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Monday, October 29, 2001, 06:11 a.m. Ugh. I'll say that again: Ugh. I feel like crap. My stomach hurts. Here's hoping I get everything accomplished today that I need to. If I'm at work by 6:30 am, then - Now Playing: Berlin - the Metro  Sunday, October 28, 2001, 06:25 p.m. Bwahahaha, this is so damn silly. I grabbed a copy of 'West Slang', one of the dorama tracks from one of the Trigun soundtracks. In this track, Wolfwood is talking like a normal guy speaking standard Japanese, and everyone else is using really thick Osaka accents and making fun of the way the new Wolfwood speaks. It's hysterical to listen to the track, try to decipher what they're saying through those thick accents, and to see poor Nicky get all flustered when everyone mox0rZ him. Vash complains to Meryl that Nicky is talking like some 'okama' now, using 'boku' and adding '-kun' to everyone's names. XD Legato in particular is disturbing to hear with his deep calm osaka-ben voice. Legachu's main problem is with Nicky's use of '-jan.'
Legato: *pause* 'nai...jan'? Nicky: Sou jan. o.o;; Legato: ..........Uwah, chou waru! >_< I have SO MUCH SHIT TO DO TOMORROW. I DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT. Right now I'm going to go to my parents' house and check out my suit to see if it needs any drycleaning or whatnot before Wednesday. Oh, and Sabina? You broke me. You seriously broke me with this comment:
Now Playing: Placebo - Scared of Girls Saturday, October 27, 2001, 06:46 p.m. Another disturbing update from the 'real world'... Friday afternoon after work (say 4:30 pm, I left earlier than usual because I was tired) I stopped by my parents' house. I had a letter from the med school in Ohio that I've applied to. They want me to come for an interview. Yay, right? No. My parents took me out for brunch, and I was stressed out and upset (especially because my parents are never the most optimistic of people - when I say I'll get something done, they'll roll their eyes and say " I hope so, it probably won't work out") and I nearly burst into tears in the middle of the restaurant. Mostly because my parents were bitching at me that I was making so much fuss about missing work. I have, uh, rent due next week, and something like $700 worth of bills within the next couple of weeks. So I explained to them that I NEED THE DAMN MONEY, and that I didn't want to have to ask them for money unless I could possibly help it, and after lunch my dad and I went to the bank and he dumped a couple of hundred dollars into my checking account. Which makes my life MUCH easier. Nah, it's not like my financial situation is THAT BAD! I could have paid the bills no sweat if I'd actually been working full-time, but I was going to lose like $400 of pay with all the days I was missing for interviews in the next two weeks. But now life is good, and I can actually pay you immediately for those comics, Kai :D I just feel a lot more comfortable with padding to my account; I can always pay my bills. I guess - I guess it's just that I'm doing my damnedest to remove as many of the puppetstrings as I can. >_< I love my parents, but they controlled almost every waking moment of my life when I lived with them, and asking them for money - it'll be another lever one day. Or maybe I'm just demonizing them slightly, I dunno. Agh, I dunno at all what I think; that's what my shrink's supposed to be for. :P Oh well, it's not a big deal. If I need money, I CAN always go to them, and my hang-ups are mine alone. Well, that's real life for ya. I could blog about that - or I could retreat into my Happy Place, which consists mainly of doujinshi, video games, manga, and JP fanart sites. Which would you pick? Kate! Where are you? I even brought over my bread pan and the pumpkin's sitting there all genkinai ;_; I tried calling you repeatedly throughout the day, but Julie said you were studying, and then your phone was off, and... Shannon's coming over after work, so I better grab a half-hour nap. Now Playing: Placebo & David Bowie - Without You I'm Nothing (OOooh! Which reminds me, somehow, that yesterday I heard Tricky's "Excess" on the radio for the first time, and today I heard the Strokes on WPGU too for the first time. @_@ I guess it just weirds me out when I hear certain bands on the radio - maybe they feel better to me from a stereo or something, I dunno. :D) Saturday, October 27, 2001, 01:06 a.m. Brain...breaking...BRAIN..BREAKING!! This entry will only be scary/interesting/whatever to people who have played Persona 2. Sorry. Kristinaaaa----!! help me!!! And yes, all these links are clean. They're Japanese fanart.... The original " brain...breaking! brain...breaking!" picture. this is the sort of thing you were talking about, Kristina? ph33r the chibi ones. help. OK, can you explain this to me? I mean, when he first saw Helios, he was muttering how ironic that his Persona is a cat. Does he have a problem with cats or something? :D XD Gosh, that's cute. As is this. Aw. o.o OK, I take it Katsuya LIKES cats? Ummmmmmmmmm. Yay, icons! Random: Hey, here's a nice CG of Rock, along with some excessively cute dejiko, selphie, multi, and sakura chibis. Now Playing: The Seatbelts - PAPA Plastic Saturday, October 27, 2001, 12:36 a.m. Damn YOU, Razu! Damn you to HELLLLLLL!! I know you mentioned this last night, Kya, but I wasn't paying attention and only now did I check out Razu's new index page. Razu is trying to break me. How DARE she change her index page to a picture of Tatsuya 48 hours after I begin to play Persona 2, huh? At least it wasn't Katsuya, for the sake of my credit card. XD~~~~ Note: Razu Yoroi is one of my favorite doujinshi-ka. She draws stuff like this and this and wow, I didn't know she had that New Face Team picture, but damn that's pretty. Anyways, she's one of the really good doujinshika, withh a really warped sense of humor to boot...who had better not start drawing Persona DJ or I'll be in trouble. Well-met! I lost my soul. Now Playing: Wall of Voodoo - Lost Weekend ( remember those guys who did 'Mexican Radio'? Yeah, this is them. They had some pretty good songs on that album, you know. Nevermind that the album came out the year I was born. T_T ) Friday, October 26, 2001, 12:57 a.m. I promised Tyler three times not to talk about him...whoops... Better not talk about Mr. Durden for a while, eh? XD No, I'm not cracking up. Kristina: well, the episodes I really want from season one are the two-parters; you know, the rancorous exchange/good night one, the flashbacks with hakkai and gojyo, and the desert youkai episodes. Those are my favorite episodes. But you would probably make more money off ebay...well, let's see. Ah, Persona 2! Yes, I've reached Baofu. I kinda like him, although i quickly learned not to use him to make contact with demons except in a few rare cases. XD I like Katsuya; he's so put-upon. And the female harpies keep squealing that he's kawaii and asking if they can play his partner in game of Cops. Ulala made fun of his sideburns and he sweatrained. Poor guy. This evening I played through the fight with the Joker's minions at the school all the way to the mental institution, levelling up like mad on the way. I just set all the fighters to use their Personae's attacks, with Maia doing that 'heal everyone' attack. It's hella easy; I start the battle, go get a drink...but I still really like the game. I facefaulted when Maya burned the badge from the Seven Sisters Academy @_@ Doh! I like this game so far; it's weird but interesting, and I'm having fun playing it. I have a med school interview with Wisconsin on 11/30. Yay me! Joy! I got the GTO Dorama CDs today - sankyuu! *_* Haven't watched them yet, because today I got my 93 doujinshi. Yes, Gokuu/Sanzou. I flipped through it, closed the DJ, blinked rapidly, and then looked through it again. Apparently it's set right after Sanzou releases Gokuu from the cave, and...well, I tried to do the mental math, but it made me cry, so I decided to ignore it. Sanzou and Gokuu both look around 14-ish as it is, all gangly and boyish. That bit of Wrongness aside, it was all snuggly and kissy and fulfilled my need for cuteness. Of course, it was Gokuu being all clingy; Sanzou wasn't all gushy and lovey-dovey or anything, he just looked sullen. And Gokuu's clinging to him and talking about the taiyou and Sanzou and blah blah blah. It's rather cute. Oh, and regarding translated names in Chinese stories...that IS distracting. The story of my life in that style would be something like...um...Beloved played videogames all evening, went to sleep, woke up when Honorable Elder Sister Moonlight called her at 1 am asking her to visit the City of the Trees to help her with her Powerpoint presentation, whereupon Beloved told Elder Sister Moonlight to piss off and call their parents, Auspicious and the People's Bread, to arrange flight plans. Yah, I'm going to Ann Arbor next weekend to help my sister with this presentation she has to make to more doctors. I think she just wants me for my scanner, but she's giving me her VCR, so it's all good. Now Playing: Rudie Can't Fail Thursday, October 25, 2001, 06:55 a.m. Well, that would explain it... Thanks to Kya, I figured what happened to me yesterday! I guess Orochi must have walked by my cubicle, and I had no choice but to Blood Riot. Hell, I was long overdue a riot of the blood at my workplace. Did that make no sense? Highlight the following. ;;^_^ Orochi is this ancient nine-headed snake demon that was sealed away by the Kusanagi and the (soon-to-be) Yagami clan. But he gets revived periodically, and anyone with Orochi-tained blood (like Yagami Iori, or Leona, or...) gets provoked into a 'Blood Riot' upon his awakening, whereupon they go nuts and start trying to kill everything in sight in a psychotic rage. It's really fun - as long as you're not in grabbing range. XD Damn. Looking at this site was a bad idea. Now I found out that there's a KOF R(eturn) manga series by that one comic artist. FUCK! *eyes credit card mournfully* Ne, Kai! After I pay you in full for what you've already gotten me....... ;;;;;^_^ I called in to work; I'll go in at 10 am. heh heh heh. That's sick. I love it. XD Dude, Shingo! ;;^_^ Shi-ne. All of you! Shi-ne! Oh god. XD Maybe I'm just sleep deprived, but cannibalism just cracks me up at this hour of the morning. XD Orochi doesn't need to work on streetcorners. I guess Iori likes a very specific kind of 'raw meat.' XD Now that I think about it, I KNOW I found this DJka's webpage once. I used her picture of chibi-orochi-Iori, tied up in a ball in a handkerchief, steaming, as my wallpaper for a while. Anyways, gonna go back to sleep before work. Heh heh. XD I suppose that wasn't too bad for an Iori shrine. :D (Although all these stories with Iori meeting mysterious Orochi-tastic/NESTS maidens that he has to protect and sex0r makes me gag. @_@ ) Kya, FYI, here's a K' shrine. "It is fair to assume K' has undergone much aerobic stretching exercise." ...o.o; Why K' is called K-Dash. Kya, this is the explanation you or I would have given. Just when you think US fangirls are scarier, you find out that the JP ones are just as bad. XD How to Cheer Shingo Up. XD Bribing K' with a year's supply of beef jerky. XD K' Abuse Hour. You know, K' does look better in that silly coat than Krizalid does. Um...it's an old habit! But Shingo has a non-chest. An anti-chest, if you will! Statistically, there's only a 33% chance that K' is old enough to read that pr0n himself. So THAT'S how he learned his striker technique. Figures. Now Playing: Morphine - A Cure for Pain Thursday, October 25, 2001, 12:44 a.m. o/~ going to a party where no-one's still alive o/~ I've seen American History X. I remember hearing a lot about it and being really intrigued, because that kind of movie sounds like it'd teach me something. Of course, my retarded high school friends were like a) Ew, who'd want to watch a movie about Neo-N4zis, or b) I hate sad/depressing/violent movies, let's watch Titanic again instead. Thinking back on it, some of my high school friends were a shallow-minded morons. Maybe I was too, but I never thought like *that*. ( I used to have fun with my friends the DiCaprio fangirls; when they said they looooooved Leeeeeo after Titanic, I told them to rent the Basketball Diaries, because it has Leeeeeo in it! :D They did, and the next day stormed up to me, frothing and incoherent. Whoops! My bad, I forgot to tell them what it was about. n_n OK, I was a bitch too. ;;^_^ ) Anyways. Yes. That movie. Wow. People who skip it due to the subject matter are really missing out. Part of growing up is facing up to the ugly side of life, and realizing that it's not just nutcases who do these things - that you or I are capable of great evil in the right circumstances. And no, it doesn't always work out in the end. You can't ignore these things. They exist, and ignoring them only prolongs the problem. But IS there a solution? Kristina, if you're reading this, I think I've changed my mind - can I buy certain SPECIFIC Saiyuki DVDs off you? Krisit: remember, you can join gunssavelife.com :P ( Note: if you drive down certain freeways in central IL, you'll come across tons of billboards for this website. You get a bunch of cute poems about how gun control is baaad. " Roses are red, my gun is blue, I am safe, what about you?" or something like that. XD Now Playing: Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love Wednesday, October 24, 2001, 09:01 p.m. Don't underestimate me, you *bleep*ing bastard! You GOTTA love games with english voiceacting like that. XD I finally opened Persona 2 and started playing. Hanya~~~~n! This is pretty goddamn cool. *_* And the character designs float my boat. They're so...neat. Every time I look at Suoh Katsuya, I just giggle. The whole psycho-retro-new-wave thing just does it for me. The voice acting makes me twitch a bit, but it's OK as these things go. I really had a scary moment today; I was sitting at work, and I was so tired that for a little while I actually thought I was losing my mind. I was shaking and shivering and my eyes wouldn't focus, and things were blurring and slipping and sliding in front of me...when co-workers asked me questions, I could hold myself together long enough to answer their questions normally, but I honestly thought I was going insane, like my mind was a rotten branch beginning to snap under the strain. I staggered to the bathroom and took a look at myself, and my eyes were all wide and staring and my pupils were dilated. I swear, I looked like I was on drugs or like my head was going to explode. I hid inside the bathroom for a few minutes, splashed hot water on my face, and finally whatever it was stopped and I felt human again. But it was fucking terrifying while it was happening. It wasn't a panic attack or anything, it was just - really fucking bizarre, like my brain was going to bleed out my ears. FUCK. >_< I finished off my 13.5 hour day anyways. :D And nobody noticed, because the boss dumped more work on me around 4 pm :P Dorkass. I came home and just put my head between my knees. Muh. A tornado touched down in a nearby town at 2 pm today. I'm so blase about tornados; while everyone's hiding in a hallway, I'm sitting at my computer plugged in and doing my work. About six or seven years ago, a tornado touched down three blocks from my house. I turned off all the lights in the house and stood on the front porch and watched the clouds roll over the city, all big and roiling and black and green, just like you've seen in any sci-fi movie. They passed over - and there was no rain, just a touch of cold wind - and then the strangest thing happened. I looked up at the sky, and it was as if someone had cut it neatly down the middle with a knife. On my right, towards the east, the sky was perfectly clear, and filled with more stars than I've seen in a long time. On the left, the sky was a solid black and grey, sparking with lightning every few seconds. It was like someone had parted the sky, the division was that straight and perfect. Then I heard this odd screaming creaking noise very faintly over the wind. ( Later I found out that that was the aluminum bleachers being ripped out of the ground and tossed into the roof of the house across the street. ;;^_^ ) But I just stood there and watched, looking from the stars to the lightning and back, and the wind was so normal - just a brisk breeze. When I was sure it had stopped, I walked for two minutes and saw the totalled houses, and it was a mess. It seemed strange that I'd been so close to that much destruction, and there had been so little warning while it was going on. I think I'm going to try to nap as long as I can now. I don't want to feel like I did today EVER AGAIN. EVER. If I'd had a gun, I might have shot myself to make my head stop doing that to me. And no, people, I'm okay now, so stop worrying about me. :D I'm just trying to describe what it felt like. Right now my overpowering urge is to play more Persona 2. XD Now Playing: Beck - Broken Train ( o/~ sha la la la la! o/~ ) Wednesday, October 24, 2001, 02:00 a.m. The knife in the blue What a day. My insomnia is getting downright dangerous; I can mostly stay awake at work, but I actually blacked out while stopped at a light on the way home and had to be honked at a little to get going again. ( luckily, they honked almost as soon as the car ahead of me had begun to move, so I didn't hold up traffic.) I came home and just *collapsed*. I don't know what's wrong with me; I can't sleep for more than 3-4 hours at a time. I fell asleep at 6 pm, and at 7 pm the phone rang. I jumped up instinctively, turned off my (inactive) alarm, and blindly headed to the bathroom to get ready for work. Then I realized that although it was dark, it was 7 pm, not 7 am and staggered back to the phone. My dad is out of town yesterday and today, so I had called my mom before I fell asleep to ask her how she was. She asked me to come over to pray with her a while, I muttered something in the affirmative and promptly fell asleep again. I woke up at 10 pm, called her, and found that she'd been waiting for me all this time. ;;^_^ I drove over and we sat and sang some shlokas. Or, rather, I sang, and my mom sat and listened to me. Right now it's a Hindu religious festival. I'm not religious. But this is just a family tradition, and I KNOW all the songs. It's Navaratri - " Nine Nights" right now; if you're terribly interested, you can read about it here or here. We set up a staircase of sorts, with an odd number of steps, and cover it in dolls and figurines. We have a big party. We dance and sing in groups; I've learned to do the Garba ras. Each night has a different meaning; we pray for knowledge and to be protected from harm and a lot of other things. The entire festival is dedicated to the goddess Durga, who is related to Kali-ma. The story is that there was a buffalo demon who got the boon that no man could kill him, so a woman - the goddess Durga - went and killed him, pinning his buffalo form down with her lion mount and lopping off his head. He'd proposed to her when he first saw her, thinking that this heavily armed babe would make a good queen, and she said that she could only marry someone who defeated her in a fight. Whoops. ;;^_^ Some of the songs I have memorized are the Mahishasuramardini stotram - warning, the .ram file is 16 minutes long, and it's essentially a sanskrit tongue-twister than means something. XD Here's a sample verse with a translation. XD I also sang the Sri Rajarajeshwari Ashtakam. I know it reads like Engrish, but it's remarkably easy to memorize. :D It just reassures me that I have things up in my head other than 'pr0n', 'yaoi', 'anime', and '1337.' I really worry about that sometimes. XD Oh. this reminds me (somehow) of something I heard on mancow a few days ago. Someone was saying that if you were afraid that there was anthrax contamination in your mail, just iron it and you'll kill the bacteria. Sorry, kiddies, it's not that easy. Bacillus anthracis is an endospore-forming bacteria. What does that mean? Well, under conditions of extreme stress - heat, cold, whatever - the bacteria dehydrates itself, gets rid of everything it can afford to lose, and forms a hard lipoprotein shell around itself, effectively going into hibernation. ( It's....goddammit, why can't I remember the name of the compound in its shell? >_< Some biology major I am. Dipicolinic acid? Fuck.) Anyways, when I was in college, I clearly remember a lab with endospore-forming bacteria. We boiled a bunch of soil with the bacteria in them. Boiled it. For several minutes. And then we let it cool, and took a look at the water under the microscope. Yup, the bacteria had formed shining endospores, and we doing quite well indeed. I understand that some endospores can survive HOURS of boiling @_@ I think the major endospore-forming genera are Bacillus and Clostridium. So, no, ironing your mail won't help you. But you know what? The chances of 99% of us contracting anthrax are incredibly slim. Joy, it really annoys me when people do that too. I unsubbed from the Saiyuki list a long while ago because a) it was mostly spam, or b) people were trying to out-1337 each other. " WELL! I read 'journey to the west' in CHINESE so I *obviously* know more about MINEKURA'S CRACKED-OUT ADAPTATION than YOU do!" That sort of elitism drove me nuts, especially when it was WRONG. But some people rub me the wrong way more than others do. krisit, I'm a cardassian and then a klingon. @_@ I had no idea what a cardassian was, so I looked it up. My, my. I seem to have a psychic investment in forehead ridges. And I'm a Fox or a Lion. Yeaaah. I scanned in a recent picture of myself and linked it in the sidebar, if you're morbidly curious. I was at an Indian party, natch. Tay - a friday, huh? I can pick you up if your train comes in after, like, 4 pm. Kya, I got Chou Koumei, Youzen, Kokutenko, and then S-sama...FTR, I betcha Kai put in the question about staring at people a lot because I reeaaaallly liked to O______O at her in the old LH days. Speaking of whom, Kai, you are so awesome. *_* Thank you so much! Gonna crash. Now Playing: English Beat - Can't Get Used to Losing You Tuesday, October 23, 2001, 07:13 a.m. Ah, sweet overtime...XD Whee, I'm hyperactive. A real quick blog before I go to work. FTR: I did call the phone company. They now owe me $150. Which they'll return to me...uh, sometime...and that's just for the DSL. :P Not the suspicious calls. Hahahahahaha, " the ghost of a realy gay guy named Sai..." Mii-chan, somehow that made me crack up. XD I played a little KOF 99 last night. I was playing Kyo, and when I got to the second-to-last stage, my opponent was Shingo. ( Those are the two guys to the left in this layout; Kyo's in profile, and Shingo's looking at him.) I feel so BAD fighting Shingo with Kyo; of course they have their own special pre-game speech. Shingo: *sees Kyo, puts his hands over his face and jumps up and down squealing like a fangirl* EEEEEEE!! KUSANAGI-SAN!!!!!!!!!!!! Kyo: *takes off bandana in one hand and burns it* Iku ze! ( " Let's go / Let's get it on! " ) I actually apologized to Shingo when I kicked his ass with Kyo. " Sorry, Shingo! ;;^_^" It doesn't help that Shingo always screams Kusanagi-san's name when he's defeated. Geez, boy. Why do they even BOTHER giving Shingo a girlfriend in KOF 2000? OK, off to see how long I can work before I crash. :D Gotta make up time in advance for the days I'm taking off to interview. Geeez, it's hot in here. Now Playing: RHPS - Over at the Frankenstein Place Monday, October 22, 2001, 04:03 a.m. I should be asleep. X_x Here we go.... P: but who'd be daria? Um...hm. K: K'? P: Heidern would be that scary ex-marine gym teacher XD P: why the hell can't I remember his name? Kyo> Look at the naked chicks, uh huh huh huh huh. Nachos rule. Iori> Mmhehehe, hehehe, yeah, hey, look, it's that kid who doesn't have a name. He's like, Pee instead of Peter. Kyo> Huh huh huh, Iori, you said Peter. Iori> Oh yeah, I did! Mmhehehe. K'> You two are such morons. Do you have more than half a brain cell between the both of you? Iori> Shut up, P'! Kyo> You said "Pee". Uh huh huh huh. Heidern> Kick me in the jimmy! Kyo> o.o Heidern> I said kick me in the jimmy, you pansies! Kyo> mmmmmmm *kicks* Heidern> GRRRRRRRRAAAAAH! Kyo> O.O Heidern> DO IT AGAIN! DO IT HARDER!! OK, so we shouldn't be up at this hour. We find this way too amusing. Wah! Shannon, you're so nice! :D I was afraid I'd disturbed you; I'm rather disturbingly like a Saint Bernard puppy in personality; I'll run all over the place knocking things over, and then I'll jump on people and demand that they play with me, not really noticing if they're annoyed by this or not. We should SO hang out more often. I had fun too, and I'd like to get to know you better too! I've been having a good weekend, I suppose. It always makes me happy when I can help/amuse/entertain people, and if they say that they like it - w00t! Now Playing: Naked Eyes - When the Lights Go Out Sunday, October 21, 2001, 08:53 p.m. " Wong Kei-ying, your Kung-Fu is unique! Who was your master?" I fucking LOVE movies with lines like that. XD I just saw Iron Monkey, and damn, that was great mindless entertainment. I personally prefer the action sequences in Iron Monkey to CTHD, mostly because the wiring looked better. Yes, in both, they were leaping through the air and doing impossible things - but the wiring moved the actors WAY TOO FAST in CTHD, making them wiggle their legs frantically like overturned bugs as they were dragged from spot to spot. In Iron Monkey, they slowed it down just enough so that their feet realistically touched down before they bounded off again. I love Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh, but....oh, and I also like how in Iron Monkey they managed to have a non-annoying kid. I swear, in American movies, kids exist to a) be annoying b) be kidnapped, or c) crawl into a tanker full of radioactive waste so that their heroic parent has to freak out to save them. That little kid was great. XD Anyways, I'm home now. Tired. X_x But I'm in a good mood, apart from the car situation. >_< My mother will drive me in tomorrow so that I don't have to spend two hours on a bus tomorrow. X_x Fuck, I hope the car can get fixed. Fun with referrers: a swedish search engine, looking for 'pictures + tribals'?! Tenjou Tenge. Sheesh. Ne, you people who are looking for pages - do you know where I can get ahold of the German translation of Ten-Ten? *_* a british search for 'black conscience.' - o.o; k+priya - I'm confused. K plus Priya? Krisit? K'? Who's K? pegin - WHAT THE HELL IS THIS PEGIN STUFF? XD gokudo-kun fansubs - I think Kristi has Gokudo-kun subs. Try fansubs.net. DiGi Charat music mp3s I have (checks) the OP (Only One, No. 1), the Dejiko to Gema no LOVE RAP de DATE, which is cracktastic, and various windows system error noises (system error, nyo!). Email me if you really need one of these. priya - well, yes, that's me. It's also a really common Indian name. Try something more specific, perhaps? cute black boys - ............. a random danish search engine. - that's fucking 1337. The danish search engine is called Kvasir. Kvasir was the giant created by the spittle of all the Norse deities, who was later sacrificed and his blood made into mead. 1337. XD a search engine that can search through indian sites to find girls named 'priya.' - At any rate, I'm disturbed. black maxima - this is fucking sad. one, my page is #1 in that search. TWO, it actually took me a while to figure out that they meant this one , not this one. :D~ I'm gonna crash now. X_x Now Playing: New Order - Blue Monday Sunday, October 21, 2001, 11:44 a.m. You could strangle me with my own hair, and at this point, I'd probably encourage you to do it. =_= Awake again. I actually had to set the alarm for this to work, otherwise I'd still be asleep. I have to go to my parents' house to teach today, and with my car being dead, they need to pick me up. I looked up bus schedules last night. Yikes. To get to work on time, I need to walk for ten minutes to get to the closest bus stop that will take me out to where my workplace is, which is also like a ten-minute walk from the closest bus stop. The ride will take something like 40 minutes each way. I can usually drive to work in about twelve minutes or so. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I can convince my parents to drop me at work on their way to their own work. It would only save me about an hour and a half of commute every day for the next week. ( Please, let the car be easy to repair; if it's too expensive, they'll let the car go, and I'll be up a certain rather annoying creek without a paddle.) Oh, well, that's kind of reassuring. Re: my upcoming interview with the U of CO, here are some stats from last year: Out-of-state applicants: 1616 Asked to interview: 211 Accepted: 54 So now I'm at the 211/1616 stage. Taken another way, I'm now at the 229/956 women who applied, and half of those women got accepted last year. *crosses fingers* This isn't the only school I've applied to, but it looks like a nice place, and the immunology center nearby makes me salivate a little. Imagine getting taught immunology by the guy who discovered the T cell. *____* TBC. My ride's here. Now Playing: Bruce Springsteen - I'm on Fire Sunday, October 21, 2001, 04:51 a.m. o/~ Are we really happy, or maybe just pretending? I can't tell the difference... o/~ Fu fu. The English Beat's " Twist & Crawl." I'm so glad I managed to catch them live. XD Last week I heard about a contest that would send you and a friend to Stockholm, Sweden, to see New Order in concert. I nearly swerved the damn car. Nooo! Dammit! I wanna see---! I'm up at this hour because Kya-chan called, and we had our usual very amusing but very wrong conversation. Topics covered: dirty HE doujinshi, speculation as to whether the KOF characters are just extremely attractive self-inserts ( Kya, if you can remember ANY of that, blog it or email it to me; that was SO TERRIBLY WRONG...it went something like, " Well, yeah, so like maybe the president of SNK's kind of a selfish jerk, and the vice president is a violent psychopath, so that's Kyo and Iori...and there's this pissy new programmer in town who refuses to talk to anyone, that'd be K'...") That's not actually all we talked about, but the serious stuff can't be blogged about. o.o Oh my god, the KOF 2000 comic is KILLING ME. I really have to wonder if the artist realizes exactly what he's drawing, because it's making me XD. I swear to GOD I don't deliberately look for Wrongness in everything I read. I honestly don't. But sometimes it's just THERE. Volume 10-12 of the KOF 2000 comic has this extended sidestory which made me DIE laughing. It goes like this (uh, scroll down if you're not at all interested....which is 99% of you...) But I need some opinions about this - is this, or is this NOT, slightly odd, even if you take it from the 'male-bonding' perspective? First of all, I would like to note that this is NOT A DOUJINSHI. Unless I'm terribly mistaken, these are official(?) Chinese KOF comics. the cover So, there's this little kid in the arcade in the mall, and he's playing KOF 2000 against this really ugly scary Iori cosplayer. ( he's got a fro kinda teased down into the bangs, and a cheap-ass pair of red pants, etc etc...) and the kid loses. So he goes to get more tokens, and as he's messing at the machine, he notices that there are two guys waiting in line behind him. So he apologizes for holding them up, and then he turns around and sees that one is a guy in jeans, a black shirt, and a white jacket, and the other is a really scary tall redhead with a black jacket and red bondage pants. The poor kid drops his tokens in shock. Kyo and Iori get some tokens of their own and go and claim the KOF 2000 machine. XD A HUGE-ASS CROWD gathers to see the freaky new players. XD Of course, they're playing themselves against each other, and they're REALLY COMPETITIVE, with button-pushing, yelling, flaming, posing, and 15-hit combos. XD The first match ends in a draw, and Iori froths and screams at Kyo. (They're both spent from their button-pounding XD) So they start fighting again, getting a bit too into their videogames...and then the skanky Iori cosplayer and his skanky fellow cosplayer-Kyo try to kick Iori off the machine in the middle of the fight, figuring that he's another cosplayer. Then they insult Iori's Iori costume. XD The "Kyo" puts his hand on Iori's shoulder, and gets blasted by purple flames. (At which point everyone realizes that it really IS Kyo and Iori, and they freak out. XD ) In Iori's one second of inattention, Kyo manages to execute a combo and beats Iori. XD Iori does not take defeat well. He screams and flames and throws a hissy fit, and Kyo drags him away from the table. The little boy runs after them and compliments them on their game ( I think ) and Kyo goes back to talk to the boy ( while Iori poses on the staircase and says something about Kyo and his FANS. ) So the little boy is really nervous, but Kyo shakes hands with him and talks to him, and the boy is like *_* Kusanagi Kyo *_* So then Kyo runs up the stairs and finds Iori posing outside his car, waiting for Kyo to be done with his fans. Iori challenges Kyo to a race, and Kyo accepts. Iori has this teeny little flame-red Porsche, and Kyo has this teeny silver sportscar...and they go tearing through the city at high speed, firing their backburners. _O_ We're talking Initial KoF here, for god's sakes. Fancy maneuvers, downhill racing, lots of 'gear-shifting' ^.- (I was SCREAMING with laughter when I was reading this, and sent Kya many incoherent emails.) So they're racing along, sending orange cones flying, scaring the other drivers, glancing at each other as they race side-by-side, imagining fighting with each other and grappling and wrestling and all that...( I seriously wonder if the artist realizes what the HELL he's drawing.) So they race for about an entire volume, and it's actually pretty exciting, because Iori drives like a nutcase - a skilled nutcase, but one who doesn't mind causing accidents in his wake to slow down Kyo ;;^_^ and Kyo's like goddammit, Yagami, stop being an ass! So they race, and fantasize about wrestling with each other, and finally they spin to a stop side by side and get out. They walk off side-by-side, as the cars collapse into steaming heaps of rubble behind them. Then they look at each other, and just kind of smirk. Come on, man, there's something WRONG going on here. What the hell was THAT? Someone back me up here....please? Please? *_* Fu---n. Well, I better crash; gotta teach tomorrow. Today. Fuck, whenever. I could blog about serious shit, but at this hour, I'm far too easily amused, and that comic killed me. Ini-KOF. Now Playing: Pixies - Is She Weird (quite probably T_T) Saturday, October 20, 2001, 11:59 p.m. Shrine For Nobody Know God Yep, that's the engrish title of my new Yami no Matsuei doujinshi. Honestly, I'm iffy on YnM; the only reason I got this, as you might remember me blogging about, was because I recognized the art style from one of my KOF doujinshi anthologies. Fu fu fu. Well! A lot of it is cute and clean, and the mad sex0r between Muraki and Tsuzuki wasn't QUITE as kinky and violent as I expected it to be. Tsuzuki still cries like a little girl when he's tied up, but that was to be expected. XD I just reread what I wrote and had to wonder what the hell is WRONG with me. XD The contents of my doujinshi collection scare ME, especially when I try to explain the plotlines with a straight face. Shannon came over tonight! That was 1337, especially when I slored Maze and Saiyuki to her. I HOPE I wasn't excessively disturbing...was I? O_o; My car broke down. Well, not really, but it was steaming when I stopped it at my parent's house - just a little bit - and it had the sickly sweet smell that meant that radiator fluid was leaking onto a hot engine block. Fuck. My work is 15 miles away. This means I have to be waiting for a bus at 6:30 am to get there at 7:30. C'mon, let's hear the violins for me just this ONCE, OK? :D Another cute song for j00 to listen to: The Long-Forgotten Fairytale - the Magnetic Fields If someone told me you'd be here whispering these familiar things talking to my little pets smoking the same old cigarettes I would have laughed I saw you last in springtime You said you hated long goodbyes You said there's nothing to explain in every life a little rain et cetera Chorus And a long-forgotten fairytale is in your eyes again and I'm caught inside a dream world where the colors are too intense and nothing is making sense There's a floating town of eiderdown in a mist of mystery There's an old enchanted castle and the princess there is me decked out like a Christmas tree I guess you've had your little joke but I have lost my sense of humor My medication's wearing off or it's just not strong enough to cover this and then you kiss me like before and I find myself wanting more and you tell that little lie that kept me hypnotized: another kiss... (chorus) If someone told me I'd succumb, If someone said I'd be so dumb after all the sleepless nights when I turned on all the lights I would have hit them but I have turned the other cheek My voice trembles, my knees are weak and you beat me once again and I know what happens then: you raise the ante... Juri, you're still terribly, TERRIBLY wrong. Longer blog later; I'm just so damn tired. X_x Now Playing: COO COO - Upside Down Saturday, October 20, 2001, 03:40 a.m. Well-met! I lost my soul. Yeah, it's Striker Kyo and Shingo. Heh heh heh. :D~ I find it deeply amusing that they try to give everyone girlfriends in KOF 2000. OK, Kyo's had that whorebag girlfriend Yuki for a while. But Shingo?! And Iori? I love Iori, but even *I* can't imagine a girl that would seriously date him. XD And Shingo's girlfriend...had better get used to him yelling out "KUUUSANAGI-SAN!!" at inappropriate moments. o.o I'm insane. To illustrate this, here is a list of books that I brought home last night: What's crazy about this? I carried all these books up to my second-floor apartment IN ONE TRIP. It nearly ended up badly. XD I told my parents I needed just one thing for XMas - a proper bookcase or three. Now I've got my smut, comics, and classical literature. I think my apaato has become home now. *_* Where have I been the past couple of days? Well, er, um, I found a site that had scanned in all forty-five volumes of the official chinese KOF comics. I promptly lost my mind and spent most of my free time downloading and looking through them. This layout is artwork from one of the comics. THAT'S HOW GOOD THE ART IS. unF, unF. And I seriously need to crash, methinks. Now Playing: Cornelius - New Music Machine ( o/~ ni sen ichi nen ni~~ o/~ ) |
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