Why yes, I am a game music whore.
３月６日（水）Dzien Postny
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Music o' the Entry: "Day of Summer", Radical Dreamers
If you couldn't tell, am currently listening to the Radical Dreamers OST that I spoke of most briefly yesterday. My opinion? It's okay for what it is, which isn't much; I'm not certain if this is the entire soundtrack, as it's a mere 15 tracks. The quality is...eh, so-so, around SNES quality, which is to be expected, for if I remember correctly the Satellaview was for the SNES (or SF, in this scenario). As for the music itself...if you've heard the Chrono Cross OST, you've heard the majority of this. Seriously, I was quite surprised by how many songs from Radical Dreamers were almost directly included in Chrono Cross, besides the obvious touchups and whatnot. Some examples of this include "Frozen Flame", "The Girl Who Stole the Star", "Gale", "Snakebone Mansion", and others. Given the style of the music, it's rather obvious what Chrono Cross was: basically a full remake of Radical Dreamers. I'd truly like to play it, seeing as it's supposedly the sequel to Trigger, oh well, that's what Chrono Break (go to the GIA for more info, though that's pretty much it) is for. So yeah, if you dig CC music, give it a listen. Not much new here, but still interesting to hear the original versions of some of the songs.
Now, some truly splendid news: the Xenosaga OST was ordered this evening and should be arriving at my house sometime next week, should all go well, which I expect it to, given that I'm ordering from CD-Japan and my past dealings with them have been smashing. Indeed, the fact that it's coming at all is courtesy Wonderful Boyfriend, who is ordering his own copy plus the Guilty Gear X Heavy Rock Tracks and thus we're both saving much on shipping. Actually, there a couple other OST's that are looking quite interesting, what I've heard from Silent Hill 2 is good and Duel Saga, the apparent sequel to Legend of Legaia's music is being done by Mitsuda (ChronoTrigger/Chrono Cross/Xenogears/Tsugunai/etc, overall game music god of the universe, in my opinion) and Sakimoto (one of the two geniuses who composed Final Fantasy Tactics' music, possibly Vagrant Story as well)...basically, you get a soundtrack that will potentially own everything. My only reservations are that it's for a LEGAIA sequel. I don't know how many of y'all have played Legaia, but I was not impressed at all. Heck, I pretty much didn't enjoy it period...oh well, that's what I get for being a music/story whore. In the actual games themselves, I wish to play Shadow Hearts (given how much I've been listening to the soundtrack, which I'm beginning to appreciate more and more) and hopefully Final Fantasy X this year. Remarkably, I've managed to avoid being spoiled too much, but I don't know how much longer I can hold out...all this in addition to frantically attempting to get out of Balamb since I just started playing Final Fantasy VIII: wah. Oh well, I'll have time to play...someday...I'll just have to be content with my growing pile of game music. Yes, this will be a fun month for music: Xenosaga coming in soon and my Majestic Mix CD coming in around the end of the month, yeehaw. Why do I have to have such EXPENSIVE hobbies? Ye gods.
On that note, my valiant quest to wrathfully retake what is mine in terms of game music (AND my Malice Mizer "Bara no Seidou" album, I've been craving some gothy goodness and it's just not there) and piano books is repeatedly falling in a highly undignified manner upon its face. It's just no good, Nathan is never home and either he's just blowing me off or his parents aren't informing him of my nigh-obsessive calling, both are likely. I'd be perfectly happy to just show up at his house and dig through his room to reclaim my possessions (plus he's said he wouldn't care) but his home is quite NOT close to mine and I'm not going all the way out there for naught...how horrid a situation this is. I said I'd get stuff back this week, but things are not looking too spiffy that way.
Today was grand, I was greeted in the morn upon gazing out the window as I drunkenly stumbled into the living room by the sight of snow falling horizontally and a fresh blanket of the rapidly shifting white stuff on the ground already. This translates into Sho getting to test out new car's snow driving capabilites, with the verdict being ヨクナイ, or not good. No, not good at all. I imagine this has something to do with that I've never piloted a front-wheel drive vehicle before and am simply not used to such things, but please give me a four-wheel drive SUV or even the Ghetto Truck, oy. Yeah, it was just no good and it doesn't look to be getting much better; upon driving home this evening the roads were becoming more and more treacherous, black ice forming...yecch, sure to be scads of wrecks come morning.
Rejoice with me my children, for I am becoming buff. Indeed, my quarter at the gym (and actually going, finally) is finally paying off and I'm shocked to see that I actually DO have arm muscles, plus more developing legs ones. Hey, it's all good to me. I'd like to work out in the swimming pool, but still not enough self-confidence for that. Speaking of which, I don't know when I would be able to do that, certainly not for a very long time. Ah well, only one remedy for that: more working out.
Matt and I had a problem today, and while we were in the process of solving it and he attempting to convince me not to leave because I regard myself as an utter failure in all arenas and that he deserves better, something struck me: I am Matt's Soba. Not to the religious extent that I take it, but regardless, the feelings I harbor(ed?) towards Soba are frighteningly similar to his towards me. It was only after making this strange connection that things hit home. I told Matt about this, and he seemed pleased that I would make that realization. Perhaps not so glad about the particular connection I realized, as he's jealous somewhat of Soba, but glad nonetheless. It's occasions like these that remind me of just how deeply I have Soba entrenched in my mind, the results of obsession, how my mental processes and evolution of the past two years have been literally Soba-centred. Bloody hell I'm creepy. But I'm working at it, and I think one day I'll be able to finish this up, at least get to a point where it isn't as intrusive. Matt deserves at least that.
I went to astronomy again today and witnessed the sadness that is the class, furthering my hatred for most of humanity. The topics we're discussing right now are actually quite interesting, black holes and the distortion of space-time near them (yes, I am a nerd. A big nerd. If you hadn't figured that out by now, you need to be kicked soundly in the shins) and other jolly things. Unfortunately, we're done with that chapter and the next coming one is just the Milky Way Galaxy, oh sweet joy. Oh well, at least the cosmology chapter is coming up so we get to learn how the earth shall be consumed by fire and how everything dies. It's kinda sad, this class both reminds me of how I'd love to study astrophysics more but also of the impossibility of it, of the math that both the rest of the class and I are too stupid and ignorant to use to do such a thing properly. I don't know, theoretical astrophysics is simply fascinating, and I think with the proper education I could do it; one of the prequesites for being a theoretical astrophysicist is you have to be completely nuts, think I've got that covered. Why must math be so very evil? I think I've finally grasped the whole space and time as one thing deal, yay me. I found it humorous, today my perpetually pathetic professor (he's actually a stud of unholy proportions, he just comes off as pathetic.) was talking about since the theory of relativity is almost 100 years old, it should be a "household story" by now. How does this guy not rock? He's the same one who spoke of the Sun's "mid-life crisis" and described it's magnetic field lines as "tortured" (they're supposed to go north/south, but they're wrapped and twisted so that they go east/west)...still, the best was the comparison of a high mass star beginning to fuse new substances (a la silicon, carbon, neon, iron, etc) to something about Sean Connery and Harrison Ford that made so little sense it was unreal, plus the likening of some stage of stellar evolution to Mariah Carey's career. I think I love this man and desire to take more physics courses from him simply because of how intensely he rocks. I mean, if my classmates weren't vegetables whose teeth I want to kick in, the class as a whole would own me utterly. Sigh.
Does anyone 'round these parts recall Yoshihito, that gorgeous little Japanese boy who bore a disturbing resemblence to the hot Ueda-kun of Nishinomiya? Well, he went back during the middle of this quarter, sadly, so I've been quite deprived of freakishly pretty Asian boy goodness. However, recently we got a new batch of Japanese kids so I've been studying my surroundings most intently for new flesh. Until now, I've been disappointed, but then I saw this one strikingly attractive Japanese boy, almost made me squeal on the spot...until he walked up to me and it was Koshi with a haircut. What the hell?! This is sad, I'm not even recognizing my own friends now...it's not like his trim was that drastic or anything...(For those of you who are lost, Koshi is a friend of mine and is the delicious Japanese boy who I was half-heartedly going after school here began and before getting together with Matt. Incidentally, he's also a good friend of the aforementioned) how sad for me, getting a wee jolt when there is none. Oh well, having hot friends is fun too.
Ah well, need to run, coherency levels are dropping like a rock due to needing to take a nap badly (Nice warm room + lots of oishii Chinese food = seriously nemui Sho), so I'm off. Hopefully something more interesting tomorrow.
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