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Name: Andrea L. Peterson
AKA: Andrael
Age: 19
Birthday: May 27, 1981
Hometown: Quezon City, Philippines
Currently living in: California
Obsessed with:
anime (Akazukin Chacha, Vision of Escaflowne, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Lupin III, Cowboy Bebop, Black Jack, Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou, and the list goes on...)
manga (X, Tokyo Babylon, Clover, Black Jack, DNAngel, Mikan no Tsuki, and the list goes on...)
drawing
time-wasting internet activities
comics (Sandman, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Harry Potter series
Star Trek (hooray for syndication!)
80's nostalgia
Victorian England
Missions in Life:
To be a grandmother
To be a crazy old lady with lots of cats
To create something that people write fanfiction for
To get an honorary knighthood ^_^
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Thursday, January 4, 2001
01:17 p.m.
Let me test this piece of poop.
~Andrea L. Peterson, Knight of the British Empire.
Sunday, November 12, 2000
07:38 p.m.
Haven't entered anything in awhile... Oh well, this weblog isn't exactly "official" yet.
Anyway, I've been relaxing and goofing off as much as possible this weekend. Went yesterday to watch Charlie's Angels, which was great fun. Also the first time I've gone to the movie theatre in months. I think the last movie I saw in the theatre was, oh, The Cell? O_O
Then last night I tuned in to watch Sherlock Holmes Mysteries on A&E. One of those shows I've fallen into the habit of watching for some inexplicable reason, kind of like Queen of Swords. O_o Anyway, it was an interesting episode because Holmes was gone for essentially the entire episode, and didn't really solve the mystery at all. Instead the focus was on his big brother Mycroft, who, as we all know from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, is as smart as if not smarter than Sherlock. ^_^
Then right after that I found Galaxy Express 999 showing on Sci-Fi. My first thought was, "Kyaa! Cool! Wonderful!" But I was proved sorely wrong, as it turned out to be heavily edited. It's not like editing out violence or objectionable content or anything; it was just arbitrary. They cut out Ryuzu's song number. They cut out Harlock's cool speech, "There comes a time in a man's life... blah blah blah". They cut out almost all of the big climactic space battle. They cut out Maetel's final tear-jerking words to Tetsuro, "From now on I will be nothing more than a shadow of your youth, a memory of your young boy's heart." And yet they left in the final sequence where Tetsuro runs alongside the train and yells, "Maetel!" ten or eleven times, and the same footage of Maetel leaning out of the window is repeated three times. >_<
And then today I had a nice little trip to Kinokuniya. They had a brand new volume of Flame of Recca. I saw the FoR anime series in its entirety, when it was showing on TV in the Philippines. I'd been meaning to pick up a volume or two of the manga series, which continues the story beyond the end of the anime; but I hadn't gotten around to it. I picked up this newest one (Volume 26) because it had a super-cute picture of Koganei on the front, and the description on the back mentioned Kagerou.
So, anyway. After all these months of buying shoujo manga, it was kind of jarring to read one of these fight-fight-fight shonen series again. The pacing is totally different from the stuff I'm used to. But anyway, I'm glad I got it... BECAUSE IT HAS THIS SUPER-COOL KAGEROU SCENE.
From the very beginning, Kagerou was my favorite character in the series. I always felt that the TV series totally wasted her character. The revelation that she was Recca's mother was handled without any kind of drama or emotion; and then for the rest of the series she's reduced to the status of a play-by-play commentator at the tournament. >_< One of my main reasons for being interested in the manga was so I could see what happened to her. But one of the things that kept me from buying the manga was because I read a summary which mentioned her saying stuff like "welcome home" and "I'll make dinner" and stuff like that. What the hell?! She's a 400-year-old ninja cursed with immortality, and they have her being a... MOM?! >_<
Anyway, Kagerou in this volume was in her finest form. The perfect mixture of motherliness and ass-kicking shadow-hopping goth queen. ^-^ Kagerou rules the universe. At this rate, I may be tempted to buy more FoR manga. ^_^
~Andrea L. Peterson, Knight of the British Empire.
Monday, October 23, 2000
04:14 a.m.
I remembered something else that made Jem stupid. She wore all her makeup and stuff to bed. TO BED!!! And those star earrings of hers. She wore those to bed, too. I mean, wouldn't they be really prickly and uncomfortable? Just the sort of thing you'd want to take OFF before laying your head down for a nice 8-hour sleep? (Which I should probably be doing now, by the way.) But no! She wears the earrings to bed. I've seen her. Of course, if she takes the earrings off, she'll turn back into Jerica. Why not just turn back into Jerica, then? I doubt anyone would question the fact that Jerica was there, sleeping, in her own house. And it's surely a better option than sleeping with the earrings and having them pierce your jugular vein and make you bleed to death in the night. Actually, they should have done that. Famous rock star Jem bleeds to death in her bed. The Holograms break up. The Misfits take over the world, and turn it into something resembling that Spice Girls video where they had taken over the world. And Riot has, like, his own island with a harem of blond trashy Euro-pop bimbos. Oh, and Rio also bleeds to death for some reason.
What bums me out is that I can't find any decent MP3's of the Stingers' songs. Or of the second Jem opening theme. There's the first one, "Jem! Jem is adventure, oooh, Jem!". But I liked the second one better, the more upbeat and catchier, "Me and my friends are Jem girls! Jem! Jem is my name!"
....Did I just type all that? Poopy.
~Andrea L. Peterson, Knight of the British Empire.
Monday, October 23, 2000
03:38 a.m.
Right now I'm sort of trying to write a reflection paper and a precis on Rhetorical Criticism, while listening to a crapload of Jem mp3's I got off of Napster. God this music is awful. Why do I listen? Why God why?
...Well, the Misfits generally had cooler songs than Jem and the Holograms. Otherwise known as Jem and the Dorks. I made that up myself. Although actually Jem herself is the dorkiest one of the lot, the other Holograms weren't so bad.
...uh...I was just saying that I like the Misfit's songs better. They even say in the Jem opening song, "But we're the Misfits! Our songs are better!" I tend to agree. Of course, the Stingers are cooler than both of them, hands down. ^_-
Seriously, the Stingers were cool. You may or may not remember, but they were introduced later in the series. It was like, this guy named Riot and these two girls whose names I forget. And they were all blond and had this trashy Euro-pop look to them. And Riot was always trying to seduce Jem and stuff. Meanwhile Pizazz of the Misfits was always after Riot. Bwahahaha.
Anyway, the Stingers made the show a lot more interesting. At least there were more than two bands in the entire world! And while they were still "evil" compared to Dork and the Holograms, at least they provided a greater range of evil. Or something. And Riot was cute. He was certainly cuter than Jem's asshole boyfriend. Wossface. Rio. Hey, did anyone ever notice that Rio and Riot's names are one letter apart? Hmm.
I don't like Rio because he's stupid. He looks stupid and he talks stupid too. Plus he's a two-timer. He's sort of seeing both Jem and Jerica. Of course, this is supposed to be okay because we know that they're both the same person, but HE doesn't know that! And of course, Jem is so stupid that she thinks it's okay, too. One might criticize Jem for stringing Rio along as both Jem and Jerica. I say, Dorkface (for 'tis her name) Dorkface, he's not worth playing mind games with. He hasn't even got a mind. He's a dumbass.
Hey, Jem's got pink hair, and Rio has purple hair. Maybe they can cosplay as Utena and Anthy. And then we get to watch Rio get slapped around and pierced by the Million Swords of Hate! *claps hands in glee*
My God, it's late. And I'm 75% not done with my homework. And I'm still listening to this goddamn music. Now I want to watch the show again. I hate this show, I really do. But I just can't stay away. I can't believe I just typed all this crap about Jem. Anything to keep from doing real work.
~Andrea L. Peterson, Knight of the British Empire.
Saturday, October 21, 2000
10:20 p.m.
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
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...I LOVE SNAPE!!! XD
~Andrea L. Peterson, Knight of the British Empire.
Saturday, October 21, 2000
10:17 p.m. Evil Incorporated Dot Com
This is yet another stupid test. Where are Evil Yuuhi and Terrible Mistress Mary Reilly when I need them?
~Andrea L. Peterson, Knight of the British Empire.
Saturday, October 21, 2000
09:50 p.m. the ultimate destiny apocalypse.
This is a stupid test entry for Andrael's Stupid Weblog. Do not adjust your sets. Resistance is futile.
~Andrea L. Peterson, Knight of the British Empire.
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