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ltgmarsI realize that the people on my friends list who regularly read updates from the tenimyu-related communities will already know all this, but I really have to comment.
Kamakari's getting an idol DVD. Gah, poor guy. As if the photobook isn't going to exploit him enough as it is (and yes, I'm still getting it if I can manage it, STFU). It's just that the DVDs always, always end up being weird/trippy/creepy/akin to soft-core porn. It's strange that people like them, 'cause they make me so incredibly uncomfortable, but I guess I'm just really uncomfortable when people are doing embarrassingly vouyeristic things, taking showers with their pants on and the like... I suppose it's one of those "he's so pretty, but it's so bad... I can't tear my eyes away from the horror"-type things. And to demonstrate the effect the idol DVDs have had on my psyche:
TakiEiji, despite his hawt buchouness, isn't one of my OMG!! favorite cast members because seeing clips of his DVD completely freaked me out. [And Souta's DVD? Don't get me started...]
I still love KENN because I only saw screenshots of his DVD (and really, I can handle still shots of people being pretty... I still didn't like the creepy, rolling-around-topless-on-the-beach-like-he's-dead shots, though). And dayum, the boy can sing, but that's beside the point.
MoriEiji still rocks my socks because he was never tainted by the evil phenomenon that is idol DVDs (he's probably too old to be an idol, haha). XD
The worst part is that I think I still want to watch Kamakari's DVD. >< Thank God I can't play region 2 DVDs, 'cause otherwise I may actually consider getting one. And then I'd be damned to hell, which would kind of suck.
But hey, to each her own (I'm using "her" here because I'm pretty sure no guys are out there buying these DVDs). I suppose if they didn't make me so uncomfortable, I'd like them, too. Maybe. Probably not.
But look at the pretty pictures (Katou, Saitou, and Kamakari)! Aw, why so angsty, Kenta-kun [I just want to eat you asdfafhlasgflasj]?
Enough of that.
クリスマス？！
From Diki:
Megatokyo 2
Yotsuba&! 2-3
some scholarly book on anime
(for: Alien Nine collection)
From Father:
a cute little "Subliminal Japanese" language course
(for: Dilbert daily calendar)
From Mother:
iPod nano [actually, she got one for each of us]
(for: Martha Stewart cookbook)
And even though I didn't (still don't) particularly need an iPod, it's fun, even though too many of my songs are encoded at 320kbps, so only, like, ten of them fit on there.
Our goofy family activities during the day were mapping out all of our road trips (we've visited 42 of the 48 contiguous states, and if we play our cards right, we can get the other six before I ship off to college), my teaching everyone how to use an iPod (I was the one with a car and enough tech knowledge back in the day to help Ilse with her first iPod), and a rousing round of Taboo (me/Diki vs. Mommy/Daddy).
Mommy: *looks at the card: JUMP* So I can't use these words on the card, right? (taboo words include "skip", "hop", etc.)
Me: Right.
Mommy: ... lompat! (Indonesian word for "jump")
Me: *smacks forehead*
Diki: Okay, I think we need to put down some ground rules on the languages we can use...
Of course, Diki and I thoroughly schooled our parents (67 to 33). Some particularly good hints/guesses were:
Me: Uhm... ticket cube for the president...?
Diki: Ballot box!
Diki: Okay, so you're watching the tube, and you're, uh, going down...
Me: Channel surfing!
Daddy: WTF?! ('cept, you know, all Indonesian)
Diki: [some strange, vague clues]
Me: Uh...
Diki: It's an insult.
Me: Freak. (Oh, how we know each other too well...)
And my mom got the word "booger", and my dad only knew the Indonesian word for it, but we were charitable and gave it to them anyway. XD
I hope everyone has a nice rest-of-the-holidays, even if you didn't have particularly Merry Christmases. ;_;
Kamakari's getting an idol DVD. Gah, poor guy. As if the photobook isn't going to exploit him enough as it is (and yes, I'm still getting it if I can manage it, STFU). It's just that the DVDs always, always end up being weird/trippy/creepy/akin to soft-core porn. It's strange that people like them, 'cause they make me so incredibly uncomfortable, but I guess I'm just really uncomfortable when people are doing embarrassingly vouyeristic things, taking showers with their pants on and the like... I suppose it's one of those "he's so pretty, but it's so bad... I can't tear my eyes away from the horror"-type things. And to demonstrate the effect the idol DVDs have had on my psyche:
The worst part is that I think I still want to watch Kamakari's DVD. >< Thank God I can't play region 2 DVDs, 'cause otherwise I may actually consider getting one. And then I'd be damned to hell, which would kind of suck.
But hey, to each her own (I'm using "her" here because I'm pretty sure no guys are out there buying these DVDs). I suppose if they didn't make me so uncomfortable, I'd like them, too. Maybe. Probably not.
But look at the pretty pictures (Katou, Saitou, and Kamakari)! Aw, why so angsty, Kenta-kun [I just want to eat you asdfafhlasgflasj]?
Enough of that.
クリスマス？！
From Diki:
Megatokyo 2
Yotsuba&! 2-3
some scholarly book on anime
(for: Alien Nine collection)
From Father:
a cute little "Subliminal Japanese" language course
(for: Dilbert daily calendar)
From Mother:
iPod nano [actually, she got one for each of us]
(for: Martha Stewart cookbook)
And even though I didn't (still don't) particularly need an iPod, it's fun, even though too many of my songs are encoded at 320kbps, so only, like, ten of them fit on there.
Our goofy family activities during the day were mapping out all of our road trips (we've visited 42 of the 48 contiguous states, and if we play our cards right, we can get the other six before I ship off to college), my teaching everyone how to use an iPod (I was the one with a car and enough tech knowledge back in the day to help Ilse with her first iPod), and a rousing round of Taboo (me/Diki vs. Mommy/Daddy).
Mommy: *looks at the card: JUMP* So I can't use these words on the card, right? (taboo words include "skip", "hop", etc.)
Me: Right.
Mommy: ... lompat! (Indonesian word for "jump")
Me: *smacks forehead*
Diki: Okay, I think we need to put down some ground rules on the languages we can use...
Of course, Diki and I thoroughly schooled our parents (67 to 33). Some particularly good hints/guesses were:
Me: Uhm... ticket cube for the president...?
Diki: Ballot box!
Diki: Okay, so you're watching the tube, and you're, uh, going down...
Me: Channel surfing!
Daddy: WTF?! ('cept, you know, all Indonesian)
Diki: [some strange, vague clues]
Me: Uh...
Diki: It's an insult.
Me: Freak. (Oh, how we know each other too well...)
And my mom got the word "booger", and my dad only knew the Indonesian word for it, but we were charitable and gave it to them anyway. XD
I hope everyone has a nice rest-of-the-holidays, even if you didn't have particularly Merry Christmases. ;_;
