Catches tigers in red weather.

It's currently turning into air conditioner weather here in Texas, which is a big pain in the ass since our a/c works for shit. My laptop is overheating and the fan is whirring like crazy as I type this. Awesome. :\

Hopefully we can get it replaced before I really start dying from the heat.

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Songs that ghostdrive Can't Stop Listening To This Past Week No Matter How Hard She's Tried, a playlist

→ Rising - Yoshida Brothers
→ Dew - Iliaria Graziano (Ghost in the Shell: STAND ALONE COMPLEX)
→ Shiki no Uta - MINMI (Samurai Champloo)
→ I Do - Iliaria Graziano (Ghost in the Shell: STAND ALONE COMPLEX)
→ Sorry Sorry - Super Junior
→ Tell Me Your Wish (Genie) - SNSD
→ Diva - After School
→ Hallelujah - Big Bang
→ Emerald Tiger (live) - Vanessa Mae
→ Bang! - After School
→ Malioumba -- Alegria (Cirque du Soleil)

AHHHH GET OUT OF MY HEAD--oh wait, don't, I love you too much. /crazy

All song links lead to their respective MVs on youtube (or lack of MVs in the case of the anime tracks), with the exception of Malioumba which leads to the Flying Man performance the song backs.

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Links.

× Tokyo Beat Down: The Story of Yakuza is about the series' journey stateside and why its been tough finding an audience for the franchise. I personally love Yakuza so this was an interesting read.

× Loco Roco themed nursery is amazing.

× Ever wonder how Street Fighter characters looked as zombies? Yeah, me neither, but here's how they'd look if they were. So random.

× If you ordered/bought Shin Megami Tense: Strange Journey and are having issues with the soundtrack Atlus is offering to replace it for free. This is just another reason why I love Atlus.

× My current favorite post on Epic Win FTW: Plastic Utensil Dragon. So awesome.

× From aiyatheydidnt: Pee panorama: Hong Kong's best and worst toilets. I'm, uh, a weirdo who enjoys reading this sort of thing? Man, I don't even know. Anyway, the title cracks me up.

× Various things found on/from Kotaku:

→ 25 awesome cosplay pics.
→ Pikachu school bus in Japan is too cute.
→ Vintage video game catalogs bring the nostalgia.
→ Super Mario Bros. diorama where Marshmellow Peeps fill the role of Mario/Luigi and the enemies.

And now I return to being lazy. Happy Easter, everyone!

My poor, poor brother. He has to listen to my insane, often incredibly incoherent ramblings whenever I get excited over something.

ME: So I'm playing Yakuza, right, and my friend Yuya from the host club invites me to go watch his stripper girlfriend dance or something. So we go and Yuya's all, "She's great isn't she!" And I'm all, "You just invited me to see your stripper girlfriend..." It was really weird. And then another "female" [makes air quotes] stripper comes onstage and its a guy! He was kinda dressed up like Carmen Sandiego with a red trenchcoat and hat and a gun -- oh, but Carmen Sandiego didn't have a gun, right. Anyway, the guy starts shooting me. Turns out he's a hitman! The yakuza had sent him after me. So I give him the beat down and then I turn around to find out host club dude and his stripper girlfriend have been kidnapped. Man, how annoying. So I save them and they're all grateful and stuff, and then the girlfriend gives me this pass that says "Come anytime to see me for some fun, Miyu". Host club dude was so pissed! I think he was more upset about her disrespecting me, since, you know, I rescued them and all, than he was with her hitting on me.

ME: [pauses to catch breath]

ME: And then I got conned into buying drinks for some girl who was being hassled by a drunk. She took 20,000 yen from me!

BRO: . . .

ME: You can't get that from Shenmue!

FYI: I jokingly refer to Yakuza as a poor man's Shenmue, mostly because everyone seems to love Shenmue and not Yakuza even though they're kinda similar.

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( meme snagged from sarshin )