[Take the Long Road, Take the High Road, But Just Remember: It's Easier With A Car.]

This Week's Recommended Video:
Sambomaster

世界はそれを愛と呼ぶんだぜ [Sekai wa Sore wo Ai to Yabundaze]


This Weeks Recommended Anime:
Sjion no Ou

Synopsis: As a child, Ishiwatari Shion's parents were murdered in their own home. Shion was left unharmed, yet the trauma caused her to lose her voice. The only evidence police found was a shougi board and a bloody playing piece, "the King". Neighbours and close friends of the family, shinji and Sachiko Yasouka, adopted Shion and taught her how to play shougi. As the years passed, she became known as a genius and quite a famous player. Now, as her fame rises, her past resurfaces and she discovers that being a professional shougi player may just lead to finding her parents' killer.

Why: Because if at first the insanely beautiful animation doesn't drag you in, the unique characters and intense plot will. I was hooked after only the first episode, which happens so rarely for me when watching anime or even a t.v show. Although the game of shougi is portrayed as the main focus of the show, and it is, the mystery surrounding Shion's parents death is a constant, heavy shadow throughout the show that really spices things up and allows for a greater thrill when watching the anime. As the story progresses, hints of who the murderer could be are constantly being dropped, but with each hint comes a twist and before long the person you thought for sure was the murderer is shown to be innocent, and we're suddenly introduced to another possible suspect and more twists and turns. Also, with each glimps into Shion's past, brought on by her playing shougi, she begins to remember more details of what happened the night her parents were killed, and the show pulls us in even more then we were before. Between the fast-paced shougi matches, the heart-pounding mystery of Shion's parents' murder, and loli-Shion who is so cute it should be illegal, not mention cross-dressing Ayumi is makes the hottest girl ever, Shion no Ou is definitely a show you do not want to miss.


Quote of the Week:
Juno [Ellen Page] from the movie, "Juno"

"You shoulda gone to China. You know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events."


And of course, AVATAR IS KOOOOL! <33

If you have not heard of Dr. Horrible, YOU MUST GO WATCH NOW!!! It is available at www.drhorrible.com until midnight eastern times on July 20th. I know, that doesn't leave you much time, but I just found out about it and watched it today, so I'm begging all of you Joss Whedon fans, no, ALL OF MY LJ FRIENDS to go watch this RIGHT NOW! It's so sad, but at the same time funny and just <33333!!!!!!! to the max!

Also, I've been meaning to update before this because I have some Avatar movie news, though slight as it is, but I have to actaully leave right now, and if I'm not online tonight or tomorrow then you guys won't be hearing from again until the 28th/29th because I'm going on a boat trip with my dearest friend i_am_krazy. We're going around the Gulf Islands and the southern part of Vancouver Island for a week, and I'm really nervous about living in a small boat (claustraphobic much? Dx) but at the same time I'm just SO UNBELIEVABLY EXCITED!!!!

Also, going back to Dr. Horrible here, I think I need to write some fanfiction for it.

Yes. It really is just that plain good.




(PS. Um, if anyone on my f-list knows, what the fuck is with the NUMBER THING in KHR? Like Tsuna is 27 and Hibari is 18? IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME!! Where did this derive from, and do you know the correct "secret code" for each character? It's a bit ridiculous, but not knowing is driving me crazy because I can't stop thinking about it and trying to figure out why everyone is coded the way they are. *is a freak*)

...So That I Can Sing Along! Music Is My Soul!"


So I just finished watching Camp Rock and I have to say it was only 90% as predictable as I thought it would be, and there was only one little plot hole scene that bugged me, and I absolutely loved it!!!! XD I can't stop listening to the soundtrack. And um, Mitchi and Shane? Cuttest fictional Disney couple ever.

Just wanted to say so. Y'know. 'Cause I really liked it. And it's on Family channel tonight, so I get to watch it again and that has me very excited

But right now I'm off to go watch Hancock. I've heard from a lot of different people that the movie has gotten "bad reviews" but you know what? I have seen every film Will Smith has been in (yes, I am a freak when it comes to the Smith *dreamy eyes*) and I've never not like a film of his. Hancock? So not going to be any different, I can feel it. No, it's probably not going to win an award or anything, but I know I'm gonna love the movie!


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COUNTDOWN TO THE FINAL EPISODES;
AVATAR RETURNS IN: 9 DAYS

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ビちゃ～ん。
Bi-chan.

Hello all! I've got a few updates, but first I have something important to say:


HAPPY (BELATED) B-DAY panda_usagi AND HAPPY (EARLY) B-DAY ylmik_wisty!!!!

To panda_usagi, I meant to post this earlier, however my access to the internet has been next to none these past few weeks, and I've been very busy trying to find a job and learn how to sew and traveling to visit family over on Vancouver Island. In short, this is the first chance I've had to post this. To ylmik_wisty, I'm posting my happy birthday wishes to you early so that the same thing doesn't happen for when the 9th comes around. xD

Next up, now that I've graduated, RL has started to take over. Not only am I struggling to find a job, but I have to teach myself how to sew so that I can actually make my cosplays I've got planned for AE (except for Rima's Night Class uniform, which I'm just buying because there's no fucking way in hell I could make that thing to save me life :x ) and that's not going to happen without money, which again leads me back to the whole not-being-able-to-find-a-job thing. Also, my mom plans on making me pay rent come September since I'm not planning on going straight into post-secondary education, so... that job thing... haha *laughs nervously*

So yes, you will notice how I've been absent from LJ, and will likely continue to be absent from LJ. But since I'm watching like.. everyone on my friends list, lol, I'm still reading your journals most of the time, I just never have time to leave a comment there-after (I blame myself for that because you know me, every comment you receive from me is a couple paragraphs at least. xD)

ALSO! I was feeling super crappy a while ago, so I did what any woman would do to make herself feel better: Buy some comic books and read them while drinking bubble tea! XD But I made a good find while I was at the only local comic book store; HEROES graphic novel Vol.1! It's got all these... not side stories, more like in-between stories, of all the main characters- or rather all the characters period. It was very awesome, and the art is amazing. As well as that, each chapter breaks with one Issac's paintings. Very much worth the $22 dollars thank you very much mom, and I recommend it to any HEROES fans out there. (Especially since I had started going through a HEROES withdrawal at the time, sooo..) And I also grabbed the second SPN: Origins series, and this time the art work is not shit, so for all you SPN fans out there, if you want to pick it up, do! <33

Lastly, I think I'm getting sick. Hopefully not 'cause I'm trying to get more in shape by exercising more, and my asthma gets so bad when I have the slightest cold that exerting myself makes it nearly impossible to breath. So um, somebody cross their fingers for me, kay?

ACK! ALMOST FORGOT! For those of you who don't know, NEW AVATAR EPISODES start JULY 14th!! So if you're like some people and don't live in the US of A, expect new episodes to be uploaded to the internets IN THE TEN DAYS!! (or nine, depending on how you count it) I might just do a special little count-down or something here on LJ. It'll give me an excuse to post something quick for the next week and a day at least, eh? lol

WANA SEE THE (SLIGHTLYSPOILERYBUTNOTREALLY'CAUSEIT'SNICK) PROMO TRAILER? THEN CLICK ON THE LINK FELLOW AVATARDS!!! <333


Ah, there's my cousin knocking on my door. Time to go do some.. gym.. stuff. Er- yay? (hopefully... >_>)




ビちゃ～ん。
Bi-chan.

I GRADUATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's OVER! FOREVER!! One last stupid provincial, and then IT IS OVER FOREVER~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8DDDDDD

(or at least until I start my post secondary education, but that won't be until 2009/2010)

And so, my fellow graduates/friends, that is why I have been missing form LJ. However I am FREE, FREE I SAY, FREEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! and so I will be commenting as well as posting more often now.

I'll have pictures, eventually, promise. If my mom gives me the figin' camera so that I can upload them. </irritated>



Also, wtf is with the 6th human foot washing up on Vancouver island? You'd think this might mean a serial killer is on the loose or something, but apparently if it's not fiction police officers investigating something, we'll never find out what's going on.

So, La-chan, when I said 'late evening', what I really meant was midnight/Wednesday morning, when you'd be asleep and unable to read it.

But um, at least I really did upload it...? Eh hehehehe >_>....


Title: London Sights
Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia
Characters: Lucy, Peter
Word Count: 465
Dedication: La-chan, because I said I’d write you some, so I stayed up ‘till 1 doing it!
Rating: G
Summary: “I’m fine, Peter.” She smiles up at him after pulling away, still not quiet tall enough to meet him face-to-face, even with the help of the hospital building’s steps. “I just... I thought I saw someone I recognized, but I guess not.”
A/N: This was inspired by a short of i_am_krazy’s called Veracity, in which Lucy is a nurse, an idea I’ve simply fallen in love with. This is the first in a series of inter-connected one-shots, which means that yes, there will be more to come, because there’s a certain someone (who may or may not be the mysterious figure Lucy may or may not have seen) that’s yet to be introduced, and I will not be packing up until that character and my other ideas have been written.

'Lucy glances at her watch, breathless, as she runs across the street.'


In other news, I've finally got the first season of Doctor Who downloaded. I'm just finishing up episode 1x08, and man, let me just say that I finally understand why so many people love the series. I was hooked after only the first episode, and although I'm a bit ashamed to admit it, I have a really bad habit of fast-forwarding through nearly everything I download on to my computer, and yet I have not once done that with Doctor Who. It means DW is really something special. If any one of you on my f-list haven't watched it yet, I really encourage you to go do it, pronto, because damn but.it.is.good!


ビちゃ～ん。
Bi-chan.

I wrote you something, i_am_krazy~


But you have to wait until Tuesday, late-evening, to get it.

(and yes, it just might be Narnia-related, and it could involve nurse!Lucy with subtext Peter fluff. ;P )


Love you! <3

I saw these a little while ago, but I couldn't find proper links to the images.

Now I have.

I had heard rumors about the movie being made, but now that I've seen the pictures.... geeze, I don't know whether to start crying or hide under a rock until the movie no longer exists.

There goes another part of my childhood up in smoke.


Also? YTV has changed the show time for Storm Hawks so that every time I turn on the T.V. it's on. Which means my flame of love for the series has been egnited once again and so now I NEED FAN ART/FANFICTION NOAW PLEASE.


Yay, that's right, I'm looking at you darkfox200.




ビちゃ～ん。
Bi-chan.

IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE ANIMATED MOVIE TEKKON KINKREET,




GO.

WATCH.

IT.

NOW.


That is all.



(oh, and the season finales of Supernatural, Smallville and Bones? Left me breathless. Thank God I had Shandra to talk about SPN with though, or else I would have exploded. Took me an entire week to be able to get something out of my mouth other then, "!!!!!!!!!!!!". And even then I'm still in shock over it.)

So I've got this years cosplay list planned out. Should be interesting. We'll see how many of these I actually manage to make, but I'm pretty confident.

AnimeEVOLUTION:
-Katara. Season 3 Water Tribe Outfit. [Avatar:tLA]
-Katara. Season 3 Fire Nation Outfit. [Avatar:tLA]
-Hinamori Amu. Red School Uniform. [Shugo Chara]
-Katsuragi Yako. Manga School Uniform. [Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]

Halloween '08:
-Tobi. Regular Clothes. [Sweeny Todd]


And that's it for my 2008 plans. They might change, depending on a few unknown factors, at the moment, but otherwise those are the cosplays I plan to have done this year.

Next comes my cosplay list for 2009! :D

2009:
-Hinamori Amu. Amulet Spade. [Shugo Chara]
-Suki. Season 3 Fire Nation Outfit. [Avatar:tLA]
-Katara. "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" Dress. [Avatar:tLA]<---only if my Toph does the matching dress.
-Hermione. School Uniform. [Harry Potter]
-Yagami Hikari. Season 1 Outfit. [Digimon Adventure] <---for a friend's cosplay group.
-Orihime. School Uniform. [BLEACH] <---only if the cosplay group that asked me to do her doesn't do their Bleach group this year (2008).
-Rita Skeeter. Lime Green Movie Outfit. [Harry Potter] <---to be worn at the next Harry Potter movie premier.
-Sam Manson. Normal Outfit. [Danny Phantom]
-Smellerbee. Season 1 Outfit. [Avatar:tLA]
-Cross Yuuki. Day Class Uniform. [Vampire Knight]
-Arisawa Tatsuki. School Uniform. [BLEACH]


I'll be busy for 2009 too, as you can see by my long list there, lol. Not all of these cosplays will be made, of course, and some new ones will be added, but I don't have to worry or think about that until 2009 comes around. <3

Also, HI! aeternitasbeach!!! <333 And welcome to my journal! The updates are spaztic, periodic, and can range from ranting, fandom squee!ing, or good 'ol fanshion emoing, but they're me and hopefully I don't scare you off before we even get to know each other. ;3



ビちゃ～ん。
Bi-chan.