IS IT 9:00 YET?

THEY ARE SO FREAKING ADORABLE. CANNOT WAIT. Although my internet has been having issues lately, today especially, so I just know that it will choose to go out during the live stream concert and frustrate me beyond belief. Luckily I've already seen their Incredible Machine concert IN PERSON, but still, I want to see what they do with the online concert. Also, I've already listened to their new album like 20 times at the very least. I LOVE THE INTERNET FOR GIVING ME THINGS BEFORE THEY'VE EVEN BEEN RELEASED. But I do plan on buying the CD tomorrow. I am old fashioned in that I still like to buy the physical albums of my favorite artists.

Also, I just wanted to give a little shout-out to my new friends that I made from a recent friending meme. awoken, laceandbraids, and escapefate. Hello, my fellow K-drama fans! I look forward to getting to know you all.

This weekend I finished watching My Sister-in-Law is 19 and I really enjoyed it. It was more plotty than I was expecting, but still pretty delightful. It reminded me a tad of Brilliant Legacy, only not as well done. It had that same theme running through it about how money has the power to corrupt you, and the children suffer for their parents' sins, and crazy, manipulative daughters are the products of their crazy, manipulative mothers. What really got me about this one though is that the heroine's main rival stole her father. That's just... oh man, that was evil. But not really, because you understood why the girl did what she did, but at the same time, SHE STOLE ANOTHER PERSON'S FATHER. That's way worse than stealing a potential boyfriend. Anyway, this drama was both hilarious and pretty good at getting to your emotions. It started off very dramatically, which had me going, "Wait a minute, I thought this was a rom-com?" but, once it got past the heart-wrenching train station scene, it was your typical rom-com, but I think what I enjoyed most was seeing the conspiracy all fall apart and the "sinners" getting their comeuppance and eventually achieving redemption in their own ways. But, like most K-dramas, the ending to the romance was quite anti-climactic. What is up with that? I have trouble thinking of K-dramas that actually gave us a fully satisfying ending. It's like they're so utterly wonderful until they get to that last episode where they have to wrap everything up. I especially hate flash forwards where they tidy everything up in one minute and don't even give us a kiss. Psh. Anyway, I felt that the following scene was particularly well done:

It's only about 10 minutes into the first episode, and already we've seen the little girl's father get into a car accident and go into a coma (and just before he blacks out we see a sequence of him playing with his daughter and another little girl and it's so sweet and sad and beautiful), and then the little girl's grandfather shows up and gives her mother money and tells her to stay away from his son because he no longer wants anything to do with her (even though she's married to him and has a kid with him) and the mother starts crying and saying that's not possible. And then we see this older lady who is friends with the mother getting threatened by loansharks and they threaten to kill her children, so she sneaks into the mother's room to steal the 500,000,000 won, and the mother wakes up and begs her not to take it because she wants to return it to the grandfather, and in the process of trying to get the money back, the mother has a heart attack and dies, and the older lady realizes it was her fault, and the whole time this other lady was watching it all unfold. Cut to the funeral and the little girl is all alone and crying and the two older ladies are talking about splitting the money and abandoning the little girl somewhere, older lady says she can't do it but then the other lady threatens to tell everyone that she killed the mother, so, then we get this scene:

Never have I cried so hard at a scene where we barely even know the characters yet. How the show managed to give me that much emotional attachment to the little girl within ten minutes of the first episode is pretty amazing. And man can you feel the older lady's torment as she watches the train leave. Just, so well done. So, even though the show itself wasn't that exceptional, it did have its shining moments.

IS IT 9:00 YET?

THEY ARE SO FREAKING ADORABLE. CANNOT WAIT. Although my internet has been having issues lately, today especially, so I just know that it will choose to go out during the live stream concert and frustrate me beyond belief. Luckily I've already seen their Incredible Machine concert IN PERSON, but still, I want to see what they do with the online concert. Also, I've already listened to their new album like 20 times at the very least. I LOVE THE INTERNET FOR GIVING ME THINGS BEFORE THEY'VE EVEN BEEN RELEASED. But I do plan on buying the CD tomorrow. I am old fashioned in that I still like to buy the physical albums of my favorite artists.

Also, I just wanted to give a little shout-out to my new friends that I made from a recent friending meme. awoken, laceandbraids, and escapefate. Hello, my fellow K-drama fans! I look forward to getting to know you all.

This weekend I finished watching My Sister-in-Law is 19 and I really enjoyed it. It was more plotty than I was expecting, but still pretty delightful. It reminded me a tad of Brilliant Legacy, only not as well done. It had that same theme running through it about how money has the power to corrupt you, and the children suffer for their parents' sins, and crazy, manipulative daughters are the products of their crazy, manipulative mothers. What really got me about this one though is that the heroine's main rival stole her father. That's just... oh man, that was evil. But not really, because you understood why the girl did what she did, but at the same time, SHE STOLE ANOTHER PERSON'S FATHER. That's way worse than stealing a potential boyfriend. Anyway, this drama was both hilarious and pretty good at getting to your emotions. It started off very dramatically, which had me going, "Wait a minute, I thought this was a rom-com?" but, once it got past the heart-wrenching train station scene, it was your typical rom-com, but I think what I enjoyed most was seeing the conspiracy all fall apart and the "sinners" getting their comeuppance and eventually achieving redemption in their own ways. But, like most K-dramas, the ending to the romance was quite anti-climactic. What is up with that? I have trouble thinking of K-dramas that actually gave us a fully satisfying ending. It's like they're so utterly wonderful until they get to that last episode where they have to wrap everything up. I especially hate flash forwards where they tidy everything up in one minute and don't even give us a kiss. Psh. Anyway, I felt that the following scene was particularly well done:

It's only about 10 minutes into the first episode, and already we've seen the little girl's father get into a car accident and go into a coma (and just before he blacks out we see a sequence of him playing with his daughter and another little girl and it's so sweet and sad and beautiful), and then the little girl's grandfather shows up and gives her mother money and tells her to stay away from his son because he no longer wants anything to do with her (even though she's married to him and has a kid with him) and the mother starts crying and saying that's not possible. And then we see this older lady who is friends with the mother getting threatened by loansharks and they threaten to kill her children, so she sneaks into the mother's room to steal the 500,000,000 won, and the mother wakes up and begs her not to take it because she wants to return it to the grandfather, and in the process of trying to get the money back, the mother has a heart attack and dies, and the older lady realizes it was her fault, and the whole time this other lady was watching it all unfold. Cut to the funeral and the little girl is all alone and crying and the two older ladies are talking about splitting the money and abandoning the little girl somewhere, older lady says she can't do it but then the other lady threatens to tell everyone that she killed the mother, so, then we get this scene:

Never have I cried so hard at a scene where we barely even know the characters yet. How the show managed to give me that much emotional attachment to the little girl within ten minutes of the first episode is pretty amazing. And man can you feel the older lady's torment as she watches the train leave. Just, so well done. So, even though the show itself wasn't that exceptional, it did have its shining moments.

ASDHSKDFHASDHKJFHG!!!

SUGARLAND JUST SANG "SIGH NO MORE" WITH LITTLE BIG TOWN. IT WAS EPIC. The entire concert was awesome, I could not stop smiling. Ronnie Dunn from Brooks and Dunn also showed up and sang "The Very Last Country Song" with them, and man do he and Jennifer Nettles sound so beautiful together. Jon Bon Jovi showed up to sing his part of "Who Says You Can't Go Home," but uh... I gotta admit, he was kind of bad. Like, he just didn't seem into it at all, and he and Jennifer were kind of out of sync, but oh well. At least he showed up? And Sugarland debuted a bunch of songs from the new album, so that was fun to watch. But the show itself was pretty much a condensed version of the one that I saw in person. LOVED IT. Thank you, YouTube. You should broadcast Sugarland concerts more often.

ASDHSKDFHASDHKJFHG!!!

SUGARLAND JUST SANG "SIGH NO MORE" WITH LITTLE BIG TOWN. IT WAS EPIC. The entire concert was awesome, I could not stop smiling. Ronnie Dunn from Brooks and Dunn also showed up and sang "The Very Last Country Song" with them, and man do he and Jennifer Nettles sound so beautiful together. Jon Bon Jovi showed up to sing his part of "Who Says You Can't Go Home," but uh... I gotta admit, he was kind of bad. Like, he just didn't seem into it at all, and he and Jennifer were kind of out of sync, but oh well. At least he showed up? And Sugarland debuted a bunch of songs from the new album, so that was fun to watch. But the show itself was pretty much a condensed version of the one that I saw in person. LOVED IT. Thank you, YouTube. You should broadcast Sugarland concerts more often.