So yes we made it back safe and there will be a big post somewhere and also lots of pictures.

However.

My girl is at work and I have things I ought to be doing but there were things I missed when I was south of the border with little to no internet and so my unbridled squee revolves around three things.

1) I got Hanson tickets. That's right. Hanson. Finally. House of Blues, November, THE DAY BEFORE ISAAC'S BIRTHDAY, I have tickets to go see Hanson. HANSON. AAAH.

2) New Music Video Number One. Super Junior H - Pajama Party. The one with the English subbing is actually the highest quality, and. Um. You don't want to miss the words. Leeteuk making the sexy face when he mentions "On the sofa, up on the couch" is p-p-priceless. Also, Yesung getting molested, Kangin being his adorable self, bananas, Shindong's hair, Hyukjae's pigtail, and Sungmin upping the self-confidence of a stuffed purple snake.

Sungmin! In wings! Leeteuk! In a little rainbow bag! Fuzzy slippers! Hyukjae's boobie shake! Yesung with a polar bear glove! Kangin in an ascot! Leeteuk getting his hands on Sungmin's purple snake! :D

"Pajama Party" was the first song we listened to when we got in the car and back across the border. No lie. Oh man. Oh man. Love!

Cooking? Cooking!, by the way, is also um. Love. I love you, Leeteuk. I love you, Kangin. I love you, Yesung. I love you, Sungmin's chicken legs. I love you, Shindong! I love you, Hyukjae! That wig is priceless, and also the cartoons. Haa.

3) New Music Video Number Two. Super Junior M - Me. This is the only one I could find without the annoying watermark. But. Um. EEE. OH HENRY YOU ARE SO CUTE.

E-e-e-everybody looks all good and stuff. Even Zhoumi, who went through a rapist-face phase like Geng did, is doing a -lot- better. And. And. Henry! So cute! Wookie! Donghae the backup dancer! XD

They let Donghae drive. THEY LET HIM DRIVE. HAAA. Also Siwon being adorable with a giant letter "J" in an elevator. Siwon! So cute! And -- HENRY. He is at his most adorable and so so so so aaaaah him and that letter "O" kill me. He gets to dance! Wookie in pink pants! And don't even get me started on Kyuhyun. Who is. Who is. AWESOME and ADORABLE and if he is not giving Henry cuddles later then there is something wrong with this picture. SO CUTE. They tied a little blue sweater over his shoulders! So cute! So cute!

Funny enough, Dongwook and Kyu/Henry. Well, not so surprising on the second bit, but on the first? That joyride with the "U"? And then the dancing? Well. If Siwon is paying more attention to Geng maybe Wookie's getting a taste of the Hae. ... *snerk*

Yes. We had been guessing at the song they were going to use - an oft-cited example was the PASTEL going on, for the perkier stuff, but I am super glad they picked "Me" over "Love Song" because I actually have a chance of -not- having this one burrowing down into my ear.

Baha. Cute. Cute cute cute. Stupid cute. Stupor Junioooor. It lacks the jaw-slackeningly sexy Donghae-In-The-Elevator that U had but that's ok. It has Henry. Lots and lots of Henry. Henry!


Oh man, I missed you, internet.

Now to go be productive.

It's like this, only worse
(tl;dw? 4:15-4:35 is the best part)

I have a song stuck in my head (that has nothing to do with the link I posted except that it is related in my plight of not knowing what the heck song is stuck in my head) that I can't figure out, and Google is no help.


It is sung by a group that is at least fronted by a female singer. It's a four/five-piece band setup, far as I can tell, and they've played it at my job a couple of times, but not frequently enough that I'm entirely familiar with the name of the song or who sings it. That essentially means that it's top-40 style rock with sterile enough lyrics.

The chorus, as far as I can remember, goes something like "Always going forward never going back that's what I keep saying, never going forward always going back that's what I mean"

Normally I would not worry so much about it, but I actually kind of liked the song this time D:

Stupid work. You make me heart silly things like Mika and the Silver Sun Pickups.

Also someone posted all of Cro High on Youtube so now you all can watch it you realize this is required watching now I'm looking at you nialyind! :D

I heart Nina Conti.

I have always had a soft spot in my heart for ventriloquists. See Jeh-fa-faaah Dun-ham, for example.

But she has chaaaaarmed me with a tiiiiiny monkey.

Here is the first one I saw: Feeling Sorry for Him In Dutch

And the second: The Dog in the Garden

They are very, very similar, except for a few variations, but both are cute enough to watch. She gives herself the giggles and that is very, very cute :D

PERMETAFORM I AM LOOKING AT YOU.

Gag Reel from Die Hard 4. That's right, Live Free or Die Hard.

Highlights:

Gabriel's not getting sex tonight
Up here on Brokeback, away from them terrorists
The Great Race!
Zero Gravity
The van is turning
Panic!


It is seven minutes of brilliance. I giggle. Bwa.

This has already probably exploded all over the interwebs, but my two cents were (in)formed last night and I MUST SHARE THEM.

Funimation has announced the English Voice Actors for their dub of Ouran High School Host Club, to be released in October.

First of all, the video posted on that site is a thousand times cuter than it should be.

"It's not on the paper, dear." ... :D :D :D

Second, I demand comments.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE ACTOR PLAYING TAMAKI?! Are you thrilled? Did you die a little inside? We can't stop laughing over here :D

Are Mori and Honey not too cute? A certain person totally called Mori before the page loaded, and we all smacked our palms against our faces. Yes.


If you are very TL;DW about the whole thing, or if you're too lazy to IMDB to know what the magnitude of this is, I will interpret ( Under the Cut )

And on a side note of genuine squee, we actually saw Tamaki, Mori, and Haruhi's voice actors when we were at AX (for a signing that had nothing to do with OHSHC). Which was awesome. Aaaaawesome. Those actors are just making themselves insanely famous.

I thought you would find this hilarious: When a Card Game Goes Too Far

It may look a bit similar to something I posted earlier. :D



Anybody who even knows the barest premise of Yu-Gi-Oh is going to laugh their butt off. I had a bit of a moment when I realized I recognized ... m-m-most of the characters shown. Mai in bondage! Ha!

Lorenzo had a sprig of flowers today. They were small and white, with pink rimming the petals, and one green teardrop-shaped leaf behind them. He spun it between his fingers as he sat down. He held it until the wash was done, and then he tucked it away where I couldn't see it to get one worn fleece blanket out of the washing machine. It was small enough to be a baby's blanket, a grey that could once have been blue or green.

After drying it, he folded it in the sunshine, adjusted his blue baseball cap, and went to stand at the bus stop.

He watched me as I drove away some minutes later, the blanket slung over his shoulder and his shoulder leaning against the bus stop pole.

Ok so I was rolling around on YouTube trying to get Ruby out of my head and I found this band.

Metronomy!

They're certainly not for everyone (people who like music may be dismayed), but their videos are quite fun to watch.

Radio Ladio, for example, sort of spoofs the Blue Man Group and the Go! Team at once. Also I love Dark Green for he is adorable.

Trick or Treatz knows what it's referencing. Too bad the Badger song is better.

I am amusing myseeeeeelf and not doing the diiiisheeeeees...


Also my coworker told me to watch this and I can tell you it was cathartic and hilarious.

Shut Me Up by Mindless Self-Indulgence. Haaaa I have way too much of their music, and the video is stupid and hilarious all at once. I wish my scanners did that!

Highlight: You get to see Lyn-Z's mind-blowing backbend. The bassist rules that band.

That coworker told me how he discovered MSI - he saw the cover for one of their albums, thought it was cool, and bought it.

I thought I ought to come clean. This is how I found MSI. Bitches sung by Pikachu. This one's got cursing in. Haaaaaaa--

OH I AM A NERD.


This is just breathtakingly cool.
Here's how they did it. Even cooler.

And so I bring you one.

Today is the first day I've had off in five days. Before that, I had one day off preceded by five days of work. This, I assume, is legal because I never work more than five days at a stretch and I haven't topped forty hours (once I subtract my lunch breaks).

This is all alright, except I have to work five more days until I can have two days off in a row. I never realized how much that in a row bit counted.

I'll even get to spend some of them with my girlfriend. Dear lord.

Anyway, at my illustrious workplace we have a loop of "popular music" which consists of a bunch of screened things that aren't too popular so it doesn't cost too much money to run their music videos. I guess. The beginning loop was mostly emo and Sean Kingston, and this new loop is mostly indie-style garage rock and Jimmy Eat World. (To give it a little credit, the last loop reminded me that I needed to pay more attention to Mika.)

The first loop has been running since before November, in bits and pieces throughout the store. There is one song that has gained infamy among us, those employees that have been working there since then or for any reasonable amount of time since the loop started, and before the new one.

That song is "Ruby" by the Kaiser Chiefs. If anyone wants to annoy someone else, all they have to do is say "RUBYRUBYRUBYRUBY!" and the other person (and all employees within earshot) cringe.

However, a new and more fearsome foe has arrived, and its terror has yet to be recognized by my fellow coworkers. It is "Believe" by The Bravery.

Can you hear it? Can you hear it at all? That "Believe" is the exact same song as "Ruby", but slightly slower? Can you hear it?

Try this.

When the chorus of "Believe" starts to run, go as such

RUBYRUBYRUBYRUBY--       DA NA NA NA NA NAAAA
                 (So give me something to belieeeeeeeeeeve)
DOYADOYADOYADOYA--       DA NA NA NA NA NAAAA
                 ('Cause I am livin' just to breeeeeeeathe)

Yeah. I don't have to go any further. Ha, it works better in person. The bass lines also match up, and that's another tell.

I have already horrified about four people. I'm waiting to inflict this on the rest of my workplace. Damn you, The Bravery, for being unoriginal in the most horrible and painful of ways.






To make it up to you, I give you the cutest video ever by Vampire Weekend. A-Punk. Fishy fingers!

Because it is late and I am hyper I give to the Livejournal a piece of Cromartie fic I wrote a few months ago that nobody will read because nobody on my flist but my girlfriend has seen Cromartie High School. I can assure you, on that count, that it is the quintessential piece for this series, and I should immediately be made your entire fanon resource for the characterization of Kamiyama, Hayashida, and Hokuto.

Also it has sex in it.

( Surrounded by Buffoonery )

I just got Rickrolled by Ashley Tisdale.

So I got up with my girl so she could have someone make her lunch real quick on account of getting up early normally negates a good slow breakfast time.

I've been trying to work on my paper(s) due tomorrow (finals!) but I hadn't been able to wake up until I found these.

Youtube time!

Mario Music
Super Mario sound effects synced in (potentially) realtime to music.

I don't really know how to explain it except someone actually made those levels, and synced them, and I would really love to know whether they had to edit it in or they did it all in one take. The sound effects are slightly off in the last minute or so, which leads me to believe that this isn't all straight up real-life stuff. BUT the video is awesome, and you'll hear remixes of the Lucky Star theme, and the old-school Mario music too, as well as others.

So the link up there is now defunct. Why? Because It was redone IN STEREO.
Enjoy. :D

Phoenix Wright Anime OP
For those of you who love Phoenix Wright - look! A show!

Okay so it's not actually true. It's a spoof based on another anime Opening done by the original animators. Which is pretty cool. I have never actually, um. Played this game, but I found this and got a big kick out of it. Go. Watch. Love.

Pyrats
Hi big sister watch this <3

The animation is gorgeous, the plot is super fun, and I loves me a redheaded pirate female kicking butt. Serious win!

Cosplay?

So Lucky Star just keeps getting cuter. Girl with the black hair is a fanartist - see her drawing of Phoenix Wright. What happens when she runs into mad cute SD style Ed and Roy cosplayers?

Next door, Eastwood is watching a movie with explosions in. Again. Ugh.

Now to write about stuff. Woo.

First of all, thank all of you that wished me a happy birthday! I love yooou.

Now, for myself, for my very own specialness, I bought me a new toy.

I work at a bookstore that has, very rarely, gotten in shipments of the Nintendo Wii. They have always flown off the shelf, or have already been ordered by someone else.

Not so on Monday, the exact day of my birthday. We over-shipped, got two extra, and the very last one my boss went and put on hold for me. Augh, I was all embarrassed but it was also awesome too.

SO NOW I HAVE A WII.

My fiancee is particularly good at racing cows, and the ping-pong rally. She already wants more games, but I say we ought to play the hell out of the ones we've got. The Wii is aaaaaawesoooome.

Also too much Wii Tennis and Wii Pool have made my right elbow sore. Weeeeird, I tell you.

Next on the list? Zelda: Twilight Princess. Or Super Smash Bros. Or Lego Star Wars. Or Cooking Mama. Or Wii Fit.

One of those. Or maybe two. :D

I.
And.
And.
Pip.

SEE MY ICON. NOW IMAGINE THAT IT HAS RED-BROWN HAIR AND A BLUE-GREEN EYE AND LIKE FIVE THOUSAND TONS OF SEXY.

Hellsing Ultimate Disc 3. Baaaah everybody go rent Hellsing Ultimate off Netflix they have three volumes and you must get them.

You see, I have loved the Hellsing manga ever since I read it. There are some quirks and issues and you have to seriously suspend your disbelief, but there is a beauty and an expressiveness to the characters, and the blood and guts bit is just awesome. There's a vampire throwing a guy over his head with only his teeth. Mad dogs! Fountains of blood! Broken kneecaps! Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing!

Lots of you, I assume, have seen the original series. Which was great, for about the first ... seven episodes. As long as it stuck with the manga. And then it went to that bald purple guy who was just weird, and we spent a lot of time with Seras drinking tomato juice and being Emo But With Big Boobs.

No, Hellsing Ultimate is not like that. Hellsing Ultimate has Pip. Pip Bernadette. I don't know why the wiki has it "Bernadotte" and if it were my way it'd be "Vernedead" like it's supposed to be, but I don't care because it has Pip.

The voice actor actually manages a French accent that is not hokey. Let me repeat that: The voice actor makes Pip French without making him oh ho ho oui oui look at my tinee moustache French.

And damn but did they make him sexy. AAAH PIP. Pip is my favorite. Not even Alucard can match my Pip love.
But Alucard comes damn' close. OH ALUCAAAARD. Alucard, who loves men, real men, and Seras and Integra too. XD

This is the first volume to really deviate from the original series. By following the manga, lulz. However, they even remade the original bits better, too. Jan and Luke, still two of my favorite baddies, made even better with like two more references to Jan's hardon. Also they both died in much more excellent ways. HA.

See the best part is, the best part is that they're following the manga and every once in a while smacking its hand and making it ride the logic trolley a little better. The nazis are far better explained (ha! they almost make sense now!), but without really compromising the original manga dialogue. Well, they did cut out Alucard's "Integra stirs my loins" line, but replaced it with a similarly suitable one about "passion". The "She gives me an undead vampire boner" went unspoken, thank you Crispin.

Ah, squee, I have not felt your effects since the last time Donghae rubbed Siwon's belly.

The only thing it's really missing is that one scene where Alucard gets buttraped. But that was definitely made up for in the very first scene of volume one. Aaaaaalucaaaaard if you keep that up you may be my favorite more than Pip someday.

Who am I kidding I LOVE YOU PIP.

Edit: It must be said that for those who love Hiroaki Hirata (Sha Gojyo, Sanji, and others) or Yuri Lowenthal (Uchiha Sasuke), THOSE ARE THE GUYS VOICING FOR PIP. Do you see why I love Pip. Do you see why you must hear those sexy men speaking Pip's sexy words. Eeeee.

Teaching runefallstar to play Super Mario on the SNES.


She just now peered at the controller to find the "mute" button.

Do you see what I get to watch? This is better than cable.


XD~

Edit: Mitch Hedberg is apparently not a good replacement for Mario Music on account of when she laughs, she hits all the buttons at once and then dies.

Oh man. This is priceless.

I've been reading the California Supreme Court's Decision Re: Gay Marriage in this file and have been laughing out loud at certain parts of it. Particularly, so far, pages 73-75.

Honestly, guys, I thought this shit was common sense.

I know most people on my flist have pored over it already, most likely. But I just have to say that fuck yes Oops Babies don't make opposite-sex marriage any more sanctified than Britney Spears does.

Also my drawing class got cancelled tomorrow. That takes about six hours of drawing off of my homework plate. I think I might read a little more of this document than was assigned, in that case. :D


In other news I got Sufjan Stevens' "The Avalanche", which is all the B sides from his "Come On, Feel The Illinoise!" album. And having four versions of "Chicago" now makes me ridiculously happy and a little teary too. Stupid beautiful songs.

You guys remember when I told you all to pay attention to probertson?

I guess not, huh? Well anyway.

HE CAME OUT WITH A NEW VIDEO.
The most recent post on his lj (just click the link, the whole thing is awesome) has download sites and mirrors - all of which are currently working, to the best of my knowledge.

It's epic. The art is epic, the music is epic, the plot is epic. I will warn you that the pixel art means the special effects are reduced to seizure-inducing color strobes - for those of you that are prone to headaches or eye-aches, please do not watch (I'm lookin' out for you big sister). However, if you're into a little of the pixellated ultra-violence video-game style with a super crazy ending, and you maybe even watched Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle 2005? GO CLICK THAT LINK.

I'mma watch it agaaaain

Stuff that has gone on that ought to be updated, I s’pose.
( writing to make up for lost time? Ehhhh )

I will be the first to admit that I don't know what the hell kind of anime "Lucky Star" is. I know it revolves around a bunch of freakin' adorable high school (high school? I read somewhere they all turn 18 so it's ok) girls and the most addictive op ever.

This matters little to you, and I really don't care either.

But These Guys In Zombie Suits are the most adorable little hellions to do a remix of the open theme I've ever seen.

No seriously. It's even better than the original. By far.

In Life News, school has eaten me in a most magnificent fashion. Once I get over this cold I'm sure life will be great again. And I will recover from the gut-clenching guilt that comes from not having gone to work today because of the whole being sick thing.

I mean, it was people coming to work sick that got -me- sick. So really, I was doing everyone a favor.

...

Yay dancing zombies.


Edit: OMG you guys I started watching it this show is full of sexual metaphors and barely (read: not) legal lesbians no wonder the internet loves it this is worse than Azumanga Daioh by a lo-o-ong shot

Edit again: Cromartie High School Reference at about 2:20. Hayashida! Blonde! Kamiyama! In white! XD I like it when Gojyo does the voice much, much better.

It is the laaaast daaaaay of spriiiing breeeeeak.
Of course it's rainy and disgusting and I had to get up early. D:

But on the upside, my girl will be getting home earlier than usual (early to work, early home!) a-and I'm curled up in a pile of blankets watching TV.

Um.

Anybody else who has seen "Sukisho! I like what I like, so there!" or whatever the heck the subtitle is, (Sukisho! Autodefenestration and You!) um. You all understand what a mad, gay romp it is.

(I have discovered that in Netflix, it's under "Sukisho!" but in IMDB it's "Suki na mono wa suki dakara shoganai!" ... I think I prefer "Sukisho!" myself.)

Seriously, is everybody in this universe a homosexual? Is that how they justify every boy having a crush on another boy? And if so, why the heck is Sora denying Sunao so hard?

Oh, wait. It's based on a relationship simulator. I'm not kidding. I'm watching an anime based on a series of love-love games.

I've only seen the first four episodes (but guess who's rewatching them just to have a little noise on?) but so far I've seen two crotch grinds, four forehead kisses (lol opening credits), and the pink-haired one wearing a dress. As well as one of the other effeminate ones in a bunny suit, Tuxedo Mask, one of the masculine ones in the shower, an endorsement of gay marriage, and the blonde-haired green-eyed scary as all get out product of Sohma Aaya and Hughes having a baby. Holy crap, Matsuri.

I think the best part is that Sunao, the itty bitty, effeminate, pink-haired young man with a sex demon inside him (it's complicated), is voiced by the same actor that played... Son Goku.
The one who puts on the bunny suit? Cho Hakkai. Or for you non-Saiyuki people, Gaara of the Sand.

This is not helping me write that one Saiyuki fic I'm working on. Stop laughing, Eliza.