"The houses are haunted by white night-gowns."

[ghostdrive]

Meme snagged from several people.

1. My username is ______ because ______.

ghostdrive because I misspelled a Ghost in the Shell term, 'ghostdive", in a a rename poll I made last January (lol) and then decided I liked the misspelling better (hell, its certainly better than my old username). I have a crazy attachment to GITS, even though my understanding of the philosophy of the series as a whole waffles between kinda understanding and complete puzzlement (e.g. the Laughing Man, Puppetmaster, the evolution of the Tachikomas. Once I think I'm starting to understand, something pops up to derail my train of thought).

2. My name is _____ because ______.

Ghostdrive because it is a convenient choice until I decide on something better. XD Previously it has been Semper Fidelis Tyrannosaurus! and Catches tigers in red weather. I tend to rotate between these three names every few weeks or so.

3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.

Catches tigers in red weather is from a pretty abstract, almost nonsensical poem, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock, by Wallace Stevens. I should probably note that I am not a fan of poetry. At all! So I'm kinda surprised this one stuck out to me when I was bored out of my mind in a composition class that I later dropped. This journal is full of pretty random stuff so I suppose it fits.

4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.

Van Buren is no friend of mine. It...doesn't make sense, I know, unless you, too, like to read crazy webcomics about dead presidents and other historical figures.

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.



Natsuo and Ritsuka taking a tea break, for no other reason than it is bright and colorful and sorta matches my layout.

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Also, am I the only one irritated by the quarterback from the Teikoku Alexanders? No offense to Karin, but my first thought was something akin to, "WTF. Is this where ES21 goes down the crapper?! Please don't crash and burn like Tenipuri. PLEASE." This is a plot twist that I'm not liking so far.

Comments

[hearts-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

nice are you a Shirow Masamune fan too. cause the original ghost in the shell movie was the very first anime i've ever seen, and i was hooked since then.

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

I am a Shirow Masamune fan. :) I've been fond of him ever since I saw Dominion Tank Police and Appleseed back in the early/mid nineties on the Sci-Fi channel (they might have been edited, but they were still pretty awesome). I think I might even have VHS tapes of those two OVAs hidden somewhere in my closet.

And I love, lo~ve Ghost in the Shell. I'm crazy about the films, the animated series, and the manga. ♥

[hearts-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

sweat i've got his intron depot art book collection 1-4, plus movies, and manga, lol. hows your anime collection, cause all my friends say i've got the diggest and best collection they've ever seen. much of the old school anime too, like ninja scroll, ghost in the shell, street fighter, berserk, gundam wing, armatage the 3rd, x, macross plus, neon genesis evangelion, vampire hunter d bloodlust, howl's moving castle, princess mononoki, spirited away. man i cant even remember all of them right now, those were the only that come to mind right now lol. you have a ps2 right so would you happen to have played disgaea, or steam bot chronicles? both really great games.

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

Your comment has reminded me that I never got around to buying the Intron Depot books! One of these days, one of these days. Hmm...I wonder if the Sasuga Books booth at A-Kon would have them. I kinda doubt it, but I'll be checking anyway.

Haha, my friends say the exact same thing about my anime collection (and my manga, too). XD Maybe I'll make up a list when I'm not being lazy of what I have and we can compare our collections.

I do have Disgaea, but not Steambot Chronicles. Though, I have been on the look out for it whenever I go to Gamestop (or whatever) since it seems pretty interesting.