Half a year already — Season 2 has finally started airing overseas, which means we can download it. YYeTs is updating Season 2:

I happened to preview this album, and it’s the xianxia style I fell for on the very first listen. Why did 《相思引》 sound so familiar? Turns out a friend who plays 诛仙 had played it for me before. That reminds me — some of Liu Fang’s covers of classics are great too, and they really hold up. For a while I even had her version of 《青花瓷》 as my phone ringtone.

These past two months, what I’ve been watching wasn’t movies — it was loneliness… Finally, though, I watched something with a bit of substance — last night I saw District 9.

Today I placed an order on Taobao for the fourth edition of the Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks. I actually wanted to pre-order back in July, but I was short on cash at the time… Official website: http://dnd.zongheng.com/main.shtml Also came across this video online: hardcore TRPG players running a live tabletop session:

Last night I watched The Barber of Siberia until 1 a.m. before going to sleep. My mom said a friend recommended it — a really good film. Jeanne could have had a beautiful romance, but precisely because she made her living by deceiving people, misunderstandings piled up and complications multiplied. In this way, she unwittingly caused Andrei to accumulate more and more jealousy, until finally it spiraled out of control. Andrei’s jealousy drove him to do a series of things that would shape his entire life. Hot-blooded and young, he challenged a classmate stronger than himself and ended up badly wounded. When Jeanne whispered to the general to plead on his behalf, in his eyes it became an insult and a provocation from the general. In the end he attacked the general with a piano wire, was exiled to Siberia, and ruined his own future.

There’s word on IMDB.com that David Wenham may play Arthas in Sam Raimi’s World of Warcraft movie. Wenham is from New South Wales, Australia, played Faramir in The Lord of the Rings, and has appeared in Frank Miller’s 300 and in Van Helsing. The origin and accuracy of the rumor have yet to be confirmed.

On August 4, 2009, the Sailian Scanlation Group released the World of Warcraft (WOW) official comic: Ashbringer — collected edition, epilogue http://www.transfans.com.cn/thread-2086-1-1.html

The game soundtrack Echoes of War: 战争的回响, produced entirely by Australia’s Eminence Symphony Orchestra, collects the full orchestral renditions of music from Blizzard’s blockbusters Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, and Diablo III, and is now available for online order. The idea came from the World of Warcraft tracks previously sold on iTunes, which unexpectedly won the support and purchases of many players. Players said that music is an important form of leisure in many people’s lives, and that being able to buy it openly let them listen to World of Warcraft music on their commute to and from work — until they got home and couldn’t wait to turn on the computer, log into World of Warcraft, and set off on their own epic journey.

After watchingthe Chinese Paladin 3 TV series, I hunted around online for something worth revisiting, and by chance stumbled onto a whole series of game dubbing dramas.

The Time Traveler’s Wife hits theaters in August this year.