//v41. LIFE// Chang Wufei and Chang Meilan
//Gundam Wing//
There are until the release of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones!
There are until the object of my obsession is MINE!
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
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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
I Have List
Japanese mp3 List
Japanese Music Video List
Temple
Top 100 Favorite Characters
Wish List
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
Exar Kun |
HP and the Midnight Revolution |
Jen |
Laurelgand |
Lyra Stormrider |
Kevin Marks |
Mearl Dox |
Moonsong |
Nathan Liang |
NightMajik |
Quicksilver |
Saishi |
Sainan no Kekka |
Shi |
Team Twee |
Technomancy |
Tin Mandigma
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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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 41: Chang Wufei and Chang Meilan from Gundam Wing. Background landscape is of the Yellow Mountains (Huang Shan) in China. Background character writing from the "Lan Ting Prologue" by Wang Xi Zhi, probably the most famous piece in Chinese calligraphy history. Lyrics from Siam Shade's Life. The Chinese characters in the red and yellow bars are Chinese translations of parts of the original Japanese lyrics.
in the sun close your eyes
gaze toward eternity in your dream
the sky is falling down...
[ pata pan ]
[ doyoubi 04.13.02 | siam shade, dreamless world ]
I'm in RAS painting but realized I forgot to put up the reference to the quote from yesterday. XD
Xja Pan
*snicker*
1610 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
[ Xja Pan ]
[ doyoubi 04.13.02 | e.MU, love around ]
More on this later. Just wanted to say that at 2 AM, there's nothing quite like hearing:
"TinkerDIE! Feed Teru to the alligator!"
XD XD XD
0320 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
[ bass solo! ]
[ kinyoubi 04.12.02 | kuroyume, for dear ]
NEESAN! Get Kuroyume's For Dear! I hadn't really listened to this after I got it, but I just realized that there's no guitar solo in here...there's a bass solo instead! It's not bad...not as good as Toshiya's in Cage but pretty cool nonetheless. XD XD XD
I'm not going to be around this weekend. Painting in RAS.
2037 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
[ cool picture! ]
[ kinyoubi 04.12.02 | x japan, endless rain (live) ]
[correction on yesterday's post. Found hide in the picture. XD]
HERE. Going through another X Japan phase and was looking for pictures when I came across this one. It's so...happy! They look like they're having...fun! While sitting around doing nothing! *dies*
From left to right, Pata, Yoshiki, Heath, Toshi. Where's hide, you might ask? Look at what they're all laughing at (Yoshiki's looking down at him...) ^_^;;
Also!
If I lived in Middle-Earth, it would be in: Gondor, The White City You enjoy the entropy and feeling of a city that never sleeps. The need to have fun and mingle with others is a necessity to you, as well as feeling the spirit of the urban life rushing around you. There is nothing in nature that excites you as much as technology, over-population, and the sight of skyscrapers at dizzying heights. |
*nods* yup, very true. I love crowds, large cities, loud music, you name it. Which is really odd if you think about it, because I am also the world's most introverted person. Hmmm...
Teru is trying to sing again. *hides*
I need a new layout. -_-
0028 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
[ Hideki... ]
[ suiyoubi 04.10.02 | macross 7, remember 16 ]
Gerald: oh apparently
Gerald: hideki's gone solo
Gerald: he has his own page and everything now
Moonsong: ............................................................................................................................. ..............................................................................
Gerald: *hides*
Moonsong: hideki....... i hope you don't actually try to sing without loud guitars backing you up...
Gerald: and he changed his name
Moonsong: ... to what? HIDEKI?
Gerald: *DIES*
(in case you don't get it, the reference is to Lareine's ex-drummer machi, who changed his name. To MACHI. -_-)
2044 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
[ *dies laughing* ]
[ suiyoubi 04.10.02 | oblivion dust, crawl ]
GENKI CHILDREN ON TRAINS!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU LAUREL!!!! XD XD XD XD
1451 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
[ flower.... ]
[ getsuyoubi 04.08.02 | l'arc~en~ciel, flower ]
I'm lousy at lyrics and putting them to music and vice versa, so I thought I'd try an experiment. I had Flower running around in my head for a little while so I decided to see if I could put some English lyrics to the melody. This is by no means a translation of any sort, but I wanted to preserve the original nuances of the meaning while writing some English lyrics that Hyde wouldn't be ashamed to sing.
Anyway, here is it is, just the first verse and chorus. ^^;;
cold, the sun sunk in the sky
warning, promising more snow tonight
I shiver as I wait for dawn
breathe, the damp comes creeping through
the walls of my own solitude
I know I cannot stay here
but because the snow has covered me
I lie here broken
more snow is falling
but still I hear the spring come softly
the wild horns of the west wind
have not yet stopped calling
how do I know if this life
will somehow take root in me
all that I know is that ceaselessly
this world keeps on turning
so I wait and so I sleep and so I sleep
lost in these dreams of color
and if I wake maybe the season
of hope will return to me
I originally had "you" instead of "dawn" in the last line of the first stanza, but I figured since I'd already cut out all the other references to "you" from the original (yes, the Japanese lyrics have lots of "you"..."kyou mo aenai kara...itsudemo kimi no egao ni yurete," etc) I decided to change it. I might put it back in, who knows. ^^;
Speaking of translations, I translated Takui's Calling You last night. 'Tis here. I think I am now the official Takui translator, since there doesn't seem to be one on the internet. Oh joy. XD
The end.
1501 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
[ ............. ]
[ suiyoubi 04.03.02 ]
SHIT.
This sucks...
1746 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
[ blah ]
[ kayoubi 04.02.02 ]
I miss Laruku.
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Dammit.
2303 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
[ roentgen ]
[ getsuyoubi 04.01.02 | l'arc~en~ciel, still i'm with you ]
Reviewed Roentgen on Shiroi Heya if anyone's interested. I must say in the history of all boring albums, this one really takes the cake. I love Laruku and I love Hyde, but, I mean, come on. Really. -_- After reviewing it, it made me so sleepy that I had to go take a nap.
I'm not joking. ><
It's not a terrible album...I mean, there are no pieces of crap songs like you might find on *real* bad albums, but it's just...well...boring. I don't think Hyde hits anything above a middle E, and that's just rather sad, considering his incredible range back in the days of Heavenly and True. Hell, even Stay Away has higher notes. I mean, it's STAY AWAY for heaven's sake...*rants*
Oh well.
Other than that, it was a boring weekend. *rereads* Oh. I guess all in all, it was a VERY boring weekend. XD
0244 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
[ sleepy ]
[ nichiyoubi 03.31.02 | siam shade, life ]
Yay a blog layout that's not black. *cheers weakly*
Uh...that's about all I have to say. XD Other than the fact that I am really sleepy but really don't want to go to bed. And that I've been listening to Life on repeat for the last four hours. And that I'm still sick. And ALSO that the Chinese above may not be entirely grammatically correct, because I'm illiterate and I speak Cantonese. ^_^ So there.
Blat.
Oh, Happy Easter everyone! ^_^
0001 hours ni sora ga ochite iru...
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