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Thursday, May 31st, 2012
6:59 am
I've finished the new Nightrunner book "Casket of Souls" yesterday and I really liked it a lot.

Now I am already waiting for the next one, which will the last one. :(

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Friday, May 18th, 2012
8:41 pm - OMG

Richard Dean Anderson was asked if he knew about Stargate slash stories. Some fans! *headdesk*

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Sunday, April 29th, 2012
9:38 pm - Japan 2012 first part
Late but better than never. :D Clicking on the pics should you get to the bigger one.

March 18th to 21st )

... to be continued

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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
3:23 am
I am fine and well and immensely enjoying my time. The concerts were great! KAT-TUN are the best!!! :D

We are still in Nagoya and planing to go to the Johnny's shop. Tomorrow we will be off to Nagano.

I am sorry that I haven't posted before. But time with internet access is really short.

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Monday, March 12th, 2012
8:59 am
Watching Sherlock 2.01 on the big screen at the cinema was very nice! there was a TV Festival at a local cinema and so I went there with a few friends. Very nice evening.
I hadn't watched the episode again yet so that was an added bonus for me.

I also read the latest installment of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series "Crucible of Gold" and I enjoyed it very much. I liked it better than the last book. The Incan dragons were interesting and can't wait for the next one.

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Monday, February 27th, 2012
11:30 pm
I had a major breakthrough in my ancestry search today! :D My mum found the old family bible that her father's parents got for their marriage in 1905. With lots of data about family members. Now I have the complete birth and death dates of my great grandparents, and partly for some of my great great grandparents and even some names of great great great grandparents. \O/
I also wrote to the city archive in Emden to get death records.

And I got a place at the workshop on March 31st. :D

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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
8:41 am
I don't even know how many of you (in my current fandom) know about Hadaka no Johnnys, the web site [info]meloenchen, [info]dotintheshark and I put up at a time there weren't that many scans and translations as today. Since both of them moved on to other stuff and magazine scans have been put up much faster by other people, it is fairly dead but I still wanted to keep it around. Even though the layout is totally ugly and impractical after the update of the software for security reasons.

But the person who managed the server is stopping this and this unfortunately means the end of the site. Everything will go at the end of March. I still need to reupload some of my scans that are posted on lj coms to other services. Fortunately most previews for [info]jone_records are on photobucket.

I know this is not a very good time as fandom is still reeling from the loss of megaupload, but there is not much I can do.

current mood: sad

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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
8:53 am
Risou no Musuko is a lot funnier than I thought from the premise. Been a while since a comedic jdrama amused instead of annoyed me.

Have ticket for the first Nagano concert now! Yeah! But wow they are expensive. Still needing one for the second day, but hopefully having that soon as well. I also booked a hotel in Nagano, and looked up some touristy stuff to do on the weekend before the concert there.
I also decided to not go to Nagoya because it gets too expensive with concert tickets, hotel and train fare. :((((

I wanted to post London pics and reports over the weekend but had such an evil migraine. :( Hopefully next weekend then. If anyone is still interested. It was a great trip though!

Recently read The Diamond Queen. Good read. The British Monarchy, past and present, fascinates me. I also watched the first episode of the BBC documentary by the same author.

Read a few Merlin fics recently, Modern Royal AU is my absolute favorite one.

Read more... )

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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
4:59 pm
Happy New Year everyone! Hope it will be a good one! :D

Missed the first bit of Johnny's Countdown, but liked the rest. There was an audience at the Imperial Theatre. I think that's new, but so much better!

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Friday, December 30th, 2011
9:04 am
So this year's Dreamboys wasn't the last. And the rumour was false, like we thought. There wasn't a Japanese source for it anyway. But it seems like the whole English-speaking fandom took it at face value. Strange how this things work.

For an insane few hours I thought about going again. But apart from the issue of money for the flight (I went twice in 2007 but then I never went on vacation in 2006) my co-worker is away for two weeks in the middle of September and there is the FilkCon. And it looks like I don't even have enough leave days, since I have three vacations already planned for 2012.

And if pressed I very very likely would choose concerts over Dreamboys anyway like it now happens because the flights for March are already booked.
It just looks like more people might come to Japan in September and I really love meeting my fellow fans there. :(

But I will be meeting [info]rindiggfelt, [info]samenashi and [info]soundczech in March and I am very much looking forward to going to concerts with them. ♥

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Saturday, December 24th, 2011
4:38 pm - Merry Christmas
All the presents are wrapped, the tree is decorated and it is almost time to go to church. After that we will spent Christmas Eve with my sister and family.

I brought my eldest nephew a kilt in Glasgow and he already tried it, but I haven't seen it yet. :)

I wish you all lots of fun and a good time.

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Saturday, December 17th, 2011
8:23 am
Rurouni Kenshin live action movie trailer!!!!

video )

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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
12:48 am
So was that only the first epic battle between JE and AKB? :D AKB sub-unit Not Yet and newly debuted Johnny's group Sexy Zone battling for the weekly number 1 spot on the oricon charts. Not Yet seemed to have it in the bag after the first day but JE came back with three(?) handshake event, the last one even involving Kisumai. I found it very exiting. I love debuts and I think the new group is cute. And I really wish people would stop complaining about the name. It is getting old.

Curious what will happen next week when KAT-TUN is up against Tohoshinki and another AKB sub unit. Unfortunately I am a lot more emotionally invested in that. :( But I am curious if JE will do something special to protect KAT-TUN's number 1 streak. They only others streak they have are Kinki Kinds and of course that one will be very much protected, NEWS and HSJ. Not sure about NEWS though since their sales will certainly suffer from Pi and Ryo's departure. And with so many AKB singles and sub-units and also JE groups it's getting harder choosing the right release week.

I am still thoroughly enjoying YNB. Still waiting for episode 5 subs to really enjoy it but even without it was great. And I am happy that it's keeping up the good ratings.

What did happen to Nankyoku Tairiku? Episode 5 suffered from a serious rating dip and even before that it just went down and down. And the last one suddenly had fairly high ratings again. Strange. I haven't watched more than the first episode yet but I did like it.


I found all the posts about the OTW very interesting. It definitely made more more interested in it. As a consequence I became a member (so I can vote next year) and also made a fanlore account. I know I could contribute there as JE is fairly empty yet and the same is true for the German part of the BATB fandom. Starting isn't easy though. We'll have to see.

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Saturday, November 12th, 2011
2:27 pm
I am so sad.

Last Thursday his family and friends and the filk community lost a great human being. Keris, we will miss you! Rest in peace. It was much too soon.

I can't really believe it and not seeing him behind the tech table at the next con ...

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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
10:14 pm - Merlin 4.01-4.03
OMG this season is awesome.

spoiler )

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Monday, October 10th, 2011
9:02 am
Ian McKellen is just amazing! :D

http://alexmerry.tumblr.com/post/11223480521/ian-mckellen-should-be-the-voice-of-everything

Happy Birthday, [info]lachan!

Edit:

And can I be one of them, please! :)

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Friday, October 7th, 2011
5:25 pm
I am probably the only person (who is still kind of a NEWS fan) not that sad about 4 person NEWS.

Reasons )

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Friday, September 30th, 2011
1:09 pm

Waldmeister Negerkuss!

Lecker


Picture )

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9:43 am
I am kind of still in the wrong time zone for the con. LOL. Wake up too early and are sleepy in the evening. We'll have to see how that works over the weekend. Two days ago I even slept through a phone call from my parents. And the phone stands next to my bed. But then I sleep through earthquakes. :D

I don't know why people are surprised about the Johnny's Volleyball debut. It happens every four years and they never used established groups. The name is lolworthy though. But then that's not exactly news either. The 11 year old is from Germany. O_O

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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
9:36 am
I always have this intention of making this grand post with all the missing reports and posting all my pics, but this will just never happen so it's better to make small posts. I am gradually trying to post more reports and pictures.

And of course nothing I'll ever post will be as awesome as [info]littleraindrops's post! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Stuff that I bought!

Bento stuff, Dream Boys, magazines, photos, doujinshi and a penlight )

I hope the pictures show up, since this is the first time I am using Picasa this way.

P.S. It was a fabulous trip and I miss everyone very much! ♥

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