Author Archives: angelica meng, editor-in-chief

New Book: “I Am A Hologram From 2046″ by Naomi Elizabeth

Posted on September 4, 2011 by angelica meng, editor-in-chief

Naomi Elizabeth
Hey do you want to read some fan-fic?
Sure.
How about X-Files fan-fic?
What? Duh!
Ok, how about lesbian X-Files fan-fic?
Uh, wow. Is this real or just something you wish existed?
Amazingly enough, it’s real. And it’s just one chapter of Naomi’s new book “I Am A Hologram From 2046 (My, Uh, Innermost Thoughts, Apparenty)”. As you can probably tell, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I’m so glad one of my funniest friends wrote a book. It’s like being able to read someone’s thoughts and then thinking “wow, these are some awesome thoughts.” If you enjoy books that are funny, honest, weird and inspiring then this book is for you. You can get a copy from Naomi herself at the D.I.Y Con tonight or you can get a copy here.

Netflix Streaming Review: Inuyasha

Posted on August 21, 2011 by angelica meng, editor-in-chief

inuyasha kagome
(image via sehwa)

Once I start a series I really like, I can’t watch anything else until I’ve seen every episode. My latest obsession is Inuyasha, an anime series that aired in Japan from 2002-2010. It’s filled with magic, action, humor and romance. Even though it’s really light-hearted and fun, it has tons of drama and really dark concepts and characters like evil babies and soul eating. Plus subtitles!! Why are post 80′s English voice-overs so terrible?

kanna
(image via kagome higurashi)

The show follows Kagome, a teenage girl (of course) who is the reincarnation of Kikyo, a feudal era priestess. Kagome travels back in time and meets the half human half dog-demon Inuyasha, who was in love with her when she was a priestess. It sounds confusing but it’s easy to follow when you’re watching it. Most of the show takes place in the feudal era and is filled with lots of characters from Japanese lore. But since Kagome is from modern day, she travels back every once in a while to take exams, go to WacDonald’s and buy instant ramen for everyone.

wacdonalds

The other main characters are a funny baby fox demon, a really pretty demon slayer, a cute little demon cat and a young priest with a black hole in his hand. They all travel together on a quest to kill this demon man, Naraku, who’s been ruining all their lives and killing their loved ones. I even cried during one episode because of what he did to Sango’s little brother

sango and kohaku
(image via sesshyswind)

Kagome and Inuyasha have a really cute romance. I’m a total sucker for slow, drawn-out romances. You know, like Scully and Mulder, Pam and Jim, even Ross and Rachel lol. Kagome actually ends up having to compete with her old incarnation, Kikyo, for Inuyasha and her own soul. The concept of reincarnation that they use in the show is pretty interesting. Souls can be shared by multiple people, one person’s body can house multiple souls and different people have different sized souls.

kikyo
(image via kagome higurashi)

The animation is really cute and even beautiful at times. Other times it’s kind of simple, almost Pokemon-like. Aside from one or two songs, I wasn’t really into any of the opening and closing theme songs. But I really loved the actual music that plays during the show. For fans of Ranma 1/2 and Uresei Yatsura, you’ll probably like Inuyasha because it’s written by the same adorable author, Rumiko Takahashi.

rumiko takahashi
(image via sunnyspot)

Beastly

Posted on March 10, 2011 by angelica meng, editor-in-chief

Photo by Todd Anderson

I went with Margot and Vanessa to see this at Universal Citywalk and it was awesome. One of us cried. I won’t say who because that’s embarrassing, j/k its cute. Basically, this highschool dude gets his face cursed by the evil Olsen twin and the only way to remove the curse is to get Vanessa Hudgens to fall in love with him. A Jamaican lady and Doogie Howser play the roles of the Teapot and the Candlestick. Everyone did a great job, even Doogie, who got to play a non annoying, non a-hole for once. In case you were worried, the beast guy’s face is way grosser in the movie than in the preview. Vanessa thought it wasn’t gross enough so maybe I’m just really sensitive to faces with gaping wounds and long, open cracks. I love teen movies! I also love fantasy stuff, so this is like the perfect time for me to be alive. Going to see Red Riding Hood tonight, duh. Oh yeah, and Citywalk was off the hook! There were people grinding like 6 inches away from my face. Loved it.

Intel Core Processor KPop

Posted on February 19, 2011 by angelica meng, editor-in-chief

SNSD, the official girl group of Korea, has come out with a musical masterpiece about Intel Core Processors. This is definitely the direction that pop music should be headed in right now – a massive amount of girls singing about computer hardware. The lyrics are totally weird. Somehow they incorporated disturbing sexual innuendos with love metaphors about microprocessors. 2011 is turning out to be another great year for kpop.

The Roommate

Posted on February 6, 2011 by angelica meng, editor-in-chief

We watched this new movie about friendship called The Roommate. It shows what happens when you stop taking Zyprexa. Basically, you become obsessed with someone who kind of looks like you and then you get real violent about it. It’s pretty funny. The ending could have been written by RL Stine himself. Not as much awesome dialogue though since RL Stine did not actually write this movie.

The one thing that sucks is that they took out that really great part in the trailer where Leighton Meester caresses the main girl’s hair in her sleep and says “I want to be your only friend”. I hate when they do that. That was one of the main reasons I wanted to see it, as you can see from this photo we took with Leighton before the movie started.
margot's roommate
Overall, I think we’re both pretty happy we saw it. However, this bitch needs more than just Zyprexa, that’s for sure.

New KPops January 2011

Posted on January 27, 2011 by angelica meng, editor-in-chief

Sistar is getting a lot of attention right now for their interesting dance moves, such as this butt wax move and their ability to dance in high heels, which only sometimes results in broken bones.

This dance is so good! And those elegant neck caresses. Wow. Shiggooluh!

I love the color grading in this video. So pretty.

So these girls are like stoned and bored and stuff and then they get a second wind and start dancing. The song totally reminds me of Bratz soundtrack! I’m talkin bratitude.

Whoa, intense. Fire, face caress, high five, polyester suit with fur shoulder puff – this video is crajy.

Check out these hairdos. Teen Top is a great name for a band. So is Eric. I love how Korean artists can get away with using really normal American names like Eric or Nicole.