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Sunday, May 5, 2002, 11:19 a.m. o/~ kimi ga kuchizusamu, boku wa kiiteru~ o/~I love weekends when you have to set your alarm for 11 am because you went to sleep at 5 am. I'm fine, just sleepy, and I don't remember half of what I said last night. Make that 90%. You know what? This event, Double Walker, jumps up and down aand then pulls down its pants and dances tauntingly in front of me. It's in Tokyo in September, and I won't know anyone in Japan who could pick up any shinkan from that. ;_; (Even if you were there, Kya, I'm not cruel enough to beg you to go. That would be way too Special for any one human to endure. But wow, can you imagine that event? *_*) I think that event would be like the Mad Tea Party hosted by Rinno-nee. *_* It's not that the JunTatsu TatsuJun pairing makes me go "oooooh," it's just the collection of people going there. It's like if there were an...er...Orochimaru x 4-daime event. It's not the pairing. But people who draw Orochimaru DJ, or like that particular pairing, have GOT to be FUBAR individuals. >D Oh well. That particular black hole of evil will remain out of my reach. ;_; It actually took me a minute to figure out why it was called "Double Walker".....you know, "Doppelganger". Duh. Gotta finish prepping for my class. Now playing: the Mooney Suzuki - Oh Sweet Susanna (Krisit, I'll send you a taste of this band; I think you'd like them.) Sunday, May 5, 2002, 04:09 a.m. I'm a whore.I guess I just need to get really wasted. For Ka and anyone else who might be interested: some fanart I drew tonight while about three sheets to the wind. Sorry for the crappiness; I was really blasted. It took a little under an hour, and I smeared it like crazy. It's hard being a southpaw and drawing in soft graphite. I was going to caption this "I feel like a goddamn idiot" but I forgot to before I scanned. Oh well. Now, who is this? It's not who you'd normally think it is, although Katie did note that he looks like an emaciated Tatsuya. XD I'd noticed that myself, but really, I can't help it. That's how he'd look, I guess. I was drunk! And bored! And wondered what he'd look like completely and utterly suppin! His dad would be so proud. Now Playing: Morphine - Cure for Pain Friday, May 3, 2002, 10:57 a.m. "So when does the concert start?""3 pm." "Good, that means he can get in his early afternoon nap, do his concert, go home, and go to bed early. We old geezers need plenty of rest." "Shut up! XD" That was my father commenting on my announcement that I was gonna go see Bowie this August. Y'all are mean! So WHAT if he's old? XD While I'm on this "decrepit rocker" kick, the Rolling Stones are announcing tour dates this Tuesday. I actually heard about this yesterday, and I wondered if they could fit all their walkers on one stage. Shhh. It's a 40th anniversary tour. I am SO THERE. >D I haven't been to a concert in ages. Well, I mean, an arena concert (not that I went to clubs often). This is gonna be fun. While I'm on the subject of music, last night I was trying to show someone what Morrissey looked like, so I did a search for a Morrissey shrines. When I found them, I realized exactly why people look at me askance when I say I really like the Smiths. XD Many of these shrines were full of pictures of Oscar Wilde and covered with gushing accolades to the Divine Moz. *snicker* Some of it really had to be seen to be believed; they were sighing about his godlike writing talent and voice and how he had the BEST HAIRSTYLE IN THE 80'S (Puu:....are we thinking of the same hairstyle?) and his James Dean-like good looks and ESPECIALLY the gold lame crop-tops. I was giggling so hard I could barely read. I mean, don't get me wrong. I love the Smiths. I'm being blamed for spreading their evil among my friends. But somehow Moz fans have a talent for amusingly overwrought verbal BJs. It's like reading bad fanfic at times. For example, this month is the 20th anniversary of The Fateful Meeting between the Shy, Introverted Boy Least Likely To and the Guitar God Johnny Marr. (They like to use caps like that, too.) And I wonder whatever happened to my ability to gush over musicians like that. I KNOW I used to be like that. But I think my urge to run over at the mouth about the divinity of my favorite singer lessened after I hit the age of 15. (I'm not saying it's gone: I'm a fangirl. The instinct to gush will ALWAYS be there...) But somehow now I just tend to listen to the music and not think too hard about the singer or the band itself. Most of the newer things I like - or stuff I've gotten into recently - I have NO IDEA what the band looks like, or even their names. ;;^^ I think it's partially due to what music does for me nowadays. When I was younger, the music Spoke To ME Personally. I identified with the lyrics, and therefore felt that the lead singer or the band was like me, and Felt My Pain. I AM on the Outside, man, and I AM looking in! XD But now - now it's different. Now I also listen to music just because I like the way the voices sound, or how it meshes with the music, or how it fits with the mood I'm in. (That's especially true with non-English songs or songs with admittedly bizarre lyrics.) There are still lots of songs that I love for the meaning of the lyrics and how the singer sings them, but there's also the sense of detachment from the singer - I may love what the song is saying, and how it sounds, and think that the singer's voice is so beautiful/expressive/whatever, but I don't personally attach the song or its lyrics so closely to how the singer himself or herself is feeling. Therefore, the singer != me, and I don't feel the urge to gush all over them and obsessively research details about their lives. I suppose that makes little sense, but it makes sense to ME. :D Do you know what I mean? Then again, there's some parts of my taste in music that are rather inexplicable. >_> Nobody say the D-word or the E-word, okay? >D I still maintain that those are vestiges of the times I was with the aliens. I don't know, what's it like for you? Ergh. Had a horrible cough all morning. Back to work. BTW: I <3 j00, Kya! Thank you so much! Now Playing: Ice House - Great Southern Land (@_@) Thursday, May 2, 2002, 07:15 p.m. This is the sound of Priya bouncing off the walls. XDI know I'm a whore. I know he's old. But I heard that today was the last day of the internet preorder sale of Bowie Area2 tickets. I slapped down my credit card with a quickness. I'm going to see Bowie one last time before I rot in medical school forever. *_* Don't mind me, I'm in my Happy Place. XD Now Playing: Orbital - Sad but New Thursday, May 2, 2002, 04:48 p.m. Social Blogness.A bunch of things to say to Ka: Hey, I understood your joke. XD But then again, I was the one who was supposed to get it. XD About this blog - yep, I think that is indeed Kaneko Kazuma art. XD And I even know what it's from! I saw an ad for a new mystery magazine, and it had that dude on the cover, and creepy-ass robot coming down the stairs behind him. I'll be damned if I can remember what the title of the magazine. Oh, there we go, Kadokawa Mystery Bunko. I remember thinking that it was DAMN COOL. Ka. Ka Ka Ka. You are preaching to the converted here when it comes to Persona seiyuu. XD Yuuya I'm guessing is what they call the Piasu no Whorebag. Masao is Mark. And yes, Alanna is Ayase. I already have that seiyuu list written up from a while ago, remember? XD Man, I don't know how you can't appreciate Chris x Nate. XD Yeah, I totoally forgot, Gregly, if Moz was a NPC in an RPG ported to the US, he WOULD be drinking "soda pop." XD I have more to blog (like how I found out, six months after the fact, that an old family friend had died. >_>, and what I think about - many things - ), but I'm about to die from sleepiness. I'm going to nap in the sun, and maybe purr a bit. Now Playing: Peter Murphy - Dragnet Drag (o/~ whirlpools whirl, dragnets drag o/~ ) Thursday, May 2, 2002, 12:25 a.m. Blame Kya, not me.Kya wants Morrissey to be an NPC in an RPG she plays. Puu> XDDDD Puu> what would he do? Kya> he sits there drinking whiskey and coffee in a bar, and every time you talk to him he goes "..." Kya> sometimes he looks at you disdainfully Puu> XD Puu> ...I think I'D want Morrissey to be a NPC too XD Puu> he'd look at you disdainfully, sigh, and order another whiskey and coffee. Kya> then you'd try to get information from him the 50th time Kya> and he'd quote oscar wilde. Kya> your character would go "..." Kya> and he'd smile at you. Kya> but then what would happen is that you'd need to know the oscar wilde quote later in the game Puu> exactly XD Puu> so talking to the angsty wanker in the coffeehouse is essential to beating the game XD Kya> and your characters would say, "It's a good thing we kept bothering that strange British homo in the bar. His information proved to be useful, though it seemed extraneous at the time." Puu> XD Kya> and then if you go brush the dust off of your ambiguously gay wanker hero's turntable and put on the item "Record From Early 80s" you'll be treated to the Morrissey Ondo Puu> XDDDDDDDDDDDDD Puu> you do MIND? XD Puu> I'm DRINKING HERE! Kya> coffee and whiskey, you pasty wanker? XD Puu> yes XD Kya> puu, you realize that I just made a combined Persona/Morrisey/Koyasu joke? Puu> ....gosh, that was Special <3 Note: NPC = Non-Playable Character - like a person in a village you're wandering through. Note #2: Shannon: this New Order mp3 is JUST FOR YOU. :D I got the Sunglasses at Night one already. XD Now Playing: Mooney Suzuki - My Dear Persephone Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 02:16 p.m. Kakashi: UP YOURS, JOSEI GAMER!Jun: Up YOURS, Jump wh0re! Jun: ...just look at our nicks. XD Kakashi: ...XD I had a weird dream two nights ago. Instead of me being trapped in a mall elevator with Depeche Mode, this time they were giving a concert in my parents' living room. After the crowd of thousands left (yes, they all fit in the living room without crowding), the band hung around and we all talked about our love for the Rolling Stones and we played some records. I woke up feeling profoundly weirded-out. Speaking of random music things, Kya had the funniest damn idea for a non-playable RPG character last night. I'll have to blog that when I get home. All I can say is, man, that'd be evil. >D It's also a testament to how evilly I've sl0red her, because she was making a triple-crossover-joke. >D It's always interesting to read the news on May Day, just to see who's protesting what where . I also found out that the default name for an unknown female child is "Precious Doe." You know, the nameless nuclear family - John Doe, Jane Doe, and now Precious Doe. More later. Now Playing: Aphex Twin - come on you slags! Monday, April 29, 2002, 03:00 p.m. o/~ A ha, you'll see, one day these dreams will pull you through my door o/~Well, since I have a second, here's a quick rundown of what I did this weekend. As you may or may not know, Roger Ebert is from Champaign-Urbana, so for the past few years he's been organizing an "overlooked film festival" and he comes here with actors and directors and whatnot to an old-fashioned theater to show these films that were on extremely limited release in the US, if they were at all. The theater only seats about 300 if I had to guess, so it's a nice small place. The first movie of the season is always a more famous classic film, usually with remastered prints or improved technology. Last year it was 2001, this year it was Patton. I had a headache Wednesday night and slept through Patton. >_> But on Friday at 4 pm I went with my parents to see the Iranian film Two Women , which was really a very interesting movie. It's about two women who were classmates in Teheran University right before the universities got shut down. One of them, who is very outspoken and intelligent and loves to study, somehow manages to attract a stalker, who chases her all over the place and eventually throws acid on her male cousin when he thinks that the cousin is a rival boyfriend. Humiliated by the attention the girl has attracted, her family forces her to come home to the country, but her stalker follows her even there and causes so much trouble that he gets thrown in jail for 13 years and the girl has to get married to the man willing to pay her bond money. The man she marries is...well, he SEEMS okay at first, so besotted with her that he'll give her written permission to return to the university, but as time wears on she realizes that he's more like a pampered, spoilt, jealous child with a new toy, terrified that if he gives her any freedom he'll lose her. He never lays a hand on her, and she tries to meet him halfway, but their marriage is stifling and upsetting for both of them...and so the story continues. At first glance it seems like a typical sob-story about poor abused women, but that's not so; it doesn't take the easy way out. The husband isn't a horrible abusive drunken lout that would be instantly easy to hate and loathe (which makes it difficult when she seeks a divorce; he doesn't drink, smoke, gamble, keep other wives, beat her...so why does she want a divorce, asks the judge.) And the wife keeps TRYING to meet him halfway, to become his friend so that they can enjoy their marriage, and I guess in his own way he does the same, but they're always at cross-purposes. And she herself begins to absorb some of the emotional abuse and internalizes it - you can clearly see the difference between the time she's "free" and when she's not. Very very interesting, especially the way it doesn't make the husband the 2-D ogre and the wife the wilting, abused maiden. And to balance off the "all middle-eastern men are horrible abusive chauvinist pigs" vibe that you might get from all movies about women in the middle east, the OTHER women - the abused wife's friend - has a perfectly nice, likable husband that lets her do what she wants and treats her as an equal - she says they're best friends. (Heck, when going to see her friend at the hospital, she tells her husband to pick up the kids, heat up some dinner, make sure they're in bed on time...and he just laughs and asks if he should do the laundry and pick up groceries while he's at it.) All in all, I think it was an interesting film, showing many aspects of life for women in Iran at the time, without falling into too many traps or lapsing into cliches to make a point. The director was there at the showing, and she was very entertaining and lively. (Apparently, for another of her films about that time period, she got thrown into jail for 4 years or something; she was charged with 4 things that can carry the death penalty. @_@ All for making a film about that taboo time period in Iranian history.) I MEANT to go see Diamond Men, which had Robert Forster in it (you may remember him as the parole officer Max Cherry in Jackie Brown - he was the guest appearing for that showing :D ) but I was busy. So that night I went to see two movies back-to-back - Fritz Lang's Metropolis WITH A LIVE ORCHESTRA *_________* (man, it was INCREDIBLY good. so so SO good with the orchestra. They were so versatile, providing all the sound effects and BGM that at times I completely forgot that they were playing live and that this wasn't a complex recorded soundtrack. @_@) and Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis , which is not a remake, just...er...inspired? Sort of? I was kind of embarrassed; when Ebert introduced it as "anime" some otaku yelled out "AHHHHH-nime!!!!", making the non-otaku in the audience chuckle and ME sink down in my seat in embarrassment. Ferchrisssakes, he didn't mispronounce it THAT badly, if at all; he said it more or less the way I'd say it. Ebert just kind of rolled his eyes and pointed out that since it was lifted from the French, it wasn't even a Japanese word at all. Ebert's a fanboy; he did a decent job of explaining the deal with the stylized anime art style for people in the audience who weren't used to use eyes and mobile mouths and - well, you know! The movie itself wasn't bad. The artwork was really nice, old-school character designs, the animation was fluid, the coloring was gorgeous. The BGM - I will hump legs for the BGM. O_O It's all jazz. *____* As for the story itself...eh, it's not bad. The original Metropolis is better, I think, as to the issues it addresses and the stories it told. Heck, this Metropolis is more a mishmash of Bladerunner and the Fifth Element than it is related to the original Metropolis. So. It's not bad. It's not the 100% greatest thing I've seen either. It's worth your money to see in the theaters, if you can. I'd even buy the DVD, maybe. But I guess it was just overhyped beyond any movie's ability to deliver. On Sunday I dropped by JAC to say bye to Eleanor and hang out with people for a few hours. Krisit, Gregly, and Juri were there, but Matt had already left (he crashed at my apartment the entire weekend) so we just hung out and traumatized people in our tiny version of #y. Dave came after a while and the five of us went out to dinner at Damon's. No chance to play the game, though; it was all sports trivia. But the conversation was interesting nonetheless! *evil, evil chuckle* I need to get cable this fall to actually SEE this. XD In real life. Finding housing in Denver. Hm. >_> Making vague preparations to move. Yay. Now Playing: Pixies - Hey Monday, April 29, 2002, 11:25 a.m. Ka, I remembered!It was: CoP: We r0xx0r j00r b0x0rs. Wasn't it? I'll write a real blog entry later tonight about my weekend and the movies I saw at EbertFest and various other things. Stayed up too late last night. Oops. Now Playing: Gary Numan - Love and Napalm Friday, April 26, 2002, 11:39 a.m. Look, Kya! LooK! XDCheck out the headliner. *snicker* Pity you're leaving Japan before late August. >D You could have said hi for me! XD Now Playing: Tear Garden - In Search of my Love Thursday, April 25, 2002, 01:31 p.m. Kya: No, but I saw one circle doing Megadeth doujinshi in the Winter Comiket catalog. That was one pretty Dave Mustaine, I tell you.Last night I was discussing the future with my parents. A family friend suggested that I get a PhD in immunology or something after my MD and go work for a company instead of practicing. I said that I'd decide whether to get a PhD or not based on how easy it was to network and get a good research position when I was in medical school. Man, the stuff that comes out of my mouth these days... I gave Kya a few Smiths mp3s, since she asked. She did! Really! Not my fault this time! Upon listening to them, we gave Morrissey the new nickname "Mr. Boku"... because she commented that if the JP fangirls got ahold of him, they'd draw wispy, CLAMP-esque doujinshi about him, and he'd use 'boku.' If you understood the reason for the nickname without highlighting the explanation, you understand my Special thought processes too well. o.o;; Now, to use my powers for GOOD instead of evil...a short list of worthwhile anime soundtracks - as in, you don't feel violated paying $35 for them.
Okay, so that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Those are serious recommendations for soundtracks; if you have them already, what do you think? Am I on crack? Got your own suggestions? This reminds me. Ka, the Pixies CD I recommended that you start out with is Doolittle. Get it. Or I'll make you a copy when I send your Tsumi CD. >_> A coworker brought around a hunting magazine he found in the breakroom or something. It was entitled "Varmint Master Magazine." .... It had a fox on the front. What IS a varmint master, something like the Beast Master but less cool? You are only master of the beasts you can find as roadkill on any highway, like, uh, opossums, squirrels....badgers? Man, my sanity's slipping. Now Playing: Pixies - Where is My Mind? (appropriately enough...) Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 01:04 p.m. Heh. That's one more thing I'm good at?Lunchtime. Puu: *munchmunch* A-ko: Say, you know about this stuff, right? This guy I know gave me a mix CD and said I might like it. What IS this song? Puu: Hm? *listens to song with headphones* HYA-HA! XD XD XD A-ko: What? What? o.o; Puu: Either this guy has an amusing taste in synthpop, or he's trying to tell you something. A-ko: Errrr... Puu: *tells A-ko what the song is* A-ko: WHAT?! 40 minutes later. Boss: Why are you smiling? Puu: The world is an amusing place, and I've got a song stuck in my head. >_> XD Now Humming: Depeche Mode - Master and Servant Monday, April 22, 2002, 06:41 p.m. Kya: "i can see tomorrow in your pants! I can see the future in your pants! we can call it...OUR HOPE!"Who needs an entry with a title like that? Now Playing: Smiths - This Charming Man (sing it with me!) Monday, April 22, 2002, 06:14 p.m. I think my winamp is trying to sterilize me through falsetto.Sorry - it's just that it played Erasure and Bronski Beat back-to-back. Puu: I'm part of an Erasure daisychain! XD Krisit: You've been riding the erasure train? Puu: Yeah XD Krisit: There's something insanely WRONG about that concept. I also met Janaki this weekend, which was pretty darn Special. She came up to me during the yaoi panel and tapped me on the shoulder and announced that now I knew the face of the enemy. I said, "I will destroy you!" and continued with the panel. :D I saw her on Saturday for just a few minutes and she gave me a CD of evil >D which I've been listening to XD Lunch on Sunday was amusing. Besides the "I heard you were evil" waitress, she told me something that has been cracking me up ever since. She said she'd learned to play Twisted Tenderness on her keyboard, so I was shaking her and telling her to record it or something (watch her head flopping back and forth!) and she said it wasn't hard - she'd read in an article that they (New Order - Barney himself, wasn't it?) were proud of themselves that they never have to play the black keys in their songs. Come on, that's hysterical. Laugh for me! We also all drank cream and - man, we all sat there for an hour or so, what'd we TALK about, anyways? I can't remember! Meeting new people is fun. Fu Fu Fu. But I should have gone to dinner with you, Janaki, to see those Takahashi brothers. XD Now Playing: Sam Prekop - So Shy Monday, April 22, 2002, 05:18 p.m. ...Am the only one surprised and outraged by this news?Georgia School Plans First Integrated Prom Yes, there are still schools in the south that hold racially segregated proms. ...what year is this again? Now Playing: Enigma - Camera Obscura Monday, April 22, 2002, 04:54 p.m. PINKING SHEARS? FANCY da na...OI!Post-ACen exhaustion. Whew. I actually got about ten hours of sleep last night because I was so wiped. Then this morning I dropped by the post office before work to pick up Kya's package. There's stuff in it for Ka and Krisit and Steph0rZ; I'll mail them to you or something. There was also Very Special stuff in it for me. Kya, you're so dead. She found a Zax x Cloud DJ and stuck it in with a note about how she just couldn't resist giving it to me "because of the title XD". I blinked at the DJ, confused, and flipped it over. The doujinshi was entitled "Depeche Mode." ... DIE! Kya also sent some Very Special Rinno-nee goodness. She did a story in Ja! Weiss 4, and although it doesn't involve eyeballs or extreme psychosis, it does involve the homicidal mecha-Aya going after the Weiss guys while Ran sparkles at her and defends her every action. Ku ku ku. Then there was the Comic Box Jr. with the Tatsuya and Jun story. Jun finds a pair of women's pantsu in Tacchi's pocket, goes ballistic, and tries to kill Tatsuya with a pair of pinking shears (which, as you know, you can't kill ANYONE with XD). Tatsuya explains (after having pots and pans thrown at his head) that Katsuya got the pantsu from some panty-thief, that's all! Then Jun instantly calms down and starts making dinner. Afterwards, there's the argument while they're doing, uh, stuff, when Jun calls Tacchi "Seven's #1 1-Minute-Man." XD Rinno-nee, you're just so Special. XD Kya~~? <3 If I send j00 money right now, will you load up on Rinno-nee's Specialness for me at the con? *_* I will be King of the SPECIAL Jellies! I'll find out the table #'s if the DJka have put them on their pages yet. >E~~ Anyways, ACen Con Report. Yes. Quite. :D....as I typed that, I got work to do. Well, ACen report later, then. 11:05 - OH MY GOD. I just realized that this Ja! Weiss with the Rinno story in it was ALSO the one with the story about the tour that had Koyasu feeling up Mannequin-chan. XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD SPECIAL! SPECIAL! I HAVE THE MANNEQUIN-CHAN JA! WEISS! 14:15 - Of all the days to actually have work to go. >_> Anyways, ACen. I drove up after work, which meant that I got there at around 7:45 pm. (I left at 5:15 - I found some good minesweepers and drove at about 90 mph for about an hour. Ku ku ku.) Got in, went to JuriGregly's surprise party, and eventually Ka, Steph, and I escaped to our room to plan the yaoi panel (with about 20 minutes left before the panel) but everyone followed us up there so we just went to the panel with a list of stuff we planned to cover. When we got into the room there were already about 50 people there, so we looked at each other, checked the room number, and went up front. I don't know why I was surprised at the number of people at the panel my second time around, but I was. ^^ The panel ran for two hours, and I hope people enjoyed it - I know we panelists had fun. (Although we nearly killed people with chocolate flinging. Ka told me to throw like a girl, but I couldn't ;;^^ I'm used to overhand throws, not underhand ;;^^ Sorry, if any of you are reading this.) We talked about terminology and popular series and whatnot, and fielded questions if we could. Being the h0 I am, one of the quiz questions was "Name a role that Koyasu Takehito has played". KU KU KU. I'm very pleased that people were well-versed in his Specialness - one of them even mentioned Tatsuya >D (Well, she didn't remember his name, but she said the boy in Persona 2, so Ka and I squealed and gave her chocolate. >_> ) But yes, there was a quiz. Some of my more evil questions was "Spell Weiss Kreuz correctly" (took three people to answer) and "Where IS the prostate, anyways?" (only ONE person in the audience of 100+ could answer it, and that was after I'd picked on about half a dozen people. The usual dialogue: Me: Where is the prostate....you. *points* Audience Member: The prostate! :D Me: ....yes, but the question was, where is it? AM: ...I don't know THAT! (With a tone of, "What kind of dumb question is THAT?") I wonder how many of these people had written yaoi lemons before, despite their ignorance of the basic anatomy of the region. >_> Most of them, if they actually tried to answer the question, said it was in the ass. Er, NO! >_> Is that really such a nitpicky question to ask? It's like, er, saying that IniD ficwriters should know that the characters use a dang stickshift if they want to write a race scene. Dom ran in near the beginning and humped my leg. He tried to escape, but he'd dropped his badges, so he chased Ka around the table. Ku ku ku. But on the whole, I enjoyed myself; it's always fun to be around other fangirls (although the screaming got a bit deafening at times, and sometimes they forgot that we were trying to touch on the MAJOR series, not each and every one in the world. >_>) Maa, ii wa! And you always meet a few new interesting people as a result of the panel. I THINK, however, that people were confusing the KristiPriya Continuum, and were somehow mashing Tay into that range. So I was sort of KristiPriyaTay to a few of the audience. @_@ Because they thought I'd written influential YYH fics when Karen mentioned the CoD. Hm. @_@ So, the yaoi panel was fun. Afterwards, though, we realized that there were about 6 people sleeping in the hotel room already, and it was late. So we grabbed some DJ and my PSX, and trekked to the game room. I showed Ka the OP for Innocent Sin (and was pleased when someone in the game room was all O_O Is that PERSONA? :D) and then the game room closed so we sat in the lobby for about five hours. Our logic was that if we waited until the staff members left the room, we could have it to ourselves to sleep. So we sat in the lobby, talked about DJ, and talked with some random people who wandered by, one of which, Hope, had been at the yaoi panel. Nice thing about cons, as I said, is meeting new people. (I think I remember her LJ URL; I'll check it out later.) So we talked, and crashed at about 6:30 am. I woke up at 10:30 am, which was good, because Kawamoto Toshihiro's panel was at 11 am. I rushed down there, and found Eleanor and Meng in line, so I joined them to have someone to go to the panel with. We sat in the second row and took some pictures. It was a really interesting panel; Kawamoto-san had brought a BUNCH of the cels and pencil drawings and time sheets and backgrounds whatnot for the Bebop movie and pasted them onto huge posterboards to illustrate how exactly a cel is drawn and edited and timed and painted and placed into the sequence. Really really fascinating; I didn't know any of that before. I also proved myself to have a great memory for useless knowledge when someone asked what the name of the girlfriend in the first episode was. I thought, "Wasn't it Katarina?" and Kawamoto-san confirmed it. >_> After the panel was the signing; I got my great Bebop calendar/poster from something like the January 1999 Animage signed. He drew Ed's smiley-marks :D It's hanging over my bed now. (He's a lefty, too - what IS it with southpaw artists? I only really noticed because I noticed that he was twisting his hand weirdly when signing with the silver ink pen, and then I realized it was because he was a left-hander like myself, and was doing what I do to keep from smearing wet ink.) I wandered into the dealer's room one time, only bought the Boogiepop OST. Went in a second time, bought about 7 volumes of Gravi manga and a T-shirt I'm amused by. It's a gaming company's, I think, and I better look up their games. It says "Pimp Slap: LOOK at me when I'm hitting you." One of the girls who'd been at the yaoi panel asked me where the hardcore s&m bondage pr0n was. I blinked and pointed vaguely at the one dealer selling SE Night's stuff, because that's the best she could hope for at this con. But...man, asking a stranger that...maybe I'm still young and easily shocked? Then I went up and located Ka. Er--- what DID we do all afternoon? I found that I'd lost my gameshark somewhere, and I swore, but I can reorder that. Already did. It should be here by the end of the week. We - that's right, we went to Mitsuwa to get food. I needed sushi. When we came back, we ate and looked at DJ until - until - well, then we went down and hung out in the boardroom with the people working on the newsletter. >D I tried calling Rence, but couldn't get ahold of her. ;_; I'm sad that I couldn't find her at ACen! ;____; I thought she'd come to the yaoi panel, but...I did see Janaki in passing, and I told her our room number so we could hook up on Sunday. But we spent most of the evening hanging out in the newsletter room with the staff, being totally silly. I proofed a few of their articles, we read manga, showed each other weird flash videos and stuff like Tokyo Breakfast...the usual hangout. At around 11 pm Juri and I went to the SECOND Megatokyo panel (they had to schedule a second one because the first one was SO HUGE...when are they gonna learn?) and we harrassed the panellists for a while (I was "Stephanie Chang" for that, BTW ^_~) until the audience came in. Dom stripped to his heart-print boxers and did the Yatta! dance, among some of the milder antics. I crept out at 11:45 pm, went back to the newsletter room, collected Ka and Steph, and dragged them with me to watch the second half of Boogiepop. Which I LOOOOOOOOOOVED, and I think Steph and Ka liked. I hope. It was their first time seeing ANY Boogiepop, and so I did a quick explanation of the basic background, and how all these episodes were more or less vignettes set in the same universe, or pieces of a puzzle. But man, that was fun, watching it in a big half-empty silent room in the dark. :DDD After Boogiepop we went back to the newsletter room and watched an Angelic Layer digisub (I had to scream at Ka and Steph to stop speculating on dollsex, and retaliated with the MiffyPr0n story XD) and then we watched some X digisubs. I swear, fangirls are SO HILARIOUS when they're sleep-deprived. We turned up the bass, turned on episode...er...whatever, Onmyou, and put our hands flat on the table to feel the rumble when Subaru spoke. KU KU KU. Well, he only spoke about thrice in the episode, so it was a lot of screaming at him to SPEAK! SPEAK, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! And then there was the Inuki episode, where we realized that Yuzuriha would only marry the first person who could see her Spiritual Beaver...I mean, Dog. ^_~ Of course we're filthy; it's three #y fangirls in the same room! At 5 am Ka and I crashed, and woke up at around 9-ish. Janaki called, and we decided to meet her at 11 am. One last trolling of the dealer's room, where I bought the Assassin and White Shaman artbooks (it only took me, what, 3-4 years to cave in? >_>) and wandered about. I WANTED to buy the Boogiepop DVD box set, but the one guy that had it was offering a "sale price of 25% off" - and the original price was $99.99. >_> Yeaaah, RIGHT. A sale price more expensive than you can get it for online? >_> We went to lunch with Janaki and a few of her friends - we went to Sally's, which was a nice pancake place. The waitress, when escorting us to our table, looked at me and said, "I heard you were evil," and smiled. She was a nice middle-aged lady, and I just kind of went O_O; at her. (I'm not making this up, right, Ka, Janaki?) We left Chicago at 1:00 pm - Karen had a bus to catch from Champaign at 4:00 pm so we floored it all the way back. I found out that Ka-chan might like the Pixies and the White Stripes, but she will never have love for Iggy and the Stooges. Alas, Iggy! ;_; Last night I just CRASHED - I went to bed at 9:30 and slept the entire night. @_@ So that was my ACen. Fascinating, huh? >_> Now Playing: Gas Chamber - Luv Beam (which we played at eardrum-shattering volume as I zoomed down I-90 express at around 80 mph. I hit 90 mph at one point. It was cold and overcast, but the skyline of Chicago looks so good under a grey sky.) Friday, April 19, 2002, 12:50 p.m. One day we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.Ugh. Six more hours and two training sessions and a three-hour drive left before I'll be at ACen. I did some quick last-minute packing, threw an armful of jellies into a suitcase with some clothes, and I'll be driving up after work. Sitting here now, it's hard to imagine what I'll be doing in nine hours. >D I'm trying to remember everything I have to do before I leave, the most of important of which is "GET YOUR ALLEGRA SAMPLES." I don't need to be on Benadryl when driving up X_x. Krisit's surprised that so many people visit her blog; I'm not sure why. :D She actually talks about interesting things and Meaningful Issues. Of course people are going to read your blog, krisit. Bleh. I've been thinking a lot about the future recently. I'm nervous about it. It's kind of unsettling to realize that one day people are going to rely on my knowledge and decisions to save their lives or relieve their pain. If that kind of responsibility isn't creepy, nothing is. >_@ I noticed that a federal judge upheld the assisted-suicide law in Oregon. I fondly(?) remember memorizing the trivia that Oregon and the Netherlands were the two places in the world that had legalized assisted suicide - for my med school interviews, of course. They always asked me what I thought about it. It's a tricky situation. The problem is that most laypeople have no idea what "assisted suicide" means - they have these mental images of the people in white coats cackling maniacally and injecting some poor old woman with cyanide or knifing her in her sleep. ^_~ It's not like that at all, you know; doctors have invested a lot of money and time learning how to save lives, and it's not particularly easy for them when a terminally-ill patient asks for help in dying. Now, there are a bunch of different types of euthanasia, all neatly outlined on this page. My uncle I suppose underwent passive euthanasia when he was dying of lung cancer; with his permission and that of his family (his wife, son, daughter, and daughter-in-law are all doctors, as was he), they stopped the insulin that he'd been taking, and he died within a few hours. So that's one way; most forms of euthanasia involve the patient taking the final step himself, and the doctor provides the means, such as a prescription for morphine. So the question is - what restrictions should be put on it? It seems that allowing it doesn't cause doctors to kill their patients left and right; it seems that only 23 people requested the prescriptions from their doctors since the law was enacted, and only 17 actually took it. You know, let's talk about something happier. @_@ Woke up at 6 am to wash my hair today. X_x Which meant I was dead tired all morning. I should find driving directions from the Hyatt to Mitsuwa, if I have a sushi wang this weekend. Yeah, that's what I should do now. I'll see some of you at ACen, and the rest of you online after this weekend. Man~ I hope I get my Bebop poster signed. I dug up a Newtype poster from 1999 right after the series ended. T_T Now Playing: Brian Eno - Blank Frank (this album is eating my SOUL.) Wednesday, April 17, 2002, 12:35 p.m. Have you ever had those mornings when you wake up and think, "I need some mid-70's Brian Eno to make my day complete?" .........no?Well, I have. And I was lucky; I remembered that I had my copy of 1973's "Here Come the Warm Jets" in my backpack. So I have been fulfilled today. <3 Shannon, I brought you an armful of evil to play at work. XD What'd I do last night~ hm~ well, I watched .hack//sign episode 2. More of the same; I still find the show interesting. Kya said she'd watch it when she came HOME from Japan - as many US otaku seem to forget, interesting anime is on at inconvenient times, usually, so it's easier to be at home in the US, downloading and watching at your leisure, than it is to be in Japan. Why on earth should she stay up until, what, 1:30 am Wednesday to watch .hack//sign as it airs, when she could come home and watch all the episodes she missed one afternoon when she's bored? I actually want to go to Yaoicon this year to see Sannasubi-neesan. But~ I'll be in Denver, probably without a car. >_< Er, if anyone's going to Yaoicon from east of Denver, and is gonna be in the area, can you give me a ride? T_T As for the IL-gumi becoming the CO-gumi...it's not my fault! T_T I need to remember to bring all my phun to ACen. Ka, if you reaaaally want, I can bring a large number of my jellies. If I bring a PSX, will you play IS with me? Lemme know. I also have plans to spend time with Rence, but those are nebulous. And if you're going to ACen, watch Boogiepop with me! T_T It's going to be showing at something like midnight - 3 am Saturday and Sunday, but, but---! And one last thing: if you're reading this and want to say hello to me at ACen, drop by the yaoi panel on Friday night. I am neither scary nor intimidating; if I bite you, it's because you stepped on my tentacles. Now Playing: Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 03:36 p.m. FTR, I remembered to wear pants to work today.I'd like to apologize for the entry below. Remember, I was on a lot of Benadryl at the time. Just call it "Priya's Incoherent Babbling Hour." Now Playing: Electronic - Haze Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 01:35 p.m. o/~ He screams, "My life's not over, please get out, - I know I'm shouting, I like to shout!" o/~Man, what a weekend. I wish I knew WHAT I was allergic to so that I could avoid it, but...maa, ii wa. I'm really fuzzy-headed from all the Benadryl I've been taking, but it beats having my mouth and eyes swell. Yick. Hey, Kya, here's an amusing word: ommatophobia - a fear of eyes. XD And opsablepsia - the inability to look someone in the eye while speaking. Rinno-nee~ <3 And the Boogiepop is an agelast - a person who never laughs. This Grandiloquent Dictionary is pretty cool. XD This morning I checked my mail and I found a letter from Rin. I puzzled at it and took it with me to the car to read at work. I flipped it over and found the lyrics to "Everything Counts" on the back. I'm gonna kill j00, Rin! :D I actually got off my ass and downloaded the first episode of two new shows yesterday, namely .hack//sign (which I actually wanted to see) and Chobits, which was with the car-crash mentality. I guess I'll talk about those, since my head is so incredibly fuzzy I won't be able to talk about anything serious today. Besides, I have a 2-hour workshop on the use of the comma today. >_> .hack//sign is kind of interesting. It's set mostly in an old-fashioned swords-and-sorcery MMPORG (massively multi-player online roleplaying game? isn't that what that means?) called "The World." Watching the players in the game made me smile because it was so familiar, down to trying to bash the demons who pose you stupid riddles when you throw an object in their enchanted pool. Anyways, so, you're in this giant VR RPG, and it looks like gamers wear a kind of visor to immerse themselves in this world. Now, you've got your hero - I still don't know his name! - who's a sorcerer-type figure in the game and is wandering about, avoiding all the other players like mad. Apparently he's being hunted by the equivalent of the game cops because he did something bad - or he was seen with a player who had a cat avatar, and this Cat did something bad to the game so the Hero is under suspicion too. But for some reason he can't remember what he did wrong, if he did anything. So he keeps teleporting away when anyone tries to talk to him, since he wants to figure out what's going on on his own. (One of the people he keeps bumping into tells him that if he's having problems with the game, to just reboot the computer and rejoin. But he doesn't. Hmmm...she also tells him that a loser in real life is STILL a loser on the internet. XD ) He opens a treasure chest and acquires a mysterious invisible guardian spirit, who promises to protect them as long as they walk together. So he keeps going, and gets in a fight with one of the game cops, who kicks his ass. But when he's about to be beaten, the guardian spirit materializes and completely annihilates the game cop. The spirit looks like a giant fluid golden dumb-bell with a golden ring inside the center of the bar. @_@ Oh, it's hard to explain this well. But if you've played RPGs, especially online ones, you'll identify with the setting immediately, such as the fun of trying to steer the animal you're riding INTO a gateway and not straight into a wall. :D And the mystery itself is kind of intriguing; you get it in bits and pieces. What's wrong with the game? What exactly did the person with the Cat avatar DO to the game? What's our Hero trying to do? When the Hero crushes a beetle, we see a crime scene in real life, with a dead gamer sprawled on the floor being inspected by cops - are people somehow locked into the game? I want to see more, and I guess if you like shows centered on mystery, you'd like this. Another thing is the music; some people have compared it to the Noir music. I agree, and I like it too; it's the same sort of soundtrack where loud choral songs instead of subdued orchestral pieces are the BGM. The artwork's clean and nice, and so is the animation. I'm going to try to get some more. Chobits (aka: CLAMP goes softcore). Man, I downloaded this with the feeble hope that the art would be nice and I wouldn't be too horrified. I'm not much of a CLAMP fan, but I can watch their stuff usually. I knew the basic premise of Chobits; it's about some guy and his scantily-clad robot girl with cat-like ears. I also knew that it was CLAMP's attempt to pander to fanboys. So I settled down to watch it. I have no words. Really. The entire show revolves around the premise that guys would love to have half-naked prepubescent blank-eyed mentally-damaged robotic RealDolls to fulfill their every desire, such as cleaning, cooking, reading email, and helping them surf pr0n websites. It's just amazing the number of times the word "ERO SITE" was said in the first episode. The main character's new neighbor even uses his tiny harem-dressed childlike Pasucom (the name for these humanoid computers) to surf pr0n sites, and he proudly admits it. @_@ I mean, it's just shameless; all Chii exists to do is to fuel the hero's monkey-spanking fantasies, because all he does is run into nosebleed-worthy situation after situation with her. He turns away, he turns back, and she's on all fours, wiggling her ass in the air as she innocently reads one of his pr0n magazines. The only thing she can say is "chii" - because it would be a pain if she actually had a functioning OS and could SPEAK or DO THINGS. Did I mention where her "on switch" is? That's right, he has to literally "turn her on." It's just...weird, man, weird! I don't insist that every female in every show has to be an empowered, self-sufficient womyn-with-a-y. But there's something vaguely creepy about Chii. She's physically prepubescent. She's defective and didn't have an OS installed, so she can't think on her own or even speak (other than the word "chii"). All she can really do is copy her master's movements, and when her master is a pr0n-hound gakusei...well...and her master is obviously LUSTING after her. I think I was ranting last night about "blank-eyed p3d0 real-doll fantasies", and someone reminded me about Ayanami. ^_~ Well, I still don't get it! When her master checks her all over for her "on switch" - he even squeezed her chest to check - and he concludes that there's one place he hadn't checked for her switch - her girl bits (cue too-long closeup of her crotch) - you switch to romantic piano music as he crawls on all fours to Chii and thrusts his fingers in there. Which "turns on" Chii, so all her clothing (so to speak; she was left on a trash heap dressed in nothing more than strategically placed bandages) - her BANDAGES all fall off, and she crawls over all naked and child-like and starts clinging to him, pressing her chest into his crotch. And that seems to be the meat of the show; she's mindless and helpless and will rub against him so he can nosebleed and comment on how cute and soft and warm she is. Dude, how would guys like it if the male pasucoms had to be turned on by priming their wangs a few times? Like you prime a lawn mower's motor? Hahahaha, though, last night the #y-gumi were talking about the impracticality of placing her on switch THERE. We figured that when the master of such a Pasucom would try to unF her, then you'll have problems: on-off-on-off-on-off....XD Anyways. The art is pretty, the OP is annoying yet catchy, and chobits is a exercise in fanboy wanking. But if you like CLAMP no matter what, just because it's CLAMP, you'll probably watch this anyways. Katie tells me it sort of has a plot. Buuullll. ^_~ Uh, what else~ I read the Himikoden manga #1 (is there a second one? or was this the end?) and Sci-Fi Harry #1-2 (complete). Himikoden - well, I saw the anime, which was gorgeous but ultimately unsatisfying, simply because so many potentially interesting ideas were left hanging and because Himiko annoyed me so much. Well, man, the manga's quite different, if I'm understanding it correctly. To start out, let me just say that it's a Oogureito manga. (Oh!Great also did Tenjou Tenge, natch.) That being said, you know it's going to have gratuitious fanservice BUT - and this is an important but - the bouncing will be counteracted by ass-kicking. I don't mind if the female leads are anatomically improbable and likely to lose their shirts IF they can take your ass to the cleaners in the process. I don't peg this to being something progressive in Oh!Great's thinking; I think he just likes bouncing AND ass-kicking, so he combines them. :D ANYWAYS. In the manga, Himiko - (it's interesting; the Hikimo of the other world, who's a skeleton/person nailed to the wall, has the name Himiko - with the "fire" hi. But Himiko of this world has the "day" hi in her name. Interesting...) has a lot more power and influence on the story than she does in the anime. When the monsters suddenly attack her school, she remembers herself / switches personalities (or she gets really serious and able to cast violent magic spells really suddenly :P pick your explanation) and casts incredibly destructive spells and physically rips the arm off a demon. ;;^^ Compare that with the anime Himiko, and you can see why I was all O_o;;; Other differences - uh, that cute girl with the long pink braids and glasses and foofy dresses? That Queen candidate? Well, in the manga, she's not useless; she uses a giant shoulder-mounted rifle when she fights. ;;^^ I'd need to grab my manga to summarize the plot changes better, but...oh, it's different, that's all I can say. The only consistent characters are Kutani, Himiko, and the Queen Candidates - and I think I only saw...four or five of them. I didn't see the pale one who drinks all the time. It has something to do with a broken mirror; half is in the other world, half is with Kutani. Anyways, I may say more about that later, but I find it amusing when Kutani blows something up, turns to the audience, and goes, "I AM SO--- COOL!" (something about mecchakuccha kakkoii XD) Sci-Fi Harry is...well, it's a Puu manga. It's about a shy, awkward high school boy who has telekinesis - but each time he uses his powers (such as bending a spoon for some TV show on psychic phenomena), the police discover a horribly mutilated body with its head twisted off or its body twisted into a corkscrew. It's part Carrie, part SE7EN...and throw in a mysterious (gov't?) agency interested in exploiting Harry's powers and a creepy little psychic girl who can stop bullets with her mind and twist your head off if you threaten Harry...well, I liked it. It's one of those creepy, slightly paranoia-inducing series that I tend to like. There's a little romance - sort of - but if you need romantic hijinks and happiness and light in your stories, you'll hate SFH. I suppose if you liked Lain and Boogiepop and that ilk, you'd at least find SFH mildly interesting. Or if you're just Special like me. You know what, I have no idea how to get my jellies to CO when I move there. My parents are NOT going to transport boxes of manga and doujinshi there, and will probably try to make me leave them behind on the grounds that they'll distract me when every precious braincell needs to be dedicated to medical studies. >_>; And perhaps there's a grain of truth there too; I don't know how the first year will be like. I don't know how hard it'll be for me, how much free time I'll have, how batty I'll go. Krisit, we should talk about those CO plans; I might need to live by myself the first year just to see how it goes with school, and maybe room with you the second year when I'm more used to this med school BS. But - even if that's the case, it'd be nice if you were in the same town. ;_; So let's talk about this. That's enough for now; I have to work on making a presentation on efficient websurfing. ^_~ Now Playing: Aphex Twin (the Richard D. James album) - 4 |
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This layout is of one of those incredibly important yet mostly unexplained events in Boogiepop Phantom: the beam of light. (As far as I know, that is; I dunno if people dissolved into beams of light every other page in the novels. ;_;) As far as I can figure out (I've watched the show thrice and I'm STILL confused about things...) Echoes was at the center of the beam of light in Warawanai, and the Manticore, Saotome-kun, the Boogiepop, Echoes, and Nagi were all on the roof. Anyways, this layout was made under the influence of the Alien Sex Fiend cover of Pink Floyd's "Echoes." The main font is called "Prefix", and the image comes from my Ogata Kouji Boogiepop artbook. It's art from the "Boogiepop in the Mirror: Pandora" novel. In other words: "Look, Maw! No MegaTen art!" |  eminyu : jurinyu : leda : htk linkblog : ka-chan : mii-chan : krisit : dess : kya-chan : angie : deshi : rnm : chi : xiola : wufie : gregly : koukou : matt : becca : tay : tamanyu : steph0rZ : katie : megly : stephen : kai : rence : shannon : may : joy : kristina charmian : leareth : tin : technomancy : taylor : meimi : mara : ragabash : gen-chan : sakki : vituperation : frank : alexa : sabina : janaki : lalaland : myra : amei : diana : jae : sarah : ficbitches Nobutoshi Canna : Andy Lau : John Hargrave : Neil Gaiman : Katakura Kei (DJka) : Minekura Kazuya (mangaka)  [ peeji ][ archives ][ email ] cruel.com :: the onion :: seanbaby.com :: BC :: engrish.com :: satirewire [ < gamergirl blogs > ] « # musicforgirls ? » |