"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."
Hey all.
So, quite a while since last legititmite post. A few things have happened:
-School has started, and I have a promising start. Very few classes, and I doubt I'll do poorly in any of them, so that's all good to go. And I'm very eager to learn conversation stuff in Japanese 1, as well as get to know the other students. Quite a few of them, when asked 'Why did you decide to join this class?' answered that they'll be doing a transfer program, where they teach English in Japan. I had a relatively meager answer: "Took it just because it brings me up to the minimum credit requirement, and I've also been meaning to learn Japanese since my first Japanese Pokemon card." They got a laugh outta that, but I was relieved to find the two dudes next to me were taking it for similar reasons. I had no idea who they were, but we were talking about video games and anime all the way to our cars after class.
We had an unofficial anime club last Tuesday, unoffical because it was not scheduled and the VP actually told us not to show up. I was on my way over there just to see if anybody turned up anyway, and was met by three members, who said they were gonna have a meeting anyway but nobody was there. So we walked back to the room, I set up the projector and started playing some anime, and had a good time. The president showed for a little bit, and so did the advisor. We also recruited three people who were just interested in the blaring anime as they walked by the room. Such productivity when the VP isn't there! Elections next week for president, and I'm totally running. My slogan so far is "Vote Treasurer for President!"
Had the first offical club today, and we scheduled two Brawl tournaments and a FFXIII launch party (my idea >:D) and didn't even watch anime, just hung around and talked a lot. I really do think we have the the most badass club in the school.
Picked up Deep Purple Made in Japan and Rush 2112 albums at Kiss the Sky a while back, both really good. Just today I checked out a record store that's a bit closer, and accidently splurged. They had such good selection, and all the records were in fantastic condition. I got The Who Who's Next, SRV Couldn't Stand the Weather (RAPES!!) and Rush Exit Stage Left, which has great songs on it (listening to it right now). There were quite a few that I had to put down and sorrowfully walk away from, there were so many good ones. The store owner was pretty cool too, he gave me flyers for a vinyl show in March (largest in the Midwest, apparently) and a smaller show that he's hosting in February, which will have guitar stuff as well. So that's cool.
I subscribed to Gamefly, since it would be cheaper than renting games all the time, and had Demon Souls shipped to me. I think the EB games guy I talked to yesterday described it rather well: "You know those people that throw their controllers around? I never really understood that, mainly because it's never that frustrating, and because I buy all my own stuff. Once I played Demon Souls....I finally started to get the same emotions." It's super hard. There are parts of it where you die and you're like "Well, that's understandable, at least I know what to do now." and then the times where you get rushed and die pathetically and lose all of your soul points. "......FUUUCKK!!" So I'm pacing myself through that game. It's something that you have to allow yourself breaks with. Ironically, the only times I haven't died are the bosses.
No pizza place job yet, but they said to call back each month, just in case. When I went back to check on my application, I saw one of the workers (who was an upperclassmen from my high school) playing either Doom 3 or Quake 4 on the computer. I really wanna work there now.
Past while, I've been watching all of Clannad, and I really liked it. The whole first season has this weird Haruhi Suzimiya feel to it, but it's really funny and good. Then the next season (or series, Clannad ~After Story~) it's mostly romance and drama. All the while through both sections there's this weird symbolic otherwordly overtone that I never really looked into. It's obviously very substantial to the meanings of the story, but I never really cared. It gets really heavy towards the end, and then at the end, the whole things loses credibility. As it turns out, by the last episode, it reveals that the main character was having a dream for the past five years. That was lame. But nevertheless, I still recommend it.
Immediately afterwards, I went through Ookiku Furikibutte again in three days. O.O
And now I've gone retro and started watching Neon Genesis Evangelion (I'm sure some will debate the validility of the usage of 'retro', but whatever.) I was torn between watching that or Cowboy Bebop, since I've been meaning to watch that as well. So I went into chat and did the opposite of the majority. 'Cause that's how I roll.
I linked this to RedJ, he favorited on youtube, so now it's on my frontpage whenever I log in. So I can't help but watch it over and over again.
-Ryu
