Random Thursday Post...

Damn, once again Kilaeua's lava is flowing into the sea, creating a great show...I am never on the Big Island when these things happen. I remember that for Senior Trip in high school a couple years before mine, they actually got to see a fountain of lava gushing into the sky at night...by the time my year went Kilaeua wasn't erupting at all. So close, yet so far away...It is sad that I can go to Vegas for five days for almost the same amount it would cost for airfare/hotel to a neighbor island for a weekend. That's just wrong.

On a more personal note, I finally found Gravitation volume 12...when I wasn't looking for it. I was in a room of the house I would have never looked in, when I glanced aside and saw a corner of a familiar red and white cover peeking from beneath some papers...and sure enough, I pulled it out and now I have it. I took it with me in the car so that I could flip through it during the red lights on the drive to work, and damn I love this manga. Full rant will follow at a later point. I need to do it justice (which probably means rereading the entire series...he he...).

I also found the Trigun soundtrack I had bought many many years ago and never opened...I bought it for one track (after listening to a friend's copy), and so never felt compelled to listen to it much. I also took it with me and listened to a bit of it in the car. And yes, most of the music does nothing for me. It was nice hearing the opening and closing songs (I had forgotten this series is one of those with instrumental openings...what a great song), and the song I had bought the soundtrack for. Because it was still in the plastic case, I could see I had bought it for 1,800 yen used....this was probably back when it was around 120 yen/dollar, so $15?

more song sharing

I'm sharing more songs by Utada Hikaru because everyone should experience her wonderful music. These are again random samplings:

Sakura Drops
[Lyrics and translation]

I associate this song very closely with a PoT fanfic of the same name...^_^;

Deep River
[Lyrics and translation]

I hesitated to include this because petronia included it in her Mirage of Blaze FST, but...it's such a nice song. Oh, and another thing, I am not that impressed with the translation, but...it's such a nice song...really, it is.

Distance
Final Distance
[Lyrics and translation]

The two songs have the same lyrics and melody, but are two very different songs. Distance came out first...listen to that one first, then listen to Final Distance. Oh, boy, are they different. :D

As I was digging through my music collection, I listened to the following two Onitsuka Chihiro songs, and they have now been assigned as Mirage of Blaze Naoe songs in my head. ^_^; Regardless of any perceived association with the story, they are both lovely ballads, and the singer has a very nice voice.

Infection by Onitsuka Chihiro (.m4a song)
[Lyrics and translation]

Just plain Naoe. Poor boy. You can't escape. You must keep pursuing your glittering master/tempter/beloved/tormentor...

This foolish disease of mine
Only grows worse and worse

The fragments of my heart, exploded and strewn
The fragments, the fragments, all around me

Since when have I
Become this weak?

Ryuuseigun by Onitsuka Chihiro (.m4a song)
[Lyrics and translation]

First off, I want to say I absolutely love this song. I was very obsessed with it a couple of weeks back..I thought this reflected Naoe's plaintive insistence that all he needs is Takaya. He tells Takaya, who keeps trying to run away so that he doesn't kill Naoe with his poisoned body, that he needs Takaya's presence to exist. I love the passion with which he tells Takaya that even if his poison does kill him, he'll just possess another body...he'll go through every body on earth in order to be with him because without him the world is meaningless...

Your calling voice always turns into sadness
Just proving to me that I am this ugly
But I still need it

If I can't touch you, it's the same as if I didn't exist

And I really should get back to doing all the things I should be doing...