Sunday, February 24, 2008

Calling All Those Who Have The Passion
How many of you are members of OtakuBoards? I ask because I'm thinking of joining it, but I'm not sold on the idea of keeping track of another site to log on to. (Yes, I'm talking to you DA, with all your artsy pretentiousness. I never did submit a picture on your site, and I'm sure that you elite Artists wouldn't notice the absence. I have often heard people mentioning DA as if it's the grand, ultimate pillar of ART. The fun of being a new disciple to anime and manga style art -- the love of learning how to draw the style for the first time -- just isn't there. The beginners are always shuffled out of the deck -- make room for us Artists! (Yes, you Artists have privileged insights which no artist on any other site has...sniff.) I prefer watching someone on this site develop their art style gradually, from sketchyness to refined linework over the course of many pictures. Watching the refining of one's skill is a site to behold, and this is where I find it.)

Steering the thought back into where I had intended it to go (elite Artists annoy me to no end; possibly because I find myself in them? I guess you could say that, if you subscribe to rickety psychological theories, which are propounded in books with titles such as, "7 Steps to Confidence Made Easy!", "Get Confident, Stupid!", and B.F. Skinner's "Upon Further Reflection"), I might make an OtakuBoards profile. However, I need to be swayed, and that, folks, is not an easy thing to do. For now, I have my eyes set on the new site launch date.

Hey, it's roughly the same date as when I made this account! How nice of them!

One more thing: Fasteriskhead, if you're reading this, you ought to wake from your dogmatic slumber and prepare for the articles section.

STUFF

Richard Wagner: I have no good reason to be listening to his music, but I do. When he revs up the orchestra, the music rivals any metal band around for sheer heartpounding impact! You had best stand when Wagner enters you ears.

Rene Descarte's "Ideas": Eh? I have an idea that if I sent him to the store to buy me a bottle of chocolate milk, he would come back with a bag full of yogurt, skimmed milk, evaporated milk, sour cream, milk of magnesia, and chocolate milk. I do like reading his works -- especially, A Discourse on the Method -- but his theory of ideas tosses me around a bit.

Ai Otsuka's live performance of Happy Days: The recorded vesion is quite energetic, but the live version that her and her band does is simply Jaw-dropping! I have the DVD A Love is Born: 3rd Anniversary 2006 at Hibiya Yagai Ongaku-Do on 9th of September 2006, and this is one of the highlight performances. I remember reading a fan's comments that he thought that she was bipolar, because how else can you explain the sad-piano music of Daisukidayo and the speaker-blowin', plasma TV meltin' performance of Happy Days? When I feel like dirt, I just listen to this song, and I feel like happy ginko dirt!
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