the oyster's earrings

HE BLINDED ME -- WITH SCIENCE!

2009-12-24T08:38:01Z

So, I had planned to make a post full of delightful birthmark pictures for Aiba's birthday today, but instead, I thought I'd go with this. I'LL BE FRANK WITH YOU: I do not feel very confident about its quality (the pacing & timing's a little bit off, it was a pretty hard song to work with -- although not as hard as I first through it would be). i felt happier with my other fanvid but, oh, my god, it was every bit as fun to make, Arashi, I love you.

Warning: lots of Aibagiggles are scattered throughout this video !!! Proceed with caution, lest your internal organs melt (particularly: the heart) !!!

ghostygloom @ 2009-12-20T23:29:00

2009-12-20T12:29:50Z

SHOP PHOTOS. Alex sent me all the shop photos she bought from Japan in the mail for me to digitally preserve, & I should have them all scanned and uploaded by tomorrow, WHAT UP. I'm sending most of them back to her & China, but she bought a good handful of them for me, so I'm keeping some :3 THIS ONE UP THERE IS ONE OF MINE. basically i have a lot of sho & them all laughing. I was surprised by how small they are in my palm and how sticky their gloss shine is. I don't know what I was expecting, but I like the simplicity of their photographic paper.

❄ I wish the weather would make up its dang mind!!! ONE DAY I'M SWEATING LIKE AIBA EATING SPICY FOOD, THE NEXT I'M FREEZING MY TITS OFF. And then there's days like today where I'm all confused, pigtails to keep my neck cool from the fresh breeze, but leggings under my dress so I can stay toasty warm. :(

❄ I've fallen in love with this website, because I LOVE STUFF. Specifically: I love stationary, and the particular style of products they have (vintage style, but a brown paper & tweed vintage) really floats my boat.
✓ I will be buying this set very shortly after Christmas, thank you very much!
✓ This set of string & scissors is too adorable, I wish I'd had it like three years ago where I wrapped and bound everything with cooking twine. (I mentioned my year 12 art project?! that was mostly made of paper and twine, so I stocked up on both; the excess slips of paper I'd cut STILL haven't run out and I use them as notepaper. the sections of twine, on the other hand, I have completely used up).
✓ I have some decorative tape from kikki.k, and I love that everything I tape together has little love hearts dotted over it. AWWWW.
✓ As for this, it is approximately the cutest way of selling a gift voucher I can think of. I won't be buying theirs, but if I ever give someone a gift voucher as a present, I have a handful of those tags and a typewriter at home. I THINK WE CAN ALL SEE WHERE I AM GOING WITH THIS. WE CAN ALL SEE IT INDEED.

❄ SPEAKING OF STATIONARY (in a way). The other day I mentioned the noble art of paper cutting, and although I was specifically relating stories about my scuffles with snowflakes, this is my true aspiration!!! I made a papercut necklace from a pattern in this book but something i don't know. I WANT TO BE THE DESIGNER, NOT THE CRAFTSMAN. especially considering I am not very handy. Sure did have to stick it back together with a whole lotta tape..!

ghostygloom @ 2009-12-18T22:29:00

2009-12-18T11:29:48Z

CEPHALOPODS ARE THE MOST MAJESTIC CREATURES. THEY ARE A FUCKING MIRACLE OF NATURE AND NOBODY CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE. Alex linked me to this because I fucking love that shit. My favourite part is the end where his little sucker pads press right up against the screen. My second favourite part is listening to Sigur Rós while the video is playing. just adds EVEN MORE LAYERS OF MYSTERY AND INTRIGUE, ungg.

✈ A couple of years ago I was really into animal documentaries as my source of procrastination. (True story: skimming this entry for typos, I glanced at that word and saw "prostitution". D: ) I mean, like -- three or four new ones a week from the library. Of course I don't remember jack shit in terms of "facts", because I don't have a brain for "factoids" or "trivia" or "coherency" or anything like that; but i remember THE VIBE OF THE THING, and I distinctly remember that (after anything about baaaaby animals), my favourite types were the DEEP SEA ones. I think that's a pretty common reaction, because how can you go past deep blues and sand that gets kicked up in huge puffs that look like smoke, & the way all these creatures have transparent body parts and elegance and MAJESTY. I'm currently struggling to think of things to put on that Christmas list mum keeps bugging me for (woman get off my back and quit asking for IDEAS for things to BUY for me sheesh JUST PART WITH THE COLD HARD CASH, HO HO HO <-- I am ruthless in my greed <-- i am also very much joking, FUCK YOU INTERNET, MY SARCASM METRE IS ALL OFF KILTER TODAY) & maybe what I should say is just "DEEP SEA DOCUMENTARIES". done & DONE.

✈ I realised, the other day, that ever since I started working at a clothing shop I've sort of... stopped looking at high fashion. I know it also has a lot to do with me refusing to enjoy my normal hobbies through 2009 ("I HAVE TO FOCUS ON MY THESIS. ...after this episode of shukudai-kun" <-- in other words, all my regular hobbies were REPLACED), so I haven't been keeping up with my blogroll, so I haven't been looking in the usual places. I used to at least look at a couple pictures from the major collections every single season, and every single image & video available for my favourites. But this season I think I've only checked out five or six?! And haven't been reading any articles. I connect it to working at the clothes shop because what I have increased is my Practical Clothing quota, with the magazines and books and blogs and vodcasts and shit that I've been looking at, it's been about how to work the latest trends in a practical and realistic way. WHAT I HAVEN'T DONE IS BEEN LOOKING AT WHY THESE ARE THE LATEST TRENDS, it's not really acceptable. So I went through some images of my favourite old collections that I have saved on my computer, and hopefully I'll be sliding back into my normal self. THIS IS ALSO KIND OF AN APOLOGY IN ADVANCE FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO COULDN'T CARE LESS ABOUT FASHION. i will probably post about this shit. lots. I actually haven't always prattled on about it all that much (although I distinctly remember forcing my sister to sit through a whole show with me, when I figured out where to download them from) but NOW THAT I'M BACK UP ON LJ, HOLD YOUR HORSES, HERE I COME.

paul smith fall 2007 ready to wear; john galliano spring 2008 ready to wear; alexander mcqueen fall 2008 ready to wear; alexis mabille fall 2009 couture; rodarte spring 2010 ready to wear

AT LEAST IT BRINGS THE PRETTY TO THE YARD.

✈ IF ANYBODY HAS ANY OF THESE KINDS OF ICONS that they can direct me towards, I would be ETERNALLY GRATEFUL. I have been searching for each of these for a while to NO AVAIL. I'm really picky with icons, and I have one of each of these kinds of icons to a certain degree, but I'd really like A Better One of each.
① anything OHBA
② Sho being REALLY REALLY RIDICULOUSLY GOOD LOOKING. it's bizarrely difficult. I am always drawn to pictures & icons of him acting like a lunatic (SHOCK, SHOCK, I KNOW <-- MORE WORK FOR THE SARCASM METRE it's going into overdrive tonight)
③ Ohmiya hugging!!! ANOTHER ONE THAT SHOULD BE SUPER EASY TO FIND. and yet. AND. YET. I just want one that conveys a deep squishy aww happy feeling, and I've stumbled across a few, but something i don't know, it's just not working out. they're just not doing it for me. :(=

UGH. WHY.
Tuesday: Postage.
Wednesday: Iced coffee, banana muffin; large fries & coke D:
Thursday: Strawberry milk; chilli chicken & avocado sandwich, bottle of V, bottle of water.
Friday: 2x ferrero rocher gift boxes.

(Has anybody else noticed that this list is becoming not only a list of shame at how often I spend money on frivolous items like even more clothing; but also a rather disturbing insight into my dietary habits of late? I swear to god, they have gone down the toilet, and I think that probably has a huge amount to do with how tired I feel lately. After six years without mcdonalds, I allowed myself to have it the other week, and now it's like GAME FUCKING ON. At work I used to only grab iced tea and sushi (well, okay, MOST OF THE TIME). and now I'm like "OH FUCK IT i may as well go for a thick shake and a BLT and --"
and I'll wait until 2010 to worry about it. NO SENSE DIETING OVER CHRISTMAS & NEW YEARS, AM I RIGHT?)

✈ I REFUSE to allow myself to end a post on a comment about DIETING so here is some information on how to cut elegant paper snowflakes. I distinctly remember trying it last year, and it did NOT get the promised results!!! I've always wanted to be able to cut beautiful paper shapes -- my hsc art project was a fucking paper sculpture for crap's sake!!! -- but I am no good at them AT. ALL.

in other words: SPAM ME WITH PAPER CUTTING TIPS. 123GO

ghostygloom @ 2009-12-15T11:59:00

2009-12-15T00:59:59Z

so when I opened yesterday's shukudai-kun file, this is what greeted me, and I thought yes. today is going to be a good. day.

'TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY, FA LA LA LA LA. Our Christmas tree is up, but I've been working long hours for the past week so I wasn't there to set it up, but regardless!!! It means that every time I leave my room I smell pine needles. It also means that we are stocked up on APPLE CIDER & MINCE PIES, and nothing spells christmas to me like apple cider and mince pies. If anyone's curious, faith plays no part in my life, in any way, at all -- not even enough for that to be a Choice I Made, it's just a non-entity in my upbringing and I don't really care to change that; so our christmas is far more of a tradition and um well frankly an excuse to fatten ourselves up with MINCE PIES AND CIDER DID I MENTION THE MINCE PIES AND CIDER?

It makes me miss living in Boston a whole lot, though, every Christmas since we moved back to sydney has. I miss the idea of WINTER HOLIDAYS, as in not just Santas plastered everywhere, and I miss people saying "happy holidays" instead of "merry christmas", because I love it being a season of so many different sorts of celebrations that are not only acknowledged but sort of idk, culminate to create a GENERAL SEASON OF JOY. and there's the whole run up in the US with halloween, thanksgiving, ~winter holiday of choice~, new years, AND ALL THAT SNOW. Whether or not you like the cold weather, and i do oh i do, I can't imagine that anyone hates the part of holidays where you snuggle down all cosy-like.

christmas here is like. "this bread tastes salty." "that's because i sweated all over it." "let's jump in the pool." BOOOOOOO

also decorations still consist of snowflakes which is like a fucking slap in the face >:(

✂✂✂

I watched the Densha Otoko movie the other day, and I was surprised! It was a lot sweeter than I thought it would be -- I thought it was some sort of "Valley Girl realises that a Dorky Guy has a Heart Of Gold", and also an ick average romance story ick, but she was just so lovely (and I think a lot of that has to do with the actress, because the character could have been boring) and he was just so fragile and vulnerable (and again he could have been creepy and irritating, but he was not). Also I didn't realise the main focus was the aspect of online community and all his supporters. Eita? Sasaki Kuranosuke? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE. HELLO YOU DARLING THINGS YOU.

also I actually cried at the part where he goes to deliver the pamphlets, because I am such a sensitive soul. I could totally relate to that feeling of needing to apologise for his own existence that carried through the whole film, & just felt entirely sympathetic. There are a thousand things I could say about the rest of the movie, too, little details that I really loved but ajgsjklmvoi i need to get a life. IN SUMMARY: I was expecting to be a bit more annoyed by DENSHA OTOKO but I was not! HOORAY!

I AM NOT GOING TO TELL A LIE, the summaries of the drama episodes look exactly like what I thought the movie would be, so I'm not going to even bother. I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO WITH MY DAYS. LIKE, UM. LIKE EAT MINCE PIES AND APPLE CIDER UNG

✂✂✂

sooo I actually didn't post between december 2007 and may 2009, which means my 2009 posting summary is TRUNCATED. Taken from bubbly, post the first sentence of every first post of the month from this year.

may: i haven't been posting, but not because i'm dead; just boring.
june: I watched this Japanese movie yesterday about a schoolteacher who brings a pig into his classroom and tells his students that they'll raise it, and at the end of the school year, kill and eat it.
july: it took me forever to clean out all the alcohol + soy milk bottles from when alex was over!
august: ok so a lot has happened lately, but basically I'm shit at posting about real life.
september: [ NO, HONESTLY. FEEL FREE TO SKIP D: ]
october: I can honestly say this is one of the most amazing things I've watched on youtube in a long, long time.
november: So, it's not that I've not enjoyed recent Arashi shows/media/etc. or anything, because I have!
december: Dad just sent a text from the fish & chip shop saying that he has the letter with my uni results in his hands.

OKAY, SO, AM I REALLY AS GLOOMY AS THIS MAKES ME SEEM??? Also do I betray the basic rules of capitalisation that often??? INTERESTING.

✂✂✂

PLEASE, JUDGE ME.
Wednesday: Vogue Australia; honeycomb icecream; Snickers ice cream.
Thursday: Two dresses (floral cotton rara, patchwork sleeved maxi with the square neckline), two shrugs (frill necked, 1 black and 1 yellow), a fruit&floral gauze camisole top; Worn brown faux-leather messenger bag, two light scarves (feathers, elephant one THAT I HAVE ALREADY LOST BOO HOO), melon hued nail polish.
Friday: Energy drink, bottle of water, pear & honey white iced tea; Makeup primer, vintage magazine, vintage drinking glass.
Saturday: Coffee, banana bread; So very much sushi.
Sunday: Easy Way green mango tea with lychee jelly yummmmummmmmnm.
Monday: Coffee, mango & coconut bread; Shop 'Til You Drop magazine.

ghostygloom @ 2009-12-10T14:55:00

2009-12-10T03:55:20Z

I HAVE SOMETHING TO ADMIT: I HATE ROMANCE STORIES

I can deal with romance when it's the side story, or it's done well, or both characters are fascinating -- basically, I really enjoy when it's more of a RELATIONSHIP STORY than a romance. But love triangles and wavering back and forth and plucking petals off flowers, I just can't handle the boredom. SO when I hear a summary that goes something a little like "Honey and Clover follows the lives of five college students and their love triangles," i QUITE LITERALLY CANNOT THINK of a more boring story line. Love triangles? ROMANCE FOCUS? ICK!

it turns out honey & clover (the movie, at least; I haven't started on the drama but I HAVE HIGH HOPES, please don't crush them, show) is not romance focused, but character focused, and with THAT I cannot think of anything more interesting. Like most people (I think), I don't care so much about plot if the characters are complex, interesting, well portrayed, well crafted, AND WHAT NOT. So I really liked this movie.

Also: it was very pretty.

Allow me to demonstrate.

!! WARNING !! I have a big old ladycrush on Aoi Yuu, so my fangirling of her not only rivals but I think beats out my adoration for Sakurai Sho, in this case. ENJOY THAT. I KNOW I DO.

also, SERIOUS SPOILERS, I don't hold no punches. HOOHA.

This movie really got me with how beautifully it did everything. The clothing is gorrrrgeous, the sets oh god the sets are luscious. Everything is vibrant but vintage, cool and quirky, a really gorgeous and fully developed world to sink into. And then there's the little details, like the fact that she's pouring milk in her shock. I have a thing for pouring milk. Even the phrase is gorgeous. POURING MILK. MILK. POURING IT. POURING MILK. mmm

um this girl is absolutely beautiful when she pouts her mouth like that.

every single prop seems well thought out, deeply considered, and yet completely effortless. PERFECTION.

The narration switches was a little odd, but it came up with lovely ways to make things both more and less cheesy at the same time. With a witness, it was less dramatic and more unusual, the way he fell instantly head over heels. "This was the first time I ever saw somebody fall in love."

um. um. UM. OH MY GOD, WOULDN'T YOU FALL IN LOVE, TOO? UM.

ghaoigdl movie, you have my heart

you have it forever and a day

SLEEP RUMPLED. THANK YOU.

It was so adorable, the way he grinned through his days. It should have been cheesy but somehow it was sweet.

She's an odd duck! I LIKE IT.

Sho can inject his eyes with such kindness that it's actually a little bit unfair.

AND, OH MY GOD, SO CAN SHE. SMILE. DIMPLE. PUFFY EYES. UM.

I didn't like this guy at first, but he grew on me.

I loved Hagu hiding behind Takemoto all the time! CUTE.

nooo don't look so distressed :(

it's like a wave of pretty

!!!GRINS!!!

Lots of gorgeous, contextualising still shots.

second sleeping form so far.

I really liked that page of the notebook, without really knowing why.

cute

hot

..!

I looove all the random people scattered around, that made it a fully developed world, rather than an insulated story. NICELY PLAYED, MOVIE.

INTRIGUING. WHY SO SECRETIVE, MAN?

...o-oh. oh i see.
(Actually, I really liked this, because I thought, yes, someone interesting. WEIRD REACTION? I KNOW NOT.)

oh, my god, how fucking adorable was him asking her on a date, and her accepting, and then her thanking him, and then

and then him looking SO DAMN CHUFFED

Third sleeping form.

Yes, my impulse would be to take a sneaky picture, too.

She was so sweet when she was figuring out where to go! And her arms are so long and slender *_*

gajidglks

um

UM I AM ACTUALLY BREATHLESS RIGHT NOW

gajidosjg takemoto you sweet, sweet dorkball you. I really love that he is such an uncool and kind person, and that nobody in this whole movie makes any sort of fun of him for it. At the very beginning, those three girls do, a little, but somehow it's not in a mean way.

don't leave her by herself!!! She looks so small and agsdo

I like her hands. I like the paint on her hands. I also like that dress.

I love that he cottoned on to her discomfort and invited her elsewhere.

I ADORE THAT FUCKING SMILE AGIODAS

I really hope that was Sho that had to act those parts out, hilarious.

HIM: DRIPPING WITH SWEAT, BANDANA, CHUBBY SMILE. HER: POUTY LIPS, HUGE EYES.

TOGETHER: HANNAH'S HAPPINESS.

Her hands. And the scratches on the table, the purple lighter, these props are perfection.

THANK YOU, MOVIE. THANK YOU. SOBBING.

I took about 10000000009 screencaps from when she was laying on the floor to when she stood up. It was just. She's. She's graceful and her movements are beyond my understanding. UM.

HANDS. HANDS. BODY. CLOTHING. COLOUR. HANDS.

I love that they displayed the tactility of creating with their stills, I could practically smell the paint.

UHFN SOMEBODY CALL THE DOCTOR, I'VE PASSED OUT. ARMS. SKIN. HER. AND. AGJIO

I also like that they brought in his process, because it's easy to fetishize paint and sculpture, things where your hands get messy, you can sink your teeth into those sorts of images of wild creative genius; and so something as meticulous and exacting as model building would be easy to fall by the wayside, and sure, it didn't get as much airtime. But I'll take what I can get, with lined up bottles of tiny paint, toothpick gates, tweezers, hunching tightly over small fragments of miniature buildings.

ummm no comment, they're all pretty good looking in this movie :|

BUT SHE WINS OH GOD. BEAUTY MARKS.

DUH I AM A PERVERT.

tilting your head up was a nice idea, actor.

why do they all have such lovely smiles

This commentary is really just me going, "pretty, pretty, also pretty, very pretty, lovely, nice..." BUT that's okay by me!

I loved this scene for showing how much fun it is to create, and how much fun they have doing it. I was really, snobbishly, worried about how they would tackle the art part of the "art student" setting, but it's done gorgeously. YOU HAVE MY APPROVAL.

I like the silence surrounding their clapping, the nonchalance with which they watch not only the creation of art, but the performance of its making.

THAT TAKEMOTO IS SUCH A NICE GUY.

NICE... IN MORE WAYS THAN JUST ONE, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN ;)

okay, so, confession time. At this point I thought, no, genuinely, that there was going to be a homosexual side story. Not in a tacky fan service way, maybe something even undefined or unsaid, but I thought it would be there (they did say love TRIANGLE didn't they?).

I mean, the guy is watching Takemoto being a THOROUGH DORK, and absolutely lights up with it.

Turns out that scene was just about accepting the absolutely uncool way Takemoto displays his pleasure with life. Which is really, far more valuable than making a love triangle literal.

beautiful setting, beautiful people, it's so luscious and overwhelming.

More demonstrations of different art practices.

More pouty mcpouts, and random sideliners in the scene. This is also a moment where for me, for some reason, I felt like she finally firmed up and grounded herself again. Her incredulity brought her back to earth!

I was so happy that they all became friends. aww

AWWWWWWWW

i love the way he looks at her, oh god

Of course you can't help but grin back at her brilliant smile.

!!!earring!!!

!!!NECK!!!

gorgeous

I love the way that she touched the water's edge, patting her hand gently along the ocean.

and dorky ~~homoerotica~~ is always okay with me

BFF 4EVA

seriously now, her eyes are HUGE.

THEY ALL. HAVE. GORGEOUS. SMILES. it should be illegal.

the little details are really lovely, like the way the light goes onto his chin. This moment between them was really adorable, too; it showed that they really all do have connections with each other, not just the romantic entanglements.

no comments about how beautiful the dark reflective water is, or the fact that they're in a bath. or the fact that it reminds me of a photograph of decapitated heads I've seen.

MORE DETAILS, HIS FOGGY GLASSES, BRILLIANCE.

they have cropped their faces in perfect icon style

hohhhhhh my god sobbing, her neck, her lips, her cheekbones, her hair, her half-lidded eyes, her FACE, AOI YUU. YOU MINX, YUU.

crooked glasses and hidden eyes

This was so adorable, and again, it showed something beyond ~luv~, which i ~love~.

ohhh takemoto, you are not designed to be glum.

ummm yes. just yes.

EVEN BETTER DEAR LORD.

yeah, it was cheesy, but it worked for me.

h-he may have helped. at making it work. for me.

her simply watching his hands as they create art was just lovely

Also, I think I've figured out why those two couldn't get together. Pretty sure the union of these lips would actually actively cause the world/me to explode into a thousand glorious pieces. KA POW.

I would have loved for the narration to be, "it was the first time I watched someone's heart get broken," but what made me absolutely squirm with happiness was that they didn't go there and say that, because that would have been OTT and cheesy, and agjsio. movie.

the soy sauce dragon

yamada sleeping!

okay, at this point, apart from adoring how SOFT those blankets look, I was crying a little bit at the thought of aoi literally being the only one we didn't see fake sleeping. I know her eyes were shut earlier, when she was listening to music on those giant headphones, and that was delicious, but NOT THE SAME. MOVIE. YOU KNOW THIS.

ugh ugh ghal

wait. wait a minute. movie. don't go there. don't do this to me.

DON'T DO THIS TO TAKEMURA

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
YOU DID THAT. YOU JUST WENT AND DID THAT THERE, TO HIM, AND TO ME, AND
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FLEEEE

oh my heart

it's breaking and shattering

BABY ;_____;

gahidosfj his depression is so overwhelming that it becomes amusing

and I loved that this guy was there to pick up on the ridiculousness of it, and tell him to buck the fuck up.

ILU MAYAMA. REDEEMED!

oh my god, sho, misery suits you so well. I love him all tucked up in unhappiness, curled with his cheek resting against the seatbelt. TAKEMOTO SMILES, COME BACK TO ME

this shot of the setting really made me want a million white chairs, just so I can stack them against a wall in my room. umf

D: D: D: YOU, ON THE OTHER HAND, MISERY DOES NOT SUIT. YOUR LIPS HAVE EVEN GONE PALE.

so many gorgeous textiles in this show.

a small victory for her sleeping frame, but mostly I'm unhappy.

and so is takemoto.

THEY CAN SHARE THEIR LOVE FOR STALKING.

this hill was one of the best decisions they made!

I AM TOTALLY INNOCENT IN MY LOVE FOR HIM SEARCHING FOR THINGS ON THE GROUND. NO, REALLY.

actually, the whole searching for a clover for this unlucky soul was just... adorable, beyond words. (also, I love yamada's wardrobe, with her skirts and hoodies.)

yes, yes, yes.

aww baby, regretting something?

it's just big.

IT IS FINE for you to hate him, and not just a little, but a lot. okay?

although I can understand how that might be hard. given the sex appeal of his jawline alone, and everything.

I REALLY WANT HER BACKPACK, OKAY?

creepiest shit ever

I can understand why she looks so SCARED and SAD and OH HAGUCHAN :(

not just in this scene, but in earlier ones, I love how his ability to dance has gone. it's a pretty graceless metaphor, but nice nonetheless.

& I can't believe how sweet he is for doing what little he can, in his exacting nature, by cleaning and repairing her brush so completely. (Although I was worried, for a moment, that maybe she wouldn't appreciate it; the build up of paint is SO SEDUCTIVE AN IMAGE to me, though, that I was just projecting.)

I like that he is not at the front of the pack, nor even the direct centre. one in the crowd

EVERY SINGLE SET is so full of objects and clutter that it's completely luscious. (and, on a tangent, it makes me miss my old room, which was stuffed to the gills and beautiful.)

I feel stupid, because I don't fully understand the static cat image.

ummm dear morita, ruffling your hair makes your guilt even more touching.

I WAS CRINGING. REALLY. A BLACK HOLE OF DESPAIR. REALLY.

so I was really glad when they did this.

Still subscribing entirely to abstract expressionism, which is her schtick, the act of painting so entirely is not just about her overwhelming feelings, it feels like it's about the act of painting itself, the application of oils to a surface, AND ALSO TO HER HEART.
I still hated the black hole and the change in music. but it felt less tacky when she covered it all up so entirely.

WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE HIM SLEEPING TWICE IN ONE MOVIE? THANK YOU.

I was pretty sure this guy would come back, being famous and all, but I'm really glad that he kind of shot him down. I was also glad that he was able to show that Takemoto does something, learns something, has an absolute passion. even if it doesn't have the same visual impact or appeal.

oh my god the despair

even more desolate than his red face

UFgj

my heart, my heart, my heart is BREAKING. HE BROKE MY HEART, MY ACHEY BREAKY HEART.

his facecrumple was done so well, and based on his puffy lips, swollen eyes, and the red patches all over; i'm pretty sure this wasn't the first take. It was one worth waiting for.

texxxtiiiiile

:(

:(

:(((

I don't know how many more times I can say I loved all the people and the settings and the textiles, I'm a broken record.

I love the way his hands are curled not to touch her thighs, but still to support her.

kindness and fascination will always be rewarded. TAKEMOTO, YOU AND YOUR LIFE LESSONS. UGH.

a little like pouring milk, pouring paint does me in.

UM UM UM MY HEART IS SKIPPING SO MANY BEATS. KA THUD KA THUD.

I adore her genuine grin at his confession, and the way it was okay to end there.

she is just lovely

~FIN~

The only thing I begrudge this movie is that it has made me unable to watch the TV show. I started watching it, and it looks like a really good and fun series, BUT it's completely different. The characterisations and relationships are slightly off, the actress who plays Hagumi has made her less subtle a character, or at least rather more unusual. I don't think they're wrong as such, just different. I would far have preferred to innocently have enjoyed the fun that that show looks like it would be, then find the absolute beauty that is this movie. Instead I came in from the other direction, which makes an otherwise enjoyable show really... not any good at all. :( MAYBE, WITH TIME, I WILL LEARN TO LOVE. At least wait until the bruise of amazement fades!

I'M SO HAPPY THOUGH. I really, really expected this movie to be shithouse, so much so that I skipped it when I was posting some of Sho's roles in shoaday. SUCH a pleasant surprise.

ghostygloom @ 2009-12-07T19:02:00

2009-12-07T08:02:59Z

i want to snuggle up like these duckies are snuggled up

i have NOT BEEN SLEEPING lately so I'm getting KIND OF DELIRIOUS. I was talking to customers today and every sentence seemed to end with a "maoicnzkvhgao." For example: "We don't have that one in a medium, but I can order one in from anoterafjklsdmzc,nsigojannnnf." "Were you looking for a dress for a particular occasionklmnlzkcjaiogsg?" I TRIED SO HARD TO KEEP MY TONGUE IN CHECK. DIDN'T SEEM TO WORK OUT.

☯ Yesterday G held a christmas party at her place for the girls & I got the best Santa hat in the entire world, possibly, ever from her. It's huuuuge and so long it has one big KNOT towards the top. I - I seem to have misplaced it amongst all the shit in my room, but I'm sure I'll uncover it again. Since - since less than 24 hours seems like a rather ridiculous period in which to have lost it.

☯ Also she really liked the present I got her, which makes me ridonkulously pleased. One of the items was a magazine called WOMAN from 1948, and it just hit the spot for her & I'm so glad it did. I got it from a shop around the corner that sells all sorts of fucking awesome vintage shit. I'll drop by tomorrow & tell the owner that she loved it & grab a business card to give to G (and, I don't know, I may end up buying myself a little something too..?) so that'll be AWESOME. because that shop is AWESOME. THE END.

☯ On the train, I always put my oversized bag on my lap, and my foot up on the skirting that runs along the side. Today, there was a tuna can resting just where my foot would have been, so rather than kick it aside, there I sat; uncomfortable; UNHAPPY; for the whole 20 minute ride :( Life is hard :(

☯ So last week I did this "SHO & HIS LIPS" theme for shoaday, for which I looked through um pretty much every photo shoot ever, staring intently at his lips to see whether or not they were worthy of such a theme. (NO, REALLY. IT'S A HARD LIFE.) I found too many disturbingly bad photographs and really want to do a theme week of bad photographs of him. however i'm scared of two things: 1) people fleeing the community & 2) people saying they actually like the photographs I have chosen as representative samples of "sho's worst photos"

TO CLARIFY. If anybody were to say that these photos of sho in the shawl were attractive, at all, in any way, i MIGHT just have to shoot myself in the face.* <-- linked out because there's no way I am downloading that shit onto my computer, and even LESS of a chance of me fucking reupping it. I've come across downloads of the whole photoshoot too many times & each one I have to go, "JUST SAY NO". It's time to take a stand!

Another theme idea: WHEN HIS SMILE GOES PARTICULARLY TRIANGULAR.
idea #3: bellybutton piercing? that one's not funny. just hot.

☯ SPEAKING OF COMMUNITIES: I AM A PIECE OF SHIT WHO HAS ABOUT A MILLION ICON REQUESTS TO FILL. OOPS.

☯ SPEAKING OF A MILLION REQUESTS TO FILL: ALEX KEEPS SENDING ME COCKTEASE EMAILS FROM HEATHER'S PHONE. LIKE, "HERE IS A PHOTO OF ME WITH OUR 5x10 MERCH, WHEEEEE." "WOW I SURE JUST SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON SHOP PHOTOS, OOPS!" SHUT UP. SHUT UP. KEEP ME UPDATED ON YOUR EVERY MOVE. BUT SHUT UP. AUGHSLKMCX

*eta: then again those pictures are beautiful because they inspire shit like this. gajklsjsgosi HILARIOUS. HILARIOUS. ALERT ALERT HILARIOUS ALERT

ghostygloom @ 2009-12-04T20:40:00

2009-12-04T09:40:59Z

{THE TIME CAPSULE MEME}

I've been really... bad at livejournal, lately, SORRY GUYS :( I'm really erratic with commenting and even worse with posting, oh my god oops. I used to post every day for a little while there, with a photo I'd taken that day & everything, but tbh I don't want to do that again because I'm pretty sure I can remember the sort of things I said:
"okay so there was this dress that came in today and it had a really nice print but it didn't really work with my body type but perhaps if I add a belt or get rid of the ruffle at the bottom and turn it into a tunic it could work that print is really nice but is it worth the risk of money oh what do i do WHAT DO I DO"

(I even remember that top in particular. it went on sale a couple weeks later and i still didn't buy it. REGRET)

But I always think it's super duper cute when people update with an ADORABLE OR QUIRKY PICTURE and some BULLET POINTS, so here is my attempt at copying. WISH ME LUCK

☆ I spotted my mum mixing cranberry juice with mineral water and dear lord, what brilliance. I copycatted her and it is delicious every day, about twenty times. The rate I am running through cranberry juice, it cannot be healthy. Nor can that many bubbles.
(No, I am firmly not imagining that one scene in Willy Wonka where they drift towards the ceiling and almost get chopped apart by fans. NOPE NOPE NOPE)

☆ My bedroom is right next to the freeway, which most people would think is annoying, but I love it. My nighttime routine is to hop up into bed (it's one of those ones with the shelving underneath it, so i hop UP and roll OFF) with my glasses still on and watch cars zooming by. I love it when buses pass and I can see inside, because I am nosy. It's so romantic when it's raining.
It's less romantic when the police decide to station their speed test vehicle right next to my window and WHOOP WHOOP siren every five seconds.
But the other night I saw the lightbulbs of the street lights being switched. There was a big ass truck driving along with a guy in a cherry picker just chilling out, up in the sky, changing the bulbs whenever they paused. This is the sort of detail I live for.

☆ Speaking of details I live for, I tweeted about this, but I saw a grade schooler making out with a tree the other day while I was riding the bus home. I am so happy that I am not making this shit up.

also I'm going to start making a list of things that I purchase every day, because I'm meant to be saving up and paying off a small (ish) credit card debt. I would just keep the list to myself but i'm going with the theme of PUBLIC SHAME. I'm gonna include yesterday's list because I spent a lot of money.

Yesterday: Skinny jeans, bootleg jeans, black & aqua chiffon maxi dress, marine blue cotton knee-length dress; Mum's birthday gift.
Today: Vogue Australia, In Style, Real Living, donna hay; wrapping paper, ribbon; sale price chocolate.

MAY YOU SPEND THE ENTIRE DAY FISHING

2009-11-26T01:41:01Z

OHNO SATOSHI: YOU ARE ADORED.

WHY YES, NINO. THAT FACE IS PERFECT. AS IS his high-pitched laugh, his old man mumbling way of talking, his kindness, the faces he pulls, his hands, his wide eyes, and so much more. & HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THEM ALL.

LITTLE HANNAH WAS, APPARENTLY, A PSYCOPATH WITH NO TASTE IN PICTURE FRAMES

2009-11-20T02:41:40Z

So, when we moved into this new place, I think I whinged a lot about "how much I hate going through boxes, but at least I won't have to do it for quite a while now, which is great, because nostalgia attacks can be alright, but only when you're not deciding what to keep and what to chuck, and also the stress of writing a thesis (as miniature as it may be) and packing up and moving (as close by as it may be) is wah wah poor me poor me what a hard life #firstworldproblems, so it's really good that I won't have to do this for a while".

Well. In the flurry of the move I sort of, ahem, forgot about all these boxes I'd packed and put in the garage, like, three years earlier. So we just put them on the truck and now they're sitting in my bedroom and I'm going through them, one wine box of memories at a time, and deciding what to keep and what to chuck. This makes me Not A Happy Puppy for the most part (because I am a whiny mcwhinester) BUT: I forge ahead.

Here are some of the things I have elected to throw out -
☢ Broken bookmarks
☢ Pink and purple knit legwarmers
☢ Old newspapers
☢ Candy from 2004
☢ About a million folding fans
☢ Wire glasses I stopped wearing in approx 2002

HERE are some of the things I have elected to keep -
☮ Miniature photo frames with pictures of me as a baby, not so much because I am as narcissistic as that indicates (although oh I so am) but because the frames themselves are SO TACKY, and I remember loving them. One of them is clay, and makes the area for the photo look like it is a window, with little three-dimensional curtains on either side, the left hand with frill-surrounded love hearts scattering its way down the length of the frame. In the bottom left corner, a teddy bear is curled up in a blue sofa seat, tightly hugging one of those frilly love hearts (did I mention there were stars engraved into the hearts? There are stars engraved into the hearts) with an expression of pure bliss. It's quite skilled craftsmanship! Such detail! I want to vomit. The other one is pretty elegant in comparison, it's two mounds so it's like a.. squared off 8 or something, and it's covered in silver balls, with gold roses hugging the top left and bottom right corners. Delish.
☮ Two trophies: one for being on the Capricorns soccer team from 97-98; the other for going to Math Counts in 2001. That's right, guys: I was in MATH LEAGUE. I was also a part of Model United Nations. I hope you are getting a taste of just how cool I am, and have always been.
☮ About a million folding fans (one is bright pink and has MULAN on it, current fan of choice).
☮ Keys from my apartment in Boston (I never throw out keys)
☮ Souvenirs that my host family in Japan gave me. It was only, like, a four day stay but it makes me so unhappy to think back on how badly I handled that portion of the Japan trip: I hate staying over at people's houses at the best of times, but I barely tried to communicate, which made them think I couldn't understand (and so they talked about me ALL THE TIME like I wasn't in the room), which made me cry. A lot. ANYWAY, a lot of regret comes from that, but ~a great deal of wisdom and learning through experience~.
☮ A set of "Chinese meditating balls" that were huge in the late 90s. I think I bought about twenty of them from Claire's. Just keeping this set for posterity.
☮ MY DIARY from fukken 1995. Sample entry:

"21/12/95
~~twerle~~ have had
a great, tiring,
fun and ~~full of ex~~
exciting day!
HEY!
twerlvey page!
Well five more day
to Christmas
Ho! Ho! HO!
MERRY
CHRISTMAS!
Diary listening to ~~Christmas~~
Christmas songs,
(sorry page after!)"

Wanna know why I had to say "sorry page after"?
Because on the facing page i had just written "121212121212121 12 12 12 12 12 12!!!"
and then a polite "p.t.o" at the bottom so that future me would know to please, turn over the page to get to the REAL content.

...apparently I have always been this fucking batshit insane.

(LOL WAIT I JUST TURNED THE PAGE AS LITTLE HANNAH REQUESTED AND THIS IS WHAT GREETED ME:

"makes me sing, It's REALLY X-MAS! Well I'm going on swaying my hip's I'm going. Tadaa, Hannah Hannah Hannah.")

actually this shit is comedy gold
"23 3 96
Dear Diary,
I hate it I mean Dad put my book somewhere and wont Tell me and I juSt wrote about Someone Dying in mystory-r-r-r-r-r.
I mean that could happen to me and I end up thinking about it.
SOME NIGHT.
We Even wrote a message (not that that helped much.) Well im going to mum. Bye
Luv Hannagjdsjnczn____"

ahfahahgoahhahahaha
"14.3.96
15 past 2
OH GOD DIARY
Can you believe it and i would NEVER LIE TO YOU!
Guess what? I just read my Sisters Diary it was Amazing Well if younever seeme aigain by....
YIPPEE!
dont worry about what i said i actually admitted it to ALex and BOY was She mad but im Still alive
Well all im doing is listening to the radio I started the Carall i have to do is Vacuum!
Well a really horrible thing happened! I didn't get a nintendo+20 games fFor POO!
I really hate mum I Mean it would i ever lie to you?! Imagine it you have one wish and it was SO close to coming true?
Well im going by
LUV Hannahhhhhhhh

actually Diary scribble that out; O.K? Do you think Im fat I dont i think it doesnt really matter but one thing does, theres this E-mail guy called b Derek and hes 12; O.K got that? Well he doesnt know i love him how can i get it of my mind? god everey things gone wrong.
I actually realized then that i LUV (LOVE) Mum well theres that mum hate thing to scribble out! I really Dont know what to do. I really like writing but im allways getting bored.
BYE
LUV
Hannahhhghaahh----"

I hope you all are as amused by this as I am. I may be slightly more elegant with my expression, some of the time, now (keysmashing, I'm pretty sure, is a valuable skill learned only through many years of trial & error) HOWEVER. SAD BUT TRUE: I haven't changed a bit. :|

BANDWAGON, I JOIN THEE

2009-11-18T04:46:35Z

the meme: post yr wallpaper; discuss it in 5 sentences; don't be a sneaky mcsneak and change yr desktop before posting.

☂ This wallpaper is by the fabulous woelvs ♥
☁ I use it because it makes me grin as wide as Mr. Masaki :3 every time I swap screens!
☂ also it's got plenty of space (mostly because I centred it) which means I can put all my crap on my desktop.
☁ & it's FRESH and COOL feeling, which is good for the summer.
☂ I barely ever change my desktop so I have a feeling that, next time this meme comes around, it'll still be Pikanchi & aiba & happiness.

☀ (I'm okay with that.)

MY GIRL + MAKING OF = MY COMPLETION.

2009-11-11T08:55:18Z

So, it's not that I've not enjoyed recent Arashi shows/media/etc. or anything, because I have! I really have. There's been some classic moments, some adorable things have happened, laughs have been had. Arashi has been good to me. BUT: nothing has been as good as the My Girl making of, for me, in a long, long time. I know a lot of it probably has to do with my mood, whether or not I've been REALLY INTO what I'm watching AND SUCH; but whatever the reason, this making of (compared, say, to the Crazy Moon one that's equally fresh) almost made me bust into song (1950's American musical style) for the LOVE OF ARASHI. There were great little moments, yes, but less than classic clips for the ages, it was the vibe of the thing. It was just so - so - 嵐.

WELL WHATEVER. screw my ineloquence, in summary: IT VIBED ENOUGH FOR ME TO MAKE, THAT'S RIGHT, 644 SCREENCAPS. I'm not posting them all here (saved that for you suckers following ghostygifs, nyah nyah) but I do want to share some of my thoughts, feelings, and oh so important impressions :3 :3 :333

We start out with a montage of pretty.

I'm more than a little amused that Aiba's the least pretty in this opening, but, rest assured !!! He more than makes up for it.

ohmygodohmygod

HOT TIP: I LOVE behind the scenes adventures, no matter what they're for. I'd watch "making of"s for movies and shows that I've never seen before. The whole process just is fascinating to me.

I also love Nino's outfit, but mostly, what he is doing with his hands.

MatsuJun was so PLAYFUL the whole way through, which just -- gjaldjkfdsl bubble burst of affection :3

I'm pretty sure at this point I was already emailing my sister with "HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK ALEX THIS IS HISTORY IN THE MAKING"

Pretty sure I also tweeted something about crying and shaking, but the whole experience is kind of a blur.

(also, I'm not gonna lie, this making of had a huge drawback: although there was plenty of Aiba, he was mostly alone, and barely giggled at all.)

I LOVED the cameraman of this making of.

MJ, channeling his inner puppy dog, tries to distract/tease Aiba, who looks suitably distressed.

Ohno is a harder target

but eventually cracks

giving Matsujun license to hit him.

SMACK

:3 so many matsugrins :3

GHAIOGJDSKLT_____T
I'm sorry but that is the creepiest shit I have ever seen. Sometimes Sho seriously looks like a robot or a wax model, and it always disturbs me.

This section was the most playful part of Aiba's existence in this making of, but I adored how much we saw the others chillin' in the background.

matsugrins ":D
(I'm gonna say " is the perfect sign of thick eyebrows but I don't think it works as well as I hoped.)

The cruelty of Sho's "you're a dumbass" expression is subdued by the idiocy of the way he holds up two fingers. Literally looks like he's trying to make a bunny shadow puppet.

Also: someone needs to stop giving him haircuts with a swoop fringe. It just accentuates his big old forehead and kind of makes it look like he's balding :(

:3

:3333

ninja ohno skulks like a ninja

This beautiful, beautiful cameraman-san made some beautiful cropping decisions. (I also love the scruffy wall and bucket of umbrellas.)

The other day the girls came over and, as we wolfed down buckets of Thai food, they talked about who they would let go there in any way they so pleased.

They went on about L.L. Cool Jay (?? sp ??) and I'm all "oh yeah... I vaguely know what he looks like..." which unfortunately subjected me to a few of his PVs, and a lot of their shrieking. (To be fair: turns out he is very good looking.)

ANYWAY, because they are the sweetest girls to ever be sweet, they drew me into the conversation by asking "SO. WHO WOULD YOU BANG, NO QUESTIONS ASKED."
(We're all very classy.)

And again, because at core they are the sweetest girls to ever be sweet, at my "..." they said, "it's one of your Japanese stars, isn't it."

To which I screamed

"AIBA MASAKI!!!"

(If you're interested in how the story turned out, they said "that's nice" and I said, "you know that I miss half your pop culture references, but start throwing out names and I'll say yes/no". The conversation lasted about as long as you would expect. AKA three minutes because then we got distracted by whining about work, awesome.)

(Alternate ending: I showed them pictures of him and they all agreed that he is hunkalicious.)

I mean, really. Are you kidding me.

ANYWAY. Back to the actual content of these screencaps, after Aiba discovers why they were named what they were named (and coming not to Sho's conclusion of "Aiba Masaki is a dumbass"; or my conclusion of "Aiba Masaki is delicious"; but "Aiba Masaki is lonely" <-- I may/may not be paraphrasing), good old chilled out ninja Ohno is all, "don't worry man. I didn't get it either."

"You didn't?"

"I'm not alone any more!!!"

Another thing I loved about this was how often Sho busted out the swan. Or the Egyptian. Or... whatever.

Jun strikes a retaliatory pose.

It's a good old fashioned dance off!

Jun strikes another -- oh. Oh wait. That's just how he stands.

OHNO strikes a -- wait. Oh, wait. That's just how he stands.

I can't really tell any more.

This bit made me lol so hard.

Camera-man san, I understand your impulse to zoom in on Aiba's gorgeous face.

I mean, who wouldn't!

but I'm pretty sure it means we missed some classic Nino action-packed moves there :(

OHNO TO THE RESCUE

He more than makes up for the lack with his shimmy shimmy shake.

Nino: "I'd tap that."

& I'd tap that.

KISSY KISSY

(is that Matsujun... EATING?!)

(QUICK!!! DISTRACT THE AUDIENCE!!! HIDE THE EVIDENCE!!!)

fajsijsogis group lols ajfslkcklaxm

They are better, even, than group gropes *_*

...yeah, okay. I did lie just then :(

"Forgiven."

"NOW COME INTO OUR LAIR."

agjsiojgos

acmkscosidgsgo

fajiocajgoishgid

brb

Can't believe Nino messing his hair with his hamburger hands is causing a mental meltdown.

why

why

"I don't know why..."

"but it's A-OK by me!"

(sakuraiba sneak a peek at the scene)

love Nino's outfit *_*

love Ohno's moves *_*

oh: "how'd I do"

miya: "are you fucking kidding me"

oh: "that good huh"

TRYING TO CATCH THE LAUGH TO PUT IN A JAR & SAVE FOR A RAINY DAY

I think I've said this before, and I'll probably say this again, but how beautiful I find Ohno and Ninomiya, I think, only points to how much adoring someone's personality & admiring their insides can lead to admiring their outsides.

err not very well expressed. insides = I didn't mean internal organs or anything. Although I appreciate that those innards are the bits that make these boys able to eat, breathe, live, etc.

"Th-that's a little disturbing. I think I'm a little disturbed right now."

QUICK! OHNO! BEND OVER AND DISTRACT THEM ALL.

A-AND THEN TODDLE BACK TO YOUR CHAIR LIKE A LITTLE OLD MAN. THANKS.

lonely aiba is lonely

!!! worth it !!!

just some camera-man-san love.

To be fair, he DOES look Ohno in the eyes, some of the time.

it's just...

There are more Important things to be looking at.

How excited Sho gets over this mop makes me think a little bit of that Utaban bentou challenge, when he didn't know how to use the toaster and kept trying to push the lever like it was a button.

"WHAT --"

"What IS this thing!!?"

Nino: "It's that pole we retrieved from your ass last wee--"

"Yes, yes. Very funny, Nino."

"No, you can't fool him. He's seen these things on TV before. Just didn't realise they were non-fiction."

This whole part made me think, of course, of Matsumiya's Shopping Network; but also about the KAT-TUN PV "behind the scenes" vids I've seen, in which they did these skits about workers in a factory (idk, don't ask, idgi either <-- /flurry of internet acronyms). Arashi, like KAT-TUN, was either told directly to play up to the cameras to make things interesting; or it's just their very human impulse, the cameras are on, let's be entertaining. In - in the end, it sure IS entertaining & all, but mostly awkward. IMHO.

Aiba's impression of Sho the bucktooth.

It's payback for Sho's "I can't believe how stupid you are right now" expression the whole time he was explaining the numbered naming system with the water bottles. And the characters. Of the whole PV.

I just, I don't know, Sho's face can be kind of mean sometimes, but in this case I find it a little bit understandable. (Nino agrees with me.)

I just like that it always ends with laughing ♥

I like that Nino's idea of "act natural" is to look in the opposite direction, like you really don't give a shit what's going on.

IT'S JUST SO NINO.

~& it all ends in laughing~

YES THAT FACE

There was that meme a little while ago about who in Arashi had the best eyes (or whatever), and everyone seemed to say Nino, but I'm not convinced.

Pretty sure it's Ohno and his enormous, liquid, oh so expressive eyes.

although tbh you may have noticed I am easily swayed by his little crinkled forehead :3

good looking aiba is good looking

shifty matsujun is up to something shifty

OKAY ARE YOU KIDDING ME ABOUT HOW ADORABLE THEY ARE RIGHT NOW?

why did this have to happen after my fanvid was completed :(

okay, everyone else's opinion: is sho reading a script or an ACTUAL BOOK!?
that would kind of be amazing.
(I just love that he's all "leave me alone" via the universal signifier of HEADPHONES. !!!adorable!!!)

oh matsujun. You have your 1950's pin up model pose confused with 1960's sex kitten!

I'm just gonna pretend Ohno isn't looking where he's looking, okay?

"I see what's going on here."

matsujun calls ohno

hangs up

& pretends it wasn't him.

"doot de doot de doot"

ohno: hm. must have been a wrong number.

MJ attacks again.

stifling his laughter = smooth, real smooth

"UFUFUFU. you have just been crank called MATSUJUN STYLE. BOO YEAH."

"ATTAAAACK!"

(what happens next is censored)

(wink, wink. nudge, nudge.)

I love that he doesn't let go, even as he's sliding back to his seat. AWWWWWwwwww ohno loves playful!matsujun.

Actually, the way that Ohno is with MatsuJun just makes me think how genuinely kind he is. MJ backs himself away from everyone else, just a little bit, so understandably, they do the same to him. <-- at least sakumiya give me that impression, some of the time. I'm not saying they're mean, but in behind the scenes footage they tend not to be idk, as WARM to him as they are to each other. Ohno, on the other hand, is just so gentle and genuine and open to MJ, it breaks my heart a little with the sweetness. <-- AM I THINKING TOO MUCH???

"Yes. Yes, you are."

"(Except for that part about me being a nice guy. I'm a fucking saint.)"

Far, far away from my ramblings: Arashi admires the view.

:( why is the arashi baby so ugly :(

"heh, heh"

Ohno pauses a moment to mourn what could never be.

"huh?"

"who told him it could never be"

"I SAID WHO TOLD HIM, IT COULD NEVER BE?"

"brb gonna stab a bitch"

"come on leader"

"we'll make babies if we GOD DAMN WANT TO, okay?"

"you tell him otherwise and I swear to god--"

"what was that?"

"I SAID, WHAT WAS THAT?!"

"yeah. that's what I THOUGHT you said."

"it's alright nino"

"I got your back."

"..."

THANK YOU, CAMERAMAN-SAN, for providing me with what basically looks like a facebook photo from a particularly sleazy house party. !!! AWESOME !!!

"yeah..."

"I been to a few of those in my time."

nino: "a FEW?"

ossan: "yeah... maybe half a dozen?"

ohmiya "..."

"okay"

"MAYBE a few more than that."

(look at nino and see what i mean about "how do i find this man beautiful")

:3

cameraman-san was probably told off for the up-the-nose shots

but frankly I LOVE THEM

They look like they're holding onto a train, the way they're clutching the skirting boards!

ONCE AGAIN. Twin expressions that make me realise how difficult it is to explain, to most people, why I find them so desperately attractive.

"It's not THAT hard, if you think about it."

"..is it?"

idk why but I loved MatsuJun's face during their WHOLE dorky shiritori game.

Almost as much as I loved them thoroughly bullying Sho-chan.

Although that enjoyment is pretty understandable.

favourite moment: sho, censored.

followed closely by "sho trying to deadpan it"

He is SO desperate not to laugh

matsujun: "Think he can manage it?"
nino: "UH, NO?"

matsujun: "yeah. you're probably right."

Sho, I think turning around and hiding your face is effectively cheating.

No, hiding behind the curtain like a schoolchild doesn't count, either.

I love it when you hear the vague mumblemumble of staff-san talking to them, and all of Arashi stops and snaps to attention.

OH, AND, UNG, IN MATSUJUN'S CASE EXPOSING OH SO MUCH COLLARBONE IN THE PROCESS, WHAT THE HELL

nino: "dude, SERIOUSLY, can you please STOP trying to get us to work? We're trying to start an Aibaless orgy over here."

The orgy plan didn't work out, but Sho appreciates what they do for him, anyway. If you see what I mean. Hint: It's on the left hand side.

Taking a few tips from the Nino "how to laugh" textbook. Rule #1: Always hide your face.

After that, he not-so-subtly sneaks another peek at what was on that left hand side.

Sho doing random Smooth Moves never ceases to amuse me.

Tries to dork it up and play it cool

"I don't REALLY care that you're leaving us"

but, in the end, is compelled to give him a real goodbye wave.

yep.

so, basically...

...hope you enjoyed the montage of beauty.

THE VERY IMAGE OF GRACE

I love that, when he loses his balance...

his first impulse is to laugh hysterically.

I mean, I know that's his first impulse in pretty much every situation.

"Sho" + "excessive laughter" just go together, like "bread" and "butter".

♥

...

...

:3

NO, I MEAN... I JUST LIKE THE WAY THE FABRIC OF HIS SHIRT MOVES... AS HE MOVES... THAT'S IT.

brb lolling forever, I'm pretty sure this is THE WORLD'S best facial expression.

bucktoothed sho is bucktoothed

He's just practicing. You know. For later.

"..."

"heh."

"ENTER MY LAIR."

"Is it okay?"

"Are we done?"

"Can I -"

"SWIIIIIIIIIING!"

"WHEEEEEEEEeeeee"

nino: out the fuck of my way.

n: I heard sho's been PRACTICING.

cute nino is cute

but really

as lol (and appropriate) as it is, staff-san

WHY the sinister lighting?

"come on now"

"I thought you knew me better than that."

"Well, here goes nothing."

"WELCOME TO MY LAIR."

After the congratulatory handshake,

Ohno goes for the grope.

Thoughts and impressions, MatsuJun?

"I did't mind it!"

N-no honey. On the PV. The PV. Not the grope.

"Oh."

"I guess that was okay, too."

"..."

"But I really did kind of like the grope."

"WELCOME TO MY LAIR."

NINJA NINO!!!

I love these rare instances of Nino curled against MatsuJun.

I also love that his cell phone matches his clothing.

The Ohnoface and Matsugrins, of course, go without saying.

Do you think that's their private clothing? I've always wondered if they get told by stylists what to wear; get help from stylists on what to wear; or just don't give a shit what they wear, when it comes to these sorts of behind the scenes things.

I mean, there's the shop photos, the making of videos, all of those sorts of things to -- huh? Oh. Yeah, sorry guys. "WELCOME TO OUR LAIR."

You're free to go now.

O-Ohno. You're free to go, now.

"huh?"

"ahhhhh that was good."

(my point is, if it really is their every day clothing: nino is awesome because his clothes make him look FUCKING HOT; but matsujun needs to loosen one of those buttons because it makes it look like that mop was not surgically removed from SHO, but from --)

"I'm sorry"

"Did I hear you say something?"

"...That's what I thought :)"

OHMIYA TO HIS SELF-ESTEEM RESCUE

I love Nino's elaborate little hand moves.

Partly because it's awesome in and of itself,

but also because it means Ohno has to pull plenty of facial expressions to kill time.

YES

A THOUSAND TIMES YES

WELCOME TO THEIR LAIR, INDEED

(with nino giving us a little "chipmunk sho" impression for the road)

oh-chan rubs his hands in preparation

Preparation for what?, you ask.

Ohno wonders, too.

Then he cottons on.

"ufufufu"

"you mean... THIS?"

THIS = the way he is FONDLING THE WALL throughout this whole section

made only 10,000,000x better by forehead crinkles

someone passes by in the hallway and he tries to play it cool. "They saw me. Do you think they saw me? I think they saw me."

Keeping a lookout, he re-rubs his hands.

CONSTANT VIGILANCE!

coast is clear

"something so wrong should not feel so right"

"but oh. oh does it feel right."

"oh, so right."

(am I seriously writing ohno x wall softcore?)

(I think I am.)

"With one soft hand, Ohno gripped the wall, rubbing the other slowly along his own chest."

ohno: are you for fucking real right now

ohno: okay. I guess it's pretty funny.

"WELCOME TO MY LAIR"

(ohno to wall: "yyyeaaaaahhhhh. you know you like it like that")

WHEN THE ENDING MONTAGE STARTED I ALMOST BAWLED. "DON'T BE OVER, THIS WAS ONLY THE BEST TWENTY MINUTES I COULD HAVE ASKED FOR."

& the montage cockteased us with even better footage than we had seen before

dear jun I love you from hannah

dear ohno I love you from hannah

dear sho I love you from hannah

dear nino I love you from hannah

dear aiba I love you from hannah

of course I love Aiba in this part but I also love Sho looking in what would be Nino's vicinity, going all "it was THAT CHEAP?!"

:( aiba I miss you :(

awww

:3

creepy jun is creepy

? imitating sakurap ?

? imitating jun popping out his hip ?

idek

𝄞 UM-HM-HM... AAH AH AH... ♪

♬ DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY ♬

♬ I CAN'T SURVIVE, CAN'T STAY ALIVE ♬

♬ WITHOUT YOUR SWEET LOVE, OH BABY ♬

♬ DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY, NO ♬

♬ NOW COME ON DOWN AND DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO ♬

♬ OH BABY PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY 𝄇

ohno is distracted by the view and almost drops the box

"ahhhh NUTS."

(meanwhie: pretty!aiba ninjas his way into the frame.)

okay, I have thought about this LONG AND HARD, and, although Aiba is seriously annoying when it comes to his facial expressions sometimes (I'm talking about when he's modelling and he doesn't seem to know how to relax his mouth, jaw, lips, etc. & just looks annoyingly Posed)... his body is perfect for being a professional male model.

by which I mean, it suits anything. I fucking HATE jodhpurs, but he carries them off! (Even if certain announcers are all "wtf are THOSE".) I wouldn't have cared either way about meggings: he made me LOVE them. Cropped jeans piss me off more than I can say, but I love the way he wears them.

In this case, the basic tee, coupled with some Aimiya, just makes me think: you should be a male model.

lol no guys don't be silly. of course i don't consider what you do right now actual modelling!!!

nino: "we take her out in the parking lot after dark. nobody will suspect a THING."

Away from such a sinister place, and back in the sunshine, Sho is all "hey guys. Wanna see what I can do?"

"GET READY FOR IT"

...

"I can WRITE!"

"Yes, Sho."

"Hats off to you."

"It's a valuable skill, and you are well educated to have it."

"hey, guys -- what's on this paper? I think they're called WORDS or something? idk. Sho, I heard you can help me out."

"I, uh--"

"lol i can't keep this up. SHO IDOLS ARE NOT (all) THAT DUMB."

~and it all ended in laughter~

ghostygloom @ 2009-10-24T16:35:00

2009-10-24T05:40:41Z

brb, sleeping for approx. 100 years!!!

ghostygloom @ 2009-10-15T22:45:00

2009-10-15T12:32:34Z

Okay, so, today I had to buy a scanner so that I could, uh, scan in images for my thesis. MY DAYS ARE NUMBERED. by which there is limited time left for me to do all these last minute tying-up details, let alone all the major edits I need to do. (by which I mean I have rediscovered pokémon. did you know there's an item called the CHESTO BERRY? yeah. I lolled.
and then cooked about a million into poffins and ATE THEM ALL, ho ho ho.
well okay I aka GHOST THE TRAINER did not eat them, but my chimchar Swarley did.
glad I could clarify that for you)

This is all my way of saying that I took the opportunity "a day of scanning" provided to a.) fill out that "handwriting meme" that's been so popular these days, and b.) rewatch arashi's kokuritsu DVD in the background. Well, it started out as "in the background" and then I kept spotting moments that made me either literally shriek like a baby girl, OR, screencap. Sometimes, both :(

sorry it's a total mess D: I TRIED TO MAKE MY HANDWRITING SHOW ITS BEST BEHAVIOUR, but, uhhhhhh. it's best suited to note taking IS PUTTING IT KINDLY. when it "behaves well" it looks like a cross between "something the cat dragged in" and "how a third grade girl would write". oops
ALSO: you were lucky to see my ill-considered kanji. what is "balance" I don't understand
also why is "arashi" one of the hardest characters for me to write
that's just unfair.
p.s. that blacked out name is mine. JUST IN CASE YOU COULDN'T SUSS IT OUT. i'm here to help.

so I made like a thousand screen caps in 15 minutes (I gave up having the concert "in the background" because eventually it was scanning that was "in the background"; I switched to listening to Hamish & Andy podcasts instead because I ♥ them <-- SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN THEIR NAMES IN THE "RECENTLY LOVED" MEME. TOO LATE NOW. REGRETS ABOUND) but I'm just gonna share a couple of my favourite caps okay? okay.

also if you know the concert well (and I know you do) you'll realise that these are in no order except for "THROWN TOGETHER WITH WILD ABANDON".
yeah? got a problem with "wild abandon?"
well,
enjoy.

TADA! welcome to this session of "hannah goes nuts".

asfjslkgjso sho
sho is the most beautiful when he is DURING CONCERTS.

like.... irrationally good looking.

let me clarify what I mean by that.

he can't step a foot wrong.

he hides his face an awful lot and I DON'T CARE it's amazing

ummmmmmng

he has the kindest eyes when he's looking out at the audience, and I don't care that the cynic in me would be saying something like, "he's an okay enough actor to look like he's smiling when he's waving at his fans knowing that he's gonna be caught on camera, duh". but ummm. that is not it.

he looks so tired & even that makes me adore him

okay you realise that if I was a KAT-TUN fan & he was in KAT-TUN I'd be crying over how fat he is, right?

(at least that's what je_secrets about AKANISHI JIN lead me to believe)

him, too

LUCKY I'M A HAPPY ARASHI FAN WHO LIKES MY IDOLS CHUBBY!

(if I were insane enough to even call it chubby, uggghhh)

okay moving on!! my favourite part of nino during concerts is how he is always singing along. gjaldagjaslmao
(yeah so that screencap is of him smiling not singing, what of it?)

my favourite part of this picture is not what you are thinking. unless what you are thinking is "the way matsujun is holding the mic with his pinky finger." in which case BINGO

you are cute FOREVER AND A DAY ohnooooo

how does someone make a grin with that much gum SO FUCKING CUTE, brb bawling

ok FIRST OFF, IN MY DEFENSE: IDK WHY. because aiba giggling and grinning and hopping his way through a song makes me happier & gigglier than almost anything, but, uhhh. i only have like 2 caps of him idgi

maybe I was too busy capping him instead :(

YES

FOREVER AND A DAY YES THIS MOMENT IS SO CUTE

who said ohno can't be pretty? NOT I.

mmm matsuhips. I genuinely wish I had his figure. it may be quite "athlete's shoulder" for a girl but god damn that hourglass.

asgjklgjdsgso okay i knew i had to have at least one adorable aiba picture in the batch

(for ruining the pretty pictures with captions of my thought process: you're welcome.)

also all of them & MORE are over here if you're in the mood for an arashi picfest. I KNOW I AM.

okay
actually
basically it's a great link if you're in the mood for SHO.

I've been thinking about my affection for Sho lately & how it's mostly based on my having to make up for Alex's portion (she once HATED THE MAN, i know, i know, BLASPHEMY) but now that she's admitted to her undying love & desire to have his babies (and also raise them together with him) i feel a bit like I am SET FREE to adore them all equally, like I always have, but could never admit to

that said
sho is still damn fine in this concert *_*

THAT SAID
I'm going crazy

crazier.

EXPECT A RANT POST ABOUT UNI ON MONDAY. after I hand my project over to the binders. eeeeekkk

p.s.:

TO SHARE IS TO CARE: DAY 7

2009-10-11T11:56:55Z

I know it's all uncool and boring and pedestrian to like e.e. cummings but GOD HELP ME I DO. FORGIVE ME MY SINS FOR I LOVE HIS POETRY.

so that's why for the final "free choice" day of this meme, I'm going with a POEM. even a LOVE POEM. One that everyone in the world has probably read but it always makes me smile. I LIKE MELTY CHEESE THAT MAKES ME AS MELTY AS IT IS MELTY. AND CHEESY. MELTY CHEESE & ME. <-- ? guys i'm going insane ?

1 a song | 2 a picture | 3 a book | 4 a site | 5 a video | 6 a quote | 7 a final offering

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

-------

okay and i'll post this one too because WHY THE FUCK NOT

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles; and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea

TO SHARE IS TO CARE: DAY 5

2009-10-09T01:57:52Z

TO SHARE IS TO CARE: DAY 4

2009-10-08T12:25:50Z

I woke up late & did absolutely nothing today, and (when will I ever learn) that combination ends up with me feeling emo, emo, EMO AS A NINO SOLO, so this will be SHORT & SWEET.

1 a song | 2 a picture | 3 a book | 4 a site | 5 a video | 6 a quote | 7 a final offering

The Pioneer Woman! I sort of picked this site at random but Ree takes amazing photographs, doles out amazing recipes, and serves up the witty commentary. You can't ask for much more! Basically she's an LA chic who moved to the country when she got married, so the whole "unique part" of this personal blog is not only that she's witty & her photographs & recipes are amazing, but it all takes place on a real, live ranch.

Expect lots of cows, sweeping sunsets, and hearty food. It's beautiful. (Also I haven't looked at the actual site in ages because I read it off NET NEWS WIRE aka rss feed which I also haven't looked at in aaaaages oops, but basically check out the "CONFESSIONS" and then the "COOKING" tab is my recommendation. The others are great too but those are my faaaaves.)

(also I updated my layout and I LOVE IT. it has tacky tapestry wallpaper and rounded edges and mustard yellow & teal blue mmmmm. it was my big accomplishment of the day and boy does that feel great.)

bawling, why isn't my life as exciting as fiction

TO SHARE IS TO CARE: DAY 3

2009-10-07T12:55:01Z

1 a song | 2 a picture | 3 a book | 4 a site | 5 a video | 6 a quote | 7 a final offering

ROLAND BARTHES, CAMERA LUCIDA

So, even though I'm overdosed on photography theory (crash course in HANNAH: my thesis goes to the binders on monday 19 October, oh god, and it's about a photographer) "Camera Lucida" is still a beautiful, beautiful work that gets knocked around a lot for not holding all the answers, and not being as important a theoretical text as it has been taken to be. And, sure, it's true, part of the obsessive use of the punctum is all caught up in it being "HIS FINAL WORD ON THE MATTER", but it's hard not to get caught up in a volume this romantic about a subject that is often too mechanically broken down. Camera Lucida is part theory, part memoir, about the essence of photography, death, memory, time itself. YOU KNOW, NOTHING TOO HEAVY. he talks about his recently deceased mother and finding her presence in this elusive "winter garden photograph" and it's just delightful. mmmm camera lucida. MMM roland barthes.

"Very often (too often, to my taste) I have been photographed and knew it. Now, once I feel myself observed by the lens, everything changes: I constitute myself in the process of 'posting,' I instantaneously make another body for myself, I transform myself in advance into an image. This transformation is an active one ... I lend myself to the social game, I pose, I know I am posing, I want you to know that I am posing, but (to square the circle) this additional message must in no way alter the precious essence of my individuality."
and who says theorists can't have a sense of humour??? what a cutie

(OK THIS ONE IS A BIT SPOILERY:)
"My grief wanted a just image, an image which would be both justice and and accuracy -- justesse: just an image, but a just image. Such, for me, was the Winter Garden Photograph ... This Winter Garden Photograph was for me like the last music Schumann wrote before collapsing, that first Gesang des Frühe which accords with both my mother's being and my grief at her death; I could not express this accord except by an infinite series of adjectives, which I omit, convinced however that this photograph collected all the possible predicates from which my mother's being was constituted and whose suppression or partial alteration, conversely, had sent me back to these photographs of her which had left me so unsatisfied. These same photographs, which phenomenology would call 'ordinary' objects, were merely analogical, provoking only her identity, not her truth; but the Winter Garden Photograph was indeed essential, it achieved for me, utopically, the impossible science of the unique being."

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. okay so every time I was feeling down and out and "WHY THE HELL AM I DOING THIS" this year, I turned to Sugimoto images, when what I really should have done was stare at his photographs, and then read a couple paragraphs of shit like this. IT. IT JUST GETS TO ME, OKAY??? D:

well so like I said this BIG HUNK OF PAPER i've been working on for a year goes out pretty soon and I'm not feeling good about it at all, but at the same time, I'm not really feeling very much at all. I'm not as nervous and panicked, or excited, or upset, or anything that I had expected. I still think I'm gonna be a nervous wreck when it's AT the binder's because, oh god, I'm cutting it so close and if anything goes wrong I'm screwed, but at the moment it's just kind of like "oh. there that is". and yet NOT ENTIRELY APATHETIC, I just lack any strong emotions, which I think probably has a "yet" attached and also is better than panic. I'm kind of rough around the edges I guess, but not as volatile as I can be even when nothing particular is happening. I don't know why but in general I seem to deal really well with The Big Things, and let the tiniest shit get to me so that I'm a mess.
G-GOOD THING "FINISHING UNIVERSITY" IS A PRETTY BIG DEAL!!!

I am obsessed with this man's face right now. I had planned to screencap a few from this episode of VSA to make icons from and... I - I ended up with 122 screencaps and 11 icons (and 18 gifs) and I am just getting started.

let's GET THIS PARTY STARTED RIGHT

in aiba fail ohno is cute

in ohno fail, ohno is cute!

QUESTION FOR THE AGES: IF FAIL IS SO SUCCESSFUL CAN IT STILL BE ACCURATELY CALLED "FAIL."
(PRETTY SURE THIS IS ONE OF ZENO'S PARADOXES. FUCK ACHILLES! JE IS THE NEW MATHEMATICS.)

call me a pervert all you want but i like what he is doing with his hands.

& i like what sho is doing with his hands, too ;)

NICE WORK

NICE HAND WORK

"okay, so ohno is adorable, hannah," my imaginary friends say to me. "but you have always known this. WHY THE SUDDEN NEW SPARK IN INTEREST, HUH???"

I'M GLAD YOU ASKED, IMAGINARY FRIENDS.

what really was the killer was monday night's shukudai-kun and THE HELIUM FACE. OH GOD, THE HELIUM FACE *_*

I don't know how he makes this so appealing.

HOW COULD SOMETHING SO WRONG FEEL SO RIGHT???

dear ohno:

never change.

♥ from hannah

p.s.: i will always, always love your face.

p.p.s.: no.... i mean it. I LOVE YOUR FACE.

(and what you do with it ;) )

(this post has been nino approved)

TO SHARE IS TO CARE: DAY 2

2009-10-06T07:56:20Z

1 a song | 2 a picture | 3 a book | 4 a site | 5 a video | 6 a quote | 7 a final offering

christo & jeanne-claude, "wrapped coast, little bay" 1968-9

I LOVE CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE, OKAY? LIKE. TOO MUCH TO HANDLE. It took me forever to choose one picture because their projects are each & all so startlingly beautiful (as well as fascinating to me at least). when I think of them I think of one of their monuments, or any of their landmarks, or their umbrellas project, or something else with intense visual appeal, and the trees although comparatively lacklustre, have times where the light shines through, or snow falls on top, and yum. AND YUM.

so I ended up with WRAPPED COAST because it's Australia and so many lecturers speak so fondly of how they brought new forms of art to Sydney, which I think is cute.

HOORAY FOR ART.

TO SHARE IS TO CARE: DAY 1

2009-10-05T03:30:24Z

I LIKE MEMES. this meme is "one day a week" style, so here is the schedule of sharing:
1 a song | 2 a picture | 3 a book | 4 a site | 5 a video | 6 a quote | 7 a final offering

The song I HAVE CHOSEN is Monkey & Bear by Joanna Newsom. I haven't actually listened to it in ages, but I fucking adore her, and this song is ung I don't know how to pick a favourite from Ys, but this is as close as I can get. If you don't know her, APART FROM THE TRAGEDY OF THIS SEVERE ABSENCE IN YOUR LIFE, she is known for playing the harp and for the throaty, liquid, almost-nasal quality of her voice. She's often put under the umbrella of "neo folk," which is actually pretty accurate in that this is a definite fable, and the way she uses the harp is more down to earth and intelligent use of plucking, rather than the surprisingly inelegant drumming of most classical harp pieces. Unlike her first album, Ys has an ORCHESTRAL COMPONENT, so this song is just lush; it's also long, lyrical, lovely. I've actually been lucky enough to see her live three times, and she's my favourite sort of performer: really gentle, but not subdued. There's so many crescendos and moments of fullness & feeling, and with a long tale like these songs, the music becomes the centre point, not something in the background. For me, at least, it seriously fixes me to the spot and I can focus on her songs without getting bored.

HOORAH.

ghostygloom @ 2009-09-28T22:11:00

2009-09-28T12:25:11Z

I just rewatched Ryo's VTR on MatsuJun's Shonen Club Premium interview, and I can't believe he told a story that MJ would have titled in his diary, "The Day I Tried To Have Sex With Nishikido and FAILED." Because basically... Matsujun buys him an expensive dinner, takes him to the movies, gets him drunk, invites himself back to Ryo's place for some champagne (ryo just said "in my dirty room" but I imagine them cluttered close together in a tiny, divey bedroom). Sending him home with vegetable juice!? That is just cold.

IN ITUNES -

Sort by song title
First song: 〇地点から (Original Intention)
Last song: 1812 Festival Overture, Op. 49 - Tchaikovsky

Sort by time
Shortest song: One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman - Sufjan Stevens; 0:07
Longest song: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet - Gavin Bryars; 25:57

Sort by album
First song: A RA SHI - 嵐
Last song: popplagið - sigur rós

Top 10 most played songs
1. DEPARTURES - globe
2. Villains - Rusty Santos
3. 丸の内サディスティック [EXPO ver.] - 椎名林檎
4. Intuition - Feist
5. Point of Disgust - Low
6. I Remember - Devendra Banhart
7. The Great Escape - Patrick Watson
8. MAHA - Chara
9. トライアングル　- 元ちとせ
10. Ode to Rejection - Faun Fables

First 10 songs that come up on shuffle
1. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
2. parade - yasushi yoshida
3. 親分お眠りPart.ll - 柚楽弥衣
4. One Dove - Antony & the Johnsons
5. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland
6. Dr. Smooth - Optiganally Yours
7. Paper Planes - M.I.A.
8. Peter Pan - Spleen & CocoRosie
9. Midori - Tenniscoats
10. finally we are no one - múm

Search...

"sex" - how many songs come up?:
5

"love" - how many songs come up?:
136

"you" - how many songs come up?:
257

"death" - how many songs come up?:
9

"hate" - how many songs come up?:
10 (lol 8 are the leonard cohen album "songs of love and hate," one is "whatever" by gnarls barkley, and the other is "don't become the thing you hated" by destroyer. GUESS YOU'VE FIGURED OUT I AIN'T NO DEATH METAL FAN.)

"wish" - how many songs come up?:
5

YEP. DEFINITELY CRACKED IT.

2009-09-24T09:32:26Z

MY PROPER INTERNET IS BACK!!!

I can now ignore that pesky paper I have to write (only 8000 words to go, woo) and WATCH. THOSE. EPISODES. of himitsu and vsa and shukudai-kun that I have missed out on. once you don't have access, THEY TRULY SEEM LIKE CLASSICS. I spotted a couple of screencaps of Arashi in wigs. I - YES.

YES.

YES PLEASE.

okay so instead of WIG BRILLIANCE, I've been perving over arashi all by my lonesome, catching up on some more old shows. (when I'm not busy desecrating their images in icon form, urk.) IT SHOULD BE, by this point, NO SECRET that I'm addicted to arashi no waza-ari. It is hilarious. The most boring part is when they go and eat the main "adult flavour" (sounds suss) of the evening, but, uh, it's Arashi eating. That is never not entertaining. One of the best parts of the show, on the other hand, is every time they bring the eye candy during the studio sessions. It gets kind of ridiculous.

hey there baby

mmmm jaw

why is it that even with a ridiculous expression, masaki aiba, you maintain your stunning good looks.

mmm

♥!

THIS BEAUTY

IT'S ILLEGAL

I MEAN IT

HOORAY FOR BEAUTY

Arashi is just so --

hm?

I'm forgetting someone, you say?

mj & aiba: "hm? I don't think so?"

nino: That's it. You're OVER. KO!!!!

mj: yeah but it's not OUR fault we're prettier than you?

oh NO HE DI-N'T!!!!

mj: ...urk.

I don't mean to be harsh, but the fact of the matter is that, on the whole, 2004 was not particuarly kind to Ohmiya!

especially when you compare them to Team Pretty.
(matsujun: you know who THAT means
aiba: huh?)

sadly, compared to those two, Sakurai "reliably beautiful" Sho is just kind of an afterthought.

sho: Hey, now.

I don't want to give the impression that I don't adore Ohmiya -- I really do -- and I also don't want to give the impression that I don't find them sexxxy. I really do. But they have some tough competition.

EVIDENCE TIME!!!!

Point 1: Eating.

strangely appealing? despite the old man bags under his eyes.

Those lips will never stop being luscious, no matter how tightly they are pursed.

...oooooohh :/

OUCH.

matsujun: AHHHhhhhh i find humiliation both amusing, and satisfying.

pretty!nino: I didn't see you even attempting to eat, Mr. Manorexic.

gorgeous!matsujun: GOD. THE COMPARISON BETWEEN EATING!NINO AND SNARKING!NINO... I guess it's true what they say about love making you beautiful.
(get it? nino loves to snark? but he's really the manorexic one? so he hates eating? and if what you love makes you beautiful? then snarking is making him beautiful? and eating makes him ugly?
GOD MY GAGS ARE SMOOTH SAILING.)

nino: Is he allowed to talk to me like that? I'm pretty sure he's not allowed to talk to me like that.

nino: you better watch your BACK, jun-chan. Or you might find a knife sticking out of it?

matsujun: heeeeeee.

As amusing as me playing Barbie with screencapss of idols MAY WELL BE, it's time to move on.

ANNOUNCEMENT TIME: WHO WON THAT ROUND OF "SEXY"???

I'm pretty sure we all know the answer.

HOORAY FOR HOTNESS

nino: uhghgggghhhhhe's gonna be insufferable.

sho: haha-wait. you mean matsupretty, right?

ohmiya: for someone so smart he's not very, you know. smart.

But if there's one thing nobody beats Ohno in, it's the category of "fascinating story telling faces". Last night I finally watched him on Shounen Club Premium, and immediately wondered what took me so fucking long. When he's forced to talk at length? BRILLIANCE. ABOUNDS.

It's just - his cute little old man mumbley voice. His funny faces.

His ambling way of getting to the point. His squishy cheeks when he pulls faces.

The way he uses gestures to tell stories. And the silly faces he makes to accompany them.

The way he listens. His face when he listens.

The way he laughs. His face when he laughs.

His poor posture.

His hilarious facial expressions.

HIS FACE.
Ohno. I love your face.

ohmiya: Yeah. I think we got this one in the bag.

nino: congratulations, old friend.

leader: VICTORY IS MINE.

nino: AND, BY PROXY, ALSO MINE.

sho: they're so. cute.

matsujun: aww. just let them have this one.

nino: ...I think, instead of a knife to the back? I'll go for a pen in the throat. JASON BOURNE STYLE.

Okay, so I know I said that Sho is an afterthought, but if there's one thing he excels in, it's punishment games. If you haven't watched before, they have this segment at the end of anw, where they play janken, and whoever loses... gets flicked in the forehead by the other members & the host. (It actually kind of summarises what I love about Japanese television.)

It's as brilliant as you are imagining, right now. Close your eyes. Savour the images.
Then watch an episode and piss yourself laughing.

Now, they're all good at reacting brilliantly!

FOR EXAMPLE.

Aiba gets scared, then "angry", and then giggles it away!

His quicksilver change of emotions must be very tiring :(

Ohno does his ridiculously hilarious fake anger face, when his forehead gets all crinklyagsjidguaoi i can't get enough of it.
(haha, p.s.: three guesses as to whose hand that is. I love that, even without rings, his taste shines through clearly. This is how I imagine him shopping for that watch: "This heavy, silver chunk watch is just so very MANLY! I'LL TAKE IT!!!"
Too bad the manly watch is strung around your delicate wrist, MJ. It makes for a gorgeous juxtaposition, but that's probably not that look he was going for.)

Ohno also feels betrayed whenever Nino's flick hurts him the most.
Personally, I'd feel betrayed if it didn't.

But Sho Sakulai.

He creates something special.

First, he tries to live up to his "bad boy" image and scare his abusers away.

I pretend that he looks more GANGSTA than puppydog, but... n'awww.

Here are the facts: he is cute like a puppy is cute.

Here are the other facts: he brings the homosexuality to the yard.
Yes. Even more than usual.

He tips his head back sexily and stares into the eyes of the perpetrator.

Who is then compelled, by virtue of his puppy eyes and pouty lips, to gently and carefully brush his hair away.

after The Flick, he looks all too thankful for the brief moment of pain.

It's almost creepy. He gets dozy and demure.

He just can't wait for the next turn.

Which, luckily for him, comes soon enough.

HERE. ARE. THE FACTS.
This shouldn't be as sexy as it is.

Luckily the Aiba turn sort of snaps him out of it. Nino comes over to help by pushing Sho's extra-long fringe away from Aiba's extra-large target...

...and incidentally gets smacked in the forehead in the process.
Is it just me, or does Sho's face scream "ung pull my hair harder" to anyone else?

Maybe Sho just doesn't like Nino getting all the attention. It would be consistent with his character, and HE THOUGHT IT WAS HIS TURN, DAG NABBIT.

Nino warns him: In this case, Sho? You really don't want Aiba's attention.

The warning changes Sho-chan's expression from post-orgasm bliss to one of utmost fear.

sho: NNNNNGGGKKKK.

He tries to stop a grin.

but--- no. No, he still enjoyed it.

"AhhhhhHHHhhhh."

"That one really hit the spot."

Maybe I'm just a freak? Because this picture, too, is seriously attractive to me. He has big, puffy eyes, his face is hidden, but the crook of his fingers is just really pretty. AS IS HIS TOUSLED HAIR.
(This load of screencaps, I fear, is getting accidentally RAUNCHY. I can't help it: they're such a saucy bunch.)

PHEW. Luckily, Nino randomly smelling his hand doesn't turn me on.

("YET.")

I THINK I HAVE OFFICIALLY CRACKED IT.

2009-09-23T07:40:20Z

Yeah, so, I was ridiculously exhausted all day and could only think to myself, "self: why?"
And then I remembered last night, although I really rather wish I hadn't. I was up until 3am... making... "icons".

Look, guys, it started out innocently enough. At, like, 10 or 11 last night I opened up Photoshop to play around with some icons. It's what I do before bed! It's just how I roll. So I opened this picture of MJ, which is probably one of my favourites ever because that shirt is holy hell collarbones, I just adore it! Only I was ~so uninspired~ I thought I'd try to do some doodles and things. Sort of like the Pikanchi Double flashbacks? It looks like it could be really fun.

Then I remembered: it could be really fun IF I COULD DRAW EVEN A LITTLE BIT.

Only, obviously, I am shit enough at drawing with pencil and paper, LET ALONE with a mouse. So after testing out squiggles that looked like worms and stars that looked like irritation marks, I decided to give that a pass. But, you know, the brush was already open, and I'd always wanted to see what MJ looked like with Dame Edna glasses. So... I put them on?

Ha, ha! What a lark. poorly drawn but still, to me it's good proof that he should wear purple cat's eye glasses every day of his life. The diamantes and neck chain are just icing on the cake.

But it was kind of fun, and before I closed the window I though, far out, why not. And added in some more doodles. That's meant to be a cigarette. It - well. That smoke looks a bit like broccoli.

Anyone who knows anything about me will realise I get hooked easily. I saved those two icons, I thought maybe I'd show my sister for a bit of a giggle. But then I was like... "what about MatsuKitty?"
I know, he looks a bit like a mouse? And please. Ignore the Wapanese in the corner.
The danger was that now I was starting to turn these doodles into characters.

MatsuJanette is new to makeup, but she understands the basics of defining your cheekbones and curling your eyelashes. The pearls she wears around her neck make her feel stately, an icon of classic beauty.

I'm not that very creative, or good at drawing hats, but this one made me think of Willy Wonka. (Hopefully the handy caption helps. If it's actually legible? My favourite part is the way the arrow looks like it's stabbing him in the neck.)
I also thought of the Mad Hatter, but I'm pretty sure there's already a fanvid like that. If there isn't, there should be.
(Arashi as Alice in Wonderland. Someone tell me where this came from & how I can find fic, because I'm pretty sure my brain is not that brilliant.)

stick a feather in his cap and call him a MOTHA' FUCKIN' PIMP.
I'm pretty sure all pimps wear golden medallions with the word "HOS" on it. Good advertising, you know? Like a walking billboard.

I have no idea how to draw skeletons (OR, I found out, how to spell skeleton. I keep trying to double-L it). But, then again, he's already so skinny, this much imagination was not needed. :(

It was past midnight, so I lost a bit of oomph. It was still a challenge for me, though, as my only experience with drawing facial hair comes in the form of finger moustaches. (Where you draw a moustache on the side of your index finger, then stick your finger sideways under your nose, and take pictures, so that a few years later, you and your friends, can look back, and say,: "We were such. dickheads." Yeah. Those are the ones.)

But moustaches are kind of fun! And easy!

I was actually thinking Charlie Chaplin. I took a step back and realised it looked a bit like an inappropriate Hitler reference. :(

Anyway, you know I couldn't leave it there. After all: Arashi is five people.

All I ask is forgiveness.

WE-HELLO THERE! Is that a wand, or are you just happy to see me?
Those are stars on his wizard cap. By the way.

I MEAN, NOBODY WOULD BOW DOWN TO THE GREAT PIRATE SAKULAI!
I'm gonna go with a pretty tacky joke and say, "Mr. Masked Bandit Sho, you can kidnap me anytime! ;)"
(I love how, in this picture, he already disapproves of such commentary.)

Mm. Clearly a rugged woodsman.
No, he seriously looks like he's come right out of 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. AM I RIGHT, OR AM I RIGHT.

He's an alien! Or a bug? Or Shrek.

I SAID I WASN'T GOOD AT DRAWING OKAY D: He's meant to be Dracula. I already thought about the jokes I was gonna crack when I showed them to Alex (pretty sure I should still be following my late night wisdom and not sharing these with the rest of the world, but). This may have been foreshadowed already, but: "AIBA, YOU CAN SUCK MY BLOOD ANY TIME ♥ VA VA VOOM"
Then I realised it wasn't funny when you can't tell that those are fangs and, yes, bats. The - it's meant to be a cape around his shoulders.

Frankenstein?

I love all things ghoulish (IF YOU HADN'T NOTICED??) and so I took down the glow in the dark skeleton I have hanging at the foot of my bed, for reference? Turns out it didn't actually help.... at all. :(

THOSE LOOK LIKE... ROBO NIPPLES.

Didn't you know? Three day old stubble goes across your lips, too. Inside the mouth as well. Mhm.

I was gonna make him a cosmonaut, because space is awesome, but then I realised how ambitious that was. SO I made it into an Afro.

And then DJ Ozma.

And then gave him the pimpest facial hair of them all.

Ugh, so, I still - I think - I'm pretty ashamed. All night I kept furtively looking over my shoulder, hoping to hell that my dad didn't come in to say goodnight or something. It would seriously be far, far more embarrassing than being caught watching porn. I think. At least with porn you can say "ah, well it is all Perfectly Natural". This is, uh... just fucking weird.
And funny to nobody but myself, I think? BUT I SPENT LIKE 5 HOURS OF MY LIFE MAKING THIS SHIT & I think it would be even weirder to scurry it away secretly in some hidden folder on my computer. So instead i BRING TO LIGHT MY SHAME.
If you do decide to use one of these icons? Please. Feel free not to credit.

(I'm well aware that Aiba's trio of facial hair pretty much looks like variations on snot. Pointy snot - drippy snot - messy snot.)

Oh, also, if you're still reading & haven't yet closed the window in absolute disgust: did my photographs actually come up in the last post? Alex tells me that I am living in some Delusionland, because I am apparently the only person who can actually see my shaky pictures of water :(
she may have phrased it slightly nicer than that but I'M THE ONE PARAPHRASING HERE, so it automatically goes MEAN. Anyway if you can help a sister out & tell me if you can see some crappy pics of Sydney, I WOULD be a happy camper ♥!!!

ghostygloom @ 2009-09-18T09:50:00

2009-09-17T23:52:04Z

I'm dutifully posting this a week late because I am such a good sister:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX

you are my creative, intelligent, genuine, adorable, airheaded sister and I love you to death!!! you're the stable to my psycho, the nice to my mean, the yes to my no; but we're the same when it comes to our taste in entertainment, our curiosity about the world, and of course our stunning good looks. you are my best friend in the entire world for reasons that have very little to do with the fact that we're blood related. You are one very rad chic and I'm glad that I met you in this life. whatever obsessions we run through together (CAN I GET A HELL YEAH FOR Harry Potter, zoolander, dude where's my car, Family Guy, supernatural, flight of the conchords, ARASHI, and beyond???) & however differently we enjoy & express them, I can only hope that we continue to do so for another century. (by my estimation, by the time we hit 80, modern medicine will have advanced to the point that our life expectancy will have turned to 125. y/y?.) Sorry that I'm not very good with my words, or, you know, being nice for a change, but I love you and miss you and i know you love the part of me where i procrastinate so your present is coming in the mail. maybe. one day...

Also, just returning the favour:
I LOVE SAKURAI SHO.

it may not pack quite the same punch as yr post, but ung it's so very true ♥

B B B! BOOTY CALL!! BOOTY CALL!!!

2009-09-17T14:09:49Z

So, three guesses as to what I got up to while I had no internet for these past few very long days! HINT: if you say "uni work" or "unpacking" I will laugh in your face.

flurry of text messages I sent my sister:
"UGH INTERNET PLEASE. finished my booty call vid and have NOBODY TO SHARE IT WITH"
"that would sound so messed up if you didn't know what I was talking about"
"well it's kind of questionable moral content anyway I suppose"

Okay, so, I've put selected favourite tracks from the Black Eyed Peas' THE END on a CD for work (whatever, guys, I don't need to hear about my questionable taste in music, it's FERGALICIOUS) and one of them is One Tribe. which is basically "where is the love", only dumb. (SAMPLE LYRICS: "if I had an enemy! enemy. if I had an enemy! enemy. If I had an enemy, then my enemy's gonna come and try to kill me, 'cause I'm his enemy!") ANYWAY it pretty much makes me want to stab myself in the face and also the internal organs, I kind of hate it. HOWEVER. I remember sho sakurapped "where is the love" on SHO BEAT once and since, as previously mentioned, this is a moron version of that particular song... I think you know where I am going with this. as I am clipping halter tops into beautiful presentation, I picture sakulai's face where the speakers are. (kind of like this. or this. OR THIS.) it's partly creepy, but also brilliant in about ten different ways.

I- I get my kicks where I can.

ghostygloom @ 2009-09-05T21:40:00

2009-09-05T11:57:10Z

So I've had this PAIN in my LEG for a week or so now. it's this huge pain from my hip to my knee that flares up every now and then, is incredibly painful, and then sort of melts away. Or it was, anyway. Over the course of the week it's gotten way more common, like more than once an hour, and way more painful. It was embarrassing before because I had to change my seating position on the bus or whatever, but now I can't sit still while it's flared up. And if I'm standing, I don't just twist my back, I have to, like, pull up my leg like a freaking flamingo. If I'm at home I'll curl up into a ball but the only real way of making it go away is not to make it go away but to OVERRIDE IT with other pain. So I, haha, twist and turn so that there's that burning pain when you stretch too far & it feels like your leg's gonna tear off? Yeah I do that and then I'm just like "owwww :(" but that burning pain is way better than the dull bone ache that is this MYSTERIOUS LEG TWITCH. It's starting to shoot down to the very ball of my foot, too, which makes me think I've pinched a nerve or something. I should probs check out the doctor but I think I'll wait until it gets better of it's own accord, OR: debilitatingly bad 8)

I went to celebrate my 22nd at yum cha with my PARENTS this morning because I'm lol working tomorrow (wooo happy birthday to me). AND THEN we went to see the new place because we have keys & everything, there's a week overlap and we'll move in next saturday. I'M SO EXCITED. but at the same time, packing sucks. The other day I went through a box of old school things, which is okay, but I only like nostalgia when I'm in the mood. There were good things, like a letter from my 7th grade English teacher. I also found a drawing a friend of mine did around the same time, we were super, super close at the time & she did "HANNAH IN ANIME STYLE, OR: HANIME." We went our separate ways in High School, but I still fondly remember the days when we hung around on her loft bed playing pokemon and stupid shit like that. I meant to put it up on my wall when I moved here but couldn't find it. A couple years back she died of a drug overdose and I went searching for the picture desperately again, but couldn't find it. WELL I FOUND IT NOW. I labelled which box it's in so this time, hopefully, I'll actually be able to pin or tape it up somewhere without it getting lost again. But anyway, after going through a whole freaking BOX of those sorts of shit, I was like "okay not in the mood" & i've been kind of "bleh" about it ever since. I think because I'm not particularly happy with where I am at the moment (like I've said before, I feel like I'm in between two ~STAGES IN MY LIFE~) it's kind of irritating to find things from these times where I'm sure I was just as tortured, but in memory all the difficulties have faded away and I've boiled it down to an essence: "oh, yeah, that's when I was all about making friends;" "oh, yeah, that's when I was obsessed with decorating my room and making jewellery;" "oh, yeah, that's when I took photographs every day". SHIT LIKE THAT. I guess in a few year's time I'll look back at shit from around now and go "oh yeah that's when my life revolved around Arashi. Wasn't I writing some sort of thesis or something at the time?" haha oops.

SPEAKING OF ARASHI.

I FLIP FLOP when it comes to GOLDEN RUSH ARASHI. There are moments where I absolutely adore it (the set is just so bright and colourful!) and moments where I absolutely abhor it (the content is just so dull and also boring).

Matsujun and Ohno look bored, but then remember they're on TV! They try to make a variety of expressions.

Unfortunately, this is what comes out.

Nino doesn't bother.

"What. You want me to stand here awake and look interested?"

You know it's bad when even the hosts and guest are ready to walk off set.

Sleeping with your eyes open is a valuable skill Ohno has mastered over the years.

Of course, when it comes to "take a vacation on reacting," one of them missed the memo.

WHY HELLO, Sho "way too fascinated for that to be real" Sakurai.

My favourite part is the juxtaposition between him and Ninomiya "way too bored to give a shit" Kazunari.

at least matsujun's "wow how amazing" face is pretty clearly a fake.

One consistently good aspect of this show is how often they cook things, and subsequently, how often members of Arashi get on their knees

and peer at the flames like little children.

n'awwww

The other good part is how often they hang off each other, aka ALL THE TIME.

POLL TIME.
Does Golden Rush Arashi inspire homosexuality:
A) to comfort each other during their boredom
B) to distract each other from their boredom
C) to add some spice to the show
D) no more than usual

(I don't know if their hands are really visible in this screencap but that is some major OT3 action going on there. SAKULAI TOUCHES NINO TOUCHES OHNO.)

(hot.)

I DO LOVE the way that this programme showcases Matsujun's Listening Face. Matsujun's face when he's just listening to people talk is possibly one of my favourite things in the world.

It's peaceful

(by which I mean kind of blank)

and overall pretty.

Speaking of pretty: hello you sweet thing, you.

That's right, Itou-san. you make me TICK.

"SO. Think this filming is going to end anytime this century?"
"Hahahahah---hmm."

They get depressed and thoughtful at what, at first, seemed an innocent question.

Clearly this show inspires MIRACLES. See Nino eat of his own accord: at a time WHEN HE DOESN'T HAVE TO.
THAT IS how BORED HE IS.

So, when my eyes follow Sho's line of sight, they don't land on the pot.
(I'd draw another graph but I'm pretty sure you know what I'm driving at.)

While MatsuJun is busy pouring the pudding, for a while they entertain themselves with comments like "I'm so glad Matsujun is doing this! He's such a good cook! He's so careful." Then they really harp on about the careful comment because, oh my god, I have never seen somebody pour so slowly in my life.

The comments trail off into a string of half-hearted "yyeeahhh..."s.

weighing up the pros & cons of 'suicide' vs 'more waiting around'

"dude. time to move onto the next step."

do you think --

is he gonna --

SCOOOORE

nobody else can look this adorable watching something cook

"and just what do you think you're doing, mr. pot?"

When the flame-watching is over, MatsuJun decides he wants to take a sneak peek at the results. The women think this is adorable, but Arashi is so over it.

"We so don't get paid enough for this shit, man."

"AWWWESOMMMMMEEEE"

OT3 is a little disturbed by his cheery mood.

"nah, I just -- it's coooooool. like - I'm chill. Only mildly happy at my wild success."

"sure
yeah ok dude
whatever."

They try applauding his success, but, Nino... I don't think that's how you're meant to clap.

"whatever, man."

NOW WHO'S OVERLY ENTHUSED ABOUT PUDDING?

Nah, mj still takes the title.

"And... YES. yes, I am amazing after all."

They ate in sync and my cold, bitter heart melted.

They laughed in sync and the rest of my internal organs dissolved.

So, I hope you can now better understand my eternal conflict. On the one hand: yawn.

On the other hand:

A++

SO. NEXT WEEK UP IN THE "GOLDEN RUSH ARASHI" HOUSE:

ARE YOU READY FOR IT GUYS???

IT'S PRETTY THRILLING.

RICE.

Fuck yeah.