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My Descent into K-drama Madness
by: Raine — I’ve posted about the Vortex that Is the K-drama, which explained that I have a severe addiction to K-drama (and drama in general). Now I want to explain the process by which I fell into addiction as one of the steps in my “Korean Drama Addicts Anonymous” guidebook.
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Flower Boy Ramyun Shop: First Impressions
by: Raine After the first episode aired on Monday, I had to wait for it to be subbed. During that unbearably long waiting period, I avoided reviews and recaps to keep my opinion unbiased. Whilst haunting dramabeans (and desperately avoiding spoilers), I did see that my fellow OT members dubbed the drama “Flower Boy RAWRyum…
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Classical Music in Pop Culture: Immortals
by: Raine — At the bequest of fellow blogger and my most bitter buddy, Becoming Bitter, my next installment comes from the American film, Immortals, due to be released 11.11.11. Although the score for this film isn’t considered classical in the categorizations of musicologists, its technique and execution come from a long school of classical…
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Park Shi-hoo the Mini-series: Introduction
by: Raine — (In Bali for a vacay after filming The Princess’ Man. Live shoots are grueling and he, and the rest of the cast, needed the break!) As though I have any more time to spare, I decided to start a mini-series about one of my favorite actors. He is not only part of…
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An Assumption about Habits and the Human Brain
by: Raine — I’ve always been fascinated by the human brain’s ability to run an extremely complex organic system as well as control thought, reasoning, and emotions (blah, blah, blah…). I honestly don’t know much about the brain save what I learned in college and a few seminars in grad school. (How much of that…
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Classical Music in Pop Culture: Libertango
by: Raine — I would like to share a piece that I love that was included in the 2008 K-drama, Beethoven Virus, starring Kim Myung-min, Lee Ji-ah and Jang Geun-suk. When the cellist, Jung Hee-yun (Song Ok-sook), began to play this stellar work, I was ecstatic to see a solo cellist on the small screen.
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Classical Music in Pop Culture: Introduction
by: Raine — (Nodame and Chiaki in the anime “Nodame Cantabile”) This blog series was inspired by a conversation with thejawavillager. We were talking about music and I decided to share a link to a piece that I love. I thought at that moment, “Wow. The music I love is in the media that many…
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