Sunday, December 17, 2006

Tada!

Yes, I return! After nearly… *looks at calendar* Holy Crap! Has it really been almost a month? Damn, the time around finals is a real killer. But it may please you to know that I have tried to keep up with reading everyone’s entries, even if I didn’t have time to comment. Stalker-ish? Possibly. But such is life. Now, to catch-up on my life for you guys. Ummm, well, stuff happened. I worked. I took some tests. And that’s pretty much it. Finals has a way of reducing your life to the most essential of functions. Although… I did have one interesting weekend. See, my friend turned 21 on the 1st, so I drove out to Western Illinois University with a couple of friends to visit her. Of course, the night before we planned to leave, it snowed at least 12 inches. But somehow I got talked into going anyway. So, 4 hours after leaving, we arrived at my friend’s house in Macomb. There was much confusion over exactly where she lived and where we were to park. After that, we all went to a local club, where I was once again reminded why I hate such places, not mention my brain-dead, alcohol-swilling peers. Later on, as we were leaving the bar/club at 2 am to return to my friend’s house, I get pulled over by a cop for not turning my headlights on (hey, there were a shit-load of lights at that intersection and I was tired!) The fun part was, I was still driving on a speeding ticket, so I’m sure that didn’t look all that good either. Naturally, I had to get out and have a light shined in my eye, but I don’t drink, so I didn’t really care. And, as if my night weren’t exciting enough, I woke up the next morning to discover that my car had been towed. Apparently, the short drive where my friend had told us to park was private property. Whoops. But I made the others who came with me pitch-in for the bill, so it wasn’t too bad. All in all, it was enough excitement for a month. Now, last night was my first official day of freedom, so I went to the movies to see Eragon with my friend Jessica. We’ve both read the books, so we were really excited. And while we did have a great time, it was unfortunately at the expense of the movie. About every five minutes, we were cracking jokes about some annoying or nonsensical plot change. After about 30 minutes, we had lost all respect for the plot and by the end, Jessica had managed to make a joke about hot-pants (you would have understood if you were there). There were some good points, however. I thought that the actors cast to play both Brom and Murtagh were excellent picks. You can’t go wrong with Jeremy Irons, no matter how hard you try. And the guy who played Murtagh had an excellent shady look about him, as if it were hard to tell whether or not to trust him. The minute I saw him first appear I poked Jessica and said, “Okay, that was definitely Murtagh over there.” Unfortunately, his character was very much marginalized, which annoyed me, because he was my favorite character in the book. Curses. On another note, curse you Myui! After you put that link to Ozy and Millie in your post, I got hooked on the comic. Like I need any more of a reason to waste my time on the internet. On a high note, however, Ozy is now my favorite comic character ^_^ Hmm, I wonder if it’s narcissistic to like characters because they remind you of yourself… -Picture of the Day-

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Monday, November 20, 2006

Craziness

Ok, it’s time for me to obsess over something non-anime related today. I decided to check out a TV series that I’d been meaning to watch for a while, called Dexter. You might have heard of it, or at least caught a glimpse of a commercial for it. It’s based on a book series by an author named Jeff Lindsay. It’s about a forensic expert for the Miami police department named Dexter Morgan who specializes in blood spatter analysis. Sounds like your typical CSI / Without a Trace stuff right? Well, wrong. The catch is that Dexter secretly happens to be a serial killer himself, and his victims of choice are other murderers. I mean, don’t get things wrong, he’s completely insane, but it’s a very focused insanity. During the first episode they had flash-backs to when he was a kid with his foster-father who was a homicide detective. Apparently Dexter was one of those kids who killed animals, and as many of you probably know, that’s an early sign of homicidal/psychopathic tendencies. The really disturbing thing, in my mind, is not that Dexter’s a psycho, but that his father, instead of taking him to get help, trained him how to chose his victims and not get caught. But all in all, it is a rather interesting look at a seriously messed up person, and how he carries out fake social relationships and hides his real personality. Not to mention the lack of human emotion. It’s very compelling. Anywho, here’s a little clip-thingy about the show. Enjoy. -Quotations of the Day- Dexter: “There’s something strange and disarming about looking at a homicide scene in the daylight of Miami. It makes the most grotesque killings look staged, like you’re in a new and daring section of Disney World: Dahmerland!” LaGuerta: “So then he must have already had the head with him in the front seat. Huh, that's weird. Why would he keep it there?” Dexter: “I don't know. So he could use a carpool lane.” Dexter: (Voice over) “She's the only person in the world who loves me. I think that's nice. I don’t have feelings about anything, but if I could have feelings at all, I’d have them for Deb.” Dexter: (Voice over) “Needless to say I have some unusual habits, yet all these socially acceptable people can't wait to pick up hammers and smash their food to bits. Normal people are so hostile.” -Dexter- (yes, I am blatantly padding my entry so as to draw attention away from it's shortness ^_^) One of my friends posted this on her facebook. Absolutely hilarious.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

   Epic

Success! I am officially an art major again! Hail merciful universe! *bows* And boy do I have a story for you guys. It is a tale of bureaucracy, confusion, uncertainty, lost files, and a shitload of walking. Yes, this is the story of my adventurous day changing my major. I woke up bright and early Tuesday morning at 6 am, went through my morning routine and embarked on my 35 minute journey to NIU promptly at 7. I arrived at the office of the undergraduate advisor for Visual and Performing Arts around 7:45, checked-in at 8, and was first on the list for her walk-in hours at 9. I killed an hour reading Abarat (fabulous series by the way) and then spent about half an hour meeting with the advisor and making my pivotal To-Do List. List in hand, NIU switchboard number on speed dial, and declaration of major officially signed, I was on my way to kick some bureaucratic ass. First victim, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Apparently, I needed to fill out some concurrent enrollment paperwork that my original counselor conveniently forgot to inform me of for my Japanese class at my local community college, and since my files were still at the LA&S office, they needed to have it filled out there. Once that was done, I stormed the Foreign Language Department in order to make sure that the afore mentioned class would transfer (it’s new at my community college) and I spoke with the Japanese professor about how the classes compare. The next beast for me to slay was that vile creature known as the Registration Office. Upon preparing my paperwork for my meeting the night before, I had noticed that my Associates degree was not on my report. Considering that I had a lovely little diploma sitting at home, I was pretty damn sure that I had earned it. After conversing with a very pleasant lady, it was discovered that my community college had sent my transcript too soon and my degree was not listed. Vowing later vengeance on my alma mater, I decided that it was a good time to take a lunch break and finish up my readings for my 3:30 class. When I returned to my mission, I realized that now was probably as good a time as any to pay my library fines, since I was already out conquering. After a little bit of a run around, I was directed by the library to the Bursar’s Office to pay the fines (O_o weird) and was surprised to discover that the college no longer collected library fines. The computers still record them, but there was no longer anyone assigned to the job and they just stopped doing it. So, all weirdness aside, I figured that I had successfully defeated the dreaded college bureaucracy with relative ease. That was until it suddenly rose from the dead and came back to bite me in the ass. I happened to glance back to my All-Mighty Checklist and I noticed that I had forgotten some business with the LA&S department. As I returned to the former masters of my fate, I was met with a startling surprise. The woman who had helped me before informed me that she had just left a message at my house saying that the LA&S department didn’t have my files. In fact, as far as their computers said, I had never been a Political Science major (despite the fact that I had gone through orientation as a poli sci major), and my files were still being held in the Visual and Performing Arts department (from back when I was an Art Ed major). Throughly confounded, I trekked to the V&PA office. After discussing the situation with a nice lady, she went digging and returned to inform me that she also had no files on me, nor did she have any record of ever sending them to a different department. Entirely unfazed by the situation, she filled out the concurrent enrollment paperwork for me and said that since it was my first semester, they really wouldn’t have had much in my files anyway. She made me up a new file and I was now officially and physically placed. The bureaucracy monster was defeated, dead, and buried (at least for this semester), with just enough time left over for me to make it to my 3:30 class. Thus ends my epic battle story. Next time, I think I’ll take on the terror that is… the Honors Department! *Bolts of Dramatic Lightning and Thunder* I really need a nap. -Quotation of the Day- "I've got an idea for a great Bible drinking game. Have a shot every time [King] David cries." -"Blogging the Bible" by David Plotz- (a great online column that you can read here if you so choose, by a practicing Jew who one day decides to read the entire Bible and look at it as something new)

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Friday, November 10, 2006

Tada!

Aha! I unveil my new site design! My long absence was merely a clever ruse to let focus on my site wane in order to carry out my conversion in secret *shifty eyes* Yes… that’s it… I picked a song from the Black Cat soundtrack for the background because it has a piano, and it's slightly spooky, a perfect representation of two major themes in Spiral. And my new avatar is Ayumu and Hiyono. They're so cute! ^_^ I love them. In other news, I actually am carrying out a covert mission of sorts. I am secretly looking into transferring back to the School of Art (*shush* it’s a secret) I’m going to see if it is actually possible for me to finish a Bachelor’s of Art in a year and a half (including summer semesters). If not, I will go quietly crawling back to the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and my fellow International Relations majors, and none will be the wiser. This saves me much disappointment and familial ridicule. We’re big on the ridiculing. I think we may even have a ridicule gene. My littlest siblings are pretty darn sarcastic, and they’re still in elementary school. I shall have to be super sneaky. Sounds like fun ^_^ -Quotation of the Day- Hiyono: *pokes Ayumu's forehead* "And his forehead begins to wrinkle, and wrinkle... Just kidding. When Narumi-san is thinking about something, it always wrinkles here." Ayumu: *monotone* "Don't play with my wrinkles." -Spiral-

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006

   Sugar Spirals

Ugh, right now I’m seriously fighting the urge to rip apart my current xxxHoLic theme and put up a Spiral theme *wiggles fingers evilly* In fact, the only reason I’m not doing that right now is because I am seriously lacking in the materials necessary to carry out my evil plot. Spiral isn’t a massively popular anime so it’s not exactly like I have a plethora of online resources. However, I am planning on running myself down to the mall tomorrow (Wednesday) after work in order to hit-up our little Japanese import shop. What I’m mainly going to look for is the soundtrack and art books. If I happen to find the complete series at a reasonable price, I will squeal girlishly for joy, because there is this absolutely adorable screenshot that I’m thinking of using for a background, but sadly, Spiral is a bit tough to find episodes of for download online, probably due to the fact that it was licensed a couple years ago. Fortunately, my new computer has the ability to play DVDs (yay!), so all is not lost. I just need to find those DVDs! >_< I will search high and low with my entire internet and city shopping might! I must have my dreary, emo-y, funny, mystery thriller anime theme! (*Those of you with no idea what this madness is about can see the second half of my previous post for more details*) Oh, if you haven’t guessed, I finished Spiral this weekend (and I'm also hyped-up on sugar) ^_^ I was right about the hanging ending (curses…) but the story is really too long for just 25 episodes, so I’m glad they didn’t try to mangle it horribly. None of the major mysteries are solved (Where is Ayumu’s brother? What are the Blade Children? Why are people trying to kill them? How the hell is Ayumu supposed to save them anyway?) but I just went on Wikipedia (the ultimate source for any form of useless knowledge) and looked up the ending to the manga. I’m not gonna wait around for TokyoPop to get off its ass. So yes, ultimate groovyness. I’m seriously thinking about hunting down all the Japanese volumes of the manga once I learn some more Japanese. I love a good challenge *evil grin* Anywho, here’s a Spiral music video, just for fun. I noticed that there are a lot of obvious couples in the series, and they’re all so cute together (especially Ryoko and Kousuke. Ryoko keeps that boy in line. Violently). Obviously someone else noticed too ^_^ (oh, on a side note, the girl with silver hair and pig-tails who looks like she’s about 11-12 is actually 16. Older then the main character, now that I think about it 0_0 Anyway, despite anime’s history of highly age mismatched couples, this is not one of them ^_^) Fun pic! (hmm, someone should chop Kanone off the left end there. Psycho bastard.) -Quotation of the Day- Madoka: *answers door* “Hello. Hiyono: “Good day, Madoka.” Madoka: “Good day, wait a minute.” Hiyono: “Okay.” Madoka: *yells inside* “Ayumu, you have a guest.” Ayumu: *yelling from inside* “Who is it?” Madoka: “The one who sings the strange song.” Ayumu: “Tell her I’m not here.” Hiyono: *annoyed* “Excuse me.” *goes inside and sits on Ayumu while he tries to sleep* -Spiral-

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Movies, Anime, And Such

Wow, it’s so hard to break habits. When I didn’t have a computer, I was practically clawing out the floorboards in distress. Now that I do have one again, it’s like, “What? Oh yeah, that thing. That’s right, I can post again.” Weird. Well I was a nice sister yesterday (Friday) and took my little sister and brother to go see The Nightmare Before Christmas. They rather enjoyed it, so everything’s groovy ^_^ I just love twisting small children to my image. I’ve already converted all of the neighbor kids I baby-sit. In fact, the youngest one, the two year old, even told me that she liked the “scary movie”, and she can recognize songs from it. *squeal* That’s so adorable! And I must say this: I apologize for making this another excessive NBC post. But I’ve been thinking again lately (scary) and I just came across a revelation. My revelation is that I feel sorry for anyone (teenager and above) who found out about the movie after the 10th anniversary and seriously liked it. First off, they’re probably never going to convince anyone that they’re not posers. And second, they don’t get to experience the story from all stages of life. Different things stick with you or pop out at you during different times. For example, I remember that when I was a little kid my favorite things were (a) “Kidnap the Sandy Claws” (b) poking Santa with a pitch-fork (c) Santa’s funny underwear (d) the line “I, Jack, the Pumpkin King…that’s right, I am the Pumpkin King!” As a teenager, I loved (a) “Poor Jack” (b) when I noticed that one of the gravestones was a reference to Edvard Munch’s “Scream” (c) the “two-faced politician” joke (d) the line “I, Jack, the Pumpkin King…that’s right, I am the Pumpkin King!” Nowadays (I guess you could call it the college stage) the things that strike me the most are (a) “Jack’s Lament” (b) the line “Jack, please, I’m only an elected official here, I can’t make decisions by myself!” (c) the effects of Jack’s independence and complete selfishness on situations in relation to Sally’s independence and complete selflessness (d) the line “I, Jack, the Pumpkin King…that’s right, I am the Pumpkin King!” (man, I could never get tired of this one ^_^) I can’t wait to see what I think of this movie in my next yet to be determined “stage”. It never ceases to tickle my brain, and it always finds ways to surprise me (i.e. my recent revelation that Jack is in fact an emo 0_0) In today’s news, I must report that I have been sucked in by the anime “Spiral”. I started to read the manga awhile back and I absolutely loved it, but I could never find any chapters after a certain point. It left me sad, but eventually faded from my mind. Just recently however, I saw an ad for the complete anime box-set from FUNimation, and suddenly realized that I could probably hit up YouTube for the episodes. I dived in with reckless abandon and have been recaptured. I can just hear the show laughing evilly from the distance, calling me with its damn entrancing mystery. For those of you who don’t know what it’s about, it’s basically about a guy named Narumi Ayumu whose older brother (a genius and member of the police force) mysteriously disappeared 2 years ago. Before he vanished, he called Ayumu and left him with a cryptic message, something about the “Blade Children”. In the present day, Ayumu lives with his sister-in-law (a police detective) and quietly slacks his way through school, considering the fact that he’s obviously something of a genius as well. But then a series of mysterious and violent events lead Ayumu to encounter the Blade Children for himself as he gets pulled into a series of deadly games designed to test him for some unknown reason. Along for the ride is Yuzaki Hiyono, the head of the school newspaper. She seems to provide much of the comic relief for the series (although there is some pretty funny stuff with Ayumu and his sister) and she has an unparalleled information network at her disposal (unless you’re the CIA), which comes in mighty handy. Now, the beginning of the series might come of as a bit “Detective Conan”-ish, what with Ayumu’s Sherlock Holmes style mystery solving. But the few episodic stories each end up giving a little something to the greater mystery at hand, so they can be forgiven. I’m just now getting past what I read in the manga, so I’m all a flutter. I’m also happy to know that the series has an end, because I know I won’t be left hanging again (unless it’s one of those open-to-interpretation endings… then I’m royally screwed, and someone will have to be hurt). Whether it’s the same ending as the manga, I have no idea, but it’s still an end. And hopefully it will tide me over until Tokyopop decides to get off of it’s fat ass and publish the manga, since they’ve had the rights to it for about a year now >_< Curse you Tokyopop! Anyway, here are some fun pics ^_^ Hiyono and Ayumu This one is too funny not to share. Yes, he does wear that apron in the series and it cracks me up every single time *falls over laughing* -Quote of the Day- Daria: "Damn. I'll have to make my own breakfast. *pushes the toaster lever down* Now I'm too tired to eat."

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Monday, October 23, 2006

The Ire Post

Yay! I finally got my own computer again. *throws self on the ground in reverence* Anywho, I had an interesting weekend. Be prepared people, it’s going to be a long ride. As some of you may know, they’ve released “The Nightmare Before Christmas” in 3D at some Imax theatres. Well, it opened on Friday, and my friend Keebs asked me to come along to the midnight showing so that we could hang with some people (she, in turn was invited by another one of our friends). So, with myself as the chauffer, we (along with her boyfriend Charlie) drove a good half hour away to the nearest theatre showing it. With a about 45 minutes till the movie started, we went to purchase tickets only to discover that the show had sold out at 9:30pm. Now you might be wondering why the hell we didn’t try to get tickets beforehand. Well, we did. Sort of. First of all, our friend gave Keebs the wrong theatre and time, so she had to figure that out for herself. Then, when she finally figured out the right one, the website she was directed to didn’t offer tickets for our theatre. So she called the theatre and they said they didn’t hold tickets over the phone. And so, considering that the movie had been playing all day, we went. We figured it couldn’t be that bad. Boy were we wrong. So, we saw “Man of the Year” instead. It was ok. So on the way home, our friend who invited us finally answered his phone when Keebs called (we had been trying to get a hold of him for hours). Apparently, he had gotten his tickets online and never bothered to figure out what happened to us. Needless to say, we’re a bit unhappy with him. He’s got several ass-whoppings coming. The next day, we decided to give this another shot and we also tracked down our friend Elise who was supposed to go the day before but was foiled as well by the antics of the same ire inducing friend of ours. This time, we went online and got tickets from Fandango. We planned on getting there a good 45 minutes early to get decent seats, but certain familial constraints prevented us from getting there until about 11:45pm. So we were stuck with first row seats. In an Imax theatre. Not fun. So we decided to break up a bit. Keebs’ boyfriend had never seen the movie, so he went up a bit higher by himself. The remaining three of us managed to get some seats about two rows higher, but we still had to look up to see it. Of course, that movie can make anything better, so I didn’t complain. Then. But I will now. Damn mass marketing of my precious childhood memories! Curse all you whiney pseudo-goths and Hot Topic shoppers. I’m sure half of those jack-asses flocking to the theatre never even knew what that movie was about before the stupid 10th anniversary mass whoreing back in 2003. *sigh* The worst part is that if it weren’t for the horrendous marketing acts that I so despise, the movie probably wouldn’t even be in 3D, and I’d never get to see it in theatres. Damn. It’s always a mixed bag of emotions when cult classics go mainstream. In other news, I figured out that apparently I’m basically a Philosophical Taoist and never knew it. Weird. I guess that’s what happens when you decide to read the chapters you skipped in your old world religions textbook. Now I can have an answer when people question my downright un-American lack of ambition. And it’s pretty cool to be part of a philosophy whose supposed founder basically went, “You people suck. I’m leaving,” and rode away on a water buffalo, of all things, as opposed to trying to prove his point. If any of you ever get the chance, you should read The World’s Religions by Huston Smith. Taoism is a bit hidden between Confucianism and Islam, but Smith does a pretty decent job explaining the spirit of religious and philosophical thoughts, and the other sections are all good too. Anywho, I’m off to find a copy of Tao Te Ching. Later. -Quotations of the Day- (I added extras to make myself happier ^_^) *watching scene with the song “Poor Jack” in theatre* Me: *whispering to Elise* “Oh my God! Jack’s an emo!” Elise: “Well, he is scrawny with a big head and weighs less than his girlfriend.” *correcting Keebs boyfriend’s mistake as we all drive home* Me: “He’s King of the Pumpkin Patch. Charlie doesn’t have the ten-plus years of experience with the story that we have. I loved that movie as a little kid.” Elise and Keebs: “Me too!” Elise: “I’d forgotten how dark some parts of that movie are for children. You know, some things about us make so much more sense now.” Principle Li: “Ms. Morgandorfer, where do you think you’re going?” Daria: “Slowly insane. But I thought I’d stop at home first.” -Daria- Daria: “I see, we’re being graded on our family life. Gee, look at the time, 1984 already.” -Daria- (Again ^_^ Intelligent comedy always makes me feel better)

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

I’m Sorry I Ever Wished That I Went To A Real College

Well, not really, but I swear that four year universities exist solely to drain our souls and prolong their immortality. Or something like that. Not to mention take up all out time. Curse you NIU!!! Anyway, I had some free time today, so I finished watching the Ouran High School Host Club anime (I’ve been putting it off T_T) I’m probably one of the only people in the world who would say this but I found the last episodes to be rather hilarious, which is weird because they’re supposed to be kind of serious. But that’s the thing, Ouran is such a zany and odd series that anything serious just borders on parody. I mean, the whole series is shojo, so it has to have that dramatic, at least quasi-romantic ending, but Ouran has a reputation for mocking its own genre. So the dramatic, kind of “out there” ending was odd, off, and, in that way, perfect. ^_^ Yay for paradoxical anime! And so, in order to honor the passing of this bone-racking, funny anime series (although the manga is still going), I have a new list *ahem* Robo’s List Of Ouran Theme Music - Tamaki: “Do What You Want” by OK Go (That seems to be his motto, after all ^_^) & “C’est Moi” from the musical Camelot (Narcissistic and French, what more could you ask for?) - Kyoya: “Invincible” by OK Go (He really deserves a better song, but sadly, it’s hard to find a song that says “you’re evil incarnate, and we think that’s friggin awesome”) - Haruhi: “Jane” by Barenaked Ladies - Kaoru and Hikaru: “It’s A Disaster” by OK Go (For some reason, I really like this one for them) - Hunny and Mori: “Island in the Sun” by Weezer (I’d give Mori his own song, if he ever talked enough to give any insight T_T) Yeah, I’ve been listening to a lot of OK Go, if you didn’t notice ^_^ -Quotation of the Day- “‘Plundering? I’m not sure you understand. We’ve not invented the airship to go plundering.’ ‘So what on earth is it for?’ asked the Pirate Captain. ‘For? What is all science “for”!’ exclaimed the scientist. ‘Pushing back frontiers! The thrill of discovery! Advancing the sum total of human knowledge and endeavour! And looking down ladies tops.’” -The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe- (long live British humor)

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Tuesday, October 3, 2006

That Damn Whistling Again!

Sorry for the disappearing and such again. My cousin’s been visiting for about a week and so we’ve been trying to keep her occupied, as well as doing my other stuff. Plus, I’ve been working on an OK Go fan group for Facebook. When I tried to join one and discovered it didn’t exist, I felt it was my sacred duty as a “Pre-Treadmill Video” fan and Juggling Club member to establish one. So please excuse me if I have OK Go on the brain today. For those of you who might not know what the hell I’m rambling about, watch this, if you can. Some of you may remember/have heard of this band doing a routine on treadmills at the VMA’s this year. They’re an awesome rock group with what I think might be a penchant for the slightly insane. And for any of you who know the lyrics to the Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil”, OK Go has a song on they’re most recent CD called “A Good Idea at the Time” that’s an obvious reference to it. Here are the lyrics: “A Good Idea at the Time” True about my taste True about my wealth The thing about St Petersburg I was never there myself So come on Anastasia might have cried all night, but I couldn’t say myself So come on, yeah come on I appreciate your courtesy, your well earned politesse But you got yourself into your own mess You know the demon’s in the design: A good idea at the time Seemed like a good idea at time Now how it all went down, only Pilate knows All I ever asked of him is when the bars would close So come on Oh, I appreciate your courtesy, your well earned politesse But you got yourself into your own mess You know the demon’s in the design: A good idea at the time Seemed like a good idea at time Now what you gonna do about it? Now, it’s true about my wealth, And true about my taste But you dont need no help from me, you'll lay yourself to waste So come on Seemed like a good idea at time Yeah seemed like a good idea at time Fun stuff ^_^ Anyway, if any of you are simultaneously Facebook members and OK Go fans, please check out my group. I felt like doing another list, so here it is: Songs That Robo Really Relates To/Identifies With/Whatever (1) “Last Train Home” by Lost Prophets (2) “Crash the Party” by OK Go (great anti-romance song, look it up) (3) “Jane” by Barenaked Ladies Hmm, I’m beginning to notice a theme there… anyway, do any of you guys have songs that you really identify with? Well, I guess that’s it for today. I’ll try to keep posting more often *crosses fingers* Have a good day all ^_^ -Quotation of the Day- Henry: “It’s a big, bad ray of death!” Jack: “Oh, a death ray.” *turns to Stark* “Why didn’t you just say death ray?” -Eureka- (I love this show, so funny ^_^)

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Thursday, September 21, 2006

   Randomness... Oh, And The Apocalypse Is Near...

I feel like making lists for my posts today, so here we go… Robo’s Favorite Episodes of WHR (with commentary) -The first episode (we get to set some kind of series ground rules, Amon blatantly checks out Robin, and Amon later gets his useless ass saved by said girl, which causes him to be surly) -Episodes 14 and 15 (the turning point in the series, or as I like to call it, “Well it’s about damn time, Amon!”) -Episode 24 (OMG! He broke the rule and NOTHING HAPPENED! 0_0 Doujima what now?) The last of the above really makes no sense. I know this. But I have a strict anti-spoiler policy. Things Robo Does That Are “Boyish” -Spiky handwriting (curse all you bubbly-lettering females) -Wears ancient T-shirts and jeans that I’ve had forever (which leads to...) -Hates shopping for clothes (unless they say something funny, like “Respect the Emperor, Expel the Foreign Barbarians” in Japanese. Hmm, where is that shirt... *dives in closet*) -Watches mind-less action movies and anime (my accursed love of fight scenes *sigh*) Things Robo Does That Are “Girly” -Likes guys -Umm, I once blow-dried my hair and wore chap-stick. Oh, wait! I wore lipstick for Halloween once (I know, I got nothing) Ok, I’m done with the lists for now. I may do some more some day. That was kind of fun ^_^ Anyway, In Fruits Basket news, chapter 133 was just released in Japan. I read a summary of it, and I must say that… The Apocalypse has come! The bizarro world I thought would never come finally has. For this, I will break my sacred spoiler rules. Plug your… um, eyes, if you don’t want to know (you’re safe Elves, you already know this) In this scene, Yuki, Tohru, and Kyo are discussing the recent revelation (to the boys) of the fact that Akito is a girl. Kyo: “I feel a bit relieved…” Tohru: “Eh? By… relieved?” Kyo: “...How should I put it…” *to Yuki* ”Having even more guys with crushes on you would be a problem…” Yuki: *chokes* Kyo: “Oy.” Yuki: “I’m not laughing” *cracks up* “Honestly, I’m not laughing” Tohru: “??” Kyo: “Yes, you are.” OH MY GOD! They’re getting along! Dare I say even… becoming friends? Run people, flee for your lives! The fabric of space and time will surely warp itself into agonizing knots! But seriously, you know the end of Furuba is near when this kind of stuff starts happening. Of course, I saw this coming when Yuki totally spazzed out and kicked the crap out of Kyo for admitting that he wanted to be like Yuki. I believe he was a bit peeved that Kyo owned-up first to their mutual jealousy. Damn, everyone is so messed-up in that series. I love it! *squeals girlishly* Ok, well I can definitely add that to my “girly” list ^_^ -PictoQuotation of the Day- Bitch, PLEASE -Witch Hunter Buzz Buzz- (hey, it cracked me the hell up ^_^) P.S. Oh, I almost forgot! I added a new pic on the 9th. So far pillowsrock is the only one to comment. I need more people to judge my products of boredom. They feel special when people pay attention to them. So please go judge/comment/vote!

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