Emilie in concert

^ Clickable title everyhon^^,

So I saw Emilie Autumn in concert yesterday. And it was awesome^^, I'm usually so music oriented that I even manage to not be aware when the bands I like release new albums even (seeing as I don't read anything at all about them almost), and going to see bands in concert is for mostly about music being better live, so the visuals isn't all that important to me. I discovered however that an Emilie concert is just as much about the visual. She had acrobatics, and fireshow, and girls walking around in these beautiful corsets. She has long talking sequences too, and theatrics, it was just too awesome=D=D
I am so going the next time she comes=D=D

I got there before my friends, and ended up talking to this 15 year old girl who had traveled for 7 hours by train to go to Oslo to see Emilie. When my friends came we ended up talking about all the concerts we have traveled abroad for, to which she starry eyed replied that she hoped she'd be like us when she grew upXD

If you want to check out Emilie's music WingedZephyr have lots of her songs up on youtube here:
Clickable link^^,

Word of the day:
コンサート - konsaato - Concert

Long time no post

Been a while since I posted. Still haven't gotten a reply about uni. Have gotten loads more B-day presents. Have collaborated in taking third in a photo contest. Should be doing homework right now...

Photo contest first, shall we.
Fiancé being the wonderful computer nerd that he is goes to The Gathering in Hamar each year (one of Scandinavia's biggest nerdfestsXD) and he enters in the competitions every year. This year we took third in the photocontest with this pic:

Crouching Angel, Hidden Dragon by ~wlkr on deviantART

I did the lightpainting, he did the posing and the post work. Purdy isn't he=D

We took 4th last year with a video called Nightlife using the same technique, but I don't have it right now. We should have taken 2nd, seeing as both first and third place violated the contest rules, but water under the bridge ne?


I have gotten more B-day presents, including flavour thingys for onigiri, Japanese dictionary for my DS <3, Miffy on DVD, and a genuine D&G wallet O.o
Good times=D=D

Better go read my German homework me thinks
No word of the day today, swoowy

Coolest day of the year (belated, but anyway)

So yesterday was my birthday, I can now, as far I know, buy alcohol and vote in the entire world^^, (Except that I can only vote in Norway, but anywho^^,)
Remember I said I thought I was going to get a tablet PC? I did^^, Big thanks to all of you who chipped in^^,
I have started drawing a Marikken picture on it, in Illustrator, but I'm not very good at it yet. But, practice makes perfect, right?

But, besides from being my birthday, 8th of April is actually a very cool day.
It's the birthday of Buddha in Japan.
In 1917 Jane Stickle was born on this day, she was the creator of the first ever Dear Jane quilt. Which is almost cooler than the Buddha thing actually. I have grown up in the midst of my mothers quilts, and even thou I never caught the passion for quilting myself, I have always loved the techniques and the fabrics. I always treasure the quilts that come into my possession, maybe in part because I know all the work and love that goes into making them^^, And Dear Jane's are some of the most beautiful ones to me, because there is so much detail in them. My mom made on a few years back, and it's absolutely gorgeous=D
Betty Ford is born on this day as well, likewise Vivienne Westwood.

Thus far I have collected three books, two Vampire Chronicles which my little sister bought for me in London, and one Beetle the Bard, the tablet, and an absolutely adorable little purse my mom made, with a stitchery of my Fat Cat on it, sitting next to her bowl demanding "sånn" (gourmet soft cat food^^, Picky eater, Tullerusk^^,). That's another reason I always treasure the quilts and little things my mother make me, not only does she put love into making them, she puts love into picking the colours and the fabrics as well. Each time my mom gets packets on fabric in the mail I always oogle them for at least 30 minutes, and the preetiest one are always the Japanese ones, so what else could she make it of but a gorgeous sakura-petal patterened soft pink Japanese fabric? If it did not get through yesterday Mom, I'm absolutely in love with it^^, Even the lining is purdy (a yellow starspin fabric=D).

Word of the day:
誕生日 - tanjoubi - birthday


And just because it's fun:
Pictures of my mother's Dear Jane


And PS:
Someone with a little knowledge: please write a Wikipedia entry on Jane Stickle and Dear Jane. We need one I don't know enough about either...

I have the coolest birth date ever

So. During the Japanese class we started discussing what we were going to do during Easter break, and me being born on April 8th, and this being on Ash Wednesday this year, I told them I was celebrating my birthday. And the Japanese teacher thought this was so cool, which I didn't understand squat of, she asked me about three times if it was for real, and kept saying "sugoi" (cool) and the whole class was very confused. And then she told us that in the Japanese Buddhism tradition 8th of April is Buddha's birthday!
How cool is that? I am born on the same day as Buddha! すごいですね XD


Word of the day:
大仏 - daibutsu - large statue of Buddha

Mock exam, how I despise thee

I have a math mock exam today. In like, on hour I think. And I am not ready O.o
Last week I had a mega stupid exhausting flu. And I am still tired from it, plus my math book was laying prettily in my locker at school all week, so I did not get any studying done last week at all. I even had to go early from my Japanese class, which I had dragged myself to, to have at least done something other than sleeping all week.
Yesterday I came home from school and sat down to watch Bugsy Malone on Swedish TV, which is a movie I love, but that I have never been able to see the whole thing (birthday tip everyone: Bugsy Malone on DVD), it's a 20's gangster musical, with only kids in it. It's amazing, and I love it, and actually started seeing it from the start, and then I feel asleep. And I think I slept for 5 hours, which I haven't done in months. I woke up halfway through the second Simpsons episode, totally disoriented and feeling like crap, and bone tired still, so I wasn't able to study yesterday either. And then I go to bed at half to ten and sleeps the until half to 6 (when I was woken up by a SMS about camelsXD I have funny friends^^,), which means that in 24 hours I slept 13 hours O.o
And now I have to go have a math m ock exam, and I am not prepared, and I am a bit stressed out right now. Ranting helped thou. See ya'll l8r. Luff ya^^, *runs off to start preparing provisions* XD

(And to whom it might concern: I have counted possibly 6 of you possibly in on the big surprise birthday gift, and no one is giving me any clues. It's really frustrating you know. Fiancé only laughs at me and tells me I'm cute, S doesn't even know what his in on getting me, and I don't even know if I'm gonna bother asking Auntie Mean about it all. The evil woman will only laugh at me and tell me to be a good girl and wait till my birthday. I love you all, but you are killing me here. At the moment I torn between think it's a tablet and the completion of my Pokémon collection, these being the only two thing that needs 6+ people chipping in on it. Aaargh!!! Someone feed me clues, pretty please. It's two weeks until my brithday peeps. I am dying here.)
(crossed all possible limbs and hopes for PokémansXD)

Watchmen

So, I just got home from Watchmen. Two words: Awe Some^^,
It was a FilmNoir-splatter-action-doomsday-movie. The Rorschach voice over was just too cool, and Doctor Manhattan was amazingly emotive in his flatness.
Okey: how 'bout a trailer peeps?


The splatter effects were fantastic. I love gore, and this had plenty. But not icky, pointless gore, more like to illustrate points, and where it was natural. Exploding people leave bones and softer bits sticking out of the walls and ceiling, they just do. And they did. If you break a mans leg by a fly-kick, sometimes bits of bone will be sticking out the other side. That's just the way it is. It wasn't pointless, but it was certainly wasn't for queasy peopleXP

As with most movies, some actors was way better than others.
Doctor Manhattan was by far the character that touched me the most. He was so alive, despite the fact that he way detached to the point of almost being devoid of emotions. He goes through most of the film with a flat face, but to me who spend a lot of time watching the eyes (mirror of the soul, seriously) saw tons of emotion. Doctor Manhattan is a sad man. When Laurie leaves him he couldn't have conveyed the feeling of despair better had he started screaming. His head at an angle and his eyebrows pulled ever so slightly together, he could just as well have had tears streaming down his face. And on Mars, the way his eyes kept shifting, he could simply not have done it any better in any way.
Laurie, on the other hand, was dead. She her eyes were flat and emotionless, and she did not use her voice to convey emotion in the ways she could and should have. I think that her lack of emotion became so much more apparent when Doctor Manhattan had so much of it, even thou he hadn't. She was the one character in the movie with most opportunities to overact, and she did only take one of them. And she could very well have taken many more. The one she did take, she did so poorly, she really hadn't needed to bother.
Rorschach was awesome. His mask was cool, and the character was cool, and the actor did a great job.

There were lots of cool little details. Like the smiley on Mars (there really is a smiley on Mars BTW: Just take a look).
There were some things that I didn't catch thou, because they were poorly laid out. I thought Rorschach and Laurie were siblings, kinda, until fiancé told me that those were really two different scenes shot at the same angle. There are these two different scenes, with different actors and all, but they are shot at the almost exact same angle, and the two women sorta look alike, and the sets used are almost identical, so of course I get confused. They are not, however the same women, so Rorschach and Laurie are not siblings. (It did seem weird at the moment as well.)

All in all, it was awesome. Well worth the load of money I paid to go see it^^,

I'll see if I can get around to posting some Berlin pictures soon^^,

Word of the day:
ロールシャッハテスト - rōrushahhatesuto - Rorschach test

Grey Berlin

So I got home from Berlin on Wednesday. And I must say, it's a gray, dull city.
Now I have been to some really cool places during the last couple of years, like London, Rome, Barcelona and so on, and came out of all those places with a much better impression than of Berlin.
I hear great things about the Berlin nightlife, and a few of my classmates spent every night out, but after walking between 15 and 18 thousand steps a day, I was in no shape to party...=j
In most of the cities I've been to they have exiting buildings and things to see as you walk down the street, Berlin didn't. We did spend most of our time in the east thou, so that might have been a contributing factor to the overwhelming sense of conformity. All of the buildings looked almost the same. Tall slabs of cement with windows most of the time. Sometimes painted in bright garish colours. And do to walking so much, I never got much out of the few museums we visited, 'cos I was so tired all the time.
I did some shopping thou, bought 5 books. Die unendliche Geschichte (The neverending story), the Tintenherz triology (Inkheart), and a book I have never heard of called Faunblut (Faun's blood).
I have started a tad on the first, and I get it quite easily. Possibly because I have read it a bunch times in Norwegian. Faunblut however, was a tad advanced for me, but I am hoping it will be easier by the time I am finished with the first 4^^,
I also bought two cute tops, and new sailor shoes. Pink plaid^^,
All in all it was a okey trip, but I doubt I will be going back=j

Word of the day:
詰らない - tsumaranai - dull, uninteresting, boring, insignificant, trifling