1) I had a dream that I was helping to support Dianna Agron in her pregnancy with a baby that was not mine. Not her character Quinn, mind you... in my dream it was the actress herself. It was kinda hot too, because at one point we had pregger sex, but then we just kinda cuddled in bed and I told her that I loved her and the baby while caressing her head and shoulders.

2) I have the best desktop wallpaper ever. Want proof?

( Okay, here you go! )

So, this Dell Pocket DJ I have (I'll never forgive you for putting me onto this piece of shit, Hawk) is fucked and useless to me, and I really want a good portable MP3 player for when I open or close at work, and possibly to get my ass motivated to go running or something. These are the features I'm looking for, not necessarily in order of importance:

- sleek design that clips or fits into small pockets easily
- clean, intuitive interface that I can navigate with my fat thumbs
- quick and easy connectivity to my PC (ideally, I can just drag files/folders from my hard drive onto the player as with any USB portable memory device)

Thoughts, suggestions?

It's extremely difficult for me to get into Macross Frontier. There's some stuff about it that just doesn't click for me. I hate the character designs, and the music, which should be an integral part of any Macross, is... well, it's Yoko Kanno. While it seems to me that most anime fans think she can do no wrong, I feel like her stuff is often hit-or-miss, and the music for Macross Frontier falls somewhere right in the middle for me. I've listened to the vocal collections and only three or four songs impress me at all, one of them being a cover of "Ai Oboete Imasuka" from Do You Remember Love? Anyway, I'm not necessarily done with it, but jeez, it's really tough to force myself to watch it.

On the other hand I have a pretty easy time watching this new shoujo series from Production I.G. called Kimi ni Todoke. It's basically about this girl who was given the nickname "Sadako" because she looks like the girl from the horror movie Ringu, and how she starts to make friends because this popular guy in school treats her normally even though everyone else thinks she's creepy. It comes standard with romance and other typical shoujo subplots, but the art is gorgeous and fairly refreshing. Time will tell if it can rise to the level of Hana Yori Dango, His & Her Circumstances, or Nodame Cantabile...

I really need to finish RIDEBACK as well. I kinda floundered at the fifth episode or so a while ago and it's not like there's very much more...

...but rational enough to know it and catch myself being high or low and say, "Hey, Mike, you're feelin' kinda high (or low, whichever you prefer for this example) right now. Just sayin'!" For instance, this morning at a very early hour I made a very long post about a very sensitive subject that I feel is very honest and sincere, but I didn't post it publicly because I hesitate to let anyone see what goes through my mind when I'm almost assuredly feeling low because it's quite dark and worrisome. (That was a lot of "very"!) I think some of you could relate and might even have valuable thoughts to share on the matter, but I'm not entirely sure it wouldn't push some of you away.

Anyway, I don't want or like people worrying about me, but I think sometimes it's entirely natural, and in those cases I appreciate it as a gesture of concern. I also think that sometimes the reasons I do cause people to worry about me are honest and I'm not sure that I should actually feel compelled to withhold my thoughts just for the sake of those other people.

Maybe I should set up a very personal filter for friends who actually ask to read the things that make it here for whatever reasons inspire or enable me to post such thoughts? I can't promise anything except that such filtered posts would be brutally honest looks into who I am at times.

Weezer - The 8-bit Album

Thank me later. = )

I wish more bands did that with covers of their songs. One such cover trade I'd really like to see is Paramore performing Taylor Swift's "Fearless", and Taylor performing Paramore's "Brick by Boring Brick". I think the themes of both songs are just a little outside what is typical for either one of them, but close enough that they could pull them off and it would be interesting to hear. "Fearless" is pretty energetic, and it'd be neat to see what the guys in Paramore do with it while Hayley tackles Taylor's more traditionally feminine lyrics. And "Brick by Boring Brick" is something of a foil to Taylor's sometimes fairytale lyrics.

Here's to wishful thinking!

I really like the new Paramore album that came out at the end of September, Brand New Eyes. You've likely heard the track "Decode" because it was on the Twilight soundtrack, but that's probably the weakest on the album, in my opinion. While the music is still very much like that on Riot!, Hayley Williams' vocal range is a bit more impressive this time around. She's always had a great voice, but this time she uses it a bit better, and that means occasionally toning it down for more mellow moments. Anyway, really good listen, so if you like them and haven't heard it yet, get to it!

Edit: I lied. "Decode" isn't on it. I guess the person who ripped them just put it in the zip. = P

Someone should make an AMV using footage from Utena and the song "Brick by Boring Brick" by Paramore.

I kinda want to tell you guys what it is, but I kinda want to wait and just let you see it. Here's hoping I can actually get what I need for it, though...

Fuck you for being precisely what I want in concept, but having the shittiest character designs of any Macross series ever. Way to pro it up! = (