You’re Beautiful: Episode 9

Court in Session

The defendant will please rise.

Hwang Tae-kyung, under Section 784.045, you are hereby charged with two counts of Aggravated Battery:

• Intentionally or knowingly causing great bodily harm and permanent disfigurement
• Using a deadly weapon

Oh, what baloney. Where is my lawyer? Release me!

The defendant will please behave or face more charges. Call the first witness.

You’re Beautiful: Episode 8

If a pig stole the show in Episode 7, monsters will take center stage this time in Episode 8.

Monsters? you sputter, choking on the drool that’s pooling in your mouth as you watch yet another Jang Geun-suk YouTube clip. (Who knew the guy’s so cute? He sure didn’t look that way when you glimpsed him in his last two dramas. Now, thanks to a pig, you are making mental notes to salvage those two dramas which you had hurled into that pit called Good Riddance.)

Yes, monsters. One you can’t see (clue: it has green eyes) and the other you can’t bear to see (clue: it starts with the letter M).

The green-eyed monster rears its head in the opening minutes of this episode, triggered by the sight of Mi-nam in Shin-woo’s arms. Just minutes earlier, like a volcano spewing forth its latent contents, she had stunned everyone in the recording studio with her powerhouse of a performance.

Hansel and Gretel movie giveaway

Yesterday was a milestone for this little blog: 100,000 hits!

I remember the day I started Thundie’s Prattle, nearly ten months ago, and how excited I was when I had 25 hits that day. I thought, “Holy cow, people are actually reading this baby!” When I reached 4,444 hits (and it was a long time getting there) I even took a screenshot of the number, haha.

To reach 100,000 hits is pretty mind-boggling for me (although I know some of you bloggy folks get that number in a week), so you don’t mind if I celebrate, do you?

I was at the mall today and chanced upon a movie I’ve always wanted to watch but was too afraid to. But ever since I laughed my head off watching Episode 1 of Hometown of Legends 2009, I’ve worked up a teeny bit more courage for the horror genre. Moreover, Hansel and Gretel (2007) is helmed by two actors I adore: Chun Jung-myung and Shim Eun-kyung.

In his review, my friend X (aka MisterX aka His Grumpiness) gave the movie an 8.5 rating. Now, if you know X’s standards, you know that’s high praise indeed. According to him, Hansel and Gretel is “like a grotesque, abstract, somewhat absurd but stunningly beautiful little trip of imagination.” Wow, that description makes me want to pop the movie into the DVD player this very instant.

I bought three copies of Hansel and Gretel, one to keep and two to give away. It’s my little way of thanking you for reading my prattles. The DVD comes with the following special features (all with English subs!):

You’re Beautiful: Episode 7

This little pig went to market;
This little pig stayed at home;
This little pig had roast beef;
This little pig had none;
This little pig laughed “Hee, hee, hee!”
All the way home.

Dear Diary

You will not believe what happened to me today. I can’t even believe it myself.

You’re Beautiful: Episodes 5-6

When you curse the papers you have to write which are preventing you from watching a certain drama, when you open your external hard drive to retrieve those half-written papers and you ‘accidentally’ click on the wrong folder and find yourself staring at video files (of that drama) instead, you know there’s only one thing to do:

Hurry up and finish those damned papers!

Which was what I did, at a maniacal pace, the OST of that drama playing on my iPod and reminding me every second of the reward that awaited. As I worked, I would occasionally hear a small voice above the strains of “I will promise you…” The voice said weakly (because it knew how I felt about unsolicited advice), “Just because the first four episodes were good is no guarantee the next two will be, so don’t raise your hopes.”

Oh, shush, I said.