ninja edit.
anyways, i should've added that i compared apples to oranges slightly in comparing prices of cartoons/anime. the reason is that japan seems to be huge on toys and stuff, especially related to electronics. for instance their arcade scene is still kicking, unlike the atrocity that occurs in the us. but the price of playing is a lot higher. here, most games are 50 cents for 1 credit, and maybe if you're lucky, 25 cents to continue. in japan, one credit is 100 yen. or basically, if the us operated arcades like this, essentially 1 dollar(relatively). although, their arcades are a lot more clean-cut and organized, and they always fix their arcade sticks if broken. but i guess the comparisons still apply a bit.
but i guess this is what happens when japan really wants to make itself this clean-cut high tech country.
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girl lead guitarist playing santana
see? lead guitarists who happen to be female and look good exist! now i just need to find a video of some female sprinting around the fretboard to some hard rock or j-rock.
Friday, July 13, 2007
mad, mad, tired today...
i awoke suddenly at 5:00 or so this morning and couldn't go back to sleep, tossed and turned repeatedly. i think i was still a bit in my dreamy state because i remember awaking and thinking/seeing a huge spider(think tarantula size) was perched on my ceiling while holding a venetian blind. then i remembered huge spiders like that don't have the mass to hang on the ceiling and covered my face with my arms, fearing it'd drop on me.
from there i just couldn't really sink back into a deep sleep. after a while i saw it was getting light and the birds wouldn't stop chirping. looked at my watch to see it was 6:30. so then i just said whatever, and got up. so even though i had like 3-4 extra hours today, i'm beginning to feel tired real quick. but i guess it might help, since i might be serving on the worship team this sunday. i haven't gotten up early in a long time. then brian calls me at 12:00 to tell me he doesn't feel like seeing transformers today as well, giving me even more time to blow today; bad thing is, i'm starting to get like i said, tired, and it's still 2:00. i think i'll just look at some potential jobs, revise my resume, then go to church around 4:00 and play some(haven't played with music for a long time, and when i tried yesterday, i felt REALLY OFF). then call it a day. maybe finish the robocop dvd i bought tonight.
i seriously get so many dreams now. like one every single night. i'd write them down, but the thing is unlike when i'm wide awake, i don't remember everything; my remembrance of dreams seem like a trail of smoke released from an airborne plane; it stays neat right when it comes out, but over time begins to tail away; my earlier moments of my dreams i can barely remember.
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you might want to check this out if you're a video game freak of any type
david sirlin is a legend btw; he's one of the first to essentially tell those playing sf competitively to stop whining(especially about throws and block damage) and start figuring out how to play. i haven't taken a listen at the session yet, but i downloaded it to my usb drive today and will give it a listen tonight.
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i'm thinking back to what either hamlin or bob said about japan's economy not doing so well because asians are so picky about spending. on tuesday. that may explain why everything from japan's so expensive.
for instance, i love watching cartoons. usually tend to like the american types more than the asian ones, but i'm ok with those too. i'm a huge futurama fan. i did buy 3 out of the 4 boxsets at best buy, but they were on sale at 20.00 each(should've bought the 4th too; ah well; some other day). but even if i didn't buy them on sale, they would've been 33 dollars for about 19 episodes per boxset. you could argue futurama's old right now, which meant i might've gotten it a lot cheaper, but even if i got it when it was fresh out of the productions it might've been 40 dollars for a boxset at most.
now compare that to one of japan's most popular anime's right now: the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya. a few weeks ago i was able to watch all 14 episodes on youtube by the contribution of some generous posters. (tried looking for it again a few days ago, and one of the contributor's uploads were all gone due to use violation). i felt it was kinda cool, so i thought maybe in the future i'll go to fry's or amazon.com and buy the season's worth. but i decided to check to see what the price was as of right now, etc.
22 dollars for one boxset. not bad, until i saw how many episodes were on that dvd: four(remember they had 14 episodes this season, and if they continue it, it's most likely going to have more). that's it. and if you want to get the special edition boxset, oh no, that doesn't add to the number of episodes, just the amount of junk you get; cosplay ribbons, music cds, t-shirt iron-on, pencil box, etc. 44 dollars for that.
and it's not just this show. it explains why sometimes when i'm at the library and look at the dvds available, sometimes i'll see naruto dvds, but they too only have 4 episodes per dvd. japan apparently really likes doing stuff expensively, because everybody there doesn't spend freely.
again, it's not a case of the pharisee thanking God that he's not the tax collector(or the publican, if you read the kjv), it's just a sense of it's cool that others like buying so much stuff here in the usa, so that prices are low all-around.
and with that, happy spending.
i awoke suddenly at 5:00 or so this morning and couldn't go back to sleep, tossed and turned repeatedly. i think i was still a bit in my dreamy state because i remember awaking and thinking/seeing a huge spider(think tarantula size) was perched on my ceiling while holding a venetian blind. then i remembered huge spiders like that don't have the mass to hang on the ceiling and covered my face with my arms, fearing it'd drop on me.
from there i just couldn't really sink back into a deep sleep. after a while i saw it was getting light and the birds wouldn't stop chirping. looked at my watch to see it was 6:30. so then i just said whatever, and got up. so even though i had like 3-4 extra hours today, i'm beginning to feel tired real quick. but i guess it might help, since i might be serving on the worship team this sunday. i haven't gotten up early in a long time. then brian calls me at 12:00 to tell me he doesn't feel like seeing transformers today as well, giving me even more time to blow today; bad thing is, i'm starting to get like i said, tired, and it's still 2:00. i think i'll just look at some potential jobs, revise my resume, then go to church around 4:00 and play some(haven't played with music for a long time, and when i tried yesterday, i felt REALLY OFF). then call it a day. maybe finish the robocop dvd i bought tonight.
i seriously get so many dreams now. like one every single night. i'd write them down, but the thing is unlike when i'm wide awake, i don't remember everything; my remembrance of dreams seem like a trail of smoke released from an airborne plane; it stays neat right when it comes out, but over time begins to tail away; my earlier moments of my dreams i can barely remember.
---
you might want to check this out if you're a video game freak of any type
david sirlin is a legend btw; he's one of the first to essentially tell those playing sf competitively to stop whining(especially about throws and block damage) and start figuring out how to play. i haven't taken a listen at the session yet, but i downloaded it to my usb drive today and will give it a listen tonight.
---
i'm thinking back to what either hamlin or bob said about japan's economy not doing so well because asians are so picky about spending. on tuesday. that may explain why everything from japan's so expensive.
for instance, i love watching cartoons. usually tend to like the american types more than the asian ones, but i'm ok with those too. i'm a huge futurama fan. i did buy 3 out of the 4 boxsets at best buy, but they were on sale at 20.00 each(should've bought the 4th too; ah well; some other day). but even if i didn't buy them on sale, they would've been 33 dollars for about 19 episodes per boxset. you could argue futurama's old right now, which meant i might've gotten it a lot cheaper, but even if i got it when it was fresh out of the productions it might've been 40 dollars for a boxset at most.
now compare that to one of japan's most popular anime's right now: the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya. a few weeks ago i was able to watch all 14 episodes on youtube by the contribution of some generous posters. (tried looking for it again a few days ago, and one of the contributor's uploads were all gone due to use violation). i felt it was kinda cool, so i thought maybe in the future i'll go to fry's or amazon.com and buy the season's worth. but i decided to check to see what the price was as of right now, etc.
22 dollars for one boxset. not bad, until i saw how many episodes were on that dvd: four(remember they had 14 episodes this season, and if they continue it, it's most likely going to have more). that's it. and if you want to get the special edition boxset, oh no, that doesn't add to the number of episodes, just the amount of junk you get; cosplay ribbons, music cds, t-shirt iron-on, pencil box, etc. 44 dollars for that.
and it's not just this show. it explains why sometimes when i'm at the library and look at the dvds available, sometimes i'll see naruto dvds, but they too only have 4 episodes per dvd. japan apparently really likes doing stuff expensively, because everybody there doesn't spend freely.
again, it's not a case of the pharisee thanking God that he's not the tax collector(or the publican, if you read the kjv), it's just a sense of it's cool that others like buying so much stuff here in the usa, so that prices are low all-around.
and with that, happy spending.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
i re-heard this song on sunday afternoon driving to terman park. good stuff. i wonder how many more classic rock tunes i've heard, but not jotted down the lyrics so i could search the song title later.
boston - foreplay/first time
boston - foreplay/first time
i'm running around amazon.com deciding what item i could tag alongside the GRE biochem book so that i get the free shipping(the book came up 1 dollar short), wondering that half of the things i looked up aren't worth tagging along(except maybe the daughtry cd which is 11) and i came across this(can't buy it yet):
commando: director's cut
commando: director's cut
for such a simple to play song, lifehouse's first time is stuck in my head. honestly i just like the fill the drummer does during the chorus.
video
this is also the theme song for the next dodge car commercial, if you're seen it.
they put a fast montage of various activities alongside various dodge cars on top of the chorus part. and then end with the words "grab life" with a color scheme of white on black. kinda cool, except it really has nothing to do with cars.
video
this is also the theme song for the next dodge car commercial, if you're seen it.
they put a fast montage of various activities alongside various dodge cars on top of the chorus part. and then end with the words "grab life" with a color scheme of white on black. kinda cool, except it really has nothing to do with cars.
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