I like Gackt.
02.09.09
E22:25
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Music o' the Entry: Various songs from Final Fantasies
VI, VIII, and X
Hooray for playlists, great fun they are. Still, I've shuffled craploads
of times and it's still kind of lumping songs of various games together,
not my intention. So yeah, I've finally graduated somewhat from the
School of Tardship, and am attempting to computer-proof my blog by
writing entries on Notepad and then employing the ol' copy n' paste
trick to avoid losses of chunks of writing that leave me hurling venomous
epithets at my machine, because no-one likes those.
So yeah, anyways, Miho leaves on Wednesday and it feels quite weird,
to say the least. It's always strange, I get used to living with someone
then someone goes back to their country of origin, either they or myself.
Sure, it's only happened a couple of times, but for one of my hermitude,
it's sort of an unusual occurrence, ja? I've had a great deal of fun with
her, she's utterly insane, though in a totally different (yet still good)
way than Yuri (which is dandy as well). Though her English isn't quite
on par with my first host sister (I guess I've sort of acquired another one?)
she's knowledgable at many other things, such as utterly wasting me on things
that relate to American pop culture. Of course, that isn't terribly hard to
do, as my television intake generally consists of The Weather Channel and
occasionally the Food Network and my magazine reading is usually A) the standard
city newspaper B) Electronic Gaming Monthly or C) independent local newspapers I
pick up when I go to school. Oh, or Cosmopolitan if I can find one laying around
and/or ancient video game magazines ("First screenshots of Saturn!",
Japanese ChronoTrigger screenshots, the like) and Maxim, because I like Hiroki and
it can be humorous, in a vaguely chauvinistic way. So anyway, what she
lacks in English she makes up in knowledge. She's not like Yuri and I in
the sense that we probably pay too much attention to academics compared to our
social lives, but she's similar to me in some musical tastes (ie, wanting
to punch Ayumi Hamasaki in the face) and our dress style: simple, rather
black-heavy, and lots of pants, neither of us are big fans dresses, skirts,
shorts...pretty much anything leg-baring. In other similarities, we're almost
exactly the same size in height (one cm difference) and weight (within a couple of kilos), if not the same shape.
She's quite the cool kid, I'll miss her. Oh, plus she digs Chu-Hi and karaoke too, preferably
together. Still, I think she's enjoyed her stay here and is actually planning
to come back to my city in January. When she came she naturally brought a stack of
omiyage for myself and my family, which happily featured one Final Fantasy X Piano Book
(which means I have to work hard at progressing from mutilating Auron's Theme to actually,
you know, playing it), as well as the new Love Psychedelico single, "Hadaka no
Ou-sama" (A Naked King). Yeah, I can dig it. I want to give her something before
she leaves and unfortunately her taste is a bit difficult for me to decipher,
so right now I'm in the process of assembling a CD for her as a gift, as
she gave some of her MD's as a gift to Matt's roommate Kenji and now doesn't have those songs,
plus I'm obligated to include Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries", also known as my
"driving song" due that I tend to sing it anytime I do something I interpret as
vaguely risky on the road (READ: driving), as well as Bach's "Fugue in G minor", because
I nigh-obsessively sing that as well. So it'll be my gift to her, she seems vaguely sad about
going home, she's rather difficult to interpret but she says she doesn't want to return to Japan...
I know her. So I'll do I what I can for her, as I'll miss her as she misses America.
Good news all, today I went to my university and learned several Good Things: A) I officially
have a job within the Dining Services as a cashier (which is kind of blah, but I need money so there)
B) I spoke with the instructor and she said I'll more than likely be able to enter the
ESLG classes, yay me C) they finally got my AP scores D) and that's...it, really, but things seem
to be looking up for school, other than living at home and annoying commutes. Ah well, we do what we
can, eh? I'm actually looking forward to classes, today I purchased my Atmospheric Environment textbook as
well as three Pre-Calculus texts, because bleeding poor students and their families for their books is
evidently in vogue these days...yarg. Oh well, such is college. Oh, also got a new ID which is the most
hideous yet-hooray digital cameras and their aptitude for distortion.
Miho's great, she brought her MD player with her which means that for the first time in a year I get to listen
to my much-lauded Gackt(! GACKT! GACKT! YAY!) Rebirth MD, which I'm doing presently, to one of my favouritest Gackt songs,
"Sekirei ~seki-ray~", which is relatively depressing and just begs to be done the next time I set foot
in a karaoke booth, along with a host of others...I'm not sure which version I prefer, the single
or the Rebirth version, they both have their merits, but I'm going to say the Rebirth, just because I attach
some sentimental value to it, being one of the songs in my stable of "Japan 2001" songs. Holy crap am I buying Gackt
CD's the next time I get over there...which is indefinite at best, I'd like Matt to visit Japan before he moves there,
but we don't have money...what a hateful yet necessary thing.
But I guess my desire to write this evening has fizzled, I've been a bit preoccupied, got to
experience some super-fun-menstrual-cyle-fueled angst, which is always a joy to savored (just like acne!)
so I got to have this month's necessary trauma...ah well. Anyways, good night all, tomorrow promises to be a day
of shopping, probably one hour of work, and visiting with Misha in the eve. I fear this song has brought on
a spell of melancholy.
chronos
Ekairos
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