Ninjas STILL can't catch you if you're on fire

Have surprisingly spent the last two or so days listening to some German music and watching German movies and uh, Pro7 reality TV(I LOVE GERMANY'S NEXT TOP MODEL OKAYYYY XDD Gina Lisa is actually awesome :Db).

Movies:
__ "Barfuss". IMDB summary says: 'Nick, a hedonistic bachelor, falls for an escaped mental patient.'. I say: 'Heyyyy it has ♥Til Schweiger♥ in it. Heyyyy the music is really nice! I dig the cinematography! ...heyyy the actual love story that starts out cute is kind of creepy and co-dependent and unbalanced and the situation-comedy is hitting on all my embarrassment squicks ugh ugh erghh :|' All in all, an okay movie, but I don't really get why so many people seem to rabidly love it so much?

__ "Sommersturm". IMDB summary says: 'Tobi and Achim have been best mates for years. As cox and oarsman, they have lead their rowing club to win several rowing cups in the past and are now looking forward to win a big regatta in the countryside of Germany. But this trip isn't your usual summer camp experience and problems soon arise. As Achim's relationship with his girlfriend Sandra, who's also on the team, grows more and more serious, Tobi starts to realize that his feelings for Achim run much deeper than he's willing to admit to himself. He feels confused, unsure of himself and increasingly left out by his friend Alex and the team. When Sandra's best friend Anke shows her interest in him, his anxiety starts to grow. When it turns out that the much-anticipated Berlin girls' team has been replaced by a team of athletic, cliché-bursting young gay men, Tobi and his teammates are suddenly forced to grapple with their prejudices, their fears, and, perhaps, their hidden longings. As the tension grows, Tobi, Achim and the others head towards a confrontation as fierce and liberating as the summer storm that's gathering over the lake. And Tobi realizes he has to start facing some facts about himself he didn't dare to face before.'.
I say: 'WATCH THIS NOW, the entire movie is ON YOUTUBE, do eeeeet. Wow. Just a lovely and funny coming-of-age and coming-out movie and Robert Stadlober really is working it in this role as the main dude, even if I normally stare at his face with a mixture of revulsion and fascination. He just. Seems really weird. BUT that aside, wow the rest of the cast is great, too. Solidly written and filmed (the muuuuuusic!). Loved the boys who play Leo(hottt), Schorschi(lolll o Georg your role in this movie was great), Malte and Achim XD'

__ "Ein Freund von mir". IMDB summary says: '...nothing. Dammit. So here be the keywords instead: Car driving/Friendship/Friendship between men/Porsche/Love triangle/'. I say: 'Clemens really loves this movie, and gave me a copy of the movie to watch in the easter hols. And I must say, I can see where he's coming from about this one. It's kind of a mellow, yet really touching and all round well-made buddy movie that at the same time is also about finding who you really are and overcoming personal crises. Daniel Brühl (I really need to rewatch 'Goodbye Lenin!' again)is interesting to look at in this movie, you can really see his turmoil in his eyes or something like that. Well, I kept staring in rapt fascination anyways XD. Also there are fast cars and nice cars and that's probably why it's popular with guys, too. And Jürgen Vogel seems to be a big draw as well?

Songs:
__ Nina Hagen & Automobil- 'Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen'. Clicking through wikipedia articles about recent german movies reminded me of 'Sonnenallee' that Michi and I recently rewatched at Joachim's place and the song that featured in the ending credits. 'Sonnenallee' itself really seemed so much funnier when we watched it in school, but ah well. This song is just really catchy (MICHAAAA) and it's always kind of a head trip to see Nina Hagen looking relatively normal, lol.

__ Muff Potter- 'Fotoautomat' ...best first verse everrrr 'Hallo comma paragraph new line...' XDD

__ Die Ärzte- 'Junge' Even the Ärzte realise how awesome Shaun of the Dead is in this video, which is undoubtable an homage (the scene where they take a picture of a zombie chick lying on top of the singer and trying to eat him ahahaha) and the fact that the video features ZOMBIESSS!!1 makes the lyrics, that I couldn't resist translating into English, all that more hilarious...
( Junge... )
OFF TO TRY AND BE PRODUCTIVE NOWWWW~

Back! After eight long days of no internet chez grandparents! Yesterday evening was already spent vegging out gleefully, and here a post to collect some of the links that tickled me pink:

DEAD FANTASY I and II
via tomomichi ♥
The Final Fantasy girls vs. the Dead or Alive girls. Yuna, Rikku, Tifa and later on Rinoa and Kairi (no idea bout the DoA chicks, just squeeing for the FF ladies here XD). No holds barred Battle Royale. IN OTHER WORDS: SO FUCKING EPIC. This are the fanmade(!!) vids I never knew I had to have seen. The detailed and awesomely choreographed fights! THE BEAUTIFUL CG MODELS for the girls! The weapons! The final moves and limit breaks! More squee behind the cuts! GO WATCH THE VIDS FIRST AND BASK IN THEIR GLORY

Dead Fantasy I
( SQUEEEEE )

Dead Fantasy II
( SQUEE McSQUEEEEE SQUEE )

JENSEN ACKLES
Tis nothing better when you are randomly link-hopping and then come across some mighty fine picspams of gorgeous men (TAYLOR KITSCH(Timmy Riggins on FNL) and JENSEN AND JARED(These names should already speak for themselves :D)) and then stumble upon a HI-RES shot of this pic:

HELLO NEW WALLPAPER! And by hi-res I mean 'takes up a third of my display, and the rest is beautiful clean whiteness. Must unclutter desktop to accommodate this ♥'

LOLZ
I WANT THIS T-shirt.

ALSO. A Gossip Girl dude 'going gay'. TEN BUCKS SAY IT'S CHUCK. His big gay love for Nate is PALPABLE when you watch GG *srs nods*

CFUD
Catching up on 8 days of awesome! A truth or dare post! Mafia and AT-tard antics! PW cast! More series noted down to check out (Vinland Saga, Pandora Hearts...)

Ahh, that was lovely ♥. And now a note to self: GO TO FUCKING BED EARLIER. My dorm has better lighting than my Krimml room, and okay life in Wienna has the added incentive of actually seeing OTHER PEOPLE on a day to day basis that aren't related to me, which makes the fact that I currently look like a wreck very worrying (=stronger bags under the eyes, skin break-out and my hair is rebelling... Noooooooo D:)

EASTER HOLS HAVE STARTED (okay, since Friday actually, BUT whatever :D) and it is time to laaaaaaaaaaze around! And of course I have been hop-skip-clicking my way through far too many tabs at the same time. Internets, never leave me ♥
I hereby apologize for my constant changing template for such rec posts, laziness and short-term memory failings are hard to overcome, indeed ;D

MUSIC @YOUTUBE:
(again, some have possibly already been posted before, but I am lame enough that I keep listening to the same songs over and over again, sometimes just with a few months/years gap. Hehe ^^)

__ Utada Hikaru- 'Stay Gold'(not the real vid, but this version has lyrics instead) and 'Heart Station'. OH MY GOD. Utada Hikaru again cements her status as the female vocalist of my heart. Love, love, love these new songs ♥. How can she consistenly be so awesome?? AHHH *__*

ALSO I stumbled over some techno-y remixes of some of her songs that, I must admit, are pretty awesome... well, I am addicted, at least XDD. 'Beautiful World (Official UDM Remix)', 'Sanctuary (Hikki's Remix), 'You Make Me Want to Be a Man (Bloodshy and Avant Remix) and 'Keep Tryin' (Acoustic Morning Remix) ...okay this kind of falls out of the 'techno-y' category, but is just really nice, ahh ♥

__ LUNA SEA- 'gravity' ...RETRO AWESOMENESSSSS ♥. Pimping them to gwy kind of rekindled my love for them, heh. 'I For You', 'Rosier'(warning for wonky and jarringly hilarious engrish in one part XDD), 'True Blue' and 'Tonight' also are TOP GRADE ROCKING songs of rockingness ♥. Man, I remember buying the tapes back when Tower Records wasn't 'CD Warehouse' in BKK and then listening to them OVER and OVER again on my walkman. GOOD TIMES ♥

__ Namie Amuro- 'Baby, Don't Cry'. 'Hanazono no Himitsu'(or 'Himitsu no Hanazono, I keep getting the title switched around) was such a fun dorama, and the constant playing of this theme song really helped in my enjoyment of it :D ALSO it was one of the few series, where when I mainlined it, I consistently let the credits always run. Such a happy, head-bopping melody~

__ Ayaka- 'Mikazuki'. Most people might recognize her voice from the FF7 Crisis Core game OST ('Why', a helluva BEAUTIFUL SONG god, add that song to the ending FMV= *BAWLING FOREVER* ;3;), and here's another song of hers I found really pretty. She has such a fantastically unique and deep/powerful voice for a japanese vocalist (to steal what some person on youtube said) and it makes her songs a treat to listen to.

Have been reading some campfuckudie as usual and was shocked to discover that Gwendal and Wolfwood aren't together anymore?? WHAT?? HOW? and eeeeh whyyy ;3;. I remember avidly reading the build-up to their relationship a year ago and adoring it so, aaaah good times. Must sharpen my eyes when skimming threads/posts again, I admit to only really have been following a few characters lately and missing these kind of things is always argggh!backtracking time frustration-inducing

Otherwise this day has so far been spent in the same manner as Thursday and Friday have been, with waking up at 2.30PM and all. It's almost decadent, being able to be so lazy~ and of course now that Carmen and Michi are gone it feels like I am existing in some kind of weird time-vacuum -- I am still in my pyjamas and fully awake, yet it is dark as hell outside again because WINTER IS EVIL AND PITCHBLACKNESS AT 5:18PM REALLY IS UNCOOL D:

But on to the glories of the internet: LINKS (I really should make some kind of system or format for posting these, but ehh supreme laziness beats over my sometimes urge for neatness!1 >_>;;)

"God Knows (Drums Part)" ...I will always have an incredible fondness for this song, and seeing all the vids for it with guitar, bass and whatnot parts is simply awesome. This drummer dude really is rocking out, heh~

"God Knows (...Super Mario Sequencer version??)" ...yeah. I just. Wow. The internet is a wonderful place XDD Though this really is cute and catchy in it's own way :D

"Cruel Angel's Thesis (Super Mario Sequence version) ...LOLLLLLLLLLL

HOT HOT IchiIshi ...The newest Bleach colourspread made me happy as hell (ISHIDAAAAAAA) and this fanart by emlan only makes it even better! Hands being shoved in pants! Eee~ Also v cute Rukia and Hime doodles~

Harry Potter 1-6 in 100 words or less ... I am particularly fond of what the chick from Nottingham wrote. ACES.

'When It's Twelve O'Clock, We Climb the Stair' ...delightfully creepy as hell SPN fic. Spoilers through AHBL2 and here's the author's summary: Eleven days after Dean's death, Sam does a ritual to bring him back.

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni 'You' (HIMEKA cover version)' ...I really need to one day watch this anime. But in the meantime, have a link to this fan-cover of one of the songs featured therein. Nice~~

I put aside my Jensen/Dean Winchester girl hat for the following link:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bQINTVjoTkE

SO CUTE SO CUTE AHH THAT ACCENT SUCH A DARLIN' SOUTHERN BOY. Man his texan roots are really noticeable when he says 'I know, you would think, right?'(raaaaite) and 'Country music'(kowntree) and they all keep saying 'We do do that' eeeeee :D :D :D

MY KINK FOR THIS ACCENT STILL SAILS STRONG ♥

and another cute link is:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/8972/

I WANT ONE OF THESE!! AHH!
and one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/887e/ WOO ROFLCOPTER :D

OFF TO REWATCH THE JARED CLIP AGAIN and again~~

I will NEVER EVER EVER stop loving ~*Tidus and Yuna*~. And watching all the relevant FFX and X-2 FMVs only serves to reinforce and cement this thought in my mind. THEY ARE SO CUTE AND CHEESY AND HAPPY TOGETHER ahhhh it is almost too much ♥ ♥
And uh on a FFX note, the '1000 Words' single actually sounds really nice in japanese... Am ironically so used to the dub version, but damn if I don't really like Koda Kumi's more huskier voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c-UmNUhxxI

Other than that, my days have been spent trying to study for the OEKO(Media Economy) exam that is coming up this tuesday... with uh, MIXED results, as I keep getting sidetracked by things like spending 4 hours ploughing through a 36 part Supernatural fic(SO FUCKING GOOD -->http://nilchance.livejournal.com/tag/of+bastard+saints) and so on. I am actually quite suprised by how hard I seem to have been hit by the SPN bug, though it might also be that I am saving many more fics to HD now then back when I was up to here in my HP reading frenzy. ...which actually reminds me that I should get around to ferreting up some of the classics again~~ Ahh.

Went and watched Disturbia with Carmen, Michi and Harry too... and damn, if that wasn't some effective suspenseful editing. You KNEW what was going to happen and still, once it did-- cue the ARRRRGH!!! effect XDD. Better movie than I expected and yaaay the previews were of Stardust and THE GOLDEN COMPASSS aaaaaaaah wanna watch that so bad. IOREK! DANIEL FUCKING CRAIG(although I could totally pass on the beard, wahh)! ETC!!! Also Stardust has Robert DeNiro as a fucking SKY PIRATE, which is like utter hilarity in itself already...

I wanted to post these links yesterday already, but I got too sucked into reading diverse Apocalypse scenario Supernatural fic and more multiparters that I eventually got kind of creeped out, and then in a stunning display of logic and common sense, went to Youtube to look at Silent Hill clips and OST songs as that shit ain't creepyness-enhancing enough noooo >_>;;
BUT SINCE THE SUN IS STILL SHINING NOW I figure I am okay to post these XDD

http://kestrelsan.livejournal.com/70088.html ...'t figured that when Dean finally got a dog, it turned out to be a zombie.' SO AWESOME. Ringooooo~
http://travelwright.livejournal.com/6344.html ...from that first funny one to this AUUGH DARK one. Spoilers for the end of Season 2! Ava and the five months afterwards.
http://hiyacynth.livejournal.com/225194.html ...'Mockingbird', 10 long parts of plotty goodness. Heck, I wish this could've been a longer ep arc on the show... The OC's are great, the relationship between the brothers and the writing just zings. Who says het can't be good eh? :D
http://intimations.org/fanfic/supernatural/Old%20Country.html ...A HP/SPN crossover that works so good. The Winchesters do Hogwarts! And the fact that Dean is a Hufflepuff is now firmly cemented in my brain. LORD TAVERSHAM *snickers*

http://community.livejournal.com/spn_gen/322823.html ...The summary says it all: 'Some Goth teenagers accidentally resurrect John Winchester. No, seriously.' HILARIOUS POV XDD

AND here the creepy yet super cool as always Silent Hill music from yesterday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKMKcw_mYY&mode=related&search= ...'Theme of Laura(Piano Version)'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO7Z_lXmrwI ...'Promise(Piano Version)'. This song gives me the goosebumps ahh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1TLZxhsgns ...'Promise' again, this time some guys added vocals to it and it's quite an interesting thing to listen to. Like what one of the commentators said-- the vocals sound a bit off-key but it fits to the Silent Hill feel? If that makes sense...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd8rBt0OUQQ&mode=related&search= ...'Promise' for the last time, but without doubt the best version I found. ACOUSTIC GUITAAARS! And they even made an actual video to it, not just only them playing the instruments. Niiice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H_uWBQJZjg ...Silent Hill's 'Theme of Laura', done in a Trip-Hop remix. I-i just. FABULOUS ♥ ♥ and I don't even like trip-hop most of the time lol...

http://akusoft.livejournal.com/68912.html -->Harry Potter (GoF) and the Subtitles of Doom!!! Ultimate hilarity, omg~

In other news, I AM LEAAAAAAAAAVING, ON A JET PLANE AND I DO KNOW WHEN I'LL BE BACK AGAIN but that'll be like in February which is a hell of a long time to gooooooooooo~~~ D: D: D:! Three more hours till we leave for the airport and from that around 4 more till our flight actually leaves at 23:55. I am so happy that Sue managed to use her connections to get us all 30 kilos weight on our luggage instead of the usual 20 something! I sure as hell need every extra kilo, given the sheer amount of crap/clothing/DVDs/gifts for people I seem to have amassed in this time spent here. Thankfully I have Sue and Dad's luggage to kind of smuggle my extra things into and I am thankful that we are stopping by in Wienna long enough before taking the train to Krimml/Zell am See that I can pop by the dorm and dump most of the stuff I got for people there... No point in schlepping all that around with me!

Yeah, and the last few days were basically spent buying last minute stuff and me being really lazy and not wanting to realise that I'll be leaving again so soon. Still need to make a few phone calls and take some pictures with the dog and the swank extendable lazyboy sofa chairs...

Will be with net access again sometime this weekend and only time will tell how often I'll get to go up to Silvia's living room as I assume that when Dad is there I will be dragged around the great Outdoors more...

GOODBYE BANGKOK!!!!!!!!!!!1 D: D: D:

...after more than two years(...has it been that long? Gawrsh), due to a collective effort between Dad and I, my king-size bed is now pushed to the far upper-left corner of my bedroom, which magically leaves me with a HELL OF A LOT MORE SPACE than what used to be there (since the bed was kind of SMACKDAB in the middle of the room). Colour me surprised and actually quite pissed off that we never thought of this earlier, as I can actually walk in my room now without hitting the bed or my cabinet or some other room fixture every second step!
KAT IT IS LIKE A WHOLE NEW PLACE maaan I gotta take some pics after I spruce things up a bit-- spent the whole afternoon tearing the place apart, dusting like a crazy woman(and discovering new colonies of empty gecko eggs yeaaaah >_>;;)... Flipping through my compulsively kept and decorated school agendas for 2002-2005 was kind of fun, especially the random input some people would scribble in and the fact that I'd basically abuse the homework planer as an impromptu diary. Which I uh, still do with my current ones ahahaha ^^. Also found a number of notebooks and sketchbooks and am again amused at my attempts at being 'deep and nearly emotastic' in some of them. I WROTE A POEM ABOUT THE COLOUR BLUE IN FIRST PERSON AND COMPARED IT TO MY FICTIONAL DEAD LOVER'S WATERBLOATED CORPSE ahahaahaha oh the SHAME. It was in one of the austro-summer hols notebooks though, so maaaybe that explains my emotional state a bit, lol. And okay more than half of the fics I had printed out in '02-03 are really aaaaaaaaaangsty.
So it seems I did have a teenaged waaah-phase, only subliminally experienced through fandom ...which I am quite thankful about in retrospect XDD

And as I am maaaybe meeting Patty again tomorrow and Migel I shall stop here and slowly go up and get me some beauty sleep.

With a few parting shots~
http://one-if-by-land.livejournal.com/225663.html ...KAT BECAUSE OF YOU I CAN NOW ACTUALLY READ JE FIC AND KNOW WHO THE HELL IT IS ALL ABOUT besides like Yamapi and MatsuJun who like everyone knows. Tegoshi is so cuuute in this one and if it is in any manner the way he actually is in real life I am a little bit smitten XDD
http://leviosa8.livejournal.com/534676.html ...I feel like I am drifting away a bit from PoT BUT hummina hummina these be some puuurdy artses! I kind of want to touch Oshitari ♥

AND btw KAT, I am today quite incapable of replying to your post as my computer is frozen on the part of the entry where Nagase Tomoya is WET and in the onsen and has that sultry LOOK and there's whatshisface's hand on his shoulder and my eyes are drawn to Nagase's lips and kind of are staying there and it is physically impossible to SCROLL DOWN. GUH GUH GUH. PLS CONTINUE TO MAKE SCREENSHOTS IN THAT VEIN! (do you have a sharper shot of that one btw? NEEDS TO BE A WALLPAPER MAN :D :D :D)

Today was awesome. Lunch overlooking Chiang Mai on a mountain restaurant that is basically behind the Chiang Mai zoo. Food was so-so (fresh river prawns, though!) but the VIEW more that made up for it. Found a heavenly place called the '65 baht for every item' shop near where we buy our groceries. Never really went in before because the displayed items all looked cheap and shitty, but oooh, inside is a veritable Cave of Wonders. Markers! Fans! Handy Täschchen! Maneki Neko chopsticks! Assorted cat toys! Pocket mirrors shaped like hearts! All imported from Japan and all criminally cute and quite useful. The evening's entertainment was spent at the Sunday Walking Street Market that seemingly goes on forever and is filled with all kinds of wonderful things, too. Bought a stupendous amount of bits and bobs and really, shopping (ESPECIALLY in BKK/Thailand... or heck, ASIA) is such an intensely gratifying experience for me, especially with Ma ♥. I wonder how Personal Shoppers feel after a while... does the joy that once was there bleed out after time?
(HAD SOME DELICIOUS ROTI, TOO. MAN THAT WAS GOOD)

Interesting Links of the daaaaay:
http://candyaddict.com/blog/top-10-grossest-candies/ ...link says all
http://candyaddict.com/blog/2005/11/26/review-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans-just-the-gross-ones/ ...I have the odd urge to want to try these with people just to be able to say that 'I ate a vomit flavored Bertie Botts...' lollll

http://iconseeyou.livejournal.com/54107.html ...pretty DH text icons! SPOILER WARNING, obviously!
http://rexluscus.livejournal.com/254445.html ...Snape in book 7 META. MOAR SPOILERS. This is quite a long yet fascinating read, I do recommend it!
http://rexluscus.livejournal.com/253358.html ...MORE spoiler-y Meta!

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/43545099/ ...this appears to be Invader Zim fanart?? Thought of you, Olga! Also general rec of this artist's other stuff, their 'Aurens' pic is my new wallpaper aaah LAWRENCE OF ARAAAAABIA ♥

Man this post got more wordy than my sleepy mind intended it to be. Go go typing fingers!

PS KAT I WATCHED NARNIAAAA again today and kept snickering every time Peter and Aslan were in the same screen. Which pretty much means I was laughing through the entire movie lollllll I scared the cat >_>;;