at summer's end...

damn. i need to do shit...and do it NOW!
~zeeta
p.s. i found out i dont like teen vogue. its too...teeny... (i would like some tune and rolling stone plz...but more tune)

so last thursday i went to the library for the first time in about a year (i dont count the student center at my school as a library). when i only intended to borrow two books but two quickly turned into five. currently im reading a wizard from earthsea, the first book of the earthsea series by Ursula Le Guin that inspired tales from earthsea. i'm reading the series because of the movie. i borrowed three 3 f. scott fitzgerald books (this side of paradise, the beautiful and the damned, and a collection of short stories) because now i am secretly obsessed with f. scott fitzgerald and the jazz age in general. hell, i even started to LISTEN to jazz... (even though it is modern, japanese jazz...don't ask)

well that i wanted to say. plus the fact i unneccessarily mentioned my tumblr's url again after having mentioned it in a prior entry. oh well.

~zeeta

negligence is a word i'm currently too lazy to spell check

yeah. i've been neglecting this blog because i'm addicted to putting random asian things on my tumblr account. i finally (sorta) finished my summer hwk and am currently working on studying for horrid standardized test (i.e. ACTs and SAT II's). it is not fun.

but what is fun is a wondrous adventure in new york! hooray! y'see, even though i'm a suburbanite who lives 30 minutes from the big apple, i barely go into the city because of a) time b) parents don't like to go. so i'm a fledgling when it comes to navigating the city (hell, i'm not even sure how to take the subway). but today i went with my friend and his twin sister and a bunch of their town/out of our school friends. even i only knew two ppl initially, it was an amazingly fun day and everyone there seemed pretty cool. and i somehow wasted most of my money...most of 120 dollars. don't ask, i'm not even sure myself what the hell happened. along with 'use money more efficiently' i learned
a) the difference between avenues and streets in uptown (avenues go horizontal and streets go vertical)
b) port authority is on 42nd street and 8th ave
c) bryant park is between 40th & 41st street and Avenue of the americas & 6th ave
d) koreatown is only one tiny strip and can be a little shady at times.
also, i found this vintage store that i found online once (cheap jack's). i wanted to go but we had to meet ppl. i kinda died inside. hopefully, i can go back to the city this week (w/ a budget less than 40 bucks) and buy me some vintage clothes with one of my friends...if the clothes are that cheap. then again, it was a 70% off sale. hopefully it'll last. really, i should be praying that it's cheap to begin with.
now off i go to sweet slumber and an attempt to solve my sticky financial non-frugality (ah. someone sure has a way with words...*scoffs* 'non-frugality')
~zeeta
p.s. my tumblr btw is manicazndemonchild.tumblr.com. it basically, as you might have deduced before, morphed into a diary of strange asian (related?) obsessions...and a random max ernst picture.
p.p.s. hopefully i can scan pictures of the issue of tune i got at kinokuniya. because secretly, i wanna dress like an asian guy....

who made me overly emotional?

last night it watched tales from earthsea

the end was beautiful (ah ha ha im getting corny)

now i wanna read the book series

~zeeta

by the way...

...i have a tumblr too now.
http://manicazndemonchild.tumblr.com/



~Zeeta

books are food for the brain

Books I want to read:
This Side of Paridise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
Finish Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Malcolm Gladwell)
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks)
Any Oliver Sacks Book
Any Chuck Palahniuk book (how cliche...i would put an accent thing but i dont feel like it)
Woman of the Dunes (Kobo Abe)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
A Long Day's Journey into Night (Eugene O'neill)
Any lookbook (rather have Japanese or the New Yorker one...)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
the last two are part of the free choice unit of this year...so im rather excited but im not sure which one to pick D:
i might as well do movies too
Movies:
Harry Potter 4,5, and 6 (i have lots of friends who like harry potter...i read all the books but stopped at the third movie...)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (and any other audrey hepburn movie)
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles (hopefully before i'm 16 would be nice? how cliche again...)
Princess Mononoke
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Tales from Earthsea (currently watching)
Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lector seems interesting)
The Godfather (ah ha ha i wanna watch it because of the mafia...)
Yatterman (aha ha ha...i saw it in a plane magazine thing...)

and probably any asian dramas...because i'm sad like that
now ima gonna go and do some hwks so i can somehow convince my mother to allow me to go to "the city" on saturday w/ a couple of friends...
~Zeeta
edit: add a clockwork orange to both lists please! and slaughterhouse five to books (im pretty sure that's what it's called)...i am so uncultured that i wanna be cultured...it's kinda sad...i need to read more books

epiphany time: i've come to hate disney!

so i finally saw ponyo in theaters. and for some reason i kept on getting this weird urge to become disgusted by everything...i kept on saying how i believed that disney 'oversimplified' everything. i would cringe at certain voices (*coffcoff*BONUS JONAS*coffcoff*) and phrases and criticize how 'the shading's gone' and 'they oversimplified that guy'. my friends joked that i had something against disney and the english language in general. ha ha. but i think it's because i find how awkwardly people tend to translate dubs, espeically for children's movies/shows. it's probably because some things have cultural meanings that americans don't understand, so they make it really awkward. i remember hearing a little kid ask 'sosuke? what kind of name is that?' and the fact the first two times they mention his names, it made him sound like a naruto character... well, i was proved wrong that there WASN'T shading in some parts....whoops! but i still think that there ARE some parts where there was extreme oversimplification (is that a word...?). i even downloaded the japanese movie to make sure that there WERE points that were oversimplified. DISNEY CONSPIRACY FOR THE WIN!!!

oh! i just finished reading the whole cardcaptor sakura series (did this blog just go anime crazy? i swear i got over that phase before the beginning of 9th grade...). i havent read a lot of it since 6th grade and i'd started reading it when i was around 8 or 9! oh~ childhood memories! but after re-reading it, i found a lot very (let's call it) 'grownup' undertones... pedophilia, homosexuality and a lot vague sexual innuendos... well i'm okay with the homosexuality and i remembered that there were two possibly gay guys but i realized that someone was basically homosexual as well...but im okay with that. but the series is rampant with pedophilia it's not even funny...but still quite enjoyed it. even though some of the beginning chapters were a little awkwardly juvenile...


why do i want her outfit (left)

well that's it for now. i swear, this ISN'T gonna be an 'otaku' (aka anime-obsessed...did i revert back to japanligh???) blog...it's just that it sorta buys in too my slight japanophilia... (i SWEAR, ill talk about other things...)


~zeeta

hopefully that veoh compass download is worth it...

PONYO'S COMING OUT TOMORROW! hayao miyazaki is actually gonna be IN THEATERS!!! I EFFING LOVE MIYAZAKI'S WORK! i gotta see it!

...well actually i'm gonna watch the original on veoh first. i even download that weird veoh compass thing so i can watch the whole thing instead of the stupid five minute preview. i wanna see the original because usually english dubs suck. especially with disney. some of the voice actors are okay (tina fey, all the old ladies, liam neeson, even matt damon) but...who uses the bonus jonas or miley's little sister? weelll...the mini cryus is actually okay because (even though i think it's a little to loud and whiny) it kinda matches the character (a little girl). but the boy...man. at first i thought he was okay until he says 'ponyo'. argh! i hate it when english dubs say japanese names really awkwardly... im not 100% about him so i'll watch the movie in english first and then judge.

oh ha ha! a trailer just came on. and before i was watching 40 rock (tina fey).

i'll write more tomorrow. hopefully ill finish all my work by tomorrow!

~Zeeta



i want this puppet :D

Hello!

I have another blog but I wanna keep that one private.

So I made a new one!

And yesterday I got spiffy new black glasses!!

did you know i don't need to wear glasses?and like to wear unnecessary ones? and sometimes can't spell?

~Zeeta

P.S. I should be really be finishing oedipus and my chem homework