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Name: Sigel Phoenix
Anime: Rurouni Kenshin
Image: Unofficial X-Men
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Saturday, February 17, 2001
Lilisin has vowed to get me hooked on Arashi. O_o I'm not a big fan of j-rock in general, but I'm game. And this song is pretty catchy. >D Although I'm currently addicted to bubblegum-pop CCS songs, like "Tooi Kono Machi De." XD So ... a friend invited me over to watch his Trigun DVDs (I have no DVD player ;_;). My mom said no. Perhaps I should mention that this friend is 21 years old. -_-;; She even offered to buy a DVD player for me ... O_o Ah, I want to write. I should probably do my homework, too. One is definitely more appealing than the other, although I am currently having issues with both. ¬.¬ Friday, February 16, 2001
I've been sick. ~_~;;; I actually missed school on Valentine's Day, but I'm glad. Not because I didn't have a Valentine (I'm single and therefore bitter and lonely XD), but because I might have. X_x Details for the asking, if anyone's interested. I am now addicted to Bejeweled. O_o;; Neechan, I've already got "My Will." It's actually the ending -- the opening theme is "Change the World" by V6. Very upbeat, YuuHaku-esque song. *niko* Speaking of good music, I'm listening to "A Love Before Time" from Crouching Tiger, and it's so beautiful. Epic angsty love song. Makes me wish I could speak (or at least sing) in Chinese. ^_^;;; Actually, Faye Wong was the one who did that, but still ... All My Children is on, but I find myself not caring. :p I think I go through cycles of how much soap opera content I can take at a time. Right now, I'm much more amused by Susan Sarandon's guest spot as a soap opera diva on Friends. >D Did anyone see that last night? "EeeeEEEEEeee ..." >D>D>D And the blooper show? "Pivot ... Pivot! ... PIVOT!!" *dies laughing* Oh, and about yesterday's entry? ~_~ Perhaps I was in a bad mood (that was the day I first got sick), but I think I would've said pretty much the same thing anyway. It's my way of venting, and though it's not very "proactive," to quote my Health teacher, it certainly kept me from doing something destructive like flaming (which I don't do out of principle, anyway :p). It's also because I seem to have picked up a bad swearing habit. ^_^;;; Not in my regular speech (it bugs me when people feel the need to alternate every other word with a random swear word), but whenever I'm severely irritated, I just bust out with a (usually muffled) swear word. ^_^;;; I'm trying to stop. I think I just have too much stress in my life. I wanted to be productive and write something, though. I had a ficlet in my head, but I lost the inspiration for it (I always do that -- wait to long, and then it goes zip! ~_~). I think I'll write my new Soapbox, though. My evil-evil English teacher got a "reader" to help her, and it turns out the reader is my freshman teacher who is very-very good; and I'm feeling much more energetic about writing in general. ^_^ Speaking of writing, I'm contemplating applying to a writing workshop for the summer. It sounds like it would be an enriching experience, and I'd like to do it, but ... I don't know; I don't know if I'm good enough. -_-;; I mean ... it's one thing to be good among your general peers, but when you're put in a group of people culled from the best, it's quite a different story. I believe I'm considered a good writer among my class -- maybe even among the school -- but I'm nowhere near the best, say, in the fanfiction communities of the fandoms I write for. I quail at the thought of being among those who would be going to this workshop, who are doubtless extremely talented. o_o *sigh* I'm such a pansy, I know. I'm one of those people who hate not being good at something; not being the best and in control. -_-;; It's what keeps me from trying things I know I'll be bad at, like sports or talking to guys. XD Tuesday, February 13, 2001
I wasn't going to blog today, but then the Oscar nominations were announced. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon received 10 nominations! ^o^ And they were all heartily deserved, I believe (even with what little I know of some of the categories ^_^;;). Oh, yes, and I found out about this little gem from the AMML. *rolls eyes* If ever there was a case for the direct link between prolonged cheerleading and a decrease in IQ ... Nah, I don't really mean that. I just need a bit of an outlet. I try to be more mature than that -- though I wish I were at the point where I never even got mad at all, I'm not nearly as affected as I would have been, say, a year or so ago. Otherwise I'd flame her all to hell. But you can see she's pining for attention from her profile, as well as her actions themselves -- really, who would post such a plotless piece of drivel that not only insulted RuroKen subfandoms, but an author herself, in any worthwhile attempt at being taken seriously? (And, please, who gives shout-outs in their Fanfiction.net bio? *snorts*) She's clearly not worth the time or effort, and it would only give her the satisfaction of having gotten a response out of someone ... Honestly, I've never seen such a combination of stupidity and hatred directed at anyone outside of the yaoi fandom. But it still makes me shudder that she even attempts to label herself a writer -- though, again, it seems more a bid for attention than out of any respect for the art. And there's something both laughable yet pitiable about a person who is so insecure about ever earning praise from someone that she feels the need to do it herself. Obviously, there's no point in me talking to her at all, seeing as it's only what she wants. And, judging from the level of intelligence displayed by her most fascinating interpretation of grammar (FYI, no one spells "the" with O's in front of it), anything I'd have to say would fall on deaf (or at least hairspray-clogged) ears. So I'm not going to do anything. I am actually going to keep my mouth shut. I'm okay. Really. *coughcoughstupidfuckercoughcough* Monday, February 12, 2001
Damn you, Lilisin, now I'm intrigued. XD Random thought: Since we can't go to Yaoi Con, there should be a Shounen Ai Con. >D Monday, February 12, 2001
I want to talk more about Bebop. ^_^; Not a lot, really; just some thoughts I had about the execution of the ending. Spoiler content is low, so you can read this even if you haven't seen it. I think what I liked most about the ending -- despite the fact that the fangirl in me was disappointed that they didn't all stay together -- is that it was realistic. In life, nothing stays the same forever -- even more so for those living like our bounty hunters do. Whether you like it or not, at some point what you've gotten used to is going to change; life is going to move on. Some people will leave; some will be taken away; some will be left to pick up the pieces. The ending of Bebop was like that, conveying the transience of circumstance; they didn't find their comfortable little niche in life and have a nice, pat, happy ending. Bebop, in its treatment of the characters, maintained a sense of strong reality throughout, and the ending was just another way in which they did it. Okay, enough from me. I'll shut up now. :p Except -- if you ever get the chance, listen to Hamasaki Ayumi's new single, "M." It's good stuff. Sunday, February 11, 2001
Dangit, neko-chan, this song is addictive. >D So ... I saw the end of Bebop last night. And -- what can I say? It was good, but ... wow ... powerful stuff. Spoilers ahead; highlight if you want to read. Episode 23 ("Brain Scratch") was great as usual, but there's now such a sense of melancholy attached to it, as I know it was the last time everyone was together as we knew them. But then in "Hard Luck Women" ... Let me say something: I don't cry in anime or movies, no matter how sad it is. (Not unless a character is crying -- other people crying makes me cry. *shrug*) I know it's sad, and I can feel it, but I usually won't actually cry. But seeing that big smiley face scrawled on the floor with "Bye Bye" in huge letters on top of it ... I just got choked up. ^_^; I think I felt what Spike was feeling -- sure we liked Ed and thought she was cute and good for comic relief, but this makes us realize we cared about her, too. And that in her cheerfulness is an amazing amount of bravery ... "See you cowgirl, someday, somewhere!" (or something like that ...) I'm going to miss her.
Then there was, of course, Faye. I always liked Faye, just as a strong female character; but I began to really sympathize with her the more we found out about her past, and the more of her Ayanami-esque identity questioning we saw. Her discovery of her dead home was very poignant; the entire episode we watched as her facade broke away in pieces.
Soshitara ... "The Real Folk Blues." I'd really like to believe that Spike is alive; we didn't see the ending credits (stupid people turned it off >_<), but I was told that you see a star fade out at the end. Well ... what if it was Julia's? Or Vicious'? ^_^;; (Okay, so maybe Vicious was too badass to get a guardian star, but ...) I mean, the good thing about the ending is that it wouldn't really be bad if Spike did die. (As opposed to, say, Eva, where I think it would suck sour frog ass if Shinji realized the value of life and then ended up letting the world end anyway.) He did say that he was going, not to die, but to see if he was really alive. He'd been a man who had "already died once," floating around like a ghost without a past. At least in the end he stopped running; accepted and then released his past so he could move on. At least he didn't die unfulfilled. But what about Jet and Faye? Given time, he could have found his new life with them, and, I think, fallen in love with Faye. With Julia dead, I'd almost rather he moved on than went to join her.
Now, I don't dislike Julia. But we really didn't get to know her well enough, I think. All of the characters, in one way or another, retained some measure of mystery even to the end; but we saw enough of them to get an inkling of who they were and where they could go. Julia, it seemed, was portrayed as an ideal rather than as a person (and Vicious, similarly, as an opposing force ...). I could go on about this for a while, but ... basically, I like Faye better. I know her better; plus, we see her feelings for Spike. Especially in their last scene ... I got teared up there, too. Faye wasn't crying especially hard or anything, but it was such a marked departure from what we usually see of her. She'd feared all along that Spike and the others would just leave her one day -- what was left for her?
Whew! Jeez, I babble. What else to say ... oh yeah, you know Shin, Lin's little brother? I could have sworn he was voiced by Seki Tomokazu ... Then I looked at the credits and it was Hiyama Nobuyuki. *dies* In the RuroKen OAVs, I thought Kiyosato was played by Seki, and it was Iwanaga Tetsuya! Mou, why is everyone trying to sound like Seki-sama?? >_<
The end of Sol Bianca was ... okay. I never completely understood the series, so I wasn't terribly affected one way or the other. I loved hearing Ueda Yuuji in it, however. >D Same with Saber Marionette J; the episodes were pretty good, but Koyasu was absolutely friggin' hilarious. >D>D>D
Yare yare ... I better cut it off here. It's getting late, and I've got homework to do. Saturday, February 10, 2001
I'm on AIM, and poor WhiteCat keeps getting booted off. O_o Technology has a major tendency to suck.
Lilisin and I were discussing last night our plan to sneak into Yaoi Con. >D We'll put on makeup and everything to look 18 -- and when/if they find out and kick us out, at least we'll still be in the middle of San Francisco's Japantown. >D>D>D (Yes, I realize we'd probably have to show ID just to register ... but let me have my moment. XD) I mean, look at this guest! *_* Oh, to have a poster of that ...
So Ren'ai wants to go as Faye. ^_^;; Shall I go as Ed, then, and run after her yelling, "Supaa supaa Fuei Fueiii"? ^_^;;;
Speaking of Bebop, we're watching the last DVD tonight ... *cringes* I don't know if I'll make it. I know I already know a major spoiler (:P), but I've heard that the last few episodes are pretty brutal. Like episode ... 27, is it, of Trigun? *eep* Wish me luck, minna. |
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