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Ah, let's face it. I have a short attention span. It's like being told you're at risk for X cancer because your parents/grandparents had it. And no, at this point, there's no denying I'm at risk for esophagael cancer, but there's no point worrying about it. Which sounds so weird coming from me, doesn't it?

Anyway, I'm going to see the specialist on Monday, so we'll know where we stand then.

So, yeah! On to happier things! The muse is at work; I'm coming up with all kinds of little ideas. Not like ideas--more like flashes, like you know how you get that feeling of inspiration but you're not sure what it's for? Like that. I picked at Mot last night. And I really want a First Reader for Penta. Haha, my Uncle Craig wants to read it. I'm a bit leery of sending it to him. Like I'm leery of showing my dear Kaz to anyone not familiar with my, um, unusualness.

Oh, and D. Gray Man and Immortal Rain are very much awesomeness. Unfortunately I caught DGM on its inception, so there's only 2 volumes out now, and hell, the third doesn't come out till November. Immortal Rain is a lot of awesome, and I think the series is complete. It's one of those no one ever talks about. I think it would make a good anime.

I've also downloaded up to chapter 317 of Naruto, but I haven't read anymore. Though I have a few questions ( under the cut. )

Ah, and--Yami no Matsuei works! I figured out that I have to toggle the subtitles on and off. The first episode was very cute. Very shojo, but very cute, plus Tsuzuki's talent for summoning giant flaming birds is just awesome.

And seeing Muraki in color almost made me wet myself. Like, he came on the screen and I physically cringed. God! What a villain!

Oh--oh--god, you have to read this. This is hilarious. There's no way it can be real. I found this on a girl's DA site (she wasn't happy about it, obviously) and I linked to it and the first two sentences made me laugh out loud. Oh man. You just have to read it, look:

( Petition to Ban Anime )

Hahahahaha! Is that hilarious or what? Oh man, gets me every time. Here's the link if you want to see it in its original form (not that it's much different. This is just to prove it's "real")

Petition

If it's real, that just makes it even funnier.

Do you know how hard it is to find the Peacemaker Kurogane Volume 4? Like, it's not even in the Amazon warehouses. I'm gonna have to look in other places. Man. It's not even that old. And there's no way it could have been so unpopular that it would be out of print.

I'm On Fire, And Now I Think I'm Ready

Okay, why has no one done an AMV of the FMA movie to the Three Dog Night song "Shambala?" It works too well for there to be no AMV to it.

Guh. My mom's in Maine so there's no adult around to help me control Ben. He actually took her Acura out once, the fucker. She doesn't even want us looking at the Acura, and she sure as hell would never let Ben drive it--she barely lets me drive it! Damn him.

Oh! Doctor called today. Blood work is fine. So that's good.

My muse really doesn't want to work with me. I want to write Mot so I can get back into the groove with it, but aside from not entirely knowing where to go now, and from all the discouragement of "XOMG over 100K words!" and "You're doing too much in one thing!" and all the little goodies I'm getting for Spirits (the codename for the Kaiyss/Jae/North/Rain and bat-girl has a name now: Skye!), Penta and random ideas...um, where was this sentence going? In any case, the muse is looking at all these other things and not at Mot-Mot-MOT as a whole, which I want to work on.

So. Today is a writing day. No anime, no movies, nothing. Writing. Yes.

Oh! Quickly: here's a movie review for y'all.

Cabaret

Yes! I finally saw it! This is the original "clean-cut penniless English type meets the sexed-up free spirit" movie. Inspiration for my beloved Moulin Rouge, I think.

Well, let me just say that this movie is awesome. You remember how I reacted to Grizzly Man how I totally fell in love with Timothy Treadwell's character? Same reaction to Sally Bowles. She's amazing. She's like Johnny Depp in the PotC movies, she just steals the show and makes everything work. There's nothing cliche about her. She's...just...awesome.

First let me explain the movie. It takes place in early-30's Germany, just as the Nazi's are gaining power and the world is starting to change. Anyway, for those of you good at history, you know that this period in Germany was...well, comparable to the Roaring Twenties, the Sixties, and the Sexual Revolution of the 70's and 80's (before AIDS). Flamboyance, debauchery, you get the idea. You have this guy, Brian, an English teacher from England, who comes along and ends up renting an apartment across from Sally Bowles--the lead at a nearby cabaret.

I suppose you could say the movie is a musical, but it actually works. That whole "characters break into song as they walk down the streets" is all good and fine, but it can get tiring. In Cabaret there's plenty of singing, but almost all of it takes place in the cabaret, and the few songs outside of it have releavance to the movie and the times.

The movie is so well put together. In terms of editing and general...flow of the movie (there's gotta be a proper term for it) you've got incredible camera work and editing. The Master of Ceremonies at the cabaret, who never actually has a name, kind of ties everything together. He acts as kind of a transition from one scene to the next, usually singing or leading the cabaret girls in dance. And you'll have this display of flamboyancy and carefree...ness...juxtaposed (hey, I got to use the word juxtaposed!) with scenes of the Nazi's slowly getting their feet in the door.

One of the most wonderfully done scenes in the movie is when Brian, Sally and this other character, Max, are at this kind of festival type thing, and suddenly out of nowhere this teenager gets up and starts singing a nationistic song. And the camera pans down and you realize, holy shit, it's Hitler Youth. And he's singing and all these people are getting into it, jumping up and singing with him, and all these shots of people's faces. And this one old guy stays sitting and doesn't sing along, and you can tell by the look on his face that he knows what's going on. It's an amazingly well done scene.

So you have all this going on, while in the cabaret things are never serious, things are always just fun and games. And because of the editing you can actually see it--no one has to come out and tell you flat out that people go to the cabaret to forget about what's going on outside. You get that feeling without anyone having to say it.

Oh, and, did I mention Sally Bowles is just awesome? At one point she's carrying on this long conversation with Brian and a split second later she asks, "Have you ever slept with a dwarf?" It's like--awesome--and made even more awesome by the fact that Brian doesn't miss a beat and answers, "Once, but it didn't turn out to be a lasting relationship." They have incredible chemistry, and Sally is just such a character. Like Timothy Treadwell I know I'm going to have to use her somewhere.

So--all around, it's a fricking wonderful movie. As in, I'm considering buying it.

Score: 9.5 out of 10

Gah

I'm so freaking lost. I've been trying to figure out all I can about the Organization characters--especially those in Chain of Memories, which I'll never be able to play. I'm only now realizing how confusing the whole story is. So Marluxia was in charge of Castle Oblivion during the CoM game--but what the hell were Xemnas, Xigbar and Xaldin doing then? Where were they? Why wasn't Xemnas in charge? And then things got really complicated when Marluxia was gonna overthrow the Organization and then some of the others were going to stop him, etc. etc. It's giving me a headache.

And, more specifically--when did Roxas join the Organization? Was he there for this whole Marluxia thing?

I wouldn't be so frustrated if I didn't need to know some of these things in order to write a fic. Who knew you had to do this much research?

Yeah, I'm writing a fic. Pre-KH2, all with the Organization, probably very angsty since it's very easy to get angsty with that bunch. I'm thinking, told from Axel's POV, from when Roxas joins. And, uh, yeah--like I said, no slash. Though hints. Hints, definitely. Because I've decided that, yeah, AkuRoku is just too sweet and angsty and tragic not to like, plus it's practically canon anyway. Like Shoebox.

In other words, the muse is being uncooperative. Mot? What's that? She's all into the fic right now. And Kaz. For some reason I have this huge desire to write something with Kaz right now. My wittle half-vampire baby just hasn't gotten much lovin' recently.