Wheeeeeeeeee! Tori Amos is releasing a new album on Oct. 29th! What a great birthday present!
I have this strange fascination with Tori. It started when I discovered that she talked about Neil Gaiman in her song, Space Dog, and thanked him in the credits of Under the Pink. On the other hand, Neil`s Endless character, Delerium, is based off of her. To make it even more webby, Neil collaborated with Terry on Good Omens, so a tripod of creativity, insanity, darkness, and hilarity is formed through a `Six Degrees` twist of fate. Who would realize that three of my favorite creative people are all connected to each other?
Of course, once I lived in this interesting world where I assumed that all famous people knew each other and liked each other. Now I know the truth - that Wilt Chamberlain is not white; but that is a story for another day.
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:: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 ::
I am 38% Geek You probably work in computers, or a history deptartment at a college. You never really fit in with the "normal" crowd. But you have friends, and this is a good thing.
I am 42% Ska I know the scene, I've heard the bands, and I am burned out. Well, these things happen. I will now go ahead and go through the same thing with Punk and Emo.
But I`m not burned out with ska! I just started. Oh ska - how I love thee.
I am 18% Tortured Artist I should be happy. I have a normal life. I have no artistic ability and I am not cursed with the realiztion that everyone is an idiot.
I am 36% Internet Addict I could go either way. Deep into the madness of nights filled with coding CGI-Scripts and online role playing games, or I could become a normal user. Good luck!
12 THINGS THAT ANNOY ME
- Lists that only let me write 12 things that annoy me. Seriously, just 12? Maybe I am easily annoyed.
- Whining
- People who whine when they have it really good
- Lack of buses to my town
- That annoying anime thing when there's a big explosion and the good guys think that the bad guy is dead, but he so is not.
- Sweat
- Being stupid enough to name the main god in my stories pantheon "sweat" in Japanese
- The Shrub Administration
- Writer's block
- People who panic
- Airplane security
- Slow internet connections
11 PEOPLE I'D LIKE TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH (not in any particular order)
- Anne
- April
- Emily
- Mel
- Hugh and Matt (to bother them only)
- my grandparents
- Josh
- my parents
- my brother
- Jen
- Kim
10 THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
- homestay time
- Hiroshima Orientation; eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
- the end of eikaiwa classes and the return of my Wednesday nights
- Opiate's OP smut chapter updates (muwahahahaha)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; yeah!
- The next installment of the Chaos Wars
- The Twin Towers!
- The end of the season of centipedes!
- Finishing my OP story
- Getting this damn song downloaded
9 THINGS WORN DAILY
- Bra
- Underwear
- Watch
- Ring
- some kind of foot covering
- Toenail polish
- some kind of lower body covering
- deodorant
- some kind of upper body covering
8 MOVIES I'D WATCH OVER AND OVER
- Any OP DVD
- LA Confidential
- The Goonies
- Harry Potter
- Shinesman; it's too funny
- Proof of Life
- Casablanca
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
7 PLACES I'D LIKE TO GO
- Fukuoka; it's got the seven hells in Beppu and JUMP FESTA in the capital. Wahoo!
- Ueno in Mie ken; it has ninjas
- Mongolia; it has camels AND horses - that is so cool
- Australia; it has men, erm, historial cultural sites and Ayers Rock. Forget that part about the men.
- Hogwarts' So I could play pranks on Snape and join the Quidditch team.
- someplace with air conditioning. It's fricking hot here
- The Burning Man festival
6 OBJECTS I TOUCH EVERY DAY
- (grinning evilly) I like this subject
- Wait, it's not meant to be gross.
- And I've used up three categories already, oh no!
- the fridge
- my computer, of course
- my futon
5 THINGS I DO EVERY DAY
- Check my email
- Shower; more like one thing I do five times a day in this wretched heat
- write
- daydream
- study Japanese
4 FOODS I COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT
- Rice. Good thing I live in Japan huh?
- Swedish fish.
- cereal
- rice milk for my cereal
3 FAVORITE SONGS AT THE MOMENT
- Can't Get You Outta My Head, Kylie Minogue (so Australian, so dancy!)
- Hot in Here, Nelly (so American! so funny!)
- Gen, Chikose (Japanese yodeling is high entertainment)
2 PEOPLE WHO MOST INFLUENCED MY LIFE
- John Walsh; his influence over my life is profound. I hope to meet him someday.
- Terry Pratchett; who constantly reminds me that you can spend your life in idle bliss, being hilariously funny and writing and still be rich and famous within a select group of cool people. His book, Jingo, taught another meaning of the word `justice.`
1 PERSON I COULD SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE WITH
- Travis Fryman; he would play baseball and I would be free to write and carry on my torid affairs with the pool boy
Ravenclaws value intellect -- you like things which challenge your mind, whether it be math, art, history, or all of the above and more! You might be somewhat withdrawn, or your intellect might make you a bit mysterious to others.
I have a not so funny story about me and a false positive syphillis test...found out I was anemic instead.
Victim was chained to you, then were slowly crushed as the handle was turned. Smaller versions of you held only the victim's head. Oww. You're a real pain to be around when you're angry, but you could force a confession out of the most stubborn.
Okay - Craig, show this part to Mom and Dad. SHOW THEM! I took a quiz and it PROVES that I am a prudent driver. No more about that stupid incident when I was a mere 15 years old (plus we all know it's all Dad's fault anyway, right Mom?) And pay no mind to the rest of the entries on this blog. Oh and immediately forget the address, please. There are things here what no parental unit is meant to what of.
Well to those that are UNSUPPORTIVE OF HUMAN RIGHTS and refused to SPONSOR ME, know this. That I will not be participating in the Blogathon because I couldn`t round up a measly THREE sponsors. Just remember, you cheap bastards will all burn in hell. Mark my words.
Oh, except April coz she`s coming to visit me and I don`t want her to burn. But all the rest of you can BURN!
The Spider Wars are over. I found the body of my nemesis. It was all painfully wracked up and dried in the burning heat under the TV. Poor spider - I honor his worthy death at the hands of my `Death Spray.` May he rest in Valhalla.
This weekend is an exciting three day performance extravaganza of the OnnaDaiko Group. We bang drums and summon gawds. Fear our mighty gawd-summoning power.
In case you haven`t noticed I changed the spelling of `god` to `gawd.` I find it more amusing that way. I certainly do not do it to be less offensive. After all, I usually do things to be more offensive, not less.
I stopped watching Talk Soup after he left. It just didn`t seem right without references to Skunk Boy, Dustin Hoffman, and Dana Delaney.
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That`s where I get my drugs. Oh, did you know Anthony Stuart Head (aka Giles) played the part of Rocky Horror in London when he was first starting out? I saw him do a redux during the VH1 Rocky Horror 25th anniversary special. Now that was awesome. I noticed his ability to carry a tune on the Buffy: The Musical ep. He and Tara were pretty decent singers. I won`t comment on the others; though it was a humorous episode.
I find I`m liking Angel better this season. It has better one-liners.
I hope so. I mean, they would have to have a relationship since they had Harry. At least it wasn`t Draco/Hermione (shudders)
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You know what is awesome? Media. Not Medea. Media.
Media makes my world. I like visual, audio, sound sensory experience. It keeps my neurons occupied so that I don't go around trying to take over the world.
No Harry's mum! No!
See? Media causes me to write random statements and get distracted. It keeps me from focusing my prodigious powers of concentration onto the outer world at large - where I would only get into trouble. Like right now, I adore Harry Potter. I envy JK Rowling - I envy her empire of coolness. I must admit that at first I was a bit of an unbeliever. I didn't want to jump onto the Harry Potter train. I was being an intellectual ass. Well, I got bored enough one day to steal a book from my roommate, just to show how much more superior I was to some children's book and I was blown away.
I've only read the two of them but I love the movie and I can't wait for the sequel to come out. I wish I were studying magic. I would be in Ravenclaw and be the smartest wizard in the whole darn world. And I would rock hard at Potions class. After all, that's just chemistry with cooler consequences.
In other news, last night I saw a spider AS BIG AS MY HAND. It was a mutant spider with super fast reflexes and it seems a kind of immunity against my all purpose spray of death. It was insanely fast. It got away; hid in the video cupboard and I sure as hell was not sticking my arm in there to hunt for it. I hope it died a quick death; it was a worthy adversary. And here's hoping it didn't get home to its much larger mother before it died... I don't want to have to do a Beowulf anytime soon.
Go to my other blog, www.charityqueen.blogspot.com, to support me in my endeavour to stay up for twenty fours eating junk food and staying on the computer - ganbatte me!
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:: Monday, July 15, 2002 ::
You are the Wise Mage
You are the Wise Mage. Your cool head, years of magical training, and natural magical abilites make you highly revered and depended on. You may be the guide to a younger hero, but other than that you are generally pretty independent. You are probably very powerful and influential, and the bad guys fear you.
You are April. Yeah, you're a fiesty one. You don't let anyone boss you around. You were raised by your five surrogate aunts on the top of an enchanted mountain, and you recently found out you were heir to a Faerie realm. Though you're young, you can outwit anyone, and your tongue is sharper than Hiram's sword.
(trying not to snort her drink out her nose...) I think NOT.
Random thoughts: centipedes that tried to kill amidala in Star Wars - yes, they exist, here in Japan. Those were the rare albino type.
I love Japan. I missed the onigiri. I just didn`t know it until I was here and eating it.
It is bloddy hot right not. Seriously bad. I thrive in the humidity like a hot house flower. NOT.
You have been to hell and back! In fact you were even possessed by the devil! Thank goodness for it all though because that is how you were thrown into the arms of John Black! Talk about a hunk! You are a wonderful mother,
even though your middle daughter, Sammi, is a mean little witch! You are always giving free advice and words of wisdom to your family and friends. You are, after all, a gifted psychiatrist, Dr. Evans.