James Cameron the Ultimate LOOTER

Initially I did not want to watch AVATAR, being mistakenly convinced that it was smurfs + Planet of the Apes. But the cinema is boring during christmas time, and we didn't want to see a rat slapping her furry butt and tell us to put a ring on it.

Turns out AVATAR borrows heavily from red indians (or ozzie aborigines, based on ur neighborhood) + computer networks + George Bush and Iraq + worship. Though I detest LOOTERs (People who suffer from Lack of Original Thought), I have to say James Cameron is saved by his imagination, but not logic. A wet match can still be lit? Among other stuff that I am too tired to ask. I don't like to question my entertainment too much.

AVATAR is a four star act, though the traditional killing of the resident bad guy was a little too drawn out...

SNL with Blake Lively - An Accident-Prone Tiger Woods

Extremely Funny!!! Nordic beauties are gorgeous and so strong.

La Corda d'Oro Primo Passo - Terrier rambles...

I've been watching this anime the whole weekend. At first I watched it because it was about music (yes, still trying so hard to be cultured that I am about to turn into Yakult), then later I discovered that there is nothing more fantastic than watching a reverse harem. One girl, many guys. Surprisingly my personal fave, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, was not played, despite its extreme popularity in Japan (featuring many times in various anime, and according to this particular anime, is also known there as 'MenCon') .

Instead Schubert's Ave Maria is played like way too often. Until its notes are branded onto my skin (I actually went to find its sheet music!!! I am susceptible to TV, book and music influences). One thing I must say about this anime, it made me want to practise my violin more regularly. Lazy cow I am, I haven't been catching up on the references and notes as I was supposed to. Cocker Spaniel, my offer still stands for accompanying me during my violin exam next year. I can probably get you another client as well. Thanks to the assembly-line mentality of my violin teacher, it is very likely we will all be playing the same songs.

Anyway after watching 26 episodes of this traumatizing animation, I would have to say that I totally detest the time wasted on the too genki trumpeter and the sleepwalker. I started to appreciate the crazy Mr Perfect after he turned sinister, a bit like my favourite character in Ouran High, Kyoya Ootori. Still hate his hair, makes me want to take some destructive scissors to it. I love the piano/ soccer player and the violinist (duh). Usually I don't like men playing the piano, think it delimit their masculinity sometimes. But an athletic pianist? Different ball game. However I am very annoyed to find that the later episodes did not cover as much of him as I'd have liked. But the violinist? Delish...

I particularly loved the part where the Ren and Kaho played Ave Maria together(it was one of the earlier episodes, not so annoying yet) like a 180-degree Romeo and Juliet balcony scene. I could almost nose bleed myself to death. the limber Ryotarou manfully leapt up onto the platform to accompany Kaho on the piano during the first round of the concours when she was screwed by a pianist fan of Ren, despite having a traumatic experience at a concurs when he was a child. So sexy...