Archive for July, 2008
Vampire Knight and Music
A good friend of mine turned me to the manga/anime, Vampire Knight and though it’s not entirely enticing (those slow narratives), it was different enough to captivate me to watch all available episodes and scanlated chapters. I’m usually turned off by mangas about vampires. I’m not entirely sure why. I mean…I liked the movie “Interview With a Vampire”…Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were hot…but…now I’m more open to vampire-ness now. It’s pretty hot.
In this series, there are two main guys who like the girl. Typical, except they want to suck her tempting blood. One of them is a vampire hunter who’s turning into a vampire, so he’s trying not to suck her blood, while the other is a prestigious vampire of old blood and enjoys teasing her with his good looks and mysterious charm. The girl has known both men since she was little but favors the old-blooded vampire. I’ve never felt that sucking blood could be so erotic.
It’s a little weird though, when she is bitten (she finds out her friend is turning into a vampire and allows him to use her) she doesn’t even show that it hurts. This is a little bothersome because at this point, I don’t see the problem with vampires sucking at my blood anymore. If it doesn’t hurt in anime, it shouldn’t hurt me right? Hah.
Along with the story, after you watch a chapter, you are treated to this amazing song that seems to fit the genre perfectly. I loved it so much I looked the singer up, and it turns out that she plays the cello too! Since she was three, not some “I’m a professional so I’m going to pick up an instrument to play in my video”. Very impressive stuff. Her name is Kanon Wakeshima. What an awesome name right? Apparently when she was born, her parents were set on making her a musician so they named her Kanon (think Canon in D, but I’ve seen it spelled with a K too). She also draws really well, you can see at her website.
Here is her actual music video for the ending song, Still Doll. I’ve always been fond of gothic lolita stuff (browsing the pretty and expensive clothing on ebay)…but there really isn’t a place for that here. Maybe in Japan! 1:25 for the cello part.
And here is the same song, but a fanmade video with clips from the anime. I screened through a lot to find the best one.
More Audrey Hepburn wallpaper
I have a love for Audrey Hepburn. I believe I’ve talked about this before. We share the same birthday too! And that reminds me I didn’t wish her a happy birthday this year @_@.
I bought a big picture biography of her at Barnes and Noble because it in the Bargain Prices area for only $6.98. At these prices, how are writers earning money? Seriously, at some of those bargain prices…anyhow, I learned a lot more about her. Mostly, that her life wasn’t so happy as you would think from how she carried herself in public. She suffered from health problems because she starved for 15 days when she was young during WWII, stuck in a basement. She was married twice but both of her husbands had affairs with other women so she had to end them. How could someone as amazing as Audrey still have men that cheat on her?
So I posted that I took the Ikea picture and redid them. It’s my wallpaper for my desktop now.
I also made this one:
They are 1690×1050. Here are the download links if you like them:
Ikea time
I really like Ikea. Smart designs with space and money on the mind. I had their $1.99 breakfast today (they have a .99 breakfast too!). It was a little gross, mostly the eggs, but for 1.99, I could eat it.
Ikea’s been having a sale for the past month and today I was looking for mattress covers. Mine is kind of old…and has some…err…blood stains that just didn’t wash out. Their covers are so cheap anyway, mine was $2.99 and it held up through washings for the past 4 years. So I went and they had a sale on the collection of bed covers that is one up from the cheapo collection I have. For 2 bucks more, I get 80 more thread count and a finer cotton. Score! They didn’t have the light pink I used to have…just a maroon color but that’s okay. Adds drama to my room right?
I also saw these cuuuute alligators! Alligator? Crocodile? Eh, I look it up and identify it, and then I always end up forgetting later on. Meh, I’m sure they don’t care what you call them as long as you won’t skin them. I like long stuffed animals for some reason. I feel like I can drag it around with me like Linus from peanuts. I also like it when animals drag stuff around with them, like dogs that get attached to their toy and carry it with them where-ever they go? Too cute.
Reminds me, my friend has a cute jack-russell terrier named Stitch and recently they got him a stuffed pizza to play with. He loves it so much he feels like he must go to sleep with it at night! Once I took the pizza away from him and hid it behind my back. When he rushed over to my back I kept hiding it on the opposite side of me. At one point, he looked at me with frantic eyes and whined at me! A weird sound for a good 5 seconds…like the kind a seal makes as if he was saying “hey you! I don’t want to joke around anymore! Where is it?!?” The skin above his eyes were all furrowed. Oh…how can torture be so cute?
I’ve been eyeing this canvas poster for a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery long time. It says it’s on sale…but that’s the same price I’ve always remembered it to be. It’s $79.99…a bit pricey for art on my small, bare walls. So instead, I took a picture and I am going to edit it for my purposes > <. It’s not like this artist drew it anyway…probably chopped it from the production poster. My results in the following post about it.
My secret to not buying things you want but don’t need
My secret is…take a picture of it! These shoes were very cute, and mostly ones that I would not really reasonably wear, but as I’ve said before, fashion is like art to me so I just take a picture and move along. It’s almost like having it since I wouldn’t wear them often anyway right? So if I ever want to reminisce about the time I wore hooker shoes, I can find the pictures.
But before that, a quick story. Macy’s (or is it Macy*s?) was having a shoe sale. 40% off retail price with an additional 30% off at the register. So these women…oh..I would say they are in their 30s to 40s were shopping around, and they said “oh yeah, and these are 70 percent off!” Being the eavesdropping fiend I am, I snickered. I suppose it’s a common mistake to add up the percentages, but that’s not how you shop.
40 percent off of $100 is $60. 30 percent off of $60 is $42! $42 is clearly not 70 percent off of $100…that would be $30. $42 is still a little more than $30. Anyway, I hope they weren’t counting too closely or they would be in for a surprise at the register. I’m definitely ingraining this into my students’ heads.
Betsey Johnsons. Her style is so kooky, I love it. I’m usually not a fan of wooden clogs, especially if they are weirdly shapen, but these are cute.
I believe these are Guess. Check out that heel! How much for the hour? *wink wink*
Betsey Johnson again. The platform is angled at the heel. These were actually kind of comfortable.
Guess. Walking around in these makes you feel like you could kick everyone’s butts. Or stick a heel in your forehead. I’ve seen that in a movie right?
I suppose this thread is for the foot fetish people out there.