Queen of My Heart

Since hitomi is what i eat,breathe and think i wanted to share my glorious Christmas present with all of you, er..all 3 of you that read this. it's a box set of all Her Majesty's music videos, singles and a live concert for her most recent declaration of awesome-ness (her most recent album 'Love Concent' rivals Chris Clark's 'Body Riddle', Clinic's 'Visitations' and Ayumi Hamasaki's '(miss)understood' for my number 1 album of 2006). She inspires every piece of art i've created lately and she is always in my head, her music dragged me through the worst time in my life and i will always be grateful. i know, cheesy,eh? well, cram it. this song was my favorite song by her for a long time and it still is one of them. It's from many years ago so it's got some serious contenders by this point. But i wanted to share this beautiful video and song, its about how when you are gone, when her world is shattered and empty, there is still her love for you. and that love floats her to the surface, over and over and cannot fail. i think this is a beautiful, no matter how romantic, thought, and i want to live my life this way. the idea of love that i cling to and worship is the basis for the entire 'Japanic' storyline and the reason i can go on day after day. So this song kinda makes me want to kill myself, but in a good way...i hope you like it! (don't worry, you don't have to like it as much as i do...i may actually be her number 1 fan in the States)

i think i will probably upload more of her videos too because i can. She's got SO many great songs that not nearly enough people know about, her popularity ain't what it used to be in Japan and it never was in America. But she's one of the most original J-pop artists in that she doesn't copy what's popular in the west, she has done her own thing for a long time and yes, of course she's been influenced by other cultures and music, she loves 80's pop as much as the next girl...but aside from the influence everyone knows about, which would be Madonna, whom she admires as a business woman and a human being...yeah, it's questionable, i know, but get a load of the rest of the influences she's sighted over the years : Bjork, the Soft Pink Truth (which is Drew Daniel from Matmos along with friends who include one of the Blechtum kids),Chicks on Speed (hitomi really likes electronic glitches and weirdness),Kings of Convenience (Indie-tronic folk right?), the Underwolves, International Pony,Hotel Costes & Grand National (the last 4 i have no knowledge of, but considering her other tastes, i bet they rule)...and lastly, i found the one other person on the planet who owns AND recommends the Minotaur Shock album besides me! it really is a great little record of indie-tronic flava'. you go out there and you find it. i bet it's all of $2 at your local used CD shop.....OR..online...

but i'm for supporting the artist and our innate need for THINGS. go buy the actual CD if you're gonna get it, ok? ok. so there's hitomi, fashion icon, as fashionably challenged as she may appear, model of extraordinarily jagged proportions and a beacon of hope for the future of pop music. She cranks Chicks on Speed while her peers long to be JUST LIKE BRITNEY. i hope this helps you understand my love and adoration for her, even if just a little.

and i guess that's all for the next couple of minutes. i kind of have a back log of crap i want to write about so hopefully i can write more in the next few days. i know you're just aching to hear more. yeah that's right. aching.

Space and Time

Tomiko! this is Tomiko! she is the space cadet of the crew, one of Yuki's oldest friends. Tomiko is very uh...distracted! She is by no means dumb, but she has a habit of literally wandering off while you're talking to her. She really does live primarily on Planet Tomiko, a land that no one but her could ever fully grasp. She loves Ayumi Hamasaki and para para music and belongs to several dance troops. She thinks, eats and breathes dance, but when she's not thinking, eating or breathing, she loves baseball and may appear to be somewhat of a tom boy. She is pictured here in very fashionable fatigues, waving to greet you, even though she'll almost immediately forget who you are! please forgive her, she doesn't mean it.

Yuki means 'SNOW'

This is YUUUUki, not YUKI. you see, if you don't hold that 'U', you've got the word for snow, but this Yuki isn't snowy....she's a guardian angel. i'll explain that some time other than now (if you read this before i apologize for the mix-up there XD)This is Yuki. She is my very first Japanese character. Yuki gave Sachi her name, Sachi is nameless through the whole first half of this series, she is drifting along trying to escape and she ends up in Japan, in a bar, with Yuki. Yuki is pictured here not in a festive holiday outfit, but as she was originally imagined, she was wearing that lil' sweater and hat when she waltzed into the bar and sat down next to Sachi and then assumed Sachi would understand her as she began to drunkenly rant about her boy troubles. Good Times. Yuki looks an aweful lot like the pop singer hitomi, because hitomi is the queen of Japanese pop music to me. and she's wicked hot. Yuki is not a pop singer though, her personality more closely resembles my friend Chie, who actually named Yuki AND Sachi. Yuki is very, very important for she accidently keeps Sachi alive which,you know, is really good for the story because if the main character bought it at this point, it wouldn't really be much of a story. even less than it is this minute. which, as i've stated, isn't much... OK!!! go bask in Yuki's glory, this is the first drawing i've finished in my new sanctuary! SANCTUARYYYYY!!!

Just Put It In The Bag Hutch!

After countless (actually, not countless at all, maybe like...five)trips to and from my parents', i have arrived in Vermont, in a place with all my things...in many,many bags. and as i cleaned and arranged and threw things away and picked things up...the bags seemed to multiply...and over and over in my head, Jeneane Garafolo said,"just put it in the Bag Hutch"...and then i could hear her laughing...over and over "BAG HUTCH...PUT IT IN THE BAG HUTCH...BAG HUUUUTCH!!!" and i was all,"Well, where the hell is it bitch?!!!". *pfhuuh* bag hutch. if only.
This little 'Shire girl moved to Vermont! My friend at work, his son got in this horrible car accident and smashed his hip and shoulders so he can't make it up the jagged stairs to his apartment, he'll be OK, but for now he had to lose the apartment...and me being the fantastic person that i am, volunteered to sublet.... so now, i am out of my parents' house and into this adorable little place. It was covered in boy, but i've cleansed it. several times. and now it's filled with ME!!! i finally get to put out all the little house items i bought in my the far east! JAPANESE POP MUSIC SHALL EXPLODE ALL OVER ROUTE 4!!! That little whale up there, the wind chime, he was the first thing of mine i put up. he is small and blue and i believe he is telling you to enjoy a refreshing summer breeze...he doesn't know, he's just a whale! anyway, i moved in our first snow storm and those fantastic icicles hung there for my first week. i love them.