sanity is a figment of the imagination

...or I was just too lazy. I'm willing to bank on the second lol.

i. Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! ♥ It's the start of November and <33333 Grandmother's leaving for the Philippines tonight for three months. Jin's concert is in November, I got tickets to see Jon Stewart, plus my trip to Philly is at the end of Nov! ♥♥ I cannot wait, honestly. Hopefully I'll post more than three times in November though. lol That is just SAD. I don't think I've ever posted so little in a month. XD

ii. That said, I feel like I posted a LOT, except it was only because I was working on cross-posting my writing to a new writing community! I've been wanting my own comm for ages even though, you know, it's been forever since I've written really. :///// But for those who want to check out my comm, it's kakimakuru! ♥ Everything (or mostly everything) is over there and the tags are all nice and neat and fixed up (all alphabetical in terms of pairing names because it was the only way I could figure out how to keep everything consistent) so do check it out! I refound fics (and snippets of fics which I also reposted there) that I wish I'd finished more of. lol

But the real reason I was rushing to finish posting is because I saw this writing meme on crystallekil's journal and totally want to do it on kakimakuru. :D That way I wouldn't spam tinyangl and just spam the community. :D But if you guys are interested, you should do it too! I haven't started yet, but I'll start tonight for sure. I kind of have to since it's on my Day Zero list. :D (Speaking of that list, of the 49 items on it, I've finally finished one! ♥♥ So happy~ Steadily getting there.

( November's writing meme! )

I also need to post up at least one fic that I haven't posted anywhere that's been finished for months now. lol XD

iii. ( drama talk! Good Luck!, Haikei Chichiue-sama, and a few of the dramas from this season! )

iv. ( J-movies I've seen! I Give My First Love To You, Parade. )

v. ( All about the SMAP subbing group and reccing clips to watch! )
And lastly, reccing 1995_to_forever! They're having this big 15th year anniversary subbing special thing of 15 videos. I actually helped out by QCing for certain clips! I'm not that experienced as a QC, but hopefully I did well!

P.S. I wrote too much in this so I'll save the remainder of the jdrama meme for my next post. :D

And I guess, a happy birthday to Jin and Massu as well! lol

i. What are you guys planning for today? :D My day's going to be pretty boring since we haven't done anything special for July 4th in a couple of years now. *shrugs* Patriotic we be?

ii. So! The past three days have been pretty busy! I actually went into the city Wednesday night and stayed at the apartment for 3 days (coming back Friday afternoon). Why? Because I went to Shakespeare in the Park to see The Twelfth Night with *drum roll* Anne Hathaway! *_____________* She played Viola/Cesario and was brilliant. Plus she sang at some parts and omg, the last song totally astonished me. ( More on the day itself and then some. )

iii. I don't really have anything else to say, so here! Have a song that I've had on repeat ever since I got the single.
( YUI's Again (opening to Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood) )

Bonus! SMAP-related. This one is the Tokimeki Meter segment that I've only seen TWO of (and totally want to pick up more once I find out what episodes have what) where basically, three of the SMAP members have to act out scenarios and make the actress' heart pound the hardest. Absolutely hysterical! Ito Misaki [subbed] and Maya Miki [subbed]. I swear you guys are going to love these. *_____________* I know I did.

At least this is the next day. XPPPP

i. Mom: I'm going to go hang this up. (talking about her bathrobe)
Me: Of course, of course. You're gonna use it after all.
Mom: Yup. Until I die, then I won't be using it anymore.
Me: ...WHAT?! Where the heck did this come from?! Morbid much?!
Mom: Well, it's true, isn't it?

ii. I watched Sensei wa Erai today. I found it absolutely hilarious that Chinen... I mean, Chinen's character had a magazine of Yamapi right next to his remote. What, first Ohno then Yamapi? But in general... The drama special was... erm, interesting. I mean, it wasn't terrible, but at times, I thought the acting was questionable. And I do not normally pay attention to this kind of thing, because really... Acting is hard for me to notice. lolol As long as I'm entertained. XPPP But the plot took a twist I hadn't expected. I liked the actress that played the nurse, and DUDE, I totally was surprised when Abe Tsuyoshi (Hana Yori Dango) suddenly appeared on screen with longish black hair. It was just like, WTF. I wouldn't recommend it to those who aren't really interested in the juniors (well, to be fair, I wasn't either), because, honestly, the story's plot doesn't really hold it up. Although the kid Takekura (Arioka) was totally amusing. I liked him the most of the three, um, four boys. *nods nods*

iii. I've been wanting to recommend this for the past LORD KNOWS HOW LONG. But I haven't been able to put an appropriate post for this, not until now. And here we go! SMACourt 2002.12.30 - which means it's pretty damn old. But GOD, this is the funniest thing ever. It's two parts, I think an hour and a half long (except I can't remember quite well) with all the members of SMAP being sued for one reason or another. It was just absolutely dying throughout it while I was watching last night. There's a genius actor little kid, puppet masters, Shingo's fake smile, LOL SHINGO BEING USED BY THE OTHER SMAP MEMBERS AND HAS AN AUDIO TAPE FOR EVIDENCE (seriously, best part ever), KimuTaku and Nakai recalling past times (I had no idea they had such a history together). And that's not even ALL of it.

Really. The moral of this story is YOU MUST ALL WATCH.

iv. New York in a nutshell, I swear. That's all.

v. OH, so I've been going around professing love for my new default icon. (This one for easy reference.) And we won't get into the hilarity that I didn't even realize that was a P and how ironic that must be especially because I made it. And I wanted to let everyone know how this image came about. And it is me pimping a photo book from someone that even I'm surprised looked absolutely amazing in this. The person I'm talking about is actually Nagasawa Masami. I normally don't find her the most appealing, but this photo book was just absolutely gorgeous.
( Some examples~ )

Um... I put in more pictures than I thought I would. *hangs head* Anyway. For download, go over here!


I've been making random icons, which is a surprise for me. If I get the courage.... I may upload them? XPPPP