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Oh yea...

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:33:22 GMT

I forgot to add this in...you guys should all go see "Pineapple Express". It takes the genre of the stoner comedy and the action comedy and rolls them up into one big fatty that's sure to make you just...trip balls. It's a really fun movie despite how just goofy it may look, that's part of its charm!

U-S-A U-S-A

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:25:49 GMT

So as you all know by now, the 29th olympics have kicked off in Beijing for a week now. I'd say things have been going damn good as I stay up late at night watching them. I mean, did you all see that opening ceremony? Jesus, it was fucking immaculate. On top of that, there was the wide world of hats in the parade of nations at the opening. I love just..any Carribean or Central/South American nation simply because so many of them just had the kinda hats you could just hang out in. But while it's true the olympics are a subject of this entry, I'm sure by now you guys know what I'm really talking about.

I'm talking about Michael Phelps.

There is no way this man can be human, and I think I've got it down to about two theories on the subject. The first involves him (Phelps) being some manner of the spawn of Poseidon/Neptune/Dagon/insert sea god name here.

The second one, I believe is far more plausible. For starters, we must look at the musuclature of the average human being.

For comparison, I will theorize that this is what Michael Phelps musculature is like...

That's right, Michale Phelps is nuclear powered. I'm calling it now. This will probably come out sometime onc the Olympic over, but the man cannot help the fact he was BORN this way. It's not doping, it's simply evolution. After the Olympics, it is rumored Phelps will return with the gold to the secret undersea utopia of Atlantis and raise it into a modern city on the hill we can only hope to attain on our pitiful land cities. Thankfully, Phelps will be merciful and spare us if only to laugh on our inability to fly through the water like a speed boat.

....christ I'm bored.

So...I'm all graduated huh

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:15:13 GMT

I've been sorta reflecting on that for the last month and a half or so. And by reflecting I mean possibly looking for a job to half success mostly. I've mostly been looking up jobs in the field of Japanese->English translation. So far, half successful in those aspects. I did some translation work for a ocmpany in California but they haven't quite got back to me yet. I was also able to send in my resume/cover letter deal to FUNimation over the weekend so we'll see what they have to say soon. Mostly this summer has been sort of a...just a time to reflect and contemplate on things like the future.

This summer has also seen a couple of more somber notes. Last week the third actress who played Usagi in the Sera Myu musicals died and I'm sure everyone's heard about George Carlin by now. It's kinda sad cuz if I remember right that Usagi was the one I thougth was really good. I can't quite remember though, it's been a while. I was sad about Carlin earlier, but a friend basically told me he WAS a comedian so he doubted he would want people to be too sad over it. Still, he was an amazing man and funny as hell of course.

On more happy moments, I've recently found some amazing Youtube videos from a guy named Hyadain. He essentially rearranges old video game music and adds lyrics and sings every part of it (high voices, low voices, girl voices eben). It's some intense stuff and catchy as hell. I'll leave you all with a link to one of my personal favorites.

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:43:11 GMT

Naaaaaaap shiteiru datta vaaaa

Nemuiteiru datte va

Thu, 01 May 2008 11:05:50 GMT

So...who's got exams in an hour? Meeeeeee
Who hasn't actually gotten an hour of sleep? Meeeeee
Who's making sure he doesn't fall back asleep like his sociology final two years ago? Meeeeeeee
Who's not entirely readyish to graduate yet? Probably me.
Who's prolly gonna pass out till their next exam at 3:30? Meeeeeee

Underground huh?

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:04:33 GMT

So I've noticed when I watch the television lately, Cheetohs has started this bizarre new marketing campaign. Under the direction of some sort of...oddly Gandalfy looking and sounding Chester Cheetah, people are prompted to do random acts of cheezy mischief in a movement being heralded as the Cheetohs, or Orange, Underground. If you have not seen these, I am not shitting you to the sheer weirdness of these ads. It's like some awkward version of the Matrix with Chester being the Morpheus to your Neo.

The problem with this sort of spiritual and political leadership is how the hell can one stay underground when you're doing stuff with xheetohs all day? That is to say, if you're doing cheezy mischief, there is no way that people are going to not finger you for it. Why is this? Well the answer is simple after all: even taking a handful of cheetohs causes a shit-ton of bright orange cheese dust to appear on your fingers and nails and anything they touch. If you're walking around and stuffing cheetohs into dryers or into people's noses or what have you, they're going to know it's you; you'll be caught orange handed (haha I said orange handed because they're orange. It's funny, get it?)

So in the end I'd say if Chester Cheetah comes up to you and asks you to take the red cheetoh or the blue one, I'd just urge you to ask him, "Where the hell did you get those hideous looking cheetohs? Are they even edible?"

Bachelor Party Weekend Mission....Sucess!

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:39:21 GMT

So over the weekend here I finish one of the major parts of my duties of best man for the wedding in a couple weeks, that being the duty of arranging a bachelor party. Oh and what a blast it was involving high speed chases, weird looks from old ladies and a hostile takeover of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Ok, so only some of that is true.

FRIDAY'S MISSION
On Friday our major plan consisted of kidnapping our friend around 5:00 or so and then taking him to the local Putt Putt. However, this was only the final destination point. It all began with picking him up an blindfolding him. We then proceeded to drive all the way down to the Fairborn Commons mall area and turn around completely. Now where I live, that's maybe 20 odd miles away but traffic was a bit busy so in all we drove around for an hour to go some plae that's only 10 minutes from my friend's home. Needless to say, when we removed the blindfold, he was livid about the whole thing and we were delighting in our deeds. We played around a bit there before heading down to Best Buy to paw at things we would like to have if we had the money and rescheduled the night's events for Saturday. Since we only had 3 people, we figured it would be far less fun with just us and the bachelor and decided to just go back to the driver's home to eat pizza and watch movies. Afterwards, we headed home for the next day.
Friday's Mission: Complete!

SATURDAY'S MISSION
Saturday of course was the meat and potatoes of the bachelor party deal as we began around 1:00 PM, reapplying the blindfold and drove to the bachelor's parent's house. We were going to rendezvous with his father there who would be accompanying us and amused ourselves in the meantime by poking and prodding our blinded friend to everyone's amusement. Maybe not his buuuut...Regardless, after picking up his dad, we headed down a little past Beavercreek area and went to The Greene, a little shopping complex sort of thing with all sorts of crazy trendy shit in it such as our lunch plans at the Cheesecake Factory. We planned to hit a movie too so we ordered dessert with our lunches, spoiling them in some cases. But there was a surprise in store for our guest of honor as it seems a certain LJ user typing right now had told the wait staff it was his birthday. The waiters came out and were surprised when he told them it was not his birthday but in fact his bachelor party, but nevertheless persevered and sang a rendition of "Happy Bachelor Party" with hilarious results. After the food we went to see the new Die Hard movie, despite having seen it previously. That movie can do no wrong in my eyes.
Once the movie was over, the blindfold was reapplied and we drove down near Cincinnati, stopping in Springdale to take our friend to the Dave and Buster's restaurant/video game place there. It was definitely a fun time, and a new experience as well as I don't think many of us had been to one at all. We ended up staying there, playing games for about 2 hours or so until leaving to go about 2 miles down the road and heading to the Mecca of our party: Hooter's. We had decided on Hooter's because you know..it's a lot cleaner than strip clubs as we had originally planned to visit, and the girls are always yay. So while in the Hooter's, this is where our bachelor and myself finally let loose and had a couple. Now it was far more than I've ever drank, considering normally I have like a cup or q shot or something, I ended up having two whole bottles worth I still drank less than my friend who had decided, when the waitress brought out what kind of booze they had in the Smirnoff category and decided he couldn't decide and just ordered all four of them. Needless to say, I am glad our driver helped me foot the bill for him there, the damn lush. After our final meal together, we sighed and relaxed on the hour ride home. In all, the day had been won and I was full of apple and grape flavored alcohol which..kind of just made me sleepy.
Saturday's Mission: Complete!

And thus, I am still worn out from the weekend but I got time to make it up, especially considering summer class ended last week. Nothing left to do but wait for my grades.

Historical Retrospective or Why Giant Robots Rule

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:23:29 GMT

Waking up this morning and reading the newspaper, I was delighted to see an article that relayed incredible information to me. That info of course being a special sneak preview showing of the new Transformers movie. To me, this was trhe equivalent of waking up during Christmas Eve and spotting Santa dropping off your presents. Needless to say, people KNOW what I'm doing tonight.

I was born in the middle of the Transformers debut era, born in 1985 a year after they had come over state side. And I think i've been a major fan all 21 years of my life. There's no way to ever hate on the original Transformers I mean, I cant even comprehend one. Even to this day I have a hard time picking a favorite character as they were all awesome to me (they were giant robots who transformed into vehicles and such for Primus's sake!)

I remember loving growing up with them whether it be a fateful duel between the heroic Optimus Prime and the insidious Megatron, thinking how ridiculously awesome a boombox robot was or simply marveling in the size that was Unicron, this show is a part of my life. I can never look down on the original series because it's what started it all. I also remember envying Spike (and later Daniel) so much for getting to be friends with giant transforming robots. I think that's all I've ever really wanted out of life. Maybe give a high five to Brawn after he whipped a bigger bot's ass. Truth be told, Brawn is a scrappy little mofo who can rock your world.

The fact that the original Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen, provides the voice in this one too is going to blow me away. Seriously. I'm going to be like some form of fireworks that has just bene lit and exploded in the air. It's a shame they couldn't get Frank Welker too but I think with the movie design, Hugo Weaving should be pretty sweet as well. Plus I heard Frank provided his voice for the game version of Megatron so I'll just check that out later.

I think I'm going to go downstairs and try to find some of my old friends from those years long past. I bet they'd love to come to the premiere tonight too. Sure, that makes me some kind of uber dork but...when would I ever deny that?

Autobots, transform and ROLL OUT!

More Solemn Words

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:02:21 GMT

While sitting about the internet the other day, I learned of the death of a famous wrestling superstar, Chris Benoit, and the of the deaths of his wife and 7 year old son. I haven't watched wrestling in years, but the last time I did, I remember being a huge fan of Benoit. Hell, to this day I think he was one of the best technical wrestlers I've ever seen. There was just a sort of professionalism to the way in which he did his work that I couldn't help but like him. And the fact that submission moves are key to anything in the world; ANYTHING. So to learn of this the other day has sent me into a bit of a depression over the whole thing. It just doesn't seem fair to lose such a great guy, not to mention his entire household as well. And now they're saying it may have been murder-suicide, implying that Benoit himself was the one that killed his wife and hcild, then took his own life. I really hope it's not true, I have too much respect for the man to believe such a thing. If it is though I don't know what I'll be able to do..save maybe just spend a day sitting and reflecting on it all. I really don't know.

On a side and sort of related note, I am infuriated that the major news networks would rather cover Paris Hilton getting out of jail than this case. The Lake Tahoe fire is one thing, that's affecting real people, but when eveyr network I look on has "Paris out of jail...served 22 days of 45 day sentence...will be on Larry King tomorrow!" I just want to vomit. Who cares about Paris Hilton? Paris Hilton is a DOG. I've heard that sex tape wasn't even that good either. What is the fascination behind this? Fuck Paris Hilton. Fuck her whole slutfacey ways.

Bizarro Summer

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:30:48 GMT

Oha Lucky, people who read this thingie of mine AKA those of you who are actually reading and posting on LJ in the summer time. It has come to my attention that the month is nearly up which means we've been on Summer vacation for a good...almost 2 months now. That thought is rather obnoxious if only for the fact that it means soon enough I'll be packing up once more to spend another year in school. Granted it means I'll see a good portion of you again, but you understand the principles of this argument I'm sure. No one wants summer to end. Not even the communists.

So after spending the first part of break trying to get a job, I gave up around week two or three and decided to try and get some credit at summer school. So now four times a week I go to Wright State for two hours for random literature class. It hasn't been too bad so far, but the idea of having school in the summer is bizarre and awkward at the same time to me. Well I'm two weeks in, three to go.

Other than that, summer has been spent lounging around, awaiting for the premiere of Transformers in July among other random movies. As a side note, May-June was a good month to find One Piece references in cinema. You had Sandman in Spider-Man 3 (Crocodile comes to mind), Pirates of The Carribbean 3 (duh) and Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (hurray for rubber men). Otherwise, I've just been enjoying the beejeezus out of Lucky Star.

Still need to plan a bachelor party before August for Matt's weddinghood. Ha haaa, that'll be interesting. So anyway, continue enjoying summer people :V

So...finals...?

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:03:55 GMT

Sooo..somehow I lucked out with my awesome skills this semester and ended up having only 2 final exams and only ONE I have to actually go and meet in a room with. It's liiike...so tomorrow is study for Japanese final exam/clean up my room/pack for Tuesday. It's been a weird semester, neither good nor bad..I think it's just been a semester. In the end, I get outta here Tuesday afternoon. Su-HUCK on that XD

Everyone else was doing it

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:49:25 GMT

Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?

Final Fantasy 7

See now what's odd is that I took this test again with the same answers, except for the "Favorite FF?" where I put "Other/Not on this list" instead of "FF IX" and I got Tifa. Bizarro.

HAY BITCHES

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:08:25 GMT

GUESS WUT?
SNOW DAY LAWLS

Christmas Time!

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:15:04 GMT

Ho ho ho! It's getting closer and closer to Christmas and that makes me excited. Not so much the presents (though they are nice) but mostly the being together with family and eating up yummeh foods :3

Of course there's also Christmas Eve where I'll be once again continuing my tradition of seeing how many Christmas anythings I can watch in that day (save A Christmas Story as it is strictly a Christmas DAY movie). Last year I haaad...

Itsudatte, My Santa

Love Hina Christmas Special

Family Guy Christmas episode

Futurama Christmas episodes

Tokyo Godfathers

Christmas Vacation

Bad Santa

Eight Crazy Nights (for Hannukah action!)

Garfield Christmas special

Claymation Christmas

Nightmare Before Christmas

As I said before, Christmas Story I watch on Christmas day when it's on for 24 hours but I'm trying ot think of some other movies to pick up. If I'm lucky I'll be able to catch the Grinch on tv sometime this week. If I'm LUCKIER, I'll be able to find Jingle all the Way like I've wanted to since it came out on DVD a couple years back. I suppose I could alway stry to download a couple Simpsons Christmas eps too.

If I dun post in like the next week (which is highly probable) I say a happy Christmas to all!

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:47:35 GMT

So..I don't really post much I spose. Prolly cuz...I don't really DO much, same as it always has been whenever I had an lj/uj/gj/journally website thing. Not much has been happening in the past week since we got back from break. I bought an old Nintendo (Ni-ni-ni-ninteeeendo) 64 (SIXTY FOUR SIXTY FOUR SICK TEA FOAR) last week along with some good old Ocarina. I'm not sure why other than the fact I missed my old one that was tearfully given away sometime last year. Picked up a copy of Mischief Makers over ebay too so hopefully that will arrive soon. Mostly because I had it shipped here and don't want it to show up in my mail while I'm at home.

Don't you hate when your roomie is around and you KNOW they prolly have to be somewhere but they're not? Normally my roomie is out of the room by this point, maybe he has a cancelled class? I don't know. All I do know is no more open windows is my new policy. Sure, we can't control the heater and it may get warm but it's cold outside. It's so very cold. That and the fact that he's got this extra layer keeping the cold away anyways (that being the curtains). That being the case, no more windows open this semester.

I'm tearful at the Bleach manga right now. It's sort of retarded. I'm not much liking any of Aizen's espada brigade yet or whatever that last guy was. And I don't like little Nell either. It's like...little hollow girl is cute but..just because she apparently has a lisp is no reason to translate it with the lisp. You know how obnoxious that is to read? Guh. I wonder if more One Piece manga has been translated, I REALLY wanna know what happened after shit went down at Enies Lobby and the fall of CP9. I should really check up on that.

Can't wait till finals week, mostly cuz of how much this semester sucks. And for once I get out early, I'm only here till mid-day Wednesday, then I go home and laugh at the rest of my family. Then maybe for once my vacation will be a real one i.e. nice aloooooooneness time. Can't wait for Ohayocon too, mostly because by that time all the manga I normally read will have a new volume out, THUS yay.

Election type things

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:45:29 GMT

Soo it seems for the most part, a lot of democrat candidates were elected...course when I say that I just mean Strickland and Brown.
They kept yelling about a call for a change so..I wanna see it. If their entire campaign was based on "WE NEED A CHANGE", they best give me one :V

Also, does anyone know how that smoking issue went? I'm having trouble finding the results.

BARF

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:07:37 GMT

Don't you hate when you're strolling through you friends page and you come across a pic of something that just makes you wanna vomit all over the place?

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:19:17 GMT

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The West
The South
The Inland North
The Northeast
Philadelphia
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

I do have one though. It's very slight that people with insanely different accents pic up on; such as my ex from Florida. There's a silent "y" sound in some of my speech like "wacky pack" :V

Oh god dammit!

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:48:17 GMT

The zombie game is ruined and I never even got to bag one!
Oh well...I still have Spam-a-lot to look forward to on Saturday

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:59:05 GMT

It's snowing again...
Also, day one of the Zombies game. Humans, let's do our best!

Ni ha ha

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:48:01 GMT

Feel my wrath campus as I unleash a torrent of rage against you by downloading no less than five torrents at once!
Hopefully soundtracks download faster than actual anime episodes or this may take a while..

Also, feel the wrath of my Wooper icon in his slimy yet cute majesty!

How do you kill that which has no life?

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:11:53 GMT

Ignore the fact the title of this entry has nothing to do with anything and I'll hop down to the nitty grittys of fall break (with all the juicy sex scenes still involved).

Starting with point 1, there was no sex. So those juicy sex scenes were just a lie to pull you in to reading this narrative tale of heroism and dragon battling.
Second, there were no dragons. I did managae to bring up random things I had forgotten this weekend i.e. my Aizen and Nephrite cosplay, various CDs/DVDs of various serieses and movies my friend burnt for me a while back and a new acquisition from our home's pumpkin.gourd infested backyard: Flash Gourdon, defender of..something.

It started Friday when I skipped class and fled for the border (i.e. Springfield ) so that I would be able to relax and play at home longer. Who needs geography anyways, right? Well, after that I met up with my friend Adam who I then proceeded to rock out with by eating Little Caesar's and watching School Rumble Nigakki, also known as the second season. While not as good as the first it had some moments. I really just sort of hate all the newer characters who were just background characters in the first ones. No...they were less than that..more like..NPCs.

On Saturday, I relaxed in my home before heading over to Adam's again later that night where, along with our friends Josh and William, we played Risk, the dorkiest game next to D&D. We also had The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift aka Mario Kart playing in the background. While not a good movie, it made me realize how weird it is for a guy with a southeren accent sounds saying something Japanese. We also cried watching Bleach cuz they ruined Chad like they ruined Orihime. And on the next episode preview, it sounded like Urahara was fucked too.

Sunday I took a magnificent quest down the interstate to go to Fairfield with my brother where we would meet up with friends to hang out and later watch Employee of the Month. I don't use the interstate much, let me tell you. So actually getting on it and going the right way was a major victory for me. Nevermind the fact I missed my exit twice (the 2nd time was cuz no one could let me over) because I got there in the end. The movie was..ok. Worth a rental at the very least. After that, and another turn around, we went to Quaker State for dinner. It was pretty good and just good general hang out time. Learned more about Matt and Jamie's wedding for next year I gotta be the best man for so...I'll have to come up with something in the mean time for that.

Monday I accomplished nothing. Aside from not going to bed till 5 AM on Tuesday morning.

Finally, yesterday I got back up here around 1 or so and came home to a very obnoxious sight. Seems my roomie couldn't climb into his bed the previous night and slept in my bed. It just makes me mad that even though my bed is lower, it's not his. I don't care how tired he was, this place is for my sleeping only. On top of that, I noticed my Aqua Teen dvd out away from the shelf. While I dun mind the fact that it seems someone watched it, I would've liked it to have been watched my people who understand how to OPEN the thing. It comes in a sleeve style DVD case so you just slide it out on the one side. Whoever opened it must've thought that you PUSHED it out the other side cuz now my sleeve is just a slip. On a final note, how the fuck does a person who grew up in the 90's not know that recycling goes in the recycling bin? We ALL watched Captain Planet. On top of that, we live no less than 15 feet away from the floor bins. I dont know why THIS pisses me off but it does. Maybe it's the fact they give us the bins in our rooms and we're right next to the floor ones makes it seem just assholish/retarded to NOT use them.

So on a closing note, I'll have to reinvest my effort into that thumbtack mattress.

Whoooa

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:23:14 GMT

LJ has like updated and shit since I posted earlier...in..August or...whenever that may have been. Trippy.

Anyways I decided why not make an entry because I have nothing better to do before Geology later this morning.
My classes are going relatively fine at this point in time I suppose. Film class is long but the last 3 movies we've seen have been relatively good ones so I haven't minded too much. And I also enjoyed watching the whole class jump during Independence Day when they first open up the alien suit. It was like..hadn't these people seen the movie before? Geography and geology aren't going too badly. There's a lab test on Wednesday so I may study for that tonight. Geography had an exam yesterday but it wasn't too horribly bad. Japanese has gotten a bit better but it's still incredibly awkward sometimes like that Kimi wa Petto manga we're sposed to throw words into. It's sort of like...I don't know. I was trying to think of something clever there but it has alluded my grasp. It literally is we're sposed to read it and then cram whatever vocab we know into the blanks regardless if we can actually comprehend the sentences or not. We got another 4 days to do it but I'm still just not gonna. Fuck that noise.

On a side note completely unrelated to school, Mahou Sensei Negima finally got interesting again (it only took about 6 or 7 volumes!) I was really pleased when I finally finished volume 11 last week if only because of how much cosplay was in it and simply because of something that Akamatsu-sensei came up with regarding Takamichi. Iaido is one thing but Iaiken? Thaz some imagination right there :O
On other anime related news, we have a screening on Saturday from 6:00 to midnight so..those of you who have nothing better to do, come on down and join me as I sit in the lobby and not watch Akira :V

Sonovabitch

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:43:56 GMT

Hey here's a question for you all: Does anyone know how to keep your room mate off of your bed? For some reason I can't STAND the fact that my room mate likes to relax on my bed just cuz it's delofted. It's driving me crazy for NO reason other than the fact that it's MY bed ><;

:(

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:08:55 GMT

Man I'll miss that guy... :(