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坂本真綾 - かぜよみ アルバム １月１４日
Sakamoto Maaya - KazeYomi “Reading the Wind” Album January 14th

Tracklisting:
1) Vento
2) トライアングラー “Triangular”
3) 風待ちジェット～kazeyomi edition “Kazemachi Jet/Waiting for a Good Wind Jet ~kazeyomi edition”
4) Remedy
5) 雨が降る “Falling Rain”
6) Get No Satisfaction!
7) 蒼のエーテル “Blue Ether”
8) 失恋カフェ “Broken Heart Café”
9) SONIC BOOM
10) ピーナッツ “Peanuts”
11) さいごの果実 “Last Fruit”
12) Colors
13) カザミドリ “Weather Vane”
14) ギター弾きになりたいな “I want to be a Guitarist”

Triangular is an opening theme for Macross F; Remedy is the new ending theme to Iron Line Barrel; Falling Rain was the ending theme to Iron Line Barrel; Blue Ether seems like a “self-cover” of some Macross F background music; SONIC BOOM is the opening theme for Tsubasa Shunraiki; Last Fruit is the theme song for Tsubasa TOKYO REVELATIONS; Colors is the image song for Planet cafe 星空の虹 (I confess I’m not totally sure what this is yet).

堀江由衣 - silky heart マクシシングル　１月２８日
Horie Yui - silky heart Maxi Single January 28th

Tracklisting:
1) silky heart
2) タイトル未定　”Title Undecided”
3) タイトル未定 “Title Undecided”
4) silky heart(off vocal version)
5) タイトル未定(off vocal version) “Title Undecided (off vocal version)”
6) タイトル未定(off vocal version) “Title Undecided (off vocal version)”

silky heart is going to be Toradora!’s new opening theme. I’m a little concerned they don’t have all the information up for this single and hope its release doesn’t get pushed back. =( The website may just be slow with updating, though.

西野カナ - MAKE UP シングル １月２８日
Nishino Kana - MAKE UP Single January 28th

Tracklisting:
1) MAKE UP
2) Kirari
3) Shelly
4) MAKE

Special Tommy news:
Both Tommy heavenly6 and Tommy febraury6 will be releasing best of albums with a new track each on February 25th!! Tommy february was my favorite solo project so I’m really excited to hear a new release from her for the first time in ages.

February’s album will be called Strawberry Cream Soda Pop “Daydream” and have the new track ◯Strawberry●Cream◯Soda●Pop◯!
Heavenly’s will be titled Gothic Melting Ice Cream’s Darkness “Nightmare” and will feature the new track Unlimited Sky (which was used as an insert song in Gundam 00).

I’ll do full reports on these albums come Febraury.

I made that list sometime ago with stuff I wanted to try incorporating into my daily life and one of those things was to try to have a better sense of fashion (mostly influenced by the Japanese magazines I always buy and YesStyle). So here are some outfits I tried out. What do you think? Do they work/not work/look funny? (This idea is basically stolen by Jen, besides the fact that I just honestly want your feedback, too. xD) By the way, my room is a mess and I can’t take straight pictures. If you guys find this interesting, maybe I’ll make fashion posts a semi-regular thing. :)

A fancier summer outfit, like for a date or something? The only thing is I’ll need to sew a button to keep the black top closed. (I’m using a safety pin here.) Also I love side ponytails, lol.

A similar idea, but for fall. You can tell I love these shoes I bought.

I fell in love with this dress and had to buy it, but I couldn’t think of anyway to wear it in public without being self-conscious that I looked like an anime plushie humper/5-year-old (since it has a sailor top) until I threw this shirt over it…I really like the shirt over dress look and especially how these two go together. (I’ll confess I wore it two days in a row. lol I was low on laundry xD) PLUS this dress has pockets!

I LOVE this jacket with it, too, but they don’t quite match since the dress has black stripes and the jacket is navy blue with white stripes, but it’s hard to tell.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! ~2009~

Ah, sorry for the lack of posts. I have a big entry kind of filling in what I’ve been up to for you all. I’ll start visiting blogs again and hopefully I can return some comments and tags soon, too. >_<;

December 6th Maddi got a whole group together to go ice skating and it was awesome! It ended up being me, Elyse, Maddi, Sam, Nigel, Kash, Marcus, Beege, Brent and Scott. The ice was pretty choppy but it was really fun skating with everyone and just it had been forever since I skated. I used to take lessons and it felt great to be on the ice again and everyone was just kind of messing around having fun with each other…it was a really nice outlet before finals. And for some reason ice skating outside always has a romantic atmosphere. hee hee

Starting that next Monday I had my finals. The only one I was really worried about is my math final; even though I studied ridiculously (Thursday: 3 hours, Friday: 2 hours, Sunday: 3 hours, Monday: ~10 am - 12:30 am, Tuesday: 3 hours), I wasn’t really confident about it. The other finals didn’t start until 3pm and so I studied for them the day of and I ended up doing fine. ¹ And suddenly, Sam and I were riding home on the bus and the semester was over. Seriously! When did this happen? I still remember staring blankly at the computer screen all summer–wishing with all my heart for school to start–how has so much happened and so much time past–so fast? Friday, Saturday and Sunday I spent almost exclusively with Sam since almost everyone else had gone home (or in Elyse’s case, was going back and forth from home). So I ended up spending a lot of time alone with him, eating ice cream and cheesy popcorn and/or playing Katamari over the weekend. Before I knew it, I guess because I didn’t really mentally prepare or clean up as much as I had wanted, I had to pack up and go home. Even though I didn’t know why, I started crying when my car was fully packed and I was saying goodbye to Sam. I wasn’t sad I wouldn’t see him or Elyse everyday, I wasn’t sad that I wouldn’t be able to be around my group of friends, I wasn’t sad about his parents’ perspective of me, I wasn’t sad because 3 weeks can be incredibly boring, I wasn’t sad that I had just had to say goodbye less than a month ago, even though I didn’t miss anyone, but I cried anyway. I tried really not to, but I couldn’t help it and it was so embarrassing. I didn’t want Sam to think I was hopelessly attached to him or that I was just a big sentimental snotball, (especially since I had already cried over something small in front of him). Unbelievably frustrated at myself, I drove off waving. On the highway going home I tried to hold the tears in, sure they were some hormonal thing that would soon pass, but they wouldn’t go away so I tried forcing myself to sob and neither really did that much. I was about turning off the exit (when I was mostly over it) and I called Sam back and told him how sorry and embarrassed I was and that it wasn’t really a big deal, etc., and he said it was fine (thankfully) and chatted with me a bit.

Before I headed home I bought my mom a late birthday gift and dropped by her house for a few hours to chat with her and give it to her. Then I headed back here, to Dad’s house and settled in. At first I felt strange being here, it reminded me too much of this summer, but that feeling disappeared very quickly and I’m totally used to living here again. Over the past few days I’ve been pretty busy and decently happy; I’ve seen some friends and done some good Christmas shopping and in general have had plenty to do, but at night sometimes I’ve been kinda down, though I don’t know why. But really, it’s all good. I’ve gotten to catch up with friends, (Britni and Elyse especially), do some gift wrap for charity, make and consume a considerable amount of cookies, have a nice Christmas with both sides of my family²,  and some money for babysitting. I’ve also gotten my hair cut, my wart removed, a shot and birth control (fuck you, period!), and some lovely hair accessories which all make me feel a little fancier and improved for the new year. xD

Speaking of which, my New Year’s was pretty lame. Britni, Elyse and I were supposed to go to a friend of Britni’s party, but then we basically got dumped at the last minute. So we picked up this guy they knew, Matt, and went to a small party of people he knew. They were all already drunk and started smoking pot (which smells horrible!)  and we didn’t know any of them (except this one annoying guy) and the girl who was hosting the party kept hugging me/trying to hook me up with Matt even though I made it very clear to her I have a boyfriend. I really wanted to leave the whole time but we stayed around (I wasn’t drinking any at all since I had to drive) until about 1am or so. Then the three of us bought Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders and went to Britni’s where we played a game each before we fell asleep. For some reason, the first day of the new year I felt really sick. I had horrible stomach cramps that were some of the most painful in my life and I could move around for a good part of the day (even though I didn’t drink a thing! TT-TT). I ended up taking a nap at 7pm and not waking up until 8am this morning. @_@; My stomach does feel much better though. ^^³

Recently! I’ve been really into Katamari Damacy. Britni had this game before and it popular in my high school anime club, but Elyse got it awhile ago as an early Christmas gift and pretty much all of us have been playing it. I had forgotten how addicting it is and it took me awhile to get used to the controls again but I think I’ve gotten much better. Before I go back to my apartment this weekend I want to buy the sequel, We Love Katamari.

I found out about this game iDOLM@STER from searching YouTube for Perfume videos and became obsessed with it for a short while. You pick 3 out of 9 girls to make idols out of and have them perform their way to stardom, I suppose. It also seems like an RPG in the sense that you have to build up their self esteem or whatnot and give them proper encouragement. What really caught me, though, is how cute the girls are and the cool part 3D part line animation. (Like the Tales of games. ⁴) So after sometime of obessing over how I want the cute girls to be in music videos to Perfume for me, I found out the game only works on Asian xBox360. Fuck that.

Lately I’ve started watching Goong! (You know, the popular Korean drama wondering what Korea would be like if they still had a royal family.) It’s really interesting and I’m getting a little addicted to it…So nice to have a drama to watch that’s going by quickly and enjoyably after Silence.

Finally, I’ve got a question for you guys. Would any of you be interested if I started putting up torrents of a few J-Pop discographies here? I’m still toying with the idea and want some feedback. ^^

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone out there!!
I know I say this a lot but you guys really are the best! Thanks for all the comments and tags. It really honestly does warm my heart to see that all of you are reading my posts and want to keep in touch with me. I’m in the process of writing a really long post about what I’ve been up to and hopefully I’ll have time to post that within the week. :)
Take care everybody!

Current Mood:

Don’t be a dumbass like me and loose all your posts because you didn’t backup when uninstalling a plugin like the plugin tells you. Fortunately I made a backup about a month ago and since I haven’t been posting lately, I would have only lost a few things. Even more fortunately, I had an open tab of my site before the crash, so I could copy and paste the entries that would have been lost from my home page (I reposted them with their original dates). The only thing I actually lost were the comments for those entries (though I think I have all the recent comment e-mails, so I may repost those as well ) and the one post where I went crazy with the addicting YouTube videos (since those aren’t easily copied and pasted but I might add them in later) and the updates to the anime list page.

So considering just about 20 minutes ago all my pages and posts were gone and about 10 minutes ago my layout was gone, I’d say it’s an even cut.

Backup. And do it frequently.