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You scored as Mitsui Aika You are most like Mitsui Aika! She is the most recent member of Momusu, and the only one to join in the 8th generation. Little is known about her personality so far, however she comes off as being friendly, nervous, and somewhat spacey. Time will tell if this will change. Mitsui Aika 69% Yoshizawa Hitomi 63% Kamei Eri 56% Michishige Sayumi. 50% Tanaka Reina 44% Kusumi Koharu 38% Fujimoto Miki 38% Takahashi Ai 31% Niigaki Risa 25%

I'm actually really happy with this, since Aika is one of my favorites. I wish she wasn't as obscure, though. I personally think she deserves more exposure, but that's just my opinion.

ANYWAY.

Today I got Rick Rolled for real.

It was kind of enlightening, considering I didn't know what was going on with my voicemail until it hit me.

I'll have to figure out who was special and sent me that little treasure. >_<

HALCALI Revival.

Yes, HALCALI's 'Tip Taps Tip' came flying out of nowhere today only to get stuck in my head ALL DURING THIRD AND FOURTH PERIOD, BOTH OF WHICH LASTED FOR ETERNITY AND KEPT ME AWAY FROM MY IPOD. UUGGGHH!

It's been dormant on my iPod for awhile now, but today it was well-played. Probably well over twenty times. Good god, this song is addicting!

So, in order to effectively re-live the second half of my sophomore year, I decided to look up the music video too.

I forgot how many lawls it gave me back in the day. Oh, nostalgia... how I love thee. <3

I mean, this was way back when Haruka and Yukari were rocking the 'big hair and rainbow colors' style. Anyway, there are so many things about this video in general that just about kill me. For one thing, just the fact that Haruka and Yukari are frolicking through a random forest sends me into convulsions, but the fact that they're on a hunt for question-marks while being watched by a hoard of random birds (one resembling the 'O RLY?' owl) just makes me die a much more spastic death.

This video seems so old-school now, but it still has the effect of making me writhe with joy.

It doesn't help that 'Tip Taps Tip' is just an awesome song in general. I'm not a big fan of semi-slow songs, but Haruka and Yukari's elite harmonzing, combined with the trance-inducing background music (particularly the bass line) reminds me why this is one of the first Japanese bands I truly fell in love with.

[/touching sentimental moments]

Awesome New Discovery.

Since I'm a little bit slow on the uptake sometimes, it took me almost half a year to determine that 'Bloom 06' is indeed 'Eiffel 65' masquerading in disguise.

And I'm so excited I could just about pee myself.

Their last album, Crash Test 01 for those that care, was released in 2006. Plenty of time to get uploaded to sites where I can actually access it, right? Nope. My europop addictions are, for some odd reason, incredibly hard to get a hold of. Limewire was only good for 'The Crash' and 'In The City,' but I'll keep trying now that I know I've been kicking limewire's stupid butt for Eiffel 65. Hah, and don't even think about the iTunes store unless you want American, and only American music.

Although Bloom 06's music has a much darker feel than Eiffel 65's upbeat crack-pop, I've got nothing but good things to say about them. I swear, sometimes it feels like Jeffrey and Maury know exactly how to word some of their lyrics for the most powerful interpretation and ensuing response. Yep, these Italians pretty much rock my technopop world.

Both 'The Crash' and 'In The City' (HAH, THE ONLY ONES I'VE BEEN ABLE TO FIND SO FAR) are both so simultaneously mopey and pretty that it kills my soul... and then ressurects it again. I wish they would come up with an actual music video for The Crash instead of just a random assortment of band pics. I mean, the fact that the song is about an airplane crashing to earth has a lot of potential for a really powerful AMV or just a music video in general.

And 'In The City...' hah. Don't get me started. This was not half-bad, however. Too many angsty people for my liking, though. More shots of the city, please?

I can only hope that, before Bloom 06 comes out with Crash Test 02 around April or May, I can find the other six songs on the first album.

Cosplay Complex

I recently decided to start selecting random animes from The Anime Encyclopedia in order to 'expand my horizons,' and the first one I decided to try (that luckily wasn't a porno) was 'Cosplay Complex.' Cosplay Complex first came out in 2002 and lasted only three episodes, each about thirty minutes each. The only episodes I could find were dubbed or with spanish subs, so I settled on the dubs even though a part of me died inside because of it.

Overall, I found the first episode to be jam-packed full of... interesting moments. Basically the entire anime centers around the cosplaying exploits of high-school student Chako Hasegawa and her fellow members in the cosplay club, all who dream to eventually make their way to the World Cosplay Championships. Who knew such a thing existed, right? Anyway, this anime has its share of male fan-service (it's amazing how a girl can undress in so many different positions) and sexual tension. One of the most amusing and 'WTF?' scenes of the first episode was when the sole male member of the club comes in through one of the windows one night and begins to randomly try to seduce Reika, one of the other girls in the club. Needless to say, I found great amusement out of watching this bald guy (who I thought was their teacher/supervisor who just happened to have an unhealthy interest in his female students) try and play it smooth around Reika... who seemed to be, without reason, paralyzed with lust for Goro because she just happens to be wearing glasses at the time.

Really random, I know.

I think the character that scores this anime extra points would have to be Jenny, the Italian foreign-exchange student who seems to have an unnatural and rather creepy interest in little girls. Although it would probably have gotten her arrested multiple times in the REAL WORLD, Jenny spends most of her time in the anime oogling over and pursuing Athena, the one pre-teen member in the club. I kind of died when Jenny's nose started bleeding furiously at her first real encounter with Athena, though. It was just... wow.

What I liked best about this anime was the topic it was centered around, and that would be cosplay. The ending actually consists of pictures of real cosplayers taken from various conventions (looks like they were all mostly from Japan), which I really liked. Although Cosplay Complex doesn't have a super-involved plot, it's spontaneous randomness is enough to make me laugh out loud at times.

Which is enough for me when I'm not feeling too deep at the moment. ;D

Livejournal got old...

...so I came here instead. Yay?

One of my New Year's resolutions was to make the time to start writing more, but it's been very difficult what with mid-terms coming up and school just being an overbearing pain in the ass in general.

I also want to rant more about my interests because apparently I don't do that enough.

Well.

Not much else to say right now. But for those who want to know...

...carcinomaphobia = fear of cancer. I wanted to be "zemmiphobia," or "fear of the great mole rat" but it was unfortunately already taken. Oh well. D: