day of fire, day of bitching

ARG! I had heard the news that BL publisher Yuuhi (under the Leaf imprint, among others) but hadn't been too concerned since at that time I wasn't reading anything from them. WELL...Of course soon after, I got addicted to a wonderful novel series from that publisher...So no new volumes and no new drama cds for the time being. *sighs* Reminds me of how I got addicted to Konohara Narise a little after Biblos went bankrupt. I was already affected because I read Biblos manga titles, but damn was I annoyed when I realized how many titles she had published with them that were no longer widely available. :P

Read an irritating commentary on the American Film Institute's 100 Best Movie List in my local paper (I couldn't find it online so I found another version of the AP story here). Lines such as "these are all big-budget popcorn movies -- excellent films, but we're still dealing with hobbits, ghosts and Celine Dion" and "it would seem this decade's best representatives are superheroes, pirates and ogres" just grated on my nerves. I'm not going to argue with the merits of the films the writer is referring to, my problem is with his snobby attitude in the way he dismisses genre films. Why does the fact that a movie is a fantasy or a comicbook adaptation have to be a huge black mark when judging a film? Why does a film have to be about a serious or realistic subject to be considered "great?" While the article doesn't come out and say those things, I certainly got that impression when I read it. Damn bias against genre works. -_-