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For every hour I don't sleep my IQ goes down twice as much as anyone else, I think.
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[11 Oct 2007|01:59pm] |
The new Radiohead album is pretty good. I paid 7.50 pounds for it, which is $10 - how much an album would cost on iTunes. No digital rights management and the sound quality is slightly higher than on iTunes (160 kbps vs 125). Apparently most people are opting to pay something. Obviously the catch here is if I pay $10 a much bigger percentage of that will actually go to the band as opposed to the label, since they don't have one right now. That's the way I want it anyway :) Radiohead is very good mellow, working music. I can't listen to Amuro while I work as it makes me want to dance and jump around the kitchen.
I'm starting to fangirl Colbert big time and it didn't help that I sat around for an hour this morning watching clips from all this week's shows. It also didn't help that George Saunders, one of my favorite writers and a satirist himself, was on this week. He played straight man to Colbert, like most people do, which sort of disappointed me, but I guess writing satire isn't the same as being able to play it. His new book is essays, too, and I don't know if they're satirical or not. I don't think I've been reading enough at all lately.
Anyway. An article discussing the popularity of the word "truthiness" in society and how the suffix "-iness" is getting tacked on to other words now. Example: people in the society pages of my former little suburb town's newspaper have a severe case of "fameiness".
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[10 Oct 2007|06:29pm] |
Radiohead has released their newest album, "In Rainbows", in mp3 format for whatever you want to pay. Or an $80 physical format packed with extras. A normal priced CD should come next year after some label wins them over. I'm debating with myself over what price I should pay for it (morally, spiritually, physically, what's best for my bank account...?).
This online "free" release is utterly amazing for all the right reasons, while I'm sitting here writing a fake internet use policy that would get patrons in trouble for downloading mp3s from major labels since it's still illegal and libraries have to follow laws. Sigh. My librarian-self and writer-self are at constant odds about this; well, rather, my writer-self completely trumps the librarian-self and says that creative works should be 100% copyright free after a certain amount of time (25 yr, maybe), that music artists' works should be copyright to themselves and not the label , and the record industry needs to just stop acting like such pompous greed hatemongers in general.
Radiohead's regular website is also a trip.
(If this new diet makes me feel good enough by the end of the month instead of doing JLPT I'm doing Nanowrimo - some silly fantasy YA coming of age story, I think.)
JF supports tags and openid now! HOT.
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[29 Sep 2007|09:02am] |
...is for such a Japanese enthusiast, I'm not too fond of karaoke, and it's probably because I stink at it. (Last night was only time #4.) It could be that I just have to start off with sillier songs, like when we sang Monkey Majik's "Around the World" last night - otherwise known as the song that followed me around the entire time I was in Japan.
Part of it is stage fright. I acted in elementary school, and wasn't so bad (for an elementary school student acting in elementary level productions), but over the years it declined into me feeling like I was going to throw up immediately after the few times I read part of my writing in public. For someone who now has a Japanese sometimes American celebrity hangup and reads Perez Hilton, that's a little absurd. Presenting in front of a class doesn't cause this phobia, only other forms of presentation. Curious.
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[26 Sep 2007|09:30am] |
Hi. Windows Vista is crap. I think all my devices and the new baby laptop (Sony VAIO CR) are getting along now, though.
Have you heard about what's going on in Burma? This is the blog of a Burmese man posting pictures and videos of the protesters. Much of it is sent to him by anonymous contributors who risk themselves by taking phone pictures of such things. The internets is not just for porn and anonymous arguments, I suppose.
Oddly - or not so much - I decided to listen to Ayumi Hamasaki's "I Am" again. A lot of the theme of that album is based on her feelings toward Sept.11 and violence in general, and it's one of her best (save also mini-album and mostly angry "Memorial Address" and "Rainbow" from "A Ballads"). Here's the commercial for it. (note how sharp the boom box click sounds) She's so wigged out in diva mode lately, making silly mini-movies about love affairs with bodyguards that have been done already...I hope she comes back down to earth.
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[09 Sep 2007|09:12pm] |
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My computer's on its last legs - or, rather, it's 4 years old and also has a busted CD-ROM drive and I'm not sure I'm up to the drama of getting it fixed again only to have it break again. I was trying to actively deny it until today (part of the reason I wasn't online very much. It can't be overheating if I'm not using it!!) but I accepted reality when it decided to not let me finish watching
(BREAK FOR AMERICAN MUSIC TALK. I WARNED YOU.)
the online vids of boring, dancing-was-half-assed spectacle of Britney Spears on the VMA. (It's sad, too, because I hated the vast majority of her singles and this one's better than usual.) And Fergie won an award over Furtado which just means that no one has any taste.
Although I guess Furtado and Timberlake were both drinking right before their performance? From what people who actually watched the performance said, yeah, I would be too.
(/END OF AMERICAN MUSIC TALK.)
But: New comp now, or new comp later? Do I go for the $1200 range models with the better Intel clips that I want, or the cheaper ones that I need
This life would be much easier if I had been recognized as a genius by some wealthy patron or I was working part-time nights as a hostess. The former would make me an even bigger asshole than I've felt like lately (in RL) and the latter would give me reason to be sexually harassed even more than I already have been on the streets. Plus the propensity to get kidnapped and killed.
Oh, to live the good life.
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[08 Sep 2007|06:11pm] |
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[07 Sep 2007|09:20am] |
I am finding so many new ways to be clueless this week ^^;;
Oh well.
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[23 Aug 2007|08:09pm] |
I'm trying so hard not to be angry at everyone and it's just not working.
Good thing I have even crappier insurance than I had before now, right?
(Maybe my mood will improve Wednesday when I get internet.)
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[11 Aug 2007|06:45am] |
My sisters and I spent quite a bit of time in the ocean screaming GTFO! LOL! and other internet acronyms. (Except for our future sorority sister, who didn't get it.)
Our future sorority sister did give a good comment, though, while I was explaining the meaning of tl;dr:
"You mean it's like the last few Harry Potter books?"
Also, tl;dr on Gaia is "WALL OF TEXT" in caps.
This is all very important.
If I wanted to be gaijin!hostess who speaks a small amount of Japanese, I bet I could here. (That was a joke.)
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[06 Aug 2007|10:23am] |
Currently trying to figure out how to sync entries at both here and other blog.
While should be packing.
Yay.
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[25 Apr 2006|11:01am] |
thx 4 the add max!!!11111
ハガレンのファンはほんまにあほやろう。
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[19 Nov 2005|06:19pm] |
dammit lj.
At least I can use this time to write my essay about..."my favorite place in Japan!!!!!!1122" in Japanese. And then not do other work and read Bleach.
I got called "oneechan" today. Officially Japanese now despite orange hair!111
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[08 Nov 2005|08:38pm] |
十二月本当に帰るかどうかわからない。今日は嬉しいだったーsighーでも先週は悪かったで、もう一同マイアミのまずい料理を食べて、友達に衣装に住みたい。
どうしようかな？
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[04 Oct 2005|05:25pm] |
You and me and your mom
なにをするんだ、あんた！
なんでもない。
中間試験は来週。怖いわ。
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[01 Oct 2005|01:44pm] |
But I don't want to do work, mommy!
Especially now that it's my birth month.
HI-HO SOJA
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[26 Sep 2005|08:38pm] |
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I want to access 4chan.org (for wallpapers and cute anime boys, not porn ^^;;), but am blocked because of JP IP. No fair. I may appeal.
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