Shear Genius

Yay, it's finally got a second season so I can watch high-strung hairdressers spaz out over having only an hour to do a hairstyle, then snark with my stylist over how he does four styles an hour at hair shows and the contestants are all whiners for complaining about having an hour.

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If there's anyone local who's looking for a tech-type job, the library just posted two positions for overnights starting this fall. $16.80/hour, 40 hours/week, one year-round, one a 10-month appointment. Go here and choose "library" in the department drop-down menu.

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livelongnmarry is building up steam, with over 200 members and a little over 100 offers. But I note a serious imbalance in the offerings here: there's tons of live-action fandom offers of fic, art, etc. but very few animated fandom offers (Besides, *ahem* mine). Anime fans represent! Go sign up and offer! I know I've got a lot of good artists and writers on my f-list, and I'd love to see you over there!

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Couple of links...

wintersweet is looking for experiences with Japanese pharmacies.

croaky has opened commissions.

Eeeeeeeee!!!

I have to tell you I am watching the MOST AWESOMETASTIC MOVIE EVAR!! I mean, I came into this thing expecting Cheese Factor Nine, and we have gone beyond Cheese Factor Nine, Ten, Eleven, and well into Cheese Factor Warp Hyperdrive!! I mean, everything about this movie is amazingly awesome in the most cheesetastic way ever.

A few clues about it:

-- it's available via Netflix
-- it's Japanese
-- there are martial arts
-- cheese factor aside, the cinematography is gorgeous
-- it has an amazingly stupid title that is somehow perfect
-- if this wasn't a manga before it was made, it damn well ought to have been! (Actually it's got more of a manhwa seinen-equivalent vibe, if you ask me)
-- so far, twenty minutes in, none of the characters has a name


Grabbing screencaps like mad. I cannot wait to recap this for y'all.

THAT'S IT

I HAVE TO OWN THIS MOVIE.

(hit tag for context ... what there currently is of it)

Shounen-to-English translation

IT'S NO GOOD KILLING YOU WHEN YOU'RE NOT AT THE TOP OF YOUR GAME is shounen for I LOVE YOU.

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You know what's awesome? When a writer goes "You know what would make this movie better? NINJA ZOMBIES IN JESTER HATS." And the director says "YES."

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OH GOD
OH GOD

ROSE PETALS!!!!!!

CANNOT STOP LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!!

Wow.

Wow.

All right, my friends, I have just finished watching the ultimate shounen experience that is inexplicably known as Death Trance.

It has:

-- martial arts
-- sword fu
-- gun fu
-- motorcycle fu*
-- a swordsman dragging a coffin wrapped in chains around
-- followed by a little girl
-- Steven Seagal's son
-- and his hair
-- a bazooka
-- vampire spiders
-- ninja zombies in ninja jester hats
-- phallic weapons
-- mysterious monks
-- mysterious swordsmen
-- great heaping wodges of symbolism
-- spewing rose petals**


You'll have to wait until this weekend for me to give you a long recap of it, but my finger was spasmodically hitting alt-C throughout the entire thing, and I took NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE screencaps, so I can assure you I have thorough proof of this movie's awesometasticness.

THIS MOVIE IS BETTER THAN AABRA KA DAABRA AND THAT IS A BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL THAT RIPS OFF BOTH HARRY POTTER AND CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

THAT IS HOW AWESOME DEATH TRANCE IS.

* This was the point at which I paused the movie, loaded Amazon.com, and bought the damn thing.

** This was the point at which I could not stop laughing.