What, no Alucard? I wanna be Alucard, dammit! (Hellsing Alucard, that is, as opposed to one of the seventeen billion other Alucards out there. Who was it who first decided it would be cute to name a vampire by spelling 'Dracula' backwards, anyway?)

Lupin the Third is going to be showing on Adult Swim!!! *___* (Actually, there's really no reason why this should excite me, seeing as our Cartoon Network doesn't get the anime part of Adult Swim, and anyway Lupin III has already been showing on local TV for years. But still. Lupin! Weeeee!)

Martians attacked at 06:23 p.m.! Where were you?

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Tuesday, November 26, 2002

[bilbo baggins] I've thought up an ending for my book! [/bilbo baggins]
Actually, I've known for a while that I wanted the novel to end with my mopey android character smiling. I just wasn't sure how exactly I would lead up to it. But last night it occurred to me that I could always just do this:

Byron: I'm sorry. I don't know how to react in a situation like this.

girl: You should smile.

Byron: *surprised look* *pause* *heart-warming smile*

Then my last sentence would be, "And somewhere, Hideaki Anno was rolling over in his grave." XD Fryyy me tsu za moon, and let me play among za staaaahz...

22,000 words and less than a week to go. @____@ Saigo made akiramenai!

Martians attacked at 02:22 p.m.! Where were you?

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Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Which fandom archetype are you?
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Can't talk. Lurking.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Carlo brought home the Fellowship of the Ring extended DVD. Wow! Celeborn speaks! XD And it seems that a lot of little humorous moments were cut out of the theatrical version; like Gandalf threatening to open the doors to Moria with Pippin's head, and Aragorn smacking Gimli when he snores. XD And Legolas actually made a snide remark! Not just "Shut up Boromir! Aragorn rules!" or "My elf sense is tingling!" O.O

Martians attacked at 02:31 a.m.! Where were you?

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Monday, November 18, 2002

I finally got to see the musical Buffy episode! ^_^ Of course I could've sung along with the whole thing, having downloaded all the songs months ago. ^^;;

Martians attacked at 09:08 p.m.! Where were you?

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Sunday, November 17, 2002

Okay, after visiting this site and listening to some sound clips from the dub, I now want to get the Hellsing DVDs. Wow! Integral's talking in English! With an English accent! Tee hee! Tee hee, I say!

Martians attacked at 03:21 a.m.! Where were you?

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Friday, November 15, 2002

*watches Justice League* Why does Wonder Woman have to be such a frigging fifth wheel? Why doesn't she even use her frigging magical lasso? Why does she let frigging Aquaman push her around (even if he is all in his Serpentor get-up)? Even Maritess could take on Aquaman. Give me Superfriends Wonder Woman any day. At least she had an invisible jet.

Martians attacked at 07:49 p.m.! Where were you?

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Thursday, November 14, 2002

LOOK! Look now at the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen sketches allegedly by Adam Hughes, linked on this thread! *____* Hyde looks... weird... but everybody else is amazing! *dies at Hyde-Mina-Quatermain scene*

Martians attacked at 04:08 p.m.! Where were you?

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Thursday, November 14, 2002

Saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets tonight. Overall, it really was better than the first movie. It seemed to flow much better, what with not having to stop and explain everything about the wizarding world, all the balls used in Quidditch and whatnot.

The Good:

Lockhart and his portraits are so freaking funny. Kenneth Brannagh for President! ...of something.

It's Tom Riddle! wheee

The flashback-to-fifty-years-ago scene was all in sepia, and only Harry was in color. Beautiful!

Dobby was good. Dobby was actually good. And I'd never really noticed before how badass Dobby is, knocking Mr. I'm-So-Evil Malfoy the Elder down with one blast! Now we know why they don't let House Elves have wands -- they FEAR the House Elves' mighty powaaahz.

This is Let's Push Draco Around, the movie. Snape, during duel scene: "Get out there, you little putz." *shove* XD

Though there's even less Snape than in the first movie, he's brilliant in the scenes he is in. Look! Look at his duelling costume! He has legs, tee hee!

I think they used a puppet for Fawkes in a couple of scenes. I like when they use puppets instead of flashy CGI.

Malfoy the Elder's wand-cane. Can I have one?

The Bad:

"Hello, I'm John Cleese, and this is my obligatory two seconds in the movie! Oh, hi Percy! Hi Percy's girlfriend!"

No Rik Mayall as Peeves. I hope you're satisfied, Thatcher!

While Hermione seems to have become the All-Powerful Goddess of Everything, Ron is now apparently the Dumb Comic Relief Sidekick.

It just sort of ends with "Hooray for Hagrid!" Huh?

The Freaky:

Lucius "lookit-me-I'm-all-Sephiroth-with-my-long-platinum-tresses" Malfoy. O__o

Moaning Myrtle. Well actually, she was good; but in a freaky way. And they played up Myrtle's crush on Harry, and played down Ginny's crush on Harry. Weird!

You know that climactic scene where the Basilisk is blind and supposedly tracking Harry by hearing alone? And it has Harry cornered but can't find him, and Harry distracts it by throwing a stone to make noise? It occured to me then that in reality, snakes are deaf. But they have excellent senses of smell.

Martians attacked at 02:46 a.m.! Where were you?

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Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Ugh. I am so behind on my word count. Yes, I'm still slogging away at that dumb NaNoWriMo novel, which is part of the reason why I haven't been blogging much. I'd like to say that most of my time has been spent working on the thing; but the truth is that most of my time has been spent NOT working on the thing.

Every day I keep resolving to just bear down and write large blocks of text; but I keep getting distracted. Yesterday, for instance, I decided to take a short break and watch Hellsing episode 10, which had just finished downloading. But then when it was over, I was struck by the irresistable urge to draw Flashback!Alucard&Integral on oekaki. "Well, just one oekaki couldn't hurt," I said to myself, as I proceeded to work on that one oekaki for the next five hours.

Well, there. So at least you know I didn't do nothing all day; I just didn't do what I was supposed to be doing. :P And once again, for the morbidly curious or the crushingly bored, you can check out my NaNoWrimo profile and see my crawling word count, and a link to the first six chapters or so in one ridiculously long text file.

Ha ha! My classes don't start until Thursday! And Carlo and I get to see Chamber of Secrets tomorrow! Ha ha!

Martians attacked at 08:09 p.m.! Where were you?

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Friday, November 8, 2002

Wow. Hearing Evangelion dubbed in French gives it a whole new dimension! It's like watching artsy European cinema. XD "C'est la raison d'etre du NERV," quoth Gendo. Heh.

Martians attacked at 11:34 p.m.! Where were you?

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Friday, November 8, 2002

Mom came home last night, bringing a huge bunch of our loot. DVDs: Eva series box and movies, KareKano 1, Beauty and the Beast, PPG movie, Harry Potter (finally!), Big O 4 (FINALLY!), and Mary Reilly (yeah, what of it?) Books: Clover manga 3 in English (why have I not been able to find this anywhere other than Amazon?), Coraline, Series of Unfortunate Events book 9, a nice thick book of "original" fairy tales, and a book on the "science" of Harry Potter. So it seems there's no way in hell I'll ever be able to finish my NaNoWriMo novel at this rate. :P

Anyway, I finished Carnivorous Carnival this afternoon. Man. I didn't think anything could top the ending of the last book. X___x Since Book 7 it seems that one of the prevailing themes of the series is how the Baudelaires keep having to make more and more morally ambiguous decisions in order to survive; so I guess Book the Tenth being called "The Slippery Slope" makes perfect sense, on the figurative as well as literal level. ^^

Tee hee. Count Olaf's license plate reads, "IH8 ORFNS". XD

Martians attacked at 06:24 p.m.! Where were you?

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Wednesday, November 6, 2002

*tunes in to crappy King Solomon's Mines movie on HBO* *watches big-haired Sharon Stone sob "I love you Quartermain!"* *throws objects at screen* It's QUATERMAIN not QuaRtermain ya floozy! With my luck, this is probably what the LoEG movie will be like. Wow! I didn't know there were Nazis in King Solomon's Mines! I guess I missed that part in the book.

Martians attacked at 02:28 a.m.! Where were you?

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Tuesday, November 5, 2002

Wow, I never knew that there was an episode of Batman Beyond that was a crossover with Zeta Project. Cool! Whenever I see Zeta I realize that I must have unconsciously filched part of his design for my robot character Descartes. (You can't really tell from that picture, since it's an old design and all, but eh.) Not a big deal, since Descartes is pretty much Mr. Generic Robot anyway (and besides, I also quite consciously filched some of his design from Bender of Futurama).

But nowadays I'm becoming more and more paranoid about unwittingly ripping off character designs. Like, if I come up with a neat hairstyle or an cool outfit for a character, I start to wonder if I haven't actually seen that hairstyle or outfit on some other character in the past, and just forgotten about it. What if I'm ripping somebody off and I don't even know it? It scares me.

Martians attacked at 07:59 p.m.! Where were you?

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Monday, November 4, 2002

FAIRY TALE

Once upon a time there was a young RENEGADE COP named SUBARU. He was AGGRESSIVELY EMBELLISHING in the LUGUBRIOUS forest when he met TURQUOISE SEISHIROU, a run-away NINJA ASSASSIN from the WARTY Queen SADAKO.

SUBARU could see that TURQUOISE SEISHIROU was hungry so he reached into his REFRIGERATOR and gave him his LAVENDER FISH CHIPS. TURQUOISE SEISHIROU was thankful for SUBARU's FISH CHIPS, so he told SUBARU a very BOX-SHAPED story about Queen SADAKO's daughter FUJIKO. How her mother, the WARTY Queen SADAKO, kept her locked away in a PAGODA protected by a gigantic PENGUIN, because FUJIKO was so ACTION-PACKED.

SUBARU DISSECTED. He vowed to TURQUOISE SEISHIROU the NINJA ASSASSIN that he would save the ACTION-PACKED FUJIKO. He would PONTIFICATE the PENGUIN, and take FUJIKO far away from her evil mother, the WARTY Queen SADAKO, and FLAGELLATE her.

Then, all of the sudden, there was a CRAZY SUPERNOVA and TURQUOISE SEISHIROU the NINJA ASSASSIN began to laugh. With a puff of smoke he turned into the gigantic PENGUIN from his story. WARTY Queen SADAKO EXPELLED out from behind a TOENAIL CLIPPER and struck SUBARU dead. In the far off PAGODA you could hear a BELCH.

THE END.

Make your own Fairy Tale at fuali.com

O___O I just plugged those names in there randomly, not expecting to get an alternate universe retelling of Tokyo Babylon/The Ring. XD

Martians attacked at 10:37 p.m.! Where were you?

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Monday, November 4, 2002

Oh, I almost forgot! These have to be the greatest Halloween costumes ever. *___* I really must play Grim Fandango again one of these days...

Martians attacked at 10:04 p.m.! Where were you?

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Monday, November 4, 2002

Yikes. Sorry I haven't written anything in here for ages. I've been working on my NaNoWriMo novel. Yes, working on it, although my word count is still frightfully low. But if you're feeling bored or morbidly curious, you can search for me in the Authors/Novels section and check on my puny progress. ^^;;;

Well, Trick-or-Treat yielded a very poor candy harvest this Halloween -- our neighbors have been giving out cheaper candy and running out of it earlier every year. But we did have a nice party, and I kicked ass in my Evil Red Riding Hood costume. (I carried an axe in my basket. It was real, and extremely heavy.) And we sat and watched Ring 1 & 2 on DVD.

Funnily enough, we did not take our traditional annual hike to the cemetary the next day (All Souls Day). That's because we already went on the morning of the 31st. It was very strange, being there before all the crowds poured in firing up their barbecue grills and turning up their radios. The reason we went early was because Mom had to leave for Boston on Nov. 1. So that's where she is now, until Thursday. As for me, I've been either writing or procrastinating from writing. Well. Back to that now, I suppose.

My back hurts.

Martians attacked at 06:10 p.m.! Where were you?

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