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vazavati
13 October 2008 @ 10:54 pm
trees good, war baaaaad?  
...Am very sorry to have finished the Aeneid; the last four chapters saddened the hell out of me (awww, Turnus, I had to go & like you before your demise) but left me moved & awed by the Awesomeness that is Virgil. I swear. I have a full understanding of why the guy is so, well...eternal. Even as I proclaim my allegiance to the Mess I have to appreciate all that elegant Apollonian? order. I wish I could do that with poetry. The sound of Latin grows on me more each day, the way it--resounds in the back of your throat. Somewhere between cathedrals and deep gorges that receive waterfalls from something of a distance. & to think I started it on a lark. Can I get an amen, [info]kmegumi2? ♥ Eep.

Had a silly crisis over the weekend, plus confetti. This week finds me at a more common level of, y'know...buoyancy. So. All is well.

Virgil Virgil Virgil Virgil Virgil. I cannot get away. He and his damnable epic even snuck into my Deconstructed Superhero thoughts the other day, not to mention I'm now translating some of that Orpheus & Eurydice story he wrote in the Georgics (ve-e-e-e-ery slowly) for Latin IIA. & now we're moving onto Dante's Inferno in that tutorial, but Virgil's a character in that, so...I'm probably going to get a crush on him like the last time I read the Commedia...oops. Dante did too, so at least I'm in good company. Got to think about Dante. Got to think about exiles. --to a point.

Got to wait for NaNo, unfortunately, but have this edgy urge to do it now now now. Want very much to write, see. Daedalus, right, he's been talking all about his usual pseudoskeletal architecture yadda-yadda, only he still hasn't got around to putting panes in the windows of the fourth wall. |D Oops.

Listening to a tad too much Radiohead. Another oops. Like them, but they're--a little--unsettling. :/ Guess who likes them, [info]hamelinesque.

Not much to say. Did two tours today in succession; apparently succeeded. Whew. Tiring. Had a great lunch with people talking about violence again. ♥ Well, violence and terrifyingly strange erotica. And alcohol. This is all much better than it sounds.

Still synthesizing too much/little.



Katekyo Hitman Reborn!~~~ ....Tsuna. Kickass. You've really come a long way. How your older self got shot, I'll never know, because if he'd progressed at the same rate you have he should've been able to dodge bullets. When are we going to find out the mysteries of this damned time swap??? When are we going to see the TYL!cast back in the usual present???? Not that these combat sequences aren't delicious, b-but...
Tsubasa~~~ ...........WHAT. WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT. I sort of suspected that but I thought "Nah, that'd be too overwhelmingly stupid. How many Syaorans are there now?!?! They're like--they're like--they're like Duncan Idaho from the Dune books. Liked 'em at first, but at this point I never want to see another. ARGH. Poor Watanuki! I'm beginning to become sorely sick of actual!Syaoran. Your Oedipal complex true love isn't worth all this. I'm sorry. It's just not. ...I miss Kurogane. :(
Eyeshield 21~~~ ....

...They had better win this %$#@ing football game.

Back to Orpheus.

as ever,
E.
 
 
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Paul[info]lucedes on October 14th, 2008 03:44 am (UTC)
i heart KHR. i'm up to book three.

i've been playing Jump! Ultimate Stars all weekend, in addition to writing a 16-page paper. It's sort of like Super Smash Brothers, only with characters from shonen jump. Tsuna/Reborn is a playable character. All his attacks involve Tsuna falling down or getting shot by reborn. heh. All the Eyeshield 21 guys are support characters, which is amusing. Also: Prince of Tennis characters?? In MY fighting game??
redeemable for six adjectives of your choice: akaba; good vibrations[info]vazavati on October 14th, 2008 04:29 am (UTC)
...And here I thought you had too much dignity to like KHR. :( ♥ I underestimated you, mr. sir. Yay. do let me know when you & Jessica want to borrow the next four books.

Tsuna's one of the best manga losers in the whole wide world, I think. I still find his moments of Great Power hilarious. Though his name does sound like 'Tuna' and thus the fandom has concocted a great many 'Tuna Sandwiches' each more alarming than the first.

There is nothing more gay ridiculous than Prince of Tennis. What do they fight with? Tennis rackets? They danced with them well enough, I guess...?
☆彡 little star .: hot dino is hot[info]a_small_star on October 14th, 2008 10:33 am (UTC)
I'm STILL trying to figure out the MASSIVE FLUX HOLE in space-time in KHR. I have thus far been supremely unsuccessful. It is maddening. Like, it makes me want to shake things. XD LIKE A BRITISH NANNY, oh god.

"They had better win this %$#@ing football game. "

I've been hearing scaaary things about the Christmas Bowl.
redeemable for six adjectives of your choice: sena & shin; nyah nyah[info]vazavati on October 14th, 2008 02:09 pm (UTC)
I don't even care if they explain it properly. I just want to see a) what TYL!Tsuna's like & b) what the hell the TYL!Vongola are doing back in the past/present. Seriously. Are they being attacked by angsty nostalgia? Are they playing bridge? Are they smoking pot? There's nothing to do! And what on earth are they supposed to tell their parents? |D Or Tsuna's "U-um, don't worry, Sawada-san, Tsuna will be back soon. There was this time switch, and--...Why didn't Ts--? --ah. Um. Well, about that."

........


....win the game, guys. k? k. ._.;;; I'm scaaaaaaaaared. It's the Christmas Bowl! They have to freakin' win it! Aaaaaugh! I wish ES21 had been more cliche in the past so I could trust them to win! --am such a dork.
☆彡 little star .: feeling sweet today[info]a_small_star on October 14th, 2008 02:16 pm (UTC)
I think I might cry if they don't win. I'm getting like absurdly attached.

... is this the part where we become impromptu Devil Bats cheerleaders? Because ... I haven't done a cartwheel since I was a cheerleader, and ... iiiiit's been a while.

have cupcakes while i go hunt nifty ES21 icons
redeemable for six adjectives of your choice: hiruma; if not then what is[info]vazavati on October 14th, 2008 02:27 pm (UTC)
I was never a cheerleader, right, but I was in the band. So I went to a lot of football games in high school. And do you know what, my freshman year our team went all the way to the state championships and then lost and it was the worst feeling ever. :( The football players were crying! (The cheerleaders weren't.) Now that I've finally been able to get involved in a football team again (albeit fictional) they MUSTN'T REPEAT MY CHILDHOOD TRAUMAAAAAAAAAAA.

...I mean, for Hiruma's sake. Good Gad. ;_;

And now I'm hungry. Dammit. *stares at cupcakes*
☆彡 little star .: flavor of life[info]a_small_star on October 14th, 2008 02:34 pm (UTC)
I changed over to color guard. XD

Oh god, I've been there to see that. It's a soul-crushing experience, and your cheerleaders must have been heartless. I have sobbed over that before. There have been nights when we were all jumping up and down in tears because we wanted it so badly for them and they didn't get it, they just missed it.

Great, now I really will cry if they lose. sldkfja;s fuck. God, ES21, please don't destroy Hiruma's soul. ;o;

coffee? XD
redeemable for six adjectives of your choice: hiruma; heat[info]vazavati on October 14th, 2008 03:03 pm (UTC)
I'm afraid that they're going to have the Devil Bats just lose and then do a whole "Look, Hiruma's grown so much as a person; he's proud of the team even though they didn't win! How touching!" schtick. Which would be such a huge bother. :( I mean, he would be, since they're damn near close to winning and because they got all the way there, but he'd still be crushed & so would everyone else.

...'least I have tea to compensate. Though I want that cup. It's pretty. Damn.
☆彡 little star .: have some observationalism[info]a_small_star on October 14th, 2008 03:07 pm (UTC)
Someone else I know is placing bets on whether or not he'll cry.

If Hiruma fucking cries, I will lose it. just, totally and completely.

... and kinda be pissed, but mostly I'll be a heap of tears.
redeemable for six adjectives of your choice: hiruma; spotlight[info]vazavati on October 14th, 2008 06:06 pm (UTC)
...t-that's a really sexy icon. Can I steal it? ._. *drools* Hirumaaaaaaaa. --dude, if Hiruma cries, I'm going to bawl my eyes out. Yes I will. And then I'll lose faith in shonen happiness. It'd almost be like...the ES21 equivalent of killing somebody off, y'know?

☆彡 little star .: :Db[info]a_small_star on October 14th, 2008 06:32 pm (UTC)
You may steal it indeed. ♥ Look at what you're doing to me, Em, I'm in geeklove with the one thing I could never stand to crush on. XD FUCKIN' FOOTBALL PLAYER, gosh. ¬¬

We'll both just have to sit there and CRY, then, because I'll be useless for a long time.
[info]hamelinesque on October 14th, 2008 03:04 pm (UTC)
Everyone who's moody and intellectual listens to Radiohead. It's like the fucking college existentialist flagship. Well, that and Neutral Milk Hotel. And I guess I own most of both. But more and more I find myself listening to the most, well generic Radiohead thing ever... Karma Police acousticized. But seriously! Enough Radiohead, guys, go get some Nick Drake or some, some Dave Brubeck or Black Sabbath or something... Be less predictable! /rant

Oh, geez, I feel you on the waiting for NaNo. Want to wriiiiitee catfishesssss~~~

As soon as you start discussing skeletons, you begin to tap ever-so-softly on the windows of the fourth wall with a tiny hammer...

When you get down to it, 95% (I always want to put the % in front, like a dollar sig(h)--nice typo--sign) of human art finds its roots in violence, strange erotica (because "strange is what you like and beautiful is what I like," as they say), or alcohol. So it makes sense that those three hingepins always come up in conversation in some fashion. They never quite get old, even when you're tired of them. Evidence--existentialists. ._.

<3! :D
redeemable for six adjectives of your choice: yuuko; follow the hallucinations[info]vazavati on October 14th, 2008 06:14 pm (UTC)
Ah, but I am not moody & intellectual. I am moody when I feel less intellectual & more intellectual the less moody I am. Angst has never lent me much intellect. Atypical?

...Y'really, though what we should be listening to is Fucking College Existentialist Flagship (F.C.E.F.). Obviously.

What I should do, really, is sit down & figure out what threads I'll be following. No order, just which characters to tackle & what issues. Like, 'Daedalus & architecture' (sidelines), 'Dionysus & Ares hanging out', 'city gods', 'Phaeton & Icarus', 'Orpheus arc' (sidelines), 'Various church wrangling', etc. Make a chart. :/ & write themes in big letters with question marks.

.......And that is true. ♥
[info]hamelinesque on October 15th, 2008 03:38 pm (UTC)
Atypical. But you're probably better off for it.

Fucking College Existentialist Flagship just released an album called Sad Pancakes. No, really. You've never seen a breakfast this banal. :x

It sounds like you've already got potential threads. Oh, outlines. They help, even if deciding not to follow them later is really the fun part. I love novel-charts. My Dad has this picture book about Henry Miller and there are all these photographs of his novel-charts... the man covered walls. Very inspiring (not the quantity, but the uninhibited way in which he went about it). Scribble-fest! Only 15 days left! :D :D
i misconscrewed the hysteretics: maid watanuki[info]pspgm on October 14th, 2008 06:47 pm (UTC)
AUGH CATCHING UP EVER-SO-SLOWLY ON KHR AND EYESHIELD. Still utterly perplexed (though less and less in a bad way) by how much I love both of them, particularly Eyeshield. XD The fact that, even though it's Stereotypical Shounen Manga(TM), they actually lose football games makes cliffhangers eighty times worse than they should be.

Oh, NaNo... still deciding if I'll do it. It all depends on whether or not I have a physics project due at the same time. If not-- why not?

Oh, Latin. I don't speak it, but it has such a... noble quality, I guess. If Italian is music, then Latin is old poetry, spoken right; the sound makes the words all that more beautiful because it's so packed with history and meaning. It's like... getting in touch with something older. Which I why I love it in a religious context. ^_^
redeemable for six adjectives of your choice: tsubasa; book of secrets[info]vazavati on October 15th, 2008 02:37 pm (UTC)
My mad love affair with Eyeshield shall never end, I strongly suspect. ♥ It's just...so...I dunno; legitimately heartwarming. Despite the fact that I began to read articles in the sports section of the newspaper because of it. ._o Luckily here at college I receive no news of the outside world, athletic or otherwise...

do it. DO it. do IT. I'm doing it despite the fact that I've got piles of work of all kinds. It's a good contrast to all else in your life. it's a trip.

Yes! yes. Ecclesiastical Latin is in fact rather delightful. You've no idea how much time I spent listening to choral music in Latin. yum. :)
Megumi: Yuna - Dance[info]kmegumi2 on October 14th, 2008 09:16 pm (UTC)
Oh yes! Latin is beautiful ♥. Hooray for someone else who understands!!!

I hate to admit I haven't actually read the later books of the Aeneid...eep! I've only seen abridged versions. Clearly this should go on my goals list. But the work as a whole is just...I could go on for ages ^^;

I miss Kurogane and Fye so much right now ;_;
redeemable for six adjectives of your choice: kurogane & fai; thinking about it[info]vazavati on October 15th, 2008 02:39 pm (UTC)
I can't wait 'til one day I can read it in proper Latin. It must be much better that way. Though even when my Latin's better it'll take forever & a day, I'm sure... |D Agh! I'm always so aggravated that I'm not better at Latin than I am 'cause I want to read more than I'm currently able. Only been taking it for a year, so I shouldn't be put out, but...

Kurogane and Fai, I suppose, should count themselves lucky. They're probably hanging out getting a shoeshine and drinking bourbon or something. Flirting.
Megumi: Sam - Rugged[info]kmegumi2 on October 15th, 2008 09:24 pm (UTC)
Oh gosh, it certainly takes me forever and a day to translate! I mean, talk about density and artistic license... But it is so worth it. I read a translation of Dido's death scene for a lit class once, and I wanted to stab myself instead of her x.x. Sooo much was lost...

But! You're right; you've only been at it for a year, wow. Don't freak out! Virgil is not an easy one as authors go, even if those of us who have been at it for longer o.o;

Oh gosh, I can picture that, and it is delicious XD!
♥lousy♥: Watanuki[info]dogstardreams on October 14th, 2008 11:33 pm (UTC)
KHR - just started reading - only on chapter 23. Does it get much more bizarre?

Tsubasa - I miss Fai too. No, really. An entire chapter without, except the cover art was quite pretty. It would be nice if CLAMP made actual long chapters, so we could actually get done with this endless flashback.

It is a bit of an Oedipus complex. Hm.

Watanuki - gah. I'm tired of explanations that make everything more confusing.
redeemable for six adjectives of your choice: yuuko; my great dance[info]vazavati on October 15th, 2008 02:43 pm (UTC)
Ummm...well. Ish? Not more bizarre, but the bizarreness continues, and the plot will slowly become more dramatic in later chapters so that in itself is bizarre. What's strangest is that you forget how weird it is in the wake of dramatic plot developments. You start to give a damn and then you're like "---this is because of something called a '10 Year Bazooka'. ._.;;; What the hell am I on?" But it's great fun.

Lovely cover art, but this flashback has been going on since like JULY. AAAAAAAAAAARGH.

yyyeah. It's okay for someone dodgy like Seishirou to have incest vibes with his mum, but Upstanding Citizen Syaoran? What the heck? I really miss clone!Syaoran. He was much more likable than real!Syaoran, to be honest; I'm not sure I'll actually forgive Syaoran for ditching his parents & giving Watanuki this strange sort-of life. ............I mean, sure, he looooved Sakura, but he was with her for seven days, right?