Random Chaos

In case that makes no sense, here's an explanation.

In Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire there is this gym leader, Wallace. (In Emerald HE WAS THE DAMN CHAMPION). In the remakes they heavily allude that after your victory that he's gonna take over that role for REASONS at some point.

A google search will show you what he started off looking like BUT TO SAVE YOU SOME TIME AND KILL YOUR BRAIN NOW THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH NOW. I MEAN LOOK. THIS IS OFFICIAL. AND IT'S STRIPPERIFFIC. ON A GUY. AND IT IS GLORIOUS. AND MY BRAIN IS GONE.



Fricken frak-hell right?

YEAH.

YES that outfit has AB WINDOWS. HIP WINDOWS. IT IS A PERFECT KUJA OUTFIT WERE HE FEELING CONSERVATIVE ONE DAY.

(you know, except that he's voiced by Morikawa out of game in recent material, and in a delicious piece of hilarity there's this moment in game where he helps you STOP a calamity from the skies DOES THIS SOUND LIKE SOMEONE WE KNOW)

And this is exacerbated by the fact that I have a plot bunny brewing with this other guy here.

This guy right here is Steven Stone. Doesn't he rock HAHAHA SEE WHAT I DID THERE pleasedontkillme


Son of a corporation's president, rock collector who craves that mineral and current champion, not to mention a REALLY FREAKING SHARP DRESSER I MEAN COME ON. Really chill, almost icy, logical, and when that giant disaster strikes proposes this solution that will basically take the meteor and chuck it somewhere else another world out there (who cares what happens to that other world out there FUCK that we need to save US WAIT DOES THIS SOUND A LITTLE FAMILIAR EH-HEH WAIT. Oh look. Voice credit--Ishida.)

It took about an hour to un-scramble the egg that is my brain here. I had a case of what I'll call Tsun-ship here—"IT'S NOT LIKE I SHIP IT OR ANYTHING."

WELP.

((Also, I've taken the opportunity to show a friend that Akira Ishida is, in fact, in EVERYTHING and broken her brain in showing her that MORIKAWA was in Yu-Gi-Oh, so all in all, GOOD DAY aside from my brain being invaded by many many inappropriate thoughts because I MEAN COME ON LOOK.))

This time around, I will gush.

I was introduced to Harold Budd by proxy. I found out that he had a hand in a few of the Cocteau Twins’s songs, and I had to find out who this man was, on account of the fact that I am a HUGE fan of the Cocteau Twins. To my surprise I see that not only has he got his own work out there, there is a lot to choose from.

I begin my exploration with an album co-created by him and Zeitgeist, titled She is a Phantom.

In the middle of the gentle, chamber ambient, there are pieces that have…not lyrics, but verse, recited over the music. The man’s poetry lifts over the music, creating images at once lovely and disturbing—and in the case of “We Step Across,” humorously jarring. I start hunting around, discovering that a small imprint has printed a limited edition collection of his work: 50 hardbacks and 200 trade paperbacks.

I was lucky to score a paperback. It’s one of my treasures now, stored on the shelf carefully shielded from damage.

I did read it first, after washing my hands thoroughly, drying them on linen towels, drying my hands a second time on a different towel, and then very carefully before opening the first page and getting a strong hit of that delicious new-book smell. I read slowly, savoring the text, and the feel of the expensive pages under my fingertips. Then, carefully, I took the text down, saving it to a document I could put on my readers and safely carry everywhere.

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I have no idea if there are any remaining copies to be had. That can always be checked, though.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/07/belarus-leaders-admits-air-invasion-by-teddy-bears/1#.UBSd7Ls1hTI

Seriously—cutest airstrike in the history of ever.

Free speech is something we take for granted in the US. So hearing about something like this gets me to thinking about how we have it here, and about how other nations have it. And specifically this…I’m not sure how they came up with this idea, but if their aim was to get the international community to squee with delight, I consider this a win.

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I spent the last half of my shift running around doing the Kermit happy flail dancen because

 

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Now I need to eat and collapse for an hour while I cool my body down from this LUDICROUS heat.