Hoshigumi...

Wow.

Ouch.

I'm speechless and even if I could say more I don't know if I would. This one hurts too many people.

Not wanting to marginalize, but thoughts go out

I'm just going to get this out before the bad Hoshigumi news is announced officially, because... OH MY GOD. She's done the hair thing AGAIN. *swoon*

... But, that also doesn't look nearly as modern as the play description was leading me to believe. Hm.

Tags: hamlet!!, ryuu masaki

Because for some reason I like knowing what people have on their desktops. ^^

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(I have two monitors now.)

I love the picture and I wanted to save it to my hard drive. But Opera has "Use Image on Desktop" very close to "Save Image..." in the context menu. And thus my desktop got tiled with this picture by accident. I kept it because I was too lazy to change it back to Mami and because I'm currently immersed in The Devil Wears Prada fanfiction. I'm a terribly shallow, lazy person, but y'all know that already.

I have a 2009 Sena Jun bookmark, if anyone wants it. The story of how I ended up with it is rather long, so I won't go into it, but it's brand new and never been out of its packaging. $7 (which includes the shipping) to anyone who wants it.

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Mm, I went back and added most of the translations in this journal from the last couple of years to my translations page on my Zuka site, as well as the scripts for "Who Is Bad?" and "Eire". Anyway, a bit easier to find now, I suppose.

One of these days I'm going to go back and look at the Graph translations I did five years ago... but I'm too scared to right now. ;)

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"It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring~♪"

I was singing this in the shower this morning because it is (pouring, I mean), but somehow it kept coming out as "it's raining, it's snoring, the old man is pouring". Hmm.

*glance at my inbox* I need my morning coffee. Scratch that, I need a large glass of vodka with a splash of coffee. Maybe my song was prophetic? ;)

jvlsdjfkdfj My laptop has decided one of the registry files is screwed up and now it won't start and I have absolutely no idea where the Vista CD is. *whine* I seriously can't lose the stuff that's on there. =/ Dear Universe, I hate you right now. ;;_;;

But...trying to avoid thinking of that, let's post about other stuff:
Finally saw Law Abiding Citizen on Sunday. I've only, you know, been waiting to see it since it came out. Hell, I was waiting for a month before it was even released when I saw the trailer. XD;; I thought it was quite good actually, maybe a bit anticlimatic at the end, but it kept me entertained (easy to do, but still... :P). I should know by now not to pay attention to what critics/newspaper reviews say. Granted there is likely a bias in anything I say about it... *shifty eyes* *cough* Gerard Butler: Making Stephanie question her sexuality since 2005 .......that doesn't really work in reverse, does it? XDDD His American accent though, it still manages to throw me off. :P

At one point where Gerry's character is being particularly creepy (violent, murderous, etc), I leaned over to my mum and sang, ♬"The music of the night~"♪ to which she replied, "Electric saws." XD I was...er, very glad they didn't show what went on in that scene... =/

...there were other people in the film weren't there? XD Yeah, Jamie Foxx, he was good too. Although I thought his family wasn't played very well. Or maybe just his daughter, I don't remember, but the acting wasn't so good in those scenes. :P

Also, upon watching District 9 a second time, I have realised how much I actually like it. And... *cough* the fanfic is actually pretty good as well. ^^;;; I love the prawns~ ♥

Ahaha, I've been watching a lot of Coronation Street and listening to a lot of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue recently, and now I realise that I'm thinking/talking to myself with an accent. XD I get the feeling if I moved over there, I'd pick it up quite quickly. XD

Tags: gerard butler, killing time, law abiding citizen, random
Current Mood: gloomy
Current Music: Every Night - Bad Girls

This has been sitting on a shelf for several years now.  I watched these DVD's after they  arrived from Japan.  I especially like Zunko's trip to Bali.  Sooo exiting at the time... and then I acquired more and more and more and more shiny stuff.  Sound familiar anyone?  So it's time to let this travel to somewhere it will be loved.  To those outside of the US, I'm sorry.  I am looking to let this go in the easiest way possible, no money transfer involved, and shipping outside the US would be too expensive.   So, if you are a Zunko fan, and are interested, post the reason why you should be chosen in 25 words or less.  
And the WINNER is Karin4. Karin please e-mail an address to orphanmoth@yahoo.com and you will soon be the proud owner of a large purple velvet-like box full of Zunko DVD's.  Thank you to all for helping me get my priorities in order. I know I ended this a bit early.

Dedicated to 土井麻子、渋谷陽子, the precious 20-year friendship.

"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine. "





Someday もし君に　そんな日が　訪れたら
思い出して　思い出して　僕は此処にいるよ

- Rurutia, Lost Butterfly


Made by dear Nancy. Thanks for doing this! Its a wonderful gift!!! Love you!!! And I'm waiting for part II >"<, since we haven't put Revue of Dreams, Rome at Dawn,  Akanesasu Murasakino Hana NOS and TCA special 2004 in it.

Tags: 78th, fan work, oozora yuuhi, sena jun
Current Mood: touched

My legalese is very bad in any language, so apologies (should have asked screamflydream, oops), but I think this is a gist of it, for those who haven't heard the uproar yet. I've been scouring, but haven't seen anything new in the news sites since last Thursday.


Suing the "Takarazuka Music School" for a Retraction of School Expulsion
MSN News - Nov. 4, 2009

As of the 4th, it has been made public that a girl (18) who was enrolled at the "Takarazuka Music School" (Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture), which is used to train members of the Takarazuka Revue, has filed a lawsuit in the Kobe district court seeking a retraction of the repulsion and 10,000,000 yen in damages because of "unjust expulsion from the school because there is no veracity to the claim of shoplifting (the cause of her expulsion)".

The lawsuit was filed on the first of this month. According to the legal brief, the girl entered the school in April of 2008, and claims to have been "bullied, starting with data collected without the permission of the school." Furthermore, "classmates made up falsehoods that she had shoplifted from a convenience store." The school accepted the reports in November of 2008, and the girl was expelled.

After being expelled the girl submitted a temporary declaration to the Kobe district court, and a decision was sent down that the expulsion had been illegal, but instead of complying with the decision, the school gave a second notice of the expulsion in February. The girl submitted a second temporary declaration with the district court, which has been recognized, and because the expulsion has not been retracted she is taking the step of filing a lawsuit.

The girl attended school in February of this year, but the school management refused to let her attend, and the girl's attorney says, "I want the student's innocence on record." The school says, "We haven't received the legal brief and cannot comment."