Random Thread ~Usagi-Chan ☮ Tūsurī~

[TotallyUncool]

That's sad! Like all the Monty Python members, he made life more bearable for so many of us for so long!

[erilaz]

Last Thursday it was Christopher Tolkien, yesterday it was Terry Jones.

As one of my college friends wrote in an e-mail today, with reference to both, "This year is not off to the best start."

[SaebaRyo]

Happy New Year to all who are celebrating today

[erilaz]

I was just about done with my browsing at Green Apple Books in San Francisco this evening when I spotted this on the shelf. WTF?!

I've been aware of Bloomsbury's 33⅓ series for quite some time. Each of these little books is usually a monograph on one specific record album. I enjoyed reading Jenn Pelly's volume on the Raincoats' self-titled debut about a year ago.

I wasn't aware of the 33⅓ Japan series before today, though. Books already published in this series include one on Perfume's Game, and the forthcoming titles include one on Shonen Knife's Happy Hour. The volume I saw (and bought) today is atypical in that it doesn't limit itself to one album, but rather discusses the title group as a whole, as well as the idol phenomenon in general. In fact, it doesn't appear to say much about the music at all, except as a commodity. I should also note that this is a scholarly, critical study, not a fluff piece, with 21 pages of endnotes and a 13-page bibliography.

[Moh]

Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash. WTF. That's terrible.

[Amped]

I know. I can't believe it. This is a nightmare, please wake me up. Hes way too young for this to happen.

[Zunu]

Yeah that's tragic.

[Shoujo Q]

What makes it more tragic is that his 13 year old daughter was with him. And his family is so young. It’s devastating. . Also the other family on board too. Whomever they were.

[Amped]

R.I.P. to my childhood hero

There is a hole in my heart.



Nonaka Miki is a big basketball fan. I hope she is okay.

[TotallyUncool]

It's such a horrible, sad thing, and it seems so wrong.