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Sunday, April 28, 2002 I just read the most amazing thing. And it was amazing not least of all because it was the kind of story that I swear up and down I'll never touch. I found myself laughing out of sheer joy for some of the lines, and it made me hurt inside and it's not finished, and I hope against hope that it will go on forever (or at least a hundred pages more) and now I want to write so badly, I'm going to have to open the WP and just type till I can't find anything else to say.
And no, you're not getting an explanation. ^_^ Sephie would kick me, and then fire me on grounds of questionable sanity. (Or is that already a moot point?)
ED fed the sakura at 03:37 a.m._______________________________________________ Monday, April 22, 2002Ghost Dog rocked. It was one of those movies that takes its time, doesn't rush anything at all, where every single bit is important and when it's over you have to sit there for a few minutes while the credits roll and just absorb it the rest of the way. I like those a lot; they make your brain slow down and concentrate, and by the time it's over you realize you're more relaxed than before.
And Ai sent me artsy goodness! ^_^* Something I've sorely missed for the last three years. What would we all do without our scanners?!?
update:
I nearly forgot... I was so traumatized and then distracted. ^^; I haven't watched the X-Files at ALL this season, first becuase I missed everything while I was in Nara, then because I just wasn't interested anymore. I happened to catch most of one episode that I liked, the one with the doctor who was killing his patients, but that was it until last night. I was all set to change the channel until I saw the Lone Gunmen in the beginning, upon which I tossed the remote across the room and happily settled in to give the TV my undivided attention. ...So of course it would be just my luck that they DIED. That's what I get for watching nine years of this show-- kill off Skinner and I won't have anyone left to cheer for! But really. It was horrid. It was a fantastic episode, bringing back everyone from the failed TV show (which I adored), but when the very end came I honestly didn't believe they'd really killed them off. Not until I saw those coffins. I have never cried over anything on television before... I really couldn't believe it. I sobbed. It was rough, though! When I think about it, I've watched this show pretty much non-stop since I was twelve. I remember sitting in Crystal's den on Friday nights, watching TV in the dark; coming home from play practice and sitting down to an evening of XF/Sliders; then my Sunday night seclusion in the basement with Lois & Clark/XF... the only two hours of TV I absolutely refused to ever miss. Then, finally, just X-Files again. And all the way through, the Lone Gunmen were the best part. *Sighs*
But once again, Skinner kicked ass and came through in the coolest way possible. Scully too-- hah! I always did love how she interacted with them. Mulder... *grumble* Silly Duchovny, couldn't even have Mulder showing up for the funeral... hmph. Anyway. Long live Skinner! Literally.
ED fed the sakura at 02:33 a.m._______________________________________________ Sunday, April 21, 2002Nothing terribly snazzy this time around... unless you count the fact that two of my butterfly icons were accepted into the All-Student Show! *dances* Go me, go me... Finally, something to put on my resume.
I was in Borders yesterday, wandering from shelf to shelf, and I wound up in front of the New shelf in the sci-fi section. Usually that's where I head first, but in the last year and a half I've been more in the contemporary fiction shelves. I'm just not interested in most of the sci-fi and fantasy scene lately-- Lackey's taken a nosedive, I've caught up with most other authors that I like, and so unless it's a Terry Brooks or another Wizard in Rhyme installment I don't really go out of my way to look anymore. Discworld novels are going to keep me busy for a good while, at any rate... I don't have as much time to read as I used to, and there are so many of the little buggers! Then there's Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami, the new Sophie Kinsella novel, Gail Tsukiyama, and all that Tolkien to catch up on. I was drooling like a fiend when I saw Houghton Mifflin'd re-published The Lays of Beleriand and all the rest of the History of Middle-Earth volumes. Last place I saw those was the county library, and I was in fifth grade at the time. *Rubs hands together eagerly* I have all summer to catch up, too... excellent.
And I must remember to grab a couple of ElfQuest paperbacks. I've fallen rather out of the loop and behind on the storyline, but I flipped through In All But Blood when I found it on the shelf, and I was instantly hooked all over again. After all the splintering of storylines and tribes, it was absolute heaven to see a volume that tied everything together again, if only emotionally. (And how could I resist a book so focused on Skywise?!) Besides which, a good half of it was Wendy Pini art. That's a must-have, folks. I can never get enough of her stuff. Now, if only she'd tackle a story about what became of Tyldak and Kahvi, and those who went to look for them...!
Anyway. I'm going to go watch Ghost Dog, since it's due back at the TLC tomorrow. I rented Tampopo too, but didn't get around to watching it. Some other time, I suppose.
ED fed the sakura at 11:12 p.m._______________________________________________ Friday, April 19, 2002AAAAAAARRRRGH.
What a week. Flash is DONE, finally, and it doesn't even suck horribly, which made me less inclined to go stick my head in a toilet... but plenty of other happenings have conspired to make toilet-dunking look miiiiiighty appealing right about now. >_< Grrgh.
Oh, and wonder of wonders, I found this article on Photo.net during a random search. (Okay, so it wasn't random; I was doing a search for my own name to see if I showed up at all. Apparently Elizabeth City was good enough for the search engine.) It was loooong... but I am such a sucker for anything mentioning NC coastal action, I skimmed a load and then skimmed the comments. Good article, but the comments... yowza. It was nearly embarrassing... I felt like I was privy to a sudden regression to fourth grade-- these are (most likely?) serious photographers talking here, or at least people who just enjoy serious photography. And they're just volleying DamnYankee and Redneck insults like it's a 'yo' mama' contest (albeit with more complex grammar). Made me wonder just why I'm supposed to respect those who 'know more' than I do.
Get over yourselves, people. And try to visit more than one city before you label a whole region, perhaps? I mean, it's not Nashville's fault that your trip to Houston sucked, and so on and so forth.
*sigh* Anyway. Barbecue and down time to look forward to this weekend (BBQ! Ah, bliss), and perhaps some writing or drawing... crap. Scratch that, I have to shoot a roll of film by Tuesday.
Time for some Harry Potter... I'm going to bed before I can depress myself further.
ED fed the sakura at 02:12 a.m._______________________________________________ Monday, April 15, 2002Sephie: Just for you from RPGamer:
5) Since you must be privy to the most secret mysteries of the cosmos, do you know who Reno of the Turks likes? It isn't Yuffie... is it?
Googleshng:
Rude. Definitely Rude.
You know what's scary though? The very fact that I said that made at least 5 people suddenly start drawing disturbing doujinshi.
As if that wasn't enough crack for the evening... another friend sent me this link, which I had to watch twice before realizing that it was, in fact, a legitimate television commercial. Japanese ISP commercials are a genre in their own right, I have decided... *shakes head in bafflement*
ED fed the sakura at 10:01 p.m._______________________________________________ Monday, April 15, 2002now playing: Dreams Come True, The Monster (CD) *ED rocks out*
It is HOT outside. I LOVE IT!!! Hee... and warm weather means it's time to break out the L'Arc and the DCT, and even more Slayers music. Check out the new linkage, too! I finally re-discovered Renfield's site and had a field day downloading Slayers icons for my AIM. Go marvel at her Slayers fanart; it's hilarious! And tell her to write more episodes of The Xelloss Show, because it's hilarious too. *squeals* I have KOPII REZO ICONS! Renfield, you rock!
I found this while perusing the Technomancy blog this weekend, and laughed so hard I'm afraid I have internal injuries. I mean, a site called Monkeybagel? And if you've ever had ANY kind of a job, EVER, you will appreciate the humor, oh yes. I mean. There are no words. Go and read, and hopefully you'll still be conscious afterwards so you can share the joy.
And now I'm off to the studio again, yippee.
ED fed the sakura at 03:22 p.m._______________________________________________ Wednesday, April 10, 2002Sephie's World Domination Checklist:
Alternatively titled Reasons My Best Friend Kicks Ass:
1) Highly explosive firearms.
Check.
2) Evil Minions.
Check.
3) Reliable Evil Minions to do away with the evil minions who will ultimately try to turn against me (the fools).
Check.
4) Evil person of the opposite sex.
(Because ruling by yourself is boring and you always need someone trying to usurp you or life just isn't interesting.)
Send resumes to box #24601.
5) A brainless hero.
Shouldn't be too hard. They always seem to pop up.
*note to self: do not burn villages*
6) Assign generals in charge of the lesser minions.
*note* make sure the generals fall into category 2 as opposed to category 1 [see 'reliable minons' as opposed to 'minions']
7) Obtain college degree.
Everything requires a stupid degree these days. Almost there. No one said I had to be sane. In fact, I think that's looked down on in my line of work.
8) Buy the hero a puppy.
Mwa ha ha. No one can resist a puppy.
9) Eat the hero's puppy.
I hope it's an ugly puppy.
...Oi, Sephie, can I be a general?
ED fed the sakura at 11:59 p.m._______________________________________________ Tuesday, April 9, 2002My CDs arrived today!!! *dances* So guess what I'm listening to now... *great big smile* One's in the computer and the other's in the stereo. Currently 'marmalade' is making me very very happy. And 'December Love Song' is, of course, /gorgeous/. The instrumental version is almost prettier than the vocals... almost.
I am very very full right now... we went to The Olive Garden for Tim's birthday dinner, and it was a blast, and we all ate far too much. I was so sleepy I had to take a nap before registering for my classes online... but I got them all in one go! A miracle, I'm thinking. Anyway, I'm still horribly tired, so this is goodnight from me.
ED fed the sakura at 01:00 a.m._______________________________________________ Monday, April 8, 2002Wow. I know just how you feel.
Not much else to say about that, except maybe for the fact that I live in terror of someone cracking a joke like that in my company. >_< Just reading that entry made me wince.
I find it amazing that the Americans who blow huge amounts of money to actually /visit/ said countries STILL, by and large, don't bother to read up on what it is they're seeing. Or experiencing. Seems like a waste of a plane ticket, if you ask me. Seeing as how I'd give minor body parts to be able to go back... slightly upsetting, too. Dang tourists.
*lopsided grin* Before you come after my head, know that I have the bizarre love/hate attitude towards the creature called Tourist that only someone growing up in a tourist town can. But call me one, and you better start running in the other direction. ^_~ I'm a student.
ED fed the sakura at 06:49 a.m._______________________________________________ Saturday, April 6, 2002*Grins* It's been a Good Movie day. Dan and I saw Death to Smoochy this afternoon-- we intended to see Ice Age, but it's a long weird story-- and then tonight I remembered that The American President was showing on TNT. Happiness! That's one of my all-time favorite movies; I just finished watching it and I'm still all warm and fuzzy inside.
Death to Smoochy was /demented/. But of course if you've seen the previews, you could probably deduce that on your own... my favorite quote was: "I'm like a toaster at Macy's! 'Randolph's ass, Aisle Three!'" It was wonderful.
Now I'm watching random TV and alternately, idly, surfing the 'net. My latest interest seems to be the Technomancy blog; I came across this entry just now, and hopped from there to here... and now I'm doing a lot of thinking. The only point I find myself disagreeing with is the matter of fanboys being accepting of females /who know their stuff/-- but then, that's all subjective based on personal experience, and my experience seems to be skewed towards fanboys who just enjoy feeling superior in something. Even if it's anime or model-building, and they can't seem to quit trying to one-up me in the know-how department. *Sighs* I really, really hate sounding like a bitchy know-it-all, but why is it /that/ important that you prove to me just how cool you are, because you know all of Evangelion/Gundam/whatEVER by heart? And if we /are/ being nitpicky and quantitative, then I'll go ahead and say that I have seen quite enough of the English anime scene, and found most of it lacking to my tastes. Most of the things I've become interested in lately, the average mainstream fan (or non-Japanese literate fan) has not heard of or knows nothing about. And vice versa: I've never seen Akira, never seen Eva or Utena or Ghost In the Shell, and I am not a gameplayer. I watch other people play, and I occasionally get drawn into the stories involved, and I enjoy the concept art. This doesn't mean I know nothing about it; it just means I don't play. I'm more of a movie and manga girl; give me the comic over the TV show anyday, and the movie over the RPG. But don't /ever/ break into a little smug, knowing grin when you find out about the stuff I /haven't/ seen. I'll wipe the floor with you.
Yeah, I'm a girl. I build Gundam models. I read CLAMP and Rurouni Kenshin and Bakuretsu Hunter (well, with a dictionary or three and copious amounts of time), and I do /not/ love yaoi or shounen-ai in general, but I do love certain series. (I don't love the romance genre in general, period. It gives me cavities. I'm damned picky-- just not picky about the genders of the characters.) I am a huge Gackt fan, but I am also a huge Jimmy Buffett fan, and I do /not/ like just any Japanese popular music. And I'm so far gone from 'normal' that I don't even want to be a normal fangirl. I keep looking for things no one else has read, or no one else has seen; I'm /tired/ of wading through the morass of fandom at large. I just don't have the stomach or the patience for it. I'd much rather find something new and read it without having heard what /any/one else thinks, dangit. Mel once told me that I surprised her, because when she first met me she had no idea that I liked manga or anime or Japanese music at all. "You just don't look or act like a typical fangirl," was basically what she said. She meant it as a compliment, and I was flattered, because it meant that I had turned her expectations upside-down, and there is nothing I love more than throwing people for a loop. Stereotype me and you're generally in for a surprise. (Which means, really, that I do a lot of it on purpose... but it's not affected, it's just what I enjoy.) Most of my close friends are not interested in anime at all, and indeed don't even know what it is beyond the fact that it's Japanese. (Which means you guys are probably not even reading this right now, and if you are you're totally lost! *grins*) But Mel's right. You'd never know I was interested in most of this unless you asked me, or you happened to wander into my dorm room and notice my bookshelves. (I don't even have anime posters on my walls, except for the Slayers and Saiyuki posters at home.) Not because I'm trying to be 'normal', but because I just don't feel the need to broadcast my interests to the world at large-- and let's face it, I would far rather surprise someone the way I did Mel than have someone take one look at me or my possessions and mentally label me as 'one of those Japanimation fans'. It tends to make people revise their opinion of fangirls, you see. Stereotypes only exist because there /are/ people who fit them.
And this has gotten rather off-track... but in the end, I basically agree with what I linked up there. Being freakishly atypical doesn't make me superior to anyone and being normal doesn't either. But I would rather chew off my own toes than post a piece of fiction that was less than obssessively researched and constructed and characterized. It's called having pride in one's own work-- even if they're not your characters to begin with. And as for 'the gay'... well, I'll just say that for me, it doesn't exist one way or the other. But who gives? NONE OF IT IS REAL. The End.
ED fed the sakura at 10:37 p.m._______________________________________________ Saturday, April 6, 2002now playing: Yuki's Theme (scene 11), Gravitation soundtrack
Um. *SPOILERS FOR TRIGUN* Yes, ALL of it.
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Okay, you're on your own now... We plowed through the last few hours of episodes tonight, and I must say... the ending was not that difficult to swallow (the sequence during the ending credits made ALL the difference, though, that's for sure). What /did/ have me gaping at the television screen (and rather choked up, too) was the 'Paradise' episode. I mean. Wow. I've seen a substantial variety of anime and animated series, and killing off a character like Wolfwood was a ballsy move. (It sucked, of course, especially since I was just starting to really enjoy the way he and Milly interacted.) Same with Legato, although it was definitely easier to see /that/ one coming. And it was /cool/. Something about the distant perspective and the way his body just slumped and fell to one side, I think... I was very impressed.
And then there's the stuff that I still can't help but laugh at, even if I'm simultaneously wincing/whatever reaction one would expect. Like the scene wherein Vash shoots Knives in the thigh, for the first time-- traumatic, yes, but I couldn't help remarking that the whole mess came about because Knives was pissed that Vash put a hole in his leg.
Vash: You-- you killed all those people! That's BAD, Knives!
Knives: Yeah?! Well, you SHOT ME IN THE LEG!
*shrugs* The dialogue Diana and I had going during the actual episode was far more amusing, but copius amounts of ficcing and piping music into my brain has driven it from accurate memory. That's the gist of it, though. ;p
Oh, how CLAMP has ruined me... I can laugh at nearly anything Japan's entertainment industry throws at me, lately. Yikes. Seems to have made me more tolerant, too, because I really thought I'd be far more disappointed than I am at the ending. But the more I think about it, the more it just /fits/. I mean, it's VASH, fer krissakes. Like he'd kill his own brother. Pssshht. If he'd been about to kill Merryl and Milly, now, that would be another story, but with just the two of them there... yeah, right. XD Fantastic characterization throughout, too. Understated, but definitely there and very specific to each character. Oh, how I can't wait to get my hands on the comic! I really want nitty gritty details about the world this story happens in-- very intriguing and different, and it's not often now that I come across a sci-fi setting that interests me this much.
And the music really is incredibly cool. Not the kind of stuff you'd listen to while you relax, really... but damned fun and full of surprises. And I need to go now, because the piano version of 'For Real' is playing now and it's turning my bones to mush.
LOVE AND PEACE! ^_^V
ED fed the sakura at 05:08 a.m._______________________________________________ Thursday, April 4, 2002
Take the "What Kind of Southerner Are You?" Test!
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Well. Not much to say about THAT... XD
ED fed the sakura at 04:00 p.m._______________________________________________ Thursday, April 4, 2002Art History test is over. I killed the beast. (Or, at least I think I maimed it pretty badly.) And Photography has been cancelled for today! WOOT. So I am here in the SuperLab killing a few minutes before I go to McIver to watch Kikujiro no Natsu with the rest of the JNS class. Happiness! I might have to sneak out early to go to Design class... but oh well. Nice day, really. As long as I don't think about all the things I have to do this weekend... >_<
For some reason, my image won't load on this computer. Hmm. I hope it's not Yahoo! screwing up... Anyway. *Spins* Off to laugh at Beat Takeshi!
ED fed the sakura at 01:33 p.m._______________________________________________ Thursday, April 4, 2002Bunny, you ROCK.
I can't believe you remembered to look for the X calendar! And how the heck did you find it in APRIL?! Wow, wow, wow.... *spaces out from sheer joy* And TRIGUN manga... I need to pinch myself.
This is officially a Good Day. *spins* And my CDs should be here soon, too!
ED fed the sakura at 12:04 a.m._______________________________________________ Wednesday, April 3, 2002I MISS NAMBA.
Or rather, I miss clubbing. I am so deprived, apparently, that I have resorted to dancing in my chair. Wow. Kinda sucks when I think about it, that there's less floor space here than I had last fall, so I can't even groove on my feet to my stereo. Weeeiiird. But. I'm making do. ^_^V I'll have lots of lost dance-time to make up for in Manchester, wheee!
Excuse me, Daft Punk is playing. Must go now. :) ...And yes, study for Art History. AAARRRGH.
ED fed the sakura at 09:57 p.m._______________________________________________ Wednesday, April 3, 2002After spending the better part of this evening watching Trigun (and reading for Religion too, sheesh), Diana and I have reached a simple conclusion:
We must OWN THE MANGA.
I mean. Wow. I won't say anything spoileriffic just yet (I'll save that lovely rant for when I've seen the whole thing), but I will say this: I'm amazed that there's so much Trigun yaoi and shounen-ai out there, and so little (that I've found) of, well, the alternative. *Grins* It's not every day I come across a series where I find myself rooting for the implied male/female pairings AND seeing loads of actual evidence to support them, more than just 'here's a romantically ambiguous scene for the fans!'. Rurouni Kenshin is the only other example that springs immediately to mind. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they're both shounen comics.... Whatever. Wolfwood is The Man. End of story.
Maybe this means I'll feel compelled to write something.... Or maybe it just means I'm gonna bug N for more napkin-art. ^_^ Yeehaw.
Other than that, though, it's been one hell of a discouraging day around here. Computer Design can be rather frustrating when your professor seems more interested in playing on the internet than in helping you fix a mistake in your Flash file, and then just accuses you of not listening during the first tutorial. Wow, gee golly whiz, I didn't know we were supposed to get this shit letter-perfect after only seeing it done ONCE on a projector screen. 'Scuse me for being less than a robot. And you can show us Flash-intensive webpages till the cows come home, but that sure as hell isn't gonna tell us how to do it ourselves. I can surf the net on my own time, I'd rather be /learning/ in class, thankyouverymuch.
Anyway. 'M tired. And in a bit of a mood, apparently. Eergh. Maybe I oughta go through some of that CCS manga before I fall asleep....
ED fed the sakura at 03:12 a.m._______________________________________________ Tuesday, April 2, 2002I was only kidding about going to bed, apparently... I just discovered a new chunk of Nsanity at The Japanese Flannel. *Howls* There are no words.
Now, for bed. Really.
ED fed the sakura at 03:02 a.m._______________________________________________ Tuesday, April 2, 2002Yeah, it's late, and I'm back at school... Easter was lovely, being home was lovely... and the weather today was lovely too! I just wish it would stay that way.
I discovered Kani to Kuma through Diana's blog; she got the cutest little icon and now I'm trying to figure out how to grab one too. The art is utterly adorable and whimsical; it reminds me of books full of children's poems. Go and marvel at the wonder that is Neko-pan! (Catbread.)
In other news, the new Dears website was launched today. Flash 6-intensive, so I finally had to go download the sucker, but it was worth it (of course). If you've got Windows Media Player, there are tons of commercial clips and music video snippets to see (and if you've got a Mac, there's a link to download it for the OS... now I have WMP in Japanese), and there's loads of other stuff besides. The CM for December Love Song was my personal favorite... or maybe it was the CM for Another World (and boy did that make me feel like I was back in Japan, glued to the TV on a Saturday night). :) Happiness.
ED fed the sakura at 02:37 a.m._______________________________________________ Thursday, March 28, 2002Ahhh... home sweet home. I'm getting ready to crawl into bed and read some more of The Two Towers-- or maybe Goblet of Fire, since I brought it home in my laundry bag. It weighed more than the laundry....
It still surprises me, occasionally, that Tiff really does like Japanese rock for most of the same reasons I do (haphazard language skills aside). It's wonderful, though-- nice to be able to listen to anything from Amuro Namie to Kotani Kinya in the car simply because it's nice background noise. It sure beats the hell out of Triad radio stations! We went from Hedwig and the Angry Inch to TM Revolution to Monty Python. Talk about diverse. ;p
I finished my Design project last night (er, this morning) against all odds, and even managed to print it out before class started. And lo! PEOPLE LIKED IT! I was seriously shocked; /I/ wasn't even sure I liked it, until I listened to what they had to say about it, and their suggestions for augmenting it in Flash. Now I'm even considering /doing/ just that, rather than using a different composition like I had planned. It certainly made my day a lot brighter.
Now, off to my own bed in my own lovely, spacious wooden-floored room, where the moon shines in the window. ^_^
ED fed the sakura at 11:41 p.m._______________________________________________ Wednesday, March 27, 2002Um... SPOILERS FOR X (television series) ...I guess? I'm warning you, even though at this point I just can't take it seriously anymore. ::grins::
I just stumbled across this blog, and promptly erupted into wheezing giggles upon seeing the owner's description of the current state of the X show:
Things that are currently MIA:
* the plot
* the rubber fun ball called Segawa Keiichi (aka Exclamation Point Boy)
* the Clamp Campus Detectives
* the gay
* Fuuma's character (even Kusanagi has more depth than this guy)
* CLAMP
...*still snickering* And if the person who wrote this wants me to get rid of it, just whap me upside the head with an email, no problem. ^_^;
ED fed the sakura at 12:08 a.m._______________________________________________ Tuesday, March 26, 2002Fact for the day: I am an ass.
Either that or I /really/ can't count. Probably both. I've been staring at news and release dates at Dears all week, and everywhere I've seen '4/24', my brain has been translating it to 'MARCH 24th'. (This would probably be why YesAsia doesn't have the single yet...) Yes, I think it's safe to feel stupid now.
So. Gackt's new single, 'Wasurenai Kara', will be released on APRIL 24th. His new album, the title of which I did not bother to translate, is coming out April 1st. And his new VIDEO, 'Soyokaze', is already out, and has 'Another World' and 'December Love Song' on it. *curses* I'm gonna have a hard time deciding what to order....
Anyway, enough of my ditzy fangirlishness. I'm off to twiddle with my Design projects some more, and possibly upload more files to Photo.net, since the three I put up last night were apparently well-recieved.
And I get to go HOME for Easter! *dances* Hallelujah indeed.
ED fed the sakura at 09:05 p.m._______________________________________________ Monday, March 25, 2002now playing: Myuji, 'eX Dream'
Today was so lovely outside... it was hot enough to wear a tank top and a skirt, and everyone sat out on the lawns to do their classwork, and Keith and I played hooky from the first bit of Color Theory to stand on the steps and blow bubbles at everyone who walked by. I even got some fun-drawing in today, and did some reading of my own. It was definitely a day for Slayers soundtracks-- I've got TRY VOX in my stereo and Best of TV and Radio in the CD-ROM. When stuff starts blooming, out comes the Slayers music! My perpetual spring break-to-end-of-term soundtrack, that.
Now it's dark outside, but still warm, and it smells like daffodils and cut grass (because some genius decided that they should start the mowers at EIGHT AM underneath our windows...why can't they ever do the parks first?) and the AC is FINALLY ON!!!! VICTORY! ::basks in the freezing air:: And I have to do laundry.
And last night I read summaries of the latest X TV episodes, and laughed until I felt sick. I'm laughing just thinking about it. By the time they get around to finishing the ACTUAL COMIC, there'll probably be like five other endings for the story. AND THEY'LL ALL SUCK. *toddles off with dirty laundry, still sniggering*
ED fed the sakura at 09:14 p.m._______________________________________________ Monday, March 25, 2002After watching the Academy Awards in their entirety (and, of course, cheering for LoTR almost every chance I got), I hopped online to see if Wasurenai Kara was up at YesAsia.com (which it wasn't), and then apparently decided that I needed more. More Gackt, that is.
So. I mess around on the Dears page for a bit, and what do I find? Not only is a new ALBUM coming out next month, but there's another concert tour in the works. (This boy needs a vacation. I think You ought to just knock him unconscious and ship him off to Hawaii or something.) Gackt will be live in Osaka in June. And in Sapporo on my birthday. If I weren't such a cowardly indecisive goody-goody, I'd still be in Nara right now, and doing my damndest to find out if I could get tickets. XD (Among a million other things, of course.)
At this point I have come to the conclusion that somewhere along the line I must have inhaled just the wrong chemicals in the etching studio...or the photo lab, one. Wow. Don't be like me, boys and girls. Moderation is a GOOD thing. ^_^; Oh well; back to the reality that is my Religion reading and Pixelpalooza.
ED fed the sakura at 01:42 a.m._______________________________________________ Sunday, March 24, 2002now playing: Ken Hirai, 'Gaining Through Losing'
Finally. I get to write a real entry! ::sighs happily:: I'm still messing with the details, but the basic stuff is all in place... I was listening to Simon and Garfunkel when I made the image, can you tell? ^^ The actual lyrics didn't work so well, though, and I finally ended up inserting a poem of mine that I wrote one night after reading way too much X in one go. I'm unreasonably proud of the whole thing right now, seeing as it's the first composition I've done outside of class in Photoshop, solely for my own entertainment. I scanned the art myself (without even breaking the spine of vol. 16, whee) and spent three hours merrily screwing around while 'The Boxer' blasted from my speakers.
Things have been weird around here lately... but nice. Not like I'm any closer to actually catching up on my classwork, but at this point I've got a good idea of what I can and can't get away with and I've given up worrying about it. So the stress and the sourceless apathy are gone, and I'm writing AF again, which always helps keep me focused for some reason. Now I just have to get off my ass and finish all the stuff I need to mail to Japan... *sweats*
The folks at Technomancy Productions never cease to amaze me... but then, I'm still not done devouring their site. If I did it all in one go, I'd disappear for a week and then I'd be in REAL trouble. ;p Finally, this weekend, I decided to check out the Final Fantasy section... and five hours later I've reached the end of 'Conscience of the King' and my brain is absolutely whirling. Not to mention that all the way through the fic, Elise was griping into my ear "Now, why couldn't YOU have done that /three freaking years ago/?!?"
...Well, duh. I'm lazy. Not to mention horribly disorganized when it comes to the creative process. This is why I'm still revising a songfic that's over three years old, guys. I just can't stop working backwards!
Anyway. Spring break for me came and went (disgustingly fast, too, and not in a productive way), spent almost entirely at work or in bed asleep. I took so much stuff home and didn't have the time or energy to touch /any/ of it! But I did get a nice paycheck, so some people will actually get birthday presents from me and *I* will reward myself with the new Gackt single that was released today. ^_^
ED fed the sakura at 06:07 p.m._______________________________________________ Sunday, March 24, 2002BOOYAH!!!
ED fed the sakura at 05:54 p.m._______________________________________________
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