Disclaimer: This is all Laurelgand and Moonsong's fault. If not for them I'd never be writing this stuff on this page. Blame them and especially Laurelgand for the corpse tea.

version 40: Cowboy Bebop again. Faye in the foreground, with Spike and Julia shadowed against her. Lyrics from Hyde's Shallow Sleep, which is an awesome song but doesn't change the fact that it'll be his fault if Laruku disbands. *beats Hyde*

in a shallow sleep trembling slightly
just like your innocent self on that day...
I dreamed the dream with you

 
[ Hisashi's spleen ]
[ kayoubi 3.26.03 | l'arc~en~ciel, blurry eyes ]

Hisashi's Spleen, discovered by Neesan.

Moonsong: So. We need to find out who that unnamed spleen is. XD
Gerald: not me! XD
Gerald: i have a happy home
Gerald: *beats human*
Gerald: yes, quite happy
Moonsong: Well, we KNOW that.
Moonsong: XD XD
Moonsong: I don't much like my home. But we tolerate each other.
Gerald: you can't leave him spleenless
Gerald: that would be cruel
Moonsong: *signals to pata who beats yoshiki*
Moonsong: I know. *sigh* Plus it'd give him more to whine about.
Gerald: yes very true *nods sagely*
Moonsong: *mental picture of Yoshiki bursting into starbucks, all scraggly and teary eyed* MY SPLEEN LEFT MEEEE!!!!!!
Gerald: ............................................
Moonsong: Patrons: OO;;;;;;;;
Gerald: NEESAN!
Moonsong: XD XD
Moonsong: Ah, the things a spleen has to amuse itself with...
Gerald: yes indeed

boku wa 1742 hours ni asaku neta

 
[ Fanart ]
[ kayoubi 03.26.02 | siam shade, grayish wing ]

Well, I is still lli. Hee hee hee. -_-

On the other hand, I finally went this weekend and scanned some of my fanart in that had been sitting here since last August. It's all SnK fanart which technically isn't fanart since it's my fic, but I will subject you to it anyway. XD Warning: some nudity! I don't know why I'm posting a warning...but I don't know who might randomly find this on Google so....

1. [Atsuki #1]
This was done way back in August (the date's on the pic) and was my first attempt at really doing a full body picture from scratch. I don't think it turned out too badly. I have a couple of gripes: most notably, I really hate her left foot. I can't draw feet to save my life. And her left arm bends in places that joints don't exist (even though it looks ok if you don't stare at it for too long).

2. [Atsuki #2]
I did some editing in this in Photoshop, because I drew her torso a little too long for the rest of her. *shrug* I guess it's ok now. I like her right arm in this one and also her face. I spent a lot of time on her face. The hair in both this one and the above picture is a lot longer than Atsuki's hair really is...but hey, I'm the author and I have artistic license. XD

3. [Dorothy]
Just a sketch of Dorothy Catalonia's face. Nothing much to say. I like her eyes.

4. [Wufei]
Wufei with long hair but otherwise pretty much the same as he was in the TV series. I was trying to do perspective...it worked on the feet but not on the arm. -_- Blah.

5. [Shinobu]
Matsuura Shinobu. This was originally a headshot of Hyde, but err...it didn't look like Hyde. So I modified it. ^_^ How efficient.

The end.

boku wa 1650 hours ni asaku neta

 
[ scars ]
[ getsuyoubi 03.25.02 | x japan, scars ]

kaze ni tokete nagareru omae no yokogao
kirisaite yaritai to kizuguchi o hoshigaru
kimi no kowareta melody nido to majiwarazu
kiete kure saken demo
asu mo mata onaji kage o kita mama de

your form which floats away in the wind
I want to slash it open and wound it
so that your broken melody will not meet it again
but though I scream for it to disappear
the same shadow will remain tomorrow

boku wa 2339 hours ni asaku neta

 
[ yoshiki... ]
[ kinyoubi 03.22.02 | x japan, scars ]

Moonsong: Oh. And my human was spotted at Starbucks in Japan recently. XD
Moonsong: *sips her mocha indulgently*
Gerald: .........................
Gerald: he's in japan?
Gerald: what's he doing there?
Moonsong: playing xbox? I have no clue. maybe overseeing the hide album. or stalking toshi.
Moonsong: who knows.

boku wa 1844 hours ni asaku neta

 
[ romanization and other things ]
[ kinyoubi 03.22.02 | b'z, calling ]

Well, I is still sick but I went to school anyway. Blat. We're actually learning things in Japanese for once, which is a real shocker, but going to class is still pretty pointless since I could practice/read the book on my own. Oh well....

I spent the entire evening last night trying to romanize Dope HEADz's Evening Rose. The romanization for it doesn't seem to exist online so I was trying to do it, but the whole thing is so muddy that I can't hear about half the song and I suspect that some of the words that I DO think I hear are probably wrong, since most of what I had made no sense whatsoever. So then I went online looking for kana lyrics, but apparently no one had those either! I found bits and pieces...someone had one verse right before "oh memory evening rose" and then someone else had almost then entire first stanza.

As it is, I'm still missing a good chunk of the second stanza and all of the third (even though the third is easier to hear than the first and second, I'd just like to double-check) So if anyone feels the urge to go look up kana lyrics for this song, please send them my way. XD

Err...had wing standup today. It was long as usual. I plan to spend my night doing absolutely nothing.

Oh wait...SnK. Damn. Oh well free time was fun while it lasted...

boku wa 1812 hours ni asaku neta

 
[ blah ]
[ mokuyoubi 03.21.02 | dope headz, evening rose ]

I am sick.

Blat.

On the other hand, I thought this was amusing. From Star Wars: X-Wing, Wraith Squadron:

"Phanan was in Borleias's military hospital, recovering from the loss of his spleen, which had been perforated by shrapnel as he had ejected. When Kell had gone to see him, Phanan had explained, "Yes, I got so angry that I had to vent my spleen."

It's contagious, I tell you.

boku wa 1916 hours ni asaku neta

 
[ .............. ]
[ kayoubi 03.18.02 | macross plus, myung ]

From Nathan's blog:

"Ger had a dream about pata yesterday night... something about being roomates, and pata quitting guitar to go back to school and go to college. i think that they are all crazy... having dreams about pata. why not someone else, like tak matsumoto? heheh. go ger! keep having those x japan dreams. maybe tonight you'll dream about toshi singing in the restaurant."

-_-;;; Great way of putting my dream there...

And yes, I did dream about Pata two nights ago. Apparently we were in some boarding school or college and there were 5 of us who were roommates (I don't remember who the other 3 guys were) but Pata was there. He came in with his guitar and I was surprised to see him so I asked him why he was there. He replied that he had decided to quit playing guitar and go back to school. I then asked him why he'd do that (he's so freaking talented). He was about to answer and then my alarm went off. Damn alarm.

boku wa 2314 hours ni asaku neta

 
[ WAHAHAHAHA ]
[ getsuyoubi 03.18.02 | beyond, hai kuo tian kong ]

I don't know if any of you have ever heard of Beyond. They're a Cantonese rock band from Hong Kong...probably the only Cantonese rock band ever, but hey, they're cool. Their song Hai Kuo Tian Kong (The Wide Sea and Sky) was released in both Cantonese and Japanese, and the lyrics to the two songs are different (as in, the Japanese version is not a translation of the Cantonese version. They wrote entirely new lyrics for it)

*looks smug* I just finished romanizing and translating both versions into English. I love being trilingual. XD

Here.

Please don't take this without my permission...I spent a while on this, especially the Cantonese romanization. Though I don't know WHY anyone would want to take this...

I've done my good deed for the day...AND I even finished all my homework before I did it! *goes to get ice cream and to work on SnK soundtrack*

boku wa 1612 hours ni asaku neta

 
[ thoughts ]
[ nichiyoubi 03.17.02 | porno graffitti, shiawase ni tsuite honki dashite kangaete mita ]

I've been thinking.

Yeah I know that's bad for me. No, QS, I don't need to go the hospital.

I pretty much have been wavering back and forth on this wing commander thing. One week I'll want to and then the next week I won't want to. I think the best thing is to wait until the list goes up and then see if I actually want to sign up. It'll be there for a while. I hope.

I don't think I should think about it any more till the time comes.

boku wa 2357 hours ni asaku neta

 
[ calculations ]
[ nichiyoubi 03.15.02 | the brilliant green, tsumetai hana ]

expenses for one month:

$315 [rent]
+$40 [cell phone bill]
+$50 [est groceries]
+$20 [gas]
+$50 [phone and electricity bill]
-----
$475

So $475 for the next 2 months means $950. I'm going to be in Houston or overseas during the summer so it'll be just rent, cell phone, and other bills, so that's 3 months of around $385 a month. I will spend $2105 for living expenses. I will also probably have to put down a deposit of around $200 or so for the new apartment. So that adds up to $2305. I hope I'm not underestimating.

I get paid around $300 in April and $150 in May (stingy military), plus I'm going to making an extra $350 or so during the summer for CTA and PDT. That's $800. That means I have to pay $1305 out of my own pocket. I need to still have at least $1155 by the start of summer so I can pay all my rent and bills in advance.

Blah. Cadets need to get paid more.

The good news is that it looks like I'll have money to get my guitar after all if I stick to my plan of self-penance. XD XD I'll maybe even have money left over!

*prays*

boku wa 2241 hours ni asaku neta

 
[ uh...new layout again ]
[ nichiyoubi 03.11.02 | hyde, evergreen ]

Yeah. I also realized while looking over my previous layouts that I'd started miscounting somewhere around 25 or so and that this layout should really be #39. Oh well. XD

boku wa 1433 hours ni asaku neta

There are until the release of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones!

There are until the object of my obsession is MINE!

v40 |:| ASAI NEMURI
Faye Valentine [Cowboy Bebop]

Name |:| Gerald Tarrant
Age |:| 20
Occupation |:| Vampire, author
Band |:| L'Arc~en~Ciel
Seiyuu |:| Seki Tomokazu
Image song |:| Plastic Tree, Suisou
Obsessions|:| Macross, Kaikan Phrase, Lord of the Rings, Gundam, Jrock, Gackt, guitar, and karaoke
Likes |:| Music, anime, HTML, fanfiction writing, corpse tea, and packages!
Dislikes |:| School, homework, wing staff meetings, flames, getting up early, comforsting!
Current mood |:|

Military Branch |:| Air Force ROTC
Detachment |:| 825
Flight |:| Marauder (POP Spring 2001)
Rank |:| C/Lt Col
Position |:| Support Group Commander
Aspiration |:| Aircraft Maintenance
POW |:| Maj. James Hale Tucker, USAF
Summer |:| FT 2002 Tyndall III CTA

« ? otaku blogs # »

Quote
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
--Flannery O'Connor

Various Obsessive Lists
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Japanese Music Video List
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Websites
Aoiryuu.com | AsrunDream.net | Battalion HQ: the 08 MS Team | ChaoticEmpire.org | Crimson Legend | Dark Lords of the Sith | The Four Gods Sky and Earth | Landover | MidnightRevolution.org | Seraphitus | Something Eternal | Sainan no Kekka | Shiroi Heya | Totsugeki Love Heart!

Destinations
Air Force Link | Babylon Project | Cyberfret.com | DayDreamer | Elfwood | Empty Movement | Fiction Alley | Kamikaze Voices | Macross Compendium | Mitsukake.com | Planetcolu.com | Sachi's Distribution | Somewhere Down the Crazy River | Technomancy | TheForce.net | TheOneRing.net | Ueno Park | WeissKreuz.net | Winter Iris

Weblogs
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Anime
1. Macross 7
2. Serial Experiments Lain
3. Shoujo Kakumei Utena
4. Tenkuu no Escaflowne
5. Gundam X

JRock Songs
1. Glay, However
2. B'z, Gold
3. L'Arc~en~Ciel, Butterfly's Sleep
4. Gackt, EMU ~for my dear~
5. Hide, Pink Spider

JRock Promotional Videos (PVs)
1. L'Arc~en~Ciel, Dive to Blue
2. Luna Sea, Tonight
3. X Japan, Endless Rain
4. Glay, However
5. L'Arc~en~Ciel, Driver's High

Anime Songs
1. Macross Plus, A Sai En
2. Tenkuu no Escaflowne, Yakusoku wa Iranai
3. Macross Plus, Pulse
4. Macross 7, Galaxy
5. Gundam 08 MS Team, Mirai no Futari ni

Anime Openings
1. Macross 7, Dynamite Explosion
2. Final Fantasy VIII, Liberi Fatali
3. Kaikan Phrase, Datenshi Blue
4. Tenkuu no Escaflowne, Yakusoku wa Iranai
5. Serial Experiments Lain, Duvet

Movies
1. Star Wars
2. Gettysburg
3. The Emperor and the Assassin
4. Ben-Hur
5. The Fellowship of the Ring

Books
1. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
2. Margaret Weis, Star of the Guardians
3. C.S. Friedman, The Coldfire Trilogy
4. Stephen Lawhead, Song of Albion Trilogy
5. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Games
1. X-Wing
2. Warcraft II
3. Command & Conquer (all)
4. War in Middle Earth
5. Final Fantasy VIII

IMAGE SONG LYRICS!

The beautifully disturbing lyrics to this song struck me and I had to put it up. Perhaps the "sea" is the darkness within all of us. Lyrics and translation from monophobia.

SUISOU
Burial at Sea
[Plastic Tree]

kumo no ito hari-tsuketeru
nakigao no pierrot ga mata
yoru ga koku naridashitara
bed no shita hai-dete kuru

spider webs entangled
the sad-faced clown will again
as the night grows deeper
emerge from under my bed

yane-ura ni toji-kometeru
ano kodomo wa kitto boku de
sakasama ni burasagatte
nejireta mama chuuzuri nanda

shut up in the attic
that child is surely me
inverted hanging
twisted suspended

okashikute hakisou nanda
me no oku ga chikachika suru
iya na oto atama no ue
aikawarazu mada chuuzuri da

it's bizarre and I feel sick
the insides of my eyes are flashing
a hideous noise above my head
yet still, as always, suspended

boku wa tada nagameta
tsuki-akari de dare ga mawaru
kage ni natte
kao ga yoku mienai
(mienai kedo kitto....)

I merely gazed out
Someone spins in the moonlight
concealed in shadow
their face cannot be seen
(cannot be seen, yet surely...)

nemurinagara kioku no boku
umi no soko ni shizundeku yo
nemurinagara kioku no boku
umi no soko ni shizundeku yo
yura-yura boku fukaku kurai
umi no soko ni shizunde iku yo

as I sleep the self of my memories
sinks down to the bottom of the sea
as I sleep the self of my memories
sinks down to the bottom of the sea
wavering down to the deep, dark
bottom of the sea, I sink

tsuki-akari no shita
dare ga mawaru no?
tsuki-akari no shita...?

beneath the moonlight,
who is it that spins?
beneath the moonlight.........?


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