Wednesday, August 2, 2006

I'M WRITIN' A POST! So there's this anime called Princess Princess... All 12 episodes are up on youtube, so I'm no longer deprived. My friend has been "Princess Princess this, and that, and YAY!" and I'm like, "...I'm deprived..." But it's on youtube, all subtitled and ready to go, so, YEEHAW! I'm gonna watch it! I watched episode one already. I don't feel like watching it all... I have other things to do right now. Like write, and go through the 80 pictures of hair cuts I have... X_X I need to pick ONE for how I want my hair cut for school. Eeeek. I also want highlights. I gave up on dying my hair black, because it's what EVERYONE is doing right now, and though they're doing it because it's "emo" or whatever and that's how all current American bands have their hair, and though I'd be doing it because that's Kirito's NATURAL hair color, the result is the same. So, no black. Highlights, maybe. Blue and silver streaks would be interesting, but I'd not be allowed of course... What else... Uh... I may be staying at my friend's house for a night or two alone next weekend. Like, her and her family won't be there, but I will be. It'll be weird, but cool. Otherwise.... Nothing. That's all. Ladeeda. ~SJ

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Reasons for being Nocturnal

Okay. I've decided that I am a nocturnal animal. That's bad for me, because I'm still in school, and school is one of those things that society forces upon you during the day to make you miserable. It's especially bad for us night flyers. Reason numero uno When your family is as annoying as mine, and your computer is in such a central location, and you're writing a gay romance... Reason number one is privacy. Most people sleep during the night, giving me the privacy and ease of movement that an author needs. Reason numero two My house is not air conditioned, and recently, it has been hot, humid, and hellish. Due to that, people in my house, including me, were really bitchy. But at night, it's cooler. I know this reason only goes for summer, and for people who don't have air conditioning, but reason number two for being nocturnal is, temperature. Reason numero three The hours from 6 AM until sometime in early afternoon are some of the most boring hours in the day. The TV programming sucks, for one. For two, those people who get up at normal times are up and about and doing their usual get-the-day-started routines... It's more fun to just sleep straight through all that hooplah and wake up at 3:30 in the afternoon, like I did today (technically, yesterday). The day doesn't really start moving until afternoon. You hear people saying "It's too early to do this, and it's too early to do that..." so they don't do anything in the mornings, then they're like, "SHIT, I should have done this earlier! Where does the day go?!" Whereas I... I wake up and start right into my life. I wake up, listen to music/check emails/shower, eat dinner, watch TV, check emails again, then everyone else goes to bed, and I start working. It's much better for me. The end I can't think of any other reasons. My main one is the first one. I need privacy. What I do is none of anyone else's business. It's not like it's really BAD, but it's not anyone's business. And I don't feel comfortable doing anything with people around. Also, there's the addition of distractions. I am a WRITER. Hel-LO. Just like any other artist, I need quiet and peace to write. Even loud music isn't the best thing to have around. And when people are around me and I'm trying to research for something, well, that just doesn't work. None of the information goes into my brain. I wish I lived alone. *heavy sigh* Or with someone who was very understanding and understood the "give" part in "give some, take some". Someone who could compromise and shit. Y'know? And I wish I didn't have to go to school. I'm wondering if this schedule will work for the school year... It's backwards of how I'm used to operating, but it still has me up in the night. Bed time: 4 PM, give or take. Wake up: midnight/ 1 AM-ish. Write, eat breakfast, etc. Go to school at 7:30. Get home at 3:30. Shower, and go to bed. Repeat. I know my mother would be really pissed if I started operating on that schedule, because I would sleep through dinner, and she really wouldn't appreciate that... But you know what? I'm a writer, and I need PRIVACY to write and the only way to get that here is to write AT NIGHTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!! Now, pardon me, but I have to go research brain tumors for my story. ~SJ

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006

The Gnat Episodes

The most interesting thing to happen to me today... (well, maybe not, but it makes my life sound even more boring than it is if I say that). A little bit ago, I looked over at my bottle of orange Fanta, and there's this gnat on it... and it's struggling, because it's legs are stuck in a bit of condensation. So, in an attempt to help (I felt bad for it. Honestly. It looked so pathetic and scared...), I slid my fingernail along the bottle in an attempt to scoot it over, out of the condensation. I moved it, and it fell, and I looked at my fingernail and one of its legs was stuck to it. I just said "Oops" (lots of pity for the cute, scared, pathetic bug now, huh?) and I blew the crippled bug off the desk and into oblivion (maybe it's in someone's shoe now). Don't forget to check out the new videos up above and tell me what you think. For explanations and/or my opinions, check the post below this. ~SJ

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Sunday, July 30, 2006

New videos

I posted new videos! #1) Miyavi - "Shokubutsu Ningen M no Theme". I've never heard the song before, but the video description on youtube said he sounded good, so despite him looking like a mixture between Marilyn Manson and Edward Scissorhands (plus other weirdos), I gave it a go, and it's a pretty good song. The audio and video don't seem to be in sync, but maybe that's just my computer. Oh well. He's scary to look at there anyways, so just listen to the song. I believe the date on this one was January of this year, on LFX, which I think is a radio show. #2) Gackt - "Fragrance". A song I've heard before. Beautiful, slow, and Gackt, of course, does a beautiful performance. It's the longest I've ever seen the guy stand still. And I know it looks like he's making out with the mic 'cause his lips are like, ON IT when he's singing, but it's kinda sexy in its own way. And the way he stands, and touches the mic, and moves his hands... And the instrumental about 2:45 in... They zoom in on his eyes and he looks so intense, it's scary. Beautiful song. There wasn't a date on this one, and it didn't have the name of the show he performed on, but I guess either HeyHeyHey or Utaban... #3) PIERROT - "Kumo no Ito". I have two performances of this song on DVD, and I've posted a different one on here before, but this is another different one, and though the song is basically the same (Kirito's vocals variate a little, more screams, growls, etc), the visuals are... better. None of them are wearing shirts, and Kirito is wearing leather pants. The video quality sucks, so it's my goal now to get my paws on the Tour Paradoxical Genesis Anniversary DVD... This song was their finale on that DVD, according to the track listing I just looked up. So... Lovely treat for their fans. This was on September 23 2001, at Yokohama Arena. I almost posted a different Pierrot video... In fact, I had... but then I found the shirtless one and just had to. The other one I almost posted wasn't that great quality anyways... It was "Jishuu Kisei - H**** K****" which I read an interesting factoid about... Apparently, the original title was "Haken Kreuz", which translates from German as "Hooked Cross" I believe, which is also the Swastika. So the Japanese Record Industry banned the song title, and it was released under the title "Jishukisei" which means "Voluntary Restraint." Which basically ends up meaning, in this situation, it doesn't matter what you call the song. The song doesn't change, just the title. Call it as you will. But anyways... I just thought that was interesting. Also in that song, Kirito gets bleeped. Like, his lyrics at one point get bleeped (I specify "his lyrics" because, though I don't think any of you have, if you've watched any of their live concerts, you see that when he talks between songs (God knows what he says) he gets bleeped quite a bit. I love Kirito. He just has such a way of totally pissing people off and going against what people think he should do. Like, he dissed the hell out of the government (both America's and Japan's) in Pierrot's lyrics, more than once. But anyways... my life... My life is unexciting. I'm going to call my best friend and see if she's home from soccer camp... Watch the videos and tell me what you think. ~SJ

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Saturday, July 29, 2006

blah

I made cinnamon rolls yesterday. They taste good. Today, I died a little bit, and decided once and for all that if I live in this town the rest of my life, it's going to be a very, very short life. I will drink flavored Clorox. This town SUCKS. Like, honestly. I would rather live in a big city than this town. And I HATE HATE HATE cities. But I HATE HATE HATE HATE this town. GOD it sucks! So, name some good colleges that have Japanese and Creative Writing, and I will look into them. ~SJ

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Damn.

My betta fish died. I saw it coming about three weeks ago when he started laying down on the bottom a lot... Then he started swimming sorta sideways... and laying sorta sideways on the bottom... Then he swam okay for three days, but never ate. Now he's laying very still and very flat and very dead on the bottom, on his side. Kaput. Dead fish. I saw it coming, so I'm not upset. I don't get upset over fish. I had three fish for like six years and they all died and I didn't really care. Fish are pretty to look at, but if you can't touch your pet, then really, you can't get attached to it. Or at least, I can't. So, he's kaput and I don't really care. I may or may not get a new one. I had this one for a month and a half or so. I don't feel like spending $4 for something that looks pretty for a few weeks, then dies. Don't get me wrong, it's still pretty, but it's also pretty DEAD... Stupid fish. ~SJ

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Thursday, July 27, 2006

how about....

So yesterday, I went to bed at 6 and got woke up by a squealing baby at 11:23. Count them. That's less than 5 1/2 hours of sleep. I made up for it today by sleeping from 5:30 until 3:18. That's the latest I've slept all summer. Not the longest. I think I slept 12 hours once this summer. Early on, before I started going to bed at 5:30 regularly. But the latest. I don't know if I've ever slept until after 3 before unless I was sick. Which I'm not. I'm hungry, but not sick. I really should start eating breakfast before I go to sleep. I'm always hungry by the time I go to bed. I eat one meal a day. That's not healthy, I know, but by the time I get up, it's only a few hours until dinner, so I just wait. And then I'm not hungry again until like 4:30-5 o'clock-ish, and I doubt my mother would appreciate me scrambling eggs before going to bed, so I just don't bother eating. I just go to sleep and forget I'm hungry. Then I wake up and take a shower and then I feel so hungry I might puke. Which, needless to say, isn't good. I'm reeeally hungry. But it's like, an hour and a half until dinner. But I'm REEEALLY hungry. Ergh. ~SJ

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

I need a vacation from life. Ugh. I need a laptop, and a two-week trip to somewhere with weather that's nice and a family that doesn't piss me off. That's about the extent of it. A vacation from life.

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Monday, July 24, 2006

I GOT MY MIYAVIZM ALBUM! And the disc drive in my computer broke just in time so that I can't listen to it in the computer! How stupid is that?! ~SJ

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Sunday, July 23, 2006

Wow, I got 5 comments on my last post! Maybe I should talk about Miyavi more. I love when he does his total solo stuff, where he has the bells strapped to his foot and stuff... That's so cool. :P I just watched another one of those... But I still can't get enough of the Aho Matsuri dance... It's so incredibly stupid and like something I would do. If my stereo wasn't shit and didn't skip when you breathed on it wrong, I'd be doing it in my room every time I listened to that CD (when I get it). I'm gonna change my featured video here in a little bit... after I finish watching a few of these MYV videos to pick one... Either acoustic solo of Biba Biba Bibappu (another song on the Miyavism album) or a cover of a Nirvana song that I just downloaded so that I could hear the original before Miyavi's. I bet I'll like Miyavi's better. Or I could always post Kirito's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' cover... XD That's always fun to watch. You can't understand shit he says, but then, you can't understand it when Kurt Cobain sang it either. Anyways, I'll do that in a minute here... I must do something first... But, I'm sure by the time anyone reads this, I'll have it switched, unless someone reads it in the next ten minutes... So watch the new vid and comment on it here. :P That's all, I guess. If I post the nirvana cover, maybe I'll find a vid of the original Nirvana song so you all can compare, too. Dunno. Will see. ~SJ

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