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OK, I was holding off on posting cos I was editing the TOKIO hoo-ha so much, but I'll just have to not be lazy should I need to edit it again. Which I will, cos I have a few video links to add and stuff!
Speaking of editing, here's an edit: V6 fans on my flist! Could you tell me where I can find and watch old performances of V6 as a whole, preferably streaming? I was sort of looking but I don't know when they did anything. Cos, ok, I love the whole Kamisen/Tonisen height difference thing, and I just discovered when watching old "Music for the People" performances that. . . Kamisen used to be even tinier!! SO TINY! So now I want to watch more. I'm seriously SO into height differences. XD It's one of the draws of TOKIO for me, plus, I was looking through my youtube favorites and I got to all my figure skating videos. And I was mostly into pairs skating, even though being a figure skating fan is almost completely uncharacteristic for me, and I realize a major part of the attraction is that there are vast height differences in pairs skating!!
I got an 87 on my math midterm. So relieved! I would call that a B+ but he put A- on the exam so woo! I messed up one thing I thought I hadn't messed up, cos I sort of know how to do it and I understand the theory, but whenever I put it into practice I get confused. One thing I made a dumb mistake, one thing I didn't explain my answer ::fumes:: and one thing was just really hard!
But now we're doing binomial coefficients and I just think it sounds cool. I feel really smart. XD Swept away by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iverin's enthusiasm, I was reading about Gene Krantz and Apollo 13 last night. . . was it last night? I guess so. Anyway, somewhere they were talking about how they had to recalculate the trajectory to fling the spacecraft (I don't know the right terminology, sorry!) around the moon and stuff? I barely know enough about physics and math to understand how complicated that would be. And then to have to do it so fast, under so much pressure, and to know that lives are depending on you. . . I have new-found respect for mathematicians, not that I didn't already respect them.
I can't remember if I've already posted this story, so, sorry if I have, but speaking of mathematicians and respect. . . Buddha was supposed to have a bump on top of his head, apparently? And there's sort of a story about it that because the Buddha was so ascetic, he never had sex, and the bump on his head is from the accumulation of sperm that had no way to escape his body. Well. . . my math teacher is bald, and has a big random bump on top of his head. When the story was told in my religion class, I was like "Thanks, guys. Now I can never look at my math teacher again!!"
I also sort of want to tell the story of Snakes the emu - a true story, by the way, with lightning and aluminum baseball bats - but I think I'll save that for another time.
Have been extremely bad about focusing on my work of late. I blame TOKIO, and how much nervous energy I've been dedicating to the pimp post. XD I'm trying not to think about it anymore.
Although when I finished writing it, Katie and I were both like "Whoa. . . so much TOKIO. I might need a little while before I really feel like watching TOKIO videos again!" But. . . totally not the case. I'm totally on a Yamaguchi and Taichi kick instead of a Mabo kick (although I still adore him and was just watching highlights from Yaoh) but that's basically the only difference. XD
Except right now I'm on a "Western celebrities on SMAP Bistro" kick. It's the best thing ever!! XD They subtitle the western stars, rather than dubbing them - which happened when Orlando Bloom was on Takki's show, I think. I was sad. Anyway, you can also sometimes catch what the translator says to the stars in English, so I could really follow and lot. And it's just. . . hilarious! The combination of SMAP + very popular western celebs is so amazing, cos there's all the SMAP-age and then all the. . . I don't even know. I don't want to confuse new TOKIO fans on my flist by suddenly throwing the SMAP out there, but man!
Matt Damon was adorable, Catherine Zeta-Jones was a little annoying but hilarious and they were all just totally fanboying her, and Cameron Diaz is actually totally charming! She seems genuinely excited to be on the show, so she's really happy, and if she has no clue what's going on, she's not afraid to say so, and it doesn't seem awkward cos, like, of course she's confused, she's Cameron Diaz! And she's a really good sport about the whole crazy thing. And she was sort of bouncing while she ate cos she was enjoying the food (she was a lot better about showing that the food tastes good - sort of Arashi levels - we don't train our celebrities to show that they enjoy food the way they do in Japan) so they were like "it looks like she's singing something in her head" and she said she wasn't going to sing it cos she's a terrible singer (can you see where this is going?) and it would be too pressuring, cos they're all professional singers! . . . So Nakai sang a few notes for her. XD I was dying. Also, there has never, ever been a reaction shot of Kimura Takuya that doesn't make me laugh. Not just on this show, as an institution. It's so very "Now Let's See What the Most Popular Man in Japan Thinks of This." Or at least, that's what happens in my head.
Oh, frick on a monkey, laundry!
OK, haha, moved it into the drier. I always forget about my laundry. I mean, I'm not terrible, I'm not that guy who puts it in and then goes away for the weekend, but I'm often about 15-20 minutes late taking it out. But hey, I rarely do it. XD I was running out of clothes.
So yeah, laundry is all I've accomplished today. I just totally ran out of steam post-midterms. The first half of the semester I was working constantly, now I'm like "ehh, I'll just skim it." >.< Part of the problem is the weather - when I take my work outside, I just sit and I do it for several hours. But also, since I'm no longer layout editor, I'm spending less time at the Sophian (once again, Smith's campus paper) so I have more time Tuesday night and stuff. We'll see. I'm slightly behind this week, hopefully i can pull myself together. But Katie's going to call me at 4:30 and I'll probably talk to her til dinner cos we're like that.
Ah, also! Watched a movie in my Colonial Latin America class today, "How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman." It's about a Frenchman who was captured by one of the indigenous tribes in Brazil - a tribe that was actually allied with the French against the Portugese, but they thought he was Portugese and he could not convince them he was French. And they kept him as a captive for 8 months and then they were going to eat him. It was really fascinating to see how he was integrated into the tribe and how he remained an outsider - cos he was given a wife (ridiculously attractive, despite her lack of eyebrows), and he got their haircut (a mistake - he couldn't pull off the no eyebrows - and he had been flamingly hot before) and he seemed to become more and more a part of village life, but then in a lot of ways he remained an outsider.
But anyway, the really interesting thing about the movie was all the full-frontal nudity. Seriously, the actor playing the Frenchman? They should have called it "How Tasty Was My Incredibly Well-Hung Frenchman". Dude! And an incredible body, beautifully muscled! And none of them had pubic hair, but the women had an extremely small covering - like a frontal thong, almost. I'm actually, though. . . bras are sort of a good thing. But the wife was flat chested enough that there wasn't too much sagging, and she had gorgeous legs and all this beautiful skin and just a fantastic silhouette.
I guess I'll stop there.
Speaking of editing, here's an edit: V6 fans on my flist! Could you tell me where I can find and watch old performances of V6 as a whole, preferably streaming? I was sort of looking but I don't know when they did anything. Cos, ok, I love the whole Kamisen/Tonisen height difference thing, and I just discovered when watching old "Music for the People" performances that. . . Kamisen used to be even tinier!! SO TINY! So now I want to watch more. I'm seriously SO into height differences. XD It's one of the draws of TOKIO for me, plus, I was looking through my youtube favorites and I got to all my figure skating videos. And I was mostly into pairs skating, even though being a figure skating fan is almost completely uncharacteristic for me, and I realize a major part of the attraction is that there are vast height differences in pairs skating!!
I got an 87 on my math midterm. So relieved! I would call that a B+ but he put A- on the exam so woo! I messed up one thing I thought I hadn't messed up, cos I sort of know how to do it and I understand the theory, but whenever I put it into practice I get confused. One thing I made a dumb mistake, one thing I didn't explain my answer ::fumes:: and one thing was just really hard!
But now we're doing binomial coefficients and I just think it sounds cool. I feel really smart. XD Swept away by
iverin's enthusiasm, I was reading about Gene Krantz and Apollo 13 last night. . . was it last night? I guess so. Anyway, somewhere they were talking about how they had to recalculate the trajectory to fling the spacecraft (I don't know the right terminology, sorry!) around the moon and stuff? I barely know enough about physics and math to understand how complicated that would be. And then to have to do it so fast, under so much pressure, and to know that lives are depending on you. . . I have new-found respect for mathematicians, not that I didn't already respect them.I can't remember if I've already posted this story, so, sorry if I have, but speaking of mathematicians and respect. . . Buddha was supposed to have a bump on top of his head, apparently? And there's sort of a story about it that because the Buddha was so ascetic, he never had sex, and the bump on his head is from the accumulation of sperm that had no way to escape his body. Well. . . my math teacher is bald, and has a big random bump on top of his head. When the story was told in my religion class, I was like "Thanks, guys. Now I can never look at my math teacher again!!"
I also sort of want to tell the story of Snakes the emu - a true story, by the way, with lightning and aluminum baseball bats - but I think I'll save that for another time.
Have been extremely bad about focusing on my work of late. I blame TOKIO, and how much nervous energy I've been dedicating to the pimp post. XD I'm trying not to think about it anymore.
Although when I finished writing it, Katie and I were both like "Whoa. . . so much TOKIO. I might need a little while before I really feel like watching TOKIO videos again!" But. . . totally not the case. I'm totally on a Yamaguchi and Taichi kick instead of a Mabo kick (although I still adore him and was just watching highlights from Yaoh) but that's basically the only difference. XD
Except right now I'm on a "Western celebrities on SMAP Bistro" kick. It's the best thing ever!! XD They subtitle the western stars, rather than dubbing them - which happened when Orlando Bloom was on Takki's show, I think. I was sad. Anyway, you can also sometimes catch what the translator says to the stars in English, so I could really follow and lot. And it's just. . . hilarious! The combination of SMAP + very popular western celebs is so amazing, cos there's all the SMAP-age and then all the. . . I don't even know. I don't want to confuse new TOKIO fans on my flist by suddenly throwing the SMAP out there, but man!
Matt Damon was adorable, Catherine Zeta-Jones was a little annoying but hilarious and they were all just totally fanboying her, and Cameron Diaz is actually totally charming! She seems genuinely excited to be on the show, so she's really happy, and if she has no clue what's going on, she's not afraid to say so, and it doesn't seem awkward cos, like, of course she's confused, she's Cameron Diaz! And she's a really good sport about the whole crazy thing. And she was sort of bouncing while she ate cos she was enjoying the food (she was a lot better about showing that the food tastes good - sort of Arashi levels - we don't train our celebrities to show that they enjoy food the way they do in Japan) so they were like "it looks like she's singing something in her head" and she said she wasn't going to sing it cos she's a terrible singer (can you see where this is going?) and it would be too pressuring, cos they're all professional singers! . . . So Nakai sang a few notes for her. XD I was dying. Also, there has never, ever been a reaction shot of Kimura Takuya that doesn't make me laugh. Not just on this show, as an institution. It's so very "Now Let's See What the Most Popular Man in Japan Thinks of This." Or at least, that's what happens in my head.
Oh, frick on a monkey, laundry!
OK, haha, moved it into the drier. I always forget about my laundry. I mean, I'm not terrible, I'm not that guy who puts it in and then goes away for the weekend, but I'm often about 15-20 minutes late taking it out. But hey, I rarely do it. XD I was running out of clothes.
So yeah, laundry is all I've accomplished today. I just totally ran out of steam post-midterms. The first half of the semester I was working constantly, now I'm like "ehh, I'll just skim it." >.< Part of the problem is the weather - when I take my work outside, I just sit and I do it for several hours. But also, since I'm no longer layout editor, I'm spending less time at the Sophian (once again, Smith's campus paper) so I have more time Tuesday night and stuff. We'll see. I'm slightly behind this week, hopefully i can pull myself together. But Katie's going to call me at 4:30 and I'll probably talk to her til dinner cos we're like that.
Ah, also! Watched a movie in my Colonial Latin America class today, "How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman." It's about a Frenchman who was captured by one of the indigenous tribes in Brazil - a tribe that was actually allied with the French against the Portugese, but they thought he was Portugese and he could not convince them he was French. And they kept him as a captive for 8 months and then they were going to eat him. It was really fascinating to see how he was integrated into the tribe and how he remained an outsider - cos he was given a wife (ridiculously attractive, despite her lack of eyebrows), and he got their haircut (a mistake - he couldn't pull off the no eyebrows - and he had been flamingly hot before) and he seemed to become more and more a part of village life, but then in a lot of ways he remained an outsider.
But anyway, the really interesting thing about the movie was all the full-frontal nudity. Seriously, the actor playing the Frenchman? They should have called it "How Tasty Was My Incredibly Well-Hung Frenchman". Dude! And an incredible body, beautifully muscled! And none of them had pubic hair, but the women had an extremely small covering - like a frontal thong, almost. I'm actually, though. . . bras are sort of a good thing. But the wife was flat chested enough that there wasn't too much sagging, and she had gorgeous legs and all this beautiful skin and just a fantastic silhouette.
I guess I'll stop there.
