A|X 1, Saff's skin 0, Marvin x the Internet -0, I hate you technology x 1,000,000

decided last night to skip the second day of festivities at Anime Expo today, because I am suffering from T.D.O.F.T.S. disease, otherwise known as "Too Damn Old For this Shit." I know some of you are going, "oh no, don't go down that road. You are only 20-something, don't make me come over there and hit you with something, preferably a frozen trout, because you are still a CHILD (and a very immature one at that)" and some of you may be going, "Shit. You're 26? You LIE. What else have you lied about?" and some of you are going, 'WTF ever, tell us about the CATBOYS.'


*silent tears* I'm so sad that I didn't get to see Anna Tsuchiya perform today, but then again, L said we could always plan a trip to Japan to see her on her home turf. Because we are HARDCORE. Seriously though, I will go to pretty far lengths for musicians/bands I love, if the timing's right. Speaking of which, did any one on my FL attempt to see Paul McCartney at Amoeba Records on Wednesday? I know the Macca's not the beloved one (but I still love you!), but still...he's.....Paul McCartney.

Okay, so L picked me up at around 8:30 in the morning, we get there in about an hour - only to be confronted with the line from hell. To better put it in perspective for CA people - let's say the Anime Expo @ Anaheim was like Disneyland. The Anime Expo @ Long Beach is like California Adventure.

( Hell is standing in line behind people who are wearing less clothing than you'd like )

( logistics of S.K.I.N., more lines! )

( In which Gackt screams a lot, the fangirls scream back, the j-rock fanbase, musicianship, Miyavi really is the Clown Prince of Jrock, and Damn, those other guys REALLY WERE AWESOME )

( have you missed the bucket of shallow? The bucket of shallow misses YOU. )

( who, what, and slightly bitchy asides )

This post has been brought to you by the wireless in my local library, as the internets is DOWN AGAIN FUCKING TECHGODS WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO? DO YOU WANT TO SEE ME CRY? etc, etc.

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Yesterday I went to the first day of Anime Expo 2007.

Hana Kimi promotional round up - brand new pictures of Maki as Mizuki can be found over at d-addicts here. Cue inevitable, "OMG WHY IS SHE SO CUTE?" I've uploaded some screencaps of Maki, Shun doing their bit for the dog and pony show over at my HK scrapbook. Toma (Nakatsu) has been posting nice behind the scenes posts over at Tomapi Rant (google plz), and if you can sit through an hour or so of Maki and that guy from Nana (the slutty one, no, the other one) eating things, a video is up here.

A mv for the Taiwanese version of Hana Kimi here. I would like to state for the record, Wu Zun (or Chun)'s arms are what make this video for me. Tattoos! So not Sano! But who cares? ARMS.

In JUST THREE DAYS, the Japanese Hana Kimi will air, and then next week will be my golden week. If the internet connection gets fixed in time, that is. I'm at the library right now.

And because I'm at the library, and I don't want to abuse this public resource, I can't post my giant, the moment I knew that This Was Going to Be MY OTP post on Kurosagi, and why I love Kurosaki and Tsurara so much, illustrated with screencaps, and flailing!, but I uploaded the screencaps, at least. That scene. Frame by frame, practically.

Just think Margaret Atwood's poem "Variation on the Word Sleep," the usually awful Gwyneth Paltrow's being oddly sweet and endearing and tragic lines to Luke Wilson's character in The Royal Tennebaums about having to be secretly in love with each other all our lives (or something similar), and you know what? It doesn't have to be epic. It just is.



Maybe it's not just your lips that are vexing...maybe it's all of you!