One of my goals this year is to read 25 books. Which isn't a whole lot, but probably more than I would read otherwise (I may be over optimistic). The list is likely to change, but so I remember...

The Book List

1. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
2. First Meetings by Orson Scott Card
3. Fear of Small Numbers by Arjun Appadurai
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
6. Pieces of You by Tablo
7. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (tablo, it sounds awesome~)
8. In the Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser
9. Blindness by Jose Saramago
10. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
11. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
12. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
13. Tekkonkinkreet by Matsumoto Taiyo (manga)
14. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
15. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
    
16. Rain Fall by Barry Eisler
17. What is the What by Dave Eggers
18. The Martian Child by David Gerrold
19. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
20. The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
21. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
22. Animal Farm by George Orwell
23. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
24. Other Colors by Orhan Pamuk
25. Forbidden Colors by Mishima Yukio (or maybe Confessions of a Mask)

current
finished
I think I'm a pretty ADHD reader. T-T
There is a lot of japanese, gothic, and sci-fi on there because they tend to be my favorite (ok, I suck and stick to what I like a lot). Especially Orson Scott Card; The Ender's Game/Shadow series are my favorites.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd like to hear them (:

 

 

 

This is going to be a pretty shallow/girly post.

Since I haven't done it in a while...

• sweets! (esp. macaroons and cupcakes)
• Tsumori Chisato for Shu Uemura (planet ribbon palette!)
• new VS Arashi game: Giant Crash!
• old-looking new tshirts
• tea!
• yellow nail polish

I didn't drink tea for two days (I drink way too much tea everyday) and I was tired pretty much the whole time. Last night I had a cup and it was so nice~
My roommate and I went on a sort of sweets-spree and bought cupcakes from a new shop. And cream puffs from Beard Papa. Then I bought a little box of macaroons to take home for Thanksgiving. Cavities~ (rofl reading this sounds disgusting)



I also picked up Tsumori Chisato for Shu Uemura's planet cat palette! What kind of makeup do you guys like?



I don't really do a lot of color makeup (ever), so I thought maybe I'd try? It's the first time I've bought a nice brand palette of anything (I'm still not sure how I feel about spending a lot of money on makeup though. It's nice, but on the other hand it's just makeup..). Usually I just buy nice foundation. Hopefully I'll be using this a lot..

Annnndddd...
I think I'm going to get a short/boyish haircut soon. Pulling it off scares me but I've always wanted to do it. Actually doing it though... it never really appealed to me that much until right now. It's something I want to do at least once in my life, so I might as well do it while it's still fairly short. No big loss right? Except I hate waiting for it to grow out (I can't even stand waiting for bob haircuts to grow out...)
Here's the idea:



(model is Tao Okamoto)
Hopefully if/when I do it it won't come out too little asian boy bowlcut-y, though I don't expect to look like Tao at all either. Either way.. I'm still excited!

and since I've gone off on shallow stuff already...
I think these leggings are adorable! Except now I connect striped leggings with Arashi in my head -_-;;
(and no... Nino wasn't even wearing cool kicks.)



uhhh.. yeah. But the leggings are still on my 'want' list.

mmm... and I'm still on an Arashi kick. I finally put Dream 'A' Live on my itunes and listened to a few. 'Once Again' is my favorite (cowboy!?), but surprisingly I liked 'Life Goes On' too. I wish it had more keyboard. I'd like to hear it with a more house sound. I'd die laughing and play it forever.

I LIKE TO FORK MYSELF

:(

So I just watched Hana Yori Dango Final (I know, I'm way late) followed by I Come with the Rain (I do not recommend this combination pretty much ever). I went from cheesy happy ridiculous 'hyakunen saki mo~' to what-the-hell-I-sort-of-feel-sick.

(this is really just a lot about movies so feel free to not read anything)




Ok, I was doing another one of my lists but I accidentally deleted it twice so basically.. I'm still a Nino fan, I'm super into Arias' work (which isn't too far off from being a Nino fan), I have a lot of things I want to watch in the next few days (Thirst, Juryoku Pierrot, Tensei Kunpu...), and I'm excited about Utada at the Fillmore in January!!

And my sleeping is fucked, but I'm sort of beyond giving a shit.


note: I need to stop gushing about the same things over and over because I don't want to be the asshole that ruins things for people because I won't shut up! And I feel pretentious when I start talking about movies too much. Sorry guys.

(Sorry this is just nerding out on Tekkonkinkreet..)

These make me so happy! ♥♥♥

     
     

Scans from here. Go look at the rest~

fun fact: apparently the person who styled this shoot, Daisuke Iga, also styles Tokyo Jihen, Shiina Ringo, and Ryo Kase.. aka some of the other people I love. ♥

Besides that... I started to watch Juri Ueno to Itsutsu no Kaban (because I love her too) and the second episode is directed by Michael Arias!! I can't wait to see it. (:

I'm not going to be over this song ever.

I'm still here (anyone else?).
Academy of Science/Disneyland photos soon?
It's been busy in every way except the useful kind.
I'll leave you with some dessert.

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