Aside from that, nothing too bizarre to report, considering I've only just woken up. Missed my lab class, but I'm making it up tomorrow.
Psych exam in an two hours and twenty minutes. I need to study and read a novel before that. *insert whining here* Then again, if I had just been more responsible, this wouldn't be happening. Ehnnn...
- Mood:
tired
It's pink... And has more Death Note. Why? Because Bri put me on a Death Note kick. Hrm...
I'm tired. Like, very tired. After tonight's psych review, I'm probably going to come back here and collapse.
So... Silent Hill (and by "Silent Hill," I mean the enviornment given to us in Silent Hills 2 and 3) is a demonic town with your worst psychological nightmares running around in it. There is, according to the map and levels, an abandoned apartment complex, a hospital, several restaurants, a church, a bar (that leaves you some rather revealing messages), a flower shop, a medical clinic, a bank, a strip-club, a gas-station and a hotel and that's just the 2nd game.
My question is: What would the game be like if, instead of a writer, a clerk, a teenage girl, someone who probably works from home and some kind of PTSD-type soldier, the Tsviets were placed in Silent Hill with the mission to LEAVE? You'd think that would be enormously easy but either the character has a reason for hanging around (James wants to find his dead wife and refuses to leave town by car) or the town won't let them leave (usually by way of destroying the roads).
Makes me want to start another fanfic project. A lot. So, things I would need to think about:
- All of them have some kind of complex that could be twisted into some truly gruesome monsters (Azul gets some heavy-defense baddies that aren't responding to the traditional beatings, Nero gets some kind of Eldritch Abomination form of his mom to represent the guilt I'm assuming he has in the back of his mind, etc.). The thing is that there are some people that would be harder to pin down. (Weiss, for example, I can't see having too huge of an issue.) If I was going to pop him into a Silent Hill setting, I'd need to dig around in his psychology for something.
- Would I split them up? Traditionally, Silent Hills are a journey to the center of the mind type game and that would be difficult to pull off in groups. However, I don't think the Tsviets would go off exploring highly unknown territory without employing the buddy system(the surface area around Midgar is one thing, Silent Hill is entirely a different one). (Hahaha, just got the greatest image of Weiss going, "Okay, find your buddy and hold his hand." "I don't vant to. He'll crush eet." "Rosso, hold Azul's hand." Ohhh... Tsviets..)
- How did they wind up in Silent freaking Hill? I don't want to resort to lame cross-overy "They Just Popped Up There." My only (semi-canon) choice would be to get DG to experiment with portal technology a la Aperture Science. Or I could do AU, but I do everything AU.
- More to be added.
- Mood: tired
Suuuuch a packed month, what with Rally and everything. Rally is a Sage thing that I don't really get. Something about campus-wide community service projects and school spirit. Apparently its super important and not doing it puts you into a state of eternal social awkward. It's like a pep rally from high school, only it lasts all month and, during high school pep rallies, it was socially acceptable to sit around, braid each other's hair and generally make fun of the whole process.
Last night was the class dinner, with a speech from the school's president. I turned it into a (non-alcoholic) drinking game but I remembered every word. It was formal, so I wore a dress. The issue is that aforementioned dress was purchased around five years ago. I'm not sure what it says about me that it still fit. Expect pics of that too.
ARGH! I want Silent Hill: Shattered Memories... It looks like it's going to be the shit, despite all my whining about it when I first caught wind of it. Apparently, we were reading each other wrong. I saw it as a remake that was trying to be faithful to the original and failing. The game itself seems more like its trying to update the concept. I haven't played a single Silent Hill game since it left Japan, so that's going to be interesting to see.
All of this is procrastination on cleaning the room.
- Mood: tired
- Music:Dirty Harry- Gorillaz
Doing the all-nighter thing again. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate dorm life.
Moving sometime this week. Apparently I'll be recieving a new roommate named
Working on another Tsviet AMV. Gave RC the clue of, "I used Weiss/Hojo's psycho laugh at the beginning because there's a psycho laugh at the beginning of the track." Any guesses?
Tired... My cheekbones are tingling. Many reasons for that. Didn't take off my makeup properly, overload of caffiene, etc. Hey, interesting thing: Today, in Founder's while discussing my idea with the rest of the class, psycho ex-roommate keeps giggling. Wanted to turn around and go, "Excuse me, you're being really disrespectful. While that's par for the course as far as you're concerned, shut up." It's a good thing one of us has a decent amount of self-control. Clearly she can't control herself. I give her until sophomore year before she snaps and drops out/gets kicked out.
Returning to my psych homework. *sigh* I've already taken this once, for God's sake. Why again?
- Mood: tired
- Music:Runs In The Family- Amanda Palmer
Despite being a loyal fangirl to all the slender-bodied, long-haired eccentrics that Squeenix and anime faithfully provide for me, somtimes I find myself needing a bit more to my media intake; I'll need some manner of gore to keep me entertained. The Greeks would watch tragic war-stories, filled with either fake or imagined gore because it was a form of catharsis. Emotional cleansing. Fantastic, then. I'm doing as the Greeks did. I'll toss in Umineko, God of War, Resident Evil (Nemesis only, if you please) or Silent Hill for that. But then I'm too lazy. I don't want to have to use my hands to get my fix. So I turn to movies.
I don't really watch movies all that often. When I do, it's always either Disney or slasher films/B-movies/horror films. Tonight, I purchased Firestarter (because it's practically my duty as a Mainer to worship Stephen King's work, and he's good at what he writes anyway), Blood Relations (I've never heard of this movie before I bought it), Scream 3 (Never seen it), Dogma (seen it a million times and laaaaaaaaughed), and finally, the topic of my rambling tonight, the 2003 remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
( Cut for Texas Chainsaw Massacre meeting the Tsviets )
While I love movies that are just this side of mindless gore, I think they might be a bit unhealthy but not in the worst way they could be.
( Cut for Rant and Misandry )
Ranting is good for the soul.
EDIT: MEME!
Give me a character from any fandom I know at least fairly well, and I will tell you:
A) My OTP
B) The runner up
C) The anti-ship
D) My unpopular fannish opinion on said character
E) One person he/she never fell in love with, and why
- Mood:
blah - Music:Lucy At the Gym- Jill Sobule
Matchstick has broken through to six pages. I'm going to do about two more. I'm a bit shaky on Shelke's voice though. She's going through some emotional stuff, so I can't make her the usual Shelke, but I don't want to dramatize the piss out of her. Weiss... Ugh, Weiss... Big, fat, villainous Weiss... Nero's a sweetie-face, though. Moreso than Weiss, anyway.
So, yeah...
- Mood:
cold
I'm not sure how it happened (though I'm sure RC's epic character explication and Yukiko's work on her Dirge AMV have a hand in it), but I'm writing away on Matchstick again. Let's see where this goes. :DDD
Thought: Video for Shelke and Girl Anachronism sounds like a fun Summer project. The song could work to be honest.
( Quite lengthy detailing )
There's another two verses plus the end that I have no idea how to handle right now. I'll get back on that later.
( Letters )
- Mood:
amused - Music:24/7- Nikki Webster (XD)
You're currently speaking to the portion of my brain that hasn't been recently hijacked by the Dresden Dolls CDs that my big sister burned for my yesterday. The parties that have been hijacked include:
Dirge of Cerberus ("Runs in the Family" Oh Gawd... "We tend to bruise easily / Mad in the blood / I'm telling you 'cause I just want you to know me / know me and my family/ We're wonderful folks, but don't get too close to me." And Shelke... SHELKE! AMPERSAND! OH GAWD! "and I'm not gonna match you / cause I'll lose my voice completely yeah / I'm just gonna watch you / Cause I'm not the one that's crazy")
Kingdom Hearts (Straight with Strings! Jesus Christ, hullo, Axel. And Bad Habit. Oh my GAWD, Bad Habit!!! )
Gorillaz (quite forgotten. But Bri and I have always been convinced that if 2D and Amanda ever had babies, they would have mad musical skills but probably either die or kill themselves before their talents reached frutition.)
I'll put up something more coherent later. :D
- Mood: jubilant
Feeling a little dead. Quite the active day yesterday. I had woken up to Bri's wake-up call, which amounted to her going, "Get up. C'mon, get up," in Weiss' voice. I love her sometimes. :DDD
Then I had Psych, which could have been better but wasn't necessarily bad. Literature after that, which makes me wonder why a science major is taking a class where she will repeatedly be hosed by a pack of English majors. Oh, and there's a guy in one of my classes, which makes no sense. I went to an all-girl's school for a very good reason.
After that, I went all fitness-crazed and hauled myself (and my roommate down to the gym). Ten minutes on the stair-stepper, ten minutes on the bike and 15 minutes on the weight machines. Then Aikido a few hours after that for another two hours. Wooo... Then me and the roommate hauled out of the dorms to go on a mystical quest to find a Dunkin Donuts that was open (there wasn't. Boo....) and eventually settled for Gino's Pizzeria to study Chem.
Plastic Beach is coming out on March 8th and I'm not really sure how to feel about that. I mean, on one hand, it's freaking Gorillaz. On the other hand, they've collaborated with everyone and their mother, to a point where only about a fifth of the songs on this album are actually them (as opposed to Demon Days, in which only a quarter of the songs were them). They've hauled the album out of Essex to someplace off the coast of Africa and, if you believe Murdoc (which you kind of have to at this point), they've assembled something along the lines of an island with a studio attached, but the island is kind of a boat. I really have no idea what's going on anymore. Something about pirates, if Murdoc is to be believed.
RC and Bri have managed to pull me back onto the Dirge fandom. Here's the thing though: Headcanon!Battler is so utterly okay with this that it makes me lurve him still. So Weiss is kinda glaring at him and he's like, "What?"
I have a six hour workshift today. I believe the term is FML.
Had MASSIVE amounts of inspiration for MLIA yesterday. Imagine being asleep in your bed but something is repeatedly prodding you in your arm. You wake up, andGonna go pack for class.
- Mood: calm
I don't usually get into fandoms this quickly. The last thing that preoccupied my head in kind of a tackle-glomp manner was Gorillaz, but that was an unusual case.
Today, I was watching Umineko no Naku Koro Ni clips with my roommate and my head focused on it's red-headed "fake protagonist" (quoth the roomie). I'm about to watch some of the actual anime, but this guy could very well usurp Weiss' throne of my constant preoccupation.
We shall see.
- Mood:
confused
My courses this semester are:
* Calc: Same thing as last year.
* Chem: Lalala~ Favorite class!
* Founders: Same thing as last year, only this is the reason for all the recording (Speaking of the recording, I laid down the vocals for the track this morning before leaving. Honestly, it was 6:45 in the morning and I'm like, "Yeah, I'll do it.")
* Psych: I've technically already taken this, but I have to take it again. I like Psychology though, so it's all good.
* Poetry: I'm taking a course spanning from 1650 to 1850. I had missed English courses last semester. As Bri and I have started saying, "Sad bass." (As opposed to "sad face." Long, weird story involving Gorillaz.)
Tomorrow, I'll be getting my Psychology and Poetry books before proceeding to do absolutely nothing.
(PS: On the Gorillaz website, when you go into the carpark, "Murdoc is God" is blaring from the Winnebago. Well, today, I'm sitting in a carpark waiting for my mom and "Murdoc is God" starts playing on my stuck-on-shuffle mp3 player. You can't make this up. XDDD)
- Mood: amused
- Music:Fireflies- Owl City
I've got some breed of inspiration of My Life Is Average. Glee.
I've got a bit more packing to do but I'll be heading back to school tomorrow. At six in the freaking morning. Ugh...
I got a new phone today. It all-too-vaguely reminds me of Vincent's phone. Heee... I would almost tear apart my Cerberus necklace to glue the charm on the phone but that would just be ridiculous. Especially when I like that necklace so much.
Hung out with Bri all of yesterday and the day before that and the day before THAT. The highlight of the night was either our impromptu date at Dunkin Donuts or our bout with Parasite Eve. I had done something truly stupid during the game. I won't spoil it, but basically you fight the final boss several times over (a la Sephiroth) and, during the last bit, I'm supposed to go around the boat I'm on to find something to kill the creature I just killed. Well, I thought that examining the creature would give me some kind of hint. The thing just jumped up and killed me when I tried.
Bri: YOU WERE A FEW SECONDS FROM BEATING T
Me: I was not. I had to fight Eve after that.
Bri: No, you didn't. Read the guide.
Me: *reads the guide* ... Oh... Okay, I'm stupid... I love you?
Note to self: Adoring Shelke does not make one a master of logic or common sense.
So, the kitty!Tsviets have been on my mind. More specifically, the phrase, "Boa Restrictor" has been circulating my head. I want to MS-Paint that stuff.
Oh, wow... Yeah, I need to sleep.
- Mood: tired
- Music:Mary Kay- Jill Sobule
Got up at 9:30 today. Not bad. Had some trippy dreams that I blame on the medicine I took to get me to fall asleep. I have no idea what happened. I remember Weiss, faking a drama play, stacking slices of delicious cake, the internet being a real place, Nero in a bookshop, cookies and Bri cutting my lawn with a giant spoon with ninja-like speed. WHAT. THE. HELL?!?
I ought to be working on Torch. I really ought to. I've got 2 out of 6 pages on it, which isn't bad, but considering it needs to go up tomorrow. Uhm...
Watched another episode of Lucky Star. Why do I like this anime? For all the implied shoujo-ai. That's why. I get too much yaoi in my system and it makes me weird. It makes me sad that you can't really wring shoujo-ai out of DoC. The most you can get is YuffiexShelke, but it has to be written really well for me to haul Shelke away from Nero and/or Weiss for ten minutes.
Dear Me,
Okay, look, I know Torch is at a weird place right now, but just WRITE IT!!! Yeah, you do need to clean your room. You have the rest of the week to do that. You have until tomorrow to get Torch finished. DO IT.
Love,
~ A.H.
- Mood: calm
- Music:Sakura Drops- Utada Hikaru
.... And proceeded to sit in front of the TV, watch some Lifetime and order my new books for this semester?
I'm wicked on my books, despite being camped in front of Desparate Housewives right now. Anyone read Girl, Interrupted? Anyone aware that there was a movie out about it? Assuming you can stand an f-bomb every three seconds, it's amazing. Awwwwkwardly enough, Lisa (the sociopath. Played by Angelina Jolie.) is reminding me of Weiss a little more with each clip. She dresses in mostly white and is VERY okay with expressing her opinion. Doesn't help that Susanna (her bipolar "BFF" played by Winona Ryder. Also, the main character.) is small, dark and quiet *ahem*Nero*ahem*.
Another thing I read is Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson (of Speak fame. I'm bitter over that book. It's one of those "I read that book before it was in everyone's library and was made into a movie" situations.). Amazing book. :D The main character talks like Shelke for a good third of the book.
I recorded my bassline yesterday. I'm prime at everything but the chorus. We kept it though. Dad's going to record the guitar parts within the next few days and then I lay down the vocals and then we're done with it. Then all I need to do is do the actual HTML for the website. Wheeeee...
SInce I"ve only just woken up, nothing's really happened. So, I'll have more later.
- Mood:
hungry
Back from Bri's after a rather random visit. I need to practice a bit, but I think I'll be recording tomorrow. The recording keeps getting put off. Urk...
I brought up some of the things that were bugging me about my relationship with Bri yesterday and they were solved easily enough (read as: with less drama than there could have been). Open communication is bitchin'. :3
Dear Inspiration for My Fics,
COME BAAAAAAACK!!!!
Lurve,
~ A.H.
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yukiko_no_niwa had one up. ( Memes are awesome. )
- Mood: calm
- Music:Mr. Brightside- The Killers
In the meantime, lets have a meme taken from
kusarinokokoro ( STOP. Meme time. )
Okay... Awesome... I'm gonna sleep now...
- Mood:in pain
- Music:New Genious (Brother)- Gorillaz
Slow day. I miss school.
- Mood: tired
- Music:Hongkongaton- Gorillaz
Yep, it's so unofficial, it's official: I'm back home... With a cold. Bri got me sick and now my mom is putting all of her energy in making absolutely certain that I don't move except swallowing tea and the occasional pills. It's nice of her, really, but I'm not into being doted on. See, if I was back in the dorms, I'd be left well enough to my own devices, which would be hauling myself to CVS to pick up some tea and sleeping pills (getting the blood flowing, therefore the white blood cells flowing. White blood cells help with infections, so I should be moving). But, you know, whatever.
So... 358/2 Days makes me giggle, if only because it's a big fat fanfiction. I'm serious. All the nicknames, personalities and ideas are RIGHT THERE. The missions, the use of the word "Xiggy," Vexen insulting the living Christ out of Roxas. Getting ideas from the fandom, Mr. Nomura? The camera makes me pray that they'll be putting this little piece of glory on the PS2 as well, but that's getting my hopes up.
I got music and stuff while I was at Bri's. YAY! One of them, a Hole album from the early nineties, will definitely help with Matchstick because it's one of those dark places. The other album I got was Jill Sobule. *GLEE* I hadn't been able to find the album I wanted and was a little sad, but then I saw it in the wrong section and got it. Also picked up God of War II, because I love my JRPGs, but there comes a time in my life where I need to put aside all needs for pretty characters and symbolic story and just kill something. So... God of War...
It's snowing here. Like, a lot. I'm not looking forward to having to slog back to New York in these conditions, so I'm hoping they clear up.
Because I lurve my new camera:
( PICS! )
- Music:Kids with Guns (Hot Chip Remix)- Gorillaz
Bri has me held hostage (slave to love? You bet your ass.) in her house and has had me here for the past... Er... About a week and a half or so. She also managed to get me sick. I have a cold that renders me dead every few hours. I'm good though. Just very tired.
Erm... So... 358/2 Days is great, what I've played so far. I stopped, like, the day that Axel was all, "Lol, gonna go to Castle Oblivion now, kthnx." I was sitting there like, "So... You're gonna go kill Zexion. FML." Also, as far as video games go, I purchased God of War II and got Bri to watch the online Dirge scenes. She now lurves Weiss, much to her own chagrin.
Bri: AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!! WWWHHHYYYY DO I LIKE HIMMMM?!?
Me: Welcome to my own personal hell. ^^
Also, I got an interesting idea for a fic, but it won't happen for a while. The last 72 hours of Weiss' life... Gotta wonder how his thought process went. Interesting stuff to explore.
I'll be back home some time tomorrow, ergo back online and everything. Happy New Year to everyone! :3
- Mood:
sleepy - Music:Kingdom Hearts
