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  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:41:49 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>not my idea of a Saturday night.</title>
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  <description>The top shelf of my walk-in closet collapsed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The top shelf of my walk-in closet collapsed.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mom and I heard a colossal crash downstairs, and went to my room to find all my fucking clothes from summer to winter wear on hangers plus seasonal bedding stuff in disarray on the closet floor. The shelf is dangling from its bottom buttressing rails and the nails that were keeping the inner edge of the shelf to the wall have been ripped clean out of their holes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THANK YOU CALIFORNIAN HOUSING.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THANK YOU ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALS I.E. WALLS MADE OF REINFORCED CARDBOARD AND NAILS THAT ARE ABOUT .5 OF AN INCH LONG. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THANK YOU WHOEVER BUILT THIS HOUSE AND USED TOO FEW OF THOSE NAILS ON THE WALLS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fuck it all I&apos;m going out for cheesecake.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:29:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>employment get?? \o/??</title>
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  <description>Wow this came to me as a complete surprise. A few days ago I turned in a job app to an optician shop, cuz my parents, when at the shop to order new glasses, reported they were hiring extra help for the holiday season. Preferably recent graduates fluent in both English and Mandarin. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was a bit apprehensive since, 1) I&apos;m studying for the GMAT in late December and I&apos;m not completely confident I can manage my time properly 2) a job in the service industry usually entails weekend shifts and working on holidays. Still, I turned in the app and spoke briefly to the manager. When she mentioned they were actually hoping for a full-time worker, and we parted after &quot;the higher-ups will review your resume, we&apos;ll give you a call soon&quot; I knew my chances were as good as dashed. I was actually a little relieved. That meant I will have ample time to prepare for the GMAT, keep looking for a proper full-time job, and work on my two comic projects. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then, this morning I receive a call from them asking me how many days I could work, if I could work weekends, and if I could start training tomorrow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sooooo YAY EMPLOYMENT! \o/ Sure, I&apos;m not gonna make much money out of it working only 3 days (though it won&apos;t be less than what I earned doing web design at Beagle Books), but it sure beats working 5 days and having almost no time whatsoever for anything else. Hell I should just be glad they&apos;re even letting me work there &lt;i&gt;part-time&lt;/i&gt;. Nobody bloody hires part-timers who work less than 5 days a week now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The catch is that my weekends are gone 8D;;; FMLLLLL</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:37:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>importantish???</title>
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  <description>For a TOP SECRET creative project I&apos;m naming badass fighting/militant special forces characters after historical badasses, amongst whom are Alexander, Charlemagne and Julius. Napoleon is in consideration, but I just can NOT get over the stigma of SHORT MAN SHORT MAN screaming in my brain. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please help prove to me that it&apos;s just me and my stupid biases DDD: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=1482815&quot;&gt;View Poll: #1482815&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=1482816&quot;&gt;View Poll: #1482816&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, any super cool badass historical figures you know and love just throw them in the comments. I love historical badasses \o/</description>
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  <lj:music>Placebo - Breathe Underwater</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:56:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>the epic adventure of two first-time sakebombers</title>
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  <description>Stole from &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name_evanae&apos; lj:user=&apos;evanae&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://evanae.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://evanae.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;evanae&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s post for posterity. This may be a repeat post to some, sorry y&apos;all D:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Place: Liquid, Japanese restaurant in San Mateo&lt;br /&gt;Time: app. 7pm, Saturday of Y-con&lt;br /&gt;Sakebombers in question: &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name_lachraine&apos; lj:user=&apos;lachraine&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://lachraine.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://lachraine.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;lachraine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and me&lt;br /&gt;Cameraperson: &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name_evanae&apos; lj:user=&apos;evanae&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://evanae.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://evanae.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;evanae&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;lj-embed id=&quot;8&quot; /&gt;</description>
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  <category>yaoi con</category>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:17:01 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>all sorts of nerd.</title>
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  <description>My Photoshop is now named Rachel and my Picasa web upload application is now named Tina. &lt;i&gt;NERD ON.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me: holy shit my photoshop&apos;s been feeling suicidal lately&lt;br /&gt;Aki: froze? o_o&lt;br /&gt;me: yeah it keeps going &quot;photoshop has encountered an error. it will exit now.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;Aki: ... als;kdjf&lt;br /&gt;Aki: sorry&lt;br /&gt;Aki: it just reminded me glee rachel&apos;s diva flouncing&lt;br /&gt;Aki: &quot;you have not satisfied me. I will exit now.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;me: HAHAHA&lt;br /&gt;Aki: your photoshop is diva&apos;ing XDD&lt;br /&gt;me: SRSLY&lt;br /&gt;Aki: STOP BEING A DIVA, NAT&apos;S PHOTOSHOP.&lt;br /&gt;me: yeah omg it must think i&apos;ve been ignoring it&lt;br /&gt;me: having been away so long&lt;br /&gt;me: &quot;YOU&apos;RE IGNORING ME. YOU&apos;RE PUNISHING ME. I QUIT.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;Aki: LOL&lt;br /&gt;Aki: omg&lt;br /&gt;Aki: you should call it rachel&lt;br /&gt;me: HAHAHAHAHA&lt;br /&gt;Aki: you can totally be will&lt;br /&gt;Aki: &quot;Rachel. This isn&apos;t about YOU. Okay. Not everything is about YOU.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;me: yes LOL&lt;br /&gt;me: oh boy if i actually start using the picasa web uploader to /edit/ the photos&lt;br /&gt;me: rachel really WOULD quit on me&lt;br /&gt;me: and i have to be like&lt;br /&gt;me: RACHEL OTHER APPLICATIONS NEED A CHANCE TO SHINE TOO&lt;br /&gt;Aki: LOL&lt;br /&gt;Aki: TINA&lt;br /&gt;me: A;SEIJF&lt;br /&gt;Aki: picasa web uploader is TINA&lt;br /&gt;me: omfg&lt;br /&gt;me: i need to make a post about this&lt;br /&gt;Aki: XDDDDD</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:48:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>stateside</title>
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  <description>I&apos;ve returned from the Far East! \o/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though it&apos;s more like a mix of \o/ and ;; cuz I hated for my vacation to end and I had such a great time in Japan with the various people I met there. And then I watched The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Gokusen the Movie on the flight back and listened to GReeeeN and Angela Aki and The Best of Chage &amp; Aska so there was generally a lot of BAWWW. God I can&apos;t believe 2 weeks in China and 3 weeks in Japan went by just like that. But at the same time, holy shit I was out of the country for over a month! It&apos;s a very conflicted feeling :C&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, an extensive travelogue will follow and I&apos;d better fucking do it cuz I need to preserve all my memories in detail. Time to process my 1000+ photos l-lol x_X&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ETA]&lt;/b&gt; Oh and despite being jetlagged I managed to crash Saturday of Ycon with a halfassed last-minute Chase Stein cosplay (for Jo Chen&apos;s booth, with &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name_cursedinanime&apos; lj:user=&apos;cursedinanime&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://cursedinanime.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://cursedinanime.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;cursedinanime&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as Victor; JO CHEN RECOGNIZED US A;SDFJ ahh she was so cute and nice) and a Mikage rewear. Then there was yummy Japanese dinner at Liquid where &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name_lachraine&apos; lj:user=&apos;lachraine&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://lachraine.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://lachraine.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;lachraine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and I had our very first sake bombs. Also where Joey was dedicated the epicest of epic birthday songs. FUNTIMES 8&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;M STILL REALLY SLEEPY RIGHT NOW OTL</description>
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  <lj:music>GReeeeN - Tabidachi</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:57:54 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>ALIVE IN NIPPON</title>
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  <description>WITH JUST 2 DAYS LEFT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOW DID THIS HAPPEN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&apos;t wanna go baaaaaaackkkkk XC</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>NIPPON</title>
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  <description>I AM IN OSAKA \o/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT IS POURING oTL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How I fail, let me tell you the ways: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- didn&apos;t think to call AMEX before coming to JP and had a brief panic attack when I couldn&apos;t initially use my card for cell phone rental&lt;br /&gt;- forgot to bring my umbrella cuz I have excellent foresight&lt;br /&gt;- and I forgot to bring a plug adapter so I&apos;m running on battery power of which there is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;/checks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 minutes left.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I AM CONSTANTLY AMAZED WITH MYSELF.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:06:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>updates from Shenzhen</title>
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  <description>In bullet points! Cuz it&apos;s late and I&apos;m ready for bed lol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Shenzhen is like Shanghai, but newer. The humidity and heat is awful, however the food is great, people are fashionable, window-shopping is amaaaziiingggg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- briefly experienced the most excruciatingly painful headache ever&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- got my hair cut! And colored! For 100 RMB! Ah I love this country&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- bought one item of clothing: a plaid flannel multi-purpose shirt... jacket... thing. It&apos;s muy cute, I&apos;m gonna wear it in Japan \o/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- and then it started raining a lot; yay for cooler weather, nay for being rained in at home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- came down with a cold OTL though it&apos;s about that time of the year that I usually get sick anyway; but getting sick on vacation is just annoying and FML&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- went to a fine art musuem and a design museum; the design exhibits were really cool and made me miss my days of graphic design at Cal Poly :C (lol I would&apos;ve become so out of touch with GD by the time I find a job ._.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- saw &lt;b&gt;The Founding of a Republic&lt;/b&gt; (建国大业) which is a historical docudrama on the Communist vs Nationalist Party civil/political struggle before the People&apos;s Republic of China was finally set up. STAR STUDDED CAST, high production values, good movie. I love history lessons 8)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- and just saw &lt;b&gt;The Message&lt;/b&gt; (风声) which is about ferretting out a Chinese resistance spy within the Nanjing counterinsurgency office (which is part of the Chinese puppet government for the Japanese during the occupation.) 1940s China, spies, torture, suspense, etc. SO GOOD! Great cast, cinematography, soundtrack. And I do love spy movies :D (I was disappointingly faint-hearted during the torture scenes, even though they&apos;re brief and really not that bad. Makes me wonder how the hell I managed to sit through Audition.)</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:48:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>LEAVING ON A JET PLANE + art dump #156 - oh look more shit I haven&apos;t finished/colored! [9]</title>
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  <description>In less than 3 hours I leave for SFO and am bound for Shenzhen, &lt;b&gt;China&lt;/b&gt;! I will be there until October 7, after which I go to &lt;b&gt;Japan&lt;/b&gt;, so I will be out of the country until &lt;b&gt;October 29&lt;/b&gt;. MISS YOU ALL, WISH ME LUCK, pray I don&apos;t die from the heat in China and/or get lost in Japan, etc. I&apos;ll still try to steal wireless/troll internet cafes when I can, but chances may be sparse. :&amp;lt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SO TO BID YOU ALL FAREWELL here&apos;s another sketchdump that I&apos;ve held onto with the thought of showing them only after I colored them until I finally lost patience with myself. 8/ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top to bottom, left to right: SPOILER!Youzen, Outenkun, buncha Taikoubous sob I love him so&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/HE_sketches.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lame attempt at sketching Season 2 Feldt, and a Ribbons I wanted to color with solid blacks/whites but never got around to it. Yeah that&apos;s if Ribbons ever dressed like a man. (Either that or he&apos;s a... very young Klaus? idk) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/gundam00_sketches.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These guys I REALLY wanted to color cuz they look so nondescript and boring and unremarkable otherwise XC (Also cuz young Marvel have such great colors so it&apos;s a real shame to leave them b/w.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RunAvenger resident nerds: Victor Mancha, Billy Kaplan. BILLY LOOKS MOE AND SMALL sob orz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/Runaways_sketch03YA.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HEARTBREAK OTP PAGE. Chase and Gert. I&apos;m... not actually sure what Chase is doing in the bottom image. Couch wrestling of some form. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/Runaways_sketch04.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chase and Old Lace, Gert and Old Lace, this page is full of BAWWWWWW &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/Runaways_sketch05.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Billy and Teddy who turned out &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; nicely and I&apos;m muy happy with; Karolina looks pretty good too but. NEEDS COLOR XC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/Runaways_sketch06YA.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Xavin, Tommy and Molly (they&apos;re totes OTP you know it) PLZ IGNORE COSTUME INACCURACIES, Eli being all frumpy, Tommy and Molly... being daft; yes that&apos;s Aretha Franklin&apos;s hat, this was inspired by a drabble by... by &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name_bunnothun&apos; lj:user=&apos;bunnothun&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://bunnothun.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://bunnothun.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;bunnothun&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I think? SOMEONE PLZ VERIFY I&apos;ve forgotten orz &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/Runaways_sketch07YA.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Victor has all sorts of bromantic opportunities with Young Avengers (too bad they&apos;ve ALL BEEN PAIRED OFF sob); Moe Half-Brother Androids Jonas/Vision 2.0 and Victor Mancha. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/Runaways_sketch08YA.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young Avengers resident Manager and Most Competent Accomplisher/Enabler of Important Things Kate Bishop. And resident Frump Eli. Together they are SUPER HOT OTP. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/youngavengers_kate_eli.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <lj:music>Tori Amos - Do It Again</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">Tori Amos - Do It Again</media:title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:49:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I HAVE IT</title>
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  <description>&lt;font size=&quot;+2&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;TAKARAZUKAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TAKARAZUKA MOON TROUPE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;LAST PLAY ~INORI NO YOU NI~ /HEAT ON BEAT!/&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TAKARAZUKA THEATER HYOUGO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10/20 15:00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2ND FLOOR WINDOW 2-6 15TH ROW #70&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;n-now I just hope that the ticket will get to &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name_aatash&apos; lj:user=&apos;aatash&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://aatash.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://aatash.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;aatash&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s apartment with no incident @_@ (almost couldn&apos;t verify my credit card on this purchase today holyshit)</description>
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  <lj:mood>EX FUCKING CITED</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:37:09 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>wedding gift + TAKARAZUKA</title>
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  <description>Thanks everyone who commented in the last post! I think it&apos;s either gonna be money, or a gift card. Money is the easier option, but for some reason I&apos;ve always felt less thrilled about giving/receiving money than an actual item (unless they&apos;re red packets at Chinese New Year 8D). In any case I&apos;ll be using one of those fancy wedding envelopes used for money-gifting, and if I do put in a gift card I think it&apos;ll be, lolol I dunno CLEVER or something. Like. HaHA! It&apos;s a &lt;i&gt;gift card&lt;/i&gt; of the same amount as I would&apos;ve given in cash! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I STILL might give cash, since it&apos;s traditionally to kind of like, reimburse the family for the wedding reception? Augh I&apos;m undecided. But a gift card would be a good way for my friend to get more of the stuff she&apos;s always wanted (i.e. dining sets, good-looking household items). Though my knowledge of household items stores is sadly limited... these are what I know:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bed, Bath &amp; Beyond&lt;br /&gt;IKEA&lt;br /&gt;Crate &amp; Barrel&lt;br /&gt;Pottery Barn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any others I should know about? I kinda wanna shoot for a Crate &amp; Barrel card if they have it... I don&apos;t know if $100 would even get you very much in a store like that, but it&apos;s a bit nicer than your standard BB&amp;B and IKEA stuff. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, thanks to &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name__hissori&apos; lj:user=&apos;_hissori&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://users.livejournal.com/_hissori/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://users.livejournal.com/_hissori/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;_hissori&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I now have my hopes up to actually attend a &lt;b&gt;Takarazuka&lt;/b&gt; show in Japan. Though Takarazuka appears to hate me, and the month October in general. The Phoenix Wright 2 musical JUST ENDED, and Casablanca doesn&apos;t start until November. The only show (that I know anything about) I &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; catch is Rose of the Versailles that starts on the 23rd, which is AFTER my JR Pass expires, in fricken &lt;i&gt;Tokyo&lt;/i&gt;. The quickest way to travel costs about $80-90 each way, the show goes up to $110, and if I end up going to the 10/27 show I might as well stay in Tokyo overnight cuz the train ride is 2-4 hours, and I leave Japan the next day from Osaka anyway. So that&apos;s probably $60-100 for the hotel (cuz this is f&apos;cking Ginza.) &lt;i&gt;THIS TRIP IS GOING TO BANKRUPT ME.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AHH the irony of seeing Takarazuka OUTSIDE OF Osaka. If I didn&apos;t want to see Rose of the Versailles so badly I wouldn&apos;t even TOUCH Tokyo. Anyone know any other shows that&apos;re about BeruBara caliber that I could consider instead?</description>
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  <lj:music>Rin&apos; - Hanafubuki</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">Rin&apos; - Hanafubuki</media:title>
  <lj:mood>BROKE</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:33:09 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Operation Japan Trip</title>
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  <description>&lt;s&gt;get plane ticket&lt;br /&gt;book Business Taiyo Hotel room&lt;br /&gt;get Japan Rail Pass&lt;br /&gt;get some ￥s&lt;br /&gt;notify bank of use of debit card in Japan&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br /&gt;change PIN to 4 digits&lt;br /&gt;plot out detailed itinerary&lt;br /&gt;pack&lt;br /&gt;GET MI-NE A WEDDING GIFT??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok guys I need help. &lt;b&gt;Give me suggestions/ideas/advice on wedding gifts.&lt;/b&gt; I&apos;ll be attending a Japanese friend&apos;s wedding in Kyoto; what&apos;s a good but affordable thing to get? I guess I don&apos;t have to give it to her &lt;i&gt;in&lt;/i&gt; Japan since she&apos;s coming back to the US after her honeymoon... is it even important that I give a gift at all?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I DON&apos;T KNOW are there like traditions or conventions around this kind of thing?? THIS IS MY FIRST WEDDING I DON&apos;T KNOW WHAT TO DO</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:08:43 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Shashasha-Shasta</title>
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  <description>Obligatory disappearing-for-3-days-on-family-trip post goes heeeere \o/</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:46:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>According to ETS, I&apos;m no smarter now than I was in high school. Thanks ETS!</title>
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  <description>GRE IS DONE \o/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE SCORE WAS... NOT WHAT I EXPECTED &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:C&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How I feel right now is something like: 1 part surly, 2 parts relieved, 2 parts :|, 1 part LOL. I have to say, the score isn&apos;t out of my expectations, but finishing the final section of the computer-based test I honestly thought I did better, especially since I felt more confident with the verbal section than I usually do. And now I can&apos;t help but feel a little gipped, cuz I keep thinking that if it hadn&apos;t been an adaptive test I would surely have done better? Because the scoring standard would all be the same and make sense and not be completely beyond comprehension? I dunno, I don&apos;t understand this shit at all and it feels unfair and, really? This is the best I can do? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ANYWAY despite all that I&apos;m really, generally okay with the score, as I was with my SAT score (the scores are off by 20 points LOLLLLL.) There&apos;s a very simple reason why some of my friends in high school got 1500-1600 and I didn&apos;t. Totally fine with it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If only my dad hadn&apos;t been like &quot;well yeah because obviously you didn&apos;t work hard enough :/&quot; AT WHICH I DEIGNED NOT TO EXCHANGE ANY MORE WORDS WITH HIM &lt;s&gt;for the next 20 minutes&lt;/s&gt; THIS EVENING. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah whatever fuckitall I&apos;m having Korean BBQ tomorrow and while it isn&apos;t exactly Victory BBQ, it isn&apos;t wholly Consolation BBQ either. :DDDDD</description>
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  <category>fuck the economy</category>
  <lj:music>Plastic Tree - Spica (Nega to Poji version)</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:22:54 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>why are J-dramas amazing sob</title>
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  <description>I haven&apos;t watched any anime since Soul Eater and G-00 (neither of which I&apos;d actually even finished); besides the volumes of Shiki I&apos;ve been buying and reading I&apos;ve been compleeetely out of touch with my Japanese. Soooo lol in part to prep myself for my China/Japan trip in the next coming month, I picked up a new J-drama to watch. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;VOICE&lt;/b&gt; IS SUCH A FCKING TEARJERKER OMG. You will cry tears every episode, guaranteed. I&apos;m only 3 episodes into the series but god it&apos;s proven to be &lt;i&gt;sooo gooood&lt;/i&gt;. The writing, storytelling, acting, all superb. And I rather think this is Toma&apos;s best performance and he really deserves some recognition for it. (I know he got Best Supporting Actor for HanaKimi but I think it takes so much more to portray hidden substance under a casual/lighthearted front than a loltastic shounen retard.) Eita&apos;s performance is amazing too and everyone has such great chemistry AND &lt;b&gt;ENDOU YUUYA&lt;/b&gt; IS IN IT (as a nerdy otaku type AAHAHAHA) I&apos;m so happy to see some of our Tenimyu boys move on to bigger and better things T__T&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gah this is one J-drama I can&apos;t watch with anyone else cuz I&apos;m just a blubbering sobbing mess at the end of every ep .__.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aaaaand in 10 minutes I must leave for my GRE test. MAY DEATH BE SWIFT AND MERCIFUL. (Well, swift it is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt;, since the thing&apos;s like 3.5 hours. /WRIST)</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:27:30 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>...kind of... want??</title>
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  <description>&lt;lj-embed id=&quot;7&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ARGH damn you Persona series and your delicious animated graphic-designy goodness! At this time though I&apos;m pinged on a purely graphic level; I&apos;m still iffy about the weirding and ret-conning of P3 with a female character, though it appears to present itself as a kind of alternate reality where Minato&apos;s still present but... not... MC? The trailer flashes words like &quot;butterfly effect&quot; and &quot;chaos theory&quot;, and uses visual allegory of mirrors/reflections. Intriguinggggg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though lolol the song is TEEERRRIBLLLLE. It opens like a TM Revolution song and the singer needs to... not be this guy. I don&apos;t care that he sang the OP for Persona: Trinity Soul (which now - DAMMIT!!!!! - I wanna see), he&apos;s awful for this song. Can Meguro Shoji work with people who can sing decently in English plz. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HEY DOES THAT MEAN I CAN DATE JUNPEI? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AKIHIKO?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;RYOJI?!?!?!?!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stop pandering to me Atlus YOU&apos;RE MAKING ME INTERESTED</description>
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  <category>persona</category>
  <lj:music>Metric - Calculation Theme</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:27:57 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>THE END OF AN ERA</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;I FINALLY FINISHED THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFTER 5 YEARS AND... HOWEVER MANY MONTHS AND DAYS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was very sad when it ended :&amp;lt; it was like saying goodbye to a dear old friend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I CRIED MANY TEARS THROUGH THE SPAN OF THIS BOOK. AND THEN SOME MORE AT THE END. Oh the end omg. I listened to parts of the Lord of the Rings soundtrack during the climatic scenes LOL. And then listened to Lamb&apos;s &quot;Angelica&quot;, &quot;Til the Clouds Clear&quot; and &quot;Wonder&quot; to the last 2 chapters. &lt;i&gt;SUBLIME.&lt;/i&gt;</description>
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  <category>books</category>
  <lj:music>Metric - The Battlecry</lj:music>
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  <lj:mood>nerdy</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:48:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>no music no life</title>
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  <description>So I recently rediscovered my last.fm, which I&apos;d forgotten about for &lt;i&gt;years&lt;/i&gt;; I almost couldn&apos;t find my account anymore cuz I forgot &lt;i&gt;the website&lt;/i&gt; l-lol. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But yes! I have it! And I have no friends on it! And I&apos;ve found that (or have a strong hunch that) some of you folks on my f-list have exquisite taste in music! I&apos;m &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/user/bluestraggler&quot;&gt;bluestraggler @ last.fm&lt;/a&gt;, come share your treasures with meeeeee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And please pardon the very limited and repetitive library, that stuff and the Top Artists/Songs tracks are seriously from like, my late high-school/early-college days and I&apos;m furiously trying to build it up to include my current preferences. 8D;</description>
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  <category>music</category>
  <lj:music>Metric - IOU</lj:music>
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  <lj:mood>musical!</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:02:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>art dump #155 - Merlin [2]</title>
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  <description>LOL watch me make a mad dash to beat my laptop&apos;s remaining battery life -- ......which just about ran out between scanning the pages and starting this post because it&apos;s a piece of shiiiiit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;/connects AC adapter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I&apos;m finally approaching the end of the 1st season of BBC&apos;s Merlin and was subsequently topped by &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name_soloproject&apos; lj:user=&apos;soloproject&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://soloproject.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://soloproject.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;soloproject&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to draw more for it SO HERE IT IS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/merlin_sketches1.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drew a page of Merlins to familiarize with his face. Apparently STILL rubbish at drawing real people. BAH BAH BAH (This is one of my biggest stupid arteest hang-ups; that&apos;s why I did only like 2 things for Heroes and nothing for Supernatural. Can&apos;t draw for TV/movies cuz it stresses me out XC) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bluestraggler/art%20shit/merlin_sketches02.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally getting the hang of it. And then I threw in an Arthur to finish up the page and call it a day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahhh I hope Season 2 airs soon!!</description>
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  <category>art dump</category>
  <category>merlin</category>
  <lj:music>All India Radio - Four Three</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">All India Radio - Four Three</media:title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:42:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>my taste is not so good that I can&apos;t appreciate this</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.legionmovie.com/&quot;&gt;Legion&lt;/a&gt;, in which &quot;[w]hen God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany).&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;lj-embed id=&quot;6&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LOL WHAT IS THIS MOVIE IT LOOKS &lt;i&gt;TERRIBLE&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven&apos;t seen a Biblical apocalyptic movie this over the top and unlikely since Constantine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I CAN DIG THAT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not that I can figure out why the hell the Archangel Michael would be on the humans&apos; side but WHO CARES Paul Bettany&apos;s in it as a fricken archangel of course I&apos;m watching this. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHOO JANUARY</description>
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  <category>movies</category>
  <lj:music>Pauline Croze - Mal Assis</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">Pauline Croze - Mal Assis</media:title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:34:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>fuck this shiiiiiiit</title>
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  <description>Man I&apos;ve been using a lot of expletives in my titles lately. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RARRRL I am THIS CLOSE to winging my GRE!! I&apos;ve completed my Petersons GRE/GMAT math review book, so then I bought an official ETS GRE practice test book (BARFFFF) which I&apos;m thankfully going to return in a week - YEAH FUCK YOU ETS I&apos;M NOT LETTING YOU HAVE ANY MORE OF MY MONEY - and after going through just &lt;i&gt;one&lt;/i&gt; test yesterday I already feel nauseous thinking about doing another today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can vaguely remember some of the techniques I learned from SAT tutoring (&lt;i&gt;SAT tutoring&lt;/i&gt; was I schmuck or WHAT?) but GUH I just cannot be bothered to recall them in detail; those are the things that helped me score better in the Verbal section and I could really stand to gain from them now! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;BUT I FEEL LIKE I JUST DON&apos;T CARE???&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOD I so do not have the patience for this like I did 5 years ago - how the hell did I do it for SAT?? - &lt;b&gt;I&apos;D REALLY JUST RATHER DO 10 FUCKING MIDTERMS THAN THE FUCKING GRE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Either I want it to be September 3rd as soon as possible so I could just get this shit over with, or I want more time between now and then to do more of these goddamned test sets I CAN&apos;T DECIDE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[ETA AND TTLY RANDOM]&lt;/b&gt; Man I kind of want to get the &lt;b&gt;Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds&lt;/b&gt; comics now, I mean LEGION and BART &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; KON?? /grabby hannndddsss</description>
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  <category>fuck the economy</category>
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  <lj:music>Cheap Trick - Wake Up with A Monster</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:01:29 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>art dump #154 - WIPs/lineart - Gundam 00 [4], P4 [1]</title>
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  <description>Yaayy more halfassed placeholder art 8D; After going through my laptop recently I found that there were several things I never posted, so they&apos;re going up now!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These guys were done (in a rush, can you tell? XD;) for the We Are Gundam fan comic/art anthology which is why I never uploaded them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These sketches are some of my all-time favorites. I&apos;m just, homg so happy with how Lockon turned out *_*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/bluestraggler/pic/0000krye&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This anthology was in the works right after Season 1 and the whole Lockon thing was still a huge deal so I did this crappy metaphorical thingggg god the linework is SO DIRTY LOL I couldn&apos;t be bothered to clean it up before submission cuz I had so little time XD;;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/bluestraggler/pic/0000papb&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ribbons and Alejandro. MMMM HM. (You can see I bothered a little more with the linework this time. Cuz it&apos;s Ribbons.) The final Photoshop file I submitted had the caption in fancy grunge script font saying &quot;I will rob you of the world&quot; on the upper right corner but I forgot this JPG doesn&apos;t have it. :/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/bluestraggler/pic/0000q674&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aaaand more Ribbons! I figured the anthology would be full of Lockons and Tierias and I&apos;m some kind of obsessed with Ribbons anyway so hey! I bring something new to the table 8) I&apos;m also really into Ribbons/Tieria, obvsly. Title of this is &quot;New World Order&quot; cuz, Innovators yeeah. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/bluestraggler/pic/0000r855&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, all this P4 that I&apos;ve been obsessively playing was making me really interested in Japanese mythology, and ever since reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://badbadbathhouse.livejournal.com/1225.html?thread=5356233#t5356233&quot;&gt;Sea of the Unconscious&lt;/a&gt; I got the super ambitious idea to draw the P4 kids as their respective Ultimate Persona/Japanese god/historical figures a la the Ancient Greek/Western P3 sketches I posted last time. The ambitious part is to actually &lt;i&gt;complete&lt;/i&gt; the set of all 8 (maybe even 9, or 10?? if I decide to stick in Adachi and Izanami too), vignette style each with its own bg, to come together in either a huge banner or be individually separate or in sets of 3. THIS ARTIST ALLEY THING, I MIGHT BE STARTING TO TAKE IT MORE SERIOUSLY MAYBE o__o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway SRY FOR TL;DR and the crappy ass unfinished state of this pic. I dunno why I even bothered to scan it now, it&apos;s far from done and then I&apos;d have to scan it again later anyway ~_~ Yukiko as Amaterasu, in the Persona&apos;s pose and with her in-game weapons of choice (fans which haven&apos;t been drawn in yet). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/bluestraggler/pic/0000s7ps&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now if any of you guys have any descriptive info on &lt;b&gt;Suzuka Gozen&lt;/b&gt; (or Suzuka Gongen) or &lt;b&gt;Dairokuten Maou&lt;/b&gt; it would be super helpful cuz these guys are OBSCURE. Sources say Rokuten Maou in P4 references to Oda Nobunaga as he&apos;s purportedly dubbed himself &quot;demon king&quot; or somesuch?? Buddhist stuff is so complicated cuz it mingles historical roots in India, China, AND Japan x__X;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RANDOM: Omg this song was the song played in the promo trailer for Burn After Reading that&apos;s so cool 8DDDD</description>
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  <category>art dump</category>
  <category>persona</category>
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  <lj:music>Elbow - Grounds for Divorce</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:49:09 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>FUCK YOU KONOMI</title>
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  <description>shit this post is going to take forever to make because every few minutes I&apos;m seizing up between LAUGHING and CRYING and RAGING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOW DO YOU DO IT, &lt;b&gt;PRINCE OF TENNIS&lt;/b&gt;? HOW DO YOU CAUSE SOMEONE WHO&apos;S BEEN CLEAN FOR &lt;s&gt;YEARS&lt;/s&gt; MONTHS TO RELAPSE INTO THE CONVULSING, RABID, UTTERLY ENAMORED CRACK ADDICT SHE USED TO BE?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course. The Failproof Formula. What&apos;s better than RIVAL SCHOOL, and SMALL BOYS? &lt;b&gt;RIVAL SCHOOL, &lt;i&gt;AS&lt;/i&gt; SMALL BOYS.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOW &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8B38F26793B5069F&amp;amp;search_query=prince+of+tennis+another+story&quot;&gt;BE DESTROYED AS I WAS&lt;/a&gt;, with tiny Hyoutei, hippie Oshitari, little tsun princess Shishido, everybody is small and has huge eyes, etc, AND INTERACTIONS THAT WILL SHAKE YOUR OTP FOUNDATIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and an anecdote from me and &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name_darknightrain&apos; lj:user=&apos;darknightrain&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://darknightrain.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://darknightrain.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;darknightrain&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;how two drug addicts struggle to cope with relapse –&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;how are you okaa are you okay? any feverish symptoms or dry mouth or sweaty palms or sudden inclinations to read fic or anything?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her: &lt;br /&gt;I-I do feel kind of like&lt;br /&gt;rping&lt;br /&gt;or drabbling&lt;br /&gt;._.;;;;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;AHHHHHHH&lt;br /&gt;/CRIES INTO HANDS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;SHOULD I SEEK HELP???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;MAYBE?? MAYBE WE&lt;br /&gt;SHOULD&lt;br /&gt;UH&lt;br /&gt;SPEED UP THE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;NAT!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;SYMPTOMS BY&lt;br /&gt;WHAT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;NO!&lt;br /&gt;DON&apos;T SAY THAT1!!&lt;br /&gt;WOULD THAT EVEN WORK?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;YOU KNOW? LIKE... FEVER IT OUT? OR FLU IT OUT, MAKE IT REALLY BAD SO IT GOES OVER FASTER&lt;br /&gt;I DON&apos;T KNOW&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;WHAT IF IT JUST GETS WORSE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;THEN, THEN WE&lt;br /&gt;THEN WE CHECK BACK INTO REHAB&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;bawwwww&lt;br /&gt;i hate this fandom &lt;br /&gt;IT ALWAYS HAPPENS&lt;br /&gt;YOU THINK YOU&apos;RE CLEAN&lt;br /&gt;YOU THIKN YOU&apos;RE SAFE&lt;br /&gt;AND THEN &lt;i&gt;BAM&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ADORABLE BABIES&lt;br /&gt;DUMB FILLER!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;IT&apos;S SO DESPICABLE TOO&lt;br /&gt;CHEAPEST TRICK IN THE BOOK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;SMALL BOYS&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DANGLE SMALL BOYS IN THE FACE OF PEDOPHILES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;y-yes ;;&lt;br /&gt;BECAUSE THEY WEREN&apos;T YOUNG ENOUGH ALREADY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;M CERTAIN AT LEAST HALF THE PEDOS IN THE WORLD WERE KONOMI&apos;S FAULT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;hahahahahah&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Konomi Takeshi made me a pedophile :&apos;C&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;:C&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;though&lt;br /&gt;while looking at the pot comm the other day&lt;br /&gt;the&lt;br /&gt;uh&lt;br /&gt;current op song, for rajipuri&lt;br /&gt;is by Konomi&lt;br /&gt;and it&apos;s called&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;.................&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Tenipuri tte ii na&quot;&lt;br /&gt;/)_(\&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;devil&apos;s incarnate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;I KNOW&lt;br /&gt;b-but he knows what sells&lt;br /&gt;and how to sell it&lt;br /&gt;bastarddd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;you know&lt;br /&gt;in the next persona game, they should designate the devil arcana to an amoral franchise creator named Konomi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;HAHAHAHAHHA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;sigh i feel&lt;br /&gt;sated and&lt;br /&gt;tired&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;DIRTY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;oh it&apos;s afterglow time&lt;br /&gt;HAVE A SMOKE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;AS;J&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;HAHAHA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;/TEARFULLY SMOKES IN SILENCE WITH BACK FACING POT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her:&lt;br /&gt;POT: BD&lt;br /&gt;WAS IT GOOD FOR YOU TOO, NAT?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;WAS IT?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;YOU KNOW HOW IT IS&lt;br /&gt;DON&apos;T MAKE ME SAY IT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;Next PoT: Another Story with &lt;s&gt;Baby&lt;/s&gt; Young Rikkai comes out September 25 &lt;i&gt;kill me now&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
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  <category>pot</category>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:08:30 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>sob this fandom</title>
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  <description>Sooo yeah there&apos;s been some emotional/angry shit plaguing this journal (and subsequently some of you guys&apos; flists) this last week and I&apos;m a bit embarrassed to see it now yeah SORRY ABOUT THAT things&apos;re pretty much mellowed out now so there won&apos;t be any more of that anytime soon. Those who commented in my last RARR post you know who you are. Thanks you guys &amp;hearts;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was gonna break the cycle with an art post to distract everyone but I was too lazy to work on anything so instead I will talk about how I wandered back into the &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser  ljuser-name_gankutsuou&apos; lj:user=&apos;gankutsuou&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/gankutsuou/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/gankutsuou/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;gankutsuou&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; comm to prowl for icons and ended up with &lt;b&gt;three&lt;/b&gt; different FSTs from the same damn series (which now total &lt;b&gt;FIVE&lt;/b&gt; in my collection). I love FSTs god I LOVE how people have such &lt;i&gt;good taste in music!&lt;/i&gt; Do they subscribe to a super secret radio station that plays cool eclectic tasteful indie stuff, where you need to be like, at least This Cool to apply? (I do listen to an Alternative Music internet radio station that plays awesome stuff but half the songs I can&apos;t even bloody FIND for dl online) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And god I will never ever tire of listening to sad, classy songs about Franz and TEARING THE FUCK UP 5 YEARS AFTER THE SERIES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;/bawwwww</description>
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  <category>music</category>
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  <lj:music>Sarah Slean - Willow</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">Sarah Slean - Willow</media:title>
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