Love, and Life. Hello, and Goodbye. It’s all an Everlasting Train.
Oh my god, I actually did this stuff for 7 hours a day 30 days a month all through winter semester, spring semester (with a sprinkling of Tale of Genji thesis) and right through summer vacation after graduation?!?!
What happens when you’re stuck home on a Friday night (and it’s a public holiday to boot), plus you’ve finished putting together a couple of shelves and have nothing better to do. Scrabbled together the sacrificeable Hekiru posters that I liked, snatched some FFAC poscards, cut out LOVELESS’s Kouya and Yamato poster, viola instant garish otaku wallpaper.
Do it yourself shelves, courtesy of a store called DOIT. Eh… Super cheap, with screws and screwdriver and a thingy that makes holes in wood, plus cutting to size, only 2150yen! Much happier now, will buy more pieces of wood to mash together.
Because I’m too lazy to write a review, I’ll just let my icq ravings speak for themselves.
1:43:44 PM: http://streamingmovies.ign.com/ps2/article/651/651395/soulcalibur_091505_wmvlow.wmv
1:45:56 PM: I just saw ac on a projector with bose speakers… oh my god
1:46:06 PM: the reflection on the motorcycles!
1:46:23 PM: the fight scenes rock
1:46:32 PM: exceptf for the stupid booster jump
1:46:43 PM: ray-traced reflection is crazy compute intensive.. and so is that subsurface scattering technique they use for skin
1:46:49 PM: and yuffie is cool! I can’t believe I think yuffie is cooler than tifa
1:46:56 PM: no kidding.
1:47:07 PM: oh yeah, that was kinda dumb.. but whole show is pure fan service
1:47:07 PM: cid is the most awesome, again…
1:47:28 PM: heheh.. chong wanted to see more yuffie hoarding materia
1:47:35 PM: listening to my ffvii soundtracks now, hehehe..
1:47:59 PM: nah, but yuffie rocks with the massive weapon, can’t remember what it’s called.
1:48:12 PM: http://www.geocities.jp/our_homepage_brotherhood/clouds_sword.html
1:48:15 PM: way cool!
1:49:38 PM: haha
1:50:34 PM: before I even watched the show, I already called the ending… that cloud would beat sephiroth (who would appear as fan service) using knights of round
1:52:05 PM: the show really does a lot of stuff with unrestrained camera.. long scenes and mad panning
1:52:29 PM: Dah!
1:52:39 PM: I’m only halfway through and this looks awesome!
1:52:49 PM: cool! ps3?
1:53:15 PM: I love the fight chereography
1:53:17 PM: ps2 I think..
the chara creation looks real nice
1:53:18 PM: for ac
1:53:39 PM: atl east it shows you can build on matrix, not just rip off
1:53:56 PM: yeah.. animation rocks… and the physics holds solid throughout… man, look at the leather crease and stuff
1:53:57 PM: i never realized his sword was an amalgam
1:54:03 PM: no kidding…
1:54:09 PM: my jaw awas dropping
1:54:25 PM: but dang it, tifa onl y got 90secs worth of glory!
1:54:34 PM: I still like aeris the best…
1:54:41 PM: vincent was awesome
1:54:46 PM: matrix is weaker in comparison because bullets hurt there… in ff:ac bullets are just annoyance :)
1:54:51 PM: but man man man, cid just looks sooooo cool!
1:55:05 PM: yup.. cid always gets mad detail. heheh
1:55:33 PM: cool to watch the old ffvii cut scenes… 9 years, came a long way
1:55:48 PM: I noticed the sword had at least 3 parts during the show.. didn’t realize 2+3 and 5+6 were different
1:56:14 PM: yeah, I was trying to figure out how he could deatch the same part twice…
1:56:23 PM: hmm..I need to dig up those avis… wonder if I backed em up to hdd
1:56:44 PM: hey, do you have the gussun oyoyo voice rips?
1:57:09 PM: anyway, i gotta see this again… I think I will have to buy a projector and dvd players just for this!
1:57:15 PM: and a ps2 *sob*
1:57:24 PM: they ar eselling for 17000 used…
1:57:46 PM: I dunno if I ever ripped those movies from gussun oyoyo.. think I only watched em using that psx hack thing
1:57:59 PM: heheheh
1:57:59 PM: I want the hekiru voices…
1:58:02 PM: dang
1:58:35 PM: anyway, last night I set up the front of our office, and had like 7 people watching…
1:58:42 PM: oh, voice rips.. dunno if I’ve ever ripped those..
I could do it quickly if I knew where that CD was..
1:58:54 PM: too bad someone was working, else I woulda shut off all the lights and pumped the sound
1:59:10 PM: heh.. man, I wanna watch this on big screen with real dvd, not stupid avi with subs
1:59:27 PM: Need to have my little home theater thingy going… I miss watching movies and stuff
1:59:38 PM: seven out of eight ain’t a bad ratio. haha
2:00:36 PM: but i’ve read so many ffvii fanfics that it’s kinda blur, the real stuff that happened in nibelheim with zack and cloud
2:01:08 PM: the doodz never come watch stuff here anymore.. partly for lack of stuffs to wach
2:01:10 PM: dude, ya gotta get the dvd and watch this proper…
2:01:37 PM: I know! dvd doesn’t come out in US until next year -_-
2:01:46 PM: damn some scenes from soulcal kick as though…
2:02:09 PM: yah want the japanese version? You can bt the subs anyway..
2:02:10 PM: it’s very cool.. gotta pick it up, even though I know I won’t play it much
2:02:50 PM: need a ps2. ugh, can’t believe I finally feel the need for a game machine.
2:03:02 PM: hey watcha think of the nintendo tv remote :D
2:03:06 PM: yah, grab me a copy if you can. heheh
I don’t want the damn subs.. you know subbers nowdays have no sense of pride in quality
2:03:33 PM: http://cobopeko123.hp.infoseek.co.jp/6.jpg
2:03:38 PM: yeah it’s all speed
2:03:49 PM: heheh.. I thought it was a real dumb controller… and then I saw the controller add-on accessory that adds d-pad and a-pad and some buttons, and then I went, ohhhhh….
2:04:04 PM: http://www.geocities.jp/our_homepage_brotherhood/adventchildren.html
2:04:08 PM: this stuff is sweet..
2:04:31 PM: hahah… you just turn it 90 degress for a normal controller.
2:04:47 PM: hmm.. plastic motorcycle looks cooler than in-show one for some reason.
2:05:19 PM: you know what it reminded me of? those snes controllers on the sia airplanes..
2:05:54 PM: yeah, that thing is over a foot long
2:05:57 PM: hahaha
2:06:12 PM: I want the snap fit sword :P
2:06:14 PM: I don’t remember enough of FF7 though.. been a while. too bad there’s no way I could stand to play through 100 hours of that game again
2:06:31 PM: sword transformers
2:07:28 PM: there’s the vincent game too… dirge something..
2:07:33 PM: fp shooter
Wow, talk about nostalgia time. A ton of work, and so it calls of sort of uppity background music to grease the ol’ brain cells.
Well, I ran Bakuretsu Hunter Vol2, and that was good, typical Kawai Kenji. A couple runs and I was ready for something else. So I scroll my iTunes collection, and what catches my eye? The Sailor Moon R Movie Soundtrack! Man, that really brings back memories! They have some great instrumentals, and then I got all nostalgic listening to the senshi voices *sigh*. And so I’m listening to my Sailor Moon R mirai he mukatte CD, and dang it, it really brings back memories.
You know Hisakawa Aya is okay, nice, but not as nice as I remember her to be. Ai no senshi is an awesome song though, and although Mitsuishi Kotono still is annoying, for some reason, she’s tolerable. Hmm, all those years of Hekiru have built my tolerance levels f^^;;
Gotta find that song that Ami-chan sings from season 1. Shit, I’m such an otaku.
Final Fantasy Advent Children comes out on the 14th of this month. I’m sitting in my room this Sunday, the rain falling outside, my somewhat hungover self listening to the FFVII soundtrack as I type out a report on this summer’s tour.
The music brings back memories. I love games, RPGs in particular. I used to wonder why I stopped playing games after graduating from college, but now I know it’s because I didn’t enjoy the act of playing as much as I did the immersion and the company of the people I was with when I played. It’s the nostalgia that really gets me, nowadays. I miss games, I miss the emotional kickback from a good RPG. RPGs are wonderful stories, sad and angsty and full of characters and plot twists and grand dreams. They are whole worlds.
I regret that I have not played any of the newer RPGs… in fact, Vagrant Story was perhaps the last of the lot. I never did complete Front Mission. I feel like I’ve missed out on all those worlds and stories and characters. As with anime, I like some so much that I devour fanfic religiously. It becomes a blur, what was canon and what is fanfic, but it meshes to create an experience so rich it’s addictive.
FFVII has incredible fanfiction, mostly dealing with Cloud and Sephiroth and Zack. Read Madamhydra’s massive work, or eukyrotic’s epic, or the vignettes by that person I can’t remember. They hit you so hard, so emotionally full, you could almost weep.
Nostalgic memories… I have so many nostalgic memories, I wish I could store them each and every one in a safe place in my mind, where they will never fade or be overwritten, or simply forgotten. I have so many good memories of old times, but when you struggle with the present, of being down or frustrated, I think I am in danger of losing them, of losing the “me” of that time to the worst of the present.
Perhaps I am simply obsessed with documenting the experiences of life. Ah, but that’s what blogging is for, non?
No, not autumn, we’re talking anime, dammit.
Yep, so new anime season. And. Still zero motivation to watch, much less blog. Why? It’s all crap man! What happened to all the yuri anime that was on last year! We want yuri! And don’t even try to tell me Gokujyou Seitoukai will do. Bleh.
Otome-Hime or whatever the sequel to Mai-Hime is is coming in October. I am ambivalent about pinning my hopes on this oasis in the midst of a terribly dry half year, ‘coz we all know Sunrise could just mess this up. If this become a harem anime, I will murder someone. Or perhaps just cry myself to sleep :P
On the other hand, I’ve been really into Full Metal Alchemist. That’s a really awesome manga, and I’m tempted to give the anime a try too. Uh, yeah, once I stop working like 90 hours++ a week.
And last but not least, I really have to write up a full report on the summer tour. It was too good, too varied, too insightful, and, considering that this could be another pivot point in Hekiru’s career, too damn important to pass up.
What do have to look forward to in September? Another trip to Heaven’s Door to watch some hard-rockin’ girls, and the last volume of Mai-Hime. Huh, to be honest, I’m no longer into ShizNat, the fandom’s morphed into some bizarre whatever.
On the other hand, last weekend’s trip to Karuizawa was freakin’ awesome. I spent waaaaaay too much money, bagging like 3 pairs of shoes and other miscellaneous shit. But damn it, they were damn good shoes, and cheap!
The soul is restless. I need to do something. Just gotta figure out, what it is I wanna do.
