Saturday, May 29, 2004

...sigh, such is life...

Today's OCRemix: "Battle" Earthbound Remix by Spekkosaurus. Despite the...*ahem*...uninspired title, this piece shows some promise, with a techno beat remix of the "Kraken" fight from Earthbound, featuring an initial techno synth that, I swear, sounds exactly EXACTLY like the one from the game. It cuts off kind of short at the end, but I guess it's meant to repeat itself or something, listen with a loop. P.S. Earthbound was, and still is, one of the best RPG games in existence. Gotta love an original story now and then, eh? Well, this was one of the undoubtedly busiest weeks in my "career" as a high school student. After my Cadets inspection, which I must admit, went with unparalleled success, even if I was offstep once or twice. The hardest part was throwing the rifle into the air and then catching it by the butt...with one hand...and try not to hit the person next to me. I pulled it off, and the drill team was meat with glorious applause as we jogged in double time off the field. As for the weekend, our school had a nice long break, and so I decided to go with some of the students on a trip down across the border to New York city. the trip was quite spectacular, so myO post will be devoted to it for the most part. Day 1: we leave school at around 5 PM, meaning that after a check at the border...and getting lost on the highway...we arrived at the hotel in, as AzureWolf would call it: "Newd" Jersey at around 5 A.M., wherupon we would get about two hours of precious sleep before getting up again for breakfast. Day 2: After the aformentioned nap, we got up for an insubstantial breakfast before heading off to the local outlet mall, because we would want to get all the awesome goods while we still had some free time beforer heading for the Big Apple itself. They dropped us off around 11 A.M., informing us to be back at 6. The very first thing I did? Went to a GameStop store nearby, and finally...FINALLY...got a copy of Legend of Mana. Used, but not too bad, considering I've been looking for it for the past six months or so. afterwards, followed some friends around and we went to a Hot Topic store, where I bought an awesome wristband and t-shirt, which I will propably send pictures of once I get the chance. After some exhaustion and hunger, I went to a fast food place, oriental, and had some fired rice, noodles, and some spicy boiled chicken. It was very good...for oriental fast food, anyway. After getting separated from my friends, I just wandered aimlessly until I hit a video store, where they sold quite a collection of anime on DVD, but I wasn't tempted to buy since I wasn't sure what I wanted anymore. I had LoM, I had my wrristband and shirt, hell, I was happy, no reason to get something I don't need so badly. Got lost, went back to the bus, went into the hotel, and, for the first time ever, watched some anime on Adult Swim, including Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, and Trigun, as well as an episode of FLCL in English. Wolf's Rain I wasn't too crazy about, Cowboy Bebop seemed just a bit too angsty for me, and Trigun was really funny, and I liked it. FLCL in english...actually made morse sense than in Japanese, but to be honest, I don't really like dubbed anime that much anymore, it sounds weird to me to hear it in English, especially after watching so much fansubbed FLCL. Call me crazy, it's true. Despite lack of sleep, I still went to bed at around 3 A.M. Day 3: NYC awaits! We jump on the bus at some ungodly hour of the morning (having gotten little sleep), and took a quick walking tounr of Central Park, where we got lost again, and then had to meet up with the bus to get to the Circle Line boat tours around Liberty Island. After the tour, we went to Times Square, where we got some free time and money to go shop. It was madness, I have no idea how my friends could do that much shopping, I found it horrendously stressful just following them around doing nothing. Afterwards, we went to go see the Broadway musical, Mamma Mia! It ruled, It was funny, uplifting romantic comedy which made me laugh so hard. I loved it. Finally, got on the bus to go to the Empire State Building, where we caught a nice look at the NY skyline...albeit after an aggravating and dehydrating climb up through a horrendously long line. Went back to hotel, fell asleep almost instantaneously. Day 4: Woke up early to catch tour bus to NYC again, whre we got a nice guided tour of the place. Went to the "Soup Nazi (Seinfeld reference)" place, Chinatown, Ground Zero, and back to Times Square, where we were allowed a whopping 7 hours, 4 to 11, of free time. This one was morew enjoyable, as I did not have to look at infinite lines of clothing, but went to a huge music store, to the giant Toys R' Us in Times Square, went to a nice pizza place for lunch, a Starbucks coffee, the MTV building where an interview was being held for the new Harry Potter movie, and took a whole bunch of pictures in what was left of our time. I bought a key ring, as I collect them from places I go. Good day, but I fell asleep almost immediately after watching Cowboy Bebop. Day 5: Ride home, got on the bus at 11:00 in the morning, got back around 9 at night. I was glad to be home, and gave out some gifts that I had bought for my parents on the trip. Well, in short, it was cool to take a good look at the U.S. for, well, one of my first times, but it was still, undoubtedly, one of the most stressful vacations I had ever been on. On a lighter note, final exams are coming up soon, which means I can look forward to the forthcoming end of school year, but at the same time, stress over exams. Lucky me. Finally, I would like to hear from you, my legions of fans *snicker* on what anime you guys think I ought to watch. Now that I've had a taste of it down in the beautiful (if a little hot) U.S of A, I would like to know what you guys all think is good these days. Spare no details, only spoilers. Domo-arigatou. -Won-daa-shot

Comments (0)