Elaby's LiveJournal - 57 Academics

I did my taxes! caitirin gave me a cookie!

It's a McVittie's digestive biscuit with caramel and chocolate. Mmm.

It's random Japanese lyric time because it's in my head! I can't find a bunch of Gackt on my computer *eyes it* But I have all of them on CDs, I just have to put the CDs on my computer. However, I'm kind of suspicious because all but one of the songs that skip on my iPod are ones I burned off CDs, not ones I downloaded on iTunes or something. Hm.

Anyway! Lyrics! Because I know you're excited. ( Now new and improved with hiragana and kanji but only when I know the kanji! And a translation! )

This seems to happen to me with Gackt a lot - this was one of those songs where I thought it was probably a nice happy song because of the feel of the music, and then I listened to the words and went "Or not. This is another one of his 'my girlfriend's dead' songs."

One of my recent music obsessions is YUKI, who used to sing for Judy and Mary before the band broke up. She's on her own now, and her music is so damn cute I could just die. It's bouncy and happy and it's the kind of thing that makes you want to dance on stone walls and jump in puddles. I just came upon a wealth of romanji lyrics online, and I had searched before and found only one of the songs I have - this page has all of them. I squee loudly with joy now for being able to read along. The English lyrics, which aren't translated but are left in Japanese-English, are so hysterical. Particularly in Maiagare.

"KAMON! HITTO ZA FUROA
RETTO ITTO FUROU ITTSU PA-TI- TAIMU
SURO- YUA HANZU APPU ANDO RETTO AUTO A SUKURI-MU!
WIRU TI-CHI YU- HAU TU PUREI IN A WEI
WIRU RIDI RAIN
ZA MI-NINGU OBU "TU- HABU SAMU FAN"

That being

"Come on! Hit the floor
Let it flow, it's party time
Throw your hands up and let out a scream!
We'll teach you how to play in a way
We'll really learn
The meaning of 'to have some fun'"

... as far as I can tell.

So cute.

Today I had adventures in finding Hitchcock Hall (to deliver posters for the Writing Center), and then adventures in attempting to get in - I didn't know that the Res Life door is down another road on one side of the building, not on any of the other... um... like sixteen sides (very weirdly shaped bunch of buildings here) so I went to the computer cluster to get their phone number so they could let me in. Then I had to figure out how to use the call boxes on the front of the dorm. THEN they told me where the real door was. After all that, it turned out we were supposed to sort our flyers before we brought them in, but I did it there - we were still short, but we got a bunch out to the dorms to post so hopefully we'll have more students come.

Since this is apparently the post of random subject-switching, I saw Pride and Prejudice last night with caitirin and _melisande_. It was absolutely delightful. There is the way to do Jane Austen in movies and the way not to do Jane Austen in movies, and this version (the newer one with Keira Knightley et al, though I haven't seen the Colin Firth one) totally does it the right way. Emma Thompson's version of Sense and Sensibility was the same way. It was funny, pretty, had beautiful music and great actors, and was just fantastically entertaining. There were some kind of weird artsy transitions, and some shots that could have dragged, but you could overlook those because the music was just so pretty. I'd listen for a while, go "Geez, is he STILL walking across that field? Oh well! Pretty music!" and go back to listening contentedly. My absolute favorite thing about it was that Donald Sutherland played Mr. Bennet and that Judi Dench played, er, the Token Bitchy Imperious Old Lady. I pondered for a bit on how weird it was that I went "SQUEEEE!" when I saw Donald Sutherland, yet had no reaction to any of the younger actors ^^;; Leave it to me to fangirl the old people. This also changed my opinion of Keira Knightley, because I didn't particularly like her in PotC or King Arthur, but she was quite good in this. She has the longest neck and the flattest chest I have ever seen on a woman; this makes me feel better for more reasons than that I mistook her for a boy in the King Arthur previews. She has such skinny arms. She'd be really fun to draw or sculpt, but I don't find her attractive other than artistically. Anyway, it was really a wonderful movie.

Good lord, it's late! Hah! I feel like my young college self ^_^