Last night Chris and I went to Governor's Island, NY to watch Buckethead. I admit I wasn't excited about the show and only took Chris because I know he loves him but as we walked to the ferry, I could hear strains of music floating from across the river, and I immediately was stoked. There's nothing like rocking out to live music! And what more from an eccentric guitarist who is known by the bucket he wears on his head and a plain white costume mask. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

We boarded the ferry at around 8:20pm. The show was advertised to start at 8PM and last till 11PM. I was upset because we were late and my boots were starting to kill my feet. We waited for around ten more minutes before the ferry departed. It didn't take even five minutes to arrive at the venue. I was practically dragging Chris to the ticket booth but when we entered "The Beach", Buckethead wasn't on yet. I was surprised there wasn't a larger crowd given this was his only venue in the tr-state but whatever. We had hotdogs (the best chili dog ever!) and beer and around 9:10 he came on. WHOA. Man he can shred! And his music isn't confined to metal or rock. He actually played some pretty chill tunes and he made that guitar talk. I was ecstatic at the end of the show. He ended early, around 1030, but it was pure energy and felt it lasted an eternity of musical bliss.

Watching Space Ghost, eating a gargantuan cookie-sheet spread of nachos, and trying to spread my consciousness over the ten things I'm wanting and trying to do. All at the same time.

The weather has been great lately. It's been summer for almost a month now but the first two weeks of that was rain and gloom - both of which I love, but preferably in the proper season. The days are hot enough to wear a pair of shorts and a thin shirt, and the nights are comfortably cool, with summer breezes making sitting on the stoop with a glass of iced tea a simple pleasure. I am looking out the living room window of my parents' house and the leaves on the trees are busy trying to stay on their branches :) The air is sweet with the mingled scent of grass and earth. I look at the sky and feel the promise of new days. I love this moment.

I joined the gym last week to get rid of my unsightly flabby paunch. I'm still in denial of the fact that I'm a slacker and I let myself go over the years. Can I blame it on hidden object games and the internet? ;)

It's been almost a year since my last public entry. So much has happened in between. I'm almost a year at work. I broke up with my longtime boyfriend and am in a new relationship now. Got my own apartment. My grandmother died. Abandoned writing - until now.

I had consigned my fanfiction to the dumpster of sad, trivial memories until last week, when I received a message from a young writer on FF.Net requesting beta-reading. From me! Imagine that. I totally forgot I had signed myself up as a provider of such service. This innocent message stirred the fire of creative longing in me. I finished editing her chapter and now am currently reviewing my unfinished stories for several communities I'm a member of. Suffice it to say I've been kicked out of all except my own, 10settings. Lame. But it doesn't bother me. Now I know what i have to do, and that's to write and join more communities and pray this doesn't work reverse psychology on me.

I'm dead tired. Despite the snoozefest called Infection Control, the day wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't gone two avenues off Port Authority. Heels, even two-inch ones, are friendly to a 19-block walk, no. Then when I got to the platform there was a gajillion people there. The line snaked from the gate all the way down the plaform. And dig this - turns out I was on the wrong platform. During rush hour, my bus actually loads at another platform on the opposite end of where I was. Another trek through rushing huge New Yorkers. By then my feet were cursing me. On the bus I chatted with a very pleasant lady named Samira. She exuded this calm and comfortable atmosphere and I couldn't help be drawn into conversation with her.

Yesterday my beloved Ryukin QT died in Gary's care. Despite his care, our lovely died. Complicated swim bladder? I have no idea, I'm not a fish doctor. When Gary returned from his two-day vacation, he saw QT at the bottom of the tank lying on it's side. It was gasping for breath because it was lying on one gill and couldn't move itself upright to free it. Gary devised a contraption to help keep it upright but it kept slipping out. It died with its mouth wide open, gasping for breath. Our poor fish! A fighter still, but I'm glad it's suffering is over. Barely two years old, that fish.

[01] -- Go to the Wikipedia home page.
[02] -- Click "random article" : That is your band's name.
[03] -- Click "random article" : That is your album's name.
[04] -- Click "random article" 15 times : these are your album tracks.

Band Name: The Rotters Club
Album Name: HMS Serapis

Track list:
01 -- Ernest Pollard
02 -- Supervisor Call Instruction
03 -- Veniamin Fleishman
04 -- Hana Bank-KOLON Championship
05 -- Tom Berryhill
06 -- Collaborator
07 -- Boiling Points of the Elements
08 -- Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
09 -- Caché
10 -- Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax
11 -- Alfonso Fadrique
12 -- University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences
13 -- Yukio Mishima
14 -- Courtois Creek
15 -- Dioxaphetyl Butyrate

Lol this is pretty awesome! Everything seems to fit into the "HMS Serapis" theme. The names I came up with are possibly the people on board the ship. Track 07 could apply to navigation as well. Tracks 02, 06, 09 and 10 can be some sort of tribute to the weirdness of TOOL. Track 14 could be like the ending destination of the ship (although how a ship can fit into a creek remains to be seen). Awesome selection! I love this. Lol and also as a play on the "band name", the names I fond could belong to the Rotters Club too.

At the bookstore, I make a beeline for the Fiction section and choose books either by cover art or by the summary. An example of the former is Chuck Palahniuk’s “Haunted”, which had the face of a wide-eyed, open-mouthed woman plastered on the front along with the familiar black-and-white “Parental Advisory” sign. For the latter, I go through my favorite authors’ books and pick the most appealing summary among all of them. Since I have a tendency to devour even their lamest book simply because it’s their work, I run out of reading material quickly. When I need a change of perspective, I check out novels by modern Japanese authors because they’re usually offbeat and quirky. After exhausting these three methods, I’ll open a couple of my favorite authors’ books and read its reviews. If another author liked the book, I would definitely check out some of his books because we’re probably thinking along the same wavelengths. I’ve tried this a couple of times and ended up enjoying my newfound discoveries.

I just finished watching "The Royal Tenenbaums", and it made me cry. Unlike "The Life Aquatic", an ocean adventure also directed by Wes Anderson, "The Royal Tenenbaums" lands closer to home. An estranged father pretending to be terminally ill in order to get close to his dysfunctional family - particularly to his genius children - decides later in the movie to drop all pretension and just move on with his life. Although the dialogue is sometimes witty, the scenes can be heartbreaking. After Richie's suicide attempt, there is a subtle change in mood. From ditzy to bittersweet is the best I can describe it. And even though it ended with closure, the path trod was heavy and wrought with hundreds of tiny sharp thorns.

Definitely goes down as one of my favorite movies ever. I can't wait to see "The Darjeeling Limited" now. :)

I stumbled on this catchy and awesome video on Youtube. Here, the actual seiyuu of Sakura wars is performing the opening theme of the anime series, complete with costumes and vocal solos. I love how the audience is totally in sync with the performers. I can practically feel the crowd's energy through the monitor.

( Happy shiny song )

The first episode of the new Gundam series "Gundam 00" was released yesterday. I watched it and it was so awesome! Sunrise does not disappoint. Some character designs remind me of 'Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex". The voice acting is cool and subdued and calming. I like the soundtrack so far except for the ending theme. As I wrote on seed-forum, the first episode sets me up for rollercoaster chaos. I can't wait for the next episode!

"Nativity in Black 2" is the follow-up album to "Nativity in Black". Both are tributes by various bands to Black Sabbath. The bands cover Sabbath songs and the results are always amazing. I like NIB 2 because the styles are more eclectic. Busta Rhymes actually appears, performing alongside Ozzy Osbourne. HOW COOL IS THAT.

Anyway, as much as I love NIB 2, I try to avoid listening to it. Why? Because

Blinkie + Nativity in Black 2 = FAIL

Twice when I listened to the tape (yes, tape) while driving, I got into accidents (I sideswiped a jeep and I bumped a concrete post). The first time, I thought nothing of it. But the second time around, I linked the tape to my propensity for accidents. Added to that I always got honked at or made wrong turns whenever the tape was playing. So I kept it safely tucked away for a year. Seriously! I'm supersitious. I mean, this is Sabbath we're talking about. I would not be surprised if it's some weird portal to another dimension.

Straight to my frustration of the year. Last night, I made the horrible mistake of listening to one of the songs on Youtube - and I mistakenly erased four pages worth of personal messages a forum I'm on. They were from a dear friend too.

Blinkie + Nativity in Black 2 = FAIL

Here is a link to the song, if you're interested. It's one of the awesomest rock songs ever.

System of a Down - Snowblind

GAH. x_x

Jacked from polaris_86

Career Cruising Meme
Instructions:
1. Go to www.careercruising.com
2. Put in Username: nycareers - Password: landmark
3. Take the 'Career Matchmaker' questions at the upper left corner
4. Post the top 10 results.

My results:

1. Private Investigator

2. Career Counselor

3. Courier / Messenger

4. Fast Food Worker

5. Film and TV Crew

6. Social Worker

7. Recreation Therapist

8. Art / Music Therapist

9. Ecologist

10. Addictions Counselor

Pretty spiffy results xp. I didn't know I was a therapeutic person.

Jacked from polaris_86.

Comment here and I will reply to you and tell you what icon of yours I associate with you. Once I reply, please repost this in your own journal, because I want to know what icon you associate with me.

Jacked this from polaris_86. If you have five minutes to kill, go for it~

Comment and tell me:

1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Place of residence:
4. What makes you happy:
5. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
6. Do you read my lj:
7. If you do, what is particularly good/bad about it:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment:
10. Favourite place to be:
11. Favourite lyric:
12. Best time of the year:
13. Weirdest food you like:
14. Do farts make you laugh:

Recommend
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song and an album:

Me
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Put this in your lj so I can tell you what I think of you.

I just watched "Fearless" this afternoon and I cried because I'm a wuss like that. Who the hell cries at martial-arts movies? It stars Jet Li (Huo Yuanjia) who is all martial-arts wushu man and Nakamura Shidou (Anno Tanaka) who is all honorable Japanese warrior-type, Dong Yong as Jinsun, Jet Li's bestfriend, and Betty Sun Li (Yueci) as the beautiful blind lady.

I did some research and found out that Huo Yuanjia is actually a real person and the movie was loosely based around his life! Isn't that amazing.

This goes down as one of my favorite movies ever! I love the morals preached here. :P

I have a fanfiction/writing journal! It's tachi_kun! This used to be a journal for another Gravitation RPG I was in but it never took off. I forgot why. Anyway, check it out for my fanfiction and original stories. The fandoms I write for are Gravitation, Gundam SEED/Destiny, and Saiyuki. Check it out and leave a kind word! Or if you want, go to my fanfiction.net account. Miaow~!

Because I'm a total nerd, I'm doing jigsaw puzzles now. Lots and lots of 'em! Actually my mom has been doing most of the work (she knows 'secret techniques', lol) but whenever she's out, I sneak up and put in a couple of pieces. Now even my bros are hooked hahaha! We're almost done with a 19" x 13" 500-piece puzzle of a ship at sea. All the whites and blues get me cross-eyes, but it's almost done! *cheers* And I went to Kaybee Toys and bought two more boxes of puzzles - one design is of lots of buttons, and the other is of a potted flower on the grass. The predominant colors are red so they're much more interesting and stimulating to put together. AAAAND I have another unopened puzzle -Coca Cola design. :P

These puzzles sidetrack me from my writing! :P

My LJ Fanfic community 10settings is up and running, thanks to my heaven-sent co-moderator lena108! *Cheers!* I can't believe someone answered my plea just minutes after I posted! She's a total angel. We finished the entire thing in less than four hours :)

Everyone is invited to join the community! Please advertise to your friends as well.

much love,
blinkie

http://www.gadling.com/2007/06/08/a-collection-of-funny-signs-from-around-the-world/

Haha! Check this out for hilarious signs from around the world :)