One of the best Japanese movies ever.

http://sensasian.com/view/product.cgi/EN/V3731J-D . I am SURE the server is in Japan held up by an effing 56k connection because it's damn slow. I might find a better link later. Here is the summary on the site-

Military psychologist Komatsu Yoko (Kyoka Suzuki) is one of the highest decorated doctors in assessing post-traumatic stress disorders in military personnel. Coupled with her years of experience as a child psychologist, Yoko is assigned to assess a living 'Transparent.' Rumored by many people for years in Japan, 'Transparents' are extremely gifted individuals who have ESP powers with an average IQ of over 180. They can transit brainwaves to people arounding them, giving off their thoughts and comments without uttering a word. There have only been six documented cases in all of Japan.

Transparents are important to society in that many of them have come up with mathematic formulas and research to help environmental engineering to better our ozone. But with their great powers, transparents also suffers great tragedy. Many people call them freaks and do not want their brainwaves transmitted and, due to high depression, many transparents result in suicide. As their numbers dwindle and Japan's last hope for economic and health research and development fade, the military does everything they can to protect the ones that are left. Dr. Yoko is assigned to evaluate Transparent Case #7 - named Kenichi Satomi (Masanobu Ando). Kenichi lost his parents in a airplane crash when he was 3 and the government has shielded him from the fact that he is a transparent since childhood by moving him to a rural town and paying all the townspeople to ignore his transmitted thoughts. That is, until now . . .


Anyway, I just saw this movie for Japanese movie section. Man I loved it. And I really hate 75% of Japanese movies. I can only name a handful I like.

I LOVE Japanese dramas, as far as I've seen. This last one we watched was good. It was way too freaken sappy though. It was called literally "crying out of love in the center of the earth". And holy shit did it have a lot of crying. Basically it was about this couple in HS. The girl developed leukemia.

This movie on the other hand, the protagonist held back tears all the time. You could see when he was truly hurt. But he only broke down at the very end of the movie and it was a very, very powerful scene. That part didn't even make me sad, it was his determination to save the life of his grandmother. For some reason, only scenes of extreme determination really move me. and this is extremely rare.

I just love it so much when movies get emotion RIGHT. And the Japanese love toying around with emotion. Sometimes way too much. In some scenes, this movie was too cheezy. It played this really cheezy music in all the wrong scenes. But still they get the essense of human emotion dead on so well. So much better than most American movies. Usually, only independant movies are good with this, and this is why I watch them.

I don't know. I'm buying this movie. If there was a tv show(probably) I'm buying it too.

Also, "Waterboys" was an awsome comedy/drama. I'm buying that one too. That movie made me crack up so much more than any movie... ever. It was just hilarious.

This quarter has shown a lot of good Japanese movies compared to other quarters. I remember last quarter when "the mizuko sisters"(title probably wrong) was shown. it was about this group of women back in the 1800s in Osaka. Man it was so awful. I also didn't like "the twilight samurai". My dad saw that movie in Russia too. wtf. I'm so surprised about these Japanese movies my parents saw IN THE USSR. With how much they talk about everything being censored, it's amusing that they show scenes of this really disgusting Japanese man fucking a dog.

I'm actually writing a review for it right now. I guess they have to screen 'em all.

In other news, Ashes is in love with me suddenly. I also ordered his tag. The cats have been chasing each other around all over my apt for a while. silly kitties. Thank you everyone for kitty-wishes.

Today is also my grandma Sofa's birthday. She is 81.

I'm sure I'll get to work on my layout this weekend. thanks, windie <3.

hmmm hmmm I <3 the 80s~

Cut my hair at the salon for 50 bucks. It was the same lady that cut Justin's hair. She did such an awsome job, so I was happy she cut/styled mine. Mine looks exactly how I want it now. It looks right now hardcore 80s... well, not completely hard core. But yeah, enough for me. She also taught me how to properly take care of it when I don't want it to be frizzy(it's frizzy all the time). Obviously now it's not frizzy. the trick is to give it some blowdrying.

So here we go- There isn't much of a difference you can see from the pics. It's hard to take a pic on your own, ok? ;_;. Mainly, it's shorter, poofy(this won't be happening much more often because I'm lazy), and LAYERED. Justin's hair came out so nice and layered when she cut his. It was still too long for my tastes, but it looked so much better than it did before. Here is a pic of his hair after he got it cut-

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In other news, I set an appointment up for Kitty tomorrow morning. Instead, since Ashes hasn't had any shots, I'm taking him. BTW, we get along marvelously. Ever since he came to my apt, he his behavior has been wonderful. I think that after all the fighting we did, he finally accepted me as his new owner. He's so adorable. Here is what happens:

"MEOW"(hey, pay attention to me!)
"Ashes-darling. want pets?"
"MEOW."
"Come sit on my lap"
*occasionally he jumps up, sometimes he's picked up. But he has to be in the right mood to be picked up because if he isn't, he sometimes gets cranky.*
*gets cuddled for a few minutes extensively till he gets bored and calms down. He usually sits in my lap for a few minutes before Kitty comes out and is jealous. It's funny because Kitty hates people XD. He still runs away from me, but he's great with any other animal. He's really improving, though. When I think that he needs to be socialized, I usually need to have him scruffed so that he doesn't run away right away. Then he'll be around me for quite a while. Longer than Ashes anyway.

I get a bit worried because Ashes and him play a bit too rough sometimes. When they get too "MEROWWWWW" I tell them to knock it off. THey're great with each other otherwise. My parents keep giving me every excuse for mom to take Kitty because she really loves him. I don't know. I'm not sure if it'll be great to have kitty apart from Ashes because of how well they socialize together and how when Ashes is out, Kitty actually runs around too. If Kitty goes back to mom, all he will do is hide under the bed. But the house is big and he and Weisse get along. But cats and dogs don't always make the best friends. Kitty is not scared of Weisse, but neither does he want to make friends with him.

It was so funny because when Ashes was in his shinashes mode, he would always approach Ashes when he was pissed. Ashes would then hiss/scratch to get kitty to run away, but he kept doing it XD.


Also, I'm still working on the layout. I wanted to do it through s2, but it's newer and there isn't a lot of documentation. So right now, I'm going to go with S1 since Windie's resources were pretty good. I might need some help later from either windie or scionis since they're way more experienced than me.

Also I fulfilled my UI quota. Soon, I will buy the 100 UI package. I think it's only 5 bucks. This friend of darkle gave me a link of all these awsome sprites! I think Chrono Trigger sprites are so rediculously adorable. Sillier and cuter than any rpg I've ever played. I credited the site in my UI page. Check out what I have so far :

http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=majesticarky

There is also a Street Fighter Tournament tomorrow that Mike invited me to. It should be fun. Hopefully I can get Johan to go too.