in the comment I left on a featured post, and it startled me because I had forgotten I had changed my layout.
...Hi! For some reason my xanga is still doing that thing where it has mostly Twilight advertisements on the side bar. Huh. Well, not much I can do about it...maybe if I talked about other popular things it would make different cookies. I'm not sure how that sort of thing works. All I know is, after my idiotic vampire post a while ago Twilight ads kept showing up.
We're waiting to be picked up by Liz and co. in preparation for our Awesome Houston Trip of Miyavi-ness. It is going to be FANTASTIC. Miyavi's married now, by the way. He married a fellow singer named melody. [sic] and they're expecting a child. I learned of this on youtube, possibly on the same video where I learned he was coming to Texas. I had actually gone looking for that video so I could mention to the people who had left comments about the AM concert that I had learned of it from them and was forever in their debt, etc but when I looked at it all the comments were "Oh, it's so sweet that he's married" or "aww, my MYV married someone else " or "why did he marry that talentless hack" and so on and so forth. So of course I went and looked it up. At that point it hadn't been officially confirmed, but now it has been (in his Myspace blog ). He also announced that he had started his own company (called "J-glam Inc.") and announced himself as its CEO, Ishihara Takamasa (a name which unaccountably makes me giggle, possibly because it sounds nerdy, especially compared to "Miyavi" which means "elegant"). Of course, I don't believe everything I read in youtube comments. There's this new thing going around on all the Neil Gaiman-related videos (and when I say related, I mean "wherever there's the slightest connection"--I found it on a video of someone covering a Dressden Dolls song). If you, for some reason, watch any of the NG vids in my youtube favorites, you will be repeatedly informed that Neil Gaiman Is A Scientologist, He Has Given Lots Of Money To Scientology And blah blah blah blah blah, and it's getting to the point where it's spam, practically one of those chain comments that you see only limited to certain videos. It's annoying. It demonstrates one of the biggest problems with the internet--people go to google or wherever for their information, without stopping to think about the fact that the information could be coming from anyone. Neil Gaiman's father was a big scientologist, yes, but that does not have anything to do with the son. As far as I could find, NG himself is Jewish (emphasis on the "ish" ) if anything. And the newer comments I've been seeing that explain how Neil Gaiman's friendship with Tori Amos is a scientology thing used mainly to bring them both more money... Anyway, my point is, sometimes the internet is very nice for information and gossip, but sometimes people have no clue what on earth they're talking about. ...apropos of nothing, yesterday the SS sisterhood was briefly united as Livvi is home from school for the weekend, and Liz and Nene came over to discuss our Houston plans. And after I dropped Liz and Nene off at Liz's house, we (well, me and Livvi; Bliz stayed in the car) stopped by the little comic/book store down by Main Street and poked around. I found beautiful Sandman books, the entire series--unfortunately, the books were $20
each, so to buy the entire series would have cost me over $100. So I
forgot about that, since I don't have that kind of money, and bought a
set of four comics that make up the Dream Eaters arc. They are very
pretty and have foxes and japanese people and onis and badgers and
Morpheus and Morpheus-as-a-fox... Someday I shall go back and buy more,
some day... (of course, if I buy the series in shiny-new-book form,
I'll have extra issues which I'll then have to do something with...sell
them to Half Price Books or the comic store, maybe.) I don't know when I became such a geek, but I like it. Especially my new discovery of H.P. Lovecraft, whose books use such lofty language that I have to write words down and look them up in the dictionary, which I NEVER have to do. Expanding my vocabulary + sniggering over the Poe-like morbidity and Stephen King-like horror-ness = WIN. I also get to expand my vocabulary with Save the Words, so I'm winning in lots of different ways. Especially now that, in an attempt to make myself actually write in it, I've decided to start taking my diary random places with me (like school) so that I can note Lovecraftian words, jot down interesting things that happen, and write random stuff when I'm bored. Hoorah! Okay, last time I wrote this post, the internet crashed and I lost it. Because I'm paranoid, and Liz should be coming soon, I shall leave you now. Tata!
~HannahGeorge
PS This is Adam Lambert, my absolute favorite American Idol contestant ever, in "The Ten Commandments, the Musical". He looks goofy, but...his voice...the song.......*girly sigh*
You should have heard him sing Mad World. I about cried.
@becausedead - adorable how? *glare* @lilyvale - they have to abridge their songs for the actual performance, but yeah I did notice he said "going nowhere in the daily races"
You've changed man
They are very pretty and have foxes and japanese people and onis and badgers
" or "why did he marry that talentless hack" and so on and so forth. So of course I went and looked it up. At that point it hadn't been officially confirmed, but now it has been (in his Myspace blog 
). He also announced that he had started his own company (called "J-glam Inc.") and announced himself as its CEO, Ishihara Takamasa (a name which unaccountably makes me giggle, possibly because it sounds nerdy, especially compared to "Miyavi" which means "elegant").
Sandman books, the entire series--unfortunately, the books were $20
each, so to buy the entire series would have cost me over $100. So I
forgot about that, since I don't have that kind of money, and bought a
set of four comics that make up the Dream Eaters arc. They are very
pretty and have foxes and japanese people and onis and badgers and
Morpheus and Morpheus-as-a-fox... Someday I shall go back and buy more,
some day... (of course, if I buy the series in shiny-new-book form,
I'll have extra issues which I'll then have to do something with...sell
them to Half Price Books or the comic store, maybe.)
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You're so adorable.
I'm obsessed with Adam Lambert and it's ALL YOUR FAULT!!! *glares*
P.S. Did you notice he mangled the Mad World lyrics? The studio version has them right though.
I've wasted hours trying to find good downloadable videos of his songs. All the YouTube versions of the "Ring of Fire" performance suck.
P.P.S. Vote For the Worst.
@becausedead - adorable how? *glare*
@lilyvale - they have to abridge their songs for the actual performance, but yeah I did notice he said "going nowhere in the daily races"