Cherry Blossoms, Lotus Blossoms, Accents, and Destinational Randomositous Ramblings
So I plan on in the near future-like in 2010 near future-going to Japan for my birthday. Tonight (or this morning, wha'ev) I happened to remember to check out an official travel Japan site and snoop around. They're having some sort of event for the winter and it runs through the end of February. I checked it out and there were pictures of houses covered in snow and stuff. That's when it hit me-I'd be in Japan during the winter because of my birthday falling in February. I realized I'd be in snow for my birthday. SNOW!!!! FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!
I'm so fucking excited!!! I'm still jumping up and down on the inside, mostly 'cause if I did it on the outside too I might wake someone! I'm so accustomed to my Florida weather during the winter (Oh! I remember one time I had an unplanned 'water themed' birthday and I went to the beach-fuck yeah! I likes the waters a lot! But I digress...) that I slightly somewhat forgot that its snows in places during the winter lol And I felt kinda dumb-like other places are always hot. When I went to Denver last year I was so excited to see and be in/around snow. The coldness from it to your nose made it seem like you were always breathing in clean even if there was dirty, slushy snow. Well to me anyway. I'm pretty sure that if I had more time I probably would've gone all super obviously touristy and been all like 'Snow, its so different the sun! We don't have snow where I'm from. Can I take it with me?!?!' So now I'm even more super mega excited!!!!
I'm trying to decide whether I wanna go for a whole week or not. I probably will, but still. The only sucky part is that my b-day's in the early part of the week I'd go. Unless I did some funky midweek thing. Knowing me and my OCD self I'll probably make it where my birthday is the middlest day of my trip. Thanks to my somewhat recent bite from the travel bug I'm trying to decide whether to expand beyond Japan or not. I'd love to go to India! Then I thought 'Well I might as well go to England 'cause there's Indian/Asian AND British people there too!!!! Two birds with one stone, how baller is that?! Oh and Jamaican people too-which I don't really care about but just to hear other nationalities' accents with a British tint is enough of a reason to care lol! Then I just jumped off on a tangent of places I wanna go: the aforementioned, Ireland, I think Spain and Italy are still on my list-I was obsessed with them back in the day! I even made yarn bracelets in the colors of their flags and wore them ragged or at least until I lost them 'cause I took 'em off and forgot about them., I was also obsessed with Maryland back in the day 'cause my friend told me about watchin chipmunks from the window. Now I'm obsessed 'cause that's where Michael Phelps is from! Two obsessions join as one lol!, and as of recent California, New York, New Orleans, and surprisingly to me maybe even Paris. I admit France never really caught my fancy much, but it is the home of Daft Punk and I was watching a competition on Food Network-I think it was dessert/sweetish something or other. I know they had to make cake, petite cakes, chocolate, and a sugar show piece. America was the reigning champ 2 years in a row but Japan and France were their biggest competition out of every other country that was participating. The theme was yin and yang, and while others expressed it more literally, France's sugar piece was more contrasts and they did like a 'glass' structure/building with flowers and such on it to show the contrast between agrarian and industrial society. It was beautifully executed and that was the best/clearest sugar pulled glass I've ever seen, and from what I hear that is not an easy feat. Plus-they don't fuck around when it comes to tempering chocolate! I think they won even though I wanted Japan to win, but they deserved it. Oh, and if I remember correctly the architecture duo that designed the Bird's Nest for the 2008 Olympics is french as well. Okay, so I'm seeing some reasons why France is somewhat appealing to me-mostly architecture/design/decor/et cetera, but still. Actually New Orleans and Paris go hand in hand for me as far as why I wanna go. I've to blame a recent interest in Lolita fashion which lead to just about anything Victorian/gothic (well the gothic interest already existed, but still), plus a read of Interview With The Vampire which reinforced the Victorian/Gothic interest and added the layer of existant vampire interest, then the viewing of that movie which further reiterated and reinforced all of the above. (OMG-Brad Pitt was SOOOOOOO prettily hot beyond understanding in that movie!-and I despised Louis' constant whining in the book at first but he did become my favorite character-and it didn't hurt that Brad Pitt was cast to play him yo!) Plus to add to all that there's a Disney movie coming out next year that's set in Nola and its just a lovely backdrop that's rife with possibility for this story! It'd be fantastically great if they got Harry Connick Jr. to do something for the soundtrack since he's from there!!!! *sigh* I wish I could've gone pre-Katrina but I'm pretty sure its still a lovely, lively, wonderful place. As long as I can still go on the Vampire tour whenever I go then I'm straight!!
I did talk about going to New York next year for my birthday to see Equus 'cause its last run is ON my birthday!! I'll admit I'd have mostly gone 'cause it was Dan Radcliffe and not 'cause it was naked Dan Radcliffe. I don't really care for naked so that wasn't exactly a plus. Then I saw a picture of him without a shirt and he is scarily not attractive! I don't mind skinny dudes, I don't mind pasty whiteness (I've my own pasty, blinding yellow version of that goin on! Maybe I should get some sun? Invest in some shorts? Go outside? Nah, it's take away from my 'vampirism' lol), but he was just...scary. I forgot about going for the play though and have progressed in plans with my sisters and cuzo to go to Key West for me and cuzo's b-days since they're within days of each other so now I'm doin that. When I remembered my New York intentions I was like 'Oh! Yeah. Oh well.". But at least for Key West we're going on her birthday...and coming back on mine!!! How cheesily fantastic is that?!?! The cheese factor in that single aspect alone makes up for the once in a lifetime-ish event of possibly seeing/meeting? Dan on my birthday! Plus I might get a tat for meself for me day o' birth. I'll prolly get it once we come back in town. It'll still be my birthday so I'm good.
Now I wanna go to NY just to see S.K. Thoth prayform. I saw the documentary of sorts on youtube about him. He's a very interesting character. And I don't say 'character' to demean him and his experience, I say it because everyone is a character of sorts in my own experience. The interesting ones are my favorites! He prayforms soloperas about a character/land/people that he made up in his youth. He even sings in the language of the land-which he totally made up!, and he dresses in costume from the land! He does this all while playing violin and providing percussion with his feet. I saw it and was fascinated by his story and the beauty of the character's story, his prayformances, and his bravery to be true to himself and free despite the risk and often actuality of others' misunderstanding and misinterpretation of him. That's some hard shit to do some times, but this dude does it all the time. He gets mad respect and admiration from me yo!
So, we'll see where the next 2 years life takes me. I'll go wherever it takes me. I do have this uncanny ability and determination to make a way for the things that I want though
