Hard Core Du Jour

Yep yep, today's theme is all that is hard core! mhm!

So--- Hardcore Anime Du Jour - Sakura Taisen!! Just got back into it, after watching the first disk from the vidiot a while back. The vidiot is possibly the best video store in fort collins, at least anime -wise. No better spot. The dude there is seriously the most stereotypical otaku ever. I'm too lazy at the moment to find a picture; but no shit this guy knows everything about anime. And he quizzes me every time I come in. I used to be scared of him (he's a bit creepy..) but he knows his stuff!!

Hardcore Video Du Jour: Caramell Dansen, the disgustingly obnoxious swedish dance song that has taken anime otaku (freaks) by storm. And it's in swedish. At costuming today, Siobahn and I were doing the dance while this song played out of her freakishly large headphones. I want headphones like that... boo hoo. Anyways, the dance, the song, and the pink is here for you ---

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I'd be afraid. So. Painfully. Cute. And people do the dance in large groups at anime conventions.

Hardcore French Word Du Jour: rater - to miss or to fail "J'ai raté le vol" I missed the flight or "Je raterai sans doute l'examen" I will fail the test without a doubt. Definately a negative term. Most excellent for a foreign language pessimist such as myself. For example, in my french class we were doing short dialogues, with one person being a young child who had never flown, and the other being his/her older sibling going to tell them about how the system works. So, when asked "what if the plane crashes?" I answered "everyone will die. good luck." So, pessimistic foreign language.

Hey! At foreign language day at UNC (basically an anime convention without costumes... and based on foreign languages) I learned how to count in chinese! I really only remember up to 5 at the moment (we learned 6-10 in about 30 seconds after spending 10 minutes on 1-5). It was really interesting because Chinese is a very tonal language and our room full of 25 american, foreign-language people had terrible pronunciation. Well, thank you to the instructor. Shyeh shyeh. We were a tough class and she gave us candy anyways!! I was happy.

Continuing with the Hardcore theme of today... Hardcore Japanese Word du Jour : joubu, meaning strong, as an adjective. The noun for strength is a different kanji character, it is chikara, and it's a pretty common symbol. It's actually used in the kanji for otoko, meaning man. Otoko is a combo of 'ta' for rice paddy and 'chikara' for strength. Beeken-sensei (my japanese teacher) says it's from an old fashioned belief that the strong one who work in the rice fields was the man. Which was pointless for me to tell you but what ever.

Hardcore List of Things I Should Do:

1. Get my radio show song list done and all of them up in mp3 format!!! grah!
2. Do work on my lit log.
3. Find good excuse not to let my brother do a big 'NO DRUGS' thing on my radio show. I'm already a nerd for being a freshman and I don't need to help it along by being a straight-edge. I don't do drugs myself and I guess they're bad but on a highschool radio station? No thanks.
4. Find creative way to ditch PE tomorrow and not get in trouble. Damn, I had my meeting already this week, getting out of weight lifting, so now I have to take the Pacer. Damn damn damn.
5. Sleep.

Hardcore Movie that makes me cry Du Jour: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. 'Nuff said. You should watch it and cry with me. I've been thinking about that movie for days. It deserved it's oscar.

Hardcore Songs That aren't really hardcore but whatever du Jour:

1. A Love Before Time (Mandarin Version) from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, it's a really beautiful song, especially with the Yo Yo Ma cello solo at the beginning that is actually the main theme of the film. Powerful stuff.
2. This Is How It Goes by Billy Talent. Bad ass band. Yep yep. This used to be the song I woke up to. One hell of a wake up it was.
3. Blackbird from Across the Universe. Besides the last song, can you tell what kind of mood I'm in?
4. I Don't Love You by My Chemical Romance. Haven't been listening to them much lately, but this is one of their more overlooked songs. And I like it.

Thats enough, I'm done with hardcore for now. And I finished my saddam effigy yesterday. Fuck yeah!

bz

shyeh shyeh