atashi no…

So… in the last 5 Spanish Classes… there was… no Spanish spoken, not only was it NOT spoken, it was ENCOURAGED to only speak English.
Yes, I understand that the culture is important… but it’s not SO important you spend 5 days NOT speaking the language to ramble on and on about Frida. Yeah, she was cool, people think she commited suicide in her sleep, blah blah blah, what does art disection have to do with Spanish? Oh, so they’re flowers in the painting?! FLORES!!! Oh, so she uses the color Red? ROJO~!! But noooo it has to by ‘Flowers’ and ‘Red’ don’t even TRY to attempt the language, YUP THAT’S TEACHING IT! T_T I really, honestly hate that class… I learned more Spanish in Physics class… which is really lame…

NOOOO!

I don’t need to explain why! I’ll simply show you the comments of OTHER people who have already explained it quite well.

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And that’s just a quick bit, I’m not one for cell phones, I enjoy flying (well, when there aren’t screaming babies on the flight) and it can be so nice and quiet, yeah the occasional buzz of someone with their iPod up too loud and the occasional squeal of a baby, but other than that it’s peaceful, an excuse to just relax and read and live life (oh and sleep )but seriously, I will BOYCOTT flying if they decide to allow cell phone calls, I mean seriously, what can’t wait a few hours? If it’s a total international flight that takes 15 hour SUCK IT UP! I had to going to Japan and Chile and only god knows how long those flights were. First you have the idiots talking on their cell in a resturant, then you’ve got those idiots talking of their cell while driving and NOW we’re gonna have those idiots who are talking so much they don’t realize that you need them to move in order to get to the bathroom, or simply to get up and walk (people who take international flights know what I’m talking about here) this Cell Phone Talking on Planes will probably be like Snakes on Planes, stupid, annoying, and a big joke XP N-O M-E-G-U-S-T-A

So, normally I try to avoid total train wrecks (with, I’m sure, a few exceptions) but I saw a random picture and I thought “Wow, this reminds me alot of the style that Alexander Senki is in!” (Alexander Senki is also known as Reign: The Conquerer [it was on AdultSwim a bajillion years ago]) It’s an anime, but had a really distinct art, that when I first saw it on AS I really didn’t like it, but it’s grown on me and I really like the story line. Now, I knew it wasn’t going to be like Alexander Senki, but I liked the art so I thought “why not?” after all I have nothing better to do on a Thursday night with no school the next day. The opening scene she totally looks like a bizarre version of Catwoman (obviously without the tail and ears) standing on top of the building, then she TOTALLY goes into this “GITS:SAC” OP thing, it was rediculous then going straight into a total Tifa scene when she’s fighting in what I like to call “Cloud’s Church” (the place with the flowers) from FF: AC! I mean seriously! It was rediculous, now, granted, those scenes are cool, but they just didn’t seem to go with the lyrics AT ALL, I mean, it’s all “It’s been a long time, you’re getting me horny, let’s have sex” so… seriously… why all the fighting? Trying to appeal to the growing anime-fan crowd? Aint gonna happen, unless they’re already into her they might become a fan of the PV, but that’s unlikely. Chances are they’re going to do what I did with Gwen Stefani’s “L.A.M.B.” and consider it horribly done, a sad attempt, and a butchered American-edition that’s no where near the real thing (of course being fans of such a dramatic medium we tend to have dramatic reactions. Remember though, this is just a generalization from what I see from fans and from what I have experienced as well as others who I know are fans.) Especially if they’re going through that otaku phase, honestly, RUN! I mean, I’m a fan of anime and manga and all things Japanese (well, basically) but an Otaku is the scariest, and possibly, the creepiest thing in the world! More sketchy than that fat guy who takes pictures of school kids for the newspaper and other Town events! They’re in a state of confusion most of the time and tend to hate their culture so much they retreat into another world. They can become obsessive and call themselves Otaku, generally you must pass through the Otaku phase to fully understand that Otaku is a bad term. It’s like being called a “slut” (I’m not saying if you’re an Otaku you “sleep” with everyone you meet, I mean it in the sense that you don’t want to be called it.) It’s common for fans to be easily consumed, I must admit I did go through that phase. I snatched up every manga and anime whether I liked it or not, but then again, when I was growing up (I still am, but not the point) it was hard to find and it wasn’t anywhere near as booming as it is now! Before there were few and far between, so now you can actually choose what you want to read/watch because there’s so much that’s translated and available to us now. Of course, even with all of it there are still those that go through the phase. Dear God XP So hard dealing with Otakus.

Oh and I just realized for those who don’t know what the hell I’m talking about when I say “GITS:SAC” It stands for “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex” and “OP” is opening and “FF:AC” is “Final Fantasy: Advent Children”. GITS:SAC is a TV series (that may or may not be on still, if it is on, it’s probably on Adult Swim (I abbreviate it frequently as AS) and Advent Children is a movie, a good one I really wanna see more Ergo Proxy (haha another story, I just really like the art).

Anyway, back to the point… which I lost a long time ago, although I thought the art was a little Alexander Senki I also thought it was really cool, it didn’t feature the real Britney at all (she probably needs the break, I hate her so much, but all this bad press makes me feel bad for her) As with the classic Alexander Senki art the lips are freakishly wide, she tends to have an angular face and her hair looks… 2-D One part has a giant, bulky, muscle-man who totally reminds me of a not-green hulk.  But whatever, if they want to steal scenes from just about every place on the face of the earth… well… we’re not forced to watch it… It was okay… the end was all “TO BE CONTINUED” but I didn’t see why, I could’ve sworn she defeated the bad guy (and the song totally has NOTHING to do with the PV so it’s like… WTF?) anyway… that’s it for now… at least on this subject…

I’m a HUGE Boogiepop Phantom fan! I have all 3 of the novels and the 4 manga that was released as well as the 5 DVD set with the whole animated series and the live action Boogiepop movie… It’s been a while since I read the novel (I remember when I first got it I’d even read it during class, it was just so amazing) and I already saw the movie, which I thought was very good considering they had to fit three books into it… the series however… I don’t remember any of this stuff… well… once in a while something will click… but not much… and I’m wondering if it’s the work of the series or lack of work in my mind (my memory isn’t all that great) I remember Kirima Nagi… but then again… who doesn’t? I mean, she was probably the best character next to Orihata Aya, yeah, Boogiepop was cool and all of that, but … duh… of course Boogiepop is going to be amazing… I’m talking about the other characters… obviously…

Anyway… I’m disappearing tomorrow… and wont be back until Wednesday… I dont think I’ll be able to handle my mom and sister for 5 days … I can barely handle them for an hour… so for 120 hours… I doubt it… anyways .. I might have something to report and babble about when I’m back… or maybe not… I know though, for a fact, I’ll have finished Battle Royale and be reading BLOOD … aahhhh vacation… I should be home.. sleeping… yup… but I’m not… sigh … stupid warm places (though I do like the warm…)

My Boogiepop books (the novels anyway) are pretty bent out of shape from me carrying them all over the place and reading them in the rain -.-* whoops… but like I said, they were good books, and still are…

As far as books go I’m on the third stage of reading Battle Royale… and it’s about time, it’s taken me months to get this far… because I love the book, but I rarely have time for it… and it’s not as easy to carry around as the Boogiepop books were. Im almost done though! It’staken months but I’m almost done!!! I’m so excited! I can’t wait to read it! I don’t care if I’ve already seen the movie (I really want to buy the movie as well) but I’ve already noticed some differences in the novel, and they go into way more detail (obviously because it’s a book) but it’s just better… (of course)… next I’ll be reading BLOOD: The Last Vampire… I think it’s called ‘Night of Beasts’ or something like that… eh… I really liked the movie, so I figured why not… and anything to keep me from reading ‘Socrates in Love’ it’s way to lovey-dovey & depressing for me.. I mean the first page it’s like ’she’s dead… i miss her… she’s dead… i love her… she’s dead… i miss her…’ it drove me crazy… of course I’ll probably read the Kamikaze Girls novel AGAIN before I read it…

I really adore the Kamikaze Girls Novel, Manga, and Movie… it’s really awesome… though I must admit the novel bored me little bit at the beginning… mostly because I knew about the whole ‘Rococo Era’ and stuff like that. Of course, I really got into it… actually it was really towards the end, I hate to admit it though it was really… painful to read.. of course towards the end it picked up pace and changed from the movie in a critical scene (though at the same time it didn’t change the overall outcome of it) and it got really good. The cover is really cute… I think I want the paperback version since I have the hard cover version (and I want it ALL XP including the $50 imported Soundtrack.. Wahhh Shimotsuma Monogatari…WHYYYY!) Oh Shimotsuma Monogatari is the Japanese name for it. It’s something like “Shimotsuma Tale” for a translated name… which is… no offense… I really LAME name for a movie… but … whatever,, right? since the plot is really good and creative and unique and all that ood stuff… Shimotsuma is just a name of a place…I love the book regardless of it boring me to almost tears (tears since I really loved every other thing related to Kamikaze Girls and this one, the ORIGINAL, just didn’t work for me) I actually used the quotes for a Health project where we needed quotes on Courage or something like that… haha I don’t remember what it was exactly…

Also… Melon Kinenbi needs more attention given to them… they’re the ones with talent (if you ignore Takahashi and Tanaka from Momusu and Suzuki from C-ute and Natsuyaki from BerryZ) Melon Kinenbi, yeah, they have age, but they have talent and Saitou Hitomi is waaaayyy cool (Even though the HAPPY7 outfit didn’t work for her XP a person like her should have a spaghetti strap shirt)

The following are from a Character called Seiichi Kirima in the books/series/manga/etc. Boogiepop Phantom

• The past will often attack the present with the pain of your memories
• The brain is a microcosm creating its own stories. People then live out these stories.
• Time does not exists, only the illusions of memories exist
• Existence does not rely on matter. Everything is phantom.
• The waking dream called the world is constantly changing. What’s so sad about that?
• Pure perfection has no past. That is how you live purely
• How can you say you are a phantom?

The quotes are from random moments in the book and may nor mean anything to those who haven’t read the book…

Randomness…

It’s true about the whole ‘If you don’t like the weather in New England then wait five minutes’ I was working this weekend (like I usually do) and every time I looked at outside it was of different weather than my previous look. First it was super windy, then it was snowing, then it was sunny, then it was rainy, then it was just windy, then it was sunny, then it was snowing~! It was ridiculous. It should start snowing and never stop!

Wow, the candidates for president are just dropping like flies, eh? It’s like this ones out, this ones out, this ones out… oi… I heard someone say that it’s probably just gonna be Clinton Vs Obama…

And people have noticed that Hilary’s face got less wrinkled as it came close to her running, so she probably had botox. Which I think is stupid, you know people who get those injections, the amount they put in their face is enough to kill a rat?! And… apparently it’s deadly to some children… well now doesn’t that sound friendly…

It’s currently snowing and I have a driving test in about half an hour… and it’s snowing really hard… it wasn’t sticking at first, but now I think it is. I tried to calculate the rate of snow earlier but it melted too fast for me to figure it out… and I guess I could do that again, but.. it’s snowing harder and I already got yelled at for standing outside in the snow…

Haha! I do have a peter pan complex… it’s quite amusing how accurately this described me

Some of my favorite Hello! Project members (not all of them, not necessarily current members)

Ayaka Kimura of Coconuts Musume… they really need to use her for something…

Maki Goto… AMAZING singer… yeah…

JunJun one of the newest members of Momusu (she’s Chinese!!! Gasp! A Chinese in a JAPANESE group!!! Yes… it’s AMAZING!! I love it <3 )

Aiiiiiiiboonnnn, yes Kago Ai, part of W… too bad all the chaos happened with the smoking and Tsuji’s deal…

Michishige Sayumi - she was my first favorite member (she had already joined by the time I got into Momusu (it was during her early years)

Mika Taressa Todd - AMAZING <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 She’s an AMAZING singer, GREAT actress (in Mini Moni Brementown), Bilingual, and just AMAZING!!! She was in Mini Moni… the outfit she’s wearing in the picture was from Mini Moni’s “CRAZY ABOUT YOU” single… great single… one of the first singles I bought of H!P

Aika… she’s just sooo adorable! and when she sings with Koharu her voice does magic and makes Koharu’s less squeaky sounding without Aika sounding squeaky.

Reina Tanaka… a favorite among most Momusu fans (… well.. depending on what “group” of fans you ask… one side LOVEEESSSS Reina like crazy… and the other… well… they think she gets WAY too many lines)

Another Reina one… I just put this one up because I love her outfit… of course… I like the outfit of the picture above… and… all her outfits XP

RuRu from T&C Bomber… I don’t actually really know much about her… but she’s pretty