nanka, yabakunai?

I am hoping that there are others besides mitethe who have read Smallville fic reading this, because I'd really like some recs. Specifically, angsty, dark (and maybe smutty?) fics. I am craving some, and Smallville got mentioned twice this week as having had good writers and surely there must be angsty and dark (and tense and smutty!) fics out there and people know where they are and are willing to share? Please?

I feel terribly left out when my RL friends go off on NCIS or SG-1 or SG:A or I don't know what other show I'm not watching but they are slash. >_<

I discovered yesterday that Arizona Green Tea with Honey and...something else is quite good. I love that it's not too sweet! I wish the can wasn't so big, though. I don't usually drink tons of cold drinks. :P

Tezuka's album "With" kicks ass. I finally opened the CD I had bought ages ago and left buried somewhere in the house and threw it into the car. The packaging and graphics are so un-gay uninspiring, I was very disappointed. Oh, well. The music is most excellent. Back when I was obssessively listening to my downloaded copy, I didn't listen to the songs later on the album and I realized why. That song with Inui and Kikumaru? The melody is very catchy, but Kikumaru needs to be silenced. He totally ruins the song. I like Inui's rapping, and I think it goes well with Tezuka's singing. I refused to listen to the last song, though. *shudders* I was reminded by how well MinaJun sings and am currently listening to "SR." I hadn't listened to the first CD in quite a while..."Realize" is a great song.

I feel like jello. It's not very pleasant. I need to stop pulling subject titles from the lyrics of songs I'm currently listening to.

otaku again

Okay, this otaku as mainstream thing is just plain creepy. I caught a bit of a learn English program called "Can You Speak English?" on TV. They were doing a feature on "the roots of Japanese culture" in Tokyo, and one of their explorations was otaku. So this Japanese program has a report in English (with Japanese subtitles) where the regulars on the program were led around Akihabara looking at otaku things. One cool store was a place where you could buy parts to create your own game (like joysticks and buttons). Then they inevitably ended up at the figurines. I loved how they played one of the Eva versions of "Fly Me to the Moon" as they panned the camera in stores filled with figures. And noted at the number of foreigners browsing the shelves. XD They also show some kind of expo happening in Italy (Venice I think?) where the Japanese pavilion featured otaku culture. I loved the interviewees talking out of their asses making high-brow comments on the phenomenon (using Big Words). Back to Akihabara, they showed the store selling dolls...the super duper expensive ones that you can customize--what are they called? The show regulars were oohing and aahing as only the Japanese can as they were shown doll parts (even joints!) that can be bought to create your very own doll! I love how they shoved the E-cup doll body in the camera. Thank you, one shot is enough. They again tried to bring in a higher motive to it all when the American guide posited that the Japanese have refined attaching emotions and spirits to inanimate objects. He even brought in Shinto (how many extra points does he get for that?). I don't mind analysis, but trying to make it so deep--as if it points to the essence of Japanese-ness? In a 10 minute report? Oh, please.

So what show will feature "otaku" next? It's odd seeing words like "moe" becoming mainstream in Japanese culture.

And now that the show's over, off to bed I go!