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:: Friday, May 31, 2002 ::

Most Depressing TV Moment of my Life: Foolishly watching the end of the fifth season of Buffy AND X:1999 on the same frickin` afternoon. Why did we do that, April?

I bring this up because I sang that most depressing song - Forever Love - at karaoke the other night. It`s a good karaoke song and if your co-workers are at the right phase of sake drunkness, you can make them all cry.

Here are some other karaoke observations.
1) Take on Me by Aha is not an easy song to sing. The vocals are quite demanding, so while this is a popular song to sing, it is not easy to sing well.
2) The fake English accent copped to sing Blur`s Boys and Girls quickly gets on the nerves of all people not trashed.
3) Singing Japanese songs is only a good idea if you a) know them really well and b) they are slow. My attempts at singing `Believe` were absolutely AWFUL. Singing Rhythm Emotion was just slightly better. Lesson learned: stick to the slow songs until the Japanese skills improve.
4) They will never have Nick Cave`s Red Right Hand, Tori Amos` Strange Little Girls, or Gipsy Kings` Volare, so just stop trying to look for it in the book.
5) They will always have Beatles songs. Always. Every single one. Even Norwegian Wood.
6) It is possible to do karaoke and not be trashed, but only if a) you have rented a private box with really good friends who have taken a blood oath that anything that goes on in the box stays in the box or b) all the people you are with are really drunk.
7) Singing in Japanese, even bad Japanese, is highly impressive to the Japanese and gaijin alike.
8) Even though a Japaese person will protest that they don`t want to sing, once you get them going, you won`t be able to rip that microphone out of their hands by force.
9) I am running out of karaoke observations.
10) Oh, karaoke boxes are the greatest inventions on earth, right next to capsule hotels. Where else can you cram a bunch of friends to sing, eat, and drink an entire evening away? Heck, if you`re really tired, you can even sleep there!

I like karaoke.
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Take the Seductress Quiz by Stormy`Fire!

Because having a real life is so overrated.
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Ooooo, quizzes, exciting.

I`m getting the internet at my house, thank the gods. Then I can start up a proper website and put up purty pictures of me in Japan to make everyone jealous of me. Or not.

I want to call the website: phoo-ka.net, to remind me of home and of evil fairies from Ireland. If this ever occurs I will be sure to move `Womit` to its new home. I will probably have a secret password to get into certain parts of the website however because I don`t want my parents stumbling into this part of my life - where I take quizzes and talk shit. Hehehe.
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Now`s the time I am getting political. I have just read that Roman Polanski won the Palme d`Or at Cannes. That makes me...

Ill, sick, disgusted, angry, and outraged.

Why should a Polish director who escaped the Holocaust give rise to such violent feelings? Because the media keeps forgetting that the man is on the run from the law after allegedly raping a minor in 1977. Yet now this wanted man is being lauded for his cinematic abilities.

Well, good on him, I`m sure. I`m glad that this coward now has a little statue to celebrate his long career spent making certain that he never sets foot in the States, where he will be arrested for running away from justice.

And in no way am I saying that he is guilty of his crime. That has yet to be proven because the man will not stand trial to ensure his own innocence. He doesn`t believe he can get a fair trial. I say that after OJ, he can be assured that he will get a more than fair chance at being proven innocent.

Why he hasn`t been extradited to America is beyond me, but now I have to endure the media`s adulation of a coward who may or may not be a criminal.

This is not justice. This is crap and it makes me want to hit something into the consistency of ground chuck.

It is any wonder that I want to join the Marshalls? Then I can track people like him down - people that have powerful friends, big budgets, and know famous people - and make certain that they realize they are not above the law.

That`s my opinion in any case.
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No quizzes. Just a take on an interesting thing I saw this weekend. I went to the Takarazuka Theatre near Osaka. The theatre follows a reverse kabuki tradition. While kabuki is steeped in ancient ritual and is all male; the Takarazuka company is all female and is steeped in recent heroic shoujo romance.

When a girl signs up to be in the theatre, they choose a path; girl parts or boys parts. A player of female roles will never play a male role and vice versa.

So when I arrived at the theatre, I found fan clubs for the actresses - but only the actresses who play the male roles. Speaking of males, there were few in the immediate area. I was surrounded by women of all ages, from young children to old grandmothers. The decor was distinctly pink and had quite a bit of French influence. It was an estrogen festival. And strangely enough I did not throw up.

During the show, whenever one of the `male` leads would come on stage, the high school girls behind me would whisper `kakkoi.` It means cool but it is usually used to describe the cool behavior of guys, not girls.

So was I surrounded by lesbians? Not hardly. I think the main attraction of the theatre is that Japanese women, who live in a society with very strict gender roles, can now see women acting as guys. It is safe because it is make believe and on-stage. The theatre also hams up on the star crossed, swashbuckling, beautiful maidens in distress, long lost sons, mistaken identities, and amnesia plot lines - making this a very big soap opera! That`s why it is popular.

I`m glad I went. The theatre is definitely a Japan-only phenomenon; and to me it is even more valid than other forms of Japanese art, because it is recent and reflects newer trends in Japanese society, as opposed to Noh or Kabuki.

But let me leave you with this plotline. A production done at the theatre was based off the manga The Rose of Versailles. It was set during the time before the French Revolution and dealt with the life of Marie Antoinette and a girl named Oscar, who had been raised as a boy by her father.

So the person who played Oscar was an actress, specializing in male roles, playing a female pretending to be a male. That isn`t confusing at all, is it?
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Eschewing content for cute graphics* Womit - feel the chunks in your teeth.


How dumb are you?

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You are misunderstood. People never see the real you, only the outer persona which is often very different from your true self. You have problems with hostility, and have difficulty understanding yourself. You vent outward, because you fear looking inside yourself for the true root of the problem. You need to understand yourself in order to be understood by others.

Your song is: The Test that Stumped Them All

Which degree of inner turbulence are you?

This quiz was made by Dionae

Whee! I`m screwed up! Whee!



You are 49 - 63% HO!
If you were a New York resident you'd be from Manhattan.
But that's ok! You still walk the walk and talk the talk of a real HO!

Your HO Goddess is Estelle Getty.




I'm a RED bitch.

Click here to take the Bitch Test

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You make people calm and relaxed with you and though you can relieve anxiety on the other hand you can make people irritabile and tense. You are dependable but risk being abused by people among others and then blamed for the trouble they find themselves. Because of you, sometimes people cant see clearly and you make them go weak at the knees, people tend to fall for you. People get sloppy with you for longer periods of time and lose their sense of judgement. You are depressing with people and too much time with you can make people fall into a coma or even die.

Find Out If You Were A Drug, What You Would Be!

quiz by ravenritings

The Vague But Nice Quiz by blusteryvirgin

If I were a web "feature" you love to hate. I'd be:



Embedded Sound Files: I'm loud. I'm Brash. I'm in your face. You can't stop me! On the other hand, I take my sweet time getting to where I need to be. Can't win them all.



Well look at you. Not much you can say
against

a giant, evil eyeball who very nearly took over

Middle-Earth.

Advice: Don't underestimate the little furry
guys.



What prep label are you?

Okay, I`m stopping with the quizzes. I just had to catch up with them you know. It was difficult being away from the computer for five days. Five days of learning about ESL theory and eating Jamaican jerk chicken, playing stupid Japanese video games (stupid but fun!), bowling in a skyscraper, sleeping in a capsule, almost getting kicked out of a hotel for having a tattoo, watching women pretend to be men and then seeing women drooling over the women, and absolutely HATING the lack of readable street signs in Japan.

I saw the Others this weekend as well as I continue my horror movie bloc. It was scary and I jumped out of my seat about six or seven times. Plus Nicole Kidman`s son was the cutest little thing I have ever seen. He was adorable as his sister tried to make him go insane.

So not much else. I should try and get stuff done. Better have a life or at least pretend to have one.




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I finished Idle Hands last night. It is not a movie where you have to think, nor is it a movie where you have to pretend like you are scared or don`t know what`s going to happen next. For plain stupid gory fun, watch it.

You know, I probably shouldn`t post unless I have something interesting to say. I am going to Kobe this weekend and that is kind of interesting. I will be at a JET conference and then I will be doing my own thing. I have tickets to the Takarazuka Theatre which is a theatre where all the parts are played by women. It should be interesting. I will be staying in a capsule hotel too. That will definitely be an experience: here is a coffin, try and sleep in it. And I will say: Sure, why not.
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I went scary movie crazy this weekend and rented Ninth Gate, What Lies Beneath, The Haunting and Idle Hands. Ninth Gate BLOWS. Don`t rent it. It isn`t scary and Satanism isn`t made even mildly interesting. It takes a lot to make Satanism boring but Roman Polanski ( a director I despise anyway) manages to do it. Good on ya, Roman.
Also for some reason, this stupid computer refuses to do things like make indentations for new paragraphs so it appears that this will be a run-on monstrosity.
Bear with me. What Lies Beneath was decent, though predictable. I re-rented the Haunting because I had never seen it to the end. I liked the special effects, but could do without the ending. Plus, main character insanity is annoying. Last is Idle Hands. I have yet to finish watching it, but it seems promising because it is a stoner horror movie. That means it is kind of funny and definitely tongue in cheek. The random splashing of red paint over the sets is annoying, I prefer subtlety to gore, but no horror movie can be perfect.
In other news, I played mud volleyball in Koda-cho. Our team was a losing team, but that may be due to the fact that half of our team didn`t want to get dirty and thought the mud was icky. Next year I am playing on the team that is covered in mud at the end of the first round. I`m sorry, but I prefer the dirty teams that play to win than the clean teams that play to be clean. It`s just wrong.
OOH! Random quizlets.

What Never Ending Story character are you?Yeah, Ceni did this.

What WB drama are you?
And I@ve never even seen it. Cool.

Books I`ve read: Bridget Jones` Diary and The Girl`s Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Both were interesting. BJ was funnier, especially with the Colin Firth/Darcy references, considering who they cast for the part in the movie. What I noticed in Girl`s Guide is that it was kind of - stupid. I just can`t get my head around the stupid idea of hunting for a boyfriend or husband. I think it is because I am a deluded optimist who believes that there is a Mr. Right for me and God (or the Devil, depending on the day) will make sure he finds me. If not, then I am destined to be the evil overlord loner who shuns human contact as that is a weakness. Either is good. But books based on human emotion are stupid.

Luckily Mumsy sent me a book called We were soldiers once and young. That`s my kind of book. Raw and true. It tells of the battle of Ia Drang and it has recently been made into a motion picture with Mel Gibson (whether this is a selling point I`m not sure). It covers honor and hardship and the will to survive. It treats the heroes and the enemy with equal dignity, covers the fight in excruciating detail and manages to list every man that was killed and a fact about him so that he will always be remembered. It reminds me of what I want to be, what I want to do, and why I want to do it.

That`s why I derive little joy out of books where the MC`s sole purpose is to find a man. I find pleasure in reading books where the main character`s purpose is to survive and to make certain that his or her friends survive as well. I guess I don`t see the point in the `real world` anymore. To me, fighting for one`s country, fighting for justice as a federal agent - that is what matters. Because I don`t see it as fighting; I see it as protecting the things I love because those things cannot stand alone and protect themselves. Sometimes those things are abstract; like truth, freedom and justice and sometimes those things are concrete; like my family, friends and neighbors.

So I think BJD is funny and was an amusing distraction, but I can`t take the literary value of the GGTHF seriously because while it may have a good message about being yourself to find the one you love, that message seems superfluous when I compare it to the message of We were soldiers... which is: Will, determination, training, and belief in yourself are what you need to survive.

This is what I learn from good books.
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what type of internet face are you?


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This is the only quiz I could find and it sucks, so I am not going to mess with it anymore.

I will talk about fandom, fanboys and fangirls, and me instead. First off, I am extremely grateful to the Master of Assassins for explaining things like `Munchkin Rules Lawyer` and what `LARPs` really stands for. Don`t want to get that and MUDDs confused after all. Also, I must thank him for pointing out that there was a VERY familiar yellow car in Spiderman. How does it still work? That`s what I want to know. I think Raimi clones the cars.

The MA has seen AotC and is lording it over me, as he did with Lord of the Rings. However, I have seen the Hulk trailer and he has not. As he pointed out, finally, finally, FINALLY, all this stupid fanboy information is paying off. I think half of my brain is filled with fangurl info and I don`t even frickin` play D&D. Or AD&D. Hehe, ADD, funny. MA and Dadoo have that. I, on the other hand, can sit through an entire movie without twitching or leaving.

Um, that is about it, other than Spiderman rocked and I am in the land of late releases, so I will never see AotC. Other than that, not much is going on. The second graders, hereafter referred to as the Children of the Rice Paddies, were not the usual spawn of Satan that they insist on being. When one climbed onto the piano and made like he was going to fly, I just told him to take care and went on with my class. The other classes were fine. I am now dead exhausted and have realized the stamina that elementary school teachers must cultivate to teach and then go home and have a conversation with their spouse that does not consist solely of grunts. Little kids can wear you out.
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I love Spark. Funny. Hehehe.

And spark says I have an IQ of 128. Hehehe. Me smart.
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Find your Role-Playing
Stereotype at mutedfaith.com.
[Angel.]


More like full god! Did I take this quiz already? Well, you can`t be a demi-god too often, I say.
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What 8-Bit Theatre
character are you? at LeetAssQuotes.
NecroVMX


I`m a black mage. Well, whatever.

Damn this coffee is strong. My tongue tastes like Columbia.






My brother is geekier than me, I`m sure. He`s got the D and D bases all covered there. Hey Craig, where are your dice, boy?



Blue - almost as cool and sexy as green. Green M and Ms were always my favorite as a child. Now I stay away from M and Ms and eat only things with peanut butter in them - Reese`s for example. Or Swedish Fish, which aren`t peanut butter, but that is not the point. HORRORS! I forgot to mention that my Swedish Fish supplier in Troy, Patricia`s Candies, is closing its door in an attempt to destroy my addiction to their candies. They are sacrificing themselves and their profits for the continued existence of my waistline. Props to them for saving me from myself.

Jerks.
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Who's your daddy?? Find out @ blackhole





Which Royalty Are You? Find out! By Nishi.






Which Royalty Are You? Find out! By Nishi.


I thought the woman version of this quiz was so cliched that I clicked on the guy`s version. I got the same answer, but a way better picture. Plus I am as albino as this guy. Only I have dark hair. Kind of a pain that is.

Not much else going on. I returned mostly unscathed from Vietnam, barring a few malaria infested mosquito bites and whatnot. I did not fall down any mountains or fall off any motorbikes. I have made a ton of new friends who live in really exotic places, so now I have a place to stay. Other than that, I am as content as an oyster with a pearl.
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If I were in a movie, I'd be a funny sidekick!

Take the Movie Quiz now!

created by Brooke.




I'm Moe, who are you? by Lexi

He owns a bar. I want to own a bar. It all makes sense, doesn`t it?

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What kind of drunk are you?

Hehe. Funny.

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find your element
at mutedfaith.com.
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I could care less about the answer. Take the quiz because it does a hilarious parody of the Blair Witch Project.

Oh, look at the new layout. Ain`t it BEAUTIFUL? It is a testament to womit and those bits of corn that show up in puke even if you HAVE NEVER EATEN CORN! On alien planets where all life is silicon based, when FXXP has had too much Yokult drink, he pukes up vomit with corn in it. Doesn`t matter where you are; who you are. That is how it is.

In my opinion anyway.


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I`m in the middle of redecoration. Excuse the mess
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I am playing with my weblog. If it is funny right now, get over it. I will work on it later.
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