| a zen koan for you |
[Oct. 24th, 2007|11:02 pm] |
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A Japanese youth was raised in the West, by Western adoptive parents. He knew not the language of his ancestors, nor the customs of their culture. Soon after reaching adulthood, he had befriended some American otaku, and one day he accompanied them to an animu convention. There, he met a great otaku master, a much-respected man, whose knowledge of Tezuka, Yokoyama and Ishinomori was as broad as the cosmos itself. Seeking for this master's counsel and advice, to this master the young man told his story, "Weeaboo." the master said, and turned away, leaving the shocked youth staring at his back.
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| HAY GUYZ FUN WEEKEND |
[Oct. 24th, 2007|11:39 am] |
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So this weekend I'm heading out to Jersey to borrow a car from the folks and then driving up Long Island for FUN TIMEZ with assorted weeaboos, some art school kids, and other associates of Anna (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dressdragn). Anyone who's on my way or who can meet me on my way through NYC, wanna come? call/email/IM me for a better explanation of what's going on.
Yes, I only update anymore about things like this. I intend to get back to blogging sooner or later, once I take care of some things like how my apartment is falling apart and I'm way behind on updating Anna's site |
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| TIME TO TAKE YOUR HIP-HOP SATs |
[Jun. 24th, 2007|08:11 pm] |
Section I: Analogies.
1.) easy : pimping :: hot : _______
Fill in your answer below.
Poll #1009372
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Noneeasy is to pimping as hot is to what? |
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[Feb. 14th, 2007|05:51 pm] |
happy valentine's day from some stuff that was on my desk
( click ) |
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| SOMEONE IS TRYING TO KILL ME |
[Jan. 26th, 2007|02:26 pm] |
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I WENT TO GET A GLASS OF DR PEPPER FROM THE KITCHEN AND IT WAS ALL SHAKEN UP, WHO WOULD DO THAT
Corroplast: your roommate
Corroplast: this is part of why i don't drink that stuff
asterphage: he isn't even home!
asterphage: if he WAS in the living room with his laptop watching some old movie on tv like every other day, i'd be like YOU BASTARD
Corroplast: perhaps it was YOU
asterphage: not that he'd do it anywa-
asterphage: o_o
asterphage: perhaps.
coming up next time: more AIM quotes. |
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| THERE ARE 3333 MESSAGES IN MY SPAM FOLDER, SHOULDN'T I BE GETTING A HP BONUS OR SOMETHING? |
[Dec. 26th, 2006|01:01 am] |
( merry CATSMAS )
I'm reading two books this week. Just finished Vonnegut's Mother Night, which I've had lying around for ages, and now I'm in the middle of a pristine hardcover copy of Michael Chabon's The Final Solution, a lucky find at the Salvation Army store on 125th on my way home wednesday or thursday.
Also, I probably haven't mentioned that I'm re-playing Final Fantasy 7 in order to form more informed opinions about it (and its sequel materials, over which much fuss is made). Anyway, I finally beat Ruby Weapon and Emerald Weapon this week, and from my exceedingly well-prepared POV, they were all sound and thunder. I'd post an amusing AIM conversation with ahvia regarding that, but I don't have it right now, I'll just paste it in here when I get home.
Listening to Regina Spektor's last couple albums a lot lately. It's uneven stuff but the tracks that stand out really shine. I've also actually been drawing a bit, and soon I might finish something for once. I also re-watched almost all of seasons one and two of Venture Brothers the other day... I don't remember why at first, but eventually I had to go through them again to find the parts where the Monarch talks to/about other supervillains. It took me quite a while to remember that my favorite scene, where he lists who a jury of his peers would consist of, was actually a deleted scene on the second s1 DVD. Anyway, I've been having things in Monarch-voice running through my head all day. And I just spent like 15 minutes putting in a million marquee tags in this entry. I think I'm done. |
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| today's theme: things people wear (UPDATED Tuesday the 19th) |
[Dec. 17th, 2006|11:43 pm] |
HELP-TRAPPED IN RUSSIAN DISCO-SURROUNDED BY ALIENS-SEND GUNS
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2006 "Ubiquitous Fashionable Computer" competition & fashion show (at Nextcom Show) , South Korea:
http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoChannel.aspx?storyid=9b23cd5071668af33c9945d38e59cb190a2386b4
I'm seeing a lot of resemblance to contemporary Asian sci-fi films; for instance, the first part of Returner.
Space suit-themed "Hyper Space Couture Design" competition & fashion show, in Tokyo, Japan:
http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoChannel.aspx?storyid=cb1c48e9ddcb135095ed822c55e20674a4c71dae
I like the spectator at the end who suggests that the designers should give some consideration to the actual activities of astronauts.
Reuters interviews gothic-lolita fashion kids, also in Tokyo:
http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoChannel.aspx?storyid=018194453094daa8df14b35adcfe28c8e9c2dce6
The magazine editor's explanation of the meaning of gosurori is priceless- "Gothic fashion represents coolness in the darkness, which some people might find a bit scary..."
Late Addition:
The faces of Japanese film, particularly the stars of "Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla" ("GxMG") and "Godzilla, Mothra, Mechagodzilla: Tokyo SOS" hit the red carpet at the 2003 Tokyo International Film Festival, where Tokyo SOS premiered:
http://www.accesseonline.com/galleries/main.php?catname=Actors&cname=TIFF%202003%20Special
If you don't want to browse the gallery, here's the one photo that's an absolute must-see. |
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[Nov. 27th, 2006|02:14 am] |
Okay so Wednesday and Thursday nights I got like three hours of sleep each night. Thursday, sorted through a bunch of my old Legos at the parents' house, and had Thanksgiving dinner with my parents and the uncles. Really missed not having my sister around, but, as I doubt I've actually mentioned in here yet, she's working in India for the next several months.
Another thing I probably neglected to mention - I recently discovered that much of my health problems in the last year or two seem to be the result of my developing lactose intolerance. This Thanksgiving I discovered that when the lactase pills say "take with the first bite of food", they really mean that first bite part. Eat half a piece of chocolate cake, then take the pill before finishing it? Still spend the next day wondering if I'm gonna throw up.
And that whole sickly Friday was spent bargain-hunting with my mom. It's become a tradition for us to participate in the ridiculous, crowded early-morning sales and I found some exceptional stuff, some extremely cheap DVDs/VHS/video games, useful art/hobby supplies, a gorgeous flat-panel monitor at an amazing price, and a brown pinstriped suit that is probably one of the most fly garments I could get away with wearing. Also I'm pretty sure I've lost weight, based on how well a smaller size of relatively slim cut jeans fit me.
A bunch of the video and video-game (mostly used) finds from Friday are shown below, inside the cut.
OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO ahvia BECAUSE I AM A JERK BUT REALLY I AM GOING TO WATCH IT SERIOUSLY I HAVE TO NOW
( junk )
Ok so anyway after getting back to NYC on Friday night I went to bed and slept for 24 hours. Seriously. It was insane. I woke up in the early morning today, barely realizing I'd skipped a day.
Today I saw The Fountain with roommate Chris and I was moderately disappointed. I guess it was worth seeing, but I found the pacing to be too slow and the whole sense of story was too disjointed. It's like Aronofsky set out to make a movie without a beginning or end, but instead it went end, middle, middle, beginning, middle, end, middle, end, end.
Man, web page/graphics work really is a drag. But I'm trying to get some content up, and a structure to easily slot in some more.
The new Achewood is brilliant.
Also, I am reading the Fullmetal Alchemist manga now, up to about chapter 40. Once I got into the mid-thirties, it seems that Hiromu Arakawa is intent on making me cry. Enjoying it, though.
No conclusion to this update. HOPEFULLY if I get that personal web stuff done I will find a new place for my blogging that will function as both a frontpage updates log and the kind of quick personal notes that I used to keep here. |
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[Nov. 4th, 2006|07:19 am] |
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So Halloween weekend up at Anna's on Long Island was pretty great and now I just want to go off into the woods or something. Sunday afternoon we took a brief trip down to a beach on the Sound of sea-smoothed pebbles and glacial boulders and I could've spent hours there but the wind was about a million mph. I would've spent more time outside in general, but mostly the people I was hanging around gave in and conceded defeat to the cold. :D
I like this picture way more than is warranted.
So, with Death Note weeks in the past, I turn to the still-ongoing Full Metal Alchemist manga. I don't expect to be as captured by the narrative as I was with the TV series, but I was interested in the general concepts of the series from the first glance, and I expect to enjoy it.
But I've predictably become fixated on getting as much FMA stuff as I can downloaded and organized, regardless of how pertinent any of it is to the main story.
( FMA scan collecting BS, omg pls hlp ) |
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[Oct. 12th, 2006|03:23 am] |
So hey guys did you hear about DigitalLife? It's some kind of consumer electronics and video games trade show at the Javits Center in Manhattan this weekend and I'm planning to hit it up some time possibly with kanna and ahvia and xxbrinstarxx.
AND ALSO FREE TICKETS
So if you go to here:http://www.digitallife.com/tickets.html And enter this CODE in the box:SHHH seriously, SHHH , that's the code
Then you will get UP TO SIX free tickets. And all you need is an email address and a printer to get them. And I'm sure we all have at least one email address each. So basically they're giving away SIX TICKETS PER PERSON. what?
In other news, I have been reading the manga "Death Note" and while I had read the early parts before and formed great misgivings about the writer's ability and style, it's competently plotted... and around chapters 53 through 58, in which the gigantic spoiler occurs, the way the pieces fall together almost makes the whole thing worthwhile by itself.
Later on I may be posting a bunch of out-of-context panels. There are some pretty choice ones. |
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[Oct. 7th, 2006|06:08 am] |
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the Medieval Festival in Fort Tryon Park:
http://www.whidc.org/home.html
I never do anything anymore, and this is a thing to get out and do. It's free, I can take a good long walk up there, and if it's boring I'll just walk around somewhere else in the area.
If anyone else plans to show up, give me a call that afternoon when you're at the thing. BE THERE AND BE SQUARE. |
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[Sep. 28th, 2006|01:12 am] |
Survey stolen from nuriko_chan
Look at your LJ userpics list. If you have fewer than 50 icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than twenty, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, what significance does it have.
I'm tempted to upload a bunch of old icons and talk about them, but this post is turning out boring enough already.
( why am i even doing this i should be in bed ) |
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| posting a legendary fail |
[Sep. 7th, 2006|05:53 am] |
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So it's six in the morning and of all the godawful things I could be doing, I'm posting to let you know that I'm back to reading other people's Livejournals and posting in my own. I just read through my friends page as far back as it would display, and with new filters set up I should be able to actually keep up with all of you (to a certain degree; the filters are designed so that I can easily leave out people who I don't know as well).
Man. Two days ago I stayed up all night to put all my portfolio pieces back online - this time I don't even know what I did for the last five hours. Oh well, I'll be back later today hopefully with less failureism, and sometime soon I'll have a regular blog on my website that I guess I can make an LJ feed for.
Also um oh man a lot of stuff has really been not mentioned in this journal but whatever, pretty much the important stuff is that I'm living uptown now and I already posted about that, so... uh... anyone want to hang out? |
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| nerd convention ahoy, Otakon this weekend |
[Aug. 1st, 2006|07:12 pm] |
last minute decision, I'm going. Baltimore convention center, this weekend. I'll be there thursday night, too, and THURSDAY IS MY BIRTHDAY OMG.
Anyone else who'll be around, drop me a line. 2017393412 |
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