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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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wSunday, July 31, 2005 |
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feeling: blank
listening to: BLOOD - Blind
Ok. I have developed a fascination with Ville Valo. He's the vocalist and frontman of HIM, for the less versed out there. The man possesses every possible quality one could desire in a male: not only is he hot and the owner of a remarkably deep voice... he also has moments of 1)cute, 2) fluffy, 3) cuddly, and 4)absolute dork. AND in several of the pictures I uncovered last night in my hunt for archive-worthy eye candy of the man, he kinda looks like Roger. :3
A few of my long-time readers may remember back in October or November 2003 when I made an entire blog post to serve the purpose of being a Matsu Takako album, complete with all my favorite pictures of her. Of course, within a year most of those pictures were reduced to dead links. *pout* But that is not going to happen this time. Because after I create my little Ville Valo album here, I'm going to actually save the pictures. >.> Some of them I had to save and re-upload anyway...
So here we go. Ville at his finest. To me, anyway.
Intense gaze and the craziest tattoo ever
Speaking of tattoos, THAT had to hurt x.x
He has THE most piercing eyes...
Looking all classical o.o
Solitary Man single cover
Ok, so he looks sort of Michael Jackson-ish in this one >.>
And he is dead... but... not
Did I mention he plays bass? Instant points with Becky *.*
Posing... with... things?
Kindred spirit of Fu-ki, obviously... toothpick much?
And he seems to like roses... for breakfast
Signing autographs and looking all vampire-y
Who is he reminding me of here? O.o
Looking moody and pensive is hard when you're wearing a top hat
He's also furry :D
Again... can we say TOOTHPICK? Someone feed this boy!
Pulling off hot AND cute in ways that shouldn't be possible
Doing it again...
... and other times he's just plain cute *steals hat*
Speaking of cute, he has a fuzzy! o.o
Cute again ^^
And now we're just bordering on dorky :P
Speaking of dorky... >.>
Ahem... channeling the Fu-ki, anyone?
Riiiiight... just look at all that hideous body fat...
And it is the true proof of the dork - the :P!
"Whoooo's a good little bassist? That's riiiiight! MIGE IS! *pat*"
Nice professional studio shot, and then CUDDLE :P
More cuddling...
Cuddling and looking like the Fonz O.o
And finally... drummer lovin'
That's all for now. Might add more in the future. Might not. I spent enough hours last night gleaning all these off the great big internet. >.x
And now I need something cold and sugary...
[EDIT: forgot to add... Ville Valo SIMS SKIN! XD]
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 7/31/2005 07:52:00 PM
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wFriday, July 29, 2005 |
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feeling: arg >_<
listening to: Malice Mizer - Apres Midi [E-style]
Ooook... need to rant in a place that most people in the BLOOD fandom don't know about. Have fun reading. >>
So my copy of the new BLOOD CD came in today. As always, my translations of the lyrics and concept story are included in the booklet. I didn't get around to looking closely at the booklet until this evening, though. And as always, when I did, it brought to my attention all the GLARING mistakes in said translations that I should never have let happen. -_- Actually, there are only 2, and one of them might never be noticed by anyone who doesn't understand both English and Japanese. But to me they're glaring and could've been prevented, and things would make a lot more sense if I had.
The more noticeable mistake is in the translated lyrics to the song Awakening, right in the last verse. And it's actually the one I don't really blame myself for. I did make a dumb mistake that could've been fixed simply by changing one word, but instead (or in addition) they decided to edit the whole line, so we end up with something like "The skies above sadly reflect the past that I was cruelly taken everything." What the feck? >_>; Yeeees... I blame them for that one. >>; For one thing, like I said, they should've only had to change one word to fix my mistake... and for another, THE DORK SHOULD TALK TO ME WHEN HE WANTS TO CORRECT THINGS IN ENGLISH!! He usually does for newsletters and site content and stuff, so why shouldn't he do it for LYRICS that actually define the band's image and music style?? Seriously. >>
Anyway, the other mistake is less likely to be found, but it's much more severe. To me anyway. There's this poem thing right in the front of the booklet... it's part of a continuing story that the band is writing to go along with their vampire concept, and a new continuation of it appears in each of their new CDs. Anyway, the Japanese and English versions of the poem are on the same page this time, so I was looking closer at them for the purpose of transcribing it in romaji... and I realized that an ENTIRE LINE from the original poem was missing from the English translation. And I have no idea how it happened. >_< I never miss entire lines... if nothing else because I proofread everything I translate five million times before I call it finished. And I can't find the translation I sent him in my email account, because I sent it to him via IM... that I remember because he asked me if it would be ok to edit out some connecting word at the end of one line, or something. So I guess it's possible that he accidentally cut an entire line... but what bugs me is I don't remember translating that particular line. >.x But I also don't know why he didn't say anything to me about it... if he (and/or Fu-ki) takes the time to check my actual lyric translations and "fix" any mistakes, why wouldn't they do that for the story poem things?
So yeah... I don't know who's at fault for that one. Probably me. >> Cause if I translated that line I'd surely remember it... I mean, I distinctly remember translating the lines before it and after it. >.x But why didn't he say anything to me? Surely he checked it...
*tears hair out*
Oh well... c'est la vie and all that. Maybe no one will notice. --;;
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 7/29/2005 11:24:00 PM
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feeling: slightly sleepy
listening to: Parasite Eve - Somnia Memorias is stuck in my head
Decision. If I ever manage to come into possession of my long desired blue merle Great Dane, I don't care what gender it is - I am SO naming it Miyavi.
Yeeeeeah, I've been reading through old journal entries and comments tonight. Cookies to any who remember that entry. >> << Don't ask why I decided to post here of all places... that decision was random even for me. I might have another smallish rant to post at a more private journal too, but I might be too tired to get to that tonight, and tomorrow I might not feel like it anymore. Plus I'll probably end up going to Willard's grad party tomorrow, since he'll hate me forever if I don't, then after that is the ice cream supper at church and I am rarely one to pass up ice cream. Wish they'd make more flavors than vanilla and pineapple, but oh well. However, if they think they're going to rope me into working at that dinner, they've got another thing coming. They've forced me into the roles of Sunday school secretary, Bible school teacher, and sole-person-in-charge-of-all-puppet-events at that church in just the past month, all without even telling me what I was getting into or giving me time to agree or disagree. Kinda tired of it.
Anyway, no more ranting about that.
Today's been a weird day. Nothing really happened per se, I've just spent all of it sitting around here zoning out and I'm not sure why. Maybe tomorrow will make more sense. Doubt it though, considering... things. Also, for some reason, both today and yesterday felt like Saturday to me... and Wednesday needs to hurry up and get here. >> <<
Speaking of hurrying up, I guess I've decided on what to actually put on my BLOOD order form, so I need to get that made up and sent off. Told dork boy the other day that I'd be sending him $41 soon, and he replied "Ok, $41000 is good ;)". He's a dork. He also owes me lots of magazines.
Also, caviar will keep for up to 6 months in the freezer and 2-3 weeks otherwise. >> <<
And yeah... this post is about as random as they come. Like I said, been zoney all day. Which means no attention span.
Oh, also, click here and help me out at Mystic Wars. That's all you have to do - just click, and I get gold. Or if you want to sign up and join the game, I get even more gold. And still more when you create characters and level them up. *_* But I don't expect anyone to do any of that, so oh well. Just thought I'd mention it. Actually getting kinda bored with that game, but I still play for lack of anything better to do. Plus there are decent prizes at stake this month. o.o
Anyway... speaking of recommendations, Friendly Hostility is a cool webcomic. The sense of humor in it somehow reminds me of Queen of Wands, and sure enough, the QoW artist has done a guest strip or two in FH. And of course, Fox and Collin are adorable. But I'm probably about the only person who would think that, so don't blame me if you read the comic and are weirded out. You've been warned. >>
Ok, it's been half an hour and I'm ready to sleep now. Tomorrow should be interesting.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 7/16/2005 04:20:00 AM
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wWednesday, July 13, 2005 |
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feeling: full
listening to: Schwarz Stein - Emergence of Silence
I LOVE THIS SONG. *float*
Anyway... >> Prepare for more completely random and pointless babbling. Just because all my blogs and journals are feeling neglected lately. But then again, so is pretty much everything else I ever had my hands in at any point in time. All my former projects, games, works in progress, both on and off the computer. I can't even draw anymore. I tried last night and... eww. Serious eww. >.> But I do like the outline I completed at Subeta oekaki a few weeks ago, before my computer died, preventing me from finishing the drawing. I should upload that lineart, or even color it in Photoshop. I actually like it.
Anyway, one old thing I have randomly dragged out of the dust and been working on for a couple days is my first FF7 fic series. Such as it is. The first book is done, the second is about half done, and the 3 or 4 I had planned for after that are still in the brainstorming stages. And rather than add any more to them or at least do more brainstorming, all I've done in the past... 2 or 3 years at least... is repeatedly proofread and edit what I've already written. Last night I finished edit #4534203498 (give or take a dozen >>) of the first book, and I started on a book 2 edit today, but then the power randomly went out for no reason and I can't remember what I saved and didn't save before it happened. Oh well.
But all of this has made me want to play FF7 again. And do FF7 fanart, especially artwork for my fics. That's what I attempted last night, and yeeeeah... massive failure. Anyway, been wanting to play FF9 again too, for some weird reason. Next I'll probably start listening to the FF7/9 soundtracks in the evenings again. Used to listen to those things constantly. I even played them every day for a while in the discman I used to carry around between classes and stuff at OSU. Woohoo, obsessive.
And wanna know something funny? The other day I found that I had an email from BLOOD's former guest guitarist/vocalist, Noa. FROM MAY 15. X.x The little punk sent it to an email address I only created for the purpose of registering a third Photobucket account... I never planned to check the thing and I had no idea he knew about it! Don't even know why I finally did check it the other day... but anyway, yeah. His own fault that it took me 2 months to reply to him. So there. >___>
On a related note, I remembered recently that I HAVE posted Japanese text here at Blogger before and it worked. In the Fanime setlist on my BLOOD blog. But why I can't get it to work on THIS blog, I don't know. >< Figured it was just a font issue, but I tried manually changing that and it still didn't work. Oh well... most of the other blogs and journals I have are Japanese-compatible, so I can always play with those.
I need to practice Japanese more too. I've probably forgotten how to write more than half of the 500 or so kanji I learned at OSU. *slaps self* Should be trying to practice speech more too, but heh... not as though I have a lot of opportunities to do that without looking completely nuts. :p Ooh, I can break out and reinstall my instructional CDROMs from college now that I have a working drive again... wouldn't be speaking, but it's listening and listening is good... could use the vocabulary review too...
Hmm, what else...
I need to send my order for BLOOD's new album in the near future. Been looking forward to this album for months. Especially the track Forever Lost (formerly known as Gothic), which was FRIGGIN' COOL when they played it in Mexico. And I need to see who the heck wrote the lyrics for Se Lever. They looked to me like a work of Kaede when I translated them a couple months ago, and I need to find out whether I'm right about that. Just so I can say I can tell which member wrote which songs based solely on the style of the original Japanese lyrics. >> << Shut up.
Oh, and I might actually have blinds on my windows in the near future. o_o Think my parents ordered them the other night... ooooo, been a couple months since I had anything covering my windows... and last time I did it was a butchered bedsheet. Bliiiiiiiinds. *stalks blinds.com*
And I can't think of any other random ramble material... so guess that's it for today.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 7/13/2005 05:50:00 PM
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wWednesday, July 06, 2005 |
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feeling: slightly tired
listening to: nothing
Saw the coolest thing this evening. Seems a mama raccoon and her four fluffy little babies have made a home somewhere in our backyard (keep in mind our backyard is about half forest), and they all emerged tonight long enough for me and my parents to watch them for a good while through the patio door. First the mama started digging at... something... at the top of the hill just outside the woods, and I don't know what she uncovered, but she and her babies all went nuts as she dug at it. They pounced and hopped and batted and swiped at the air as though a swarm of bees or something had sprung out of the ground... but we know for a fact there's no sort of hive in that area at all. >.o Anyway, then they continued along the ridge just on our side of the treeline toward our hanging birdfeeder, where at first they seemed content to forage for dropped seeds beneath it, but then one of the babies actually climbed right up the metal pole it hangs from to munch on seed from the feeder itself. Smart little beastie. o.o Anyway, mom gets all annoyed when anything that's not a bird eats from that feeder (you should see how she scares squirrels out of it >>), so she made dad knock on the glass door, which effectively scared them all and they bolted back into the woods. :
Was so cool though. Raccoons are pretty. <3 I tried to snatch some pictures of the family with my digital camera, but it didn't go well. Partly because it was too dark outside, and partly because the zoom didn't reach far enough and I couldn't remember how to set it to take distant shots. >> I took 7 or 8 pictures and only one came out looking anything like a raccoon. *sigh* Oh well... perhaps they'll be back...
In other news (new to this blog anyway, if old hat to everyone else), I finally got a new CDROM drive over the weekend. It's lovely. I can't even hear it when it's running, which is just amazing to me after my old one had a habit of buzzing like crazy. And best of all, I can play The Sims again. :D Been way too long since I last played that game. And thankfully, all my old game data from before the Great Reformat of January '05 was successfully backed up and restored, so I could pick up right where I left off. ^_____^ I also finally got around to taking screenshots of all the adoptable cats and dogs in the Unleashed expansion, so I can actually decide which pet I want for which family before I waste a day in Old Town choosing, naming, and adopting one. *s-m-r-t*
And I should be updating this thing more... but meh... been clinging to my LJ lately for some reason. I think people are starting to forget about this old blog anyway. Wouldn't surprise me, it's been around since the end of 2001. And I've made... how many other journals since then? Let's see... Livejournal, Blurty, My-Diary, Diaryland, and my MSN Space... and that's not counting my BLOOD-only and translations blogs, or my AIM subprofile, which I don't update anymore (can't even access it now >< can anyone else?). Also not counting the Friendster and Myspace blogs I never update and only signed up for so I could stalk my kitty. >> << So yeah... guess all the newer journals are sort of taking priority. A few of them anyway. Most of them I rarely touch. But they're there. Heh, I have too many journals. Maybe if I link this blog in my AIM profile it'll get traffic again... >>
And wow, I'm rambly tonight. I could've summed up this entire post as "Recent cool events: I saw a mama raccoon and her four babies today but couldn't take good pictures, and I got a new CDROM drive so I can play Sims again. Oh, and sorry for not posting here that much anymore." >> Oh well... since when am I good at summing things up?
Anyway... just watched 3 episodes of the British Whose Line on Comedy Central. I really need to start taping that show when the opportunity arises. :\ Of course, they also need to play the really old episodes again, cause I want them on tape more than the newer ones. For some reason they've only been showing the most recent seasons lately, mostly the 10th season episodes filmed in Hollywood, which were the beginning of the show's downhill spiral. I can't remember the last time I saw the air the really old reruns with Tony Slattery and Paul Merton and Sandi Toksvig (pretend that's spelled right) and all those classics... even Josie Lawrence is rare anymore... *sigh*
...No wonder this blog is disintigrating into nothingness. Look at all this pointless random babble. >> Oh well... better than no post at all. Or is it? Don't answer that.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 7/06/2005 03:52:00 AM
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