New friends, oldmeme, new memes, and what the hell Vocaloid.
HELLO, NEW BUDDIES FROM THE DRRR!!! FRIENDING MEME! /o/ ♥
Yeah, this is really late. I'm so sorry, you guys! I've fallen out of the habit of updating lately, but I'm going to try to get back in the swing of things. But welcome to you, pockethotel, ciemny_i_maly, chibisah, yamanaika, strawberrymello, fizzyopolis, mionchan, and chopinston! I don't think I forgot anyone, but if I'm missing you, just shoot me a heads-up, cos I wanna greet all of you cos I'm a big ol' sap. /hugs and rolls~
This entry's all meme-y, so it's gonna be a long one! I'll cut most of it to spare y'all's friends' lists. First up, though, are the answers to the un-guessed sentences for my previous meme! Yeah, those Better than it Sounds summaries y'all didn't get? Just in case you were curious, here they are:
*"A neurotic divorcee, her drug-addict boyfriend and their murderous, amoral sidekicks run black ops for The Empire while a math teacher battles a crime lord over the right to take over the world. Then the aliens attack." - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, aka one of the coolest comics ever that all y'all should read right now. :D
*"A drug-addicted amnesiac makes peoples heads explode." - Galerians, which I can't believe none of you got. Revu, Nickbutt, Jessu, I am disappoint. B|
*"Primitive scientist and escaped criminals use a big flying creature to run and hide from the military. The events of the universe begin to revolve around what he does, and his life just really really sucks." - Farscape, A MASTERFUL SUMMARY. Another that you guys should watch, if you like sci-fi.
*"The world's most killable child seeks to defeat a number of classic video game villains. He fails. A lot." - I Wanna Be The Guy, which is quite possibly the meanest video game ever. Seriously. Look it up. :|
*"X-Men with Japanese elementary school kids." - Gakuen Alice, WHICH IS ADORABLE AND HILARIOUS, surprisingly. It's as tooth-rottingly sweet as it looks, but it's actually really, really good. If you can get your paws on it, I recommend it, as long as you can handle a few cavities.
*"Over-achieving girl meets over-achieving boy. Together, they learn how to under-achieve." - KareKano, with another perfect summary, lmao.
*"Convict escapes justice. Valiant capture attempt by devoted police force prove futile. Student uprising ends in massacre. And then there's a wedding." - Les Misérables, COME ON YOU GUYS. No, seriously, that one just made me laugh. S-so mean, BtiS.
*"Shy bookworm must kill Beethoven and other historical figures." - Read or Die, another really good title.
*"Teenagers fight Satan by reading aloud from stolen library books." - The Young Wizards series, by Diane Duane. Like Harry Potter, only it came first and it is so, so much cooler (and I loved the Harry Potter books).
*"Amnesiac girl and her friends must travel, while dealing with more moles than a Whack-A-Mole factory." - Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, and this is once again an amazing summary. YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE.
*"A naive talking penguin and his woodland creature friends hang out with a boy in glasses, another boy who wants to be a ballerina, and a Vietnam Vet." - Bloom County, and since this one was obvious, I now really am sad that no one guessed it and I feel bad for y'all's childhoods. 8(
*"Incredibly intelligent man repeatedly prevents his mentally negligible employer from marrying. His reward usually comes in the form of destroying the garments of his employer." - Jeeves & Wooster, both written by P.G. Wodehouse (the books) and starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry (the BBC series). Find it in some form, you guys, and absorb it, and laugh, because it's beautiful.
Not so bad, actually! Quite a few of the ones that didn't get guessed were pretty obscure, and some were phrased in sneaky ways. Also, I totally don't know what that page means by "Better than it Sounds," some of the stuff on there just makes me really want to read/watch/play the thing in question. XD
HOKAY. TWO MORE MEMES, one because I got tagged, and the other... not! I had other things to say I'm pretty sure, but I can't think of them anymore so you get memes. :I NEXT UP:
♪ If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new question.
♫ Tag 8 people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.
#01 What song are you currently addicted to?
Oh, man, this one's hard. QUITE A FEW, ACTUALLY. Most notably "Gee" by Girls' Generation, "Laugh Maker" by Bump of Chicken, many different versions of "Just Be Friends" (originally by the Vocaloid Luka Megurine), and "Cactus and Mirage" (by Vocaloid Miku Hatsune).
#02 What game are you currently playing?
Pokémon Soul Silver. Contemplating re-playing The World Ends With You. Also contemplated trying to play I Wanna Be The Guy, but ahahaha no. :| (I also need to finish Platinum, BAW.)
#03 What was the last movie you saw?
... holy shit I don't even remember. IT HAS BEEN WAY TOO LONG. brb I need to watch a goddamn movie.
#04 Is there something else you should be doing right now?
Going to sleep. D| Also I need to write actually fic later for once, baw.
#05 My feet are cold. Are yours?
Nope! Maybe a teensy bit chilly, but in a good way. Socks :>
ALTERNA-#05 Winter or Summer?
Booooth in different ways. ♥
#06 What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?
Oh god. Right now, probably Keroro Gunso, Transformers Animated, Vocaloid, and Pokémon AUs. I am also super into Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name, Reborn, and Durarara!! and am getting über-interested in the Fatal Frame games again.
#07 Are you a cat person or a dog person?
Boooth omg omg. I have four pet cats though. |D But the only reason we've never had a dog is because we don't have room, time, energy, etc./the house would never survive it/the cats would flip right out (and possibly eat it). |D But oh my goodness I love both cats and dogs with a huge amount of love. ♥♥♥
#08 What did you eat for breakfast?
... a super-healthy oatmeal-raisin cookie containing flax, and about half a box of dark chocolate-covered Raisinettes. At about 11pm. 8| I AM AWESOME.
#09 What was the last thing you bought?
Bought at all? A bag of Lays classic potato chips and a strawberry Laffy Taffy. *A* Other than foodstuffs, um... That'd probably have to be either my Monsters and Other Childish Things book (SO GODDAMN AWESOME HOLY CRAP GUYS) or my TFA Prowl figurine.
#10 Would you rather date a good singer, or a good cook?
A good singer. I love music so much, I really couldn't live without it. And we could sing duets just for fun. ♥
#11 Something that made you laugh today?
I was at work, and suddenly the satellite radio thing at our store started playing "Love Train" by the O'Jays. ... Not even joking. And hearing "PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD, EVERYBODY, JOIN HANDS, START A LOVE TRAIN, LOVE TRAIN" out of nowhere is infinitely funnier when you're a Transformers fan. SERIOUSLY.
#12 What do you do to change your mood?
Talk to people, RP with people, listen to music. I basically just zen out in whatever way I can in order to calm and get happy again. Venting and ranting doesn't even work nearly as well. IDK how to describe it, because it's not repression; I just don't like wasting the time being upset, so choose to focus my energies on something else that makes me (and, ideally, others) happy instead.
#13 What was the last meal you ate?
... an actual meal? Well, if it counts, I had a ham sandwich, aforementioned Lay's chips, and a glass of chocolate Soymilk at work tonight. If not, yesterday (...or so?! god my schedule confuses me when talking about this kind of stuff) I had chicken and rice and some green beans. :9
#14 Countries that you want to visit?
A lot of different ones. I'd like to visit Canada again, and I'd love to see different European countries. England, France, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Wales, New Zealand... I'd really like to visit Japan, too, and possibly China and/or Korea.
#15 Any plans for today?
Sleep in a bit. After burrowing into my bed all day, talking to friends and RPing and potential-fic-writing tonight. Also maybe more planning on a multifandom RP idea that some of you may or may not be interested in, if you like Pokémon~ ;)
#16 Open your mp3 player of choice. What is your most played song?
... I don't even know how to get my mp3 player to tell me this. If it even can. :|
#17 Favourite TV show that DOESN'T contain giant robots?
Non-anime? Probably Farscape. BAW FARSCAPE. 8( Barring that, either Jeeves & Wooster, The Avengers, or Dead Like Me. If anime counts, it'd probably have to be a tie between Keroro Gunso and Durarara!!
#18 What kind of music is contained in your hard drive?
Kind? Lawdy, I can't even say. It's pretty much every single genre except screamo and instrumentals, and mostly excluding rap and country except for some exceptions that I love to absolute pieces. My music list is the most eclectic thing in the world, I can't even tell you.
#19 What was the last book you read?
The last one I finished? Mort, by Terry Pratchett. The one I'm currently reading? Going Postal, by... Terry Pratchett. 8D;; I've been on a Pterry kick, what can I say? Next up, though, I'm probably gonna reread Neverwhere -- either the novel or the graphic novel or both -- or The Graveyard Book, both by Neil Gaiman.
I TAG... you know, I was gonna say I don't even know, or even just refuse to tag, but. No. I tag kuraism, confusedmenot, meganubunny, marikocure, graceful_vanity, hoozilla, erirudo, and ode_to_a. DO EET. :D
And you know what, I am going to save my third meme for later, I think. It's an RP shipping meme thing that I swiped from ranty_rie, so if you guys like taking a peek into the mind of people who RP, seeing what they think about their characters, you might like it, even if it is ship-centric!
... Oh, I remember one thing I wanted to say, at least. SINCE WHEN IS THERE A NEW VOCALOID? Much less three of them?! I knew about Megpoid and I even heard about Sonika though I've barely heard anything from them yet, but holy crap, three MORE? Already?!
Not even joking, guys. There is now a teacher named Kiyoteru Hiyama (male), an elementary school student named Yuki Kaai (female, and apparently her voice bank was provided by an actual elementary school girl), and a possible-alien named SF-A2 miki (female) who is voiced by the former bassist of Supercar, Miki Furukawa. I mean, I'd seen Kiyoteru a few times but I thought he was a fan Vocaloid or an UTAU or something. ._. WHY DOES SO MUCH STUFF HAPPEN WHEN I STOP PAYING ATTENTION.
I really like their voices, though. Kiyoteru has a nice range -- he sounds good at slightly higher and slightly lower registers, though I think it might get a lot more strained at the extremes of either end -- and has a nice realistic sound to him, Yuki is adorable and the fact that she's being voiced by a real kid really shows in a good way, and miki is just... okay, she is really impressive. Great sound to her voice, and I think it's obvious that she's voiced by a professional singer.
Here's good examples if anyone wants them:
Kiyoteru Hiyama - Under the Darkness
Yuki Kaai - White Present 2009
SF-A2 miki - Love is War
Looks like I know what I'm going to be doing when I wake up. And that's downloading a ton of songs. In case nobody had guessed that. :Db
Yeah, new guys, all my entries tend to look like this. SORRY. :V
Yeah, this is really late. I'm so sorry, you guys! I've fallen out of the habit of updating lately, but I'm going to try to get back in the swing of things. But welcome to you, pockethotel, ciemny_i_maly, chibisah, yamanaika, strawberrymello, fizzyopolis, mionchan, and chopinston! I don't think I forgot anyone, but if I'm missing you, just shoot me a heads-up, cos I wanna greet all of you cos I'm a big ol' sap. /hugs and rolls~
This entry's all meme-y, so it's gonna be a long one! I'll cut most of it to spare y'all's friends' lists. First up, though, are the answers to the un-guessed sentences for my previous meme! Yeah, those Better than it Sounds summaries y'all didn't get? Just in case you were curious, here they are:
*"A neurotic divorcee, her drug-addict boyfriend and their murderous, amoral sidekicks run black ops for The Empire while a math teacher battles a crime lord over the right to take over the world. Then the aliens attack." - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, aka one of the coolest comics ever that all y'all should read right now. :D
*"A drug-addicted amnesiac makes peoples heads explode." - Galerians, which I can't believe none of you got. Revu, Nickbutt, Jessu, I am disappoint. B|
*"Primitive scientist and escaped criminals use a big flying creature to run and hide from the military. The events of the universe begin to revolve around what he does, and his life just really really sucks." - Farscape, A MASTERFUL SUMMARY. Another that you guys should watch, if you like sci-fi.
*"The world's most killable child seeks to defeat a number of classic video game villains. He fails. A lot." - I Wanna Be The Guy, which is quite possibly the meanest video game ever. Seriously. Look it up. :|
*"X-Men with Japanese elementary school kids." - Gakuen Alice, WHICH IS ADORABLE AND HILARIOUS, surprisingly. It's as tooth-rottingly sweet as it looks, but it's actually really, really good. If you can get your paws on it, I recommend it, as long as you can handle a few cavities.
*"Over-achieving girl meets over-achieving boy. Together, they learn how to under-achieve." - KareKano, with another perfect summary, lmao.
*"Convict escapes justice. Valiant capture attempt by devoted police force prove futile. Student uprising ends in massacre. And then there's a wedding." - Les Misérables, COME ON YOU GUYS. No, seriously, that one just made me laugh. S-so mean, BtiS.
*"Shy bookworm must kill Beethoven and other historical figures." - Read or Die, another really good title.
*"Teenagers fight Satan by reading aloud from stolen library books." - The Young Wizards series, by Diane Duane. Like Harry Potter, only it came first and it is so, so much cooler (and I loved the Harry Potter books).
*"Amnesiac girl and her friends must travel, while dealing with more moles than a Whack-A-Mole factory." - Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, and this is once again an amazing summary. YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE.
*"A naive talking penguin and his woodland creature friends hang out with a boy in glasses, another boy who wants to be a ballerina, and a Vietnam Vet." - Bloom County, and since this one was obvious, I now really am sad that no one guessed it and I feel bad for y'all's childhoods. 8(
*"Incredibly intelligent man repeatedly prevents his mentally negligible employer from marrying. His reward usually comes in the form of destroying the garments of his employer." - Jeeves & Wooster, both written by P.G. Wodehouse (the books) and starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry (the BBC series). Find it in some form, you guys, and absorb it, and laugh, because it's beautiful.
Not so bad, actually! Quite a few of the ones that didn't get guessed were pretty obscure, and some were phrased in sneaky ways. Also, I totally don't know what that page means by "Better than it Sounds," some of the stuff on there just makes me really want to read/watch/play the thing in question. XD
HOKAY. TWO MORE MEMES, one because I got tagged, and the other... not! I had other things to say I'm pretty sure, but I can't think of them anymore so you get memes. :I NEXT UP:
♪ If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new question.
♫ Tag 8 people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.
#01 What song are you currently addicted to?
Oh, man, this one's hard. QUITE A FEW, ACTUALLY. Most notably "Gee" by Girls' Generation, "Laugh Maker" by Bump of Chicken, many different versions of "Just Be Friends" (originally by the Vocaloid Luka Megurine), and "Cactus and Mirage" (by Vocaloid Miku Hatsune).
#02 What game are you currently playing?
Pokémon Soul Silver. Contemplating re-playing The World Ends With You. Also contemplated trying to play I Wanna Be The Guy, but ahahaha no. :| (I also need to finish Platinum, BAW.)
#03 What was the last movie you saw?
... holy shit I don't even remember. IT HAS BEEN WAY TOO LONG. brb I need to watch a goddamn movie.
#04 Is there something else you should be doing right now?
Going to sleep. D| Also I need to write actually fic later for once, baw.
#05 My feet are cold. Are yours?
Nope! Maybe a teensy bit chilly, but in a good way. Socks :>
ALTERNA-#05 Winter or Summer?
Booooth in different ways. ♥
#06 What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?
Oh god. Right now, probably Keroro Gunso, Transformers Animated, Vocaloid, and Pokémon AUs. I am also super into Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name, Reborn, and Durarara!! and am getting über-interested in the Fatal Frame games again.
#07 Are you a cat person or a dog person?
Boooth omg omg. I have four pet cats though. |D But the only reason we've never had a dog is because we don't have room, time, energy, etc./the house would never survive it/the cats would flip right out (and possibly eat it). |D But oh my goodness I love both cats and dogs with a huge amount of love. ♥♥♥
#08 What did you eat for breakfast?
... a super-healthy oatmeal-raisin cookie containing flax, and about half a box of dark chocolate-covered Raisinettes. At about 11pm. 8| I AM AWESOME.
#09 What was the last thing you bought?
Bought at all? A bag of Lays classic potato chips and a strawberry Laffy Taffy. *A* Other than foodstuffs, um... That'd probably have to be either my Monsters and Other Childish Things book (SO GODDAMN AWESOME HOLY CRAP GUYS) or my TFA Prowl figurine.
#10 Would you rather date a good singer, or a good cook?
A good singer. I love music so much, I really couldn't live without it. And we could sing duets just for fun. ♥
#11 Something that made you laugh today?
I was at work, and suddenly the satellite radio thing at our store started playing "Love Train" by the O'Jays. ... Not even joking. And hearing "PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD, EVERYBODY, JOIN HANDS, START A LOVE TRAIN, LOVE TRAIN" out of nowhere is infinitely funnier when you're a Transformers fan. SERIOUSLY.
#12 What do you do to change your mood?
Talk to people, RP with people, listen to music. I basically just zen out in whatever way I can in order to calm and get happy again. Venting and ranting doesn't even work nearly as well. IDK how to describe it, because it's not repression; I just don't like wasting the time being upset, so choose to focus my energies on something else that makes me (and, ideally, others) happy instead.
#13 What was the last meal you ate?
... an actual meal? Well, if it counts, I had a ham sandwich, aforementioned Lay's chips, and a glass of chocolate Soymilk at work tonight. If not, yesterday (...or so?! god my schedule confuses me when talking about this kind of stuff) I had chicken and rice and some green beans. :9
#14 Countries that you want to visit?
A lot of different ones. I'd like to visit Canada again, and I'd love to see different European countries. England, France, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Wales, New Zealand... I'd really like to visit Japan, too, and possibly China and/or Korea.
#15 Any plans for today?
Sleep in a bit. After burrowing into my bed all day, talking to friends and RPing and potential-fic-writing tonight. Also maybe more planning on a multifandom RP idea that some of you may or may not be interested in, if you like Pokémon~ ;)
#16 Open your mp3 player of choice. What is your most played song?
... I don't even know how to get my mp3 player to tell me this. If it even can. :|
#17 Favourite TV show that DOESN'T contain giant robots?
Non-anime? Probably Farscape. BAW FARSCAPE. 8( Barring that, either Jeeves & Wooster, The Avengers, or Dead Like Me. If anime counts, it'd probably have to be a tie between Keroro Gunso and Durarara!!
#18 What kind of music is contained in your hard drive?
Kind? Lawdy, I can't even say. It's pretty much every single genre except screamo and instrumentals, and mostly excluding rap and country except for some exceptions that I love to absolute pieces. My music list is the most eclectic thing in the world, I can't even tell you.
#19 What was the last book you read?
The last one I finished? Mort, by Terry Pratchett. The one I'm currently reading? Going Postal, by... Terry Pratchett. 8D;; I've been on a Pterry kick, what can I say? Next up, though, I'm probably gonna reread Neverwhere -- either the novel or the graphic novel or both -- or The Graveyard Book, both by Neil Gaiman.
I TAG... you know, I was gonna say I don't even know, or even just refuse to tag, but. No. I tag kuraism, confusedmenot, meganubunny, marikocure, graceful_vanity, hoozilla, erirudo, and ode_to_a. DO EET. :D
And you know what, I am going to save my third meme for later, I think. It's an RP shipping meme thing that I swiped from ranty_rie, so if you guys like taking a peek into the mind of people who RP, seeing what they think about their characters, you might like it, even if it is ship-centric!
... Oh, I remember one thing I wanted to say, at least. SINCE WHEN IS THERE A NEW VOCALOID? Much less three of them?! I knew about Megpoid and I even heard about Sonika though I've barely heard anything from them yet, but holy crap, three MORE? Already?!
Not even joking, guys. There is now a teacher named Kiyoteru Hiyama (male), an elementary school student named Yuki Kaai (female, and apparently her voice bank was provided by an actual elementary school girl), and a possible-alien named SF-A2 miki (female) who is voiced by the former bassist of Supercar, Miki Furukawa. I mean, I'd seen Kiyoteru a few times but I thought he was a fan Vocaloid or an UTAU or something. ._. WHY DOES SO MUCH STUFF HAPPEN WHEN I STOP PAYING ATTENTION.
I really like their voices, though. Kiyoteru has a nice range -- he sounds good at slightly higher and slightly lower registers, though I think it might get a lot more strained at the extremes of either end -- and has a nice realistic sound to him, Yuki is adorable and the fact that she's being voiced by a real kid really shows in a good way, and miki is just... okay, she is really impressive. Great sound to her voice, and I think it's obvious that she's voiced by a professional singer.
Here's good examples if anyone wants them:
Kiyoteru Hiyama - Under the Darkness
Yuki Kaai - White Present 2009
SF-A2 miki - Love is War
Looks like I know what I'm going to be doing when I wake up. And that's downloading a ton of songs. In case nobody had guessed that. :Db
Yeah, new guys, all my entries tend to look like this. SORRY. :V