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post-dated to remain at the top of my entries page, my favorite artists, directors, movies, comics, etc:
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| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERIKA |
[06 Jul 2009|12:36pm] |
Utilizing my long-extant, seldom-used "blog" over at blogspot to chronicle this summer's progression of novel #2. Basically just indulging every possible obsessive notion, in hopes of mining something from these "influences", I guess. Besides, I know you all care about what I think about decades-old music:
http://satori2099.blogspot.com/2009/07/body-politic-of-jefferson-airplane.html
Note: there are QUESTIONS requiring ANSWERS in this post, for those who are inclined to talk about such matters.
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| I doubt there's much curiosity in this area, honestly |
[24 May 2009|01:56pm] |
Stolen from shizuma:
The problem with LiveJournal:
We all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other.
So, I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me.
Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.
(or just anything at all you wanted to know! :D)
Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!
I'm amending this, however, with a Dark Spire LV6 Warrior-style oath -- anything you ask I have to tell the truth about.
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| It's true. |
[15 May 2009|10:58pm] |
(10:58:33 PM) Daniel Takahashi: well, not like it'll help, but probably other folks go through the same stuff offline, in front of faces; yours just happened to be online like a gay midget porn site
(10:58:50 PM) Daniel Takahashi: but they were like the people doing live webcam shows of gay midget porn
(10:58:54 PM) Daniel Takahashi: so it works out in the ened
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| BIG NEWS |
[05 May 2009|03:22pm] |
I have big news for everybody.
I have a new job.
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| THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
[14 Apr 2009|01:29pm] |
~THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA~
THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
COMING DOWN
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LOVE (Pt. I-III)
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
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| PROPHETIC DREAM |
[17 Mar 2009|09:40pm] |
Dream of 2099
Dr. K. F. Harlock: i was in sci-fi lit
Dr. K. F. Harlock: and the prof was asking some question re: ender's game, which we're not even reading
Dr. K. F. Harlock: and the prevailing opinion was x, but i said "no, y"
Dr. K. F. Harlock: and he turns to me excitedly "why not?"
Dr. K. F. Harlock: and i say "i can prove it"
Dr. K. F. Harlock: so he wants the whole class to go to the library, we start to head over there, where i'm going to do something to prove the point
Dr. K. F. Harlock: evidently, it's that important
Dr. K. F. Harlock: but along the way, i fucking GET LOST
Dr. K. F. Harlock: like i get seperated from the group and can't find my way to the library
Daniel Takahashi: FOLLOW ME TO THE PROOF!!!
Dr. K. F. Harlock: i end up waiting in some principles of govt. class room, asking the people there what's up
Dr. K. F. Harlock: they tell me how to get to the libary, along the way i run into my mother and father and linda
Dr. K. F. Harlock: they shout to get my attention
Dr. K. F. Harlock: my mother says "ever since michael jackson died, linda has broken her heart!!"
Dr. K. F. Harlock: and i'm just like "no time!" and continue on to the library
Dr. K. F. Harlock: i get there, and see hte prof, he says "where were you?" "i'd rather not say" "i'm required to ask"
Dr. K. F. Harlock: i tell him and he just starts talking about how disappointed in me he is, how it would have really profited these students to understand the viewpoint that being out of the sun for 1000 years might change your political motivations
Dr. K. F. Harlock: and he had thought that i would be able to grasp that, finally
Dr. K. F. Harlock: one of the students came up and said "i've got the song i'm gonna do for my research project, it's called BURN DRUGS, you hear that teach? BURN DRUGS!"
Dr. K. F. Harlock: he points to his paper, which really reads "In Support of Meth-Amphetamines"
Dr. K. F. Harlock: then everyone left but me, the "schoolday" was over, i was sitting alone in the library with a can of strawberry jam, thinking about splashing it onto the wall behind me so that it would look like i had committed suicide when someone came after me
Dr. K. F. Harlock: some blonde girl approached to talk and i just scream "goddamnit!" and run out of there; i'm trying to beat the prof and other students to the parking lot, but i get lost again, go down some wooded road; suddenly a black truck approach
Dr. K. F. Harlock: i step out of the way to let it pass, inside is a man, woman, and teenage boy
Dr. K. F. Harlock: i can hear the boy's thoughts
Dr. K. F. Harlock: he's thinking about how he had everything going for him in life, his parents had hopes for him, etc, but now no one will give him the time of day at all, because he had some injury, and from the outside he seems catatonic, a vegetable
Dr. K. F. Harlock: but in truth his brain is still totally normal and active; the condition is called BRAIN-DEAF
Dr. K. F. Harlock: i run away but his thoughts follow me
Dr. K. F. Harlock: "what are you running from? do you know what really started the war in iraq? one man gave another man a pair of scissors, in a prison cell in alabama. it's as simple as that. just ask the BRAIN-DEAF"
Dr. K. F. Harlock: then i woke up
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| WATCHMEN |
[07 Mar 2009|01:10pm] |
Gotta be brief:
Better than I anticipated it being, it manages to capture the soul, instead of just the flesh, of the story. There's a lot of great things. There are also some problems, divided into two categories - avoidable and unavoidable:
( Cutting spoilers for once )
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| SEAS BETWEEN US BRAID HAE ROAR'D |
[16 Feb 2009|09:39am] |
JAPAN DOES IT WITHOUT KILLING ONE ANOTHER
FORTY HOURS? TWICE ON SUNDAY. DAY AFTER DAY AFTER TOMORROW.
THE SALARYMEN MOVE THE COUNTRY, FEED THE CHILDREN AND WIVES.
THE SEX WORKERS HAVE THE ADMIRATION OF THE NATION
(YOU'RE FUCKING FOR 127 MILLION NOW, BABY)
HOW?
EACH DAY, THE DEPARTMENT STORES PLAY AULD LANG SYNE
IT'S A SIGN THAT THEY'RE CLOSING
IT'S A SIGN THAT THEY'LL BE BACK
EACH DAY, RESOLUTION IS BORN
EACH DAY IS A NEW YEAR
ETC.
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| ESCALATION, Pt. II |
[21 Jan 2009|11:55pm] |
Just recording some more ELEVATION MOMENTS, this time not from movies but from books, games, etc. (again, probably forgetting a lot of them)
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The Brothers Karamazov (REALLY?!) - the very end of the first section:
"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too."
;_;
Also, the parable of the onion, the dream of Cana of Galilee, and of course, the Speech at the Stone.
London Fields - the bit about helping the man across the street, only to have him fall against the wall in bewilderment.
Spring Snow - the part when the two princes, Honda, and Kiyoaki are gathered at the beach for a Hard Day's Night-style week of boyish nonsense and Huck Finn-style starlight pondering, ending with the loss of the emerald ring
Les Miserables - obviously, when the old priest asks, "Why didn't you take the silverware as well?", and also a scene later on when Gavroche sees a young man with his father throw a rind of moldy bread into a puddle, and then two orphans seize upon it and rip it apart greedily.
The Sun Also Rises - final scene in the cab, "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
Ada, or Ardor - basically everything when Lucette is onboard the ship with Van, up until after they see the filmstrip.
Pale Fire - Canto II, and:
It was no use, no use. The prizes won
in French and history, no doubt, were fun;
At Christmas parties games were rough, no doubt,
And one shy little guest might be left out;
But let's be fair: while children of her age
Were cast as elves and fairies on the stage
That she'd helped paint for the school pantomime,
My gentle girl appeared as Mother Time,
A bent charwoman with slop pail and broom,
And like a fool I sobbed in the men's room.
Franny and Zooey - basically the whole thing
Nine Stories - Esme' and Just Before the War with the Eskimos
Neuromancer - Opening line, meeting with Wintermute, and the whole Chiba City section in general.
The Last Unicorn - "She'll remember you when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits", among other lines.
Peanuts - pretty much any strip that just has one of the characters engaged in some monologue, or leaning on a brick wall
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FF6 - "I told you, she's the fastest airship in the world!", and yeah, the whole ending dialogue with Kefka as well.
Phantasy Star II - ending
Dragon Spirit: The New Legend - for some reason, the only endearing "it was all a dream!" ending like, ever
FF7 - Cid's crazy speech in the space shuttle
Xenogears - ending and closing credits song ("I envy you two")
Final Fantasy Tactics - when Ramza and Delita pray in the church together
Zelda: A Link to the Past - the vanishing flute boy for some reason
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Probably these are worth cataloging in detail in some private place.
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| ELEVATION |
[21 Jan 2009|01:08am] |
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/01/i_feel_good_i_knew_that_i_woul.html
This blog post from Roger Ebert very accurately sums up not just my current view of what makes good art good, but also like my EXACT personal experience with art and how I relate to it. Down to particular examples he gives, this is me. I've always just described the phenomenon as "I don't cry at sad things, just great things", without thinking much about it, so this is nice to me.
Just for my own personal interest, a list of moments that are ELEVATING to me, in no particular order:
8 1/2 - the "Asa Nisi Masa" scene
Annie Hall - when Alvy mentions that when he ran into Annie years later, she was taking a new boyfriend to see "The Sorrow and the Pity".
Boogie Nights - Mark Wahlberg's apology and the ensuing "God Only Knows" sequence
Casablanca - uh, the entire movie, but especially the Marseillaise scene
Castle of Cagliostro - Lupin breaks into the princess' bed chamber and tells her a story about "the noble thief"
Citizen Kane - the girl with the white parasol, the slow clap
The Deer Hunter - the "God Bless America" scene
Grave of the Fireflies - the morning after the fireflies scene
Ikiru - "Happy Birthday" and when the Yakuza backs down from the main character
Magnolia - the entire goddamned movie from the first frame to the last
My Neighbor Totoro - the entire goddamned movie from the first frame to the last
Mulholland Drive - Silencio
No Country for Old Men - opening and ending monologues
Rashomon - the scene with the baby that everyone hates but me
Ran - might be "negative" elevation, but the ending shot with the stumbling blind man
Ratatouille - the last ten minutes
Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise - the opening and ending credits, the "prayer in space"
Sansho the Bailiff - the seaweed harvester shot
The Seventh Seal - the kneeling woman's face during the flagellant's scene, the burning witch, the "this is my hand" scene, the squire's last words
Spirited Away - the silent train ride across the sea
Stardust Memories - the entire goddamned movie from the first frame to the last
Three Colors: Blue - when Juliette Binoche keeps playing even after the notes on the paper stop
Three Colors: Red - when Irene Jacobs helps the old woman throw away the bottle; the whole ending
Whispers of the Heart - the "Country Road" scene
Probably leaving out like a million examples, these are just the ones I thought of by looking over at my bookshelf.
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| TOP TEN NES GAMES :O |
[01 Jan 2009|07:41am] |
Spurred on a whim from a conversation with Novakaiser, here are my picks for the ten best NES titles, the ten that I would keep if I had to wipe all the others from existence and memory. In no particular order:
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| SELLING SOME THINGS |
[31 Dec 2008|02:15am] |
I'm trying to reduce the burden of ownership in my life and make some quick money besides, so here are some things that I'm selling. I figure the best way to get rid of 99% of a massive collection is piece by piece on auction sites but before I get around to that, I figured I'd offer the people reading this a chance at some of them. This is a small fraction of things, but it's all I have in front of me right now. Once I crack into the boxes of stuff that won't even fit on the fucking shelf, I'll update with more.
Anything that remotely appeals to you, tell me; all offers considered.
-ANIME-
Le Chevalier D'Eon
Black Magic M-66
Aura Battler Dunbine 1-6+Box (I also have the second box, but obviously discs 11 and 12 are ultra rare, so I need to sell it separately)
The Vision of Escaflowne complete box (series + movie)
Fight, Iczer-One!
Fighting Spirit Vol. 1-2
Last Exile complete series
Martian Successor Nadesico complete series
Metropolis (Rin Taro, not Fritz Lang)
Paranoia Agent complete series in box
Wings of Honneamise (original Manga Video release, not the new BV one)
Mobile Fighter G Gundam complete series in four boxes (original release)
Gundam Wing Complete Operations boxset (complete series, original release)
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed complete series in box (original release)
Mobile Suit Gundam original TV series, complete (just gonna keep the compilation movies for myself)
-MANGA-
Gundam the Origin - Yoshikazu Yasuhiko - 1-12
To Terra - Keiko Takemiya
Mars - Fuyumi Soryo 1-10 (pretty great shoujo series)
- there will be tons more of these after I check my boxes
-GAMES- (all in boxes + instructions)
Gundam Battle Assault
Suikoden
Suikoden II
Suikoden III
Valkyrie Profile
Wild Arms
Star Ocean: The Second Story
- tons more of these to come as well
I've also got a ton of miscellaneous non-media things to sell, but I figure those will be easiest to get rid of on Craigslist or something. However, if anyone really wants something like an older 2ghz, 1gig RAM HP PC with monitor and such, or a professional drawing/drafting table + chair, or an unopened TASCO telescope, lemme know :3
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| AGAINST THE DAY III, &c. |
[30 Dec 2008|10:48am] |
I wonder what Pynchon's workspace must look like. How many different colors of notecards and post-its are plastered on the walls? How many pushpins are pushed into them, and in how many different arrays, each array a secret code connecting the cards to all the others? Does it, in reality, bear any resemblance at all to this cartoonish image I have of it? There's a reason the Arithematician/Calculator is one of my favorite classes in FFT - meticulous obsessive planning, the weighing of indecipherable variables for agonizing spans of time, all suddenly unleashed in a single grim blow that wipes out the entire enemy force in a single turn.
The further I get, and I'm nearing the end now, the more I want to nominate the opening line of "Against the Day" as one of my favorites, ever. Anyone who has listened to me ramble before knows that the opening line of "Neuromancer" (and really, the whole Chiba City Blues section in general) is one of my favorites, but even sky the color of television tuned to a dead channel probably has to back up and take a lesson from:
"Now single up all lines!"
It works, so well, on a staggering abundance of levels:
- Straightly evocative of anachronistic Navy slang, establishing the period of the piece.
- Emotionally evocative - even those who don't know what the phrase means specifically can still tell that it carries about it the sense of taking off, setting sail, leaving for an adventure. This is a good bifurcated invocation of the Muse both in the sense of the novel as a whole and the "boy's adventure" tone of the Chums of Chance sections of the text.
- Ships are moored with redundant lines (every point of attachment to a dock or whatever is doubled); "singling up all lines" specifically refers to removing the second of each set of lines in preparation for departure. Just the image of reducing multiple lines to a "single" line ties right into the whole singularity-ward movement of the novel. All throughout the thing, multiple world-spanning paths are slowly interconnected, one by one, towards an inevitable conclusion (see previous post, countless passages of the book).
- Of course, the doubling/singling is also tied right in with the bilocation thing with Werfner and Renfrew, the Devil Tarot, Zombini the magician, the alternate realities, the refractive properties of Iceland Spar, every damn thing in the book pretty much.
How can so much be contained in just those five words? It's just so goddamned ultimate and skillful, jesus...
That said, if I have any complaints about the book so far, it *is* pretty fair to say that because there are literally like a thousand characters, very few of them are given much in the way of a well-developed, realistic personality. For the most part, this is okay, but when you get to stuff like Lake and Deuce getting together over the span of maybe two paragraphs, it makes it a little hard to buy. Not a crippling blow by any means, though.
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At any rate, a lot of other people were doing the New Years thing, so -- a list. Not any real "resolutions" on here, just plans, hopes, desires, &c.
- Drink Guinness on New Years, and somehow, somehow, witness people singing "Auld Lang Syne". Eat some "Hoppin' John" as well, to keep superstition alive.
- Continue building up relationships with professors. Last term, I had one invite me to present a Dostoevsky paper at a psych conference, and another personally advocate me to a committee for the receipt of a scholarship, so... so far so good! (Note: I don't mean "suck up", I mean to just keep presenting myself as someone who loves what I love, in a way that seems to naturally appeal to "professor types". It always helps to be legitimately interested (and capable of showing it) when you're dealing with obsessives.)
- Give away most of my possessions and move what remains to the new place without losing too much sleep, sanity. Do it all again in a year when I leave here FOR GOOD :O
- Finish getting the charter for the "Literature Club" at school approved.
- Continue to pursue publication. In terms of fiction, I guess my best bet is to a.) keep working with those guys in Albany, and b.) just send things out for a change. In terms of non-fiction, see a few entries back about the whole "Speech at the Stone" paper. In terms of uh, visuals, work with Wynand on Rinku's Saturated Dreamers cutscenes.
- Go to bed at night, consistently get enough sleep, and not put myself at peril by working so hard.
- Attend some spring training games, and watch at least one damn game a week on TV during the regular season. Follow the National League more instead of just focusing on the AL. Finish watching "Touch" for that matter!
- Have the time to read for pleasure, watch movies for pleasure, draw for pleasure again. FOR PLEASURE!
So essentially - drink, read, watch baseball, make friends with professors, take refuge in grim personal obsessions. Can do!
SACRAMENTED THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, TWO-THOUSAND AND NINE (with a knowingly inaccurate appropriation of family name to follow),
- Харлок Кэнэсович Белоголов
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