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Vitals

Birthday
• 1989-06-29
Gender
• Female
Location
• At home, or at Powell's, the coolest bookstore ever.
Member Since
• 2004-03-31
Occupation
• Currently unemployed, college student come October
Real Name
• Hannah

Personal

Achievements
• Various works in progress. Too many to keep track of. It's dizzying... @o@
Anime Fan Since
• Totoro. I saw the first dub once it had come out on video, when I was probably five or six.
Favorite Anime
• Bleach, FLCL, Trigun, Tsubasa , Chobits, FMA, Miyazaki; Manga: Deathnote, D. Gray Man, Bleach, Black Cat, HunterXHunter, GinTama; Video Games: EarthBound, Tales of series, Katamari series, Pokemon series, Okami, Guitar Hero series, DDR Series, Guilty Ge
Goals
• Starting my own anime company w/ my friends once I finish art school.
Hobbies
• Reading manga, drawing, writing, Nihongo, listening to They Might Be Giants music - and a variety of other underground rock bands, watching animation in general
Talents
• Drawing, writing, flute playing, and Nihongo. I also discovered that I'm really good at Okami.

myOtaku.com: ToonMasta

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Never to part since the day we met out on Interstate 91. I was bent metal, you were a flaming wreck when we kissed at the overpass.
I think people should not read too deeply into things. It often results in disturbing interpretations that probably defy the writer's original intentions. Unless, of course, the subject is classical literature, in which you are SUPPOSED to find every possible symbol or hidden meaning. When it comes to something you ENJOY, though; something you do in your free time, then reading too much into it can just ruin it for you.

Do you remember how your favorite song(s) made you feel the first time you listened to it (them)? I remember the first time I heard TMBG apart from Experimental Film. We were driving to Disneyland. I especially remember that Birdhouse in Your Soul, She's an Angel, Ana Ng, Purple Toupee, Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head, and Doctor Worm stuck in my mind and were really distinctive. The feeling I got from listening to them was warm and fuzzy. I just enjoyed listening to the words and the music.

The more I listened to the songs, however, the more I got used to them. I still love TMBG songs as much as I did that first time I listened to them - maybe even more - but that magic feeling within the music before you've heard it countless times is now gone. I often wish I could erase my memories - not of the band, but of the songs. That way, I could hear everything again for the first time and it would give me that magic feeling again. Distant, yet familiar...

Forgive me for being reminiscent, but I just read some interpretations of TMBG songs. Some of them were insightful, some were weird and disturbing, and all in all I don't like them. Something about reading too deeply into what I love... it's not right.

For example, I LOVED interpreting the short story "the Yellow Wallpaper" because it is not my favorite story and it was strange, confusing, and deserved interpretation. I can interpret things and still enjoy them, as long as they are not my source of entertainment - an obsession, if you will.

Maybe I belong on a site where people talk about TMBG all the time, but I do NOT belong on a site where people openly interpret and tear apart every song they hear. I do not mean to offend anyone who enjoys doing it, I would just rather not.

Well, I feel like I talked too seriously today. Sorry, guys! I don't have a lot of stuff going on right now. School gets out in two-and-a-half weeks and my birthday is on Monday! I also have a half-day of school on Friday... So, I suppose that's it. Please pray that my printer will stop being sick so I can scan stuff and upload more pics!

Thinking of you, wherever you are. - Kingdom Hearts
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