23 May 2002 CE 2:49 am
Sometimes I even amuse myself.
I've been reading old blog entries for the hell of it. And I'd forgotten about some of them. Some of this is FUNNY. Like the Smurfs and the Saiyuki thing and I'd already forgotten that I filked the Lumberjack song to be about Katsuya! I am fscking hilarious. I make myself laugh.
23 May 2002 CE 2:07 am
Atlus is run by Nazis.
You don't believe me, do you? Play Persona 2. In Innocent Sin they bring Hitler back to be evil. And whenever people are surprised or shocked or thinking positive, they do the "Heil Hitler!" salute. Therefore they're Nazis. Seeing as Puu is Atlus' whore (self-proclaimed), I think they're brainwashing her to be the next Hitler. Not that she's completely Aryan. But then, Hitler wasn't really blond either.
Before you kill me realize I got 3 hours sleep in the last 40.
21 May 2002 CE 4:10 pm
CDs MP3s and Sony
I'm sure you ALL know about sony adding false data to CDs so they won't run in cdrom drives by now (if you don't, you live under a rock). Well I got the new Pierrot album (Heaven The Customized Landscape) and it does the same thing. Yeah, I know I could take a permanent marker to the disc and make it so it would work, but for christ's sake, its a $33 first printing, I really don't WANT to mark it up. I love the album, I'd love to be able to listen to it while I sit here, but I can't, because they're worried that I might distribute it freely on the web to people who wouldn't fork out $33 for it in the first place. I resent this. I don't keep a ton of mp3's around. If I like the song I have it on cd, if that's at all possible. My computer functions better playing a cd than playing an mp3, it uses less system resources. So all they've succeeded in doing is making my life difficult. They haven't actually stopped people from ripping mp3s and I can't listen to my cd in the computer without hurting the cd.
On a side note Kristi is going to crush my soul because I have addicted her to some things that have horrid fandoms: Jrock (Pierrot) and Clamp (Gohou Drug).
19 May 2002 CE 7:19 pm
Katie's Theory of Clamp
This is going to be a Clamp related blog. Yeah, I know that most of you who read this think they're evil, but bear with me.
First thing first: Lawful Drug (Gohou Drug). It's Gay. It's very very Gay. It's also pretty damn good compared to some of Clamp's less Gay works. The picture over there is Rikuou from Lawful Drug. It's off the photo album furoku that came with Asuka 6 (the other side is Kazahaya). Simply because there is virtually NO information on the series I'm going to provide a brief summary. Kazahaya Kudou is a broke, homeless young man who is found dying in the snow by Rikuou Himura. Rikuou's boss, Kakei, offers Kazahaya a job in his drugstore and a place to live (with Rikuou). Kazahaya can barely stand Rikuou. To make extra money, Kazahaya and Rikuou sometimes take special jobs from Kakei that involve finding special items. This is because everyone in the story is psychic apparently. Kazahaya has the ability to pick up memories, feelings and emotions just by touching things. Of course there's more to the story than just these little jobs. Kazahaya and Rikuou both have mysterious pasts with mysterious women in them, and Kakei is up to something. And the story is very Gay. Kakei has a boyfriend named Saiga, and there is nothing straight about them. Saiga regularly molests Kazahaya. Rikuou and Kazahaya are damn near stereotypical seme and uke, except they don't have sex. This series oozes gay. Nyahnyah.net has some (admittedly) mediocre translations of the first volume of the manga. They're not great but enough to give a good idea of what's going on.
Next: Katie's Theory of Clamp. This actually came up last night. Its really fairly simple. The reading value of a Clamp manga is inversely proportional to how straight it is. The more they insist the characters are straight, the worse the manga is. Examples: Tokyo Babylon, Duklyon, and Lawful Drug are all good. They don't even make a pretense that the characters are straight. Look at Kenpi, Subaru, and hell, any of the main four characters in Gohou Drug. On the other side, we have X, Rayearth, and Card Captor Sakura. All of these series began to suffer when they made some of the central main characters slashy but not gay. In X Fuuma and Kamui are mighty obsessed with each other for supposedly being straight. In Rayearth Lantis supposedly loves Hikaru DESPITE having his blond little uke. In CCS, Clamp couldn't even make up their minds on gender for the moon guardians. And then they go through this whole drama of gay/straight/tasty snack/"ichiban suki na hito" (most liked person, not necessarily your sig other). Of course most of the fangirls for these series will insist that these male characters are gay and write yaoi fic and attack my arguments that these aren't the greatest series ever. You know what? I don't care. And then there are other Clamp series that don't really fit either of these categories. Like Angelic Layer, Chobits, Clover. Angelic Layer and Chobits are both aimed at a male audience. Of course there's no gay. Chobits however has massive amounts of softcore pr0n, and there is potential for f/f gay. Clover actually focuses on an m/f relationship as the primary character relationship. That makes it a bit harder to write gay for it. Same goes for 20 Mensou ni Onegai, it's about Akira and Utako's relationship. Clamp Gakkuen Tanteidan is hard to classify because the characters in it were all already created for other series. While it is possible to see potential for gay, they all were initially designed to be seperate from each other. The only character of the three main ones that doesn't have a canonical girlfriend is Nokoru, which makes it hard to write an m/m couple from the main characters. I will not comment on Wish, Suki Dakara Suki, or RG Veda having never read them.
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