The Little Mermaid

SWEET FANCY MOSES! The Little Mermaid is up on PBS's site! HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!?!??!!!!

So... like... if you wanna have your mind blown by the San Francisco Ballet. If you want to watch something haunting and beautiful and heartwrenching. If you have a few hours to kill...

WATCH THIS BRILLIANCE!

Yuan Yuan Tan is crazy strong and crazy exquisite. I've seen her perform in SF so many times and she's always immense, but this piece is made for her and she's simply ridiculous in it. We're not talking Disney, of course. It's Hans Christian Andersen.
It's dark. Daaaaaaaark. And stunning.

Watch The Little Mermaid from San Francisco Ballet on PBS. See more from Great Performances.

Oh yeah, Real Madrid stomped Barcelona 3-1. Nearly finished with a clean sheet. How 'bout them apples! Mesut danced his way to a corner and delivered yet another beautiful header for the baby giraffe, Varane. Hell of a start for a 19 year-old defender. As far as I know, he has scored 3 goals for RM and all three were headers off of passes/corners from Mesut. This season is proving quite exciting despite chronic troubles. Copa del Rey finals in the bag and the 2nd leg against ManU for the Champions League next Tuesday. Hala Madrid!

Laughter...

This low point of my life is agonizing and perpetual.
BUT the panic attacks are less and less frequent. I've been able to eat fairly normally for the last couple of months. My body is compensating by being hungry all the time, so I'm trying to keep up with it. I was hanging around 95lbs there for a while. *shudder* Scary.

Better.

I think I'm going to dig up that site I made for Kpop fans/newbs. It's just basic HTML/CSS from a class project, but now I'm thinking it could be useful for the uninitiated. Adding a few things here and there. Making a few fun graphics 'cause my fingers are happily deflated currently. So, yeah, I think I'll put that up soon. Mostly for the lulz.

On that note... lulz...
Cultural note: In Korea (and Japan), ladies send chocolates to the dudes they are fond of on Valentine's. The dudes return the favor (or not) on White Day in March. So, the chocolate-begging is standard comedy for guys on Valentine's. 
A lot of the humor is lost on non-Korean speakers since Jaejoong and Yoochun are channeling their ancient Korean acting roles with the fierce language of nobility during the Joseon Dynasty.
Oh, and Junsu singing a cappella. That, too. T___T
My three favorite themes from his musicals: Mozart's love song to Constanze, Joon's desperate grief of missing Lin while stuck in the Vietnam War, and Death's seduction of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria.


Brotherhood and solidarity, joy and openness and the capacity to endlessly tease each other...
The burden and darkness was seen so easily over the last few years, but now... Light-hearted. Radiant. Fun.
Laughter.
So much laughter.
Junsu EU KYANG KYANG-ing up a storm, knocking over the microphone pack, and barely able to breathe for laughing so hard...
Priceless.

Happy Valentine's Day!

MU vs RM

Manchester United vs. Real Madrid

11:45am PST

HALA MADRID!!!

EDIT: 1-1 What a game! 2-2 for Dortmund/Shakhtar, too! Second leg games are going to be intense.