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- My dad forgot my birthday. Meh -_-

- Got another package from Japan with stuff for me and yamasagi plus my traditional small present to give to Kai in two weeks.

- That's right, it's only a fortnight until I finally get to see him again. Damn, I can't wait :3 I'm SO looking forward to getting into the studio with him, and this time, it'll be different in several ways. Gonna elaborate on that in a forthcoming entry =)

- Today, I used half of my mini Hair Doctor tryout pot I got from Lush. The stuff is very much like henna in terms of yucky-ness, but it smells of peppermint which is nice. Dunno what it does until my hair is completely dired, but it already feels kinda nice and softer than before.

- I also got my antidepressant and thyroid pill prescriptions and when I got to the pharmacy, they actually had both of them in stock for once. Should I be worried? *lol* Dentist appointment tomorrow, but I'm only supposed to get the new fillings polished. So, let's hope he doesn't find anything else worth doing O_O;;;

- Started watching "Japanorama". The show is nicely done, Jonathan Ross is adorkable and I like that, despite his accent, he can at least say some things like "What's this?" in Japanese ^^ Am currently downloading a torrent that has the extra segments as well. DO WANT.

- Finally, I love you all. SRSLY. I have some of the best-est friends one could imagine *hugs everyone* <3

I just noticed that I shook the hand of the German Lina Inverse a few weeks ago.
Yep, Shandra Schadt was one of the cast members of "Spring Heeled Jack".
Come tot hink of it, her role was really similar, actually. And if you ask me, she fits tsunderekko* like Lina more or less perfectly. Whoever cast her for Slayers, they've done the right thing.
Not to mention she's super nice and... um... damn pretty ^_^;;;

The German Slayers dub cast list reads like a who-is-who of Munich voice actors. I mean, holy damn O_o Needless to say, Kai has a few small-ish roles in there as well <3

* Yes, I know, Lina is far more tsun-tsun than dere-dere, but IMHO, she still counts :P

(Grabbed from jalana)

There's a petition for David Tennant to be The Flame Lighter for the London 2012 Olympic games. Click here to sign it!
I know it's not exactly likely, but just imagine if that really happened... *dreamy sigh of dreamy sighs*

On Sunday, "Doomsday" was aired here in Germany. That was the last dubbed episode for now and, looking at it in a realistic way, probably the last one for all time.
Another TV station did buy Torchwood, but we now know that it'll be dubbed in Berlin, without Kai being involved. Wow, that hurts. And I'm sure the dub won't be half as good as the Doctor Who one since the people working on it surely don't know jack shit about the show it originated from. Also, watching Torchwood without even knowing Doctor Who? Absolute madness.

I'll try to get a clip or two from "The impossible Planet" (Kai voicing Satan :D) and post it soon.

First of all, a little David picspam (stolen from the German Whoboard)!







Awwwwww <3

Today, the first part of the "Doctor Who" season 2 finale "Army of Ghosts" (called "Die Armee der Geister" in German, again, an entirely literal translation) will air on German TV. Can't wait to see. I mean, the team that dubbed this series has got to be one of the best ones in the history of German television. BTW - I actually got to know the sound engineer when I visited the Scalamedia studios with Kai earlier this month, and he's a very cute and nice (and also surprisingly young) guy.
So, let's see what they did with some of the saddest moments I've ever witnessed in a series. Like always, I'm not scared in the slightest because everything else so far has been breathtakingly good ^^

Finally, the biddings on my eBay auctions ahve started moving. Come on, people, I need the money for November XDD

Alrighty.
I managed to grab digital versions of all dubbed episodes of Doctor Who season 2 that have been aired so far (1-4).
And now, I present you a clip of Kai doing K-9 :D

First of all, here is the file (right-click and "save as") [.avi, 4.68 MB].

Original dialogue
(With Noel Clarke as Mickey Smith and John Leeson as the voice of K-9)

Mickey: Come on, I need some help.
K-9: System restarting. All primary drives functioning.
Mickey: You're working. Okay. Okay, no time to explain, we need to get inside the school. Do you have, like, I don't know, a lock picking device?
K-9: We are in a car.
Mickey: Maybe a drill attachment?
K-9: We are in a car.
Mickey: Fat lot of good you are.
K-9: We are in a car.
Mickey: Wait a second. We're in a car. Get back!

Dubbed dialogue
(With Johannes Raspe as Mickey Smith and Kai Taschner as the voice of K-9)

Mickey: Mach schon, ich brauch' deine Hilfe.
K-9: Systeme werden hochgefahren. Alle Primärantriebe funktionsfähig.
Mickey: Du läufst ja! Okay, keine Zeit für Erklärungen. Wir müssen in die Schule rein, hast du eine Art... sowas wie 'n Dietrich?
K-9: Wir sind in einem Auto.
Mickey: Vielleicht einen Bohreraufsatz?
K-9: Wir sind in einem Auto.
Mickey: Mann, bist du nützlich.
K-9: Wir sind in einem Auto.
Mickey: Moment mal... in einem Auto. Geh zurück!

... Jesus Christ. So cute :x

"The Unquiet Dead" and "Aliens of London" tomorrow.
I'm already excited, but this time, in a really optimistic way. Can't wait =)

Also, looking back on some dialogue from "Das Ende der Welt" (The End of the World), I noticed that some jokes actually hit their mark even better in German. This is a rare thing, but it's true. Wow.

These days, I love watching a certain TV station.

( A lot of babbling about You-Know-Who. Just don't mind me^^ )

The new season started airing in Germany yesterday. New season, that'd be #18. Yes, we're a whole year behind, why do you ask? XD We're also getting it on Sundays only, two episodes at a time, at 6:10 PM. I know, we're weeeeird ;)
I liked both of them (The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer and Jazzy and the Pussycats), even though I feel a slight soap opera-ish tendency going on there, however, I'm not sure whether that's new or not. Anyway. A lot of the gags were spot-on and had yamasagi laughing out loud. Nice =)

Actually, I think the dub really got better now that the translator is someone else. Both yamasagi and me didn't find anything really stupid/wrong/strange sounding in the new episodes, and believe me, we usually do notice. 'Course, it still might be wishful thinking on my part, but I'll be sure to have an eye/ear on that every Sunday.

When mum told me she and bro saw the Simpsons movie, I was like "Yeah, good for you. I hate you both". Then, she was like "Oh, they were showing it in English, too". Of course, I had to explain to her that I'm trying not to watch any part of that franchise in its original language because I'm certain it'd put me off the dub forever. And I don't want that. I know the dub is half-assed, but I like it. Hey, Kai #2's in almost every episode, if only for like, two sentences.
Useless fact: Kai #2 studied to play the saxophone at the Jazz School in Munich. Can you see why seeing Lisa Simpson play her instrument always makes me giggle? ^_~

Heh. Did anyone read that? Season 19 is supposed to feature guest appearances by both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Hey, this means that next year, we'll be able to hear both of them dubbed. Hooray... not O_O;;;

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Also, RTLII has started airing the first "Heroes" trailers that actually feature some dubbed dialogue. So far, we heard Peter, Nathan and Claire. And apart from Nathan, who could've used a lower voice, they all sound like the people who cast the voice actors had actually seen the series beforehand. No Hiro or Ando yet, and I've read on some forum that they're holding back Mohinder as well. Oh my.

Me likey. A lot.
But then, I'm not very critical about the movies sicne I see them rather separated from the book. It's just an interpretation.
Of course, they cut a ton of things but this time, they made it more easy to understand than some of the previous movies. At least that's what yamasagi told me.
One thing I love about all the movies is how they back up things from the book with visuals that weren't possible in written form. Filch nailing all the decrees to that wall (and all of them crashing down during the Weasley havoc) was just awesome =)
Luna was cute ^^
When Tonks appeared, yamasagi and me both went "Guhhhh". OMG she's hot :D~~~~

Also, since we saw it in German... dub rambling!!
I think the dub is pretty decent, actually. From what I could take in, there weren't any severe translation fuckups (apart maybe from Ron calling "Alter". I mean, jeez, that'd sorta equal him calling him "Homey". And I thought Dudley was the only one who'd gone HipHop XDDD). Well, this wasn't The Simpsons, right? *cough COUGH*
yamasagi once told me, after watching one of the movies in English, that he really liked the German Snape. And I can see why. I mean, the voices sure are pretty different. But someone (I think you can guess who that was ^^) once said in an interview that it's important to transfer the character of the voice to the foreign version, not so much the sound. Well, he's right. And in case of the HP movies, the German voice actors mostly do that pretty well, IMHO.

There were some very interesting trailers beforehand. "Stardust" and "The Golden Compass" both look rather interesting, though the first a bit more so than the second.
What's it with the fantasy overkill in the second half of the year?
Anywho.
I also saw the trailer for the Simpsons movie in German for the first time. I nearly know the English one by heart so I suppose I'm more or elss qualified to judge the translation. And I gotta say, it was very, very good.
Of course, I'm not saying it's a good thing the former translator/director died, but I'm still happy that someone else is doing the dubbing for something as important as the movie. I know, this is gonna sound horrible no matter how I put it, so I'll just go and hate myself for a moment, kthxbai.
Finally, I was delighted to discover that "Ratatouille" actually has a story. The other trailers somehow made it look like a cartoonish joke-centered sort of thing, so this kinda reinstated my faith in Pixar and my interest in the movie itself.

OMG, DH release tonight. Excitedexcitedexcited *squees*
That being said, I doubt there'll be a commotion at the bookstore tonight. It's only the English version after all ^_~