Anything...
Well, I hope everyone (both of you) reading this had a half way decent Thanksgiving.
I've never cared for the "holiday", be it the food I dislike, the family I'm forced to converse with, or the hypocritical celebration of peace and thanks, atop the senseless slaughter of indigenes peoples.
They didn't even eat turkey, for bloody hells sake. Honestly, America sickens me, I'm moving to Japan... Or Norway.
Ok, on the "lighter" side of things, I rented two films last week, and both in all manner of shock, exceeded my expectations on every level. Sure, I'm not one to set conscious expectations, but the point is valid.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and There Will Be Blood. Both are absolutely expectational and amazingly enough, throughly original. Easily two of the greatest films I have ever seen.
While on the subject of movies, I picked up The Studio Madhouse film: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, which turned out to be a throughly enjoyable film, and deserving of the mass amounts of praise and attention it currently seems to be garnering.
Well, thats enough for now. Meh...
Anime,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
movies,
Thanksgiving.,
There Will be Blood
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I'm often drawn to J-Pop lyrics(and the "genre" itself) due to their melodramatic, often forcefully direct imagery and emotion. Couple them with singers who exude a heartbreakingly frail sincerity through soft, whisper like verses and I'm just swimming in the energy and mood that these songs tend to radiate.
Fanboy? Nah...
So without further delay, I present the lyrics to one of my favorite J-Pop ballads, perhaps you'll begin to grasp what I'm referring to.
Selenite - By Rurutia
Ah, wavering torch light in a city of rubble.
The resounding, transparent music echoes my wish.
Now, the burning sky that had fallen has sunk to the bottom of the water
...the full moon shines
Ah...
The night, burning blue colors you.
Even as I tightly embrace those oh-so-frail shoulders
I feel as though you'll vanish.
Ah, the countless grains of stars at the far reaches of the universe.
I found it, I even felt dizzy at our first meeting.
Swallowed up by the gold and silver wave of light raining down.
...we two make our way to the sacred river.
Ah...
With each sweet surge, it makes my heart tremble.
I always want to hold you like this forever.
So that you'll never vanish.
Swallowed up by the gold silver wave of light raining down.
...we two make our way to that sacred river.
Ah...
The night, burning blue colors you.
Even as I tightly embrace those oh-so-frail shoulders.
...I feel as though you'll vanish.
With each sweet surge...
...it makes my heart tremble.
I always want to hold you like this forever.
So that you'll never vanish.
Fanboy? Nah...
So without further delay, I present the lyrics to one of my favorite J-Pop ballads, perhaps you'll begin to grasp what I'm referring to.
Selenite - By Rurutia
Ah, wavering torch light in a city of rubble.
The resounding, transparent music echoes my wish.
Now, the burning sky that had fallen has sunk to the bottom of the water
...the full moon shines
Ah...
The night, burning blue colors you.
Even as I tightly embrace those oh-so-frail shoulders
I feel as though you'll vanish.
Ah, the countless grains of stars at the far reaches of the universe.
I found it, I even felt dizzy at our first meeting.
Swallowed up by the gold and silver wave of light raining down.
...we two make our way to the sacred river.
Ah...
With each sweet surge, it makes my heart tremble.
I always want to hold you like this forever.
So that you'll never vanish.
Swallowed up by the gold silver wave of light raining down.
...we two make our way to that sacred river.
Ah...
The night, burning blue colors you.
Even as I tightly embrace those oh-so-frail shoulders.
...I feel as though you'll vanish.
With each sweet surge...
...it makes my heart tremble.
I always want to hold you like this forever.
So that you'll never vanish.
Its 4:49, I've been sitting in front of of this screen three hours longer than I planned, and I'm wearing a frightfully denim "shirt", in order to keep warm. I'll say its more or less worth it, seeing as I'm paying $179.00 a month on a budget plan after I racked up a $400.00+ bill four months in a row, last winter.
I hate denim in anything other than jeans, and even then I prefer khakis.
I'm not sure where I was going with this, as one of my many health conditions has rendered me dizzy, and thus has sapped my creative energy, as it were. So heres another pretty picture also found at http://www.minitokyo.net/
I hate denim in anything other than jeans, and even then I prefer khakis.
I'm not sure where I was going with this, as one of my many health conditions has rendered me dizzy, and thus has sapped my creative energy, as it were. So heres another pretty picture also found at http://www.minitokyo.net/
Hello all(eh?), this is Down That River. My life has become quite odd and perplexing, in the past six years, even more so in the three most recent of those years. This blog has come into existence to hopefully give me an outlet for my frustrations/constructive time killer.
In the future, I plan to be posting reviews on a variety of different venues, such as Anime, Manga, live action film, traditionl literature, music, web sites, ect. ect. As well as whatever I feel I need to press upon the masses...
Well, granted, I certainly don't have any readers at this point, but I like to think I'll stick with this bloody thing long enough to start making posts of interest to point at in the company of friends.
I'm an optimist.
Until then, I'll post pretty, pretty pictures. OK? Lovely.
First, a beautiful wallpaper I stumbled upon while browsing about http://www.minitokyo.net/. I'm afraid I haven't any idea as to the name of the original artist, or the creator of the Wallpaper, but I know it can be found in the section that features art unrelated to any franchise.
In the future, I plan to be posting reviews on a variety of different venues, such as Anime, Manga, live action film, traditionl literature, music, web sites, ect. ect. As well as whatever I feel I need to press upon the masses...
Well, granted, I certainly don't have any readers at this point, but I like to think I'll stick with this bloody thing long enough to start making posts of interest to point at in the company of friends.
I'm an optimist.
Until then, I'll post pretty, pretty pictures. OK? Lovely.
First, a beautiful wallpaper I stumbled upon while browsing about http://www.minitokyo.net/. I'm afraid I haven't any idea as to the name of the original artist, or the creator of the Wallpaper, but I know it can be found in the section that features art unrelated to any franchise.
