Lord, I really do love my mom. Sure, racism on the fourth of July wasn't really fun, and spending twelve hours upstairs on my good judgment that daring to venture downstairs would just make her temper flare up again got dull after awhile, but then she came upstairs and gave me a big hug and ranted about Twilight with me. And when I walked into the living room, I found that my PINE*am CD had arrived, and on the package? "I love you! See you tomorrow!"

Now, you know, I also haven't eaten for two days. But these are the measures one takes to maintain a good relationship with their mother, and aww, hell, I'm glad for it.

Things I watched while banished to the upstairs TV room: Food Network. About six hours of Food Network. After that, Resident Evil: Apocalypse and a tiny bit of Strange Love before I got bored, because... yeah, I kind of adore that show. And Samurai Jack!

"Time (Clock Of The Heart)" is my favorite Leah Dizon song. Is this strange? I'm pretty sure it is. Everyone else is all crazy about... Um, I don't really know what song they're crazy about, seeing as I have never heard Leah fans discussing her music and the mod of loveleahdizon usually sports an "I support Leah Dizon because she is hot" icon when posting to the community.

So why is that strange, Vulpi, besides the fact that you like Leah's Destiny Line album more than any of her photobooks?!

( I'll tell you! )

Oh! Important. Or as important as things in my life can usually be. I got a new Last.fm account the other day and I've been gradually working up plays again. I went on this weird Miyoshi Chinatsu kick and now she's my third most-played artist for this week, but the thing is, her current picture is of her weird Tani Rumiko sabbatical in Korea!! This makes old perfectionist me crazy, and no one listens to the bitch enough to see my desperate plea for votes on her artist shoutbox, so for anyone who uses Last.fm? I need your help. Yeah, it may look like shit close-up, but this was 1999 and even her PVs have only been partially recovered, so that's the best I can do. VOTE

Oh, and add me, too! If you want. I plan to keep this account. XD You may think I'm just saying that, but seriously, you don't even know how much easier scrobbling has gotten for me after I started using iScrobbler instead of the standard Last.fm application. I can put songs on repeat and it'll count all the times I listen to them, guys! It's so cool! And... yeah, I'm easily pleased.

Oh, nooooooooo. I am not loving MEG's new album. :( I'm a little late hearing it, yeah, but... wow, this actually hurts my ears. It's just so sharp and weird. "KITTENISH" is incredible and "PRISM BOY" isn't bad, but they're also the only two songs on the album that have remixes, so I don't know what that says for all the other tracks.

Am I the only Nakata fan that actually prefers early MEG, a.k.a. meg, who wasn't forced into this weird and kind of stupid thing of CAPITALIZING EVERYTHING INCLUDING ALL OF HER ALBUM AND SONG TITLES AND EVEN HER OWN NAME? Who actually had a variety of songs that didn't all sound mostly the same? Probably, yeah. But I also get pissed when people say "lololol what's your favorite MEG song?! i like [insert CAPITALIZED!!!! song title here]," so maybe I just dislike people who disregard anything an artist has done before the almighty Nakata Yasutaka started producing them. Because I will totally admit that the dude's a genius, but that's still a douchey thing to do.

( Nakata rant. Could possibly end up going on forever, the way I'm editing this thing. )

Now, I could stop drinking the hatorade, but honestly. And you, readers of my LJ, can blame panonychus' fuckface aunt for getting these posts, because normally we could go on like this for hours. :( panonychus I MISS YOU AND I HOPE YOUR SITUATION IMPROVES

edit: I'm liking some of the last few tracks, though. But that's kind of a "too little too late" situation, even for a short album like this one.

Quick update before I go to bed! So, yeah, today I saw The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. It was good! I feel as if half the human cast had probably been in 300 before this, though, and I would take Lucy's Hot Little Friend James McAvoy over that whack-ass gnome any day. :(

And I bought this today for ninety-nine cents because I feel like I need to listen to more Shibuya-kei and I really like the free tracks I heard. Yay! It should be here in about a week, I guess. Um, I've had Coldplay's Viva La Vida for weeks now and still haven't listened to it, so I need to get around to that.

I guess that's it!

And thus, my hair was, indeed, did. Some new clothes, too! Damn, I love sales. I deleted the "before" post mostly because no one... no one ever needs to see that kind of travesty again. But if you're really curious about what my bangs look like when I let them do as they please for months on end, just track down my kitchen tour video post from a little while ago, I guess.

( Just one picture. )

And... now I'm exhausted. I hope the dresses I bought and my awesome new hair will not be just a dream when I wake up tomorrow!!!! EXCITED

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My head hurts so much. D:

People are over at our house for the inspection today! People as in, like... the owners. as;ldfjk I look like crap :( But my room looks FAAAAAAABULOUS.

They're laughing at me because the guy's wife needed to throw something out and she's like "Where's your trash can?" and I said we didn't have one. WE DON'T, IT'S JUST A FUCKING TACKY TRASH BAG THAT WE PUT ON THE DISHWASHER AND MOTHER THREW OUT SO WE WOULDN'T LOOK... FUCKING TACKY. Mother's covering it up like we actually aren't that poor. CONSPIRACY

Today feels like a strange kind of day. I mean, people at our house. What the hell. I've just been sitting here wearing my bunny hoodie and playing online games all day. ... Huh. Guess that's summer.

I also went looking at designer dresses and cried for my terrible pauper life.

I think that there is no better accessory than the hat. (Scarves, of course, are a close second.) If I had all the money in the world, I think I'd probably just buy a lot of hats. Yep.

A new mole suddenly cropped up on my shoulder! It's super dark compared to the other five thousand I have. But now that shoulder has, like... two or three and my other shoulder has none. :( This is really important, guys. There has to be BALANCE.

I need to cut my bangs. I was thinking of turning traitor and getting them cut like Kashiyuka's, rofl, but A~chan's are actually pretty damn nice in that picture. ("love the world" is retarded, blah blah.) ...I probably shouldn't go for either one, since my hair grows like the weeds outside our house and it'd be right back in my eyes within a month or so. Curses!!!!

Man, I wish I could buy some hats.

LJ MAKEOVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

My re-awakened SEL obsession continues to dominate my life once more. Game adaptation this time! Arguably my favorite. Lain's Wired persona in the game is SO FUCKING CUTE oh god I want to play it so bad. :( Making this header... yes, it opened up the wound from the disappearance of that website with all the game transcripts again. But it looks fucking fabulous, and I still have all the video files I ever managed to find, so that's okay. Anyway, I just need to sort out my userpics and then I'm done.

Also made icons today! awesugoi. Unfortunately, I axed another post while I was at it, because it... suddenly wasn't up to my standards or something. You know, I like making graphics a lot, but it's becoming kind of a chore because I'm so competitive... I mean, that's my own fault, but that's still the reason. I can't help it! D: I wish I could just nonchalantly make gorgeous stuff like some other people do. Oh, well.

I cleaned my room! GUYS IT LOOKS SO AWESOME. I'll probably take pictures or do another video or something soon.

I had a dream that I was part of a three-member girl group that Nakata Yasutaka was producing. He gave us all stage names and mine was Wakatsuki, apparently after the gravure idol of the same name, because of my idol-like ~flavor~. Then he took me out to dinner and tried to kiss me because he's a manwhore.

In an unrelated dream, Mother and I went to go see a musical that Nakata produced. It was shit, no lie. But the music was AWESOME.

...So, really, I don't know why Nakata kept invading my dreams all night. However, I will admit that Wakatsuki is a badass name for a girl group member.

Goto Maki is saving all her love for you. Good job, Gocchin! You're not so great with English, or Whitney Houston glory notes at all, but Avex will hopefully continue to be alright to you.

Meanwhile: Damn, I never heard about this. Probably because no one cares about Sonim, but this really makes me proud of her. :( Hello! Project doesn't let you do this shit. I know she was only connected to it through Tsunku and not really a part of it, but the point still stands that if she were still fucking around with EE Jump? She wouldn't be allowed to publicly chill with ~gay people~. So I basically love her a little. But not in a gay way!

... Maybe.

Working on an Alice/Lain essay for ship_manifesto, 'cause that's just how I roll. And, you know... God, guys, you don't even know how much I love this series. You DON'T EVEN KNOW. :(

talim: I think I'm the ediblestars of SEL fandom.
panonychus: ...yeah, that's pretty much right.

I just... Everything. Oh my god. I love it so much. WHY DID I PASS OVER THE DVDS LIKE TWO OR THREE TIMES AT HOLLYWOOD VIDEO UNTIL I FINALLY PICKED THEM UP? I WAS LOOKING FOR LIKE SOME MAGICAL SPARKLY SHOUJO SHIT OR SOMETHING, GOD

I actually took some caps of the first episode a couple days ago, too, which I still need to post to awesugoi. No one's going to want them, but it made me happy? la la la I don't need you dead fandom I can make it on my own!



So here's to you, one true pairing/fandom! Here's to you. Here's to old DVDs which make kind of shitty caps, here's to Evangelion fans growing old with their fandom and listening to the new songs Utada fucking Hikaru produced for the series while I wonder if I should buy that Lain figure I don't like, seeing as it's the only nice piece of merchandise we have... Jesus Christ, I love you all the same! Please never be remade by Kyoto Animation just for the sake of looking prettier like that nightmare I had a couple of years ago when the new Kanon series was big. I love you JUST THE WAY YOU ARE.

Uh, goodnight.

I had a dream that Bret and Jemaine were studying/babysitting some kind of cow-giraffe as animal science students. They were up all night taking care of it and eventually fell asleep on top of each other, discovered and aww'd at by their peers later that morning.

...It was strangely adorable.

I am so ill-equipped to create a fanmix of the most hip and stylish couple in the world, otherwise known as Koshijima Toshiko/Nakata Yasutaka, also known as what has decidedly become my OTP. How did "Simple & Lovely" end up on here? God. I think Nakata would be ashamed to be associated with this, rofl.

On that note, I cannot believe how much Nakata manwhores himself around. Sakai Kate is giving you eyes!!! D: D: Obligatory "love in this club" icon, blah blah blah... I do maintain that he was pretty hammered. I mean, I think that's the only time I've ever seen his teeth, which are horrific when not resized down to 100x100.

Why do I knock myself out over pairings that no one cares about? Alas.

And now, I present to you... a forty-two second tour of my kitchen. Isn't that something?

A transcript for the hard of hearing or normal people who just can't manage to catch my goddamn tiny voice:

"Hello theeeeere! This is the kitchen. ... Yep. This is the kind of soda we drink. More in here. We just went grocery shopping, so. ... Mmhmm! Freezer, too. But not as much."

I do strange things at this time of night, all for your amusement. Also, my hair wasn't at its best in this video, so you will have to please bear with me. :(

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I passed. :)

So You Think You Can Dance is a little so-so this year! I was mostly disappointed by the first half of tonight's show, mostly impressed by the second half of it. Katee: Adorable. I was way surprised at how well she adapted and right now she's one of my favorites in the competition, so... yay?!

That icon truth meme going around! I debated commenting, because nobody even knows who I am, but... yeah, I've been trying to establish myself. I don't know, I'd just like to be a part of the community more? I'm just lonely. I really am. D:

I'm kind of sleepy.

Hello! Project meme stolen from omame~

( WE CAN DO :3 )

You know what? I think space exile is what I've wanted all my life. In any case, I have no idea where I'd be off to (one of those amazing places in the capsule animated shorts?!), but I would just bring myself in the most awesome clothes I own. Just start over as a stylish space chick. That'd be really nice.

I'm going to try to get my hair cut today. If not today, then... in the next couple of days! I'm hoping to go really short, since this would be the ideal time to do it — I've got three months before I need to venture into the outside world again, ROFL. If it's awful, no one needs to know but my the person that cut it, my mother and whoever sees me going out to get the newspaper.

All right, so re: Suzuki Ami's new single. Why so... not quite as fierce as usual, Suzuki? :( Should I blame Nakata for this? I THINK I SHOULD. It is pretty great, though. edit: Well, I rewatched it and it's not so bad. I just prefer the song on its own. I guess everyone was kind of expecting another "FREE FREE", which isn't what this is, but that can't be helped.

Re: Little Lenz disbanding. God, you guys, I want this so bad. They're like, "E-mail us!", but even if I could communicate clearly, they wouldn't ship all the way over here! Maybe I should ask Ohta... :( I mean, I hear he's super nice, and he's always offering to help with that stuff anyway. I don't know — they're releasing, what, fifty copies? Fuck, I probably won't get one.

I need to ask Mother about that thing she promised me. What thing, you ask? This incredibly important thing. Also, oh my god, I just saw that he listed a couple Mizuno Manabi CDs, too. I think... I think this guy knows me personally somehow. YES YES YES!!!!!

I wanted these, too, but now they kind of pale by comparison. Is this the life of those strange creatures we call wota? I'M DOOMED