‘How sad it is!’ murmured Dorian Gray, with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. ‘How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that - for that - I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole would I would not give! I would give my soul for that!’

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

So would I, Dorian.

I feel as though I’ve been waiting my entire life for ‘Red Cliff’. Seeing a movie based on the ‘Three Kingdoms’ is like telling me every day is my birthday, and seeing one of the most memorable and epic battles come to life is a dream come true.

From what I’ve gathered, the first part of the film is basically Liu Bei being chased out of Jingzhou and continues with the battles his forces fight during their retreat to Jiangxia. Then it follows Zhuge Liang’s journey south to persuade Sun Quan and Zhou Yu into forming the “Cao Cao is a giant ass so we should burn his fleet” club — which means there will be no actual burning ships until part two is released in ‘09. Boo.

Apparently the movie that is being released in Asia is over 4 hours long (woo hoo!), but the rest of the world is going to get a 2 1/2 hours condensed version (d’oh!). Why? I would happily watch 4 hours of this. Boo again.

Oh well, I don’t mind too much. I’m just so fucking excited and you will have to excuse me for a moment while I fangirl over one of the actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, will you marry me? <3

By the way, here is a 9-minute promo for it. Would you just look at those fucking ships! Look at them burning! Fuck yeah.

I’m always so late to the party it seems.

Created by Joss Whedon, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a very cheesy, very hilarious three part series told from the point of view of Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris), a low-level supervillan who is trying to win the affections of his dream-girl, Penny (Felicia Day). He is also simultaneously trying to take over the world but is thwarted at every turn by Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillon, ohmigawd). It’s chock-full of some very clever one-liners and… songs. Yes, songs. Come on, it’s Joss Whedon. Don’t look so surprised.

This series is absolutely fabulous and I implore you to watch it, if only for the singing messages from Bad Horse, the Thoroughbred of Sin.