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about me name: n/aaliases: kit, kits, kit kat, the smart girl, foxay, an chin age: 18 location: socal, usa hobbies: anime, manga, reading, writing, doodling, video games, french horn likes: all of the above, being lazy, mushrooms, cheese, animals, laughing loudly in public dislikes: nuts, stinging/biting insects, religious fanatics, violence, olives contact: coloredink@mailcity add .com wishlist playstation 2car summer job a good night's sleep money stress-free life trigun dvd box set cowboy bebop dvd box set realistic wishlist dayworld by philip josEfarmerkabuki by david mack long-term obsessions anime/mangayaoi/shounenai clamp music animals life and living video games current obsession(s) collegecurrently reading nothing newcurrently playing nothing newcurrently watching hana yori dango (20)utena (23) gto tv (27) witch hunter robin (18) weiß kreuz gluhen (12) naruto (39) get backers (27) rose of versailles (16) matantei loki ragnarok (10) scrapped princess (11) |
Tuesday, July 15, 2003 [link] 02:20 p.m. listening to: big honkin' playlist I was antisocial all day yesterday and actually managed to get something written. I ended up locking myself in the bathroom and scribbled in a notebook à la Whitney. It worked remarkably well. I hate the thing I wrote, but that's to be expected after a dry spell of nearly three weeks. I'm going to try and write some more today, and hopefully it'll turn out better. Sunday, July 13, 2003 [link] 11:00 p.m. listening to: "Cathedrals" - Jump, Little Children Went swimming at my aunt's house today. It was nice. I like swimming, even if I'm not terribly good at it. I just like being wet, especially when it's hot out. I have made a decision. I am going to spend the next week being incredibly antisocial. I will not leave the house except, possibly, to eat. I am not going to answer the phone. I am going to write. I may very well even leave the house to write, ironically enough, depending on whether I can get to the public library/the media center at Gabrielino is open. So please, do not tempt me with offers of going to the movies or whatever. The next chapter of The Book is probably going to be written by me, and I intend to get it done within this week of antisocial-ness. Gen, I have not forgotten about our lunch date downtown! But as things stand, do you mind waiting a week? Unless I go mad before the week is up, which may very well be the case. Saturday, July 12, 2003 [link] 06:49 p.m. listening to: ditto Oh, and I forgot to mention that I GOT A 5 ON MY AP BIO TEST OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. Now if I could just have the rest of my AP scores, I'd be happy. Saturday, July 12, 2003 [link] 04:22 p.m. listening to: "For the Sake of the Song" - Azure Ray Do you know what time of year it is? It's time again for Blogathon! In short, we are going to blog continuously for twenty-four hours, and whatever money we generate goes to the charity of our choice. Wait? Money? Generate? This is where you come in, faithful blog readers! Yes, all four of you! We raised over a hundred dollars last year for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. This year, we're blogging for The International Fund for Animal Welfare, and we'd like to beat that record. So please, if you have a few extra dollars, sponsor us. Every dollar can make a difference. Saturday, July 12, 2003 [link] 01:43 p.m. listening to: "Birmingham Shadows" - Bruce Cockburn I THINK I'VE LOST MY HAT. "My hat" being the Kekkai hat I bought ages ago from the now-defunct kekkai.org store, which means that it's most likely irreplaceable. I WANT MY HAT. **sobs** It's the source of all my power. Saturday, July 12, 2003 [link] 12:31 p.m. listening to: "Center of the Sun" - Conjure One The house has been SOLD! . . . so, uh, who wants to come over and help me pack my shit? Friday, July 11, 2003 [link] 10:39 p.m. listening to: "Hotel California" - The Eagles I saw the pirate movie! I shall now explode in pirate-y glee. Johnny Depp was a sexy, sexy goth pirate man. With lots of mascara. And beads in his hair. I fell in love with the swashbuckling and not-entirely-sane Captain Jack Sparrow as soon as I saw him. He may be simultaneously the worst/best pirate on the seven seas, but he does it with style. Orlando Bloom? What Orlando Bloom? . . . okay, he was there, but I'm very much apathetic about Orlando Bloom. He seems to have three facial expressions in both movies I've seen him in, which are a) contorted with RIGHTEOUS RAGE!!! and b) oh no!!! and c) I do what is RIGHT AND NOBLE now. He paled in comparison to the magnificence that is Johnny Depp. . . . okay, so I'm biased. And skeleton-y special effects goodness! Skeletons walking along the bottom of the ocean! Skeletons swabbing deck! Skeletons swordfighting! Man, those skeletons were cool, even if they were doing completely illogical things just to scare the living daylights out of Elizabeth Swan. Speaking of which, I did not hate Elizabeth Swan. This surprised me, as I completely expected to loathe her. Yes, she was annoying at some parts--for instance, in her tendency to run off and do stupid things Playing the Heroine--but she also kicked ass mightily and refused to be the damsel in distress, which I liked a lot. And the Will/Elizabeth thing got tired really quickly, but that was mostly because I held no great love for either of the characters and only wanted to see more Johnny Depp. D'arr! Friday, July 11, 2003 [link] 03:58 p.m. listening to: "Pray Your Gods" - Toad the Wet Sprocket Now I know why I've been so social these past few days: I prefer being out of the house because the doorbell rings every fifteen fucking minutes. I can't get anything done with this kind of commotion. Fucking hells. I need a vacation. Another one. That involves no people whatsoever. Breeeeaathe. Caaaaalm. I'm going to go see the pirate movie, and I'm going to enjoy myself, and then I'm going to come home and not look at the world for the next week until I get something fucking written. Friday, July 11, 2003 [link] 01:54 p.m. listening to: "fake wings" - Yuki Kajiura I'm alive, just. . . I don't know. I've been uncommonly social these past few days, in that I've actually been going out and spending more time with real people and less time online. All of which has been hell on my creativity, of course, so I haven't written anything of note since before I left for Chicago. I'm supposed to go see a movie today. I want to, I really do (I mean, come on--Johnny Depp as a pirate, who doesn't want to see that?), but there's another part of me that wants to stay at home and beat my head against a wall until I either pass out or have some sense knocked into me. I want to write. And I think the only way I'm going to be able to write is if I shut myself up for a few days and talk to no one, like I used to. If I ever become a wealthy person, I'm going to have two houses: one for when I don't need to write and one for when I do, and the latter will be far, far away from civilizatiom. Tuesday, July 8, 2003 [link] 01:48 p.m. listening to: "Center of the Sun" - Conjure One Some days I wish everyone would just leave me the hell alone. I woke up in the middle of the night with a bloody nose and got another one just now. I hate this weather. [Edit: I think I lost your phone number when my computer crashed, Walker, so I hope you see this message declaring that I'm, uh, home. This means you can drop by any time.] Tuesday, July 8, 2003 [link] 11:55 a.m. listening to: "Athair ar Neamh" - Enya I feel so lethargic lately. I JUST WANT MY AP SCORES GODDAMMIT. My dad says I need to get out more. He wants me to go out and run around. I ache. I ache everywhere from the hips down, and I have for the past two days. I don't know if it's the lingering aftereffects of sleeping on the floor for three days or a vitamin deficiency or impending arthritis or what, but it's not conducive towards moving around. There's two positions I can take to minimize the pain, and they're not really good for being productive. Monday, July 7, 2003 [link] 11:02 p.m. listening to: "Haunted" - Poe I feel so antisocial it's not even funny. Is it my fault that my idea of "fun" seems to be different from everyone else? Or am I just lame? It's a question that haunts me every time I go blogcrawling and read about how other people went to the mall with their friends. I mean, boy, going to the mall is way down on my list of "fun things to do," along with "watching paint dry." Okay, maybe not that far, but it's something I'm really, really lukewarm about. Possibly because I'm fat and poor. Maybe my dad's right and I just need a life or something. But the problem with being a writer is that, apparently, you must spend some time alone. This doesn't seem to be true for Neil Gaiman, who spends copious amounts of time Not Alone, mainly because he's famous and has a family. But boy is it ever true for me. The last week and a half or so of blissed-out socialfulness have been hell to my muses, or whatever it is that makes me write. I have horrible, horrible writer's block again and it's not going away. Maybe I just need more sleep. Sunday, July 6, 2003 [link] 04:29 p.m. listening to: "Center of the Sun" - Conjure One I'm back. I ache all over for some reason--probably because I spent a lot of time sleeping on the floor at the convention. ^^;;; I slept like the dead last night/this morning, probably trying to make up for all the sleep I didn't get in the last three days. My dad had to come in and yell at me to get up. This year was the first year I actually attended the anime music video contest. There were some really kickass/amazing/hilarious videos. My absolute favorite was probaby "Center of the Sun," a Metropolis video entered in the "Drama" category. I wanted it to win Best of Show, but it didn't--a funny video called "The Chibi Things That Kill" won instead. Yeah, it was funny, but I liked "Center of the Sun" better. I'm a sucker for brilliant/artistic work, though. I hope the creator has it available for download somewhere, because it was just that amazing. I might as well babble about some other notable videos here. Eternal Damnation: Hellsing video in the Action category. Made the already kickass fight scenes look three times cooler. Didn't win anything, though. Mitternacht: German song and footage from three vampire works (Hellsing, B: tLV, VHD: Bloodlust). Why yes, it won Best of Action. I wasn't surprised--I voted for it. Hindi Sad Diamonds: I'm not a very big fan of Ah! My Goddess but this video actually made me want to see the movie. No, seriously. The Chibi Things That Kill: Hilarious, hilarious video featuring such things as Kenshin getting his ass kicked by Jigglypuff. It won something like five awards, including Best of Show (which I still think should have gone to "Center of the Sun," but la). Utena video I don't remember the name of: Jaw-dropping in terms of technical difficulty, I think. Someone said it probably took him months to do some of the things in this video. Didn't win an award, unfortunately. Euphoria: RahXephon video that made me really, really want to see the series. Also quite a technical wonder. Won Best of AmTV. A Little Bit of Happaness: Based on an apparently (in)famous video that I haven't seen called Yatta!. The anime music video was hysterical, though--I was really surprised it didn't win Best of Comedy. Other highlights of the Expo included a concert by Yuki Kajiura, the composer of the soundtracks for Noir and .hack//SIGN and, of course, the Masquerade. Major irritation this year was the seating. Despite being the first in line for tickets for the AMV contest and the Masquerade, we still got seats in the back of the room. The seating arrangement was seriously fucked up. People halfway towards the back of the line had better seats than we did. And now, I am tired and it is hot, and I think I may want to take a nap. |
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