to make up for all the deficit that went on before in maintaining a semi-professional veneer of competence. I'm getting pillowface, so maybe too much sleep.

But can you blame me when my pillows look like this?

I've had a bit of a rummage and have sold nearly 50% of all my manga and books I don't read anymore. But I worked at Borders for almost two years, and when you factor in the 33% employee discount, that is still a lot of books to get through. I'm trying to accumulate less because I understand realistically, that 90% of the things I buy are things I want, and not need. And if I'm to move to another country, I'd really like to leave as little behind as I possibly can get away with, without a scenario of posting a free for all on Craigslist.

Man, I still can't believe I bought 300. I think I was temporarily insane - I like maybe 1% of Frank Miller's work. I also sold off two Harry Potter hardcovers - the Half Blood Prince and the Order of the Phoenix.

Anyway. Yes, with the decompressing, I've managed to catch up on some fannish inquisition stuff pre-mental breakdown at Work That I don't have to Go Into Anymore because I am the Empress of Awesome, and yes, that's my Official Superhero name:

NSFW. Mukai Osamu and the An An cover of Doom )
bluelovesorange: (shunshot)
THANK YOU JAPAN.

Cute boys + Beatles Homage + Nice Product Packaging? OH YES.


bluelovesorange: (tokyo love)
as listed on amazon.co.jp SET TO BE RELEASED AUGUST 26, 2009

it was photographed on location in Okinawa



and available for pre-order on Amazon
bluelovesorange: (whipsmart)
my subject line has nothing to do with my post.


warning: cute boy overload
bluelovesorange: (yoohoo)
According to my handy w7 gadget, it's 93 degrees outside, which means I'm staying inside as long as I can.

You know what this means. Lots of LJ posts.




ETA: YOU'RE WELCOME.

the boys of summer, pt. 1 )

the boys of summer, pt. 2 UNTO INFINITY )
bluelovesorange: (bella lumina)
I'm really looking forward to watching Shihori Kanjiya and Junpei Mizobata in Buzzer Beat meet cute and be cute.

Anyway, have some scans of Maki Horikita, Shihori Kanjiya and Jun Kaname at their prettiest (or most ridiculous manga-ified dream.)

so here we are again, waiting for the other one to speak )

Finished all the available subbed episodes of BOSS so far - I was worried that it would be an amalgam of Sex and The City (which I despise) and CSI/the Profiler because the opening credits, you know? Very frothy and cat-walky and has nothing to do with the drama whatsoever. It's a very glossy, very trendy - 'let's play with cool transitions and zoom effects because WE CAN' of the moment type of drama, but has solid acting, especially from Yuki Amami, the female lead and the Boss of the title. It's entertaining, but I'm not emotionally invested in any of the characters.

But yes, they did assemble a fine looking cast.
bluelovesorange: (hot DAMN)
*note to self, when Moneypenny is functioning again, work on enormous icon batch for AtaDan, incredibly iconable

Hmmm, just as my subject line says. Waiting for Giri Giri to post the softsubs for AtaDan 9: where the eyeflirting and ambiguous glances are exchanged by many! (Like the title of the kdrama parody on MADTV!)

I'm going to be sad when my happy sunshine spring into summer show is over after episode 11. I mean, there's yakuza!Meisa to look forward to, but oh, Ookuras. I heart them so much as a family, and episode nine is full of the reasons why.

Anyway, have some scans from Junon (the clerks at Sanseido are so used to my schizophrenic, random purchases now. My recent haul was Mika Ninagawa's New Half mook - where I marvel at how much neon pink goes in on a MN photoshoot, and how the surgeons do really good work, but there's still some obvious tells, JUNON (I was so embarrassed by this. It's like the equivalent of buying um...Bop and erm, a teeny magazine when you're not a teeny anymore.), Men's Joker, FineBoys, and I was going to buy FRAU for the gorgeous mini insert of Kanjiya Shihori in wedding kimono attire, but decided to pass on it for next time. Seriously, I've always thought she was pretty but those pictures = super maximum gorgeousness.)

feel free to use for translations, graphics and the like. No reposting unless I do it (obviously), and credit [livejournal.com profile] calledinvain if you're so inclined.



Both Yusuke and Koji have a pinup poster in this issue, and there's more with Yusuke as well, but they'll be posted later once I get my main computer issues sorted out.

And also, for fans of OTOMEN, as posted earlier - it's been turned into a live action drama, airing this summer on Fuji, a more extended cast list has been posted on Dramawiki, and it's certainly moved up on higher on my list of things to watch. There's a mix of the usual suspects (Fuji loves the Hana Kimi alums, plus it doesn't hurt that most of them have went on to become Big Names) and new people.

I've read scanlations of the first volumes and I know [livejournal.com profile] meganbmoore likes it, but I'll be going into the drama manga blind. I think that helps with the experience, because I have no particular attachment to the manga whether it's mild amusement/like (Hana Kimi) or full out disdain (Hana Yori Dango).

more on the cast of OTOMEN )
bluelovesorange: (ann suzuki)
oh week. You and I were getting along so well, and then today my car battery dies in the parking lot at work, I pay an obscenely unfair (IMO) price for the AAA battery, and now I'm poor and making cookies out of anger. Or maybe making cookies because my unhappiness at the petty annoyances in life needs sugar.

I've been really tired for some odd reason - I conked out at around 9:40 pm last night and slept the whole night through, but then at work, I kept on zoning out and catching myself awake - er, nodding off and then waking up really alarmed.

Like, I'm still at work? STILL?

Anyway, my most recent fannish bits of glee.

1. And I believe this is what they call the chase A Sho/Chisato drabble, because well, they have CONSUMED my brain. It was an unexpected delight in a gen pudding of hilarious family hijinks.

2. these broken days won't last forever, part one of a series of stories, very much with S/C in mind. But first let me talk about how much I dig his ex-wife/girlfriend.

3. Mukai Osamu's appearance on OSHAREISM with the preternaturally young Fujiki Naohito and the two other hosts. I have two words for you: HAND PORN. He has beautiful hands, the kind of hands that I somehow always associated with musicians (read: pianists and harpists) and always coveted. Alas, my peasant genes won out, and I do not have graceful fingers at all.

And also: Osamu/Alpaca. Their love is not to be DENIED.

4. Atashinchi no Danshi episode 9 : no, my battleship has not sunk. D knows when I nearly had a flail storm over the fact that Cute Guy ran after Maki's bus in Innocent Love - because yes I may scorn most 'pure love' stories, hate on the more treacley, obvious lifetime movie event moments in romance, but sometimes all a girl wants is a guy to run after her bus. Or train. I also accept running after a bicycle, but it better be raining.

have a discarded Atadan ficbit -- nope, I'm not continuing it, it was a rough draft )
bluelovesorange: (Default)
Not to be a regular occurrence on this LJ, I'm afraid. I just thought I'd take my staycation time to chill out and finish some art projects/writing I had piled up, and also take a whack at my scanboxes (big clear boxes I have with all my magazine clippings/other paper miscellania).

Anyway, Atashinchi no Danshi continues to charm and delight me (I watched a bit of Mr. Brain last night, and this could be a Kimura Takuya series I finish~! I'm only really into him as a film actor, I haven't watched (nor do I want to) most of his dramas.) and so the spotlight is on three of the six brothers.....




follow the Masaru!

taking a pause from bishoujo-land )
bluelovesorange: (beautiful boy)
Act Mini, vol. 5 2009 featuring some of the spring dorama stars

I've scanned the portraits of the actors, and not the corresponding screencaps/set reports, because I figured you could just watch the shows for that.

Featured: Matsumoto Jun, Ueto Aya, Sato Ryuta, Aragaki Yui, Oguri Shun, Hiraoka Yuta, Tabe Mikako, Matsuda Shota, Kashii Yu, Odagiri Joe, Nagasawa Masami, Mizukawa Asami, Ikuta Toma

I've also begun watermarking all my scans, but if anyone needs the raw scan, just ask me and I'll hook you up.

preview:


zipped files live here:
MU

if you want to repost, please do not remove my watermarks (in case of Evil-sama, there are no watermarks, but I figured his scans would be the most popular anyway and would have already popped up), and just let me know in the comments.

Otherwise, as always, have fun using them for graphics/whatever purposes
bluelovesorange: (mmmmeisa)
I'm still going through the notes I scribbled down to help me not forget key moments of the Miyavi show (and man, I'm a dork), and I also got his concert DVD (just to see what the full on extravaganza was and what got taken out of the US performances) and anyway, the little concert writeup should post this weekend. However, there's a part that needs a little explanation....


Also, besides the concert DVD, I picked up the recent issue of 25 ans, with Tamaki Hiroshi and Meisa Kuroki on the cover, because HI YOU'RE VERY PRETTY. Also, belated scans from Invitation magazine with evil-sama, Masami, and Abe Hiroshi.

super prom couple! )

I have also been wasting time on youtube as per usual - there's Abe Hiroshi with a chimp, Abe Hiroshi in this Thai movie that uses no special fx/wire/or stand in stunt men for the stars, everything you see in the trailer is actually happening, the absolute WIN of Shimura Zoo: the premise is that Japanese celebrities go to far flung places (or not so far) to hang out with/take care of an animal. This could never happen in America, because PETA'd protest them along with the Humane Society. However, this is Japan.

My favorite regular is Becky, because she is an anime (the non annoying kind) heroine in human form, and because she gets on so well with animals. And also, I've just come to the conclusion that I really just like her - she's funny and she does an awesome impersonation of Yankumi.

Becky with a spring...hare?

Becky with the Very Fat Cat

Becky with Koalas

Aya Ueto with a baby panda named Mew

Aoki with otters in Okinawa

Just click around, and there's tons of clips. There's a famous one with Becky living with red pandas, and Anna Tsuchiya hanging out with black rhinos, and of course the sight of Aiba from Arashi fleeing/shrieking from animals big and small is always fun.

Becky goes out with Miyavi on White Day. THANK YOU, JAPAN.
bluelovesorange: (hey yuu)
Two screencaps from two very different things. (and yet sharing a common theme: both featuring actors previously loved from Hana Kimi and er, skin.)

Heat Island and Puzzle )
bluelovesorange: (beautiful boy)
A official MV for the insert song for Aoi Miyazaki and Lee Junki's new film, Virgin Snow.
bluelovesorange: (Default)
Oh Hana-Kimi, when you finally arrive, I will stop spamming my LJ (LIES, ALL LIES).

The newest cast member is none other than Yuu Shirota. I think the casting director has been watching tapes of Seito Shokun! and going, "Well.....since they've all worked together before, this will cause us less delay in acheiving perfect chemistry!" and I swear, if Kanata Hongo shows up in Hana Kimi, it is pretty much proof that the casting director for Hana Kimi is the same for Seito Shokun or they are in CAHOOTS with one another.

Unlike his part in Seito Shokun! where he plays a ditzy PE teacher, Shirota's role will be of Sano's athletic rival Kagurazaka. I'm now really looking forward to the bed and breakfast hilarity subplot.

Oh Maki-chan, you're surrounded by cute guys. I wish I had your summer job.

Oi, Yamapi - all of your best friends are working on this drama - it is going to be the biggest party cast ever - WHY ARE YOU NOT HERE?

WHY IS IT NOT JULY YET?
bluelovesorange: (Hana Yori Dango OMG)
I have writer's block. Or rather, I seem to have stumbled upon that annoyance that plagues most writers I know - I have the words but I don't know how to string them together. Transitions are kicking my ass! So, instead of pounding my head against an unyielding wall of text, I am going to revel in the shallow.


Pic spam of the femme half of one of jdrama's prettiest OTPs (because Yamapi gets plenty of love, and have you seen Maki's photobooks lately? She is spookily lovely - ethereal and in your face at the same time)

I just love beautiful pictures.

cut for bandwidth - here comes the pretty - warning, lapsed art history/poet student analysis abounds )
bluelovesorange: (locker)
I'm working on capping HYD ep 1 series 1 and HYD ep 1, 5 series 2 in an introductory post for some friends who were interested, but currently I'm in the grip of Yamapi fever. Does he ever get the girl in any of his dramas? Is he the Japanese equivalent of Jiro Wang? And how does he manage to pull off that Portuguese orange (as my friend L calls it) bleached look so well? Usually Asian people don't fare well with hair color the same color as their skin tone. It's some kind of evil voodoo he has.

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