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entertainment. Most blog activity~ February 22, 2012 Also, just wanted to make this clear~ I’ve moved most my blog activity over to YAM Magazine . You can subscribe to all my posts there with this RSS Feed , or you know, you can just subscribe to all of the YAM Magazine Feed , but I understand if you only love me ;P In English , Jobs , Screencaps , Sharing amy wong , blog , yam The Race Against Rotting DVD On December, I wrote about a couple of my concert music DVDs rotting away . And the YT algo just popped this on the feed, talking about a number of Warner Bros titles that are apparently being affected. Somebody on forums (!!! They still exist!) posted a list of probable affected titles, and to my dismay, the Greta Garbo and (both) Joan Crawford collections are affected. I just popped Mata Hari and Possessed on the player and seem to be playing fine. Another one of the fears with (new) media and products that developed in types of plastic is that they’re decaying faster than people expected. I’ve had older (retired) players that were kept on storage that have a general sticky texture after a while. However, this doesn’t seem to happen to players that are in general exposure, not directly with sunlight, but in a generally airy room that’s in use, unlike a display room. I also happen to live in the mildest of climates, though high in humidity, temperatures never go above 30C (above 90F) or lower than 14C (lower than 55F). So maybe these conditions are affecting the storage of physical media. I did the vast majority of my library collection before 2007, though. I did buy a number of things in between the mid-2000s to late-2000s, so if disc rot is affecting a general batch produced in between 2007-2009, it is a concern. I’m generally more worried with collections I keep in drawers instead of a regular shelf display. Posted on May 4, 2024 In Clips , DVD/BR , English , Films , Rants , Sharing digital content , distributors , dvd , greta garbo , industry talk , internet , joan crawford , movie classics , online shopping , pricey hobbies , technology , warner bros , youtube Leave a comment The Shortest Trip from Peru to India April 23, 2024 — Leave a comment I took some time to plan an imaginary trip to India to truly realize we really live in opposite sides of the world. lol I’d figured these are the most possible routes. [click to expand a bit] Most comfortable route seems to be Lima via Sao Paulo to Johannesburg and Mumbai. Peruvians who want to travel for regular tourism and chill activities for less than six months can apply for an e-Tourist visa . Peruvians do not need visas to enter Brazil (shorter than 90s days) nor South Africa (visits shorter than 30 days). Peruvians don’t need visa to transit through Amsterdam. Peruvians do need one to enter the US, even for transit. Long gone are the days of free transit in the US. However, traveling through San Francisco seems the least practical, even though San Francisco is a great hub to enter into East Asia. My preferable spot for point of exit. As a reverse practice— Indians DO need visas to enter South Africa and Brazil (only diplomatic passport holders are exempt.) But it looks like they might not need a visa to transit through Amsterdam. Regular Indians do seem to need a visa to enter Peru, though citizens who hold valid US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia or Schengen visas seem to be exempt . So if you already travel, it seems pretty straight forward. In English , Graphics , Misc. , Sharing , Spanish india , latin america , peru , travel/tourism Finding Riches: Tabu vs. Tabu Not gonna lie and say I haven’t been obsessing over the trailer for Crew since it dropped, and looking at the clips for Ghagra [ 1 ] and kinda giddy at the cover remix of Choli Ke Peeche [ 1 ]. I even finally re-watched Idhi Sangathi (with synced subs!) because of it. Tabu finding riches in highly unusual places! My only grip with the film, currently, is that my suspense of disbelief is dropped when I see them carrying kilos of gold. Autistic. Other than that, I’m a super fan of potty-mouthed Tabu (I hope the announcement that theatrical was edited only means we get the potty-mouthed version on Netflix), and I want someone to ask them how much of the funny bits were ad-lib and improv, because that scene where they tell Kriti to sell her assets and the reaction to it was hilarious. Posted on March 26, 2024 In Celebrity , English , Films , Fun , Misc. , Music , Screencaps , Sharing , Trailers actress , fandom , funny , india , tabu (actress) , vs fight Leave a comment The Film Library Is Shaping Up~ Buying physical media has been a chore lately, you gotta keep an eye out so you make sure you don’t miss your delivery because, for some reason, people cannot just leave your package any longer. Plus, distributors are doing physical media less and less. The whole of the Indian Cinema industry has decided to phase out physical media in favor of going all in on OTT and VOD. Even enormous hits like RRR are left with no physical release, even in the West. Even Disney is letting Sony handle its physical media , which seems like the end of an era. Then there’s the whole thing about editing and disappearing media from libraries. So these are some of the most recent -and not so recent- films that have been added to the physical library. I wish I had more disposable income because there are a bunch of titles (and upgrades) that had been added to the wishlist. These on top of some Bluray upgrades like Sion Sono’s Love Exposure , Kalatozov’s The Cranes Are Flying , brand new Criterion’s for Los Otros and Laberinto del Fauno . Some random BR UK release for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Also, this post makes it so that this year is the most I’ve blogged since 2020. I’m coming for you 2019. Four posts in Feb’24 is the most continuous blogging since Aug’18. Posted on February 21, 2024 In Chinese , DVD/BR , English , Films , French , Japanese , Misc. , Rants , Screencaps , Sharing animation , brad pitt , cate blanchett , china , christopher nolan , criterion , emily blunt , france , guillermo del toro , hugh jackman , india , japan , joan crawford , latin america , mia wasikowska , movie classics , nicole kidman , online shopping , pricey hobbies , russia , shipping (online ordering) , silent films , taiwan , yu aoi Leave a comment Looks like someone’s a Yu Aoi fan – NINA’s Love Like This February 20, 2024 — Leave a comment Having debuted back in 2022 under the name Song Soowoo (송수우) with the edgy-sounding song Love Me or Hate Me [ MV ], Song is back under the name NINA (니나) [almost impossible to look up without running into other Ninas] with the music video for Love Like This , directed by Jonah George. Alt link available at Super Sound Bugs! Which, if you’ve seen the Bugs thumbnail on YouTube , looks Yu Aoi-inspired. I say Yu Aoi-inspired, because it’s mostly Yuki Tanada’s One Million Yen Girl and heavily references Shunji Iwai’s Hana & Alice for obvious shots. However, it also heavily references Iwai’s 1995 Asian hit Love Letter which has inspired a whole generation of filmmakers [ 1 ][ 2 ] and idols . In Celebrity , English , Films , Japanese , Korean , Music , Music Videos , Sharing japan , korea , music video , new music , shunji iwai , yu aoi , yuki tanada The Clown Who’s Not Watching TV February 13, 2024 — Leave a comment That’s me. People will ask me if I’m watching which and what show, and I would usually say that I really don’t have time to watch much television. However, the past week I’ve been catching up with my to watch” list and inundated. I watched one single episode of Prime India’s Jubilee , which I’m looking forward to finishing. And I just binged through Apple’s Pachinko . I’m usually hit or miss with Kogonada ( After Yang was excellent), but my only complaint about Pachinko is that I really wish American series would do their just one off series and not make me wait for two or three seasons. I’ve also just started Nicole...