Two lists. + CAT
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ltgmarsGeneral pet peeves:
When people say "biweekly" when they mean "semiweekly"
When people don't understand the concept of correct aspect ratio
When ants crawl all over our dishes
When I've just brushed and flossed my teeth for the night and I suddenly want to eat/drink something
Today's highlights:
Grades came out today. Basically, I pwned. Appropriately, this was the first semester I was truly happy with my classes. (Too bad it took six semesters to get to this point; my other semesters were miserable enough to damage my GPA irreparably, oh woe.)
There was a spelling bee on ESPN. Favorite word was "eurystomatous" (having an expandable mouth). Favorite example sentence was the sentence for "crystophene" (buried sheets of ice in the North American tundra): "Joe had fallen asleep and left a puddle of drool on the section of his textbook about [word]."
I finished a simple demo Flash video (and relearned some basic computer science coding in the process). It had examples of clicking on the correct answer and typing in the correct answer and a video. It was about Arashi.
A cat followed Aimee home! And since Aimee lives in the apartment next to ours, we had a fun, furry visitor. So cute. >< We fed him tuna but took him back outside once he looked like he was going to crap all over the floor.
Nino x apple is my new OTP. But remember that apple = food = Ohno, so it's basically Ohmiya. Apple is just Ohno at an advanced age, when he's lost all of his hair and features and has been reduced to his shiny, red deliciousness. Nino partakes with a smile.
ETA: Cat? We've adopted him, at least for the night. It's raining and unhappy outside, and he was so eager to eat... I will be more than happy to give him some love. ♥ Aimee and I picked up some cat litter and food at RiteAid, and we just watched him successfully take a dump and bury it (in a litter box we fashioned out of a paint tray, oh how resourceful we are), so I'm feeling pretty okay about that as well. In my head I've named him Neen Bean, but since to Will that would be just another sign of my obsession and another reason to tell me to stop watching Arashi DVDs, I'll keep that in my head.
Right now he's camped out under Aimee's bed, so he'll stay in her apartment tonight. He's pretty clearly a pet cat as opposed to a stray, since he's housebroken and he responded to the sound of the can opener, but at least until it stops raining and he can go find his home again, at least for now, he's our Neen Bean.
ETA2: Aimee mentioned that we should come up with a name for him. I admitted that I've been mentally calling him "Neen Bean". Will gave me a stern, "Inez..." And Aimee said, "We'll name him in the morning." Foiled again. :/
Today's highlights:
ETA: Cat? We've adopted him, at least for the night. It's raining and unhappy outside, and he was so eager to eat... I will be more than happy to give him some love. ♥ Aimee and I picked up some cat litter and food at RiteAid, and we just watched him successfully take a dump and bury it (in a litter box we fashioned out of a paint tray, oh how resourceful we are), so I'm feeling pretty okay about that as well. In my head I've named him Neen Bean, but since to Will that would be just another sign of my obsession and another reason to tell me to stop watching Arashi DVDs, I'll keep that in my head.
Right now he's camped out under Aimee's bed, so he'll stay in her apartment tonight. He's pretty clearly a pet cat as opposed to a stray, since he's housebroken and he responded to the sound of the can opener, but at least until it stops raining and he can go find his home again, at least for now, he's our Neen Bean.
ETA2: Aimee mentioned that we should come up with a name for him. I admitted that I've been mentally calling him "Neen Bean". Will gave me a stern, "Inez..." And Aimee said, "We'll name him in the morning." Foiled again. :/
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Date: 2009-05-29 10:24 (UTC)Also, I really want to watch a spelling bee on sports TV! Here it's all baseball, with the occasional sumo update.
You should help me to make my blag flashier so that all the people on my F-list will be entertained. Maybe it can be S.H.E-themed? I'm trying hard to develop my atrophied fandom-muscles. Ella is my favorite -- she's the best singer and seems the most down-to-earth -- but I also think Hebe and Selina are adorable, so sometimes I'm torn. I feel like I haven't really elicited your thoughts on my new favorite group or their opus -- are you also impressed, or not so much?
I hope you have a beautiful Friday morning!
Re: :)
Date: 2009-05-29 23:54 (UTC)I haven't looked into your group too much, but they seem cute. That one down there v has been pushing K-pop on me. I think you should post more with videos, music, musings, etc.
You should also have some user pics. It's weird to see a comment without one.
♥
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Date: 2009-05-30 01:25 (UTC)I'm a little confused on what to do for the GRE, too -- I wonder when I should start studying. I think it'll be a pretty big mountain to climb while I'm over here. Let's help each other try hard!
<3
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Date: 2009-05-29 17:50 (UTC)congratulations on your grades, though. i'm sure you worked hard, and will continue to, and grad. schools will engage in battle royale for you.
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Date: 2009-05-29 23:55 (UTC)Grad schools will not love me if I don't know what to do on the GRE. GRE. GRE. D:
Also, I've used this icon with you before, but I haven't specifically commented on it -- how amazing does Ohno look in this shot here?
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Date: 2009-05-30 00:15 (UTC)♥
arashi on MS
Date: 2009-05-30 18:20 (UTC)READ IT AND WATCH IT AND REPORT BACK TO ME WITH YOUR EXCITEMENT.
today is so full of crasturbation
Date: 2009-05-30 21:15 (UTC)Sho was a cute giggly girl when Ken was talking about Sakurap. Ahaha, so adorable. (You're crasturbating right now, aren't you?)
And fuck, Jun was such a shiny little loving fanboy, with his talk of karaoke and all. I totally buy the secret lovahs theory. Jun was reluctant to invite the rest because he wanted sexy times with Shiina in a karaoke box. Ah, Jun. ♥ Ahh, fuck. Fuck. Crasturbating. ;_;
But ahaha, the story about how Jun drowns. ♥ ♥ ♥ I am heartless, I know. I'm also trying to regain my disdain for Jun and my own dignity as a human being.
invoice:
Date: 2009-05-30 21:27 (UTC)i mean. you know i pray to shiina every night, i have her lyrics tattooed on my body, and i am going to name my child cole-ringo (after cole porter, my mom colleen, and yumiko ringo shiina), so. seeing jun shiver with fangirlsih delight at being near ringo catapulted him to number one in my heart, forever. tonight when i get home, i shall troll for more matsujun icons. and any disparaging remarks about jun henceforth is grounds for automatic defriending.
P.S.: ken x sho is my new otp. . . . no, i can't do it. sho is too gross. i'm sorry, ken, i know you have a crush on him, but he looks like a big-eyed anorexic beaver.
secretly ships it while crasturbating.
That is not happening. Jun will never be the best member of Arashi.
Date: 2009-05-30 22:40 (UTC)and i come home to this fuckery?
Date: 2009-05-31 00:22 (UTC)NO.
HE DID NOT EVEN KNOWLEDGE SHIINA'S PRESENCE. HE IS ON MY SHIT LIST NOW.
(puts naked on repeat)
jun-chan's super genki, ne? (...)
suspendersssss~
a fantastic showman.
even ohno loves jun (not that i care).
he was with some round-faced loser in this image; i cropped the ugly one out.
WAIT WRONG PICTURE
jun doesn't like ohno being this close to him, obviously. ohno, you're a creep, dude.
he's a great actor. look at his ~*~bedroom eyes~*~
he's gorgeous.
men, like this unknown salaryman on the train next to him, would leave their wives to be that piece of bread.
gayest. screencapture. ever?i don't superfically judge sexualities by stereotypes. that's childish. ALSO, OOPS WRONG PICTURE.much better.
~*~la perfecta~*~
here he is with a couple of straight guys no one cares about.
and jun-kun never gets caught in scandals, because he is true professional, ne?
(smirks)
. . .
AND HE SINGS LIKE AN ANGEL. JUN IS MY ICHIBAN. SO 'KAKKOI', NE? I HAVE TO USE FANGIRL JAPANESE IF I LIKE MATSUJUN, IT'S A REQUIREMENT, DEAL WITH IT.
(panting) did we just have hatesex?
That was... that was... ♥♥♥
Date: 2009-05-31 03:28 (UTC)Best. Hatesex. Ever. My love for you has multiplied a thousandfold. ♥ Our love...
Wait, wait, wrong.
Our love. It is pure and simple and full of sexual tension.
meanwhile, back at the ranch. . .
Date: 2009-05-31 18:10 (UTC)INEZ DID YOU READ THE JULY ISSUE OF POPOLO OR HAPPEN UPON CHANGE417'S TRANSLATION? WHERE NINO SAYS:
3 criteria to be my bride
1. Female
2. Able to speak Japanese
3. Gives me freedom
Time for myself is important
First of all, I think it’s better if my marriage partner is a female [laughs]. Though ultimately, it has nothing to do with the sex/gender. Criterion #2 is because I use Japanese to communicate. Though you can communicate with body language, but it’ll be tough for marriage life, wouldn’t it? Speaking of which, Arashi fans overseas are really good in Japanese, I’m surprised. Also, if you can give me time to play games or read manga (comics) & not disturb me when I’m doing that, I’ll be satisfied [laughs].
Ideal wedding ceremony
I’ll try my best for the sake of filial piety
If possible, I don’t want to have a wedding ceremony. I’m not interested in it either, it’s more like “I’ll do my best for the sake of filial piety”. So I guess doing it the way my parents want it would be good. Though in my family’s case, I think my parents would want my older sister to get married first [laughs]. When my sister gets married, I can find out about my parents’ ideals (on a wedding ceremony) & I’ll use that as a reference.
LET'S SPEND DAYS ANALYZING THIS. HERE IS THE ACCOMPANYING PICTURE:
what just happen :(
WHY DID HE REITERATE FIRST OF ALL I WILL MARRY A WOMAN OK. and ~*~give me freedom to have six boyfriends on the side~*~
i love how he gives a shoutout to . . . the overseas fangirls, hay i may. . . marry one of you!.
wait. did he do basically the same thing for gay men/ nino is gay tinhats like myself with the other comment?
NO. I WILL NEVER DOUBT MYSELF.
THIS WHOLE INTERVIEW IS A FUCKING GOLDMINE OF MISOGYNY. "A HOMEMAKER", "SOMEONE WHO IS SIMPLE MINDED", "SOMEONE WHO CAN CLEAN AND COOK".
I HATE JAPAN. except for nino. and ringo would cook your face if you told her to clean the house, jun, just so you know.
Oh, Japan.
Date: 2009-05-31 20:08 (UTC)Fight it, Nino! Japan's a stupid country. Just be free and gay like you want to be~! Ohno will be there for you, and he will take you to an uninhabited island (you saw that part, right? Right?) where you will have rampant sex for a very long time.
And Jun. Jun, Jun, Jun. *shakes head* By which I mean Japan. D:
In other news, I'm iffy on Nino's hairstyle here. At that length, messy and highly styled is best.
NEEDS MORE FLAIL, INEZ.
Date: 2009-05-31 20:39 (UTC)the ohmiya in this one was too fanservice-y for me. (crickets) COME ON, IT WAS. i like my ohmiya ~*~covert~*~ so i can live out my dreams of being a super secret agent
no, i'm just awed by nino's delicious answers to these inane questions. and everyone agreeing, 'yeah, nino's wife would have to actually never be around nino because he is antisocial, at the least, and an increasingly bitter gay man, at most.'
and jun is now number two, because nino = gender&sexuality/ east-asian studies major himself? (i wonder - did you see the actual article? did he really say sex/gender BECAUSE IF SO OH MAN you know how much that means to gen&sex academics).
i also am bothered by how oblivious everyone is to this. now i know i'm a tinhat, but come on! COME ON. i have a feeling he could say, well, personally, i like to be in relationships with men, but i think getting married to a woman is a duty nobody should shirk and everyone would just go nod and smile.
but yes, jun is number two. his answers were appropriately vapid and shallow, and i love him for it. as well, shut the hell up, sho, you talk way too much, nobody cares.
Sorry, sorry.
Date: 2009-05-31 21:53 (UTC)Nino is wonderful, yes. ♥ And I like my Ohmiya in any shape, really. Overt, covert, it's all the same. Also, WTF is that screenshot. (I mean, I know what it is, yeah, but WTF.)
I like how they let them explain their answers this time. I feel like in previous things like this, he's had the same answers without much else to say with them, but his explanation here is good. The line is: まず、結婚相手は女性のほうがいいかな、と(笑）。究極を言えば、性別は関係ないんでしょうけどね。
So he does say 性別 (sex) specifically. My translation would match
In the recent More interview, he talked about how he's often misunderstood (not like emo-misunderstood but like how people will be confused by what he says) because he says things but he isn't given a chance to explain himself. He explains himself nicely here.
Ah, Nino, what a complex guy. ♥ He's really good when it comes to being deliberate about what he says based on the prompts he's given, especially when he's being honest. (Like how in the Time concert he makes a comment about how Aiba cries but then turns it into explaining that that's how Arashi is -- even if their singing is bad and their dancing is bad and their talking isn't that interesting, they put their feelings into everything they do.) Honest Nino is so hard to find, but when he comes out (comes out, hah), I like him more and more.
Sorry, needs flail. Flail. That was too thoughtful, huh? Need to get out of this mood.
"Reaching" pictures are a little creepy. But. He looks so cute doing it. ♥
That's right, Nino. You brush your teeth.
And of course, this wouldn't be complete without a superficially gay-looking moment. Oh, Neen.
... That's all I've got. Kind of failing at flail today. Sorry, doll.
[now with pictures]
you look like a regular
Date: 2009-06-01 21:03 (UTC)how are you feeling today, love? i just got home from a 9-hr shift. so let's check on inez! shut up. i do not have crush on anyone, except my ichiban (niban.) matsujun <3
Re: you look like a regular
Date: 2009-06-02 03:08 (UTC)I had a fairly okay day today. Took a nap and stuff. Talked to Will about all of the things that I usually think about on my emo walks.
It seems like you're doing a little better yourself (besides the 9-hour shift and the fact that MatsuJun is still poisoning your senses). So that makes me happy, too. :D
Re: you look like a regular
Date: 2009-06-02 03:35 (UTC). . . my news 'these guys are douchebags' post has turned into a fucking pimp post of epic proportions. the kat-tun one is short, reasonable. but i used to be a huge news fan and it's showing. although i think i ranted for three paragraphs about how shige is a b-version sho, and how it disgusts me that ohno likes him.
yawn. now i don't have enough enery to do my midterm (pathetic).
BUT I AM GLAD YOU GOT YOUR FEELINGS OUT, SWEETIE. :x you know, if you ~*~ever want to talk~*~ (i burst out laughing while typing that, idk why?) give me a ring. i am usually home after 8.30pm. and i'm known for being an excellent listener (although my voice is super annoying, people get used to it).
that's my weird way of saying
call me you can call me any any time~i'm here if you need me. <3Re: you look like a regular
Date: 2009-06-02 04:10 (UTC)(I just thought of how you and others have mentioned Yamapi's dead-fish eyes, and it's so true. Nino's amazing eyes are millionz of times better, y/y?)
Good-good luck on your midterm! Ah, maybe it'll go better if it's sparkly. Good luck on your ~*~midterm~*~?
I seem to end or begin a lot of these with hearts, but it's your fault. You made me this way. ♥
Re: you look like a regular
Date: 2009-06-02 04:25 (UTC)rapedloved gently by sho and jun. i think that about sums this ~*~chat~*~ up (don't step on my ~*~*~ swag, honey.)Re: you look like a regular
Date: 2009-06-02 14:40 (UTC)Nino neck is love.
And he knows it.
Haaah. ♥
... I'm back.
Date: 2009-05-31 20:22 (UTC)And sure, cool, they can all say that they want to marry women who'll take care of the house and listen to what they say and all that, whatever, but no one bats an eye at it because it's what's normal and expected, and Japan's been conditioned to think that way for centuries. They've been in an endless loop of misogyny and homophobia for forever, and no matter what a person says or how a person acts, they're still relegated to fitting within that system.
You mentioned it before, but it's pretty true -- thinking about feminism and gender relations and the queer community in Japan is really depressing. :/
T^T
Date: 2009-05-31 21:13 (UTC)sigh. you're right, though. it's one of the reasons i dropped my east asian studies major. i'm not a particularly strong person in any case, and i often burst into tears when reading accounts of gay men and women in china, and japan - it's a different kind of sadness, yes, quiet desperation. the society at large is so sick - i don't mean that in a pejorative way, i mean the culture suffers from a pervading malaise of duty and alienation. it's not very much unlike europe after the first great war; the confusion and tawdry, mechanized masses with no real fulfillment, and no god, and no history, because they've destroyed their history, replacing it with ghostings of the most vulgar parts, but none of the sense of being.
does that make any sense at all? . . . have you ever read yukio mishima?
in his semi-autobiographical novel, confessions of a mask he touches on this beautifully. his main character, a deeply self-loathing gay man in 1930's japan, rails against the 'flower arranging' past, and is obsessed with wanting the objects of his lust to be murdered, as to retain their beauty and honour before they can be soiled by him - by gayness. in my favourite passage, he has an argument with himself about the pros and cons of marrying a woman he's been seeing. to paraphrase:
and you're not a fairy?
no.
yes, you are - remember that boy from middle school? you wanted to fuck him.
no!
yes, you're disgusting. you fetishize death, but you're afraid to die! you're afraid to live, as well.
that's not true.
it is true. who dreams of eating their lover? does that make you more of a man? to rip him apart before he can love you? you who quit the military a few days after joining? sick. like a woman. weak, putrid.
i am not! i am marrying this woman because i want her, need her.
need her, as a mask? to hide your ugly, perfumed, blood-lusting--
i like violence! who doesn't--
is staring at the clerk's legs violent? perhaps those construction workers were in need of a tailor? is that what you are, a tailor? the way you look at young men, staring at their inseams, their thighs. . .
i re-read that passage a lot. it means so much to me. i'm selfish in that i hurt for my gay sisters and brothers in japan, and it makes me so disgusted and angry at the larger society that i don't give a damn for any of their history or propaganda, because these are people who are too proud to apologize for comfort women! how much change can we expect?
it kills me. it kills me to see a story about japanese women visiting host clubs with male impersonators, or foreign or 'gentle' shojou-type men - oh, isn't that goofy? japan is so silly. no, it's not a fun story. these women are ill from their toxic society, where their husbands ignore them and their office lady jobs get them sexually harassed, and nowhere.
i feel a lot of pride in my indian heritage. i see indian women in saris, with piercings all over their face, going to the business school here, teaching history classes - not forgetting their heritage, but reconciling it. japanese people, by and large, are proud and afraid, too afraid to do that, too jingoistic and closed-off.
but i can't help but feel such an affection for the country where my best friend lives, that makes me so happy with silly pop culture, and heartrendingly gorgeous music, and delicate miniatures of mount fuji from hundreds of years ago.
LOOK WHAT YOU BROUGHT UPON YOURSELF. i'm sorry for unloading? i love you for listening to me, though. i really do <3
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Date: 2009-05-31 21:58 (UTC)I'm pretty solemn today, but. ♥
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