December 15, 2008
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Vampires Will Never Hurt You!
So I spent a long, long time last night writing an update which I saved and decided not to post. It’s still saved but it’s not this one. No, this is the right update for right now. The other one isn’t right for right now. It’s kinda a rant and, whilst it’s something I rant about often and will come as no big shock to most of you (no, it’s not the whole “emo VS scene-mo” thing) it just doesn’t feel like the time for a rant. So here’s a decidedly lighter-hearted, fun update full of fun, photos and David Wenham.
So, the past few weekends have been rife with boy-sleepovers, macho movies and junk food. The reason? Sarven. I shouldn’t have to explain any more than this but I s’pose I will. Sarv is here until January 11th. That time is ticking closer with an alarming rapidity so Matt and I have been wanting to make the absolute most of this remaining time. First on our agenda was 300. Matt and I had never seen it and Sarven would stand for this no more. Definitely an ST movie, but a guy’s movie through and through so even Matt and I, in our NFness, revelled in its no-holds barred, balls-to-wall, testosterone-and-blood-fuelled highly quotable melodrama. Couldn’t quite figure out why David Wenham put on such a silly voice, though….? (Glad he did, though. It’s become quite the in-joke.)
We all hung out the following weekend. Dani cooking up some tasty potatoey, cheesey stew and marvelling at how many cooking materials I don’t possess. (Spice-rack? What am I, a Wiccan?) We role-played some followed by another boy’s sleepover at my place. Movie of choice for the next day was The Punisher. More no-nonsense ST action. Sarv’s two favourite none-Star Wars movies down the weekend after, being this weekend just gone, had us seeking to involve Sarv for the first time in Fat Day. Fat Day was a regular for the NUFS Gym Crew but Sarv had never joined in, being the Wolverine (Matt uses the Green Ranger analogy. I prefer Wolverine) of the group. Matt, Dani and I went round to Sarv’s and Shiho’s place in Nisshin and got in 3 large pizza’s (for the price of 2 large and a medium) from our old Fat Day-friend; the Fujigaoka Pizza Hut. (Photo disclaimer: that’s my place below, not Sarv’s.)
Sadly (for the Japan-residing) Matt and Dani aren’t gonna be here for Christmas. They’re gonna be home in Kentucky, flight departing this Saturday. Happily (for the Japan-residing) they will be back on January 3rd which leaves us with a week left to do more stuff. Hope we make as much of that week as we have these past few weekends! The Adult Life is kinda hard to work the cool stuff around but we seem to have done pretty spectacularly lately.
Still, even with the (General) grievous absence of Matthew and Danielle I’m really looking forward to Christmas. It is shaping up to be action-packed, with Calex turning up sometimes next week, I believe (?) and Holly putting in an appearance somewhere along the way. Anyone else? Sarv’s family will be here and we’re all gonna do the festivities together, get plenty of karaoke in, hopefully more Star Wars RPing (with the original cast assembled) and other stuff as-yet just pencilled in. Just this coming weekend Sarv and I will be nomikai-ing with some of the old NUFS karate club. Remove the often mendoukusai jouge-kankei element and karate nomikai were always good fun!
In other news, news I think many of you will have by now, Sarv and Shiho are engaged! Go offer your positive wishes and support, cos only some kinda ass-clown wouldn’t…..!
In other-other news I’ve been reading Twilight at Chris’ urging. I have to admit I was pretty sceptical about how well I would take to a story so heavily focused on teen-romance but… I am kinda getting into it. I’m over half-way through the 1st book and, I gotta admit, I do get tired of hearing just how perfect Edward is and just how obsessed Bella is with him. Keep thinking “talk more about being a Vampire! Do more Vampire-Shit!” But I am finding it pretty engaging and enjoyable.
In other-other-other news I met 3 of the other Ena-ALTs (Abbey, Paul and Chris/Allen) on the train heading to Sarv’s on Saturday. Paul and Abbey were feeling pretty snap-happy with their cameras and Abbey took this pic which she says is my “album cover.” You know I’m only posting it cos I actually….. like it! Dai-shokku!!!
Love. Peace. David Wenham. “And sometimes you close you eyes and see the place where you used to live…”
Comments (14)
David Wenham
Ahh, I was thinking that you had gone shopping with the other ALTs. I see, I see.
By the way, I’m sitting in seiza right now. My feet are going numb, but I can’t be bothered to change positions.
@the_greatest_pip - idiot
@moss_icon - meanie head
Yess Mr. Wenham.
By the way Dave that haircut is effin awesome. Have the Japanese upgraded you?
Also I would like to make a note that my Joker avatar never goes out of style. It just seems to make my comments that much more awesome….cause he is clapping…hehe…get it? Like.. because I said your hair was awesome and in a weird way HE IS CLAPPING BECAUSE YOUR HAIR IS A TRIUMPH!
Whoa, that was a random rant.
@theender1 - thanks, Mike. yah, I came to a grievous realisation after seeing many of the NUFS photos of me; getting out the shower and letting my hair dry naturally did not make it look tussled and cool. It made it look a stupid fucking mess!!! So, as much hassle as it is, I now go all-out with the girly hair maintainence. Yeah, I`m liking my regulation-emo do. Actually I feel like I own this style cos a friend and I designed this exact `do for a character in our manga years before it came into emo-usage! Just wish, like so many other things, I`d done it sooner!
Three LARGE pizzas?! THREE large pizzas?! What are you, a member of the royal family? And yet, I imagine it was well-worth the investment.
@theender1 - You’re right mike - never out of style! All I need now is an image of me clapping that I could use on xanga…
@hlcampbell - I laughed so hard at that royal family comment becuase it is so true! Like Matt said, you’ve been in Japan too long when pizza hut becomes a delicacy! I have promised to be treating whomever visits me in Adelaide for innumerable pizzas as they are less than 500Yen each… large size…
And Dave missed out that it was a (General) grievous realisation…
That is a cool album cover – now you need a band name. Also, as this only features you, is this the one after you split from our group to form a solo act that is vastly more successful than our original band?
Gods! Watching my two favourite non-star wars movies of all time has made me complete, Gods!
Gods!
PANDAS! YAR!!
If everything goes according to my desires, I<ll be on Honshu on the 23rd, sometime in the afternoon. I<m planning on hitchiking my way south on a boat. I<ll probably have to get the train from tokyo or the kyoto region.
See you soon!
We already have a band name! It’s ‘Dead Man’s Clique’. It’s one of those cunning double entendres, ho ho ho! Ah, how droll.
I can’t agree with all of the above though Dave… I still let my hair dry into a frizzy fluffy mess and I’m proud of it! I’ll never turn to the Dark Side of hair! I have Basic Hair, like my father before me!
(I bet you know all about conditioner)
@invisiblebalex - Yes, conditioner and I are intimate friends
@sarven - yeah, Dead Man’s Clique was the band Balex and I formed in our heads at NUFS. It had Matt on rhythm guitar, me and Balex on dueling guitars (cos 3 guitar set-ups are cool) you on drums and Kellie on bass, with guest spots from others at times. Matt and I would form the vocal dichotomy of soft/harsh vocals in an overlapping Taking Back Sunday fashion. However it was Matt who would eventually leave to pursue a singles career (some kinda acoustic rock, I imagine) leaving the rest of us to go more hardcore, eventually succumb to drug abuse, fall apart, then I die in some excessive rock-star fashion. Balex forms another band (ala: Dave Groll and the Foo Fighters) and you maybe write a book about it all!
@moss_icon - I like it! Lets do it (aside from substance abuse). Now all I need to do is learn how to play drums…