Tuesday, June 28, 2005

No Room!

Comments! Monkey Orange: I didn't get the chance to go with my sister this time. I'm sure she'll be getting more in future, though. She's looking after them pretty well so far, which is good. I much prefer them to hamsters >.>; Roxie: London's about an hour and a half away by train, and two hours by car. It's only about 70-80 miles. I don't go there that often, but if the opportunity arises then I won't say no ^_^ Ozymandius: I don't think I'd be able to care for fish myself- not at the moment, anyway. Too busy and the chances are they'd all die for some weird reason despite my efforts. Like my pot plants. Bastards. Well, I say 'one working thumb', but really I'm just being extra cautious over my right one, which took a hefty hit with a sword a couple of weeks back and is looking set to drop the nail soon. It's not pretty. Well, things are hectic as usual. The Murder Mystery went incredibly well (surprisingly), and I didn't do it ^_~ There was a point where in the field opposite they were preparing for a concert, and the guy was doing his microphone test on the stage. *in distance* "1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1..." When we were trying to work out what it was, I suggested it was a giant counting his feet. Silly joke, but it's all I have at the moment ^_^; Our production week starts today and I am still not getting enough sleep to cope with the amount of stuff I have to do. Here starts the last marathon of the Intensive Acting years...

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Saturday, June 25, 2005

*tired grin*

Comments! elfpirate: Labyrinth has been one of my favourite films since I was very young. Perhaps needless to say, Sir Didymus was my character of choice. I was a little irritated he was so silly, though, but he was a fox so that immediately cancelled out any ill effects of personality ^_~ Pumpkin: *waves* Hello ^_^ It's funny you should say that about the weather, actually- it's been roastingly hot the last few days, then suddenly the heaens opened and storms swept throughout the entire country. Anyone who knows about the Glastonbury Festival this year can attest, heh. Monkey Orange: There were bits of it that I thought were unpleasant when I first watched it (in particular the peach and bag-woman bits), but The Dark Crystal scared me more when I was younger. I wouldn't mind watching it again, though. -^_^- I like shoujo. Rayearth was one of the first anime DVDs I bought, hehe. I'm relly glad that my sister likes it, though. She and I have very similar tastes when it comes to anime. Not so much with manga, though- she seems to have a slight aversion to reading, but I'll try and persuade her to read Reservoir Chronicle sometime soon. I've even managed to get my mum and a friend of mine who I never expected to like anime into Fruits Basket. It's quite extraordinary. Azure: I've never played any of the games myself, but I love the manga ^_^ It even has a namebank at the end of it, hee. And it explains the story of the first two games for context. Nice ^_^ Hevn: Me too. The only reason I haven't bought the soundtrack is because I'm not sure how often I'd actually listen to it. As much as I love the songs, I think they go best when with the movie proper. I've been out pretty much all of this afternoon, but not before getting in a good run of Fruits Basket episodes before I left ^_^ My sister now has fish- two goldfish and a loach. They're very prettysome to watch. If there are two types of animal I could watch indefinitely, it's fish and birds. I wouldn't like to keep birds myself (I don't feel it's right, unless they're kiwis or something flightless, thought preferably smaller than an ostrich), but watching them walk and hop about just makes me feel fuzzy. Magpies especially- they're the prettiest birds I get to see regularly. I always hope to catch sight of a Raven in London, but I haven't yet. Pretty pretty ^_^ But now I must rest. It's another murder mystery tomorrow, and doing up my hose with only one working thumb is going to be bloody tricky >.> *hugs* Take care ^_^

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Friday, June 24, 2005

Exhaustion Torsion

Comments! Alan: You have me there, heh ^_^; I'm building up ideas for your Enter the Net chapter, by the way. elfpirate: Mmm, it's lovely stuff ^_^ My Macbeth costume is pretty damn neat, too... Ozymandius: No, summer for me doesn't technically start until I've finished the run of Macbeth, which has its last night on July 7th. But considering I'm probably going to be starting my job a few weeks after that and am also doing bits and pieces at Arundel castle, it's not going to be a very free summer. Clandestine is now officially up and running. Go and see. Memories of Labyrinth I means teh Jim Henson film. There was a horrible thunderstorm this afternoon, and it put me in mind of when Sarah was running back from the park. Anyway, it's disgustingly hot here, so much so that I've lacked motivation to do anything. I forced myself to write the opening post to Clandestine, but I'm not very pleased with how it went. The library in college was irritatingly noisy (hence the subject for the post itself) and I couldn't get a decent grip on any substantial narrative, which I'd really wanted to. Chances are I'll edit if I can think of something better. Or, if someone else posts and does something good, I'll follow up on that, heh. Aside from that, I love Fruits Basket ^_^ Lovely lovely anime, and I may well get Pretear and... another one (forgotten it. Ick) once these collections have finished and I have money to spend. Suikoden III is a pretty good manga, too. One of the main characters is called Hugo, and he has a Gryphon (rather inappropriately, and probably unintentionally so) called Fubar. Hugo looks cool, and I want his hair. Time for bed. Ah, I love lie-ins...

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

*glows*

Comments! Shinmaroo: Well, I guess I could have shaved, but my razor's getting rather blunt these days ^_~ Ozymandius: *blushes* Heh, thank you. It was a cool weekend, but I'd have preferred it to have been cooler. I'm eagerly awaiting autumn at the moment. Roxie: Mmm, I've seen bits of XXXHolic but not managed to read a whole volume. I wonder how closely the plots are related to one another, heh. I've not known any other stories like that. Unfortunately I've not read Chobits either. Chi turns up in TRC, but so far only in the first volume. Fai is teh cooplies ^___^ Hevn: Mean you 'beauty' or 'booty'? ^_~ Keiness: A friend of mine said it was quite a vampire thing, and although I look at it now and get a real sense of Devil May Cry, it wasn't really what I was going for. I'll take werewolves any day, hehe. But still, it was nicer than the black with black designs jacket. If it were black and blue... *drools* But seriously, I'm not that gothic all the time. I'm far more casual on a day-to-day basis. I just like sprucing up every now and again ^_^ Pyro: Yeah, I really do make a habit of wearing too much ^_^; I insisted on wearing a jacket into Portsmouth yesterday even though we're in the middle of a heat wave. I just can't help myself >.> *wriggles, pleased* Mmm, I'd washed my hair just before taking that picture. It be straight and ploofy ^_^ Shinmaroo the Too: I haven't ether. I gather it's pretty good, hehe. DDG: *hugs* The only one I had before was the movie DVD. Can you believe they released that almost a year before the actual series here? It's crazy. Still, I was pleased. The UK DVDs are quite a lot different to the US ones (which I watched when Jeremy lent me his collection)- the covers are about as far apart as you can get. They're released by Beez ^_^ The Maximum mangas are a far cry from the series. There's humour, but there's a lot less than in the series, and there's more action in them, too. The last three mangas have been gigantic battles, pretty much. I guess that put me off buying the next ones a little because I find them hard to follow. I'd like to know more about the story, but it's taking so long... elfpirate: Hehe, thank you -^_^- The stitching on the coat isn't perfect, especially when you get to the inner lining. And the sleeves have an excess of black material on the inside... Still, I loves it. And now I have something to take a pattern from, it'll be easy enough to make something from it. That will be nice indeed, heh ^___^ Monkey Orange: It's a pity they never finished the OVA which had Marth in it, heh. It was only two episodes, but it starred Spike Spencer as Marth. Not really my first choice, but at least there was animation. And I think it looked pretty good, actually... I don't know if I'll get the GameCube game. I expect I probably will, but if there's an artbook going spare I'll settle for that ^_~ Ho-Hum Here I am in college again, with half an hour until lessons and about thirty words to go until I finish an assignment of mine. I hope to get Clandestine up today if I get the chance. I know I've kept people waiting long enough and I hope everyone'll still be there when it is finally going. But things keep popping up at the last minute and getting in the way. I've already double-booked myself for this evening and tomorrow and Thursday I'm spending as much time as I possibly can with Dan. I was worried about him for a long time last night. He told me he'd been having a rough few days, but didn't have time to explain why. I'm sure he's okay, but I want to be there for him all the same. But speaking of impatience, there's something I'd like to know... Any more n00b Hunter, Alan? Hehe ^_~ Anyway, I should get on. Thank you, guys. You rock ^___^

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Monday, June 20, 2005

Insanity Benefits

Comments! Menkoy Erango: Hehe, it's really cool ^_^ I've never seen anything quite like it before, and I'm really glad my sister's enjoying it, seeing as I cajoled her into paying for it... well, I am buying the whole R.O.D the TV series. Volumes 5-7 arrived yesterday, along with their lovely lovely box and an Anita figure. But... I STILL DON'T HAVE VOLUME THREE! *cries* Mestriss Rixoe: Squee! Conventions! ^________^ Unfortunately I don't watch the Japanese version- I actually think the voices in the dub are better -so I wouldn't know who they were, but I can imagine there were lots of excited people wanting to meet them. Well done to Lumi for the signatures, hehe. *hugs* And thank you ^_^ To the one concerned: Thanks for clearing that up, heh ^_^; I feel silly for not being able to see what you meant first time round, so sorry about that. That was actually one of the best weekends I've had in a long time, heh ^_^ I wanted to update yesterday, but I had to go and sort something incredibly important out and I hadn't got any photos. I do now, though ^_^ London's Calling... It was very hot in London. And me, the twit that I am when it comes to wearing clothes that should not be worn in certain seasons, sweltered like a lemon in a basket of chillis. Or something. I was really pleased to have gone with my friend Mike, though. Not only is he over six feet tall (making him a great vantage point and appearing as a Force Not To Be Reckoned With (TM)), but he knows his way around London really well. Camden Market was simply packed, but a great place for anyone into any style of Gothic clothing. Seeing as I'm leaning more that way, there was so much that I was utterly spoilt for choice. Cyberdog was as tempting as ususal, even having a few lovely T-Shirts that I'd never seen before. As much as I wanted to get something from there, I'd set my herat on something else that wasn't going to come cheap, and I wanted to make sure I got exactly what I wanted. After squeezing through Camden (my sister managed to buy a Nightmare Before Christmas bag that she'd been seeking for a while, we trudged towards Shaftesbury Avenue, and the irresistable pull of Forbidden Planet. We stopped on the way at a Computer Exchange place, whereby I managed to pick up the first two Cowboy Bebop DVDs secondhand for £18 ^____________________^ They also had a Hellsing Collection for £29, but since I don't know much about Hellsing I gave it a miss. Forbidden Fruits are MINE! Ah, Forbidden Planet... ...I loves it ^_^ I could have spent so much money on Saturday. The problem was that I did, but not on as much as I could have done, heh ^_^; I resisted the urge to buy Trigun Maximum 5 or to start collecting any new series. TM4 left me rather cold, and I find the pictures rather hard to follow at times. I kind of bought it for the sake of knowing more about the story, but I don't particularly enjoy reading it. I might finish the collection and then sell them all together if they aren't something I find as enthralling as I'd hoped. They didn't have any Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle in English, and that made me sad -__- I wants more Syaoran! I did buy a Fire Emblem art book, though ^_^ It turned out not to be the GameCube one which disappoited me a little, but it still gives me lots of stuff to work from in terms of how Nazreal characters should look ^_^ A wise investment on my part, methinkies. Standing Tall, Looking Pretty This was what I finally bought. One of the friends I was with managed to convince me to go back and at least have a look at it (as I had only seen it on a clothes rack and didn't try it on, as much as I wanted to), and decide then whether I wanted it or not. We drove back through Camden (...joy...) and three of us (my friend, my sister and myself) trudged back to the shop to look at it. I'm so glad they were there, hehe. My sister was incredibly impressed with how good it looked, as was my friend. After a lot of consideration (technically it wasn't quite the right size, but looks great anyway), I bought it. An early combined birthday present to me from myself and my parents, hehe. Here. And if that wasn't enough, Also here. The reaons I'm not smiling is because it was sunny, disgustingly hot, I had hayfever, I'd overslept and was late, heh. But I felt pretty ^_^ I've never seen anything like it before, but I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to get it. It's not exactly for every day use, but I'd love wearing it whenever I got the chance, so it's no waste at all. I can't wait for the London Expo, now. I have my costume ready ^_^ As far as I know it's not really like anyone specific, but I'll be damned if I care about that. Onwards and Upwards I spent most of yesterday with my karate sensei, talking about all sorts of things. Needless to say, next year's shaping up to be pretty interesting already ^_^ *hugs* Take care, everyone.

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Friday, June 17, 2005

Force a Misunderstanding

Someone said something to me, or at me, but I don't understand the context they meant it. As much as I want to ask them about it, I'm afraid that I'll only complicate things further if I do. I don't think it's worth trying to create more friction just to get the correct interpretation. Got the full series of Fruits Basket today. My sister loves it, and I do too. Great stuff, considerably. Going up to London tomorrow. Not really sure why. I'm tired. Comments! 15th May elfpirate: There was a poll taken a while ago about what the new seven deadly sins should be (seeing as these ones are a little out of date), and Indifference was pretty high. Ignorance did too, and I think Apathy was top. Mr Curious: Happy thoughts = teh goodness. Also 15th May AzureWolf: Heh, I like the .hack music ^_~ I know it's not specifically OB that's having problems, but it still annoys me. I'm going to talk to my friend about it tomorrow, see if there's something he can do about it. Domon: I know I've needed someone to scream at. Although usually the people directly on the other end of the phone don't deserve it- it's the people who run the servers that need a kick up the proverbial. arnica: *bigsquishyhugs* Thank you ^_^ Monkey Orange: Bandwidth always suffers with a cable connection- it gets split between the computers rather than each being given their own stream. I think cable length also affects the amount of data that can be transferred. The longer the cable, the smaller the bandwidth. Godel: Ah, roadworks are possibly one of the most annoying things in the world, alongside powercuts. Pretty soon the motorway that runs near our house is going to be resurfaced, and I expect we may have a few problems popping up while they do that >.> At least it'll be quieter outside, though. I'm glad things aren't quite that bad, though ^_^;

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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

*Urge to kill... rising*
I'm so bloody pissed off with this joke of a network.

EDIT: I don't mean OB's network- I mean my home one.

Three minutes ago, OB was working fine and I was about to finally post the results of the Clandestine sign-ups when the f****** ADSL box decides that "IT'S NOT GOING TO BLOODY HAPPEN"

Arse, arse, ARSE.

I'm being incredibly restrained, if you hadn't realised. I'll stop there before I flow into a strong of never-ending profanities. And it's oh-so tempting...
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Standstill Rain

Comments! 10th June MolatovCocktease: It's raining here now, heh. I love the sound of the rain falling on the trees. I could listen for ages. At the moment most of our rehearsals only invlve me for three lines or so. Today I have a bit more to do, so it shouldn't be as bad. Roxieness: Mmm, I've been finding more references to Chichester in films and music, heh. There were some people in Gangs of New York called the Chichesters (not that that's a particularly great claim to fame, mind you). The weird thing is we complain in summer that it's too hot, and complain in winter when it's too cold. What do you expect for seasons? If it were cold in summer and warm in winter we'd only have the same problems. Although I quite like the milder climates. I don't think I could handle anything hotter than we already get. I'm much more of an autumn person, heh. Hevn: I know, but I had to check anyway, just in case. ^_~ BlAiZeD: It's not really a poem- it's a song by a Japanese band, although when it's translated it does look a lot like one. The tune itself isn't actually one of my favourites. By L'Arc~en~Ciel's standard it's pretty ordinary, actually. But the lyrics caught me, as it were. Monkey Orange: *glomps back* Eee! Anytime, hehe ^_~ There isn't usually a lot of meaning behind dreams. You can interpret them, but generally I believe they're randomly created by the brain, which is why you can have ones incrediby relevant to your current/future situation or find yourself going over things that happened a while ago. But random or not, they can still be really evocative. Recurring dreams are an odd one, though. Perhaps for whatever reason those dreams are committed to memory... anyway, I'm rambling ^_^; 14th June: Teh Orange of Monkey: Ah, I'd completely forgotten about warm-ups for yesterday. It wasn't originally planned that we do a kicking workshop, but it was something that happened as we went on. There are some really nasty things you can do with your legs o_o; Squeecadia: Mmm, squishyhugs ^_^ Yeah. It's always nice to be asked questions you've not been asked before. Mr Curious Monkey (aka JJRiddler) has one that I'd like to steal sometime, heh. I quite like them, as you can tell quite a lot about someone by the way they answer. Not necessarily what they say, but the way it's said. I can't get the analysist out of me ^_^; But there's rarely anything revelational from me, heh. In moderations, some sins aren't too bad a thing. ooh, I have fifteen minutes until my lesson starts. I've an assignment on dialect and I've not practiced for it at all. Gleh, it should be okay- I've done it before and Marcus said it was alright. At least I didn't have to learn the monologue again >.> Well, I's off for now. Take care!

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