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Friday, August 25th, 2006
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3:42p - Ripples on the River of Time
There was a spider the size of my wrist waiting for me in the shower (in my room) yesterday afternoon. I undertook an escape mission to get him out of my room alive, and succeeded, although another small spider kept trying to crawl into the showerwater during my shower, requiring some constructive use of the shower curtain to keep him away. We have spiders aplenty down here! Still, I felt much better after my shower, and it's amazing what freshly-washed hair can do to one's self-esteem.
Washing up to the Loituma song can almost be fun, especially if you can co-ordinate your cleaning! Rather more aggravating is taking apart an old PS2, when you're unable to get the screws loose, and when the whole process may not work anyhow. We went to get some screwdrivers and other cleaning tools yesterday, but were perplexed by the local hardware store, and ended up getting a jewelry screwdriver kit featuring a screwdriver slightly too big for the PS2 screws, and one slightly too small. It also looked as if it was going to rain, and on the way back, we came across a recently-discarded pram in the undergrowth that was playing 'My Favourite Things' from 'The Sound of Music' over and over again to the weeds and bees of the verge. It was creepy, yes, but also very tragic, and I found something very distressing about the whole scene...*sigh*
The Fullmetal Alchemist OVAs have been entertaining us in the meantime, although we're still to see the Kids one, which I know will have the greatest impact on me, if I link it to the closing song of the movie, 'Lost Heaven' by L'Arc~en~ciel. L'Arc are a band I've come to gradually love. I first knew of them after I embraced the G.T.O 1st opening theme, 'Driver's High', and somehow found a copy of 'Neo Universe'. Someone at NAMSoc kindly gave me a CD containing all of their greatest hits, but it vanished after one play, never to be seen again. Since then, I've enjoyed any of their songs I've come across, with 'Ready Steady Go' being an obvious example. I bought one of their CDs, 'ark', at Amecon, which was being sold for only £6, and I love it. Not only because I now legitimately own Driver's High, but because of the 'dream music' feel to much of the album, which we nearly always use as accompaniment for our evening meals.
'Lost Heaven' is a typically melodic L'arc song from their most recent album, and it sums up feelings generated from the Fullmetal ethos either side of the movie. This may thus be slightly spoilery, but it's not going to deal in specifics.
( Heaven is lost...Hell is lost...All is lost, in the end. Change is constant. )
current mood:  contemplative
current music: L'Arc~en~ciel - Lost heaven (13 comments |comment on this)
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