basic black v.8 - so what if it's not black.

Saturday, February 24, 2001 :: 02:12 p.m.
Holy CRAP, that was a long time ago.

I was digging through my drawers today...

Damn, that was an godawful way to start a blog entry. Let's try again.

I was cleaning out my desk when I found a torn piece of loose-leaf notebook paper with the following written on it, rather hastily:

I stared at this, blinkablinka'ed, and then realization dawned.

This is the setlist for the Nine Inch Nails show I went to on November 9, 1994. The Downward Spiral had just come out, and the tour came to C-U. I was in high school at the time...um...a sophomore? I was 13, so probably. I went to the show with my oldest friend, and discovered two new things that probably influenced me at an inappropriate age: Marilyn Manson and the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow. :D Yeah, those were the openers for NIN back in '94. :D So I came back at midnight, hastily scribbled down the setlist, and passed out.

And now I found it again. ( best Keanu imitation ) " Whoa."

Makes me feel reaaaaally fucking old. I'm 20 now.

I also found other weird shit in my desk: a drawing of a phoenix in my calculus notebook ( from age...er...15? ) and underneath it I wrote:

My engrish scares me. o.o; What the fuck did that MEAN? I wasn't ON anything!

But I'm really quite sure that this drawing is the inspiration for a certain website's name. @_@;;;;; Holy fuck, I was weird when I was 15.

I'm still weird.

Goddammit.

I also found pictures of me on crutches when I was 6 and screwed up my knee...from my high school graduation...from my debates senior year...

I wonder what went wrong with me along the way.

Now Playing: Korn - Trash. That song would make a good songfic for SOMETHING, I agree, krisit. But for whom? Here's the lyrics:

That song is oddly addictive, in a sing-songy sort of way. And I don't like Korn. o.o;

Friday, February 23, 2001 :: 12:33 p.m.
All your doujinshi are belong...oh fuck it. :D

Gregly: No~~~! Computer Stew is gone? ;_; Bastards. I win oWn d4 l4m3rZ!

HtKD: Um...um...well...yes....Saiyuki DJ...yes...*nervous laughter* But dammit, I got outbid on the most amusing pairs; namely Hakkai x Sanzou ( Ishida-kun as a SEME? o.o;; ) and Sanzou x Goku. I ended up with two Sanzou DJ; one apparently is about him and that guy who had H fantasies about Sanzou when he was little. ( It's in the anime; dude, is it REALLY normal to have [ this ] kind of mental image of a little kid when you're talking to them and they're fully clothed? o.o; So I got a DJ about that. *nervous, nervous laughter* Luckily for me, they went cheaply; like $8 and $10. Mmmm...doujinshi *_*

Had my Latin test yesterday, which went well, I think.

OK. Niisan, I SO need your help translating a chunk of dialogue from the last volume of the Petshop of Horrors manga. I pondered posting it in my blog, but decided not to because a) it's long and b) it's spoiler-rific >_< and people who can read it might not appreciate it. So I'll put it [ here ] where you can look at it at your leisure. :D I ought to have it fully typed up really soon, so if nothing's there...um...try back later.

krisit: episode scripts are on [ rence's page ] ( which is moving soon ) and fun fun screencaps ( like shots of your favorite monkey-boy ) are [ here. ]

Okay, time to transcribe that PSoH bit. D...

As I said last night, Seki Toshihiko oWns me. Now I just need to find something yaoi with both Koyasu and SekiTo, and...*_* ( GW doesn't count! :D )

Now Playing: Tricky - Ponderosa

Friday, February 23, 2001 :: 01:42 a.m.
"Are you a man or a fertility symbol?"

Hee :D I went to a performance of Aristophanes' [ Lysistrata ;] it was really funny and quite a good production. You really can't argue with plays with large numbers of strap-ons, can you? After that we drove back here and watched selected Saiyuki episodes. Krisit, remember our deal! Fic for tapes! :D

There's all this stuff I mean to blog about but I'm too tired now. >_< Later, then?

Now Playing: Lou Reed - Satellite of Love

Wednesday, February 21, 2001 :: 04:47 p.m.
Fairy Princess Sanzou, the Rorikon-gappa, and other necessities of life.

Yes, I've been marathon-watching Saiyuki. How could you tell? :P Oneesama, you better not watch it; it's beyond slashy. XD

I seem to have become a Sanzou fangirl. *shifty eyes* Krisit, you need to watch more; Goku's SO cute. ( Although the 'I'm hungry' thing DOES get tired after a while. ) I also watched the Hakkai-flashback eps and yes, I can see Gojyo/Hakkai without a doubt. And Goku is Sanzou's bitch as it is, so...it all works out nicely! They split into neat yaoi pairs! :D Although I really don't see why everyone think Sanzou's an uke. He SO is a seme. The *growlgrowlKOROSUgrowl* sort of seme. :D But his [ Genjou Sanzou Hoshi crown-veil combo ]makes him look like a fairy princess. XD

Yeah, like I needed a new yaoi-tastic series to giggle about. Doujinshi, here I come...

Now Playing: David Bowie - Rock n' Roll Suicide

Wednesday, February 21, 2001 :: 10:23 a.m.
How...utterly...wrong. XD

Here's my results for the [ CLAMP male character match selector thing .]

How...how odd. Ascot?! But I suppose the rest of my top 10 kick ass XD ERIOL! COME TO ME! XD

Now Playing: Nothing. Dead silence in the lab, except for that creepy guy who was next to me moaning to himself without the aid of pr0n on his screen. " Unnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngh." >_<

Tuesday, February 20, 2001 :: 08:00 p.m.
o/~ I am tired..I am weary...I could sleep for a thousand years... o/~

Here's my birthday wishlist, if anyone's terribly interested. -_-

Okay, that's done. ( My parents say I'm one big ' GIMME!' ) -_-

I suppose it's stupid of me to park right behind the honors house where I do every day. About five years ago, a professor was abducted from that parking lot at 5:30 pm, dragged down into the basement of the next building, raped, and murdered. The culprit eventually stepped in front of a train, but the professor was the mother of one of my sister's old HS classmates; it was kind of weird. Now, every year at about this time, someone sticks a bunch of roses and a handwritten card through the handle of the doors to the basement stairs she was dragged down.

And I still park there every day. But walking by there at night and looking at that bunch of roses gives me a really bad feeling.

I have a Latin exam to study for, and the second half of Saiyuki TV to watch. ( I have developed two bad new obsessions simultaneously; Basara and Saiyuki. Baaaad Priya. )

Now Playing: Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs

Monday, February 19, 2001 :: 06:08 p.m.
The following blog will demonstrate my age pretty damn accurately.

I was just thinking. What's the *worst* music video you remember from way back when MTV actually played music? We're not talking 80's cheeZe, we're talking BAD videos. There's a difference - both induce hysterical laughter, but a bad video will also induce dry heaves.

I know what my pick would be.

Scandal ( with Patti Smythe ) - The Warrior.

If you've seen this video, you'll know what I mean. If you haven't, let me try to describe the horror of watching it.

Imagine you're putting on a high school play, but your budget is pretty shitty. You don't want to waste money on nonessentials. So for a set, you just cover everything with tan or grey cloth, IIRC, and have some random platforms and rubble and walls and shit. But you have enough money for harnesses to make everyone fly around, Peter Pan style, and for really weird-ass costumes.

I want to know who the costume designer for that video is, so I can walk up to them and slap them across the face a couple times. This costume designer had a leotard fetish, but not only that, they liked to drape the performers in brightly colored shredded cloth. I think they were going for a gypsy/vagabond look, but they achieved a 'psychotic bag people' effect instead. I'm pretty sure they wore leg warmers. It was very 80's.

Okay, now that they had ruined their set and their costumes, then they moved on to makeup. One word. HAIRSPRAY. Everyone had really scary, stiff, anti-gravity hair. With glitter and dye streaks in it. And then they painted their faces with wayyy too much dramatic stylized makeup. They looked like aliens with a skin rash, or seven-year-old girls who've just discovered makeup for the first time.

Add bad 80's song, some kind of stupid plot with Patti Smythe being chased by the badly-dressed 80's fiends to protect her spandex-clad male concubine while she sings that she's 'the warrior', and you have a truly god-awful 80's video.

ph34r.

Now Playing: Nothing.

Sunday, February 18, 2001 :: 06:10 p.m.
I'm sure this would be easier if I just smacked them around a bit.

I've got two exams tomorrow, so I'm studying o.o

I'll blog more later tonight when I'm really studying, instead of playing network games with my fellow honors students. ;^_^

Now Playing: Nothing ^^

BASIC BLACK v. 8.0

Current design: Shuri and Ageha from BASARA. Shuri is the Red King, and Ageha is the Blue Noble - or, alternately, Shuri is the pervert, and Ageha is the total freak. :D I love 'em both - it's hard not to snicker at them when they're at their worst. XD

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