BEAST OF THE EAST
20 November 2009 @ 08:16 pm
Today we went to the Ciel de Paris (SKY OF PARIS) for brunch, and the view was astounding even if the food was kind of what my grandmother would make. But even so in a good way; [info]magaliiiii and I talked about growing up in Antibes and the Moscow countryside, respectively. I still know how to pick mushrooms! Wow.





Then we went to le FNAC (THE FNAC) which is, as ever, a hateful place where nobody wants to use their computer to find Les Douze Royaumes (THE TWELVE KINGDOMS) even as they summon the gall to apologize for their incompetence. I did however use my own eyes find tomes 9 and 10 of Mushishi Version Francaise (MUSHISHI FRENCH VERSION), all the way in a corner marked MANGA so that nobody ever goes there by mistake.



Then we fell asleep because we are lazy idk I guess I should go look at monuments at night now, like the MacDo at the Champs-Elysees

[info]magaliiiii relayed a joke by a comedian she recently saw, about the difference between the ways French and American women shop for clothes. American women go in giggling and are all, What do the numbers mean? Do you have a larger size in this? Have a good day! French women just pick out what they want, go into the dressing room, try it on, throw everything on the floor, and leave.

Tomorrow we are going Angelino's for hot chocolate, then hitting us up some Musees Picasso and Rodin. MAGALI HAS NEVER BEEN TO THE RODIN MUSEUM but she is yet young. Will also hang around the Madeleine in the 1er, maybe go to Colette, and to the cafe atop Printemps! It will be a day for comfortable shoes because today I wore heels and they killed my feet rarrrrr. I feel shamefully counter-Francaise. When I shop for clothes I must make sure to leave my dressing room looking like a bomb went off

and here are some more places I want to see!!!!! )
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
19 November 2009 @ 01:49 pm
Two hours in Paris and I have already gotten yelled at by the housekeeper of the Cite Internationale Etats Unis (she turned out to be ok though) and tripped over my suitcase at the RER station. I am very tired! I am going to take a nap while I wait for Magali to get out of class ♥ Soon we are going to get Vietnamese food. Then I will stay up all night working because I will be under the impression that it is the afternoon.

I started Adventures of Kavalier and Clay on the plane. A book I am always starting on long flights. I heard it is pretty gay though. Is this true????? Seems like it should be true. The beginning portion about Prague in 1939 always makes me cry not joking

In the subway today I found a French gamer magazine and read their review of Assassin's Creed 2 and it made me think of [info]halcyonjazz.



 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
15 November 2009 @ 12:19 am
What a traveling month! I have lots to catch up on it seems

whew

For now: two mixes for the early holiday seasonnnnn~
    #1___ SWORDSPOINT + TPOTS, fan mix, Richard and Alec / 8tracks



    Jose Gonzalez ✧ Killing For Love
    Destroyer ✧ The Crossover
    Apostle of Hustle ✧ Animal Fat
    Harlem Shakes ✧ Winter Water
    Jose Gonzalez ✧ Slow Moves
    Andrew Bird ✧ The Naming of Things
    Plastic Bertrand ✧ Ca Plane Pour Moi
    Dodos ✧ Troll Nacht
    Destroyer ✧ Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

    Overuse of relevant artists lol -----> .ZIP

    ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧

    #2___ November Mix, Mock-Retro Rocks / 8tracks



    J. Geils Band ✧ Concealed Weapons
    Switches ✧ Stepkids In Love
    The New Pornographers ✧ Centre For Holy Wars
    Blitzen Trapper ✧ Miss Spiritual Tramp
    Go!Go!7188 ✧ Yuge
    Amadou et Mariam ✧ Pauvre Type
    Devendra Banhart ✧ Baby
    Polysics ✧ Black Out Fall Out (New Recording)

    Please enjoy~ -----> .ZIP
 
 
Current Music: Blitzen Trapper - Miss Spiritual Tramp | Powered by Last.fm
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
11 November 2009 @ 03:34 pm

I have lost the power adapter to my MacBook and the vampires at the Apple store want $80, so before I pay them I can't do shit online. Waughhh and I just bought a nice sea-green, silk dress I will now have to return, because I can't have nice things. I am not not drawing yous I love you all so much sobbb.

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

 
 
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
08 November 2009 @ 04:19 pm
DRAWME!


I am a very good artist who wants to draw all of you


sexually

ETA: SOON WALLPAPERING MY USER INFO FFFFFFFF SO GORGEOUS YOU GUYS
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
08 November 2009 @ 03:43 am
so  
Ladies on the twitters asked me to upload a clip of me singing karaoke at PMX
but I have something uh better

3AM ACOUSTIC HALLELUJAH CHORUS FFFF


ALSO I HAVE A PLURK
IT IS HERE I have 4 friends yesss
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
07 November 2009 @ 12:05 am
✦ I am staffing PMX Karaoke at the LAX Hilton this weekend! Come on over and say hello

[info]mikei_puu just posted EVERY DUCK TALES EPISODE

✦ Whoever linked my DSRK fst yesterday, thanks brahhh :Dvv /shame
Sometimes I forget how much I love things and the people who give me the things asdkjsa

so exciting:
Last week I got a package from [info]5cmprince!!
ILU LAWNY IT IS FULL OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS
And I got a copy of [info]innueneko's wonderful comic
And some other solid stuff



MORE MORE MORE )
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
02 November 2009 @ 10:41 pm
HOME. I want to do a properer Halloween post but I am tired after driving 600 miles and I still feel like someone punched me in the lip. I think I drunkenly bit the inside in my sleep??? on Friday night. When I woke up complaining that my mouth hurt, April was all, A LIKELY SIDE EFFECT OF YAOI CON!!!! lolol So then I shelved the comment about how much my hands hurt from hauling sharp-edged crates of Smirny all over the hotel sobbb sob son of a bitch I am still in pain

Late latelate Halloween night we all watched UP on my lap top. The version I have is very strange as the audio is dece but text is partially in French, so from time to time I had to translate: "Thanks for the adventure. Looking forward to the next one!" That is the portion that always gets me misty, the one where Frederickson leaves all his memorabilia on the clifftop so that his house might float again. This movie is intensely personal, someone's very real and real-world pain met and solved, dream-like, by a cheerful five-year-old. Which gives it a living, shining soul. Rare these days! I think we are all tired of Wacky Sidekicks, which Pixar, for one, either reinvents or leaves out entirely. Disney itself, conversely, has been rife since 90s. I blame Robin Williams in Alladdin, who played his part so well and so fittingly (pop-culture is not out of place with all-powerful Genies lol) that every movie since has tried to imitate his energy by hiring, like. Chris Rock. Or Danny DeVito. GET ON THE HYDRA'S BACK.

CON RE CAP except I didn't buy a badge or anything
it was weird I guess
I like [info]jibii's art
And [info]innueneko was so so cuuuute



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BEAST OF THE EAST
31 October 2009 @ 12:36 pm
Last night [info]jibii had a big party at the hotel. [info]dotiscute and I spent the night making drinks themed after Saiyuki which was the theme of the party lol. WE MADE $75 IN TIPS MAIDO MAIDO MAIDO :Dbbbb I don't know what Saiyuki is about exactly but I think it is about four dudes who smoke cigarettes and fight crime (?) with magic (?) and have sex with each other a lot. At first I thought they were assassins but then I realized I was thinking of Aryan Flower Shop

Here are some photos about my week




I miss you guys ;A;
I am listening to the Raidou Drama CD2 and crying
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
27 October 2009 @ 02:22 am
I made a play list for DSRK: King Abaddon. It is also @ 8tracks.

[info]catiechu overheard it and was all, ...DSRK = Starsky & Hutch in Taisho Tokyo?
And I was like ヽ(´ー`)ノ

Stay tuned for even manlier NaruRai mix made entirely of doo wop (not kidding)
    ⨳⨳⨳


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    .zipfile
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    浅草ジンタ 落陽
    THERESA ANDERSSON Locusts Are Gossiping
    JOSH REICHMANN ORACLE BAND Best In Dreams
    PSAPP Everybody Wants to Be a Cat
    EGO WRAPPIN' Pappaya
    DENGUE FEVER Oceans of Venus
    ZUTONS Family of Leeches
    SHIINA RINGO Gamble
    BAND OF BEES Listening Man
    EL TEN ELEVEN Hot Cakes
    M. WARD Never Had Nobody Like You
    MENAHAN STREET BAND Make the Road By Walking

    ⨳⨳⨳

    idek:
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    Lollarious DSRK go-to band. I suspect 落陽 is about rocking/sunsets
    Akane??? ---> Incests
    ? Gays (note doo wop bridge)
    Gouto. Lol the ladies' answer to [info]canis_m's Setzer selection :3333
    Tae?
    Demons. Catie sent me this! Gosh I love Cambodia!! Also Catie
    Incest bonus!!!!!!
    Weird choice lol;;; ---> non geisha context >:| tsuyoku naritai Nagi
    WHERE IS THE OPTION FOR YES (note doo wop)
    I'm hungry
    Gays
    ? (while listening I think of gays)

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    bonus track:
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    HAPPY HALLOWEEN GENTLEMEN. ♥
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
25 October 2009 @ 02:25 pm
Guys can we do one of those GET 2 KNOW U memes where you ask me a question about anything and I answer it? Except in this version I get to ask you a question back and you answer it. Then you can ask me another question if you feel like which you probably won't but lol that's just the idea
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BEAST OF THE EAST
24 October 2009 @ 03:38 pm
Haha I just got home and I smell pretty gross. It is a beach day

⦾ THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES ETC ETC
Move over, Unforgiven! We watched this last night to the point of collectively screaming BANG! BANG ALREADY! at the screen. And mind I was the only one conscious of BL tropes at work. Beautiful cinematography, complete with Ridley Scott's trademark shot of the hero's hand hovering sensually over a sea of wheat stalks. Admittedly slow and not for everyone. Most realistic gunfights ever: two dudes five feet apart, emptying at each-other and missing 10 consecutive shots. Also: superman gay. SUPERMAN GAY, I im-ed Muun over and over in disbelief and glee. Then I cried.



⦾ Y-CON
[info]dotiscute and I are attending this year! We are cosplaying post-timeskip Claymores. I just read some of the manga and found out who Miria is and I am pretty stoked to dress up like her! She is like the Auron of this story. [info]innueneko is going to the con as well! And I am super excited to DJ this Halloween party.

⦾ NANO
In the tank this year. Am hardly capable of novels, but I would like to get a) over myself, and b) more mileage from current original concept a la Five Short Stories Set In Fake Mexico City. Like the one where Lavinia Perregia catches a bicycle thief, or the one where Nora and Anton Tusori make cinnamon twists and rifles, respectively. I dream of attempting Yuletide, among other things, so this shall be slightly easier practice in disciplined production. Writing is so intensely hard ugh how are you all so brave.

⦾ DOLLHOUSE
While I do not actually uh, like this series, I am increasingly impressed by what it is doing. Last night's ep especially. Can't remember the last time TV brought me something this sharp and fearless. Maybe if there were less Blue Steel Eliza Dushku Face and more high-concept Descartes stuff, and woman stuff, and human rights stuff, Whedon's high-browest show wouldn't be all but off the air right now. I concur with this parable. oof
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
21 October 2009 @ 02:28 pm
Just found me sum bargain tickets to Paris for later sdsadas;cantbreathe
sort of panicking

Will sleep on Magali's floor and subsist like Hemingway a filthy, half-frozen transient in the same pair of riding boots and jeans, and I will have to work while I am there, but I get to use M's student pass to get into all the museums hufhuff

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BEAST OF THE EAST
18 October 2009 @ 12:16 pm
October mix is up @ 8tracks.



    CHROMEO Night By Night
    FUNERAL PARTY NYC Moves to the Sound of LA
    DEASTRO Light Powered
    DANIEL Goodbye Silhouette
    MAGIC WANDS Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Mix)
    THE VERY BEST Warm Heart of Africa (Ft. Ezra Koenig)
    JUSTICE D.A.N.C.E. (Alan Brax & Fred Falke Mix)
    WE HAVE BAND Oh! (Friendly Fires Remix)

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    [info]dotiscute and I had the Chromeo single on repeat in the car last night. I am pretty stoked for the new album!!!! if only to have fresh fodder for a Balthier FST

    Idk whether you guys like loud shouty rock like Funeral Party's (their Carwars song is popular), but I am a sucker for hand claps.

    I thought "Silhouette" was mediocre up until those minor string harmonies started veering in all sorts of unexpected directions!

    The Very Best + Vampire Weekend is such a meta combination! Since VW likes incorporating traditional African elements and Esau Mwamwaya must feel homesick sometimes.

    Deastro makes me think of wizards C:

    I am ~6 selections up on my DSRK fst. IT DEMANDS PERFECTION. For the road to San Fran later this month, Emma and I will each be bringing the most glorious of our fan mix efforts. Hopefully I will unveil my latest then, to an unbiased audience as it were
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
03 October 2009 @ 12:07 pm
What animes are you guys watching this season? If any orz orz orz What is this:



Also this:



Maybe Darker Than Black 2? [info]moonsheen and I watched the first season, and I came away with a sort of me-eh? impression. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it. Hei is severely hot when he is wearing his Chinese busboy persona but otherwise boring. Would watch for spinoff of Hei working at a family restaurant and/or for episodes focusing on the comically incompetent detective agency. Sort of a poor man's version of DSRK if Raidou were a fujoshi

But most of all I want a second season of Aoi Hana sobbb the first was such a wonderful adaptation! And the ending felt right! I watched it twice in a row. Spending a calm winter night in an abandoned elementary school building! Most romantic *__*

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I tend to watch Hulu during coding/cutups. Nova is my favorite.

Best episode by far was Absolute Zero:
...But there was one man who was convinced Le Voisier's theory was wrong, and was determined to destroy the Caloric Theory. His name was Count Rumford.

Count Rumford had a colorful past. He was born in America, spied for the British during the Revolution, and after being forced into exile, became and influential government minister in Bavaria. Among his varied responsibilities was the artillery works, and it was here in the 1790s that he began to think how he might disprove the Caloric Theory using cannon boring.

Despite Count Rumford's best efforts, Le Voisier's Caloric Theory remained dominant until the end of the 18th century. His prestige as a chemist meant that few dared challenge his ideas. But this did not protect him from the revolutionary turmoil in France, which was about to interrupt his research. At the height of the Reign of Terror, Le Voisier was arrested, and eventually lost his head.

Once he was guillotined, his wife left France, and eventually met Rumford when he moved to Western Europe in the early 1800s. Rumford then married her. So he'd married the widow of the man who founded the theory that he had destroyed.

The marriage was short-lived. After a tormented year, Rumford left Madame le Voisier, and devoted the rest of his life to his first love: science.
Likewise enjoyable: Lord of the Ants. ANTS! They're crazy

The History channel is too sensationalistic for my tastes, but I dig The Universe for its illustrative dramatizations. "Jupiter's gravity field acts like a slingshot" ---> footage of a guy in a hunting vest using a slingshot in a field. gold

RE: fiction programs, Glee is OK but I have been enjoying Community most of all. I am simple minded so it makes me lol:

PA: To whomever is growing the patch of Cannabis behind the gymnasium, congratulations. You have won a cruise. Please report to the main office to claim your prize.

Jeff: Hah! Troy sneezes like a girl!
Troy: Yeah how bout I pound you like a boy that didn't come out right.

"9/11 was pretty much the 9/11 of the falafel industry."

"I have an array of masculine sneezes, used to assert my dominance."

etc. etc.
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
03 October 2009 @ 09:50 am
Jones & Bennett /new www
Redesign up! I hope you readers like it;;; I like serifs and I don't care who knows. One more pet project to wrap and then I can chillax T^T

Business Cards
Got fucked up because I ordered from one of those cent-per-card internet places! They scratch really easily ugh. So learn my lesson you guys, always order local and spend a little extra. Anyway the halloween witch purples were supposed to be wine burgundys and the halloween slime greens were supposed to be the color of moss. I used Nadia for the text because it reminds me of a slimmer, fitter version of my favorite, Courier New.

 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
02 October 2009 @ 10:01 am
Via [info]pinstripesuit.





So how you all doing.
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
01 October 2009 @ 06:03 am

    icons @ [info]houndstooth :
    + DSRK mangas etc.
    + Takako Shimura (I loved the ending to Aoi Hana TV ahhh)
    + Antique Bakery, Korean Feature Film ([info]moonsheen requested)
    Note that while all Japanese serializations of Antique have been sober dramas about PTSD, the Korean version is a musical gayer than even Fumi "Gerard et Jacques" Yoshinaga intended. This is also the movie that caused me to watch 25 hours of Coffee Prince.


    for [info]dotiscute :
    + Album: Bombay Bicycle Club, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose; 50MB
    + Sample: Always Like This
    Not from Bombay, but they could presumably have formed a bicycle club at home. Another one of those bands that reviewers call "mediocre but good", but is pretty much just good. Prog-influenced rock that would feel more dated if the band had a member older than 19. 19!! The first track is defs the product of teenagers, but the rest belie this. This > Rogue Wave


    Suggested Viewing :
    + Hors de Prix / Priceless; 750MB + Softsubs
    Super frothy, breezy 2006 French romcom about high class prostitution a la Breakfast at Tiffany's (movie, not book; book too good to survive filming). Audrey Tautou and that hot actor who is in every French romcom are gold-diggers on the Riviera. They fall in love that cannot be because their well-heeled significants would quit paying for Gucci and motorbikes. No awkward period racism in this one, whew!

 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
01 October 2009 @ 01:31 am
Anyone got a link to the goods on Volume 2 of the Raidou Drama CD? sob

sobsobb LOOK AT MY ICON are you looking

Friend of a friend of a friend with local address may be willing to accept a Yahoo.jp shipment but unlikely to physically go buy anything for a friend of a friend of a friend. Rude to ask? (Y-yes :C) Also would entail sort of explaining why I suddenly enjoy drama CDs. I have seen the face of this fandom and I can't unsee it and I do not want to explain.


Dig how the Amazon.jp review page has 2 comments, one by a stoked fujoshi and one by a presumably more normal person going, [This product was not what I expected]. Which I take to mean too gay FOR A DRAMA CD which given predecent + content gleaned from above link it is. Nevertheless am not super into paying the $50+ this will ultimately cost. Am used to the internet giving me what I want when I want it! Fascist Japanese anti-piracy laws!!! I dislike them

I did register with Y.jp because you don't want to know how far I'm willing to go.

Also evidently the Tsubasa manga ended?? Nothing happened! Idk! Someone told me it ended and nothing happened and that it sucked which is predictable because Clamp is terrible and irrelevant. I stopped paying attention in 2007 when they lost sight of what their cash cow was good for, ie Sakura and Shaoran being elementary school kids and sharing lunches. And fighting adorable monster cards! I liked it when they were not parents (spoilers now you know)
 
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BEAST OF THE EAST
25 September 2009 @ 11:36 pm
Ilu Muun, don't be a stranger! I had a lot of fun with you around! happy virus ♥

And thank you all for the birthday wishes! I love you guys so much, you make my life extra good. [info]wredwrat even made me an art of Geirin and Nagi!!! Wrat ahhhh you didn't have to but it's so good ;;;; sob my reactions are intense

Anyway I am 25 now and a grown up and I think I just ran over some sort of shot gun type thing with my car in the alley behind my house! Might have been a stick or toy, but ballerest scenario not 100% out of the question as Eastern Europeans are clearly running a business out of the building on the corner. In conclusion I handled this vignette maturely by turning to [info]catiechu in abject terror and whispering, LET'S GTFO D: D: D: which we did

One of the things I got for my birthday was a new bed, which is so amazing because I have never experienced a Full size sleeping area! Also I found this weird chest of drawers thing that is supposed to hold CDs but which I now use for my under wear.



pictures of new things )


I had a chance to move to Manhattan this December, which was one of the reasons for recent hiatus, but I've decided to turn that down for now. Not gonna lie it was partially because I like this house so much ;A; [info]moonsheen was so amazed when she visited, she was all, You have a lot of space out here! Which is true.

OK I have to get to work but I won't be gone forever. BBL, sexy ladies!

PS: I made a September Mix at 8tracks, if you like that sort of thing ♥
 
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