music: baroque – M to tsumiki asobi

OMG, I haven’t laughed this hard since… yesterday. Look what was in my inbox today:

—– Original Message —–
From: “Goat” CheeseyMooser@hotmail.com
To: yuuya@yuukitenshi.net
Cc: cheeseymooser@hotmail.com
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:20 PM
Subject: dir en grey

hey hi hows it going, you have no clue who i am at all but im a friend of your friends but im not shure what you know him by he helped you with your merry website well hes like my best friend and he doesnt have a computer ne more and well he said you were a good kid and maybe give some music to me for him i mean if you think this is just odd then just say so but email me back

This is so funny ^^; Especially cause I have no idea who that best friend (who I’m supposed to be friends with!) is… and I swear I had no one help me with my merry site except Junya, my little laptop o_O Poor drugged kid.

I had this one guy emailing me a while ago (must be a year ago now), asking me to upload an MP3 of Merry’s Arry which I did. I never heard from him again. But a short while later he uploaded that file to the Merry ML. >_< (I could've done that myself if I'd wanted to.)
He also added me to his friends list on livejournal. After reading his LJ I kind of felt sorry for that guy and his pathetic life because all he seemed to talk about was what drugs he and his friends had been doing that day and how much he hated the world. I’m pretty sure that whoever sent me that ridiculous mail above must be a friend of this person because in one of his LJ posts he mentions someone called ‘Goat’.

I couldn’t resist sending that person a sarcastic reply…

music: Metronome – Gimmicks

I love categories at online shops. Yafuu Shopping informs me that the manga I’ve ordered are for ���w��. Ah well, all hail to infantile manga then (and to the many adults reading them).

The coin rocker locker has new contents: 2 Metronome songs because I’ve been listening to all my Meto CDs today, a little Guruguru Eigakan because I forgot to upload samples when I got the CD about half a year ago (-_-;;) and the second Kasu song from their first maxi. Buy the CDs please, if you happen to like anything.

music: Charlotte – Sanchoume no yuuyake ~Rock fuu~

Last night I should’ve added that batsu moderators annoy me IF I can access the forums at all cause they seem to have problems with their database every other day.

I have this warm, fuzzy and anticipating feeling I always get after placing immense manga orders ^^; I ordered eight tankoubon. Only one of them is shoujo. Yes, I think I’m in a shounen mood… (I hope the books will be here before that mood fades. ^^;)
Episode 8 of Full Metal Alchemist (which I’ll call Hagaren from now on cause that’s what I’m more used to now after visiting all those Japanese fan sites) finally convinced me the series was worth getting the manga. I’ve read the manga had much more comical moments (and I don’t like too much comedy), but still I cannot wait to get the manga and see if it still has that same serious and melancholic mood like the anime series…

I really like Third Stage cause I never have to pay any customs fees due to their lovely invoices *hint hint* *Okadasan love* But things that I’ve been wanting to buy for a long time which TS doesn’t have in stock are accumulating ;_;
I hate Brand X. I’m never ever going to order from them again because they’re the worst when it comes to fucking up orders.
I can’t see if Guruguru have those items in store as they don’t have a full list of their available items online and I’m to lazy to email them. So I either have to live without those CDs or wait till someone let’s me combine my order with theirs.
And now I’m praying Third Stage will add the new merry CD to their preorder list. If they don’t, I’ll have to seriously consider ordering from Brand X, even if that might mean waiting 3 months till they send out the order, with hundreds of Euros customs fees to pay. Grrr.

Not so challenging work makes my brain mushy. So does too much JPop.

…I have to admit I’m quite fond of Gackt’s last few releases. Nothing ever beats his first releases, I really loved everything up until the Mars album. Everything after that sucked cause for some reason he went comedy pop. I still don’t know why he’s making such a fool of himself in every TV appearance he makes but his latest releases remind me a lot of his earlier songs.

I’ve also realized the announcement concerning baroque might be published even later than I thought. The next issue of Arena is not coming till December 10 – I thought it comes out at the end of a month ;_; They better put up some sort of explanation on the official site first! I’m not going to wait another three weeks! (… Though I know I have to…)

The more days pass the more I’m worried that 80% of the moderators of the batsu forums know next to nothing about visual kei or JRock or the Japanese language or all of the three. It’s a shame really cause I always thought it was a nice place to hang out and discuss. But I have problems with the existence of moderators who can’t get their facts straight. I mean what are they there for in the first place (besides moderating flames etc)? I’m most annoyed by their attitude of appearing knowledgeable about certain things but all they post is misinformation or utter bullshit. I’m sorry but I can only respect someone for their knowledge, not because there’s the word ‘moderator’ below their name…

Work was fun ^^ It’s so not interesting or demanding but at least I get paid for it and can surf around while working.

Amy, you made me feel so much better!
That feeling of loneliness is a bit persistent. But I’m convinced that even if there are not many people around me who like what I like right now, I’m going to meet all my online friends one day ^-^

I was forced to forget my intentions of staying away from anything political last night because soon after I’d posted that entry, that long long ‘Silver Ash banned in China’ debate started at the batsu forums.
Some people’s arrogance (or ist it simple ignorance?) is quite irritating…

I had too much time on the weekend so I finally installed the GPRS program for my lovely Samsung phone. My photo album was totally loaded with snapshots but after installing the program, I was finally able to load them on my laptop. The quality of the pics is definitely not the best. (Considering they were taken with a phone camera, they look probably quite good, though.)
I’m not confident enough to post pics of myself (yeah, shy me -_-) but here’s my sister’s cat and our dog (mouse-over for comments):

I also tested a polyphonal ringtone of a dog’s barking while our poor dog was sitting next to me; he got truly scared, ran into the kitchen and hid under the table ^^;

music: baroque – Anakuro film

… I miss them so much. I know it’s probably silly but I feel bad cause I can’t be with them or help them in any sort of way.
I pray this is nothing related to the structure of the band itself. It’s either just a strange business-related affair or some tasteless joke. An announcement is coming this week, I think.

From tomorrow on, I’ll hate Mondays just like everybody else. That is, work starts tomorrow. Just a temporary thing to get some money, until I figure out what to do with myself.
I thought I’d never set foot on a uni campus but studying film would be so cool. And it’s much much easier to get into film courses at uni than at a real film school (they just tell me, you’re too young, get some experience etc). Plus I could probably take some more Japanese courses if I went to uni again. Frankfurt is probably a nice enough place. They have some Japanese shops there, too.

But in the meantime, I’d just love to be somewhere else. Somewhere without television and newspapers in order to spare me any political crap. I’m so sick of it. I’m sick of people thinking they have to choose sides. I’ll let Treebeard speak for me:
Side? I am on nobody’s side. Because nobody is on my side, little Orc.

I’m so jealous of people who have friends around them who also like visual kei bands. Face-to-face discussions or appreciating the music together with someone (in RL) must be great… *feels lonely*

TTT Ext. is here.

OMG. It’s like a whole new movie. This has to be the movie I’ve seen most in my life. (Except maybe The Goonies ^^; No, I’m pretty sure that’s not true.) And seeing this version broke my heart again from all its beauty.

I can’t really talk about all the new scenes because there were simply too many. Overall, I think the movie doesn’t seem as dark anymore.

I loved Eowyn singing at Theodred’s funeral. I don’t like her much, not even in the book, but the whole funeral scene was just so impressive and moving.
Faramir doesn’t seem as one-dimensional anymore. He’s still not the man he is in the book but he appears to be a lot more gentler. (I simply adore that small farewell-scene with Frodo, Sam and Smeagol towards the end of the film.)

The new scenes changed the passing quite a bit. Some of the extended and new Ent scenes really seemed to drag the story too much. (Even if it is the Ent’s nature to be slow and careful and not hasty…) I do love the new Merry and Pippin scenes, though. The Entwash scene and the one in the storeroom in Isengard were particularly funny ^^

It also changed the screen time balance: Arwen’s role seem pretty short, especially when you compare it to the screen time Eowyn got in this version.

(Eowyn’s and Aragorn’s ’stew’ scene was so bad. I thought Gimli was in charge of the comic relief and not those two.)

This version is so wonderful. I’ll watch all the special features in the next few days to see if they can live up to the features on the Fellowship Ext. Version DVD.
I’m so happy.