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Sep. 2nd, 2007 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2I don't do regular updates enough, although I think of things to post just about every day.
I've been playing more City of Heroes the last week, and getting less writing done. That's not so good. I have, however, gotten several new scenes written for Muyami Academy, a fan fiction story that I hadn't worked on in 2-3 years at least. My plan for the weekend was to get a new chapter of that done, and a new chapter of Girl's School, and to get what I had for the Tai-Pan artist's APA laid out. That means I need to draw another page or two myself. ^_^ Contrary to what people seem to think, the end of August was merely my early date for when things were supposed to be in to me, not my "It has to be printed now!" date. I'd like to have it all printed by the middle of the month or third week of the month, but since this is a three day weekend I have no excuse not to get everything I already have set up and printed out.
Friday night and Saturday morning I teamed with a peacebringer girl named "megami no ika". Peacebringers and Warshades are two types of a special "epic" hero class that you can play in City of Heroes only after you've leveled another character to 50. They are supposed to be humans who have melded/combined with an alien life form called a Kheldian, and they can shape-shift into two other forms, one of which is a giant stomping armored creature that gets referred to as crab-line, and the other is a tentacled flying thing that shoots beams of energy, which gets called squid-like. So in her character bio it explained that "megami no ika" means "squid goddess".
I told her I had a friend who was doing a comic about a squid goddess. She laughed.
Thursday morning I ordered "Here In This Room", the self-published cd by Abigail Washburn that contains two different previously-released EP's. One is "Songs of the Traveling Daughter" containing four songs sung in Chinese, and one is "Here In This Room" containing several of the English songs that would wind up on her debut cd. Three of the Chinese songs were on the "Quest USA" soundtrack that I bought a few years ago when she didn't have a full-length cd out. At the time, I didn't realize that those songs were on this collection. Anyway, it arrived in the mail the very next day -- amazing service!
I also picked up recently "Salome - The Seventh Veil" by goth metal band Xandria. I really can't make up my mind about this band. Something about them sounds completely generic and slick and overly-produced -- they sound like a more pre-packaged copy of Within Temptation, with some Indian/Middle Eastern elements stapled on. Except that their songs are very good, and the band is very good, and the singer is very good. I find that even though I had this odd reaction to hearing their first cd, I kept going back and listening to it -- the whole cd, all the way through. It's all very good. So I finally decided that yes, I really must like this band a lot, and I ordered their new cd, and it's just as good.
Another thing I got recently was disc 2 and 3 of Key The Metal idol. I remember watching this on rented vhs tapes with only two episodes per tape, and then I'd picked up the first dvd at Half Price Books a while back but hadn't watched it. Since I'm working on Muyami Academy again it occurred to me that I should re-watch at least the first part of this series again, since I make use of Kei in my story. Thus I ordered volumes 2 and 3 thinking that maybe someday I'd go back and get the rest. Well, imagine my surprise -- when they arrived I finally realized that dvd volumes 1-3 apparently contains the entire series. I'll have to double-check, but volume 3 contains episodes 13-14, each a full hour long (which is movie-length in anime terms "two movie-length episodes"). I do believe that's the end of the series. Anyway, I'll have to sit down and watch it again soon.
What I have been watching is episodes of Inu-Yasha. I tend to collect these for months, let them pile up, and then watch a whole bunch of them at once. And since I've lent the first two seasons to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kehf, I need to watch the new ones I have before she catches up to me. (I think these ones are... 5th or 6th season? I don't know, I have a ton of this series.)
I am considering picking up 5 seasons of Sailor Moon (the whole television series) on eBay for a little over $100. Sure, that's not a legal, legitimate version. However, the legal version is technically out of print, copies are selling for not less than $150.00 per season, and even import ripoffs of those are posted for as much as $140.00 per season on Amazon. Plus I'm not sure there ever was a "legal" ie licensed in American version of season 5. It's a funny way to look at it to say that I'm not willing to spend $500.00 or whatever, because how much have I spent on my Inu-Yasha collection so far? Well over $500.00 of course, but I only bought that a couple of dvds at a time over many years. I have the first 2-3 seasons of Ranma 1/2 on cheap knockoff dvds and they're mostly okay, so while I wasn't necessarily planning on getting the whole five seasons of Sailor Moon, the fact that I can get all of it at once for just a bit over $100 has me thinking that I just might do it.
I don't know when or where I pissed off the gods of flooding upstairs apartments, but all of my friends know that my apartment on Greenwood had water dripping from the ceiling (sometimes gushing was the more appropriate word) on many occasions, and then again when I moved in here it happened once last year. This week it happened yet again -- water was dripping all along the seam in the ceiling in my living room. I was lucky that I was home on the computer because I heard it right away, dripping on my paperwork, on my stereo, etc. I moved things out of the way and put down towels and a bucket at the place of the heaviest dripping, then called the apartment manager. The handy man came over and essentially said, "Yeah, we know, the washing machine flooded upstairs, looks like you've got it in hand, call me if anything changes," and left. Eventually the bucket gathered up about 2 inches of water, so we're talking about some serious dripping here.
I don't really get it. I mean, sure, I've always lived in the basement apartment, but I can't remember ever flooding my apartment like that. Why is this such a common occurrance with me?
I've been playing more City of Heroes the last week, and getting less writing done. That's not so good. I have, however, gotten several new scenes written for Muyami Academy, a fan fiction story that I hadn't worked on in 2-3 years at least. My plan for the weekend was to get a new chapter of that done, and a new chapter of Girl's School, and to get what I had for the Tai-Pan artist's APA laid out. That means I need to draw another page or two myself. ^_^ Contrary to what people seem to think, the end of August was merely my early date for when things were supposed to be in to me, not my "It has to be printed now!" date. I'd like to have it all printed by the middle of the month or third week of the month, but since this is a three day weekend I have no excuse not to get everything I already have set up and printed out.
Friday night and Saturday morning I teamed with a peacebringer girl named "megami no ika". Peacebringers and Warshades are two types of a special "epic" hero class that you can play in City of Heroes only after you've leveled another character to 50. They are supposed to be humans who have melded/combined with an alien life form called a Kheldian, and they can shape-shift into two other forms, one of which is a giant stomping armored creature that gets referred to as crab-line, and the other is a tentacled flying thing that shoots beams of energy, which gets called squid-like. So in her character bio it explained that "megami no ika" means "squid goddess".
I told her I had a friend who was doing a comic about a squid goddess. She laughed.
Thursday morning I ordered "Here In This Room", the self-published cd by Abigail Washburn that contains two different previously-released EP's. One is "Songs of the Traveling Daughter" containing four songs sung in Chinese, and one is "Here In This Room" containing several of the English songs that would wind up on her debut cd. Three of the Chinese songs were on the "Quest USA" soundtrack that I bought a few years ago when she didn't have a full-length cd out. At the time, I didn't realize that those songs were on this collection. Anyway, it arrived in the mail the very next day -- amazing service!
I also picked up recently "Salome - The Seventh Veil" by goth metal band Xandria. I really can't make up my mind about this band. Something about them sounds completely generic and slick and overly-produced -- they sound like a more pre-packaged copy of Within Temptation, with some Indian/Middle Eastern elements stapled on. Except that their songs are very good, and the band is very good, and the singer is very good. I find that even though I had this odd reaction to hearing their first cd, I kept going back and listening to it -- the whole cd, all the way through. It's all very good. So I finally decided that yes, I really must like this band a lot, and I ordered their new cd, and it's just as good.
Another thing I got recently was disc 2 and 3 of Key The Metal idol. I remember watching this on rented vhs tapes with only two episodes per tape, and then I'd picked up the first dvd at Half Price Books a while back but hadn't watched it. Since I'm working on Muyami Academy again it occurred to me that I should re-watch at least the first part of this series again, since I make use of Kei in my story. Thus I ordered volumes 2 and 3 thinking that maybe someday I'd go back and get the rest. Well, imagine my surprise -- when they arrived I finally realized that dvd volumes 1-3 apparently contains the entire series. I'll have to double-check, but volume 3 contains episodes 13-14, each a full hour long (which is movie-length in anime terms "two movie-length episodes"). I do believe that's the end of the series. Anyway, I'll have to sit down and watch it again soon.
What I have been watching is episodes of Inu-Yasha. I tend to collect these for months, let them pile up, and then watch a whole bunch of them at once. And since I've lent the first two seasons to
kehf, I need to watch the new ones I have before she catches up to me. (I think these ones are... 5th or 6th season? I don't know, I have a ton of this series.)I am considering picking up 5 seasons of Sailor Moon (the whole television series) on eBay for a little over $100. Sure, that's not a legal, legitimate version. However, the legal version is technically out of print, copies are selling for not less than $150.00 per season, and even import ripoffs of those are posted for as much as $140.00 per season on Amazon. Plus I'm not sure there ever was a "legal" ie licensed in American version of season 5. It's a funny way to look at it to say that I'm not willing to spend $500.00 or whatever, because how much have I spent on my Inu-Yasha collection so far? Well over $500.00 of course, but I only bought that a couple of dvds at a time over many years. I have the first 2-3 seasons of Ranma 1/2 on cheap knockoff dvds and they're mostly okay, so while I wasn't necessarily planning on getting the whole five seasons of Sailor Moon, the fact that I can get all of it at once for just a bit over $100 has me thinking that I just might do it.
I don't know when or where I pissed off the gods of flooding upstairs apartments, but all of my friends know that my apartment on Greenwood had water dripping from the ceiling (sometimes gushing was the more appropriate word) on many occasions, and then again when I moved in here it happened once last year. This week it happened yet again -- water was dripping all along the seam in the ceiling in my living room. I was lucky that I was home on the computer because I heard it right away, dripping on my paperwork, on my stereo, etc. I moved things out of the way and put down towels and a bucket at the place of the heaviest dripping, then called the apartment manager. The handy man came over and essentially said, "Yeah, we know, the washing machine flooded upstairs, looks like you've got it in hand, call me if anything changes," and left. Eventually the bucket gathered up about 2 inches of water, so we're talking about some serious dripping here.
I don't really get it. I mean, sure, I've always lived in the basement apartment, but I can't remember ever flooding my apartment like that. Why is this such a common occurrance with me?
