basic black version twenty-two: don't run away, it's only me

name: priya
age: 21
d.o.b: march 9
location: IL
sign: pisces/metal rooster/ashwini
aura:gold // color:brown
alignment: neutral evil
evil: kinda evil (7.5)
keirsey: INTJ

Big O - Cowboy Bebop - DiGi Charat - Trigun - Petshop of Horrors - Excel Saga - Gokudo-kun - lain - Saiyuki - Basara - Tenjou Tenge - Hameln

iggy pop :: david bowie :: rolling stones :: orbital :: BT :: depeche mode :: massive attack :: english beat :: velvet underground :: lou reed :: brian eno :: modest mouse :: morphine :: placebo :: magnetic fields :: adam ant :: siouxsie :: cure :: t rex :: beastie boys :: neuroactive :: bauhaus :: underworld :: air :: juno reactor :: tricky :: nitin sawhney

form one

eminyu : jurinyu : htk linkblog : ka-chan : mii-chan : krisit : dess : kya-chan : angie : deshi : rnm : chi : xiola : wufie : gregly : koukou : matt : yasha : becca : janeru : tay : tamanyu : steph0rZ : katie : megly : stephen : kai : rence : shannon : may : joy : kristina

form two

leareth : tin : technomancy : rei : : pocketsound : : taylor : meimi : mara : ragabash : gen-chan : sakki : vituperation : frank : alexa : sabina : amy : janaki : lalaland : myra : amei : diana : jae : sarah : rachael : sinnamon : odd google : ficbitches

Nobutoshi Canna : Andy Lau : John Hargrave : Neil Gaiman : Katakura Kei (DJka) : Minekura Kazuya (mangaka)

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What IS this? I'm afraid it's another Persona blog layout; this time it's of the final boss from Persona 2: Tsumi (Innocent Sin), a game which I beat in the first week of February. This is Nyarlathotep in his form as the "Great Father" - he takes the form of the fathers of the five main characters. And attacks them. Half of those fathers are DEAD, anyways, hence the song title reference...It's really...bizarre, as you can see, fighting your parents when they're the limbs of a tentacle monster. >D I love that game! Honestly, it was a great RPG, for all that I had to play it entirely in JP. ._.# I know it's a pretty big layout, and may load a bit slowly. I just needed to share the tentacled goodness. T_T Quiet. You are all Nyarly's bitches.

Saturday, March 9, 2002, 01:56 p.m.

o/~ Everytime I get high, you wanna crawl down, everytime I get hot you say you wanna cool down, you say it's enough, but in fact it's too much o/~

I just thought I'd post this referrer, because it amused me too much.

08 Mar, Fri, 20:17:31 Yahoo: uNF yaoi meaning

Booyaka. Thanks for your good wishes today, I really appreciated them. >D

Now Playing: Nine Inch Nails/Queen - Get Down Make Love (I have both the original and the cover; listened to them back to back to get a good giggle XD)

Saturday, March 9, 2002, 08:56 a.m.

o/~ I'll be waiting for you, if you ever want to be there.. o/~

Krisit, you were right about the DMV. I was second in line, but, like, thirty people were there at 8 am. Ridiculous. But I have a new license, complete with bad picture. Yay.

Last night May drew an awesome sketch of Eikichi , because I'd asked her to draw him. As an, uh, thank-you sketch, sort of, I drew her a matching Ginko. Lisa Silverman is just about the last character I ever thought I'd draw, but I just started sketching, and it wasn't sucking, so I kept drawing faster and faster to get the drawing done before my mojo faded. It turned out pretty well, I think. I apologize for the sketchy quality and all the extra lines; I'm a lefty so my hand always smears graphite. Hee hee. :D Thanks, May!

That person in my referrers who wanted to know how to beat Joker Ulala from Persona 2: IIRC, Earth spells - especially Stone Rise - are SO the way to go. And try to be around level 20, IIRC. Ulala's normally Earth, but as Joker Ulala, her affinities flip-flop and she uses Wind Spells, making her weak against Earth.

Tanzit, I was looking at your 80's ghei music clique layout, and I was muttering the lyrics in the BG to myself, trying to remember what they were. I had to stop my winamp to properly sing them, and then I realized it was ABC's "Look of Love". >D Go deshi!

I'm gonna lie on my couch and play Persona until my brain melts, or my parents call demanding my presence. :D I hear that I'm not actually a Revati in the Vedic astrological whatnot, but I guess I'm an Ashwini, according to the astrologer Mom just consulted in India. (They go by what star was rising when you were born, etc etc. In Chinese whatnot, I'm a Subaru ^_~ that's right! PUUBARU LIVES! >D) Here's a little explanation of the Ashwini nakshatra. Looks like I'm ruled by Ketu, the spirit of the lunar eclipse. Shibby. Weirdly enough, although Revati was a star in Pisces, Ashwini is a star in Aries. @_@ Well, whatever. My mom and grandmother were thrilled to find out that I was an Ashwini; the Ashwini twins are the divine physicians. @_@

This sort of stuff is interesting, but I wonder how you can seriously believe in it. ^^ But! Here, you can calculate YOUR Nakshatra here! It gave me that I was an Ashwini (Aries) despite the fact that I'm a Pisces. Shibby, it works then.

OK, time to melt my brains. Wow, the weather's SHITTY outside. Black clouds, really really fierce winds. And here's some evidence from last night:

kristina: I'm even more tired. I'm off~
puu: noooo~
kristina: morning person ni nateshimau ^^;
kristina: sooooooo tiiiiiiired
puu: nooooooo~!
puu: i'll eat your brains!
kristina: you can. I'll be asleep
puu: fine.
kristina: ah! but I'm wearing navy socks!
puu: what socks are you wearing?
puu: O_O
kristina: you *can't* eat my brains
puu: change them!
puu: immediately!
kristina: no~!
puu: YOUR SOCKS WILL NOT PROTECT YOU FOREVER!
kristina: ufufufufu

(Explanation: In the beginning of the Boogiepop novel Kristina's reading, a boy finds a dead girl in a tea house. They explain, very precisely, that she had thin feet in thick white cotton socks, which led us to speculate that white cotton socks were a prerequisite for having your brain eaten by the Man-Eater or the Manticore.)

sw33t.

Now Playing: Faith No More - Midlife Crisis

Friday, March 8, 2002, 10:05 a.m.

First you pillage, THEN you burn.
OR:
"Whoa! He's having an out-of-body Noh experience!"

Sorry, people who are used to me being up to ungodly hours...X_x I've just been so tired recently that I've actually been getting 6, 7, 8 hours of sleep instead of my usual 4-6. Maybe I'm getting old or something.

I actually sat down and "read" (I use that term in the loosest possible sense) my volume of Boogiepop wa Warawanai. Now, the first time I just scanned it, I wasn't all that impressed, mostly because of the cannibalistic yur1 s3x0r in the first two pages. (Kristina, dangit, I closed the window with your ranting about n3cr0philia and thick white cotton socks! Why do I keep erasing the evidence of your insanity? XDDD) Anyways, the deal is, the first several color pages are the Manticore eating a girl, in both senses of the word. ;;;^_^ (Well, she's more absorbing her energy than actually tearing into her flesh, but...) And Saotome-kun comes in, and at first he's freaked out, and then he leeeers. ;;^^ So at first I was like, yawn, shock value, neeeexxt....and then I forced myself to actually "read" it. And I actually found myself liking it, and wanting the next volume, if only to explain more! O_O The main story in volume 1 is about Takeda-kun, a guy who goes to Shinyo Gakuen. He's a junior or senior, I think; he's called sempai and I think he's in Touka's grade. ANYWAYS. One night he's out walking when he sees this guy hunched over in the middle of the street, frothing and screaming. The passersby are looking at him funny, but in general are just kind of walking by and ignoring him. The Boogiepop appears - in the middle of a CROWD! - and looks at the frothing man. Then she raises her voice and says, "How can you see a crying man and not do anything about it? So much for 'civilization'. In this dog-eat-dog world, the weak are left behind." (or something like that; I forget your exact translation, Kristina, so this is a paraphrase.) Takeda stares at the Boogiepop, recognizing her to be Miyashita Touka from his school, and then the cops show up to take care of the 'lunatic'. The Boogiepop mox0rZ the cops, and one takes a swing at her, but she dodges and melts into the crowd. And Takeda's in lurrrrrrrve, or he at least thinks, "Whoa, that was trippy." Now, I'm not sure, but I think Takeda either likes Touka, or is actually dating her. I skipped that bit mostly..eh heh heh. So anyways, he thinks this shiznat is REALLY WEIRD. So the next day, as he's leaving school, he sees a familiar cloaked shadow heading up the stairs to the roof, and he dashes after her and catches her on the roof. "Miyashita, what are you doing?" The Boogiepop turns to him and says, "This isn't Miyashita Touka." Takeda blinks, and she says, "Right now, this is the Boogiepop." So this leads to a long discussion of what the Boogiepop is...what you'd expect. Takeda's suprised, but he's more curious than terrified. The Boogiepop explains that Miyashita Touka doesn't know anything about her, and that she's here because there is evil in this school. So they talk for a while, and Takeda goes home and is very weirded out. "Touka doesn't know anything about the Boogiepop?" So he calls her at home, talks his way past her mom, and finally gets Touka on the phone. He asks her, "Have you heard of something called the 'Boogiepop'?" She says, "Huh?" and Takeda says, "Nevermind, it's not important. I just wanted to hear your voice. :D" But he's still unable to stop thinking about the Boogiepop, so the next day right after school he runs up to the roof, and the Boogiepop is there waiting for him.

So every day for, like, a week or two, Takeda skips cram school to meet the Boogiepop on the roof. He sits on the edge, the Boogiepop stands/looms right next to him, and they watch the sun set and just...talk. O_o It's so odd, and yet kind of cute. He's smiling as he talks to her, but the Boogiepop of course is expressionless. And they talk about...uh, life and stuff, I think, about the Boogiepop's mission, just...stuff! I mean, can you imagine just sitting around gossiping with the Boogiepop? O_o; She even sort of scolds him and tells him not to skip his cram school just to talk to her, but he does it anyways. :D She even makes him blush a few times by emotionlessly telling him that he's a good person, and she understands why Miyashita Touka likes him. He's embarrassed and asks which one of them he'll see in school tomorrow, and she tells him not to worry. "I'm me. And she is her." It's just WEIRD, MAN! They're, like, friends!

This daily ritual starts in late October - 10/26? and ends in early November. One day he comes up to the roof and Boogiepop is there in just her Touka-clothes. "Hey, where's the costume?" Takeda asks, and the Boogiepop explains that she doesn't need it today, because "Takeda-kun, it's over."

Takeda is startled. Boogiepop explains that her mission is over, and that "whenever there is a threat to the world, I arise like a bubble, the bukimi na awa, Boogiepop, yadda yadda yadda," and now it's time for her to disappear like a popped bubble. Takeda tries to argue with her, and the Boogiepop explains again that once her mission is over, she's supposed to disappear.

"Don't go!"

This makes Boogiepop blinkblink, and she notices that Takeda's actually *crying* at the thought of her disappearing. "Stay just a little while longer! You're my only friend!" The Boogiepop is startled some more, then she bows deeply to Takeda and thanks him. She says that he's made her stay interesting, and essentially that she's never had a 'friend' before when she's appeared. And then she disappears. Takeda trudges downstairs, and Touka's waiting for him outside, demanding to know what took him so long. And then Takeda makes the observation that explains the title of the series, I guess...

"Miyashita Touka is smiling..."
(the inference is, "...but the Boogiepop never smiles", or "Boogiepop wa warawanai.")

In the garden of the school, Suema-san is waiting, with another girl - Nagi. Nagi introduces herself to Touka, and they shake hands. (Kirima Nagi uses "ore". Anyone surprised by this, raise their hands. She's extra-butch with a topping of butch. Boogiepop, FWIW, uses "boku".) Anyways, so Takeda and Touka are walking along and talking about what they want to do in the future. @_@ And then Touka all of a sudden says something about how she's worried about her future...then she turns and winks at him. "Well, all right, I might "break through" a little sometimes..." Then she runs off and is normal again, and Takeda is astonished. "Was that the Boogiepop just now? o.o;;;"

The rest of the volume is about Suema and Kirima Nagi. Suema visits Nagi at home, meets Nagi's cute little half-brother, and finds out who Nagi's dad was.

Anyways, it was a really interesting volume, and I want more! T_T It says "to be continued", but this volume's a year old! ;_;

In other "my immortal soul would be imperiled if I could read JP novels" news, I found out that Kadono Kouhei - the guy who writes the Boogiepop novels - wrote another series of novels, with cover art (and maybe inside illustrations?) by Kaneko Kazuma, the guy who does the MegaTen art. Like my blog layout. Dude, if I could read well enough, I'd buy those in a flash. *sigh* ch33p h0, that's me.

Anyways, back to what I'm SUPPOSED to be doing.

Now Playing: New Order - Blue Monday

Thursday, March 7, 2002, 12:39 p.m.

This week, envy rears its ugly head, realizes there's nothing enviable about you, blinks a couple times, and goes back to sleep.

My mother's coming home from India today; she's been there since late January. It'll be really good to see her again, but at the same time, I'm really glad I finally have my answering machine hooked up so that I can screen my calls.

My sister can't make it for my birthday, but that's because she's busy and lives six hours away. Hey, Krisit, Lynn's going to be in C-U this weekend and wants to hang out with me; do you want to see her? I anticipate that my parents will insist on seeing me on Saturday, of course, but other than that...

God, I remember when I was little, and I would practically count down the days until my birthday, and be unable to sleep the night before. Now I'm old and grumpy and hoping that I'll be able to sleep most of the day without people bothering me - er, not counting you guys, you know what I mean. :D My big plan for Saturday is visiting the DMV...wait, is it open on Saturdays? It had better be. However, I doubt I'm going to do the same thing as many of my HS friends did on their 21st birthday, namely drinking way too much way too fast and puking their way into a new year. ._. I at least know how much I can drink. God, you'd think they'd never gotten drunk before.

As for my life, it's been terribly boring. Hundreds of people are dead in India, but for god's sakes, Hindus and Muslims have been killing each other for centuries. It's like being shocked that there's violence on the Gaza Strip. ._. If you're curious about why the heck they're fighting over Ayodhya, here's the five-minute summary:

THE BIG DEAL ABOUT AYODHYA, NAMELY WHY PEOPLE THINK IT'S WORTH KILLING OVER

I suppose you could say that to Hindus Ayodhya is a kind of Bethlehem or Jerusalem. Legend has it that Vishnu, the protective aspect of the Formless One God (yeh, the party line is that there's only one god in Hinduism; the so-called hundreds of gods are just personified ASPECTS of the one god...god the protector, god the destroyer, god the healer, etc etc...) Anyways. Vishnu supposedly took the form of Rama, the Perfect Man, and he was born as the Prince of Ayodhya. Lots of stuff happened (read the epic "RAMAYANA" if you're interested; it's kind of an interesting read involving a battle between good and evil, or a race war between the Aryans and the Dravidians, depending on how much you like to read between the lines). Then Rama returned from exile and took back his throne at Ayodhya, and his rule was a kind of Golden Age on earth. And his capital, and birthplace, and everything, was Ayodhya. So either he's god incarnate, and this was his kingdom, or he was a beloved legendary king, like, uh, King Arthur. At any rate, religious people take these stories very very seriously. And Hindus have worshipped Rama at Ayodhya for..I'd guess 2000 years. IIRC, the Ramayana was actually written down between 300 BC and 300 AD...so...

Anyways, when the Muslims came - the Mughals - their first order of business was to get rid of all this idolatry. So they probably tore down the existing temple there and built a mosque on the site in Ayodhya, as they did in hundreds and thousands of places all over India. And S.O.P. was to take the Hindu idols, break them, and place them face-down underneath the steps into the mosque, so that the devout Muslims would be stepping on the Hindu statues as they walked into the mosque. :P So, anyways, this sort of thing mightily pissed off the Hindus. And I guess they were biding their time until, what, 1990, when they tore down that mosque that was built on the birthplace of God Incarnate/Once and Future King sort of thing. They want to rebuild their temple to Rama, but the Muslims are pissed off that their 16th-century mosque (which is an old mosque, you know, but not as old as the temple that was torn down, I bet...) got torn down by idolaters, so...

Oh, you know how these people are. Personally I think it's ridiculous, but I've never understood why people fight over religion. To me, it's like WeiB fans and Saiyuki fans killing each other. Although that would be effing great to watch. I'd bring popcorn. >D

Right. I don't know...I remember visiting all that stuff in North India when I was 8 years old. I've been in Gothic cathedrals in France, Orthodox ones in Greece, mosques in India and Turkey, and countless Hindu temples...to me, they all have their peculiar beauty, and even if you're not spiritually inclined, they're all weirdly calming to be inside. Temples are usually dark and cool (at least the old temples which were built to resemble a mountain), and the scuptures are rounded and sleek with age. Mosques have that beautiful precise geometrical art, and are generally much brighter inside than temples. I can't even begin to describe how beautiful a gothic cathedral is, with the stained glass windows towering over you...I mean, they all calm me down! Why do people need to fight over this nonsense?

And now for something that's possible to answer. ;;^^ My friends who want stuff from Japan - you have a little under two weeks to send your requests and money to me (unless I owe you a gift or three, in which case, put your wallet away. Yes, that means you.) See my email addy over there on the left? Use it! :D

Don't worry, Kya, I'm sure we'll get drunk and ridiculous for Mii-chan's amusement. Wan wan, Youzen.

And THANK YOU for that doujinshi anthology. You don't even BEGIN to UNDERSTAND how wrong it is. XDD It DOES have lovely Razu art *_____* and Chimaki Kuori art *___* but the greatest thing is that I can ID the artist of 90% of those color plates and gag stories, since I've been to their pages. >DDDD And, GOD, THE GAG DOUJINSHI INSIDE ARE SO WRONG!!!! SO, SO WRONG! Such as the one with all the Kamen-to, and Leo is drooling and blushing and fantasizing about Joker-sama patting him on the head and smiling. "Yosh', yosh'..." "*purrrrrrrrrrrrrr*" and then he looks over at Jun. Joker-sama is veinthrobbing and gritting his teeth and glaring. "LEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOO...*growl*" And Leo screams like a little girl and clings to Taurus. And Taurus defends Ixquic from Leo because he's a lolikon freak. It's just so many kinds of wrong.

It's like Kristina said; just because Jun is as "beautiful as a goddess" doesn't mean he has a beautiful temper. >D Another gag comic involved Jun's Instant Ramen Neurosis.

In short, I looooooooooooooove this anthology. Consider your leg humped. And the Azure cloneslash! Oh god, Azure killed me with cute again. >DDD

Pants check...oh, ok. good. :D

Ugh. I can't wait for my Japan trip. I want a vacation.

Krisit, they finally came and fixed my dishwasher on Tuesday, 10 days after I called it in. Well, at least all my dishes were handwashed anyways X_x.

It's funny. I was gonna bring the doujin anthology to work to read during my breaks, and my instant reaction was, "What the hell am I thinking?! I can't bring one of my doujinshi to work!" Then I remembered that this doujinshi was PERFECTLY CLEAN.

It's sad when you're surprised to discover that you have doujinshi you could take out in public. I mean, not that all my doujin are Razu-esque smutfests (I was surprised to see that she could draw pretty women as well as hulking demons like Iori; her Maya's lovely), but even staring deeply into each others' eyes would look wrong, like Azure's stuff. I mean, an 8-year-old could read Azure's doujin without any fear, but....

No, no, wait. I have that Boogiepop doujin which is clean, and plenty of HE stuff that's clean...some Trigun...nevermind. I just remember the Wrong half of my collection.

I'd better get back to work. *huge yawn*

One more thought:

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads . . . . our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
� Herman Melville

Now Playing: Falco - Rock me Amadeus & Pixies - Debaser

Monday, March 4, 2002, 09:48 a.m.

Say it's oishii! Or ELSE!

Ka, I'm a h0. I forgot to include the lyrics for Truth I Need and the Persona Mambo in that .txt file. I must have missed them somehow, due to being blind and/or stupid and/or lazy. Here are the lyrics to Truth I Need, since you probably have all the Mambo lyrics correct anyways (I'll doublecheck when I get home)...

Pictures left behind in flashing tides
That holds the key to learn the truth you need
Find a place inside between the lines
Of what you need and capture beauty

In the breath of night
Cars and streetlamps collide
Like a dream
Like a stream
Leaving the trails behind
On the moonlight beach
Loves hand-in-hand reach
Jeweled skies
Spirits high
With heart their tongues will speak

Take all these treasure in
Frame them up on the wall
Can't you see?
Every little thing has its own story to tell

Cherish moments sweet
Snapshots of what will be
Words of past
Thoughts that last
Remember souls are to keep
Memories fade through
Lost in colors untrue
Seasons change
People change
If only some stayed the same

Always on my mind, the Muse in Rhyme
That holds the key to learn the truth I need
Find a place inside between the lines
Of purity and capture beauty

Hey, I must admit, their Engrish isn't all THAT bad.

Kristi came over last night and we watched the last DVD of Boogiepop. A) I wish I could write fubar mindfsck stuff like that. B) Dammit, the only thing worse than "read the manga" anime series are "read the novels" anime series. I can't read the bloody novels! ;_; Kristina! Tasukete-----!

Speaking of whom, Kristina, you're really funny when you're gushing about the "brain-eating action" in episode 4 of Boogiepop. My AIM crashed before I could save that convo, which is a real pity. That was amusing.

I had such strange dreams last night...not scary, but just full of people moving in the darkness without coming into focus. I'll chalk it up to watching Boogiepop before bed.

Mm. Going to be 21 on Saturday. I think I'll give myself a nice long sleep-in.

Now Playing: The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again

Sunday, March 3, 2002, 11:38 a.m.

A sideways crawl, a sideways scrawl
the Cancer crab is on us all o/~

Heh. I wasn't going to blog on the weekend either, but I read Ka's blog, and from there hopped onto Charmian's blog about alignments. By that description, I am LAWFUL EVIL. All-caps. XD That description of the angsting combined with nitpicking was too dead-on, and I was laughing myself silly. Because it's TRUE! I mean, hell, the last thing I watched last night was the end of Boogiepop Phantom, which is an Evil series if anything is, and my immediate reaction was to race for the phone/keyboard and find other fans to debate hotly over what REALLY HAPPENED at the end, and to make a TIMELINE to make it all clearer. >D

Then again, I'm a doujinshi wh0re, so...but I get along with Ka, who's Lawful Good, because, uh, we nitpick together. >DDD

Thanks, Charmian, I was highly amused. XD

As for Woogiepop....er, Boogiepop Dual, here's the info:

BOOGIEPOP DUAL - LOSER'S CIRCUS

Story: Kouhei Kadano, Art: Masayuki Takano (both written in English on the front, thank god)
Publisher: Dengeki Comics
Volume 1: 4-8402-1526-X
Volume 2: 4-8402-1705-X

So the story's by the guy who does all the Boogiepop stuff, and the art's pretty damn cute. It's a CUTE Boogiepop series. Well, I think so. There's still composite humans, I think, and death and blood and stuff, but the Boogiepop is a really shy easily-bitchslapped teenage boy, and the former Boogiepop has taken a job at his school as the school nurse to keep an eye on him/abuse him as necessary. >D

BTW, Krisit, you might find this amusing. I came home for lunch on Tuesday, and when I stepped outside at 12:45 pm, someone had double-parked behind my damn car so I couldn't get out and get back to work! >E So I called the tow truck, and the silver Benz got its ass towed. I wouldn't be surprised if the Benz was a friend of the person in the space next to me, who would probably be the assholes who got your car towed at 4:30 am on a Saturday (who else would be inconvenienced?)

See, towing a car at 4:30 am is one thing. But double-parking behind someone's car at lunch hour on campus is just asking to be towed. Even if I were a college student and not someone with a lunch hour and a job to return to, I'd need to get my car out of the space to get to a 1 pm class! Dumbasses.

Life's been pretty uneventful otherwise. Well, okay, this was amusing.

"Akka" == "oneesan" in tamil. I've never really called my older sister anything other than "Big Sister." I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've called her by her given name.

Anyways, I'm going to end this, because Ka wants me to look, REALLY LOOK, at the bondage-Kankichi in my layout, and be as traumatized as she is. Of course it's tramatizing! That's why I made it my layout! (Kankichi, BTW, is the leg-man you can see. >D )

ka: did you look at kankichi?
me: he...he DOES have an X-cutout over his belly...
ka: turn your face upside down so you can see him properly.
ka: he's looking at you, too! he's looking RIGHT AT YOU!
me: he loves us!
*Puu stands up and turns her head upside down to look at her layout upside down - all of you kids at home, try this too!
ka: >_>
me: JESUS, HE IS!

Now Playing: David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging

Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 04:13 a.m.

o/~ He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.. o/~

Man, what a uneventful week. X_x I didn't really HAVE much to blog about last week, so~

Krisit came over last weekend, and we played Mario 3 until we couldn't hold the controllers anymore, and we watched Gravitation 1-5. That's a cute, mindless, fluffy show, and it IS the famous male seiyuu dumping ground. I guess I liked it, because it was so silly and funny, instead of being all angsty and shit. It's a guilty pleasure.

We also watched Boogiepop Phantom Evolutions 2 and 3. We watched all this Friday night, and we were frothing for the last volume by the time we were done. So we looked at the clock, calculated that it was 8:30 am, and figured if we could just stay awake until 10 am, then we could go to Rentertainment and rent the last volume. I've had the entire series raw for, like, two years, but that's one series that makes your brain hurt if you watch it raw, and you simply MISS too much if you don't understand all the dialogue. Hell, I'm STILL confused, and I watched them now in English! So we needed to grab the last DVD. We go downstairs, and find out that one of my asshole neighbors had Krisit's car towed. See, she came at midnight, and we found out that the car had gotten towed at 4 am. Now, I can sort of understand it if someone had to work at 8 am and couldn't get their car out (which I doubt was the case, she was parked behind ME...) and towed the car. But getting it towed at 4 am means that they didn't REALLY need to get out, or they were coming back from a party of something. Grrr. Jerks. So we went, got her car, dumped it off in a parking lot, and then went back to Rentertainment, by which time it was around 10:30-ish. We harrassed poor Shannon (I was so sleep-deprived that I was babbling like an idiot) and found out that the last DVD of Boogiepop was CHECKED OUT. ;_; So we decided to rent to last volume in VHS, even though it was dubbed. We'd listened to about ten minutes of the dub on the DVDs last night, and it wasn't bad at all, and clung to the sub script like a limpet. So we figured that the dub wouldn't be so bad. We grab the tape, grab Chinese food (after driving around a while to wait for it to be 11 am), and go back to my place. When we popped the tape in...

It was a raw, unsubtitled tape....

of volume TWO.

We blinked, and called Shannon to let her know. Then we eventually dragged our asses back to Rentertainment to return the tape, and she was surprised that nobody had commented on it before (we were the SECOND people to rent it). Anyways, I got a free rental, which I'll save for today when the boogiepop 4 DVD supposedly comes back. Amazingly, the two boogiepop DVDs that I'd returned at 10:40 were checked out at 12:00. @_@ Damn, it's popular; it wasn't the cheap day for anime rentals, and it was a Saturday morning right after the store opened. @_@ I'm glad Boogiepop's so popular, but man~~ be popular AFTER I get the last volume! T_T Then we went back to my place and crashed for a few hours. Then we spent a large chunk of the night playing Persona 2, I think. See, Krisit had already started her game a long time ago, but since she was renting the game, she'd had to stop around level 40. So she played and played and played, and got all the way to the Metal Trio :D And I had NOTHING to do with this! I just..uh...

I've been informed that my official title is now Game-Fluffer. When people start to lose their gaming stiffy, I get them 'interested' again. XD *sigh* It's NOT my fault!

I taught my class on Sunday, which was great~~~ <3 <3 <3 I love the mythology class. It's so easy for me to tell stories for two hours straight.

Uh, what else. Um, Sunday I submitted my FAFSA online. Yay for financial aid. And my dad said that he wanted to see Queen of the Damned on Monday, so I rolled my eyes and said OK. Then on Monday afternoon, it started snowing. Not just flurries, but heavy, wet clumpy snowflakes, where you end up completely drenched in the 100 yards to your car. It was such a slippery and blind drive home that I called my dad and told him that I didn't know about the movie, because *I* didn't like driving in this weather. But he sounded a little put out, so I sighed and told him to pick me up.

My god. Queen of the Damned is such a bad movie. And I finally saw the preview for Star Wars episode 2, and all I can say is...I'm going for my Ewan wang. :D~~~~ Anyways, back to the Queen of the Damned. I read the book a long time ago when it came out. And I vaguely remembered the plot. Something about the twins, something about Akasha, something about Jesse, something about Lestat. But good god, they 'based' it on the book, and made a cheesy but weird storyline into just plain....bad and cheesy. If you've read the books, you might find this amusing.

Marius is Lestat's creator. He abducts Lestat to his hidden Mediterranean island, and they have an extremely gay scene where he makes Lestat a vampire, and then they hang out for a while before Lestat wakes the Queen and Marius storms off in a hissy fit.
Lestat is this tortured guy who just wants someone to end~~ his eternal loooonliness~~~
Maharet shows up for a total of five minutes in the movie. Mekare not at all, unless I'm forgetting something. Maharet is just 'that one vampire chick in Jesse's childhood memories', mostly. Akasha maybe gets 15 minutes of screentime.
Jesse and Lestat fall MADLY IN LOVE and he makes her a vampire so that she can, like, be his eternal companion.
David Talbot is in his early forties, judging from his looks. Oh, and I think Marius makes him a vampire.
Lestat and Akasha have lots of mad monkey sex0r. I'm sorry, I remember that Lestat DOES do girls...sometimes...but he seems to have more relish drooling over boys. My dad looked at me, and he said, "This is so gay." I said, "Only about 25% as gay as the books." He was impressed.
They kill Akasha by having Lestat drain her nearly dry, and then all the vampires present latch onto her and suck her dry, with Maharet taking the last drop and becoming a statue.

It was just...amusingly bizarre, the way they threw the book into a blender and picked random characters and did random things with them. >D I'm not even a fan of the series, but I was giggling in disbelief. Some stuff was nice to look at, but damn, what an awful movie. But I KNEW it was a bad movie...which was why I tried to talk my dad out of it.

Anyways. My hands are cold, and I'm going to get ready for work. Just had a short three-way call with Steph0rZ and Rin at 4:30 am. Hee. :D

Now Playing: David Bowie - Drive-in Saturday / Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again (extended version)

Monday, February 18, 2002, 09:58 a.m.

"They could hold hands? Er, hold hand? Whatever?"

That particular quote came from a long discussion last night that's best left to the imagination. Let's just say that people have written smut involving Thing from the Addams Family.

Shannon~! Don't worry, I had a great time on Thursday! I was more worried that I was annoying your family. ;;^_^ I'd love to do that again sometime, when it's convenient for you. Maybe I'll cook next time; I can make dosai or something, but that should wait until it's warm enough to open up windows and doors and stuff.

You know, sometimes it's really best that you can't blog when something pops into your head. I had this long dissertation on cutting that I'd spent about an hour thinking about randomly this morning, and I can't blog it, because I'm at work. Maa, maybe if I still feel the urge to blog about it, I'll do it at home. It was a rather interesting battle between the primitive junkie-like urge and the rational part of my brain. The rational part won easily, but it was still rather interesting in a clinical sense. I can still blog about it anyways if anyone's terribly interested in knowing why people - or I in particular - would do such a thing, or even think about it regularly with a certain amount of wistfulness. ;;^_^

Poor Dom came home from the con this weekend, twitching because someone apparently had made yaoi doujinshi about him. It's pretty sad when he has to retreat to the company of our band of frothing giggly yaoi fangirls for some 'sanity'. Oi, you fangirls who did this! Quit it, it's not funny. Dom's a real person. If he doesn't appreciate it, it's SO not cool to do it. I'll stick a sharpened fork in your Daiji na Tokoro if you traumatize my friends.

It is WAY too hot in here. *fan fan*

I'm almost done with a complete contact list/boss info list for Persona 2: Innocent Sin. I wonder what I should do with it when I'm done. o.o; Upload it somewhere? It'd make playing the game a lot easier for others...

Crap, I should have done my taxes last weekend, but I slept almost all weekend instead. Oooops. Oh well. I cleaned some, though.

Time to go back to reading. Due to this and that, my assignment for this morning is to keep reading "Words Into Type" until they give me something to do. >D

Now Playing: Brand New Idol - The Notorious Gentleman

Friday, February 15, 2002, 03:36 p.m.

o/~ New Music Machine, ni sen ichi nen ni~~ o/~

Tired. Quick post before I fall over and die in my bed.

Happy Birthday, Kya. Don't do anything I wouldn't do. And pity I can't remember that one phrase you taught me last night....okazu ni shite? That can't be right? Anyways, do that, Tenka. XD

Had a lovely time last night with Shannon and her family. More on that later. X_x

Brain...imploding...argh!

Now Playing: Cornelius - New Music Machine (I want his new CD! T_T)

Thursday, February 14, 2002, 04:22 p.m.

o/~ Butterflies turn into people, when my boy walks down the street o/~

Hm. The scanlations blog-thing rages on. I don't have anything to say because, quite frankly, if I hear about an interesting manga series, I just go and buy it. No, I don't understand half of what's going on. But I do my best with the knowledge of JP that I DO have, and discuss the series with other fans to fill out the holes in my knowledge. When I was in HS, yes, I leaned on my parents' money to support my manga-whoring habits, but now that I'm out of college and holding down a job, I pay for it myself. I don't read scanlations, never have, and I tried downloading digisubs, but I quickly fell behind because I didn't care enough to keep up with the latest digisubbed episodes. Oh well. Maybe I'll buy a tape or two when I'm in Japan.

This may sound like holier-than-thou elitism, but it's really a testament to supreme laziness. >D Actually, the only thing I saw in its entirety online were the KOF Zillions comics, and my reaction was to immediately GO OUT AND BUY THEM. Yes, I looked at them all online...and then I got them for myself. So maybe I AM on some sort of moral high ground. You shall all worship me and fear my holy wrath. Or not. ;_; I think I need to hire me some professional bitches. Kristi! Do you want to be my bitch? You get health benefits - at least after I graduate med school?

Anyways, more Bebop talk re: Krisit and Charmian's blog entry. Highlight, etc.

Um. Now I'm confused about the chronology myself. I thought Vicious was so bitter about the concept of comrades in the war on Titan because it was AFTER that whole whatnot. I thought Spike ran off...three years ago, was it? And the war on Titan was after that? The Titan War was around 2068, 2069 - that's when Vincent Volaju is listed as deceased ^_~ - and the current Bebop universe is in the year 2071, right? Even if it's in 2068, that places Vicious in the war AFTER Spike 'died'. Which would make his bitterness understandable. And that shot of him protecting Spike's back - he looks like Spike IS his Bestest friend. So I think at one point he DID believe in comrades, but to a limited extent, and Spike's leaving snuffed that one bit out, so that he felt little or no remorse at totally selling Gren out. And that sentence was too long. Whatever. ;;^^

I think Krisit's right about why Spike and Julia didn't make plans to take Vicious with them. Hellooooo, psychotic third wheel. Maybe they didn't even think that he WANTED to come, so didn't bother to ask. I don't know. Maybe they DID think he'd turn them in. I don't know if I agree with Krisit that Vicious loved his job too much to consider leaving it. I'm sure he's kind of a cold, suspicious, twitchy sort of guy who gets off on the power over life and death that he wields as a member of the Red Dragon...but I think that if they'd asked him, he might have thought about it. Maybe he would have decided that they were talking like idiots, that people can't change, and he in particular couldn't change that much, but I think some of his fanaticism and rigidity of views stems a bit from his "those bastards, they left me, well, I'm going to look out for MYSELF from now on. Screw YEW guys, I'm going home!" Now that I've scarred myself for life with the mental image of Vicious sitting on a couch with a bag of Cheesy Poofs... If he thought that he couldn't trust anyone anymore, that would make him that much more cold-blooded and vicious in his work, right? And come on, I think *I'd* get a woody from being paid to stalk around all day, ordering people around, feeding birdseed to my Bird of Evil, and killing people who pissed me off. But then again, I'm a Special Person who has such fantasies after a day of dealing with idiot clients. And Vicious' bird looks weirdly like a Secretary Bird, I think. It's Order Falconiformes, and although it's white and has feathers on its neck, it's about the right look. And it makes the right sounds. XD Why Vicious would be carrying a ten-pound African falcon-thing on his shoulder is quite beyond me. Hey, remember that the bird exploded; is it even fully organic? Yes, I remember obscure birds off the top of my head. @_@ Don't look at me funny. Again.

Okay, that's all I'm going to say about that this time. X_x

Now Playing: Adam and the Ants - Antmusic (o/~ so unplug the jukebox, and do yourself a favor, yeah that music's lost its taste so try another flavor - antmusic! o/~)

Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 09:48 p.m.

o/~ I saw her today at the reception, in her glass was a bleeding man, she was practiced at the art of deception, well I could tell by her blood-stained hands... o/~

Charmian~! This post is just for you! XD

Ergh...about S/V/J backstory...I was confused as hell too. (And our page is defunct because each time I reupload it, the server goes down, so I gave it two giant middle fingers up and said 'screw it'. I may reupload it to my own space sometime.

Massive Bebop Spoilers follow. Highlight to read.

Right, Bebop. Um...yeah, my impression was that Julia was Vicious' girlfriend. And although she made Spike go !_! when they met at the pool hall, they were just friends until she dragged him in and patched him up after some bad firefight. And then they became Special Friends, and decided to run away together, because they knew Vicious wouldn't take it well and because, really, the lifestyle of a gangster isn't really conducive to Love and Happily Ever After. They HAD to get out if they wanted to be happy together.

Well, see, I think Vicious and Spike WERE good friends, and that's why Vicious hates him so much now. If that makes sense. Spike 'betrayed' him and 'left' him - I'd even venture the opinion that Vicious is JEALOUS that Spike was ABLE to escape. Because Vicious obviously thinks that he's a wild beast, only capable of being in the mafia. His reaction smacks of, "If I can't get out, NOBODY CAN."

I'd say Vicious' problems with Spike are a whole bunch of jealousy and betrayal, and not just about the fact that Spike ran off with his girlfriend. Vicious is always harping that there are no such things as 'comrades', you can't trust anyone, blah blah blah, when you can SEE in the flashbacks that he and Spike literally protected each others' backs. And gladly, judging from their smiles. No, I'm not going There (now), I'm saying they were good friends and they trusted each other. And Vicious is mad at Spike because he LEFT him alone to rot in the mafia. Spike keeps saying that he felt dead inside when he was in the Red Dragon, and Julia made him feel alive...Vicious probably also felt the same, dead inside, so he lost his friend and his chick and his marbles. *laugh*

Am I making any sense? That, at least, would explain why he's so psychotic. Really, the mafia isn't a warm and fuzzy place to be, so his viciousness (pardon the pun) in clawing his way to the top and dealing with Red Eye and whatnot is perfectly in character for a mafia badass. It's his very personal and violent anger towards Spike that's interesting, and the possible reasons for that are what I've detailed above. Bleh.

C'mon, what do you all think? I'm curious. :D

Now Playing: Tricky - Crazy Claws

Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 08:27 p.m.

For Tay! You! Look here!

Tay, poke around here or the directory. Best I could come up with on limited sleep. And yes, I know I'm weird. Does that satisfy your woogie needs? ;;^^ If it's OK - feel free to mess with it - there are a few things you could add, like a title or something. I dunno, I'm asleep. X_x

Now Playing: Orbital - Times Fly (Slow)

Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 11:38 a.m.

o/~ I can't reach across a thousand years o/~

I feel sleepy. But that's hardly a news flash. My sleep schedule is so disturbed by my medication, and although I *try* to jerk it back to what it's supposed to be, it doesn't really work all the time. So I'm still stuck sleeping in 4-hour stretches.

You know what? I think I'm going to sell my Japanese PS2. And if I sell that, I should really sell my ParaPara stuff too, since I won't be able to use it. I love my ParaPara and all, but I just don't use it enough, and I might as well use the money in Japan. Anyone who's reading this and is interested, email me really fast. Otherwise it's going on ebay, where hopefully I'll be able to unload them at a reasonable price. I better check if the swap trick works with Vib Ribbon. If not - maybe I'll pick up an actual JP PSX, if it's not disgustingly expensive. Or Juri! You want Vib Ribbon if I can't figure out how to swing it, right?

Hahahaha, actually, I picked up a $15 copy of No One Can Stop Mr. Domino from the Game XChange on Sunday. New. Haven't had a chance to PLAY it yet, but I expect mind-bending fun.

Speaking of gaming - I'll throw in my own two cents on the whole 'favorite games' thing. I have been playing console games for a LONG TIME, at least by my standards. I got my first Gameboy in - fifth grade, I believe. Before I went to middle school in sixth grade. That would put it at around 1990, 1991. My sister was in college at the time, and plunked down something like $80 for the ugly grey brick-shaped gameboy with the tiny puke-green screen. I loved it. I wasted so much time with it. I still have it. The games I had were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game (which I consistently beat as Donatello or Leonardo, I think; I liked weapons with reach), Tetris (of course X_x; I played at level 9 usually, screaming at the screen. Tetris music remixes are such a nostalgia-trip for me.), Super Mario Land (heh heh) and, uh, Kirby's Dreamland. I remember wanting to play the game with Wario in it, but I never got it. Oh well. ;;^^

Anyways, let's talk about the most amusing game of the bunch: Kirby's Dreamland. In this game, in case you're out of the loop and have not met Kirby before, you play a giant spherical marshmallow-thing called Kirby. You run around on two little feet, flapping your penguin-like flippers, and swallowing anything you see - bombs, nuts, enemies, blocks, you name it - and either spitting it out or swallowing. @_@ You could even fly by taking a deep gulp of air and inflating yourself like a balloon. Now that I think about it, I have NO IDEA what the plot was. There were a bunch of levels. You fought bosses by spitting at them. When you won, you got a little star, and when you touched it, it turned into two clones of you so you could do a weird synchronized marshmallow-dance with your clones to tinny MIDI game music. Doesn't matter. It was fun. And a really quick play, really; 30-45 minutes would do it. Which was a blessing, considering that you had no ability to save. @_@ I remember hanging out in the girl's bathroom at lunchtime in 6th grade (middle school) with another gamer girl, talking about how to beat these Gameboy games, and we didn't hear the bell, so we ended up being like 20 minutes late to our next class ;;^^ We pretended that the other girl had felt nauseous, and I had nobly stayed with her in the bathroom when she wasn't feeling well. *laugh*

My next gaming system was the Super Nintendo, which I bullied my parents into getting me. >D Early high school, must have been - 1992, 1993? Loaded up on games for that, and I can't find any of them anymore! Super Mario World, of course. Super Mario Kart. Street Fighter games - lots of those. Became quite good at them, actually, although I never could figure out how to do the Yoga Teleport. I did it once in a moment of frantic button-mashing, and never figured out how to replicate it. As each new SF game came out, I rented it or bought it. I was Captain Cheap with Cammy and Dhalsim, who were two cheap characters anyways. Half of the fun of playing Dhalsim was pissing off my mother, really. >D I also played the Mortal Kombat games upto MK3. I copied the move lists out of magazines and memorized them - Fatalities, Animalities, Babalities, Friendships - you name it. As you can see, I played a LOT of fighting games, even before I figured out that strange doujinshi could be drawn about the characters. :P~ XD I was only about, uh, 12, 13 at the time anyways. I was a rather violent little girl, I suppose. I finally grabbed Super Mario All-Stars, and indulged in all the Mario games that I'd played on my friends' Nintendos but never owned myself. I was surprised to find out a while ago that the "Lost Levels" were what was originally Mario 2. ;;^_^ And that what we got as Mario 2 was some completely different game entirely, reworked as a Mario game. Makes sense to me. I hated Mario 2, personally; I always got lost and I was fuzzy on what I was supposed to be doing in a particular level. I always picked the Princess; I liked the ability to float. ANYWAYS. I want to replay Mario 3 - now that I know what the hell a 'tanuki suit' is, even if I don't quite understand it XD - but I wonder - will I remember where all the warp whistles are? All the secrets and tricks I used to know?

My favorite of the bunch was The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past . Yes, yes, I'd watched friends play old-sk00L Zelda on the Nintendo before this. I think this was the stage of my adolescence where I named Link after my favorite musicians, which was embarrassing when my older sister found my save files. ;;^_^ Anyways, I wasted so many hours on that game, because I suppose I was a bit of a Stuff Whore. I even called the 800-number for tips when I was stuck. Yes, I was a dork! I wonder - whatever happened to the Flute-Playing Boy in that one glade? The one who played the flute, and all the animals gathered around, and he disappeared when you approached? And then you found out his Tragic Backstory from his old dad - why were the fathers in this game about 50 years older than their sons? - and he'd gone to the Golden Land in search of the Triforce, and he'd never come back, so, like, you get a shovel and dig in that glade in the Golden Land, and you get his magic flute, which you play in front of the weathercock in the center of Kakariko Village - you know, the longer I talk, the dirtier this begins to sound. If I say that the Flute-Playing Boy turned into wood, that won't help either, will it? That game had magic mushrooms, Zoras, and Ganondorf, of course. But some of the puzzles were pretty clever, really, like the one with the Thief King, Blind. You go to the room marked 'boss room' on the map, but nobody's there! So you rescued the missing maiden from the dungeon, and you might think that you're gonna escape without a boss fight, but you go to the room directly above the boss room, and make a hole in the floor with some bombs, so that sunlight shines in the windows, through the hole, and onto the floor of the boss room. Then you go downstairs again, dragging the princess after you, and when you pull the princess into the beam of sunlight, she screams that the light's hurting her eyes and turns into Blind. >D I think at this age I was quite capable of being filthy about the color and size changes Link's sword underwent. "It's red and glowing! XD"

In late 1997, my cousin got my a Playstation. I didn't have that many games for it at first; Tomb Raider 2, maybe, or Tekken 3 . Things like that, nothing to glue me to my system. My dad kept telling me to finish Tomb Raider, thought. I wonder why. @_@

A few months later, I believe, I got my hands on Final Fantasy 7 and got sucked back into the land of 50+ hour RPGs. Yeah, FF7 was my first Final Fantasy game that I personally played. Not really ashamed of it, either; most people have played it. Don't think it's the end-all of console games, either. But it was a decent enough game while I was playing it, and I wasted much time trying to defeat Emerald Weapon. I swear, Knights of the Round and Mimic just didn't do it! I only had one Mimic! I had fun breeding and racing chocobos; didn't bother me as much as it did other people. Then again, I have two pet cockatiels, so I thought the chocobos were the cutest things.

Then Tay-chan bought Final Fantasy 8, and she and I played through it together the - fall? of my junior year of college. Most of my affection for that game is due to the fact that it was fun to play with a friend. :D It IS possible to game socially, as long as it's only about two or three people and you all are doing something and passing around the controller. Because then you can react to stuff at the same time, and swear at the same hard boss fights, and make jokes together, and all sorts of fun stuff. It adds an extra layer of fun to the game. If you haven't tried that, you really should sometime!

Anyways, that's the last Final Fantasy game I've played. I HAVE FF9, and I've been repeatedly told that I should play FFX, but...bleh, no interest, really. Yet. ;;^^ Kristi says it's good, and I trust her judgement, but...well, my lack of a PS2 slows me down, too. XD Thankfully. Other PSX games I've played recently...uh... Evil Zone (the best cheap crappy fighting game I've played XDDD More than worth the price I paid!), King of Fighters '99 (other KOF games have been played on the DC, of course), um...um...gosh, Vib Ribbon (which is amusing at parties), um - um - well, the games I've bought and HAVEN'T played are numerous. X_x I got the Final Fantasy Chronicles, Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve, Wild Arms 2, Journey to the West, FF9 - as you can see, I've got a serious backlog of games. I'll get to them. One day. Hahahaha, of course, Bust A Move 1 and 2 (the dancing games. Not the puzzle games.) and DDR, naturally. :D

The Playstation game I'm playing now ought to be so painfully obvious that if you can't guess, I'll bitchslap you. What have I been BABBLING ANNOYINGLY ABOUT for the past THREE MONTHS? >D Well, part of the fun is the challenge of trying to navigate a JP RPG and understand the plot. Plus I really like the characters. And really, the game is a giant mishmash of CORRECTLY-USED cultural, mythological, occult, and literary references. Gives me a big old woody, you know. >D (What other game has Alice (in Wonderland), Toilet Hanako, Ratatosk (Norse mythology), (Alastair) Crowley (look him up on google, if you're lost), (Wilbur) Whateley (Lovecraft character), and Carrie (Stephen King) as random enemies?) And the plot's interesting. And the art is...special. *eyes blog layout* Kya said that a friend of hers said that you have to be a special kind of fucked-up to like the Persona series a lot, and I really tend to agree.

Anyways! Enough about gaming now. I saw Monster's Ball last night; it's up for some Academy Awards. A good film, I guess; didn't quite hit me the way "In the Bedroom" did, but that's not saying it's not deserving of the nominations. We'll see which of the two gets more. :D Personally, I think Sissy Spacek is more deserving of a best actress award for In the Bedroom than Nicole Kidman is for Moulin Rouge, just because it was a harder role, and Moulin Rouge was fluff. Fluffy fluffy fluff. It was the mental equivalent of snorting pixystix. XD I liked it, but it won't really stick in my mind except as a kitsch film or something to stick in a Ewan Movie Marathon :D Sorry, Shannon and Juri, I know you love the movie! ;;^_^ Learning to sing and dance is hard, and Nicole Kidman did do a good job, but man, Sissy Spacek was really amazingly convincing. It takes work to make ME teary at movies. Tom Wilkinson also did a wonderful job, but I doubt he has a chance against Russell Crowe or Denzel Washington (although I wanted to see Training Day, I heard it was good) or Sean Penn, because - well, it's like competing against Tom Hanks for the Best Actor Oscar. It doesn't matter WHAT Hanks does. He can play a comatose man who lies in bed the whole movie. And they'd still give him the Oscar. XD Well, a girl can hope.

If John Williams wins the Oscar for Best Original Score for his retardedly bombastic, unnecessary, and overdone score for the Harry Potter movie, I'm going to strangle someone. So if he does win - don't approach me for a while, eh? XD

Blah, blah, blah. I really want to rant about something related to what I do for a living - which would involve bitching about snake oil salesmen and people who don't know what they're talking about who blithely recommend dangerous things to superstitious fools who don't know better either - but I'm paranoid. As it is, insert a rant of your choice here. Or ask me to tell you, and I'll talk your ear off. It really incenses me, but I can't do anything about it; if I call them too hard on their BS, they won't pay us or might switch companies. My dad calls me the Arthur Andersen to their Enron, and I administer a beat-down. :D

It's kind of like this, really:

It drives me NUTS, I TELL YOU! (Needless to say, I don't work for any kind of engineering firm. My clients aren't engineers. This is JUST AN ANALOGY. But the analogy works REMARKABLY WELL, including the potentially fatal consequences of letting these slightly nutty, ill-educated morons do whatever they like.) I'm almost ashamed to be associated with this project, since they won't let me 'fix the mistakes in their numbers', or correct any 'glaring design flaws', even though I'm supposed to be doing that for them, since they honestly do NOT know what they're doing! Effing primadonnas. Wasting my time.

Actually, my sister's father-in-law used to work for Arthur Andersen before he retired. My sister's brother-in-law used to work for them, but the company split and he works for Accenture, the side-company, instead. Thankfully. @_@

Anyways. Long enough post, I think. Not sure who reads all this, but what the hey. :D

Now Playing: Adam Ant - Something Girls

Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 03:01 a.m.

"The Canadians have a warship? Like, for war? Do the Canadians know that?"

I beg your pardon, Joy. I'm not obsessed! I just finished the second game! And with a final boss like that...

I consider it my blow for the "I Will NEVER Have a Legolas Blog Layout" movement.

Because at this rate, there will only be about ten women's blogs on the entire web without Orlando Bloom in a blonde wig.

You all like the tentacles anyways. Admit it.

Now Playing: Brand New Idol - The Notorious Gentleman

Sunday, February 10, 2002, 11:57 p.m.

You are all Daddy's bitches! All of you!

Don't mind me; I had way too much sugar today. Had pixistix for the first time in years. I'm getting old, I guess. The sugar makes me happy, and then I fall asleep.

New band I just started listening to; Shannon, check them out: Brand New Idol.

I need sleep. I feel feverish and giddy again. My hands are freezing, though.

Now Playing: Goldfrapp - Utopia