| 10:50am | Second Look at Drama and Melodrama | | | | So I found this alternate definition of melodrama."A drama involves primarily a conflict of values within a man (as expressed in action); a melodrama involves only conflicts of men with other men." - Ayn RandNow I'm not going to pretend I understand all the nuances of that definition, but it |
| 6:28am | Drama and Melodrama? | | | | Let's look it up: Melodramatic, ".characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts." - Answers.com. Basically similar to the definition for drama except with the added word "exaggerated" and some other negative adjectives. Of course, where we cross from... |
| 6:38am | Three new youtube videos, Debussy, Debussy and Liszt | | | | Arabesque No.1 , Claude DebussyFirst, a rerecording of Arabesque No.1 by Claude Debussy. My first video of this piece was done in 2007, so it's been two years. My approach to this piece hasn't changed too drastically. I take a very light and somewhat brisk pace, keeping the pedal relatively |
| 1:06am | Sora no Manimani piano arrangement | | | | Episode 3 of Sora no Manimani ended with a delightful extended scene of planetarium-gazing, that was good enough to convince me to continue watching the show. The music used was particularly good, so I've done an arrangement for piano solo. My recording devices were a bit rusty, so I can | | |
| 6:05am | Honey and Clover Review | | | | Every time someone asks me for an anime reccomendation, regardless of genre, Honey and Clover will probably come up. Any ranking of my favourite anime must include Honey and Clover. Why do I like Honey and Clover so much? On a basic level, the plot (the lives of a collection | | |
| 1:30am | Kurenai Review | | | | Kurenai Shinkuro is a "dispute mediator" who is assigned the task of protecting Murasaki, a seven year old girl who was taken from her family, the Kuhoins. The Kuhoins are a very traditional family who operates a system where the women, after conceiving (with their siblings) and giving birth, are ... | | |
| 10:05pm | 10 Favourite Simpsons Episodes | | | | First, a small rant. The company distributing Cross Game had my upload of the OP song sequence removed from Youtube. Is having the opening sequence of a series on Youtube such a horrible thing? The worst it could do is drum up some interest in either the anime or the |
| 4:35am | Eden of the East Review | | | | I started watching Eden of the East primarily because I heard that the mangaka from Honey and Clover was involved in some way. I believe the connection is that the characters were designed by her. If you look at the screenshot, you can see that the main character, Takizawa, bears |
| 4:06am | Cross Game 17 | | | | Cross Game hasn't had a misstep yet and 17 is one of the best episodes so far. Here we return to the slice-of-life feel after the intense baseball match of the previous episode. Azuma, being the only player to remain on the team after the former coach was |
| 9:05pm | Touch (30-54) | | | | Many spoilers for these episodes ahead. After Kazuya's death, most of the characters have begun to move on with their lives, though his memory is very important to them, similar to the analogous character in Cross Game. The bulk of Touch is about Tatsuya growing and proving himself, and the |
| 10:05pm | Haibane Renmei Review | | | | Haibane Renmei begins with a girl who finds herself in a room she doesn't recognize in a town she doesn't know. Everyone around her has wings and halos, and she grows her own as well. No one seems to know how or why they became what they became, and they |
| 3:35am | Touch 5-30 | | | | This post will contain spoilers for episodes 5 through 30. I really do not suggest reading it unless you've seen these episodes too, as they cover a major event that should be left for viewers to see on their own first.So, it turns out that Touch doesn't follow the exact |
| 3:05am | Cross Game - 15 | | | | Excellent. Just Excellent.Are you okay being center fielder, then?There's something about this scene that is just perfect. The pacing, the interjection of the music (which always appears only when it drastically contributes to the sincerity of a scene), perhaps just the way that it's carried out... |
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