Caveat: Yoo-hee the Witch

I've written before about how frustrated I've become trying to find Korean television dramas with English subtitles that I can watch on my computer. It really does help me learn Korean to watch, but I'm just not able to really get enough of what's going on to watch without subtitles, yet.

[broken link! FIXME] Images (4)I've had a couple of false starts, where I find a program and watch a few episodes, but then I can't get the rest of the episodes with subtitles, so I've taken to finding shows and downloading all the episodes before watching them. What I end up finding becomes somewhat random – i.e. I'm not really watching shows because they appeal to me but rather because they're the ones I can find.

One show I started watching recently because I'd gotten all the episodes is called "마녀유희" [ma-nyeo yu-hui = "Witch Yoo-hui" in official translation]. It's a romantic comedy series (or really, mini-series in US parlance) from 2007. A too-young female business executive (heir to some rich family presumably) has a bad personality and this ne'er-do-well medical-school dropout (and wannabe French chef) does a pygmalion on her.

That should be enough to get the gist of the story. You can read an atrociously written summary at the wikithing. The whole connection to an actual witch-based fairy tale is tenuous at best (mostly played up in the intro to each episode). I had been hoping for something brilliantly conceived like the [broken link! FIXME] Hansel and Gretel meta-tale movie I liked so much a few years back.

But, so… I've been watching that. It's entertaining, anyway.

Caveat: Like some cat from Japan

[broken link! FIXME] Ziggy_html_mf1125bbWhen I was 17 and 18, the coolest musical groups in the world were Talking Heads and David Bowie. I was a weird kid, right?

I heard on the radio that David Bowie is turning 65 today. He's kind of retired, apparently.

What I'm listening to right now.

David Bowie, "Ziggy Stardust." Lyrics:

Oh
Oooh yeah
Ah

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly,
and the spiders from Mars. He played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the special man, then we were Ziggy's band

now Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan, aww he could lick 'em by smiling
He could leave 'em to hang
'came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan.

So where were the spiders, while the fly tried to break our balls
With just the beer light to guide us,
So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands?

Oh
Ooh oh

Ziggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo
The kid was just crass, he was the nazz
With God given ass
aww He took it all too far but boy could he play guitar

Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band.

Oh yeah
Ooooooo
Ziggy playyyyed guitaarrrrrr

 

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