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Renai Revolution 21 + ramen noodles + sumo wrestlers =


Speechless. Delighted, amused, speechless.

ETA: The photos.

ETA #2: Yossie and TakaMina? This is weird for two reasons. First, because I still remember Takahashi Minami's name and nickname. Second, because I don't think I've ever seen an AKB48 girl with a member of H!P, past or present, which doesn't even make a whole lot of sense now that I think about it. They should all hang out and play Pictionary or something.

(And now I ship it. Seriously, Yocchan? You've worked your way through all of Hello! Project already? You're even more of a pimp than I gave you credit for.)

November has absolutely blown, but it's Thanksgiving and I need to focus on the positive more anyway so here are some entertainment-related things I'm thankful for. ( Including major spoilers for last night's Criminal Minds. )

Damn! Work it, Linlin! I don't know why you're the least popular.

Oh, right. 'Cause you're a scary little goblin. Don't fret. I still love you and you're cute on occasion. Cuter than Mittsi, anyway.

Sorry, girls! Please don't eat me in my sleep.

So, NaNoWriMo's kicking my ass. I'm so bad at focusing on anything. If this were Day 2 instead of Day 10, I'd still be behind on word count.

The Big Bang Theory is pissing me off. Here's the thing: I actually kind of like Two and a Half Men, which I realize is like saying I sodomize puppies. (I don't, by the way. I only kick them sometimes, and only when they're asking for it.) It's stupid, it's misogynistic, etc. but it's occasionally funny. That's not the point. The point is, I think it's important to understand that both shows are made by the same people - misogynists with poor judgment. That's why I'm worried about Penny/Leonard. I don't think they realize how awful the relationship and I'm starting to wonder if they're going to let their own wish-fulfillment fantasy ruin the show. The ending, and implying that Penny did the right thing by giving in, was total crap. Raj and Beyoncé were right, or at least half-right. Even if they were married, he still wouldn't own her but at least if they were living together I'd agree he had a say in who got to stay there. And seriously Leonard: When Howard's the one agreeing with you on the subject of women, I'd say that's a red flag right there.

DYING FOR THIS WEEK'S GLEE!!!

I've been a Wicked fan forever, and I absolutely love this version of Defying Gravity. I know some people are bitching because it's different and some people are bitching because Lea doesn't sing it by herself (because obviously looking like Idina Menzel is a fantastic reason to have yet another solo when poor Chris had maybe 15 seconds to himself in episode one) but those people can all shut the fuck up. It was gorgeous.

When I logged onto LJ tonight, I was pissed off about the possible death of a FlashForward character in the same episode that revealed she was a lesbian. Not cool, people. Then I checked my friend's page and saw a thirty second preview for Hangry & Angry's next video, Top Secret.

That 30 seconds provided enough girl-on-girl fanservice to totally swing me back to happy again. That's why I love you best, H&A! But I'm still done with FlashForward if my lesbian dies. Seriously. Not cool.

In other happy-making news, my Criminal Minds season 4 DVDs came in the mail yesterday! There are no commentary tracks but there are profiles for every member of the team and a bunch of Behind-the-Scenes things for several different episodes, so I guess that makes up for it. I'm probably the only person who loves commentary tracks, though. I even watch them for movies I hated the first time around, but no one else will ever watch them with me. Yesterday's Criminal Minds made be happy too. I was kind of expecting the worst after last week's narm-tastic preview (my sister and I spent all week making fun of it and she even set, "If he chooses you, you better deliver!" as her Facebook status) but it was way better than I thought it would be. I'm personally very excited about Morgan as team leader. I seem to be in the minority here but I think it'll be fascinating to watch how the dynamics change, both right away and after they switch back. I think Morgan's ready to lead but even though it was his idea, I don't think Hotch is ready to follow. It's one more way he's losing control and it might help in the short term but push him even closer to his breaking point in the long run. I can't wait!

I was kind of distracted during Glee last night, but what I remember of it wasn't especially strong. I'll need to re-watch it. Puck's "personal growth" rang hollow for me and I didn't really buy anything involving him. The most interesting but unexplored part of the episode was Mike and Matt choosing glee club over football. I don't understand it, but I really want to. I hope they give us a little more focus on those two. Or Artie. Or Tina. Or Mercedes, Kurt, Santana or Brittany. Basically, I just want them to stop with the Rachel/Finn/Quinn/Puck and Terri/Will/Emma/Ken nonsense for a while. It's time for a break. My favorite part was Sue in her zoot suit. There are very few things I love more than a woman in a suit, and I can't think of any of them right now. I ♥ Jane Lynch!

If you didn't know, awesomestart.com lets everyone create their own individual start pages now. I know I'm easily amused but I'm pretty sure this is actually awesome anyway. I made a Hangry & Angry start page which looks basically exactly like my desktop background and yet I've still been staring at it for about ten minutes.

Sue Sylvester was a trending topic all night on Twitter. I thought it was dying down when I went to bed, but I woke up and here she is at number two again. PS- Why don't I have a Sue icon? I must rectify that. Anyway, here are my favorites:



10. Sue Sylvester has banned the sale of all cereals except Cheerios.

9. Sue Sylvester doesn't just breathe, she whips that oxygen into shape with her patented training regime until it becomes carbon dioxide.

8. Sue Sylvester grinds her coffee with her teeth and boils the water with her own rage.

7. Sue Sylvester is not living with hepatitus. Hepatitus is living with Sue Sylvester.

6. Sue Sylvester got a perfect score on her SATs by simply writing her name and then drawing a sombrero for every answer.

5. Voldemort calls Sue Sylvester, "You-Know-Who."

4. C is now the first letter of the alphabet because that's how Sue Sylvester sees it.

3. Artie is not really paraplegic. One day Sue Sylvester just told his legs not to move anymore.

2. Rachel Berry is not a fantastic singer. Sue Sylvester is a fantastic ventriloquist.

1. Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it's a cheerocracy. Sue Sylvester is the Cheertator, and a pain in your ass.

New Crush:

David Krumholtz. He's still as unattractive as he was during the 90's when he was the loser friend in every single movie I watched, and yet I'm totally hot for him. Damn you, NUMB3RS! I don't even like math. Quit making me watch you.

New Videos:
( Berryz Koubou )
Ryuusei Boy
This is just far too weird for me. I'm as big a DANCE☆MAN fan as the next wota but this song was just a miss. The only saving grace was the cute dresses. Pity they were wearing them in outer space.

Watashi no Mirai no Danna-sama
First off, any use of "danna-sama" makes me want to punch people, especially when it comes from little girls who would be tarred and feathered if they so much as went out on a date with a boy. But I don't speak Japanese so I'll just pretend that in context, "Watashi no Mirai no Danna-sama" means "my future husband damn well better worship the ground I walk on or I'll dump his ass" so I can move on and enjoy the song. And I do enjoy the song, much more than "Ryuusei Boy". I like the video as well, although the absurdly out-of-place outfits do ruin it a tad. It's very simple, true, but it really doesn't need to be any more complicated. There were some points when I wished they had gone for a second location, and I still think they should have the girls two outfits, but the point of the whole thing was "idols being cute" and they were. Sometimes it's not enough, but here it was.

New Bad Idea:
NaNoWriMo. I've tried it a couple of times and never made it past the first week. I usually only last a couple of days. I feel like I need to buckle down, focus and just finish something right now, though. It doesn't even matter what it is.

MIKE SPOKE!!!

In other news:

My sister got married. It was an absolute travesty, and the tackiest fucking thing I've ever seen. They'll be divorced before their second anniversary and she won't have learned a damn thing. And she didn't tell her dad. She doesn't understand why he's upset.

Also, I have an ulcer.

I've started plucking my eyebrows one hair at a time every time I go into the bathroom instead of all at once. I mention this because it's literally the best thing that's happened in my life in the past week.

MIKE SPOKE!!!

Otherwise, TV's kind of sucked this week.

Because I'm easily amused:

I've got a long, uncomfortable e-mail to write and I think I'm coming down with something but I had a few things I wanted to get down quickly.
( Morning Musume - 'Kimagure Princess' )
( Heroes )
( The Big Bang Theory )
( Glee )
ETA: Some Mike icons/bases - feel free to edit and use however you see fit. Done in a rush, because I'm not going to have time for much of anything for the next few days and that seemed like far too long to go without a Mike icon. I'll make better ones later, though.



( Criminal Minds )
( FlashForward )

Nothing but spoilers, people!

( Heroes )
( The Big Bang Theory )
( Glee )
( Criminal Minds )
( FlashForward )
( Monk )
( Psych )

Koharu is graduating from Hello! Project. Not Morning Musume, the whole damn shebang. I'm shocked, even though I expected her to be one of the next to leave the group. I thought Reina would be first, though. And Ai. And Risa. And Eri. Okay, so maybe not. Honestly, I never really liked her, I'm glad other girls will have more of a chance at the spotlight and I've been a little desperate for a change. I'd rather have a new 9th generation but I still consider this good news. The real news here is that she's the first Morning Musume member to leave since the mass-graduation of the Elder Club members and how UFA handles this could be an indicator of what will happen to the other girls when their time comes. I had hoped that graduating members would be staying with H!P as soloists. The official statements at this point don't really make it clear whether she'll be staying with UFA or if she's making a clean break. Maybe they don't want to fall into the same rut they had before, but the roster is pretty sparse and there are some girls who couldn't survive outside of H!P as soloists. Koharu can't. Even six months later, I'm not sure what direction they're going with their image. Maybe this split is Koharu's idea or maybe H!P just doesn't think she belongs anymore. For her sake, I hope she does go in the direction of modeling or maybe even acting. I never watched Kirarin Revolution but she has to be better at acting than she is at singing. I know this whole thing sounds kind of harsh. She's a pretty girl and she's not my least favorite. That's still Reina.

Farewell Koha, you filthy crackwhore!

I never answer these, but as a (phone, not online) psychic I feel compelled to weigh in. I wouldn't definitively cancel my plans if a psychic told me to, but I would consider it. While I know firsthand it's all nonsense and that no "psychic" can acutally see the future, they do learn to read people well and as an objective observer they might be picking up on something I've ignored. Or they may just be talking to rack up some extra minutes - you never know. It's worth stopping to think about, though.

I would never refuse to date someone with a clashing astrological sign because I'm so ill-suited to my own that it would be rediculous.

I started writing a long, rambling entry about why I stopped my AKB48 exploration, but it basically boils down to, "I don't really like the music that much. AKB48 is not Hello! Project, even though they're both Jpop idol girl-groups, and I wouldn't be a H!P fan either if I didn't like the music." And then I devolved into a tangent about how that kind of surprised me, but not really, and how maybe I'm not as shallow as I thought, except I totally am, and the whole thing was kind of boring. So instead, here's a picture of the Pimpwolf with her assistants and bitches. ( Mr. Moonlight )

I did get quite a bit accomplished today - I just don't have anything to show for it. I joined a forum for AKB48 fans that I think is going to be so helpful with my member profiles that I'm actually re-doing the first batch of girls. I don't want to skip any days, though, so we're going to watch an un-subbed episode of AKBingo!
( Day Six )

We're taking a break from Team A today to take a look at two new AKB48 videos - Iiwake Maybe, the newest single, and the undergirls' c/w to that track, Tobenai Agehachou, which came out today. And perhaps I'll learn what "undergirl" means. Anything's possible.
( Day Five )

Tomorrow I'll go back to learning about the girls individually.

Today, I begin learning about the girls, starting with Team A, with the help of this (locked) aramatheydidnt post, J-Ongaku, Aitakatta! and YouTube videos. There are seventeen girls in Team A now, so I'll be learning five today and six tomorrow and the next day. Here we go!
( Day 4 )

Day Three

Today I skimmed through the AKB48 tags at International Wota, American Wota, Pleasure Principled and aramatheydidnt. And, of course, I realized that not knowing the girls left me at a disadvantage, but I've been so busy that I sort of forgot about this. I probably should have started a week later. Anyway, I found a couple of things that I think are really going to help me, including a break down of all the girls so tomorrow I'm going to start with the new Team A. I also watched the most viewed AKB48 video on YouTube but of course it ends up being the same song from yesterday, just with a different video. I like it more this time. This one has a performance with them doing that side-to-side thing Morning Musume used to do back before dancing was invented. It's also got some cute "candid" stuff.

Well, today didn't go as well as I'd hoped. As it turns out, there are no active AKB48 communities on LJ which leaves me kind of alone in this. I'd hoped to find a few people who could give me suggestions for what I need to see and what order I need to see it in. I think tomorrow I'm going to start approaching this the way I did Hello! Project. Today, though, we've got just one video because I'm very short on time.
( Day Two )

I've been idly considering looking into AKB48 for a while now, but with 48 current full members, plus a past that's I don't know how long, some little Egg-like people and well, I honestly don't know what else - that's king of the point - it's always seemed way to daunting to even start. Now that they've reshuffled all of the groups, it seems like the perfect time to jump in and I wanted to catalog my little adventure.

( Day One )
All right then! That's the end of day one. Tomorrow I'll start watching the videos in order, join a community or two, look for English-language fansites and go through the AKB48 tag at International Wota until I fall asleep. Au revoir!

When I woke up this morning, I had no idea that by the time I went to sleep tonight, my life would be complete.

They rap, dude. They rap. And unlike Salt5 or whatever, they're, like, sincere about it. I can't even explain why this makes me as... weird and giddy as it does. Either it makes sense to you without explanation or it never will.

Amusement aside, the most awesome new thing is the new Melon Kinenbi single.
http://www.hello-online.org/index.php?act=helloonline&CODE=article&topic=884
I love them so much and was so excited to hear about this collaboration and it totally doesn't disappoint. This is the best idea anyone with any connection to MKB has had in... ever. It's the second-best H!P-related idea after Hangry & Angry, and H&A is the best idea in the whole world.

Today was a good day.