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

Wrong 'Em Boyo

One post a month... I'm really slipping here.

So. What is going on? Lets make a list then I'll elaborate---

1. Costuming for 43
2. School- MOM essay bleh, Thing Fall Apart, Evolution, Fantome, yada
3. Public Transportation
4. An awesome concert
5. Du Jour

So.. numerically, we would start with number one..

1. The new show is 43 plays for 43 presidents, a homage to the commander in chief, with satirical, comedic, dramatic, musical, and weird skits and sketches about each president. And I'm going to help costume it. The main costume is a jacket that the actor that is the president at the moment wears, and Phil and Siobahn and I argued over that alot. Phil doesn't like being the leader of us as soon as it gets difficult. So I let him pretend he's in charge and try to make his thought process a bit more verbal at times. It works usually. We have two sort of similar white jackets and we're doing a diagonal line across the front with different sized red stripes and stars stamped in acrylic paint. And some other stuff. I think it'll turn out okay. I, on the other hand, am in charge of the saddam effigy. I'm so happy! I get to dress up a 7 foot cloth doll as Saddam Hussein. There are only 5 actors to costume but things might get interesting. The show opens at Poudre on May 1st, and runs through the 3rd. I'm pretty psyched. This is my third show this year and thats more than some of the seniors have done, acting, teching, costuming, or otherwise! I am accomplished.

2. School, the occupier of a lot of my time. In one day I sleep from midnight to 5:30, so 5.5 hours, 5:30 to 7 is at home, so 1.5 hours. 7 to 3:30 is at school, a whopping 8.5 hours. Then I'm home from 3:30 to 8; 4.5 hours. 8 till midnight is sleep. 4 hours. So--

• Sleeping- 9.5 hours. 39.589%
• At home- 6 hours. 25%
• School- 8.5 hours. 35.4166%

That seems like way too much! More than a third of my life is spent at school! Yikes! Thats not even counting costuming days when I don't go home until 5! Yah!! What is my life?! I don't know. I don't know.

I'm writing a big essay for my history class. Including endnotes and stuff it's 8 pages. So really its more like 6 pages but hey. Its about Karl Marx. So now my history teacher thinks I'm a communist lesbian. Both of which are untrue. Ain't life unfair. Thats okay, I guess she thinks we might have something in common (that was below the belt. she's a nice lady, just crazy). But Marxism turned out to be really interesting, but my argument kind of sucks. The second half didn't go well. I need to make stalin sound way evil but emphasize that even though he was not a nice guy by a long shot, Marx was influential. Not really a well thought out idea, but its just an essay. And I think its well written. I even have a doonesbury quote, which makes everything better. G.B. Trudeau is a genius. That essay is due the week before finals. Along with my lit log. Its going to be a tough two months.

We're reading yet another disappointing book in my english class. We just finished Romeo and Juliet, which I thouroughly enjoyed (good stuff, twas) so fate demands we read something horrible. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe seems like an okay book, just not to study. Its about the destruction of Nigeria's Ibo culture by white missionaries. The first half of the book is weird, the second half is weirder. It starts out as an extremely in depth view of the culture, and its really interesting but slow and disconnected and strange. It isn't a story its a video of a life with nothing left out. Few characters really stick out besides Okonkwo. Even that one guy dies. I don't know, it just doesn't seem like a book I can write an essay about, but eventually I know I will. My english teacher is weird, she's so nice but she doesn't know some of the weirdest stuff like 3rd grade math. Hm..

I'm also reading The Agile Gene for biology class (I'd recommend it) and Fantome de l'Opera in French. We never did anything cool like that in French II. It's really simplified (written in present tense half the time.. weird.) but still cool to be reading. I'm so done with 9th grade, haha. I need to study hard for my finals! Bring it! I will so have a 4.0 this semester! I can do it! Fight!

3. I have started taking the city bus home from school. The time I get to my house is the time when my school bus (..damn it) gets to Poudre. Wow. Its kind of cool, waiting for the bus in the rain.. I'm not sure why. Poetic value?

4. I saw the awesomest concert yesterday! Dad took me and a couple of guys from his work to Copper for closing weekend. It keeps snowing all the time and it snowed then too. The snow was fantastic, the skiing superb (blacks + moguls - spencer = fun!) and the afterparty jammin'. Shit! Goddamn! Get off your ass and jam! (one of the songs involved this..o.O fun to sing ^_^) Yep yep, George Clinton and the P(arliament) Funk(adelic) Allstars! Awesome awesome concert. I smelled like pot when I got home, but it was worth the second hand smoke. Groovy! George Clinton is like a god, he doesn't have to do anything and the whole crowd is worshipping him.

5. Du Jour? Nah. Forget it for now. I'm distracted!

heart!bz