I have a bad habit of starting online journals/blogs, writing a few faithful entries and then abandoning it. I have a bit of free time that I don’t know what to do with so I decided to revamp the look of my blog and write a little entry announcing my return!
I think I’ll probably use this blog to reflect on any episodes from the series that I’m following that I find particularly meaningful, and to post silly screenshots 
It’s funny, until now I thought nobody was really reading my blog other than ImTakes 
and then senpai-kun mentioned to me that I may have comments awaiting my moderation, and I DID! Thank you all for commenting so far, I’m sorry I was so slow at noticing! 
I’ve been missing in action lately in the anime world. I haven’t seen anything new in ages. Even still, I keep downloading the episodes as they are released, saving them for a rainy day when I can have a mini-marathon
There will be an anime convention here in Budapest in two weeks I think. It’s really nothing compared to the anime cons in the States, or even western Europe… BUT it will still be fun. Due to lack of creativity and resources, I’ll be going as a generic japanese schoolgirl. I’ll post a few pictures when the time comes.
Even though I haven’t been watching anime, visual novels have captured my interest. I’m currently downloading Kanon (though I know the english patch is not available 
) and I’m going to give Tsukihime a second go. (pretty picture, huh?)
oh hoho life is unpredictable.
Yesterday started just like any other day. I slept in, wanted to get all the sleep I could. And then I left a family friends place to teach. (oh yeah, I teach now, I’m an english tutor )
This family friend has a dog, a beautiful black dog named Luna. I have very poor knowledge about dogs, so I can’t tell you what kind she is. She’s really friendly, seemed to like me, so I didn’t think I’d have a problem with her.
As I walked towards the gate, Luna followed me, excited, I think she got the wrong idea and thought I was going to take her on a walk. I tried to get through the gate, without letting Luna get out, the house was empty, so it would be my fault if she gets out. Try as I may, Luna still managed to escape and run.
I ran after her as fast as my very out-of-shape body would allow, I grabbed her collar and tried to steer her back towards the house. I failed. She ran, pulled me along until I fell flat on my face. At first I didn’t feel any pain, I stood up, my eyes scanned the area rapidly to see where Luna had run, and then I saw the blood. I had broken one of my teeth, not to manage my chin was bleeding. I checked the rest of my body, the damage was minor, it could have been a lot worse, but when I looked into a car window to see my reflection… I cringed.
I was missing one of my front teeth, one of my perfect front teeth.. one of the very few things I actually liked about myself. In the end it all worked out though, I visited the dentist here in hungary for the first time, not as scary as I imagined… well the thought of living the rest of my life looking like this was a lot more terrifying than a dentist visit. It is fixable, and I’m constantly being reminded by people that it could have been a lot worse. (can somebody explain how that is supposed to make me feel any better?)
Whats the point of this? Here I am being abnormally thoughtful. I always thought that I could predict how my day’s going to turn out. Not just my day, my life. I’m trapped in this routine life, in fact I’ve made myself prisoner. I’ve given up the idea that anything different could happen to me…and even though this wasn’t a pleasant experience at all, it’s given me hope that the exciting unpredictability of life isn’t dead.
sometimes it takes falling flat on your face to wake you up from the zombie-stupor of everyday boring nothingness.
I’ve been busy lately… ok thats a lie. I wish I’d been. I’ve got loads of things to do, but I’m the master of procrastination… so none of the things I need to do get done.
I can’t believe it’s already March! And, here in Budapest at least, it seems as if spring is already here! I went to school today in a t-shirt and a light sweater, a nice change from the regular heavy wintercoat-hat-gloves and boots. (and yes senpai-kun, I know that for you, the surprising bit would be that I actually attended class :P)
I have caught up with many animes. I’ll touch on True Tears first. I’ve seen until episode 9 and I’m overjoyed that it’s turning towards a Hiromi ending. I’ve got nothing against Noe, it just seems that she lacks -that kind- of chemistry with Shinichiro. Even though the dialogue between Hiromi and Shinichiro is certainly lacking, they give eachother enough -intense- looks to make up for it
I also caught up with Ghost Hound… or at least I was caught up. I noticed episode 14 was subbed today. I don’t think I’ll get around to watching that until a day or two. There was a scene in episode 12 that had me jump out of my skin for a second! When the psychologist saw a ghostly girl figure running in the hall into a classroom, and he goes to check it out. He looks down and there’s this freaky looking thing staring up at him. *shriek*
I found it odd that he was able to act so normally after that incident, maybe it’s possible he just accepts that this is a messed up town where lots of mysterious things happen.
And last but certainly not least, I’ve caught up with Clannad. I’m so happy that Okazaki and Nagisa’s relationship is moving forward. I really wonder why she feels that she needs to apologize to her parents. She seems like the perfect child! What could she have possibly have done to hurt them? My guess is that she feels bad for being such a sickly child, that needed much of her parents attention… something like that.
One last thing thats new with me, is that I watched the Bob Dylan biopic, I’m not There yesterday. Really good movie, but it’s not for everyone. For instance, my friend fell asleep halfway through, and had no idea what the hell was going on. I’m not a huge Bob Dylan fan, and I only knew bits and pieces of information about him… but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Six characters embodied the different aspects of Bob Dylan’s life and work. Each of them were filmed a bit differently, for example- Christian Bale played Jack Rollins, which is Bob Dylan at the early stage of his musical career, when he’s referred to as a Prophet. This part was filmed like a documentary, showing clips of Jack singing and Julianne Moore talking about him. (I have an inkling that Julianne Moore was supposed to be Joan Baez) Arthur Rimbaud (Ben Whishaw) - Bob Dylan the poet, was filmed in black and white and they showed clips of him randomly throughout the film. He had some of the best lines:
Seven simple rules of going into hiding: one, never trust a cop in a raincoat. Two, beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. Three, if asked if you care about the world’s problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. Four, never give your real name. Five, if ever asked to look at yourself, dont. Six, never do anything the person standing in front of you cannot understand. And finlly seven, never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
~Arthur Rimbaud
Cate Blanchett was phenomenal, she played Bob Dylan at the height of his career. This movie is worth seeing just to see her performance!
If you like artistic films, or films about music, I highly recommend you check it out!
I stayed home sick today, again, and I decided to put this free time to good use… made a new banner for my blog! Yay! I’m not a huge Shuffle fan, but those pictures are just so darn pretty, and I wanted to have a bright and sunny looking blog
The only anime I have seen since my last post was Gundam 00 episode 20. I’ll watch a few more and then post my thoughts later.. I’m a bit wary though of posting major spoilers for people who are either behind in a series or are thinking of watching it..
In honour of Gundam 00 I’m going to attach a great picture..
-edit- I’m still getting the hang of this… unfortunately the picture is above this one! lol
I’ve noticed quite a few of us are at home sick these days… myself included. I’ve caught a bad cold and I’ve missed my classes today.
I did not have a productive day… I know I should just relax since I’m sick, but being at home makes me feel like I should do a whole bunch of stuff to make up for not going to class.
What have I done, you ask? I’ve changed the name of my blog, it’s still Momo-hime but the main title is ‘all the young dudes, carry the news’ in reference to a great song by Mott the Hoople. It just seemed appropriate for this blog, with which I do not know what to do with yet. I haven’t seen any anime yet, I’ll probably blog about some in the next couple of days. And I’ve put doing homework off.. that I should have done a week ago!
back to work! get well soon to everyone in the blog world that’s been ill!
I never was one to blog, write a journal.. do any of that sort of thing. But if it’s about anime, maybe I can get into it. I read once that it’s important to write something everyday, it becomes a record of your life… not so sure if that applies to writing about anime! Although it is true that anime is a big part of my life.
I’m really far behind in my animes, I’ve only just recently watched Clannad episode 18, and Gundam 00 episode 19. Both superb in my opinion, some the best shows running.
I viewed Gundam 00 episode 1 with a friend earlier today. She watched it, skeptically of course, she could not understand how I could possibly like a show that reminds her of transformers. I kept explaining who the characters are, why people are attacking the Gundams (the good guys) etc. The result? Well, she said she may watch another episode, but she thinks it’s silly… well, it will be her loss!
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