Being at Dru's is awesome, she is so very kind, caring, considerate, not to mention kawaii XD
The location is beautiful, the beach is right up the street (though we haven't been yet). Adelaide is very pleasant, the weather has been perfect and the air is so much clearer.
I still find it hard getting my head around the fact that i'm with the girl i've known for about... 10 years online! This is our first meeting so reality is very slowly adjusting in my mind. It's cool and trippy and a dream come true lol. The Kuja in me is constantly tingling, but i'm glad he hasn't exploded on to the scene, however Drucilla... I mean, Candice (i've been doing that the whole time) gave me my own bottle of fancy BRANDY~~!! ZOMG ^__________________^ I'm so inlove hehehe :3
The wedding is also taking place in a beautiful beautiful old winery and it's just ugh.. UGH. BLISS. I'm looking very forward to it though i think i'm more nervous than Candice x.X
Apart from shopping for last bits and pieces we've been watching Nodame Cantabile and it is awesome, i love it, as soon as i get home i want to play the piano haha. I still can't get over the fact that Dru thinks my performance of Asher looks like Stresman XDDD WAAAH *heart broken Dru thinks i'm a classless pervert* I HAVE CLASS DAMNIT!
Anu... my cosplay plans have changed for the year. I gave in to a friend who needed a WCS partner so i'm going to be going up to Brisbane for that in May. And maybe (HOPEFULLY) half the Brandy Troupe's going to meet up in Adelaide in July!! SEGOI!
I'm looking so forward to the hotel at Mini Animania this year :3 So very very forward to our Kuroshitsuji cosplay, HURRAH! However Shaye (who's making hers and mine) doesn't think she'll get to finish it in time *CRUSHED* WOE IS MY LIFE. Simply unacceptable, i'm looking much too forward to sharing a hotel room with Lizzy and Grell! + I think Asuka from Evangelion ♥
Now that i've actually watched some of Kuroshitsuji i'm glad i like Ciel, whom i agreed to cosplay XD. Grell is absolutely wonderful "MY HUNK RADER IS ON!" XD but my favourite favourite is the Undertaker! Omg, i want to be him!! I'm up to 17 or 18 i think.. looking forward to watching more. However i'm watching Jeeves & Wooster 3rd & 4th season so i kind of pity Sebastian (nobody can live up to Jeeves), but he's so nice, but the mystery makes him unpleasantly foreboding. I just want to like him for who he appears. + go the animal liberation in Kuroshitsuji, it's interesting how they brought up bear baiting when it's a current and main focus with WSPCA.
Up really early tomorrow to hit the markets for flowers. But the markets do sound epic, i'm looking forward to it. Then Dru and i are getting our nails done XD Squee, and on the day we get our make up and such done, i've never been so girly before, it's quite exciting! Dinner time i think ^^
Amazing news, i have found cosplay friends! Local ones that is! I have to be careful however for most of them seem to be minors and i don't really want to go to jail now that i have so many conventions i plan on attending.
2009 Convention Plan
Mini Animania (March) Hobblrdy - Willo o' Wisp
Supanova (June) Sat: Kaname - Vampire Knights Sun: Michael - Model
Avcon (July) (Maybe attending) OC Kuja
Smash (August) The Devil from Devil's Bride
Animania (September) Sat: Utena Tenjou - Adolescence of Utena Sun: Tsuzuki - Yami no Matsuei
I'm very nervous. And i'm worried about the weather, because Kaname's winter uniform is so hot to wear so i don't know if i've picked the right cons for all these. I'm very stressed. AND OMG. WE'RE DOING AN ANGEL SANCTAURY COSPLAY + SKIT IN 2011 I AM SO FREAKING EXCITED. AND STRESSED. I'm going as Katan because i really hated that long wig as Rociel, and anyone else can play him better than i, not to say i don't love Katan at all, but it is somewhat weird playing the character that has been your rpg partner/victim over the many years.
I've already dressed up and taken pics of my Hobblrdy & Kaname cosplay and posted some of them here http://www.cosplay.com/member/38377/ ... but i'm waiting until after the cons to hopefully post pictures of myself + cosplay friends here x.X Wow. Cosplay friends XD
This post is dedicated to halfthewords for finding this journal and intimidating inspiring me ♥ I'm not sure how this is going to work, being the seme i am, i signed up for Tsuzuki not knowing there would be a Muraki. I'm not going to be a very good Tsuzuki wanting to top the doctor all the time XD I'll have to take it out on my Hisoka or something.
My Kaname is for my Desora because she said she loved him XD And Sanah said she would cosplay with me this year, and as she's the real life version of Anthy.. well, it was a given when she said cosplay with me that she'd be Anthy and i'd be Utena haha. I don't think i'll make a very good Utena though, and i'm going to be much too ugly standing beside her.
Other big news on my mind is Dru's wedding!! I really can't wait! I've known her for sooo long, she's one of my greatest friends and has been there for nearly my whole rp life, so it is a dream come true to be going to finally meet her and be her bride's maid ♥ CAN'T WAIT!
So i don't know who's still around on LJ anymore but i hope to be more active (probably just posts of stress about preparing costumes), and seeing what you guys are up to XD
I just made this short music video with a 'why didn't i think of it before?'
I was experimenting with fast cutting. I'm so not used to it, and then i got lazy. It's mainly Kuja ^^
I still plan on making the ultimate Kuja AMV. I still haven't found a perfect song for him though -_- And it has to be perfect. And i don't mind if my Kuja vids don't get much viewing (as there's so many) as my Kuja Sexy Back vid is still one of my favourites XD
I said i wouldn't be doing any more Angel Sanctuary for a long time lol
I thought this song was pretty perfect for Rociel/Alexiel. Until i realised what the third lines of the chorus were haha. But it worked out anyway.
I was much kinder to Setsuna with this video.
There's still some Katan, but not much =( I would like to make a Katan mmv, but i have yet to find a good song for him (time is running out vid never existed).
Other news, i am inlove with this Princess Tutu AMV that has won awards and such (I haven't even seen Princess Tutu) but this AMV is beautiful. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=tHZqxecCukg [Princess Tutu AMV - Hold Me Now (Warning: Spoilerific)]
Effects make my comp freeze/majorly lag. I should just stick to manga music videos.
Being a big Tamaki fan, i am sad about this video, for i feel it conveyed very little of his true character. I really wanted to do Tamaki x Haruhi to that super upbeat take on I Think I Love You =(
It also saddens me the idea of how many youngins must think that Lacrymosa is Evanescence's. When i heard this song for the first time in concert i was very angry. But you know, i thought the lyrics were fantastic for Tamaki for how he felt around the end.
Not this time, I won't lie to keep you near me.
What's the word? Looking like Oragami? Pretend family. I wanted to match that up but couldn't. I made about four versions of this amv, the only differences being the length of the ending, wanting to keep the whole ending, voices and all from when Haruhi jumps in the carriage and the Host Club music plays, big dramatic speech, but that made my video about 10 minutes long XD
Yay Host Club :3 I cried lots lol. Not like Fruits Basket though, crying nearly every episode haha
I feel it's been a while but apparently it's only a couple of months since i made a music video. I still want to finish/make my Art of War Berserk AMV but i don't know how to deal with so much footage that really lags the comp. I guess i'm going to have to get a cutter or something and only drag certain clips into editing program.
So i got frustrated with not getting anywhere that i decided to make yet another quick and easy AMV... i wish i had more patience.
This video took me a week. + 1 physio appointment lol. 'Tis for all the fans who were as distraught as me. And i hope the message comes across, the last chapter of Angel Sanctuary is called the Apocalypse and Rociel is the "legendary apocalypse bringerer", after losing the only thing he cared about, truly loved, by his own hands (which must really fucking suck), his true power awakens and he brings about the aforementioned.
Truly, Rociel and Katan are my favorite relationship. For one to be so devoted to and past his last breath and the other to be so destructive upon losing his loved one. I absolutely love the image of Rociel screaming, there's so much pain, clutching Katan's decapitated head to his chest, after everything they've been through. And i'm so glad that Yuki did make Rociel that broken and destroyed, the apocalypse bringer on grounds that he loses Katan, it makes up for the horrible fact that Rociel never once told Katan that he loved him and cared about him.
;_;
I think i put more effort into this video than any other because i think it shall be my last Angel Sanctuary/Rociel and Katan video... for a while atleast, i was having serious editors block when it came to Rociel and Katan. Oh, that was the other interesting thing, why did i dedicate a whole segment to Metatron? I don't know! I didn't really like anyone in Angel Sanctuary except Katan then Rociel and Mad Hatter (until i found out how silly she was over Lucifer). Though now i really like Kurai, she was really decent.
Yes. Next to Katan especially, everyone in Angel Sanctuary seemed emo to me. And i hated Setsuna and Sara with a violent passion, blaming them for all the destruction XD It's like they were going through a little teen drama while everyone else around them in the apocalyptic battle between heaven and hell were dropping like flies due to Setsuna and Sara's clumsy and selfish behavior. I put a lot of Sevi in too, i think because i felt bad because nobody likes Sevi or Metatron XD I thought about having the last image the same as the last image of Angel Sanctuary, but i think the irony would have been lost for most people and they'd be like "Oh, so this editor did like Sara and Setsuna after all"
My shoulders are quite injured, too much computer has killed them and i'm in constant pain. It makes me sad not looking forward to being able to go on the comp, but it's made me slightly more productive for real life.
I got to meet up with my first girlfriend at her art studio, that was pretty amazing. I also got to pay a visit to Nelly, Tasha and Viv, and that was wonderful. Been seeing a few other people, hanging out with Kristel as much as i can and eating out all the time (i'm fat).
I'm quite sad though, and i can't really talk to anyone about it because i don't know what it is. Things just seem wrong and i randomly cry, on the bus and at work =/. I'm going to give my new job all i can though, before i lived happily with the passion of being able to be productive, but without that, i'm understanding why people work 9-5 5 days a week.
So yeah, this AMV's pretty crap and i've only seen three episodes of Tenjho Tenge, but Shin's death suits my mood and it was quick/easy to make.
This is a MUST for all Rociel and Katan fans. I know there's a few of you here. It's one of those videos where it's like fuck.. I MUST TELL THE WORLD (of Rociel and Katan fans (and maybe the world in general))!
This person is amazing, they spent 50+ hours on the making to create an anime like atmosphere with the motion of the pictures. It took me a bit of getting used to be honest, But wow... it breaks my heart, encompassing Rociel and Katan's story completely.
Like all the others, it didn't come out the way i had planned. It seems to have ended up being more about Steerpike and Fuschia then about Steerpike, the man, who, as the Doctor would say, 'Climbs faster than virginia creeper'.
I wanted it to be about his cruelty and ascension, but i am over touched by Steerpike and Fuschia.
For all those who have wondered where my fascination with brandy comes from, it comes from Steerpike.
I think Gormenghast was wonderfully done by the BBC, the cast was absolutely amazing, fantastic, astounding, so many wonderful, familiar and vibrant actors. Mr Jonathan Rhyes Meyeres played a very handsome Steerpike however, haha, and though over done, i love the bitterness and amplified feeling of rejection.
However i absolutely despise the music. Omg.
JRM's portrayal of Steerpike is different in the novels, but still =O. JRM's a bit more humane perhaps... a certain youthful vigor to his bitterness, and very raw, i love it. I always considered him the main character, i really hate Titus... in the BBC production anyway. Steerpike's wonderfully the main character for a while atleast, for the main and only antagonist, it's fantastic. His ambition is so powerful, and he is the only one who wants to go against the dull, lifeless beat of the archaic, ritualistic heart of Gormenghast. The only one who wants to do something, be something. And where as Titus sits on the throne and only wishes to throw it away... it really grinds my gears. Woa, but i don't endorse killing your way to the top. The coldness, cool calculating intelligence of Steerpike does however add to his evil genius charms.
Anyway. Gormenghast triology by Mervyn Peake is my favorite along side The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe. Absolutely beautiful masterpieces.
"At your service."
"I don't know about at my service. I'd rather have somebody 'in' my service perhaps. But not 'at' it. Oh, no. I wouldn't have any service left if every young gentleman who arrived through my door was suddenly 'at' it. It would soon be in shreds. Ha, ha, ha! Absolutely in shreds."
-Steerpike & Dr Prunesquallor
Oh and hey! For once i didn't put the ending of the show in XD
I've been really shitty lately and making these drain what's left of my energy and make me feel momentarily better. But i can't keep making one every night, which the quick achievement is part of the satisfaction.
I'm rambling until the second one finishes uploading. The first one's pretty bad. Like. Woa. Bits i like, but the rest is just messy and ugly, i think because i wasn't fully convinced the song was for Rosiel, and the fact i was freaking tired, grumpy, pissed and depressed.
Not as much as i was today though, so the fact that i'm being civil to myself and those around me now is yay. I really suck sometimes. Can't wait for bed. Berserk AMV is next, finally, YAY. It's a bit daunting though with 25 episodes. The same reason why i haven't touched my Fruits Basket one. If it's just one character, that's fine, but i'm trying to focus on the whole lot.
Hmm... Oh. My main dream music video atm though is Angel Sanctuary Manga to Apocolypse Please by Muse *drools*
Most of it's in my head, it's so dreamy. Pow pow pow. But i don't know when i'll ever find the time to do it.
This one i'm quite pleased with. I was kind of spacing out half way through making it getting angry and shitty again because the series of clips weren't making sense to me. Then i decided meh, that's supposed to be the point of this one. I'm not good at breaking out of continuety, i like telling the story and putting it to music rather than.. how other people magically tell the story using clips from everywhere. I really envy those other people.
I really hope people will like the Rose one. But i didn't think about the fact the song would have highly less significance to people who haven't seen Nana lol.
Count Cain by Yuki Kaori Putting Holes in Happiness by Marilyn Manson
I need good titles for my videos =/.
I'm so glad i finally got to make this music video! I had a lot of options for songs, and chose this one against all odds because of the line "At least my death wish will come true" and boy... it was a bitch trying match anything else.
For those who don't know this manga (*waves happily to Nelly & Tasha*), or rather Jezebel, i'm pretty sure a lot of things in this are misleading. It's the first time i've made a music video without trying to tell a story to friends as it would have been too difficult. I haven't made up my mind whether it's good or not, very tired, and tonight was the only time i've managed to find the chance to work on it. I still have so many more i want to do -_-
Jezebel has the biggest heart. I like considering him as having the same devotion as Katan. He's a very soft and rich character, i like how he can hold so much hatred and even more love.
I spelt out one blatant thing because i did want friends to know how the boy is the man at the end... and now i kind of regret not spelling more out. In the end Jezebel sacrifices his life. Twice. For his abusive father and previous enemies love, Cain (his half-brother) and Riff ♥
My plan today was to make my Fruits Basket AMV, but as the clips took over an hour to load into Windows Movie Maker i fiddled on my laptop and ended up doing the Neon Genesis Evangelion AMV instead.
It wasn't too much of a hassle to turn every clip 180 degrees and mirror it, but still... at about halfway through the video i didn't put as much effort into it.
For those who really know me they know how much Neon Genesis Evangelion means to me... which probably isn't that many people come to think of it as i don't talk to anyone about it o_o
It's my soul, i grew up with it through those wonderful teenage years. It has shaped and developed a lot of my life and my opinions, the way my mind works. It's brilliant, it's fantastic, all about trust, the humans inability to interact and understand one another, pain and all that angst, insecurities, love and loathing often told through beautiful metaphors. Including some giant robots that aren't really robots. A tremendous amount of heart and empathy runs through me with Neon Genesis. The show itself i find is ingenious and priceless, directly from one's heart and psychosis, the imagery and emotions, stunning.
The first minute of the video is part of my favourite scene from the End of Evangelion. I love it so much, it's so powerful! I'm sad i couldn't fit the whole thing in. I tried. And i couldn't turn the volume any louder on the dialog so the music comes in very loud. Sorry about that.
I promised myself i'd take at least a week to complete this video and instead spent 6 hours today doing it =/. I really can't help myself, i enjoy the out come, i enjoy the idea of the goal, not so much the making of it so i just want to reach the end, even if some parts are sloppy -_- Boo.
But i'm really happy with the first half, the second half.. yeah. I got lazy. And as i know not many people are going to watch this i made it for myself and thinking about those close to me. Except the second half.
And again, i used to be a giant Silverchair obsessed fanatic, Emotion Sickness being one of my favourite songs.
The footage is just from The End of Evangelion opposed to the whole series and The End. It would be a lot more meaningful to me if i could have all the clips i wanted/are meaningful to me. Maybe one day!
Jason just pointed out it's not very explodey =/. This video is about the Emotions opposed to the explodey. Again, maybe some day!
I had no internet and on my laptop i've only got Rociel and Katan pictures and upside down footage of Neon Genesis.
I really hate the fucking drum fill XD I really couldn't be fucked, it would have taken me about 5-20minutes of fidgeting that i wasn't up for. I couldn't even be bothered erasing the text, meh.
I was really upset while i was making this because i didn't feel sad! I'm like.. but it's Rociel and Katan? How can i not feel sad? I was hating my shit skills and my lack of passion and effort, but by the end i'm quite happy.
I'm worried about being flammed for using Danity Kane as i have no idea who she is, but i wouldn't be surprised if she's dancing in her undies in her music clip.
So the last issue, where the hell's Rene? She hasn't even seen my Rociel Sama Manga Tribute ;_; booo.
She did however leave me a message saying that she uses me playing Kuja's theme song on the piano as her ring tone ;_; ♥
This video's also my first... lovey dovey video? XD I don't know. But it was different to make, i'm not used to cutting so slowly. And i'm sorry to the Rociel and Katan fans that watch it, it is very poorly done, but i wanted to see them to this song.
Jason's quite tired of Angel Sanctuary now, especially after the Rociel Sama Manga Tribute XD.
But quite seriously, if it wasn't for Katan, Jason and i probably never would have gone out =O
The poor thing's at the hospital now, did his ankle in at basketball again -_-
Other updates - I had a lot of fun cosplaying with Jordan this year!! I cosplayed Jezebel from Count Cain and nobody knew who i was XD But there was an Alexiel at Animania! I was too shy to talk to her =( Supanova i spent wandering around with Kristel spending lots of money XD
And Vonnie's birthday party was absolutely radiant! I think a lot of feelings went through me that night, listening to all the wonderful speaches and having a good time with people the night was shared with ♥
I should upload the footage of Jason i took at the piano with Viv and Bronwyn dancing around XD Only Nelly comes in at one point and shouts FUCK OFF =S
I really wanted to do a parody of Kuja, Sephiroth and Kefka but i couldn't find any footage of Kefka! =(
And what's also really upsetting is that you can download the footage at the end of Final Fantasy IX where Zidane's going to Kuja, and the whole Matrix pan ZIDANE/KUJA awesomenes, and also when Zidane (spoilers i should have mentioned) covers Kuja's body with his and the big bang but... BUT!! Zidane and Kuja aren't actually there. MF.
I'd really really love in game footage, Kuja's palace is so freaking beautiful and i think piecing together a lot of the scenes would still make a good music video.
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XD Hahaha, nobody's liking this video as much as me if at all. Something to do with Justin Timberlake i believe. I have a strange strong like for Sexy Back! I first heard it over a Host Club/Tamaki AMV and thought dwoah! As Tamaki blushes furiously over Haruhi ♥ So i always get the Host Club vibe when i listen to it, kind of light-hearted, silly and fun, i don't know much about Timberlake.. i probably should have thought about it more but oh well, it works well in my mind XD
This was a quick AMV though, i really just don't have the patience to spend/put a lot of effort into them =(. The only AMV that i spent a lot of time and effort on and thought about a lot was Berserk to Furious Angels and ironically, that's when WMM decided to really fuck up on me unlike any of the others and i couldn't make it how i wanted it and i am still amazed and so thankful that people seem to really like it anyway.
I've figured that if it's a good video then it will generally receive minimum 1 favorite per 100 views. That's how i'm judging anyway XD But when you make video's to people like Sephiroth and Neon Genesis, nobody's going to be able to ever find it amongst the thousands of others =(.
I plan to put heaps of effort into this smelly Neon Genesis AMV and if it's good enough i'll maybe try and enter an AMV competition next year... but i don't know if many others will agree or empathise with my perception of Evangelion x.X I guess they can fill in the blanks between the structure themselves and connect that way.. I hope. I wonder if anyone comes close to sharing the same connecting thoughts upon watching an AMV. I find they're very much like the whole debate on author/receiver thing because you are trying to tell a story when you make an AMV.
Some people are so ingenious when they get the lyrics with the footage and the whole thing flows so perfectly. Some people lean too much on the lyrics and it just doesn't seem to flow while others lean too much on the footage, i think i lean too much on the footage because i get a sense of idea which scene i want to connect to the next and wonder how i'm going to rubix cube it around with the lyrics and go poo this and choose footage over lyrics.
Oh, there was unfortunately not much Sephiroth and a lot of Kadaj in the AMV. I don't really like Advent Children all that much ^^;. I didn't think Sephiroth looked like Sephiroth, he looked more like a zombie Sephiroth which might have been a little of the point. Advent Children seemed to focus more on the new three silver haired characters rather than the original Final Fantasy VII characters. It was absolutely fantastic to see them again, animated with such detail, but the plot and dialog was really badly lacking.
Arghhhhhhhhhh... You and me and the Devil makes 3 by Manson would have been really fitting for the whole Sephiroth/Kadaj/Cloud thing.. simply because there's three of them? XD Poo. Sephiroth to Sephiroth's One Winged Angel is always orgasmic.
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