Vegetative
Aug. 23rd, 2002 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyThat's what I did last night. I vegetated. It was kinda nice, actually.
I got home around four-thirty... I think... O.o After helping senpai
move into the place she's staying for a couple of days until she gets
an apartment (*prays/wills/makes
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caitirin get the place we looked at today*) I came home and did some
chore-like stuff, because my parents got home today and I wanted to do
some laundry and I had to water the flowers and do dishes and things.
But after that I just vegetated. It was extremely nice.
Usually I go online when I have free time, but yesterday I didn't feel like it.
It was really quiet in my house, and it's not like it's usually noisy,
because it's not... but it was very quiet last night. I only had one
light on and it was just very warm and darkish and cozy. I read
Reliquary (Relic was better... but Reliquary still has Pendergast in
it, so it's all right by me) for a couple hours, and then I made some
instant frozen vegetable lasagna thing for dinner, with some ramen in
it like RC makes, with parmasian cheese. It was good, but I made far
too much. Anyway, after I read a little more and it didn't look like
they were going to be focusing on Pendergast for a few more chapters
(sensing an obsession, anyone?) I decided that it was a good night to
just sit and veg out. And watch shounen-ai.
Most of the stuff
I've got is all speculative shounen-ai, but I've actually got some real
stuff, too - Song of the Wind and Trees, which was the first manga ever
to focus on a male/male romantic relationship. It was published or
serialized or whatever manga does in 1976, and the anime I have was
made in 1987. The seiyuu who does Akio from Utena, Kosugi Jurota, was
in it... he must have been a voice actor for quite a while ^_^ He
played the headmaster dude of the school. The story is about this boy
named Serge who comes to a French boarding school in the nineteenth
century, the place his father went. His father died in a war when Serge
was little. The anime didn't tell me all this, it was just that my
fansubs tell all about the history of the manga since you were assumed
to be a knowledgeable fan of it before you saw the anime. Anyway, Serge
gets this roommate, Gilbert, who is pretty much the school slut. He
doesn't go to class and lets the other boys *cough* use him in exchange
for term papers and exams and stuff, so he doesn't get kicked out, I
guess. Serge didn't know any of this when he arrived, but he quickly
finds out and gets involved by trying to protect Gilbert, who is rather
a bitch. He's craaaazy. He's got this evil sadistic uncle who is his
guardian, and Gilbert is convinced he's in love with this guy, so when
his uncle writes to say that he can't come to pick him up over
Christmas break, he totally tweaks. Anyway, the anime isn't very
cohesive because it's just a little snatch of the story, and it's kind
of presented as Serge's memories when he visits the boarding school as
an adult. It's very artistically done, very strange, and has lots of
neat Chopin music. The school also has a very interesting atmosphere. I
wish I could read Japanese.
The other shounen-ai that I have,
which I also watched last night, is Zetsuai '89 and Bronze. Those are
two OAVs in the Zetsuai series, and I have two copies of '89 because I
bought one tape with '89 and Song of the Wind and Trees on it, and one
tape with '89 and Bronze on it - because I thought that Zetsuai '89 was
the name of the series, and Song of the Wind and Trees and Bronze were
both names of OAV episodes. Anyway, the two translations of '89 that I
have are extremely different. I have no idea which I like better,
except that the one I got on the second tape, with Bronze, is a lot
more colloquial and I think tries to explain a little bit of the story
more than the other one, which is pretty literal. I think. O.o
Anyway,
Zetsuai is a lot newer than Song of the Wind and Trees. I think the
first anime was done in 1992... the second in '96, or something. I'm
not sure when the manga was written, but it's damn pretty. Anyway, I
think the manga classifies as yaoi because it might be considerably
more graphic than the stuff I saw in the OAVs... which was nothing,
really. It's got voice-actor goodness galore, though. Koyasu Takehito
does Izumi, the soccer-playing intense object of affection. He's been
in everything, I swear, and I start to twitch when I hear his voice
over and over. He was Touga in Utena and he'll always be Touga to me,
but he was also Zechs from Gundam Wing, Aya (arg) from Weiss Kreuz, and
tons and tons of other people. Hotohori, Mosquiton... he's in
everything, I tell you. You can't escape him. He's not my favorite
seiyuu, either, but I can't deny the sexiness of his voice. Anyway, it
was Koji's voice that really grabbed me the first time I saw it. Koji
is the agressor, I guess you could say... he's a superstar rock idol
and the one to do the advancing. I suppose he'd be the seme if you have
to label them, but Izumi is so damn intense that uke really
doesn't fit him. Anyway, Koji's voice actor is absolutely wonderful. Of
course his name escapes me... I'll go look it up in a second... but
he's just meltworthy. He also played Wolfwood in Trigun, with an Osaka
accent to boot. Gotta love it. He'll always be Koji to me.
Hayami
Sho. That's his name. Kyeheh, I love him. The Zetsuai '89 OAV documents
when he and Izumi first met, I think, and it still would help if I
could read Japanese or had any idea what went on in the manga. When I
first got the anime I looked up a bunch of stuff and it became a little
more clear... but ^^;; Anyway, it's really pretty. Everyone is
extremely... pointy. Their faces and hair and fingers are all sharp and
pointy. It's gorgeously animated, especially things like blood and
tears. And the angst. God, the angst. There wasn't as much angst in '89
as in Bronze, which made '89 better for me... at least, there wasn't as
much outward angst. There was still a lot of angst. I still couldn't
really figure out what was with everyone, and what all their neuroses
and things were, so I just sat back and watched the prettiness and
waited for Hayami Sho to do the chokey strangulated angsty voice bit at
the end. Mmm.
Bronze made my eyes do the Kenshin swirly "oro" thing. It starts and Koji and Izumi have a much
different, more advanced, relationship than at the end of '89, and
there was all sorts of neat crap with Koji's crazy siblings. One of
them reminded me of Crawford, kinda... the glasses and the coldness.
The art style was very different in Bronze, too - everyone was even more
pointy than they were in '89. They had narrower eyes, too. And the
angst. It practically killed me. They all cried a lot. I suppose that
was necessary since Koji lost his voice near the beginning (>_<
one of my main reasons for liking '89 more... severe deficit of sexy
voiceness in Bronze) and he had to portray all his emotions through
just looking. Which anime people have never had much of a problem with,
but the voices always add a lot. Anyway, it was aaaaangsty. I luvved it
^_^ It ended all cute, though. Angst is better when it doesn't end in
disaster.
When I turned it off, I was channel surfing and I
stumbled onto Rocky Horror. I am regrettably (?) not much of a Rocky
Horror aficionado, and I haven't seen much of it, even though all
through high school the kids I hung out with were wicked into
it, so in order to identify it I've either got to see a scene I
recognize (Meatloaf on a motorcycle, maybe) or Tim Curry in drag. So
all I saw was this bald guy with a very odd outfit shooting a lo-fi
laser at... someone. Then I noticed that the guys were wearing
lingerie, and figured it must be Rocky Horror. I need to see the whole
thing someday.
That's all. I liked my vegetative night. I got a
new CLAMP manga today when I was out with Senpai, called "Wish," which
has all these people in it who I believe are genderless even though
they're referred to as "he" or "she" in the translation. I want more.
I ought to go post now. I'm still kind of vegetative. Oh well ^_^
I got home around four-thirty... I think... O.o After helping senpai
move into the place she's staying for a couple of days until she gets
an apartment (*prays/wills/makes
caitirin get the place we looked at today*) I came home and did somechore-like stuff, because my parents got home today and I wanted to do
some laundry and I had to water the flowers and do dishes and things.
But after that I just vegetated. It was extremely nice.
Usually I go online when I have free time, but yesterday I didn't feel like it.
It was really quiet in my house, and it's not like it's usually noisy,
because it's not... but it was very quiet last night. I only had one
light on and it was just very warm and darkish and cozy. I read
Reliquary (Relic was better... but Reliquary still has Pendergast in
it, so it's all right by me) for a couple hours, and then I made some
instant frozen vegetable lasagna thing for dinner, with some ramen in
it like RC makes, with parmasian cheese. It was good, but I made far
too much. Anyway, after I read a little more and it didn't look like
they were going to be focusing on Pendergast for a few more chapters
(sensing an obsession, anyone?) I decided that it was a good night to
just sit and veg out. And watch shounen-ai.
Most of the stuff
I've got is all speculative shounen-ai, but I've actually got some real
stuff, too - Song of the Wind and Trees, which was the first manga ever
to focus on a male/male romantic relationship. It was published or
serialized or whatever manga does in 1976, and the anime I have was
made in 1987. The seiyuu who does Akio from Utena, Kosugi Jurota, was
in it... he must have been a voice actor for quite a while ^_^ He
played the headmaster dude of the school. The story is about this boy
named Serge who comes to a French boarding school in the nineteenth
century, the place his father went. His father died in a war when Serge
was little. The anime didn't tell me all this, it was just that my
fansubs tell all about the history of the manga since you were assumed
to be a knowledgeable fan of it before you saw the anime. Anyway, Serge
gets this roommate, Gilbert, who is pretty much the school slut. He
doesn't go to class and lets the other boys *cough* use him in exchange
for term papers and exams and stuff, so he doesn't get kicked out, I
guess. Serge didn't know any of this when he arrived, but he quickly
finds out and gets involved by trying to protect Gilbert, who is rather
a bitch. He's craaaazy. He's got this evil sadistic uncle who is his
guardian, and Gilbert is convinced he's in love with this guy, so when
his uncle writes to say that he can't come to pick him up over
Christmas break, he totally tweaks. Anyway, the anime isn't very
cohesive because it's just a little snatch of the story, and it's kind
of presented as Serge's memories when he visits the boarding school as
an adult. It's very artistically done, very strange, and has lots of
neat Chopin music. The school also has a very interesting atmosphere. I
wish I could read Japanese.
The other shounen-ai that I have,
which I also watched last night, is Zetsuai '89 and Bronze. Those are
two OAVs in the Zetsuai series, and I have two copies of '89 because I
bought one tape with '89 and Song of the Wind and Trees on it, and one
tape with '89 and Bronze on it - because I thought that Zetsuai '89 was
the name of the series, and Song of the Wind and Trees and Bronze were
both names of OAV episodes. Anyway, the two translations of '89 that I
have are extremely different. I have no idea which I like better,
except that the one I got on the second tape, with Bronze, is a lot
more colloquial and I think tries to explain a little bit of the story
more than the other one, which is pretty literal. I think. O.o
Anyway,
Zetsuai is a lot newer than Song of the Wind and Trees. I think the
first anime was done in 1992... the second in '96, or something. I'm
not sure when the manga was written, but it's damn pretty. Anyway, I
think the manga classifies as yaoi because it might be considerably
more graphic than the stuff I saw in the OAVs... which was nothing,
really. It's got voice-actor goodness galore, though. Koyasu Takehito
does Izumi, the soccer-playing intense object of affection. He's been
in everything, I swear, and I start to twitch when I hear his voice
over and over. He was Touga in Utena and he'll always be Touga to me,
but he was also Zechs from Gundam Wing, Aya (arg) from Weiss Kreuz, and
tons and tons of other people. Hotohori, Mosquiton... he's in
everything, I tell you. You can't escape him. He's not my favorite
seiyuu, either, but I can't deny the sexiness of his voice. Anyway, it
was Koji's voice that really grabbed me the first time I saw it. Koji
is the agressor, I guess you could say... he's a superstar rock idol
and the one to do the advancing. I suppose he'd be the seme if you have
to label them, but Izumi is so damn intense that uke really
doesn't fit him. Anyway, Koji's voice actor is absolutely wonderful. Of
course his name escapes me... I'll go look it up in a second... but
he's just meltworthy. He also played Wolfwood in Trigun, with an Osaka
accent to boot. Gotta love it. He'll always be Koji to me.
Hayami
Sho. That's his name. Kyeheh, I love him. The Zetsuai '89 OAV documents
when he and Izumi first met, I think, and it still would help if I
could read Japanese or had any idea what went on in the manga. When I
first got the anime I looked up a bunch of stuff and it became a little
more clear... but ^^;; Anyway, it's really pretty. Everyone is
extremely... pointy. Their faces and hair and fingers are all sharp and
pointy. It's gorgeously animated, especially things like blood and
tears. And the angst. God, the angst. There wasn't as much angst in '89
as in Bronze, which made '89 better for me... at least, there wasn't as
much outward angst. There was still a lot of angst. I still couldn't
really figure out what was with everyone, and what all their neuroses
and things were, so I just sat back and watched the prettiness and
waited for Hayami Sho to do the chokey strangulated angsty voice bit at
the end. Mmm.
Bronze made my eyes do the Kenshin swirly "oro" thing. It starts and Koji and Izumi have a much
different, more advanced, relationship than at the end of '89, and
there was all sorts of neat crap with Koji's crazy siblings. One of
them reminded me of Crawford, kinda... the glasses and the coldness.
The art style was very different in Bronze, too - everyone was even more
pointy than they were in '89. They had narrower eyes, too. And the
angst. It practically killed me. They all cried a lot. I suppose that
was necessary since Koji lost his voice near the beginning (>_<
one of my main reasons for liking '89 more... severe deficit of sexy
voiceness in Bronze) and he had to portray all his emotions through
just looking. Which anime people have never had much of a problem with,
but the voices always add a lot. Anyway, it was aaaaangsty. I luvved it
^_^ It ended all cute, though. Angst is better when it doesn't end in
disaster.
When I turned it off, I was channel surfing and I
stumbled onto Rocky Horror. I am regrettably (?) not much of a Rocky
Horror aficionado, and I haven't seen much of it, even though all
through high school the kids I hung out with were wicked into
it, so in order to identify it I've either got to see a scene I
recognize (Meatloaf on a motorcycle, maybe) or Tim Curry in drag. So
all I saw was this bald guy with a very odd outfit shooting a lo-fi
laser at... someone. Then I noticed that the guys were wearing
lingerie, and figured it must be Rocky Horror. I need to see the whole
thing someday.
That's all. I liked my vegetative night. I got a
new CLAMP manga today when I was out with Senpai, called "Wish," which
has all these people in it who I believe are genderless even though
they're referred to as "he" or "she" in the translation. I want more.
I ought to go post now. I'm still kind of vegetative. Oh well ^_^
