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Forgive me for any grammar or vocabulary mistakes below. Feel free to leave corrections in comments. I just typed this right at the moment, only correcting some spelling here and there. I didn't have a document open, so I couldn't put the right accents.


2 AM
Despues de ver El laberinto del fauno, yo no puedo pensar sin algunas palabras de espanol invading mi vocabulario. queria escribir una poema de la mandragora, y quieria escribirla en espanol, pero no supe las palabras para la primera stanza...
algunas personas tiene ese problema?

y cuando estuve typing una commentario a claennis, tuve que pararme a escribirlo en espanol...ay

tengo que refresh mi espanol para mi internship. estoy ensenando palabras en japones y escribiendo las "imis" (ay, estoy pensando en japones ahora?) meanings (y las sentences para practicar) en espanol. ay, I'm starting to lose the Spanish feeling. Reverting back to ingles now.

Wow, that was weird. Felt like I was in a trance state or something. The Spanish feeling's dissapating now, returning a bit here and there, but definitely fading.

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Translation of the above:
After watching Pan's Labyrinth, I couldn't think without Spanish words invading my vocabulary. I wanted to write a poem about the mandrake root, and I wanted to write it in Spanish, but I didn't know the words for the first stanza...
Anybody have this problem?

And when I was typing a comment to claennis, I had to stop myself from writing it in Spanish.

I have to refresh my Spanish for my internship. [not in the above: I don't have to be superfluent, just at least have the right sounds for words in my mind. I already watch and listen to stuff in Spanish. just need a little extra here and there] I am learning Japanese words and writing the meanings [here I wrote the Japanese word for "meaning:" "imi"] (ay, I'm thinking in Japanese now?) (and the practice sentences) in Spanish. Ay, I'm starting to lose the Spanish feeling. Reverting back to English now.
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uhh, yeah.

Hey, I redid this quiz last night. Did it over and over, without looking at the answers. This was the highest score I got. Better than the last time, even the result when I did look at the answers beforehand. I think that other geography game helped.

98


Oh, Happy Birthday to faito_oh!

Finally, ( the poem mentioned above )

Hi people. It‘s Linkspam Weekend!!!
As always, not LJ-cutting in case anything catches your interest.

Messthrough ‘07
The revised letter to LJ/Six Apart that you can sign with a comment.
Via logovo1: What! Links aren’t safe either? You’re going back on your word, LJ.
Also from logovo: A different view on the matter.

Heroes
Season 2 preview! Guaranteed to elicit reactions of “wow” and “what?”
Hints on new villains
Hey, it’s Sark n’ Sylar! Hey, David Anders, smile better! You’ve just been promoted to series regular!
On a different tangent, Spock meets Spock!
Masi Oka: ''When Zach and I would hang out, he'd have a rubber band over his fingers, practicing his muscle. We've come up with ways to practice — wiggle the fingers, doing yoga for the hand.... He's been practicing for about a month. I'm betting on him. He'll get it down.''
Quinto will go MIA during a chunk of the upcoming season to film Star Trek (the logistics were hammered out between Lindelof and Heroes creator Tim Kring, who are old friends)
Meanwhile Milo’s in “A Mall World”, doing his best Conor Oberst impression to date.

TARDISverse
Snatched from miladygrey: Doctor Who macros sing Buffy’s “I Have a Theory.”
For more macro fun, here’s one from colonials, the best macro site in the 13 colonies.
Lego Torchwood?
John Barrowman’s Scottish accent

Leftover TV Dinner
Vote in Kristen’s Tater Top awards!
Interview with Jack McBrayer, who plays Kenneth (!) on 30 Rock.
Buffy’s Jonathan is now a screenwriter!
John Krasinski as a kid
Spy on Chuck

Soccer
Becks makes respectable debut, but Galaxy still lose
Is it weird that when I see the headline “Beckham makes MLS debut as Galaxy fall to United,” I think Man United first?
Oh, and Becks vs. Zidane in Sydney game?
Volzy stuck in the toilet?
Footballers when they were young (hee Iker) and more fun footballer pics.
LolKakas!
And via der_schnix: Great Bundesliga article
Best player
Diego: 13 goals, 100 assists (roughly), a bit of magic and spades of imagination. Yay!
Best form of dissent
Willy Sagnol to referee Markus Merk: "Ref, we'll substitute."
Merk: "I don't see your sub."
Sagnol: "No, we're substituting you." Great job, Surly Sagnol!
The Ashley Cole Award for super secretive contract negotiations: Miroslav Klose
Waaaah…I shall get over this. See my icon? That is my coping icon. I AM COPING!
Unfortunately, his young and inexperienced agent couldn't get the phone to ring so in the end the only option was to look south. Interesting…
From nolwe: Arsenal posing with white kit, interviews with Tomas and Theo.

Music
Amy Winehouse rushed to hospital and now sent to rehab, while Lily Allen is detained at airport and and needs chicken soup. Oh, and Keith Richards really did snort his dad’s ashes.
Via Buzzgrinder: “Jamgate is live; a web-based app for musicians to manage, sell and distro their music without the commission that is usually charged on other sites.”
Free Flight of the Conchords MP3: Business Time. Through that link you can also listen to their new EP, The Distant Future.
La Blogotheque made Sufjan Stevens perform on a roof.
The Arctic Monkeys perform dressed as clowns.
Make sure your stomach’s strong before you watch this super weird vid for Klaxon’s “Magick.” Seriously, green stuff spurts from their eyes.
Treasure Island gets its own music festival! Ooh, look at Saturday…Gotan Project, DJ Shadow, MIA, Dengue Fever, Honeycut…On Sunday they’ve got Modest Mouse and Spoon. I’d want to go Saturday, but tix are expensive. But their green measures seem sound…
In October, there’s Vegoose in Vegas. Set to play are: Queens of the Stone Age, Muse, the Shins, UNKLE, Gogol Bordello, Battles, Iggy & The Stooges to offer up a track-by-track retelling of Fun House, and more
Speaking of Battles, check out the cool vid for Atlas. They just might make Math Rock accessible to the masses! Or at least the indie masses. Download “Leyendecker” here.
You must watch these Cold War Kids performances. In the second one just watch where they end up. Wow. I hope those people weren’t in a rush to go anywhere. Also, the video for "Hospital Beds". Editing is fast but not dizzy, some cheesy shots but overall alright. Wow, Nathan Willett is buff.
The Section Quartet: A violin quartet that plays versions of The Strokes, “London Calling,” Radiohead, and more. Download their cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Phenomena” here.
Daytrotter has new sessions by Sondre Lerche and White Rabbits. White Rabbits White Rabbits yay yay oh my gosh my fave White Rabbits song just started to play on my media player how awesome how freaky but song’s still awesome
Also great: bittersweet_bun has uploaded both Sakuran, the film that Shiina Ringo scored, and Heisei Fuuzoku, a new album “inspired by” the film. Check them out here. Heisei Fuuzoku consists mainly of orchestral/jazz covers of older Shiina songs, but in “Karisome Otome” she incorporates tango in way reminiscent of one song from Moulin Rouge (same message, too). But it is so much better and less gimmicky and -faints- Just when I thought I couldn’t appreciate Shiina more, she makes a tango song. -stands up, sighs, faints again-
More apple goodness via shiinaringo_: Tokyo Jihen- Killer Tune Now that’s what happy chipmunk-voiced J-pop should sound like!
And if you’re looking for a nice, soft summer song, listen to Melody Day by Caribou (formerly known as Manitoba).

Dispatches from Cloverfield
more news
From cleolinda: New Cloverfield trailer?
Video and photos from the set

Movies
Carla Gugino in Watchmen
Trailer for We Own the Night, which features Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg as brothers on opposite sides of the law.
Becoming Jane’s historical merit
Ridley Scott talks Monopoly movie
Lego Indiana Jones?
Via foresthouse: Light Fantastic and Color of Magic to be movies? I only found about the Hogfather movie when I was walking and talking around Palo Alto with point_earedpain. Pratchett talks about the projects.
And yes, there really is a movie called The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? Yup, you read that punctuation right.
Clip from the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There leaked: Watch Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan meeting Allen Ginsberg.
Trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest: Darjeeling Limited, starring Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzbaum, and Adrien Brody as brothers.

Science and its fictional counterpart
Quadruple sunsets are possible!
How to sell Sci-Fi, according to Buffy writer Jane Espenson.
While, via officialgaiman, an article on SF in China: part 1, pt 2 (In the early eighties, the Party considered Sci-fi an evil, which could lead the public astray. All sci-fi writing across China ceased), pt 3.
"Sci-Fi writing is now supported by Chinese government as it is considered to be a genre that can inspire the whole nation's ability to think imaginatively and popularizes science nationwide, "
Does time exist?
Via anthropologist: The truth about The Donner Party

Random
Are Canadians just smarter than us?
Universal’s Back to the Future ride is closed
At least the LJ main page is still recommending great comms. Really, awesome_places post some really awesome places.
Beijing’s eco-experiment
Christopher Walken cooks.
"It is not proper to sell soft drinks or snacks right at the toilets"
Those two last links have nothing to do with each other.
Secret of levitation revealed?
Bad Thai cops to wear Hello Kitty armbands
Xkcd strikes gold again: Aeris Dies.
Edgar Simic new US poet laureate

And finally, from logovo1 (again): Slaughter Your World, the best Little Mermaid parody ever. From the gamer webcomic Looking for Group. The clip premiered in this post. I really want to read the comic from the beginning now.

So… 3 Buffy mentions, 3 British musicians in trouble, 2 Lego mentions, 2 articles on China, 3 macro links (two for Doctor Who), 2 trailers for movies centered on brothers, 2 articles about food, and 1 article on legendary cannibals.
Have a great weekend. Sorry if I hurt your flist-scanning eyes.

Happy April Fools Day! Sorry, I promise no tricks in this post. I do provide this great link to Fool’s Day Hoaxes, though. I decided to give a break to the linkage this week, though. Links shall come someday later, along with the 10 things meme that everyone’s tagged me for again…
Do read this, though, if you seek interesting thoughts on the past Lost episode. Buried alive!

I did have a Lost dream this week, though. In Othertown, Kate was doing this weird yet fun clapping dance with Paolo under a tree. Past them, where everyone thought the sea began, was actually a paved road. On that road, Ben and Juliet were patrolling in an open Jeep. And then I shifted from unseen observer to gorilla and I had to bounce onto the top of buildings in a city full of tall buildings because this big gorilla was chasing me…and I lost him! He crashed into the honeymoon suite of a hotel and got stuck. I was able to high-bounce away! And (as non-gorilla me) then came this thing with seeing old high school classmates and trying to show them music on a computer…

Oh, and everyone check out the results for the character question meme!

Waah Spring Break is over.

Monday: Tried to finish Anansi Boys before returning it to the library, but I started it too late. It’s good stuff- so need to finish it. I did finish Courtney Crumrin Volumes 2+3. It’s this great comic book/graphic novel series by Ted Naifeh (whom I’ve met. He’s pretty cool.) about a dark little girl in the dark little world of rich suburbia. There is magic. And monsters. Check it out.
I woke up from a dream where, among many weird things, the weirdest, most striking thing that happened was that THE GUY AT THE DRIVE-THRU WINDOW KNEW WE WERE IN A RUSH AND TOOK ADVANTAGE AND STARTING EATING OUR FOOD AND I FELT HELPLESS AND THANKFULLY HIS MANAGER CAUGHT HIM GRR.
BARTed up to San Francisco with Loki to visit that newly reopened mall that I can’t remember the name of. We enjoyed basking in the clean shininess of consumerism. ( Visited various stores, like… )

On Friday, I went with Clara and Anna around Palo Alto. Drank tea, scoured Borders for comics and music and magazines, talked a lot, ate pretty tasty cream puffs from Satura Bakery (like Beard Papa, another Japanese bakery! Ooh parallel).

I wish I had done more this Spring Break.

I’m going to mimic rondaview now and post lots of great reading material. Bonus poem at the end whee

( Socrates faces the teaching evaluation )

( interesting, if long passage about college… )

( a song and a poem about tango, found in a CD lyrette )

( That poem by Borges inspired me to write this poem )

Ninja-swiped from soleta_nf
One of the Best Promotional Tie-Ins Ever. Weekly World News and Supernatural? Perfect.
Also Winchester-related: Aww, Jensen.

Via cleolinda:
Russell Crowe bans cheerleaders

China busts line-jumping. I hope theme parks everywhere get inspired.
Pandas!
Cool slam poem -What Teachers Make

So, last week, I saw:
Impalement while in vehicle: The Descent, tape of Supernatural angel episode
Death by vehicle: Lost
Creepy stalking of females: Supernatural, Heroes, Studio 60, Smallville, even Lost a bit.

What patterns will show up this week?

Via canadian_turtle:
Crazy spec cracktheory comment thread you must read involving Heroes, with a bit of Desmond thrown in for good measure.
An excerpt: “and I am all like "SORRY MATE, I LOVE YOUR HAIR BUT I AM SO ROOTING FOR DESMOND" and then Sylar's like "I AM SO ROOTING FOR THE EMO!HAIR, I CAN FEEL THE POWER!!"”
All it needs is Mohinder screaming, “You killed my father! Prepare to die!”

Oh, and this week’s episode was directed by none other than Roxann Dawson, who played the half-human, half-Klingon B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek Voyager. This show is geek heaven.
Okay, ( Heroes - Run! )


Studio 60: Unlike most posters, I liked the fantasy flashbacks, as well as the big revelation that I predicted a few minutes before but yeah. Much more interesting for the Matt character than the red-state/blue state Matt/Harriet thing. Harriet deserves so much better. And better doesn’t exactly mean Luke.
Jordan/Danny are back to being cute again. And gaah reality lady. Jordan was starting to be all flexible and gaah.
The Metric conversion running gag was more or less entertaining.
What was Simon’s line to Matt- “Don’t explain it, I’m reading it?” I need to cut out that quote and carry it around for frequent use.

The happiest moment of Monday night: The Studio 60 previews. Because they made me shout “Mom! Isn’t that MARIEL? “
KARI! MATCHETT! IS BACK ON MY TV! I actually felt like dancing around. Oh my gosh. She’s what drew me back to Invasion when it got past its sleep-inducing start and metamorphosed into a totally awesome slow-burn sci-fi show. Mariel Underlay was this complex character who had to struggle with the fact that she has become an alien and she’s still the same person but now a totally different species and aaaugh. I am so not lj-cutting this because everyone needs to see. That finale. Oh my gosh. Too bad it was only one season. William Fitchner was ten kinds of goodness as the ambiguously aligned sheriff/local leader for the invasion. Eddie Cibrian surprised me as the good guy human doctor, and the supporting characters (even the slightly annoying second wife) all grew on me. The cinematography was orange-tinted and pretty, capturing the warm swampy feel of Florida (helps that the creator’s wife used to live there, I guess). And then James Frain exuded attractive evil as Szura, the totally dangerous alien who jumpstarted the more aggressive (and really scary) part of the alien takeover.
Okay. Back to the main point. Kari Machett was a revelation, this magnetic source of calm and conflict that really clicked with my mom and me. Glad that she’s found more work on United States TV (she could have always gone back to Canada). Even if Studio 60 is a flawed, soon-to-be-cancelled show, it has a super great cast. They pick Lucy Davis, see the dramatic potential in D. L. Hughley, make Amanda Peet surprise me, introduce me to the aww cute Nate Cordry, and got that cool Kids in the Hall guy to play a cool (if underused) character. Why can’t this show have been better? I hope this becomes a platform to greater things for them.

( Lost - Flashes Before Your Eyes )

I AM FREE!

Well, okay, I still have finals on Wednesday and Thursday. But NO MORE CLASSES THIS YEAR YAY. Thanks to you all for the nice comments about the oral exam. My conversation partner and I were really nervous, and I’m so grateful to her for leading with most of the questions. Most of my answers were really simple, and I stumbled a lot, but I think the teacher would understand. On the written exam, I was able to go with my instinct with all except one part of each half of the exam. And on the listening exam, on one question, I listened to the wrong thing (I kept on writing down “go”, for 5, but then I realized that it was the “go” for time of day aack). But I’ll still take Japanese 1B next semester. The program is well-developed and interesting, and hiragana is so fun and pretty to write with.

Crazy things I saw on the news today:
BBC-Italian guy tries to burn himself during an interview
TG1 (in Italian)- "L’omerta regne en Napoli" followed by a story about the Cosa Nostra in Sicily. There was also something involving Naples, environmental waster, rockets, and t3h 3v0l Stanfurd; as well as another thing involving Gilardino, AC Milan, money(?) scandal and Berlusconi daughters. And I could go on about how amusingly casual the hosts act on the Italian news.

Stuff I swiped from lj friends:
Via greeniebach
The Euro 2008 will be televised on ABC and ESPN. Which is yay for this antenna-dependent footcrack fan.
Via rennylyleanna
John Terry/Frank Lampard kiss during a Chelsea parade in Italy.
Via cleolinda
I enjoy crack squirrel stories. This time it’s in South London.
Lost moves to new hour. At least we don’t have to face American Idol anymore.
Fart forces plane to land. Yes.
Via theblended
Pick the UEFA Team of the Year!
My team:

( my explanation for my team )
Via the Pop Candy blog: look at this cooooooll map of songs being played on the radio right now in the US oooh the words pop up.

Finally, since I have no classes, I decided to finally read more of a book about haiku that I keep on borrowing but never read more than a chapter of. I was inspired to write two poems. Now, usually I’m paranoid that if I decide to publish my poems someday that posting them here might cause some copyright troubles later. ( But whatever. )

Now I retreat to my 100% cacao chocolate bar.

One commercial used a "Karate Chop" to promote Mandarin Chicken Salad. So sad. Ignorant American ad agencies.

( Saw Batman Begins finally. )

Taping the fashion show last week was exhausting yet fun. Heard while passing by models on the way to the bathroom: "I need to take off my eyebrows." When I walked into the bathroom, this male model gave a surprised look at me and said, "I guess this is the girl's bathroom." But the other girls were okay with it- they were doing his makeup by the sink and chatting and all.

Saw Chinatown in Video Class. Good stuff.

Just passed the halfway mark in Battle Royale. I had forgotten how vivid that eyeball-popping scene was.

My new assignments for Youth Today: articles on teenage fans of Japanese music and on movie adaptations of books.

While watching Deutsche Welle, I saw that one of the segments was directed by famed documentary filmaker Werner Herzog. Interesting. Also found out about this stuff:
Takes a long while to load, but has fun food photos by Akiko Ida and Pierre Javalle. Good if you're bored.
Aack, no links for the Bottle Blowing Quintet. Probably because they only perform in Berlin or something. But they sound cool. And they only use tuned beer bottles and one small drum.

Interesting movie links:
for Natalia and anyone else who thinks Michelle Yeoh is cool
a picture of Michelle Yeoh from Sunshine

A movie. Of Perfume. An awesome book. I am in torment.

Great title.

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. It's not what you think.

Finally, some of the poems about irony that I put in my creative writing project. Two are by me. ( Read more... )

Ninja-dash away!

Today, I wrote a song and a poem, wrote letters, played cards and videogames, and breathed.

Not in that order.

Haiku of the Day:

Kiraretaru
Yume wa makoto ka
Nomi no ato

Translation:
Stabbed to death!
Was my dream true?
The marks of a flea.

-Kikaku (as part of a tanka)

SO MUCH STUFF TO DO. CANNOT UPDATE FOR A WHILE.

Anyways, to make up for that, here are a short story and a poem for you all to read and review. Comments would be muchly appreciated. All work belongs to me, D.B. Rodriguez.

teh poem:

( El Dorado )

Thanks to Tina for the title for this short story:

( Blood and Orange Juice )

See y'all later...