Saturday, June 21, 2003
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I never imagined this day would come. I never wanted to face the horror than it might actually occur. The tragedy. And I couldn't even say goodbye. MY STICK! My beautiful, loyal, helpful stick. It BROKE! ...more to the point, my 'brother' broke it. >( He shall pay! If I wasn't tired, and still in a pretty good mood, he would have been killed already... but MY STICK! How could he? Why must he torment me? WAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I did have a couple of other sticks, but they in no way compare to the fantasticness of the last. Looks like it's back to the 'almost' pocket-sized stick I've had for the last few years. Not nearly as great, but it's a stick and I need to have a stick. I'll need to go attack some trees again. Decent trees with almost straight branches. Preferably with a saw cos then I can get a stronger stick that won't break so easily.
Miff smiff grrr'linshhh glaaahhh SHHNEEEE!!! ... uh, ignore my gibbering but I am annoyed, yet tired, and I don't always speak english at times like this. :P
But anyway, where I've been the last 2 days: Pan-chan's! WAI WAI! Been ages since I've seen her. :) Ended up dying there. She's a comfy pillow. Like I wanted to go home to an empty bed when I could stay. :P She gave me an origami book! ::cheers:: Origami rules! >D We made some fun stuff, some scary stuff and some... 'other' stuff. ;) Together we made an 'action lizard'. Hee hee. Left that in Pan-chan's care... to keep her company, yeah. Not to scare her. Wouldn't wanna do that! :P She made a rabbit that looks like a rabbit. I made a rabbit that looks like a chihuahua. Only I could manage that one. ;) She made a T-shirt out of a hat shape. She's really proud of that one! ;) I made a turtle that... well... ::really wishes that Pan hadn't drawn on the eyes:: ...it's really quite disturbing... square turtle that it is. But I was kinda successful with some. I made a 'bishop's hat' (that now belongs to the chihuahua ;) ) and an apatosaurus. Just wait 'til I start making all the other stuff in the book, cos there's loads more to try (in other words there's loads more to fail at). ;) Bet Pan-chan's regretting getting me it now. It'll keep me amused for hours (or rather 'wrapped up, yet going slowly insaner' for hours ;) ). Instead of leaving a frog or a bird from the napkin as my trademark for eating out, I'll be making a great variety of... unrecognisable objects. Well, that doesn't mean I'm not going to keep at it! :P
Anyway Saku was round for a little while at Pan's too. She got given a big box of Monster Rancher stuff (out-of-date sweets that Saku still eats [ooh, I rhyme!] and cards and what-not). She also got several books. ::glomps her origami book:: I still think mine's a whole load better! :P
Saku was tired though so she wasn't there for long. In the end Pan & me just watched movies... Something called Outbreak that I hadn't seen before. I was through most of it making my chihuahua-rabbit so I wasn't paying that much attention. ::thinks:: Maybe I get distracted a little too easily, particularly with such simple things... nah! I'm just fine! :P ::glances at the origami book and ends up making the cube out of the coloured paper that came with the origami kit Pan got her a while ago:: Ooooohhh!!! Mutli-coloured box! ::really proud:: It worked! :D ::starts flinging it around the room:: I could make a few and learn to juggle! ::remembers her previous attempts at that:: Then again, I can barely catch it with just one hand. :S
Anyway! (damn, I think I'm worse today, although I can't say I'm surprised :P ) I know we did watch Burn Up Excess. I wanted to record it, so we stayed and watched it and I stopped it at the breaks. Good thing I did cos then I got to fit Ghost in the Shell on it afterwards, with only a few minutes to spare. :) Hee hee. Burn up funny. Yuji amuses me, the pervert that he is, complete with video camera. ::laughs:: I just wish it was the sub cos then I'd get to hear Okiayu Ryoutarou! The dubbed voice does sound kinda whiney. :S
Didn't do too much yesterday. Woke up a zillion times between 7 and 2. Had some strange dreams again, although I can't remember much of them. There was some sort of coronation. Only for some reason we went to the zoo instead. Can't remember exactly who 'we' was, just that it was a big group. I think it was supposed to be being led like a school group, and we were all supposed to keep hold of a piece of string. And there was this cat that was attacked by an aligator and various other things. Then the firemen came in and blocked up the hole... actually I remember there being a cat, or several cats elsewhere too... And some old guy... and trying to decipher these strange alien symbols on this ancient ship... nope, that's all I can get out of my mind just now. What with waking up all the time, everything got all confused. ;) Then I was still tired for the rest of the day and kept using Pan-chan as a pillow again. I was not going to go to sleep, Pan! You woulda gone to sleep first! And your stomach was talking to me! :P
I even ate 'exotic' food! Spicy! Chicken korma! Really exciting stuff for me to try! ;) It was pretty nice. Shame I didn't have enough appetite to finish it. :(
My mum had gone away somewhere... I still don't really know... she mentioned something about a train, but that's the most I got. ;) But eventually she came home. Only she refused to come pick me up. Demanding I walk cos I hadn't got exercise all day. ::groans:: That was evil. >(
::Yawns:: But me still sleepy. I've been sleepy ever since that morning I woke up at 6. :S ::sniff:: No fair! I want to wake up. I've got work to do on webpage and what-not. But I can't even go out on my bike and collapse elsewhere cos of the bloody flat tire. Least when I did that, I felt I was accomplishing something. :( But my dad's back, so least there is now a pump that will fit my tire. When I'll actually get the puncture fixed (since there must be one), I have no idea, but once it's pumped up, it should manage at least one cycle ride.
My mum was seriously nagging at me today. I went on the computer in the morning. Apparently she would prefer that I slept 'til the early afternoon then laze about the house the rest of the day, doing absolutely nothing, like my brother does, rather than attempt to try something that might be worthwhile. Sheesh! Least on Compy, I have things to do, things that will take my mind off my headaches a bit. After forcing myself to read a couple of pages, then sitting in front of the TV, forcing my eyes to focus, it was pure agony! That goes against what I'm supposed to be doing, but my mum is so impatient. She really stresses out way too much! It's a wonder she hasn't completely flipped already! :S
Oh yeah, I have come up with a definite conclusion as to how I am going to die. I am going to die of happiness! :S Shows you what a sheltered life I've led, considering I don't know how to deal with happiness. I spent my childhood years as a depressed pervert. I'm still be partly one (mainly a pervert :P ). But I can't cope when these 'strange new emotions' appear. While my anger, if it ever gets unleashed completely, will kill someone, my happiness will kill me. I'm not talking about everyday happiness, like a new episode comes out, or I get to go see a really cool movie. This is happiness in the same range as meeting Okiayu Ryoutarou, my seiyuu god, in the flesh! My heart would beat so fast, it'd just go flatline, and I'd forget how to breathe completely! ;) Quite pathetic really. Reminds me of some robot. ERROR! DOES NOT COMPUTE! ::head explodes:: Hee hee ...I need to get out more... :S
Ok, I just spent the last hour & 1/2 typing here. ::rolls eyes:: I guess that's me making up for not rambling elsewhere... I want sleeeeeeeep! ::collapses onto the desk:: Maybe I'll go make more origami things while I wait 'til it gets late enough so I can go to bed finally. There's always that big multi-cubed thingy that takes 122 pieces of paper to make. Hee hee. That'll keep me going. I'll do the work for Anime Shelter tomorrow. I swear! Tomorrow!
Got to do that, and make some CDs and go outside and watch Farscape and still have time to watch some anime and relax. Well, we'll see, we'll see. ;) Origami! Origami! Origami! ... I really am quite sad, aren't I? Ah well, origami origami origami! ::falls asleep before she even reaches the book :P ::
Xilmin visited the elves at 08:26 p.m.
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Itai itai itai itai yo! Me no likie! The pain! The horrible uncomfortable pain. Evil period! >'( I've been completely out of it all day. Feel like I'm looking through someone else's eyes. :S Probably didn't help that I woke up at half 6 and couldn't get back to sleep. Can't remember what the dream was, but whatever it was, it gave me such a fright. :S So in the end, I gave up, knowing I'd just lie there incredibly bored, and went and watched Lilo and Stitch (for the zillionth time ;) ).
Saku's come home, so she's gonna want the movie back anyway. ::glomps the DVD:: But she's really gonna kill me if I forget to bring it when I see her next, I'm sure. Well, after she's told me all her tales of great bravery and bishounen from her holiday, no doubt. ;)
I've listened to the entire Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu Drama cds! Yay! I had no idea what the hell was going on half of the time, but it was great! ;) But some of the stuff was almost identical to stuff that happens in the OVA. It's just it seems to be in a slightly different order, and my... eh... I mean, Guu's 'ideas' come about for different reasons, I think. Certainly there were bits I couldn't remember seeing, so I couldn't figure out what was happening. But that doesn't ruin the enjoyment of it. After all it's Guu! It's me! ;)
What really made my day was finally finding out Asio's seiyuu. I was sure, really really really sure that I knew him, but I just didn't believe it could be (afterall, he never gets mentioned anywhere on seiyuu pages). The scum who don't think his seiyuu is good enough to be added to the list of characters! It was Okiayu Ryoutarou! I should have known that I could count on my instincts when it comes to his voice. I nearly died when I was listening to the final track of cd 1, when all the seiyuu were talking about... stuff... couldn't figure out much at all (other than most of them mentioned tanoshii [fun] and that's no surprise ;) ). I hear his voice, then I hear the character name, then I hear is real name and my head nearly explodes! ;) I can't understand a word though. ::has just spent the last 5 minutes listening to his wonderful 12 seconds of fame:: I wanna work out what he says, even if it isn't in english, or even romanised properly! :P "Asio yokano Okiayu Ryoutarou desu. Etou, Jungle ni mamoteshimate koto wa mou de ban wa... nashi? hontou ni nai to denakuto omasu wa. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu. Osukaishimashita." ::has new found respect for all those who translate anything with him in it:: He talks so fast... or slurred... or both... It sounds so so so so so so cool, but it's impossible for a baka like me to pick up words, never mind understand and translate. ;) Oh, look at me, trying to act all knowledgeable in the way of Japanese language. Bah! Like I know what any of that means. If you can correct me or translate for me, I'll be your friend for eternity... not exactly the most enticing thing that, huh? Ah, well, it's the best I got. Unless you need an idiot genious (that has decided to refuse to spell 'genious' right :P ) to help fulfil any evil plans, I'm pretty much useless. Plus, I think Master may be pissed if her Evil Advisor starts conspiring with opposing parties... am I making any sense any more, cos I've a feeling I've degenerated into nonsical sense. What with all these 'big' words that aren't actually big, yet I'm not even sure if I'm using 'em right. :S Ah, I really am not quite all here right now. I have just one more thing to say regarding the Jungle drama though: Guu's seiyuu sounds so normal! :S
My mum dragged me off to the dentist today. Didn't realise I had the appointment, then she suddenly springs it on me. Maybe she thinks I might try and plan some escape or something. ;) Gotta go back again in August or sometime to reapply 'fisher sealings' (not a clue. don't know what the hell those are supposed to be).
The rest of the day has been spent finishing watching the 1st series of Slayers. I demand more! There seemed to me to be a bit too much hanging about during fights. Never did feel like it was actually the end of a series. But there is still more series and movies to get, so there's plenty more characters to see and more villians to defeat to satisfy myself with. >) I'm just using up my Streamload downloads too quickly this month! ::sniff:: Ah well, if I get really obsessed with the next series, there's always DC to back me up. There should be plenty of ppl with Slayers, surely! ::growls at Streamload:: Temperarily unavailable? Since when was that error message ever temperary? Looks like I'll need to get some (if not all) of Slayers Next from the freeloader version. ::sniff::
Gaaaahhhh!!! My back is in so much pain now too and I don't know why. It's not like I've been hunched up over Compy. Only do that when I'm working, even when I don't mean to. ::sniff:: Why the pain? Why the ickiness? What have I done to deserve... oh wait... on second thoughts, that's a rather dumb question. I am generally not catorgorized as innocent. ;)
I was going to do work on Anime Shelter today, but with the pain and the ickiness and the feeling like my mind has gone on vacation, I don't think I really wanna face something like that. I'll get to work eventually... always eventually... I have put another episode of Chobits up. I just haven't put an update on the main page, or posted in the mailing list. And I can't post in XSiteClub anymore since they are being strict and not allowing distribution of licensed anime. Which I think is completely pointless. I wouldn't want to buy a series if I didn't know what it was like first. Then if I actually had the cash, I'd by the DVDs of the good ones. Like I'd buy the DVDs of anime's like Jubei-chan, Fruits Basket, Angelic Layer, Full Metal Panic, Azumanga Daioh (can't believe that's licensed! :S ), and a whole ton of others. However, I don't have any money, so screw that!
I'm early again today. Need to reply to some mail, then I want an early night (although if I have a little bit of time, I'm allowed to watch a bit more anime, ne). Blllleeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!! ::clutches stomach:: Loathe! Ickiness! >(
Xilmin visited the elves at 07:44 p.m.
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
I need to be quick (like I know how to do that). I covered most of everything in the last post earlier, but I've remembered some more stuff to add.
What does it mean when I dream about Germans living inside a mechanical fish? It gets better too! That fish was inside another mechanical fish. But someone or something attacked the outer fish, so the inner fish tried to swim to safety, only to be eaten by Superman (Germans and all). :S I have one thing to say to that: What the hell sort of things is my subconscious thinking about?!?
I do admit though that my mind seems to like dreaming about foreigners lately. There was one other dream I had (I think it was the night before last, but then again my memory ain't that great) with a whole load of pensioners on a holiday. Yet for some reason, this hot blonde German/Swede guy was with them. I met him in a computer game shop. He was so geeky, it was hot! He was trying to tell me about this game where you battle pigs... or ride on pigs... or join a war with pigs... (can't remember that part too well). There was a demo playing on this huge widescreen TV and it looked so cool (even with the pigs!). But then he started going on about Championship Manager. That really turned me off! I don't mind guys being into football (or any sport) and they can play it, or computer games of it, maybe even tell me about it, but when it's the most boring game I've ever seen, then I loose interest. It's not like you can play any actual football in Championship Manager. You don't even watch it. You read the commentaries! My brother used to be obsessed with it (probably still is). Every time I went to ask him if I could get Grand Theft Auto or play Star Wars Racer on his computer cos it wouldn't work on mine, he'd be playing it, hour after hour after hour. How dull! >( So naturally, that was a really disappointing discovery to find out about that guy. I was doing the "That's nice. That's nice. Thanks for telling me 'bout the pig game, but I really need to go now".
I'm sure I was supposed to ramble about something else, but I've forgotten it again. ::sigh:: But I really really need to go. Aside from the fact I'm tired, I demand to watch more Slayers! See ya!
Xilmin visited the elves at 10:18 p.m.
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
I've always thought that hearing things was perfectly normal. Maybe even seeing things could be considered usual aslong as it isn't too often. But when I start feeling things, then I start worrying about my mentality. Particularly when I felt it at my ass! Something brushed by, only there is no way anything could have been there. ::looks suspiciously by the door where she felt it:: There's an invisible pervert in my room, and I don't like it! It's no fun when I can't see 'em! ::coughs:: Anyway!
I'm early today, mainly cos I'm waiting for Chobits to finish encoding. Finally forced myself to update that. Afterall, it's rude not to make an update, even if it isn't as big as I had promised. Then I can say I probably won't be around frequently, so then I won't need to feel guilty! Yay! In other words, I'll just be even lazier. But if the weather stays good, there is no way I'm staying inside to do work that I'm not even getting paid for and drives me crazy half the time anyway. Well, I would make the webpage in the first place. :S
I can honestly say MY MOTHER'S BIKE IS HELL ON WHEELS! Maybe what I felt was my butt regaining feeling. The seat was so unbelievably uncomfortable. Not to mention low! I know my mum is shorter than me, but I didn't think there was that much of a difference. I felt like I was riding a kid's bike! I felt so short! :S And that sure didn't help peddling when my legs are all bent. :S And that's only the beginning of the problems. The brakes! They weren't exactly the best. Sure my brakes were once worse, but least they didn't scream and kill my head. It was no fun going down hills on that thing. Feeling I'm going to bounce off onto the pavement (no suspension ... do bikes have suspension? ...maybe that's just a car thing, but certainly I felt ever bump a whole lot more!) then try and slow down and echoes of screaming rebounds inside my skull. Stupid headaches! >( But the worst bit: The gears! ::growls:: The back gears seemed to only move in 2 or 3 at a time. One minute I can barely move the peddles, the next they are spinning round too fast for my feet to keep up with. And the front, it never wanted to go into top gear, and even to stay in middle gear, I'd need to hold the switch-thingy with my thumb, and that got so painful after a while! Never again! NEVER! I'll just wait for my back tire to get fixed before I go on a bike anywhere.
I just had to go into town today though. Afterall, I reserved those wireless headphones. I also wanted to get the Animatrix DVD. But I ended up getting suckered into buying insurance for the headphones. I couldn't help but think that electric things always break with me, and when I get a completely new replacement (and maybe even an upgrade if the type I have is out-dated), an extra £11 quid wasn't too much. It just meant that if I wanted the Animatrix, I'd need to take even more money out the bank. And that was not exactly appealing. I like my money, and I don't like spending it! Particularly when the only income I have is pocket money! :S Hope the therapist person finds some sort of job for me to do. I want cash, damn it!
The headphones are a lot bigger than I expected. I also forget to think about the transmitter needing plugged into the mains, so it's not portable. However, I can hang about outside, and still listen to my mp3s on Compy. And no destroying of wires by lying on them when I'm in bed! All good points! I don't know how far I can walk before I go out of range. I'll need to test that at some point... I need to take the dog out soon anyway since my mum's off to Tai-Chi for the evening and my brother's complaining that he has to do the dishes and he's been out doing exercise all day. Alright for some with their full energy levels! ::growls:: All he's going to do is watch Sky TV, just cos he doesn't have it at his flat. >(
I've been having an Azumanga Daioh day. I got a slot with someone with a fantastic connection and downloaded 4 eps in one day. I've watched the entire series now! Yay! I like it. Simple animation, but great characters. Go Chiyo-chan, kawaii genius! :D Go Sakaki, disturbingly-'me'-like! ;) Minus the hyper insane part, that is. More focusing on the quiet, serious side, but I still can't ignore the sight of something cute. ::squeaks:: Nnnyyyaaa!!! I want an Iriomote mountain cat! So adorable! Added that to the list of pets I want. So far that's a crow, squirrel, rabbit (not some pet rabbit though) and a bumble bee (but they're just so fuzzy!). Sakaki has to be me though. Only I would think a cat would treat me nicer if I gave it flowers. ;)
Well, Chobits is finished. Time to start with the uploading. Hope it works alright while I download too, cos there is no way I'm stopping my stuff. There's some really good stuff there. Like Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu Drama. Hee hee hee! >D ...at least, I think that's what's downloading. I can't tell just from the track name. I guess I'll just wait and see. ;) Plus, the dog's going to need out, and nature calls for me too, so mata ne! :P
Xilmin visited the elves at 07:48 p.m.
Monday, June 16, 2003
I've been in a weird mood all day. Perhaps not the best mood to go to an interview with, but there wasn't much to it anyway. She asked why I was wanting to go to college, which subjects, what grades I had, what I hoped to do in the future, etc etc etc, so on and so forth, blah blah blah. She also tried to find about about an online thing that my mum had mentioned that the college should be able to get. But the appropriate person wasn't there, so I'll need to phone in myself. Oh joy. Talking on the phone. My speciality. :S
I was supposed to have gone to Argos to pick up my wireless headphones today (they came back in stock! Yay!), but on the way back from the college I made the wonderful discovery that my back tire had gone flat again! No wonder I had been finding it abnormally hard to cycle. My dad checked to see if there were any holes, but he didn't find anything. So where the hell is all the air going to? At this rate, I'm going to need a completely new tire! :S So that prevented me from getting anywhere. Least Argos is holding it until the end of working hours tomorrow. I'll just have to borrow my mum's bike, I guess, since my dad's left with the only pump that fits the tire-thingy. ::sigh::
I was lying out in the back garden again. I think I may have sunburnt my legs. They keep getting itchy and when I touch them, or when I soaked them with the hose to cool down, they burned! So, I tried putting sun-tan lotion on. I was kinda late for that, I think. Oh geez, putting that stuff on really really hurt too! :S I think I was scaring the dog. Well, walking around, yelling in a croaky voice "IT BURNS! IT BURNS! THE PAIN! FIRE! ON FIRE! FLAMES! BURNING! OOOWWWWW!!!" ...yeah, definitely been in a strange mood. Well, it beats a crappy one any day! :P
I know I was supposed to have done uploading for Anime Shelter lately, however, with one thing and another, I just haven't... got around to it... :S Well, the webpage does not control me, I control the webpage. When I have other things to do, better things to do, I will not sacrifice them to upload Chobits. It wasn't that good! :P Hear me, all you Chobits-less ppl, do not pester me for more episodes, for if I am angered, I shall not gift you with Chobits-ness! You can just wait and have faith and patience in me. Or you can use DC or any other p2p program and get it that way, like any other anime fan! :P
I've been relaxing reading the Yami no Matsuei manga. ::sniff:: Already read 3 volumes. Need to wait for more scanlations now since the group haven't got any further than that (well, they've done a few more chapters, but I demand to read it in the right order!). It's so good! Muraki is even more perverted in the manga! Hisoka is even colder! Tsuzuki is even more like me! >D Tsuzuki has 'special recipes' that are completely inedable to any normal person. Just reminds me of my wonderful concotions that always involve ketchup! It's my belief that if you like all the ingredients, then you'll like a mixture. Which is why I think ice cream and ketchup work so well! :P The trick is not to let it get too warm. ;) Then just add some lovely toppings such as peanuts or raisons or chocolate or marshmallows or anything else sweet (or the lot) and you've got yourself a wonderful desert! >D By any chance, are those that read this disgusted now? Well, tough! It's my recipe and I'm proud of it. I wonder what else I could try... ::wonders what ketchup-dipped strawberries would taste like::
But I was trying to talk about Yami no Matsuei. There's so much manga to look forward to. The site said there was 8 more volumes! >D Plus, I've caught on to various things that weren't mentioned in the anime. Like Muraki's childhood. I don't remember much about that. Don't even know what he is (other than freaky, but that's obvious). I can't wait to read more. I just hope there aren't any more women who will dare to hit on Hisoka. He's Tsuzuki's! (or rather, 'mine' but... um...) He may be cold, heartless bastard at times, but when he's cute and pathetic, he's so adorable! Plus, he has a nice ass! ::laughs:: What? :P
I'm in pain! ...I wonder if my period is coming... aw crud! I hope not! Not when the weather's still good! I want to get out there! But it hurts on the opposite side to the appendix, so it ain't that acting up again! That's always a good thing. I'm not going back to hospital cos of that. Stupid thing! It didn't even burst, it just got all sore then decided it couldn't bothered and buggered off again! >( But if it is my period, that would explain my weirdness, I guess. ;)
I should be off. I need to decide what I want to watch. Matantei Loki Ragnarok, Wolf's Rain, E's Otherwise, Slayers... nah, I'm in the mood for humour, so there is no question. Slayers! I want more of those clones of Gourry! They were so cute! KAWAII!!! ::goes in search of the image:: ... ::finds something that could be even better:: barely any clothes! GRRRRR!!! ... ah no! Must pay attention to the task at hand! ::drools just a little more, then presses back button reluctantly:: ... ::founds Gourry in a dress and procedes to laugh hysterically:: I remember that one! That was hilarious! I wanna watch that one again! It was the best! ... ::looks about a little more:: ... ::squeaks:: Found it! Now tell me this isn't cute! :P
I need to go! Must stop reminicing and actually go what some new stuff! Yay! More Gourry! And Zelgadis is there too! And what really amuses me is Koyasu Takehito does Rezo's voice! >D Anyway, gotta go gotta go gotta go! Ja ne!
Xilmin visited the elves at 10:07 p.m.
Sunday, June 15, 2003
I know I always submerge myself in fiction, but I just don't like having things nagging at my mind. Or rather 'thing' since there is only one thing bugging me right now. And I can't do anything about it cos of my principals, ethics, philosophies and beliefs (or rather my stubborness that holds me to them)... well, that and a little fear. I'm never one to take risks, so if there is the possibility of something going wrong, I avoid the entire thing. Damn it! I try my best not to think about it, but it's all that's been in my head lately (even when I'm in a good mood, I just need a slight reminder, and it leaps from the back of my mind to taunt me again). How come it's always the things you want to forget that you always remember?
It's later than I thought, and I'm not in the right frame of mind to ramble. Need to try and chase away the thoughts again for bed (although as soon as I lie down, it'll all come flooding back). Oh, Slayers, be a good episode!
Xilmin visited the elves at 10:22 p.m.
Saturday, June 14, 2003
The weather's been great today! :D I barely spent any time inside at all (well, in the afternoon anyway)! The morning, I was watching Yotoden, the anime movie that had been on on Thursday. Wow, it was good! It was SUBBED! I'm really impressed! That's only the 2nd anime they've shown subbed on Sci-fi (the other was Gunbuster). Of course that meant I spent a lot of time running up and down the stairs figuring out everyone's seiyuu. Now this is where I get really amazed... Inoue Kazuhiko was in it! :O ::goes to check some info:: Wow! It was made in 1989! He's been doing voice acting for... ::attempts to work this out:: ... it might be 14 years, but my mind can't do that sort of stuff well. Ok, it doesn't sound that long when I say it like that, but still Inoue Kazuhiko was on Sci-fi Channel! :D He amused me, stubborn jack-ass that he was. He kept changing his hair! At one point, he looked like Qui-Gon! Long flowing brown hair with the beard, and he was meditating! I was killing myself. Then he reappeared again with cut hair and a cat-like mask (which stayed in one piece for about 5 seconds :S). All I can ask is 'Why?'. But back to the actual movie itself, I liked. It probably would have helped if I had better understanding of the proper history of Oda Nobunaga, but having watched Samurai Deeper Kyo where similar things happened (like the comet) it helped a little. The ending did have the similar idea as most animes tend to when they are fighting 'big bad monsters'. "We live off your hatred" and that sort of thing. Everytime anyone says that, I always start yelling to the characters to go glomp the enemy going "DAISUKI!" and see how long they last. :P Of course, nobody ever does (guess that's just something I would do ;) ), but least this anime didn't try to win with the 'power of love' ::shudder:: or anything crappy like that. They thought more along the lines of 'if hatred brings you into existance, then hatred can kill you too'. That's a much better idea to end with! :P I just wish that anime's like this didn't kill off every single character that they can, no matter which side they are on. It's probably supposed to be dramatic and all that, but I always find it better and more 'touching' ::grimaces:: when ppl are re-united. Plus, after a while, it all gets quite tiresome and I start to get bored cos where's the interest if your fav characters are just going to get hacked to bits anyway. :S
But anyway, that was the morning (and the early afternoon. It's a long movie!). After that, I was outside in the back garden, toying with the hose, attacking the fountain to actually make it a fountain again, then skooshing the dog with the hose, but he just wandered off, so that was no fun. So in the end, I just lay a blanket on the grass and listened to music looking at the sky.
Oh wait, before I went outside, I decided I wanted shorts (doesn't this sound particularly interesting. Well it gets better! :P ). Only the shorts I had weren't short enough (it was warm! :P) so I attacked one of my old jeans with a whole in the knee with some scissors. It didn't quite go as I had planned. :S ::looks down:: There isn't much left. ;) Everything would have been fine, if I hadn't ripped it all the way up the inside of the leg. :S So I thought "Hmmm. I can't hide that. Why not do it on both legs on either side to make it look intentional instead". ::laughs:: Maybe not my best idea, but the point is it's nice and cool (not to mention comfortable) and it covers the most important parts, so that's all that matters, right? ;) I like 'em anyway! It just goes with my raggedy, slobbish style! ::looks down at her T-shirt:: Hey, this one doesn't have any stains! ::looks kinda disappointed, then cheers up:: Ah well, it's lime green. That's good enough. ;) I really have no fashion sense. Woohoo! :P
My dog was the most active today than he has been in the last 5 years! I kinda didn't take him a walk in the afternoon. :S Well, it was so nice just to lie there in the sun, and he seemed perfectly content just to lie at a reasonable distance from me, occasionally moving to the shade, only to move back into the sun a few minutes later. ;) But after dinner (or rather, after I finished watching Licensed by Royal, since I started dinner watching that, but I just couldn't leave in the middle!), I go down to feed him, and instead he runs around like mad. I didn't something that fat with such small legs could move that fast! ;) So he got an extra long walk instead. I haven't been out on my bike all day anyway, so I needed to do something anyway. Stupid sun, making me lazy!
About Licensed by Royal, finally got the last episodes. I was wondering if Aone would ever sub it. Thought I might actually have to resort to downloading Anime Junkies subs, but I checked the BitTorrent site today to discover 2 eps! I was so desperate to get it, it even came before DN Angel! ::shock:: Ok, the DN Angel ep has finished downloading already anyway. Oh, that reminds me, need go pick something else to get started... ::has a heart attack when she thinks she's lost Matantei Loki Ragnarok episodes, then discovers she never downloaded them in the first place:: Eeep! Why the hell not? Well, that's decided. Gotta get that!
But I was talking about Licensed by Royal! The ending kinda pissed me off a little. Too ambiguous. If it hadn't been for the tiny little bit after the credits, I would have been severely pissed off! But I guess, that's all I can expect from it. I can't say I understand the plot fully. Too much politics! But I do like it. Confuses the hell outta me, which I like! ;) The characters bewilder me, but that just makes me even more interested. I do recommend it. I just wonder how many times I'd have to watch it to understand what everything was all about. ;)
I'd better be going. I've still got DN Angel to watch, after all! ;) Yay! Dark! Oh yeah, and I think Hiwatari-kun (or whatever his name is) comes back in this ep (if I remember the preview from the last ep correctly). Woohoo! Now I have 2 reasons to watch it! Okiayu Ryoutarou and Ishida Akira! Gotta run! >D
Xilmin visited the elves at 10:15 p.m.
