NINA HAGEN APPRECIATION POST

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LITTLE UPDATE

Hej guys :)

 I came back from the beach yesterday and I'm trying to put things in order at home and at school. And I have to do all the violin and flute homework LOL they stayed here during the holiday. This weekend I'm going to upload pictures of the beach and all (I would post now, but I didn't take it with me, so the pictures aren't here).
By the way, some countries have already decided who will represent them on Eurovision Song Contest, you can see the news here.

 That's it.

Hej då 

(Yeah, I'm still feeling that urge to write in Swedish. No, I don't have nothing useful to write)

AWESOME VIDEO

Hello :)

 Sorry I'm not posting recently...actually, this year will be harder than I thought. ☹

I'm working on all that organization thing ( I already said something about it, right? ). Anyway, I'm thinking about the next posts.

 But whatever, see this video, I almost cried:

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This. Is. So. Awesome.
Bye




P.S.: I'm going to the beach this weekend, and I'm coming home Wednesday. You know, all that Carnival stuff.

I don't even like it, but that's OK because we don't have to go to school. And then I'm going to the beach with some friends. :)

That's it, see you.

DOGS BULLETS & CARNAGE APPRECIATION POST

Hello :)

 Thursday I posted a pic of one of my friend's mangas and there was a manga called DOGS, which she's currently borrowing me, because reading the real manga/book is way better than reading on the Internet. And here's something about it:

Dogs (狗-DOGS) is a manga series by Shirow Miwa. The manga was first published in 2001 as Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark. In 2005, the series began serialization in the manga magazine Ultra Jump as DOGS: bullets & carnage, which continues the storyline. The first part of the series has been adapted into a four-episode OVA.

Manga
 The manga originally began with Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark (グッドドッグ・ステイ): a oneshot that was succeeded by Dogs: Bullets & Carnage and serves as a prequel to Dogs: Bullets & Carnage. The manga introduces the four main characters and the majority of the support characters in four chapters that are mostly independent of each other.
 The main storyline is now being presented in the manga Dogs: Bullets & Carnage (ドッグス/バレッツ&カーネイジ ) and continues the adventures of the four main characters. In August 2008, Viz Media announced that it has licensed the manga series and expects to be releasing it in April 2009. The series took a short hiatus and returned in the March issue of Ultra Jump. A oneshot called Dogs: Hardcore Twins introduces Luki and Noki and another one-shot called M.M.M. Works Annex Featuring Badō Nails details a brief glimpse into Badou's past.

Drama CD
 The the original Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling into the Dark volume introducing the main characters was adapted into a Drama CD and released in 2007. A second Drama CD was released on October 23, 2010 and adapted the first volume of Dogs: Bullets & Carnage.

Anime On November 19, 2008, a four-episode OVA adaptation of Dogs was announced in Ultra Jump. The OVA series was produced by David Production and featured the same voice cast as that of the drama CD. It adapted the prequel manga series, Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark, with the first DVD volume released on May 19, 2009, featuring Weepy Old Killer and Gun Smoker. The second DVD volume, was initially released on May 29, 2009 for a limited time and was later released on July 17, 2009 for a wide release. The second volume featured Blade Maiden and Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark.

RANDOM INFORMATION: The author Shirow Miwa named Heine Rammsteiner and Badou Nails after the bands Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails, stated as two of the author's favorite bands on his personal site. 

( Wikipedia and List of characters ) 

I put the links to watch/read on the text :)
Heine's last name made this one automatically one of my favorite mangas XD
Aand my friend said Heine belongs to her, just like Nezumi, from No. 6. LMAO
Bye :)

MILLENNIUM TRILOGY APPRECIATION POST

Hej :) (this is "hi". In Swedish.)

 How are you doing? I'm not really on the mood to write, but I'm writing because I promised it yesterday. But it's not a big deal, indeed.

 The point is: this trilogy is awesome.

 It was written by Stieg Larsson (who died in 2004) and the story is about a 24-year-old girl called Lisbeth Salander, who has a photographic memory but is (almost) completely antisocial and an investigative journalist  called Mikael Blomkvist, who's the editor of a magazine called Millennium.

The books:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) (2005)

2 .The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2006)
3 .The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Luftslottet som sprängdes) (2007)

 When Larsson was 15 years old, he witnessed the gang rape of a girl, and he never forgave himself for failing to help the girl, which led to his lifelong abhorrence of violence and abuse against women. It inspired the themes of sexual violence against women in his books.

 In writing the series, Larsson was also influenced by two murders: Melissa Nordell, a model killed by her boyfriend, and the Honor killing of Fadime Sahindal, a Swedish-Kurdish woman killed by her father.Both women were killed at the hands of men or as victims of honor crime.     To Larsson, there was no difference and the "systematic violence" against women highly affected and inspired him to take action against these crimes through his writing. Eva Gabrielsson, Larsson's longtime partner, wrote that "the trilogy allowed Stieg to denounce everyone he loathed for their cowardice, their irresponsibility, and their opportunism: couch-potato activists, sunny-day warriors, fair-weather skippers who pick and choose their causes; false friends who used him to advance their own careers; unscrupulous company heads and shareholders who wangle themselves huge bonuses... Seen in this light, Stieg couldn't have had any better therapy for what ailed his soul than writing his novels."

Films:

Swedish
The Swedish film production company Yellow Bird has produced film versions of the Millennium Trilogy, co-produced with The Danish film production company Nordisk Film and television company, which were released in Scandinavia in 2009. In 2010, the films were shown in an extended version of approximately 180 minutes per film as a six-part miniseries (each film divided in two parts of 90 minutes) on Swedish television. This version was released on July 14, 2010 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in three separate sets and on November 24, 2010 as aComplete Millennium Trilogy box set with an extra disc.
Originally, only the first film was meant for a theatrical release, with the following ones conceived as TV movies, but this was changed in the wake of the tremendous success of the first film. The first film was directed by Niels Arden Oplev and the next two by Daniel Alfredson, while the screenplays of the first two were adapted by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, and the last one by Ulf Rydberg and Jonas Frykberg. All three films feature Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist and Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, released on February 25, 2009.
The Girl Who Played with Fire, released on September 18, 2009.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, released on November 27, 2009.

American films
Yellow Bird and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer partnered with Sony Pictures to produce an English-language adaptation of the first novel. The film is written by Steven Zaillian, directed by David Fincher and produced by Scott Rudin, with Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander. Along with Dragon Tattoo, Fincher and Zaillian have signed a two picture deal to adapt The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, which may be shot back to back. In January 2012, it was announced that Sony was "moving forward" with the adaptation of The Girl Who Played with Fire, with Zaillian in the early stage of scripting it for a planned release in late 2013.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Released in North America on December 21, 2011, and in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2011.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_trilogy )

That's it, I hope you like it :) Lisbeth is my favorite character ever ºwº

BTW, a friend of mine came back from Canada and she bought cool stuff there:

(A manga she borrowed me and a postcard I asked for)

(A manga I asked for - Mushishi isn't published in Brazil)

(Of course she didn't bought my cat there, but I had to post this pic. I mean, look at this! He is sitting!)

And yeah, I still wanting to study Swedish again.

See you,

Hej då

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION APPRECIATION POST

Hello :)

 How are you guys doing? I liked it better when I didn't have to study Maths. But that's right, I think I'll be able to finish reading The girl with the dragon tattoo this week. 乂◕‿◕乂 And the Portuguese class today was funny. My friend told the teacher he looks like Sheldon, from The Big Bang Theory LOL he spent the whole class giving examples of isolated phonemes like he Portuguese "ã" and that German "ch" in "ich". It was really funny to see.

 BTW, today I'll write about an anime/manga called Neon Genesis Evangelion which my father doesn't like because it use that religious words. I think it's kinda stupid, because I use this kind of word all the time, and he didn't even watch this, but whatever. :)

Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン Shin Seiki Evangerion), commonly referred to as Evangelion, is a commercially and critically successful anime series that began airing in October 1995.
Evangelion is an apocalyptic mecha* action series which revolves around the efforts by the paramilitary organization Nerv to fight monsters called Angels, primarily using giant mecha called Evangelions which are piloted by select teenagers,including the primary protagonist.
Events in the series refer to Judeo-Christian symbols from the Book of Genesis, Biblical apocrypha, etc. Later episodes deconstruct the themes and motifs of the mecha genre and shift focus to psychoanalysis of the main characters, who display various emotional problems and mental illnesses. The nature of existence and reality are questioned in a way that lets Evangelion be characterized as "postmodern fantasy". Hideaki Anno, the director of the anime series, suffered from clinical depression prior to creating the series, and the psychological aspects of the show are based on the director's own experiences with overcoming this illness.

*mecha is a science fiction term for a large walking robot.
(Information from Wikipedia)

That's it, I won't tell the story because I want you to read/watch :) you can watch it subbed or dubbed here and read it here.

Bye :)

Random post

Hi :)
How are you doing?
I won't write a long post today because I have to take care of lots of thinks at home so I can go to the movies and then my social life will be over until July. 
BTW, have you guys ever played Robot Unicorn Attack? It's like the most addicting game ever *3*
If, somehow, I found time and something to talk about, I'll write here. 
And here's a random image I found on Tumblr: 

That's it 

Bye

DEATH NOTE APPRECIATION POST

Hi :)
 There have been a while since the last time I wrote about anime, right?
Today I'll talk about a well known anime called Death Note. It's about a guy called Yagami Light (people sometimes write "Yagami Raito" because of the Japanese pronunciation) who is one of the smartest people on Japan and he thinks the world is boring and rotten. One day he find a notebook with written instructions: 

1) The human whose name is written in this notebook will die.
2) This notebook will not take effect unless the writer has the subject's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
3) If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the subject's name, it will happen.
4) If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will simply die of a heart attack.
5) After writing the cause of death, the details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

And he actually tries to kill people he thinks don't deserve to live. He encounters the Death Note's previous owner, a shinigami (Death God) called Ryuk and explains his plan of exterminating all the criminals in the world. Soon, the number of inexplicable deaths of criminals catches the attention of the International Police Organization and the world-famous detective, "L", who quickly learns that the serial killer,  known as "Kira" (キラ, derived from the Japanese pronunciation of "killer"), is in Japan and can kill people without touching them.

 And then L wants to catch Light and Light wants to catch L.  

And Light is as intelligent as L, which makes everything more exciting  º3º

(This is kinda like L's logo, since he can't/doesn't want to show his face)

You can read it here and watch it (English dubbed or subbed) here.

[[BONUS]] Funny video:

That's it :)

Bye