J-Music Review: Motteke! Sailor Fuku Re-mix 001

Upon figuring a way, regardless of how dirty of a method it is, to start putting music on my computer again, I decided to revisit music reviewing. Not that I did much of any in the past, but I do have a passion and instinct for most forms of musical expression. If you are so inclined, read my review at Atama Ga Warui: Warui Review: Motteke! Sailor Fuku Re-mix 001. However, if you are not into anime and did not watch Lucky☆Star, then you probably won’t want to bother.

Currently Listening To: Mami Kawada – Shakugan No Shana OP 1 – “Hishoku No Sora”

EtherFuture Designs: Faeritale Twilight

It’s about time I felt like it…

View Faeritale Twilight: here / short description included

View Faeritale Heaven: see my banner

View Faeritale Moon: here

Since the banners were created from Faeritale Twilight, the same description can be applied to them. Comments are welcomed as usual.

Currently Listening To: The Fray – How To Save A Life – “Hundred”

ISKM: Change is good

Usually, change is good. Seems like I’m changing a little bit on the inside and outside every week. With those changes come new things…like blog updates.

• New Banner(s): This is the most obvious update to my blog that happened yesterday. I have my darling Chessi to thank for gently suggesting creating matching banners for my blog and her journal. I’m very happy with how both designs came out, and even moreso pleased that Chessi, the one who chose the image of the couple for her design, was elated by my willingness and creativity. Visit her journal to see how they match. A separate entry will come later.
• Mainichi Kotoba: This is a new Page I have added to my blog instead of writing an entry everyday. This will be updated daily. For more information, please visit the page. Darkly Comdeic, a fellow aspiring writer and personal friend, also adopted my idea using her down-to-earth writing style. EDIT: Her writings are now public.
• Deleted “About storymode” Page: I wrote that over a year ago, and my attitude in general has changed since then. It came off as slightly childish and bullish. So I took pieces of what I wanted and deleted the rest.
• Updated “Profile” Page: The pieces I took from “About storymode” I added, embellished on, and edited into my profile.
• Shortened “Initiation” titles.
• Updated Creative Commons license.
• Removed two neglected blogs from blogroll.

I have a few other things I want to do around here, but I will get to them when I do.

Currently Listening To: Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch – “Ode To Divorce”

Reawakening Lost Writing Habits

In response to my entry before last, I have begun to slowly massage my creative writing ability back to life by executing a simple writing exercise that I started two days ago. What this entails is writing a sentence every day that will continue where the last sentence left off. So far, I have written three sentences, including the one I wrote today.

#1: A goddess with flaming red hair appeared before my eyes. And…
#2: She said, “You have been chosen by me…”
#3: She then offered me a sword, twinkling a brilliant luster, to take by the hilt.
Tomorrow: I could see her crimson blood flowing down the blade’s underside.

I do not think much about these sentences or the characters involved, but as you can see, I am already preempting future events. The first sentence was inspired by my darling Chelsey, and how I perceive her daily. I just went from there. I will say that after the first two sentences, I was already able to form a fairly unique and compelling plot in my mind. I have gone a day without writing it down. So, I really should not rely on my brain too much and get it down today.

This exercise has also nudged me to complete my manga collection of Angel Sanctuary again. Much of my ideas stem from that complex story and the vivid artwork of Kaori Yuki. There are around 20 volumes to the series. I am only up to five. I must complete the story that has shaped much of my soul in order to fill in the blanks of myself. One step at a time…

I miss high school – when I could go to lunch or sit in class and write stupid little impulsive poems and create characters for roleplaying. That really was the zenith of my creative writing. What happened? Simply put, I was forced to grow up. Makes me angry just thinking about how long I have been struggling like this.