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I dunno how you found this, but alas, here you are. So enjoy the frightening fruits of my troubled little brain.
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wSaturday, October 30, 2004 |
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feeling: not too bad
listening to: Miyavi - Rock no Gyakushuu -Superstar no Jouken- (don't ask me what that means 9.9)
I got Oresama. Miyavi's movie. And... my GOD. As if I needed any more reasons to be obsessed with him. >.> <.< On its own it's probably not really that great a movie... it's short, the plot is VERY simple, and there are only 4 (maybe even 3) characters with significant roles. But for someone with any interest in Miyavi at all, it is a must see. Especially for those who are fans of his insanely dorky nature. It seriously never ends in Oresama. I laughed like a hyena throughout the entire thing. Even when he's just walking down the street or buying things from roadside shops (or whatever those are called in Japan), he's doing it in pure dork style. Dork.
But that's not all! :O Because he's Miyavi, he has a few random guitar solos tossed in there too. And you know what? That boy plays some SERIOUS guitar. *floored* It doesn't really stand out in his usual recordings, since there's a lot of other instrumentation and rhythms going on, but his solos in the movie blew me away. Even if they were pointless self-insertions. :P
Sooo yeah. Becky's obsession with Miyavi is officially a done deal.
In other random news... I've started a new Final Fantasy VII game. >_>;; My goal with this one is to get Barret as my Gold Saucer date. Like, apparently the actions you take and dialog lines you select (in certain situations) throughout the first half or so of the game affect whether you get Aeris (the default), Tifa, Yuffie, or Barret as your date. Barret is of course the hardest one to get, since he's a guy and all. And I think I already screwed up and made one or two wrong choices in the first couple hours of the game. >n< Oh well. As long as I don't get Aeris... and I'm being as mean as possible to her in hopes of avoiding that... :P
But yeah... so I'm all into FF7 again now, I guess. I aaaaaallmost broke out the soundtrack again today. I was obsessed with that thing about 4 years ago, when I got it from eBay for, like, 20% of its retail value. More or less. It's been a while, I forget. And I was also re-clobbered by an old urge I once had to draw Jemnezmy, Pollensalta, and Snow, the three humanoid female monster thingies that appear at various points throughout the game. I was always fascinated by them. Strategy guide doesn't have good pics though, so I need to either find some online or wait till I get to their parts in the game. Moof.
And Calla has gotten me into my first Korean band. They're called The TRAX, and we've agreed that they sound a LOT like Linkin Park. They're pretty too, dangit. I gotta find out if there are any romanized lyrics out there, so I can sing along with them and such. >.> Need more of their songs... ooooooooo... *sees a shiny and follows it...*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/30/2004 10:03:00 PM
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wTuesday, October 26, 2004 |
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feeling: my eyes are dry and burny
listening to: Miyavi - Girls, Be Ambitious
Thanks for voting, all 3 of you. :3 So I got one vote for Point, one for ...yeeeeeeah, one for Pickity, and one for Straws. That's not counting the second place votes, which I considered too. :P So I set out making some prototypes, and now four of the ten original pictures (actually eleven, cause one had two images in it) are in tentative icon form. Still trying to figure out how to icon-ize Pickity. It doesn't give me much to work with. x_x
But that project is sort of in a waiting stage again. So in the meantime, here are some very random pics that came with the month-old roll I finally got developed today.
First we have Misty, the feline who has made it her mission to follow me EVERYwhere and live in my room all day and sit directly behind my computer chair meowing her head off at me every evening when napping in my junk piles gets boring. She looks black on my screen... *pokes* but she's actually grey... Anyway, on this particular day my tiger Ares became her new pillow. Oh, and that pile is only a tiny fraction of my plushie collection... my favorites sleep on my bed, my beanie types sit on their own set of shelves (you can see one of them in the picture, that fuzzy blue thing in the upper left), and there's a whole wall of shelf unit in another room for the bulk of them. And a few other random ones just kinda float around in the room. I love plushies. :3 And hee, look... my Snoopy slippers got in there too... but not my tiger ones. Awww.
The view from my bedroom window, taken maybe a week and a half ago. This isn't exactly the full panorama... I had to cut out my view of the field and forested hill on the other side of the road. You can see part of it though... notice it's still about 98% green. >.o I took another picture of just that side about a week later when it was finally in color, but it didn't turn out. T_T Anyway, I like this pic.
Here we have the walking stick that bonded with my sock. I rescued the little guy from the grabby roughhandling hands of my nephew, and he had a jolly ol' time crawling all over me. And every time I let it explore my knee for a change, it would march right down to my foot and just sit there. O_o Oh, and fear my pajama/loungey pants. :D
Here's the Dodge Ram that we took a 12-hour road trip to buy and bring home. And the miniature human standing on it is, of course, my nephew. No, he's not walking around on that piece of equipment five feet in the air unsupervised - my mom was with him, but she bolted out of the shot as soon as she saw me on the hill with the camera. Wuss.
That's all I got for now. The pics from the BLOOD gathering will be posted by the spiffy Calla eventually, so maybe I'll link them or something.
And mom got some Rubbermaid bins for me today. Filled up one small one and half of a large one... and I have to wonder if the remaining two smalls and one and a half larges are gonna be enough.
And for some reason I'm tired. So early sleep it is.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/26/2004 01:03:00 AM
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wSaturday, October 23, 2004 |
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feeling: wooby (there is no other description :P)
listening to: Miyavi - Ossan Ossan Ore Nanbo (I don't know what nanbo means...)
I'm conducting a poll. :P
Of the following, which image BEST captures the ideal of dorkdom? In other words, which one of these pictures is most effective at making you think, "He has truly embraced the inner dork.", or just "What a dork."? Keep in mind that the winner will have to be cropped to 100x100 and include some text. And all votes will be considered, but may not necessarily end up being used in the final product. Cause I'm special that way. >.>
They're all Miyavi, by the way. Uhi.
(edit: fixed the stupid links... so they all actually work now! woo! >_>)
Closeup
Hats
Freaky straws
Point
Top or bottom?
Oi. Kimi.
...yeah
...yeeeeeeah
Pickity
Haro~?
Galyuu cover
Need to start working on this thing... it would look cool with some sort of blinkie font, but... oh well. I don't think you can use animated icons on MSN anyway.
Oh, and don't blame me if the continuation of BLOOD's little vampire story, which will start appearing soon on flyers and the like, sucks. It's all Fu-ki's fault. >_> <_< I finally got tired of pacing around my room for hours on end reciting the translation to myself to see if it flowed, not to mention reading it silently over and over and over to see if it just plain made sense. Whyyyyy did he not make it a poem like the first one?? *flail*
So... going to see Team America tonight. Weeee! Theater food! Baibai, remaining contents of my wallet :P *STILL needs to send that stinkin' money order purchased weeks ago*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/23/2004 02:30:00 PM
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wThursday, October 21, 2004 |
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feeling: ?
listening to: Toshinobu Kubota - La La La Love Song
O_o Ok, apparently Kiwamu updated the fanart section unannounced, and my pic is up. I'm going to assume that means he showed it to Kaede as I requested, even though he didn't say anything to that point. >.> And I want whatever program he uses to resize fanart, cause it was far nicer to the detail than I expected. O_o But I promised the full version, so here it is. And check it out on the OHP too if you want... he kinda made it stand out again. >.>;
Someone else sent a birthday fanart that amuses me (in the BLOOD section)... it has all the members, including the two guests (go Anika!)... and they made Fu-ki blond. Like, yellow blond. I didn't recognize him at first. :P He did apparently go blond a while back, but still. Nanka urayamashii na~ I had been thinking about doing a fanart with the guest members included... now I can't be the first :P But I was still the only one to leave messages for both of them on their birthdays, so... nyar. :3 *bets they didn't see them but doesn't care*
Ahem... BLOOD aside... so apparently both my grandpa and my aunt had surgery yesterday, and I had no idea. Well, mom mentioned grandpa's in passing the day before, but I still don't know what it was for. My aunt's was for a kidney stone... I think... or maybe not surgery but the passing of said stone, cause when mom was talking to her dad on the phone about it something about "pain worse than childbirth" came up... on second thought, I'm not sure I want to know anymore. Anyway, they're both fine now, so yeah.
The more I think about it, the more I wish I'd gone back to OSU last month for another year of Japanese. I'm getting way out of practice and I barely scratched the surface of the langauge in 3 years. *sigh* And I'm jealous of everyone who got to study in Japan too. People I know who are still at OSU are in Japan right now, and half of my class from last year went to Kobe for spring quarter... I didn't go because I was graduating and thought that would've interfered somehow, but then after it was too late, I was informed that everyone would be back stateside well before OSU's graduation. So I could've gone. >_< Would've missed Fanime though... hmmmm, a quarter in Japan or a weekend at Fanime... that's a tougher choice than it should be. :p
Currently downloading a torrent that contains ALL of Miyavi's PVs (music videos, for the J-music impaired), including the two new ones that just came out this month. *dance* Also downloaded one a few weeks ago that contains all of Gackt's PVs. And I need to figure out for certain if the songs on Gackt's Sixth Day album are exactly the same as their original versions or if they're new versions... I think they're new versions, but I hear differently everywhere I go... will probably end up just downloading it anyway to be sure. :P *BitTorrent addict*
Have had random urges to play Playstation at various points throughout the past couple weeks... uh oh...
And why am I tired? I've slept 8 to 9 hours every night this week. *pout*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/21/2004 02:46:00 PM
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wWednesday, October 20, 2004 |
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feeling: tiredness setting in
listening to: Miyavi - Joushou Kaidou (Invincible Highway? *shrug* >.>)
No matter how many times I listen to my Miyavi playlist (which contains every song of his that is currently available), I never get tired of it. And now his random not-too-famous B-sides and fillers and other tracks that are just kind of there are getting stuck in my head more than the really well-known ones like Pop is Dead and Shindemo Boogie-Woogie. Weird. I must be a fangirl now. If he ever makes new plans to perform in America like he did last year but ended up cancelling, I just might have to go see him...
The Kaede fanart is done and sent. Only 2 days late. =_= Will upload it and post the link here after I know he's seen it. Would just point to the fanart section of the BLOOD OHP once it's posted, like last time, but... this one actually contains detail that will be lost when Kiwamu resizes it. So yeah... y'all get to watch me whore the thing at full size.
And now that that's out of the way, I get to inventory and get started on all the backlogged projects I've been putting off doing until I finished that thing. Let's see... translate the vampire story continuation for Kiwamu (2 drafts done), email him the English corners and some questions (just now done), post on the BBS (done just before that), make stationery for the order for those 5 new BLOOD photosets and send that off, go through Sawasdee Gackt in depth and find some new wallpapers and skins, go on a big posting and commenting spree at LJ and Blurty, make a BLOOD quiz on Quizilla, learn how to make Winamp skins and make BLOOD and Miyavi ones cause I can't find enough already made, create captions/commentary for Calla's pictures from the gathering (about half done), and of course there's about a dozen random art ideas I've had floating around in my head that I've been putting off until the current project was done. And probably a few other things I'm forgetting.
Oh, and my spiky Gackt bracelet came in. ^____^ Wore the thing all day once I got it out of the package. It's better quality than I expected... very detailed, very heavy for its size... and yet not uncomfortable at all. I heart it. May have to just start wearing it everywhere. :P *has never been the type to wear jewelry*
So it's 4:30 am and I've actually been really tired for a while now. Interesting. Been making it to 5:30 or later normally without even starting to get groggy, except on those special occasions when I'm running on 2 or 3 hours of sleep... anyway, so I'm going to go sleep now. Murf. Love y'all.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/20/2004 03:58:00 AM
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wSaturday, October 16, 2004 |
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feeling: uh...
listening to: hide - Goodbye
BAHAHA! I finished the playlist! In yo' face, pathetic excuse for a computer!
Kaede's not gonna get done though. >_< All that's left is a couple areas of shading and a background, but I have no idea how to go about either of them. Oh, and hair extensions (I assume his crimson curls are extensions...), but those shouldn't take toooo long... I mean, I finished the entire black portion of the hair yesterday evening, and this will be just a couple curly strands on another layer... Anyway, I had given myself until 11 am on Sunday (tomorrow) to finish it, since that would be midnight on his birthday, but... not gonna happen, unless I don't sleep or leave the room for the next 18 hours. And I don't see that happening because the nephew's here today.
I know, I talk about this thing a lot lately. Only because this is one of those things I'd actually be really proud of if I had plenty of time to work on it AND still had a chance of actually ever finishing it. I will finish this one within the next couple days, but it won't be quite the quality I normally go for. Not compared to... say, the Fu-ki I started working on back in spring and gave up on after Fanime because I decided it just wasn't him anymore after actually meeting him. It looked enough like him and the quality was among the best of any art attempt I've ever done... but it wasn't Fu-ki. All those hours... *sigh* This Kaede is... interesting, though. Something I know a lot of people have thought about (especially while his hair was still red... ahem), but that hasn't appeared in his fanart section yet. It might freak him out at first :P... but it'll definitely stand out. I'll post it here after I know he's seen it.
Anyway... we took the nephew to Columbus today, specifically Aquarium Adventure, which was... an adventure. Let a two year old loose in the biggest aquarium supply store in the state, with just as many fully stocked specialty tanks (and ponds) scattered around on the floor as on wall/shelf display. Went to Toys R Us next and got nothing, and then to the huge thrift store in Great Southern where I picked up a stuffed leopard cub for myself. I get a new plushie for 4o cents to a dollar every time I go there. ^^ *heart plushies*
Just did a spyware scan and it found 27 spyware files and 42 traces. =_= Better than the 600+ it found before my computer went to the shop though, I guess. Clean now... again.
Back is still sore, but not as bad. And tomorrow my arms are gonna be sore from lugging the toddler around. And the rest of me is gonna be screaming from getting no more than 2 hours of sleep tonight, just like every other Saturday night. Can never seem to get to sleep before 4 am anymore, no matter how hard I try.
Oh well. As Mr. K says, I'm a vampire. XD
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/16/2004 04:32:00 PM
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wFriday, October 15, 2004 |
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feeling: *whinemuttergrumble*
listening to: Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
The playlist rolls on. I have GOT to be within a few hours of finishing this thing. I can only immediately think of, like, 4 or 5 songs I haven't heard yet. I know there's actually more, because there's stuff in here I'd forgotten I had, but still. On one hand, I want it to end so I can say I got through it and then finally reboot this stupid machine and end the insane lag... on the other hand, I wish I'd remembered to add the Nightwish and Pierrot and other cool stuff that I never did move out of my unzipped folder(s). Oh well, next time. Or not. >.>;
I don't think the Kaede fanart will be done on time... but that's old news, heh. Base colors are all in place, clothing is finished, skin is maybe halfway done... maaaaybe... and the rest is as yet untouched by the wonder of shading. No background either. I suck at backgrounds. And that reminds me, I need to download more Japanese fonts...
My lower back is killing me today. T_T It's been slightly achy for probably a few weeks now, but today it's ten times worse. I can't even stand up or sit down without buckling and nearly falling once or twice. I must be sleeping in weird positions and not realizing it...
Hmm... so since my computer is so pathetically laggy that I'm barely able to use it, I've actually been watching TV during the day again. And I've discovered that the British version of Whose Line is it Anyway appears to be on Comedy Central for an hour EVERY AFTERNOON. *__* I may be wrong, but it was on from 2 to 3 a couple days ago, then again today, and it's in the listings for tomorrow. Please let it stay there please let it stay there please let it stay there *clings to Clive Anderson*
My room looks like the site of a recent battle between an enraged bull and a hormonal rhinoceros. I need to get some rubbermaid bins or something and just start shoving knick-knacks and junk off of surfaces. Between that and the junk lying around on the floor, I could probably fill ten bins. And hey, if I could do that, I'd have places to put at least THREE more aquariums. Big ones that I can cycle so I won't have to clean them every week. *plots* Must find bins... >.> Though I'm sure by the time I got around to it, it'd be too late to go back for that pretty blue-streaked white fishie we saw the other day... but I'd be prepared if I happen to stumble upon that perfect black-eyed white betta I've been lusting after but never able to find for a couple years now. It seems like every betta keeper at the aquaria forum I'm a member of has recently found at least one perfect, unmarred white betta at their local Walmart. Why can't I find oneeee? ;o;
And I think that'll be all for today's pointless ramble session. Need to work more on Kaede. Wasted at least an hour earlier tonight on face shading I just couldn't make myself like, and had to just start all over. *sigh*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/15/2004 01:51:00 AM
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wWednesday, October 13, 2004 |
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feeling: stuffy and head-heavy
listening to: Animal Planet
Ugh. Cold decided to settle in this evening. I might actually have to go to bed before 3. =_=
Dumplin's first anime club meeting went well. *proud of 'er* We ran around town some after it ended, and one of our stops was Petland because we're suckers for the ferrets and kittens in open cages. But of course, we had to go look at the bettas. >.> I'm glad she was there, cause there were 3 of them that I seriously would've bought if space and money weren't an issue - a tiny juvenile almost-black male, a sweet little pastel female in a tank with an aggressive male, and an older white male with blue streaks in his fins - and she bought 2 of them. :P So at least the tiny male and the sweetheart female have a good home now... the white boy I had to leave behind though... it's gonna take a lot of convincing and probably some remodeling of this room before I'll change my mind and go back for him. -_- I seriously have no space for another tank, nor do I like the idea of cleaning a third one every week. Two is enough. Heck, one was enough before I got Pixel. *hates cleaning tanks*
He was so pretty though...
Anyway. Zoned out and back in thanks to the cold, so I'm done with that subject now.
Outline for the Kaede fanart is done. All that's left is coloring... wonder how much I can get done tonight, assuming I can concentrate on the screen long enough...
And now I'm in this big cat mood tonight because of this documentary on Animal Planet. Like, top ten killer felines, or something. They put cheetahs at #10, tigers at #6, lions at #5, etc etc... and they gave #1 to domestic housecats. Of course. 9_9 "Because they retain their killer instincts even though they're domesticated and have a prey base of over 1000 species, hundreds more than any other cat." Yeah. You know they're gonna call little Fluffy the #1 killer in the feline world just because it would give the viewers a laugh. Still a cool show though. It had snow leopards. *_*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/13/2004 01:11:00 AM
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wTuesday, October 12, 2004 |
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feeling: throat is ouch
listening to: Mitsunaga Ryouta - Itsuka Kimi ga... (translation: Someday You Will...)
One day last week I put every single song on my hard drive (except some live versions and stuff, and some that Calla has sent me) into one playlist of 1222 songs and hit play. I'm getting songs I forgot I had. This is fun. Of course, it also means my computer's been running without restart ever since then and will continue to run until 1) it dies or 2) I finish the playlist, so it's plagued with the worst case of lag I've ever seen. But I will endure. I actually have a chance at finishing this playlist since I got rid of all the spyware and adware and got Mozilla and stuff. So much memory saved. *float*
We seem to have some deer, one young buck and one doe at least, that have made a habit of venturing into our "backyard." Meaning the clear space between the back porch and the treeline at the top of the small slope that rises behind it. These are the least agitate-able deer I've ever seen. The doe came out the other day when the nephew was here, and of course as he's 2 years old, it wasn't enough for him to watch quietly from inside - he had to open the door and walk out to the edge of the porch, close as he could get to the deer. He talked to her and everything. And that deer just looked at him and calmly returned to munching acorns. Then today three other deer emerged from the woods into the field in the abandoned property we own across the road... they used to frequent that field, but it had been ages since we'd seen any there. I tried to take pictures of the three we saw today, but it was too far, and then a car freaked them out and they bolted. So I snapped one of the trees behind our house in their autumn colors instead. Hoping the woods across the road will color up before going brown, because they make an amazing view when they do. And I still have a few pictures left on my roll. *wants to finish it*
Also watched the movie Lost in Translation today. Pretty cool how it was made like a native Japanese movie. More so than most movies by Western directors, anyway. And that Japanese photographer who asked for Rogah Moore poses was adorable. Hee.
Going to the first meeting of Dumplin's anime club tomorrow... and thinking of using the town outing to run to JoAnn Fabrics and see if they have the pattern I need for my main Kaede shirt. Yes, I'm actually making cosplay progress... sort of. *gasp* The patterns for my main skirt and shirt are decided, the components of my vampire costume are... kinda decided, and the main Kaede wig, Kaede cologne, Kaede "toy" (hee), BLOOD armband (of course), and the spiky Gackt bracelet for my Takeshi costume are bought and ready to go. Well, the bracelet hasn't arrived yet, but... soon. Found it for $13 on a buy-it-now only Ebay lot, and spent ages trying to find the differences between it and the $40+ original on Jpophouse.com, but found none, so grab it I did. Anyway... cosplays are finally coming together! *dance* Only one I haven't really worked on is the alternate Kaede, but that one should be fairly easy...
It did finally dawn on me that I might have had better luck looking for that main Kaede skirt of doom among wedding/bridal patterns, but when I actually tried it, I found nothing. >.> Oh well, we have that pattern anyway. Just dunno why I didn't think of that earlier.
My Kaede birthday fanart is... coming along actually. Still gonna be lucky to finish it on time, but eh, it can be a couple days late. I've had all these BLOOD fanart ideas floating around ever since I joined the fandom, but never could motivate myself to actually do any of them... or to finish the ones I start, as it were. Birthdays just kinda give me an excuse to work on them as well as a 'deadline' to shoot for. I decided that just after doing Fu-ki's in August. >.> I would be working on Kaede now - all that's left of the outline is one rose, and after that I can move to coloring - but it's late. And when I realized my eyes were kinda blurring in and out and in and out, I decided no more art for the night. So to Blogger I came. With more pointless rambling with no purpose other than to kill time. Don't you love it?
I'm also getting another cold. >_< No fair! It hasn't been 2 months yet since the last one! *would scream at things but throat hurts*
Time for bed now, before this thing moves from increasingly sore throat to fever and sinuses stuffed up to China.
(edit: umm, ok... the post below is from yesterday, but it didn't show up until I posted this one... >_>;;)
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/12/2004 02:30:00 AM
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wSunday, October 10, 2004 |
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feeling: amused as heck
listening to: whatever the new IC drama is... Itoshii Kimi E, or something...
Well, the plan WAS to go to choir practice tonight... but things suddenly came up. Hilarious things. XD Oh well. They'll have a slightly better turnout tonight. They can manage without me. Probably won't even notice me among the ranks of the missing.
But that's ok. Because I haven't really stopped giggling for about 2 hours now. XD
Anyway... uh... I burned my thumb yesterday on a metal bonfire roasting stick thing. There's a blister there now. I've never had a burn that blistered before. I keep poking and petting it. That's probably a bad thing. >.> Doesn't hurt though, so eh. We need to have more bonfires, cause drattit, fire-roasted marshmallows are among the finest things on this planet. Heck, everything tastes better when it's cooked over an open fire. Well, things that could normally be cooked over open fires, anyway. Not, like, marmosets or pieces of sheet metal.
And my cat is in the habit of following me around everywhere, hiding out in my room when that gets old (or when I'm not moving, which is most of the day), and spending every evening sitting/lying directly behind my computer chair where I sit, and meowing at me. And meowing. And meowing. She does not stop until I turn around and start petting her, at which point the meows turn to purrs, and then when I return to the computer they turn back into meows. Strange beast.
Meanwhile, my other cat has returned to the old habit of coming up to my room, jumping onto my bed, and curling up against me to wake me up in the mornings. At one time she did that every morning for, like, months... then she all but stopped for probably a year or more, and now she's back at it. Not every morning, but... little punk.
I found a whole bunch of J-rock and similar quizzes that I haven't taken the other day, but don't feel like doing them now for some reason. It's almost morning... sort of... maybe I need a breakfast.
And now back to Hey Hey Hey. Gackt is gonna be on either tonight or next Sunday~
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/10/2004 08:46:00 PM
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wSaturday, October 02, 2004 |
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feeling: entertained
listening to: BLOOD - I Remember You
My BLOOD stuff finally came in today. ^__^ I've been listening to the new single throughout much of the day, and I've already translated The Funeral for Humanity. I likes it. And the second track is Fu-ki (I think?) doing a soft reading of that vampire poem thing I translated for Kiwamu in July. It's the Japanese version though... but my English version is printed in the CD jacket. My name's in it too... :D! Even more entertaining is that Lauren's name is missing... maybe that means I've replaced her... O_o;;
*giggles*
Ok... I have the CD playing now, and it's on the third track, I Remember You (Fu-ki's new remake of Tsuioku, which is possibly my favorite BLOOD song ever). This version has new all-English lyrics, and some of it is rather... amusing. XD One line toward the end says "From the chick in the cloud, the light shines..." XD And it's so cute cause he has a Japanese accent (of course) so the 'ck' sound in 'chick' is really emphasized (in Japanese it's like 'chikku' with the u silent), and then there's a brief pause after that word, so it's like "From the chiCKK!... in the clooouuuud..." XDDD
Yes... I love Fu-ki, and I love the song, but I may never be able to listen to it without bursting into giggles at that part...
Ahem... anyway, the single also comes with a DVD with 12 minutes of footage from their live in France back in April, and in those 12 minutes we get to see Kiwamu fall TWICE. Which is hilarious because he's the one who edits all the band's videos, and he left them in. XD The boy's a professional klutz. I don't think I know anyone who's been to a BLOOD live or event where he didn't fall at least once. And then of course there's his quote from an old magazine interview Calla showed me last weekend... "I shake my ass while spitting blood!" *rolls*
I had a couple really cool art ideas recently, but I'm forced to put them off because I have, like, 16 days to both start and finish a birthday fanart for Kaede. And I have no ideas at all as to what to do. >_>
And you know... I want to hear Fu-ki singing some ballad type songs. The previous vocalists, Dai and Takeshi, did a few of those, and they're still fan favorites. Whereas I can't even imagine Fu-ki singing a slow song like Tsuioku or Sakura... even though I saw him perform those two and more at Fanime... >.> I want more though. His voice is all melty-smooth when it wants to be. He could do some nice ballads.
In other news... recently, on occasion, I am reminded of what it's like to feel appreciated, and loved, and even needed. Kinda gives me the warm fuzzies. *snuggles those precious few who've shared that feeling with me*
And I seem to be getting tired already... hmm...
*hugs everyone goodnight* I'm in a good mood. ^^
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 10/02/2004 01:26:00 AM
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