"Everybody say..."
I was in such a pissing shitty mood until just a few minutes ago, giving people the evils on a sunny day walking back from class. Studies are getting on top of me considerably for the first time in a while along with other life issues such as headaches, friends and women (that's plural). On the women front there's a multiplicity of problems, I'm generally frustrated at not being able to get what I want, especially so in meeting many girls very much into me and me feeling nothing for and when a right one comes along, circumstances (not reciprocity) crap it all up. I'm not one to take whatever comes my way either; I've had the advice to put the beer goggles on and just have fun. Just not me, though. Although it's not like I'm looking for marriage either. Like I tell myself, have faith, and it will end up great eventually, whomever it may be in the end. Who knows, it may be sooner than I think.
So, yes, despite all that i'm not sucking a lemon anymore. Nothing much in particular inspired the change, except pictures of karaoke possibly, but I don't allow myself to stay down for long even though it won't disappear from my mind overnight.
Had a great time. Started off with some Wildest Dreams by Maiden to warm myself up and then got into the Ketsumeishi, Asian Kung-Fu Generation (Rewrite), Remioromen (3 gatsu 9 ka), Happatai (Yatta!), Hyde (Countdown), L'arc-en-Ciel (Ready Steady Go!) amongst others and sung my heart out. Me and Naoki especially rocked out, he helped me with my shoddy Japanese rap and it was a great laugh.
The day started with a trip to London to a Japanese restaurant where Naoki pitifully tried to chat up the asian waitress and failed, followed up by some Katsudon that wasn't as good as what I make at home, wahaha. I didn't know where the karaoke place was, and we went inside some Japanese bookshop, only to be led into the back of it to loads of rooms with karaoke machines. I poked my head into one where there were 4 girls singing to Morning Musume and looked really embarassed when they saw me. In the karaoke room I ended up singing more than anyone else, but probably the most shameful part of it all was allowing myself to encourage a girl to sing McFly by singing the chorus of 5 colours in her hair with her. I'll be forever tainted for that. I should have checked to see if they had Mad Capsule Markets, that would've been the best, and considering the book seemed to have every song in existance I wouldn't be surprised.
Notes for future songs on future trips: Matisyahu - King Without a Crown, Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter, Mad Capsule Markets - Fly High, Maximum the Hormone, Oasis - Rock 'N' Roll Star, Dragon Ash - Velvet Touch/Shizukana Hibi no Kaidan Wo/Few Lights Til Night, Hyde - Cape of Storms, Shocking Lemon, System of a Down - Soil, Bob Marley, Mars Volta/At the Drive In, and at least one song sung by a woman, hell yes.
We went to the Trocadero after Karaoke and played a couple games of Tekken 6 (I beat Naoki :D) and various shooters where me and Hammer Nao decided to pretend to be Jack Bauer and Tony Almeida and parade like we're CTU agents. Well, that about covers it, I might not be having fun for a while, actually that's a lie.
When I feel frustrated like I've done the best way I let it out is listening to something adrenaline pumping and with a touch of aggression and really feel it and rock out with it thinking of all the good you can accomplish by turning negative emotions into positive ones. One Armed Scissor's a great song's great for that. Anyway I do have a ton of work to do, so less fannying, I better get back to it.
Edit: I'd really recommend this hour long film (anime) by the way: 5 Centimeters Per Second It's a really touching story about a young couple separated by distance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPCaAJ3BogE&fmt=18 you can pretty much watch the whole thing on Youtube in HQ, I think it's divided into 8 parts on there, but torrent it if you can, the animation is incredible. Watch it if you're even remotely sappy, it recently came to mind again, and it really captures well that sense of longing, harsh distance and unparalled intimacy.
So, yes, despite all that i'm not sucking a lemon anymore. Nothing much in particular inspired the change, except pictures of karaoke possibly, but I don't allow myself to stay down for long even though it won't disappear from my mind overnight.
Had a great time. Started off with some Wildest Dreams by Maiden to warm myself up and then got into the Ketsumeishi, Asian Kung-Fu Generation (Rewrite), Remioromen (3 gatsu 9 ka), Happatai (Yatta!), Hyde (Countdown), L'arc-en-Ciel (Ready Steady Go!) amongst others and sung my heart out. Me and Naoki especially rocked out, he helped me with my shoddy Japanese rap and it was a great laugh.
The day started with a trip to London to a Japanese restaurant where Naoki pitifully tried to chat up the asian waitress and failed, followed up by some Katsudon that wasn't as good as what I make at home, wahaha. I didn't know where the karaoke place was, and we went inside some Japanese bookshop, only to be led into the back of it to loads of rooms with karaoke machines. I poked my head into one where there were 4 girls singing to Morning Musume and looked really embarassed when they saw me. In the karaoke room I ended up singing more than anyone else, but probably the most shameful part of it all was allowing myself to encourage a girl to sing McFly by singing the chorus of 5 colours in her hair with her. I'll be forever tainted for that. I should have checked to see if they had Mad Capsule Markets, that would've been the best, and considering the book seemed to have every song in existance I wouldn't be surprised.
Notes for future songs on future trips: Matisyahu - King Without a Crown, Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter, Mad Capsule Markets - Fly High, Maximum the Hormone, Oasis - Rock 'N' Roll Star, Dragon Ash - Velvet Touch/Shizukana Hibi no Kaidan Wo/Few Lights Til Night, Hyde - Cape of Storms, Shocking Lemon, System of a Down - Soil, Bob Marley, Mars Volta/At the Drive In, and at least one song sung by a woman, hell yes.
We went to the Trocadero after Karaoke and played a couple games of Tekken 6 (I beat Naoki :D) and various shooters where me and Hammer Nao decided to pretend to be Jack Bauer and Tony Almeida and parade like we're CTU agents. Well, that about covers it, I might not be having fun for a while, actually that's a lie.
When I feel frustrated like I've done the best way I let it out is listening to something adrenaline pumping and with a touch of aggression and really feel it and rock out with it thinking of all the good you can accomplish by turning negative emotions into positive ones. One Armed Scissor's a great song's great for that. Anyway I do have a ton of work to do, so less fannying, I better get back to it.
Edit: I'd really recommend this hour long film (anime) by the way: 5 Centimeters Per Second It's a really touching story about a young couple separated by distance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPCaAJ3BogE&fmt=18 you can pretty much watch the whole thing on Youtube in HQ, I think it's divided into 8 parts on there, but torrent it if you can, the animation is incredible. Watch it if you're even remotely sappy, it recently came to mind again, and it really captures well that sense of longing, harsh distance and unparalled intimacy.