today's a special day

It's the 4th of July! There's reason to celebrate! We all know why that is...


It's Akanashi Jin's birthday of course! 25 today.

Let's not for get its Gackt's birthday too! ??? today. Even wikipedia doesn't know how old Gackt is, maybe Gackt doesn't know how old Gackt is, maybe Gackt isn't really of this planet and aging is a pointless and alien concept to him.

This week the Arashi fandom is buzzing from Gackt's unexpected guest appearance on "Vs Arashi", Gackt and games?? I never saw it coming. Even Arashi seem surprised that Gackt is their guest, even Gackt is surprised and yet he was pretty good too. I never thought i'd see someone attempt "jumping shooter" in jeans and pointed boots. Gackt keeps on surprising us, ne?


GACKT GACKT GACKT, it's fun to say right?

* for those of you unfamiliar with Gackt, look him up! but if I must explain, and to keep it super short he's a mysterious slightly creepy epic visual kei slightly gothic pointy singer songwriter musician composer actor etc whose music gets used in video games a lot, and he seems pretty intense, and pointy, and say's weird things sometimes and gives off an icy vibe and then suddenly surprises everyone by turning up on a variety show and playing silly games with Arashi, and his house is weird and amazing. A lot of people think he's amazing, he's not my cup of tea but I appreciate his pointy ways.

i'm ready for the rain.

I heard the most beautiful thunder. It's gone already.
I really don't like summer.

I'm ready for 4 am, i'm going to leave the window open.

Listening to the rain from inside is one of my favourite things.
Brushing my teeth when i'm in the shower is another of my favourite things.
We haven't got a shower.

I didn't get much done today.

some highlights of conversations I had today:

customer: "i'm not sure what I want, what's good?"

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me: "been listening to arashi for 5 hours now"

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contractor: "so is it white inside?"
me: "no it's cream, or magnolia if thats what they call it?"
contractor: "so white then, brilliant white"
me: "no its not brilliant white, its off white, like cream.."
contractor: "brilliant white"
me: "its definitely not white, but its inside a cupboard so i guess it doesn't need to match.."
contractor: "is it white?"
me: "yes its brilliant white"

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loulou: "my eyeballs are back to normal now"

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new acquaintance 1: "definitely having a pint after this, right?"
me: *silence*

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ben: "ended up just getting a coffin"

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me: "the salad should be 2 for £3"
waitrose lady: "let me see, this is tender babyleaf salad and this is crispy..."
me: "does it have to be the exact same salad?"
waitrose lady: "no but this one doesn't have a sticker, it needs a sticker."
me: *quiet sigh*

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Also bumped into Will on the street and discussed Tom Jane and my salad anecdote. I talk too much.

Sally Hancox is Amazing

seville orange print 1, originally uploaded by sillyhancox.

My pal Sally is amazing for many reasons but one is this - she just finished a beautiful new screen print seville orange which can be yours (in a choice of 3 colour options) for only £50, super limited edition! get in touch through her flickr (click the picture) or at her website :

W . W . W . S A L L Y H A N C O X . C O . U K



Those are some of my favourites /\ /\ /\

She also has mad baking skills:

piano cake, originally uploaded by sillyhancox.

Other reason's Sally is amazing include Sally dancing, Sally cooking, Sally colour based outfits, love of bunnies (not just me), eurovision appreciation, adorable inability to recognise celebrities and her stopping by my house today for about 10 minutes just to see me and talk about boys. I love Sally!

letter to sakurai

Dearest Sakurai san,

There's something we need to talk about. I watched the Himitsu no Arashi-chan special extra section and the preview for the next episode and let out a pained yelp as you appeared, and not in a good way, to cut straight to the point,
WHAT THE HECK HAVE YOU DONE TO YOUR HAIR?


I realise you are finally free of the role of MC Kamiyama and the super set windswept mane (which was totally hot) and you probably wanted and change and maybe you got a bit over excited, it is summer after all, and said "you take it shorter than usual" or something, maybe you don't even get to make those kind of decisions and just sit in a chair and read your 5 newspapers whilst some snazzy tokyo hair squad run riot on you, well whoever is responsible - why so short around the ears? and that thin fringe?? why? why? it's a weird haircut! I told myself it wasn't so bad, that video was fuzzy, its probably fine I thought, my boyfriend even chimed in and said he thought it looked "pretty cool", I had hope, and then I watched your performance on Utaban :


Sho-chan, that's eerily close to how my mom's hair looks sometimes when she's just come back from the hairdressers (please note - when i described it as a a "weird haircut" before, it is totally not a weird haircut on my mum, but in fact a super cute beautiful haircut which frames her pretty face and gives her a certain level of pixie charm, whereas on a 27 year old man, even a Johnny's man, it is not a good look).

I was so distressed by your hair that it took me almost 2 minutes into the clip to notice you had your perfect arms out on display, 2 MINUTES of hair terror overriding arm admiration. This is no good Sho-chan. Until it grows out i'm going to have to keep playing "who's the cutest member of arashi today?" (a game which you would previously win by default everytime) and its not my problem if you're going to get jealous about it.

Utaban "everything" performance winner (and I have to say that everyone didn't look so great in this one) = Aiba-kun (amazingly despite the comedy two tone shorts and sports sneakers)


You see hair can save a bad outfit but if the hair is bad... well we don't even need to talk about this anymore, I think you're seen the error of your ways.

(still) yours forever,

Bunny Bissoux

xxx

mildy jealous of vanessa ann hudgens ...

no no no its not about Z'efron for once!

My boy pointed me in the direction of this RVCA vest that for some unknown reason (not entirely unknown, i guess erin wasson is a fan) features my all time hero Mr John Waters, better yet, young hot renegade doped up John:


So i'm not really into buying clothes these days, not $53 vests anyway, and i'd rather it was just the original picture and not some artistically rendered version,, plus its always hard when a fashion label (even an "art" art / culture / skate / all that jazz label) appropriates the image of something amazing, like i'm torn between "I have to have it" and "I don't want it". Do I want a vest with John Waters face on it? obviously. But isn't it a bit like when they sell Ramones t-shirts in topshop? is it? i'm not sure. surely I dont expect only qualified john waters fan's worthy of owning this should be allowed to buy it (or do i ...) but I don't like the thought of a bunch of goons wearing it and not understanding the concept of Shock Value or even knowing who the weird looking guy is...

Obviously vanessa ann hudgens is not in my category of goons, i'm SURE she's a massive JW fan:



The idea of her and zac quoting lines from pink flamingos to each other just made me make a little happy snorting noise out loud, kind of half way to a LOL at my own joke.

I just thought about it a little more and zac was in Hairspray (the film version of the stage version of the amazing original john waters film) so there is a connection there, maybe I should give Vanessa her dues, maybe they do sit around quoting lines all day "i'm a thief and a shitkicker and i'd like to be famous",, maybe sometimes they are getting ready to go out (kids choice awards, high school musical 3: senior year premiere, top secret hollywood party etc) and Vanessa picks out some shoes for zac to wear and then zac screams "what are these?? I told you cha cha heels, black ones!!" and then 'nessa says "nice girls don't wear cha cha heels!!" and they both fall about laughing. Maybe they're licking all the furniture in their house right now.

drawing from today 002

not sure why I was drawing this but it made me think about Big Top Pee Wee and also that bit in Watchmen where Doctor Manhattan is having a flashback to him and Janey Slater at the fair and we get to see dreamy Billy Crudup looking like himself (as opposed to nude and blue..) for a brief few minutes, it was fun whilst it lasted but somehow it was also at this exact moment that I realised Crudup didn't look so tall, in fact rather short, and thus pushing him further to the edge of crushworthy status (his surname has always been a disadvantage, who wants to be mrs Crudup?), in fact he's pretty much off the radar unless he has to grow a moustache again, then i'll have to reconsider...

Loulou I Love YOU!

Let's begin with a brief (not proper) japanese lesson. RABU RABU ... help me out here urban dictionary:

rabu rabu - the horrible japanese pronounciation of "love" except with super heavy accents on "la" and "vu", thus making it RA-BU. It is a horribly ridiculous and embarrassing term couples use when they're mushy and uberly happy. The word is often used twice consecutively for an extra emphasis.
"God, they're so frickin rabu rabu."
"How are you guys doing lately?" "Us, oh we're super rabu rabu!"

Bunny and LouLou are totally raburabu.


I am in love with my friend, not in a samantha ronsen lindsay lohan way, not in a katy perry cherry chapstick way but head over heels non the less. Sometimes I just sit and daydream about seeing her.


witness the love in action*:


I'm finding it really hard to hold back and not right a gushing 3000 word essay about this but I think that might freak people out and I don't want to make my boyfriend any more jealous. I'll keep this short:

Dearest Owlface,
I think you're amazing. You constantly inspire and amaze me. I honestly don't know how I would manage without you. Thank you for your patient listening, good advice and unfaltering support and encouragement. I finally feel like everything is going to be ok. You know how much I love that picture where you are spookily replicating Teppei Koike in his motivational speech? and I said I was going to put it as the background on my phone? It didn't fit right so I made myself some extra special super happy cosmic motivational wallpaper, now I think about you even more times in a day:



everytime I look at it it makes me happy and blows my mind. I love you. SHARE

BB xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


* (I totally forgot about this and just found the dvd as I was tidying my desk, I got so excited a made another GIF. We need to start practicing for next year.)

"hypocrite, sycophant, parasite"

I may have spoken too soon when on my tirade about the evils or technology and my hatred of a certain tweeting social network.

I didn't want to know what Kim Kardashian had to say about the death of MJ, well forgive me my hypocrisy because I DID want to know what WWE Superstar "sassy" Chris Jericho had to tweet about it, better yet , drunk Chris Jericho, (thanks wrestlezone.com):


Lets look at the second to last text there "if the moon was made of green cheese, would you eat it?", it'd be easy to dismiss this as a Will Ferrel SNL sketch reference here, but I think we can all see what has happened, Chris Jericho has contacted me personally, through the medium of twitter, with this message. He references the moon (clearly relating to the 3D puzzle of the moon i completed and blogged about yesterday) and asks me to imagine the moon is green, perhaps like earth, would I embrace earth? would I embrace technology? Chris Jericho is telling me EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK. EMBRACE TECHNOLOGY.

THE END.

I never get anything done anymore.

I was going to write a quick post just saying "JEFF GOLDBLUM IS ALIVE" (obviously) and I thought i'll just google a nice picture of Jeff... this could have been a mistake already when "young jeff goldblum" is on my official crush list, i'll be done in 5 minutes I thought... oh the fool I am. This isn't going where you think its going, no i didn't spend 2 hours drooling over youthful Goldblum circa The Fly, Vibes and Earth Girls are Easy (although that is sounding like a good idea). I search Jeff Goldblum and I find this intriguing picture:



At first glance it look like he's at the gym with Danny Bonaduche (sorry I mean Bona-DOUCHE), but that's actually bodybuilder, stuntman and retired wrestler Ric Drasin who trained Jeff at some point for something or other. I then began to marvel at the bevy of celebrities Drasin has worked with in his illustrious career, soon I was researching Drasin and found another gallery of photographs,, one in particular caught my eye, well actually this one did first, but then this:

I'm unfamiliar with this film, so further research is needed, Sextette is Mae West's final film which she stared in aged 85. yes EIGHTY FIVE. The musical also stars Timothy Dalton (also on the crush list) and the cast list also includes Ringo Star, Keith Moon and Alice Cooper and lets not forget Ric Drasin is in it! By this point i'm thinking "WHAAAT?" and perhaps my most used inner voice (conversation with myself) catchphrase "how do i not know about this already?". I realise I need to watch this film, but until I obtain a copy I headed over to youtube and have my perception of celluloid insanity utterly shattered.



!!!!! and then I watch Mae West at the Gym (also from Sextette) and my little glitter bedazzled trash loving bad taste tacky trinket adorned heart is beating out of my chest. That clip at the gym gave me an sudden urge to watch Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes performing "Aint there anyone here for love" so I watched that too and oh look it's almost an hour since I googled Jeff Goldblum. *sigh*

This is a fairly common example of what happens to me about 20 times a day. I go often on some wikipedia / youtube / random blog article / google image search tangent, and before I know it , it's time for bed and I haven't done any work AGAIN, but I have learned about the career of Ric Drasin, found another film I need to watch and witnessed the most terrifying Alice Cooper performance i've ever seen in my life:

ROCK MONSTER ALICE COOPER CHANELING THE SPIRIT OF BARRY MANILOW WITH A BAD TAN PERFORMS FOR 85 YEAR OLD MAE WEST >>>>



ps. i've just lost another half an hour writing this link embellished post about my internet philandering.

pps. I do like Mae, but I totally love Jayne Mansfield more and I'm glad she got Mickey Hargitay. I wish Jaynie had lived to make a movie when she was 85, it would have been amazing. And this reminds me that I really have to watch "Corpse Grinders 2" to see 73 year old Liz Renay in action. If it hasn't already happened then i'm going platinum blonde when I hit 75.

the moon, asians, mj's dead.

LOOK MOM! I completed the 3D glow in the dark (it doesn't) puzzle of the moon that we started when you came to stay, all done! my fingers hurt.







QUESTION: How is it possible for asian people to be any cuter?
ANSWER: Matching Doraemon t-shirts:



also please note the guy on the checkout looks about 12, work experience??


Isn't the modern world a strange place, isn't it amazing / crazy / scary / creepy how connected we all are??? I wonder how many millions of people found out Michael Jackson died through facebook status updates? I found out through blackberry messenger whilst in the midst of a text conversation about him... and my friend said turn on the tv, but I don't have tv, i don't need it when I can google news reports and read articles written minutes before i'm reading them, ayo technology... I love the internet. I hate the internet. No I think I just hate twitter. Here's an screengrab from the national post ampersand blog quoting TMZ reporting on the celebrity reponses to MJ's death:



celebrity reaction = John Mayer, Miley Cyrus, MC Hammer, Marlon Wayans, Pete Wentz, Kim Kardashian, Aston Kucher .....

Its 2009 where MJ dies and within the hour I am reading what Lindsay Lohan thinks about this. I don't know why or how this happened.

I don't really know what my point is either, because I love celebrities, I love the national enquirer, maybe I do want to know what MC Hammer thinks about this but I guess I just don't really want a blogroll of celebrity tweeeeting responses on something that everybody feels they have to respond to, gahhhh I also see how MJ dies, its a big deal so everybody is going to talk about it, look even I'm talking about it! but really, Marlon Wayans??? what the fuck am I doing on the internet sometimes. I really don't know what i'm trying to say here except maybe I liked it better when someone famous dies and your sound asleep oblivious and you wake up the next day and come downstairs for your breakfast or whatever and your mum / dad says freddie mercury / princess diana / frank zappa (these are 3 I can recollect vividly) died, and they only know because it was on the radio or TV or something, and you're like "whaaat? that's crazy". hmmmm now im even more confused about what my point is here, wait, OK, I think i've got it:

When I die, I don't want Kim Kardashian to publicly comment on my passing.
Something like that.

also, poor Farah. Its like a Brad Renfro / Heath Ledger thunder stealing moment all over again.

ps. deciding whether to wear my MJ t-shirt to work tomorrow, just for the experience.

pps. I feel obliged (this is the problem you see!). RIP MJ. Bad was the first album I ever bought, on cassette and I think I also got a pencil and ruler set with it. Here's the theory I put to the biggest jacko fan i know, I'm not convinced you're dead, I wouldn't put it past you to fake your death, have further surgery and live a contended secret life masquerading as a frail elderly lady in a Florida retirement village. Here's hopin'

pps. an now apparently jeff goldblum is dead or not? GAHH THE INTERNET!!! I really hope not. i think i should go to bed now before I start inserting emoticons.

drawing from today

KGC - commercial free wrestling

For the first time in history monday night raw was "commercial free"
Really? Really? 'cause it sure looks like JR is reaching for the BBQ sauce to me.





and now i'm wondering if McDonalds paid to have santina crack that vince Mc mahon Donald Trump joke.

Other highlights included me and ben's simultaneous squeal and gasp as CM Punk emerged wearing ... SHORTS, as in "street clothes", with a misfits belt buckle no less. (this is exciting because we constantly discuss and observe the fact that punk rock phil is not allowed to wear his street clothes ever, even if he hasn't got a match, and so is always seen in backstage segments, or giving guest commentary, or trying to threaten an opponent whilst wearing his t-shirt and pants on like some forgetful child forced to do gym class in his pants and vest, actually its worse than that, he's like the kid on non uniform day at school who is still wearing their school uniform. Times are a changing, pretty soon he'll be wearing designer denim and an ed hardy shirt before graduating to slacks and a short sleeve button down shirt, complete with neat ponytail ( a la trips).

Finally, Randy/Trips snuggling:


good show.

tomorrow

In "dream tomorrow" I'd like to spend the day here please:



In "real tomorrow" i'l be spending it here:



Life's not so bad.

happy slammiversary

It was TNA's 7 year SLAMMIVERSARY yesterday.

I didn't watch the whole thing, or even most of it, ... ok so I just watched the x division match "king of the mountain". That's the best bit anyway, it was a good match despite the kind of pointless "king of the mountain rules" which means you have to get a pinfall or submission before you are eligible to get the belt (from famous detroit baseball man who is looking after it for some reason) and then climb a ladder to attach it above the ring (kind of backwards ladder match..) , and if you are pinned you have to go to the penalty box (which kind of looked like a phone box...) for 2 minutes, 5 man match, winner is the first to hang up the belt,, sort of complex but I can cope with all of this but what the heck does it have to do with a mountain? king of the mountain?? what mountain? what does it mean? WHAT? and they were all so well behaved going into the penalty box, it was very orderly. There were some nice fancy moves, lovely suicide sumersault thing from consequences creed, nice flick flacking from lethal and the usual prowess from my favourite boys, Sabin did an amazing jump from ladder to the top of the penalty box then launched himself cross body onto whoever it was outside (and TNA annoyingly didn't show a good angle of this, even on the replay, I wanted side on, pah), Shelley with sliced bread off the ring post (from the outside) onto the apron and then went for another off the penalty box (it could have been a tardis actually), some other stuff happened, the crowd gave a "holy shit" chant and then blah blah blah suicide retained his title, boring ending.

Oh I missed the best bit, midway through Shelley wants to go for the belt but isn't "eligible" yet so sabin lays down for him. This is L O V E people:



I think we can see who wears the trousers in that relationship (as opposed to the jazzy cut off shorts..)

father's day tribute post

hi daddy!! THIS IS YOUR CARD /\ but you got it already, so you know that.

Just 15 minutes left of your special day. Here's a video for you to enjoy, Frank Zappa - Valley Girl Documentary (The Dub Room Special)



I haven't even told you about the Frank Zappa shirt I got in Japan! its a beauty, you're going to like it. I'm sorry that you're not getting a songs about "Stephen" medley of links, but I think you'll cope. HAPPY DAY!

xxxxx

celebrities

Today I was wearing this t-shirt:



A Hare Krishna guy came in to the sweetshop and asked if I minded him asking who was on my t-shirt, I said "Donnie Wahlberg from New Kids on the Block" he looked blank so I said "older brother of Mark Wahlberg, the actor" he said "oh i'm not really up to date on these things" I said "don't worry about it, he was popular in about 1992 so you're not really missing anything" then he shook his collection box and asked for a donation for the soup kitchen from me and much as I really don't like people asking me for something or trying to sell me something personally when i'm at work and behind a counter and don't have the option to not talk to them, he seemed nice enough and the soup kitchen seems like a good cause so I gave him some change, then he said "i'm sure you haven't done yourself up like her on purpose but that Amy Wine..berg, WineBERG is it", I grumbled "winehouse?", "yes winehouse, I heard she's wanting to live in exile in st lucia, its a shame..." (he knew alot about this considering he claimed not to keep up with "the times") and then went on a bit of a educational rant about poor Amy and how we all live in a prison and some of us are in A block and get to type letters for the guv'nor and some are in solitary confinement, but ultimately we're all in a prison... I think it was a metaphor about her being a drug addict and how society should support her and not attack her, but to me it was more just the 5th or 6th time someone has implied or told me that I look like bloody amy flipping winehouse. I was kind of annoyed I gave him my money. I listened to his prison analogy and he gave me some of the usual hare krishna literature and I just smiled blankly and nodded at him until he left. My ipod just happened to have been playing STRYPER "to hell with the devil" at this point, STRYPER being everyone's favourite christian 80s hair metal band standing for Salvation Through Redemption, Yielding Peace, Encouragement, and Righteousness (S T R Y P E R) and this brought on a quick 50 seconds of religious contemplation and introspection before Vital Signs - "The Boys and the Girls are Doing It" (as featured on the Bill & Ted'd Excellent Adventure OST) came on and I snapped out of it.

fucking winehouse.

I feel like I might have already written this here but i'm not sure, In japan the greatest compliment I received (possibly ever) was being told I looked like Hello Kitty (as in cute with a giant bow) but sadly it was undermined minutes later but some insistant winehouse "compliments" from an adorable japanese girl who loved amy and thought I looked like her, and it was really hard to smile sweetly and try and continue our non eng/jap jap/eng awkward conversation whilst I wanted to grab her and shake her violently screaming NO WINEHOUSE! A few days ago my brother informs me that another girl I met over there said she thought I was really cute (again it starts well...) and that I look like Mariah Carey. :(

I'm trying to think who would I rather be? but i'm stumped.

thomas jane again

I drew that at work the other day.

As I just scanned that in I said to myself "i wonder what Thomas Jane is up to these days?", well first off fingers crossed that the Arquette reconciliation rumours are true (they were one of my faves) and then I learn that Tom's got a new HBO comedy series coming soon where he plays a school teacher who uses his large "asset" (meaning penis) to earn some extra money on the side, if you want to watch the trailer then go here, it really doesnt look that amazing but theres a part of my brain that is thinking the exact same thing as this person:


So we'll have to see how my viewing schedule is looking by the time it gets aired because i'm still pretty stacked up with 10 years worth of Arashi viewing, currently 3 j-dramas and about 20 I plan to watch, the end of the last season of LOST, various box sets of the Munsters, Addams Family, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, intention to rewatch all of Pete and Pete seasons 1 and 2 again, another 5 or so TV shows I missed on TV but have since found online, ... and this is not including movies or wrestling time. Thank goodness we don't actually have TV.

Speaking of Thomas Jane, I realised he's a really weird person to crush on, like he's totally in my "why do I find you attractive?" category. Sure it makes sense when he's the Punisher, dark hair, totally buff, and he's the Punisher, so that's hot and maybe the rest of the time, like when he's playing the comedy park ranger with a cute moustache (moustaches are nearly always a plus in my book) in brother in law David Arquette's directoral debut comedy horror film "The Tripper" (also featuring PAUL REUBENS! LUCAS HAAS! Jason Mewes with short hair, that english girl from LOST, Balthazar "leaves his wife and kids for Sienna Miller" Getty and lots of other people) about a Ronald Reagen obsessed serial killer who slashes up a bunch of hippies at a festival in a forest (has anyone else ever seen this film, seriously W.T.F its weird and strangely watchable and terrible at the same time, i'm not making it up, LOOK, I watched it on zone horror...) and i'm just watching thinking oh he's the Punisher, he's hot, and my brain is just confused, maybe more so because of the Patricia Arquette factor. He's in Arrested Development for like 5 minutes as himself, I think he's hot there, he has a beard right? (beards too) but then when I remember that he's in The Sweetest Thing and I saw that (yes, i've watched it, don't judge.) before I saw the Punisher and didn't even know who he was in that other than he was blonde which is not my thing, but I do recall thinking he's kind of cute for a blonde guy maybe?, or did I even think that? or am I just saying that now because I apparently love the Punisher so much??? [By the way I can't tell you how upsetting it was when I learned he wouldn't be in the second Punisher film, so as far as im concerned that film (punisher:warzone or whatever) doesn't even exist, who the hell is Ray Stevenson anyway?!] So I just went on imdb again and noticed I really havent seen that many films with Tom Jane in, maybe I should watch The Mist sometime and figure out whats going on here, I did also realise that The Tripper must have been some what of a reunion as Tom Jane, David Arquette and Paul Reubens had all acted together before in Buffy The Vampire Slayer (yes the 1992 Kirsty Swanson one)- did anyone know Tom Jane was in that?? I had no idea, apparently he was "Zeph", that's the mechanic guy? Pike's boss? I can't picture him and I cant find a clip anywhere (try looking on you tube for Buffy an sifting through SMG pages, even when you put Pike, you get (S)pike...). damnit. Well lets be clear, the reason no one knew Tom Jane was in that movie is because we have all our attention focused on (capital D for...) Dreamy Luke Perry. Lets save Luke Perry for another time or this might never end.

BUNNY BISSOUX OFFICIAL THOMAS JANE SCALE OF HOTNESS.
OK, i'm done!

Speaking of potentially good HBO shows coming soon i'm more excited about this Jason Schwartzman private detective comedy drama my friend Tom pointed out on his blog

Speaking of new TV shows that really should be awesome but sadly look like they might suck here's the trailer for Andrew WK's new kids game show / scrap challenge / break stuff make stuff show on cartoon networks new "reality" channel. I'm getting deja vu here, Henry Rollins - Full Metal Challenge. You know what I mean?

regression

Hi, I'm Bunny and I simultaneously share the interests of an 8 year old boy and a 12 year old girl, I think there's also some teenage interests and hobbies becoming more apparent too. Perhaps I should start referring to these "personas" as my spirit guides in a Derek Acorah like fashion, would that make me seem any less crazy?

Today I had my breakfast whilst watching Arashi no Shukudai-kun (episode 139) and then I made an animated gif...




...

that's all.

thursday roundup

- ben got his dream bike after all (despite being outbid on ebay). The universe changed it mind and we got a second chance offer and an invite round to very nice friendly bike selling man's bike collection. he's a beauty.

- 2 more parcels from japan arrived full of stuff id forgotten all about, it was like suprise presents to myself. awesome. I highly recommend surface mail if you want to prolong the anticipation to a maximum level and totally forget whats in the boxes.

- sushi night (team effort, SUCCESS) at sally's followed by a game of "Taboo" (charades for blind people but with words you can't say), we lost by 3 points but our time was a person down so i'd say it was a draw. Try getting people to say Richard Branson without saying virgin, millionaire, or BEARD.

- I let ben cycle home to enjoy his new stead and I opted to avoid the bus and instead enjoyed a lovely night time walk on our new favourite route home, pretending you live in a different city is fun. night time walks are super fun.

- I just watched some of TNA's spin cycle (with shelley as a guest, hence why I was watching spin cylcle...) and the few minutes of Big Sexy's off screen heckling was more entertaining than the past few months of WWE combined. Also Raven is back (looking reeeeeally creepy, with braids) and in case you were wondering "what is Raven looking forward to about going to Detroit for Slammiversary?" his reply: all his ninjas and hatchet heads of course! I C fucking P in the house. Gotta love a juaggalo....

speaking of insane clowns, meet Marty:

FREEDOM

Its starting to sink in and its feeling pretty good.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NINO !

I still havent't had the time (I think several hours will be needed) to explain to you my latest obsession and introduce (those of you who are unfamiliar) with the world of Johnny's & Associates. Well there's no time for that now, don't you know what day it is? ( or what day it just was in Japan? )

here's an introductory video, please watch:



Yes it's Ninomiya Kazunari's birthday of course! what you forgot to buy a cake?? really you should have planned ahead! To be honest I was hoping for an invitation to the party, no not from Nino, the other party. Maybe next year.

誕生日おめでとう 二宮 和也!!

ps. watch the video again replacing the big guy in the hat with my boyfriend and Nino with Sho Sakurai and you might have an idea of what's going to be happening at my house on Jannary 25th next year, and you might also want to feel a little bit sorry for my boyfriend who has now learnt the names of all 5 members of Arashi.

pps. he may look 12, but Nino turned 26 (yes really) today, so its totally fine to crush on him. Mainly Nino is just an overload of adorable cuteness but sometimes (when you least expect it) he just walks right over the line and steps right into being undeniably hot. I'm pretty sure he's my second favourite but somedays its just too hard to choose. *sigh*


ppps. I'd also like to give a quick hello (hi Yuki!) to the only other Nino fan I know, my brother's girlfriend, maybe he came empathise with the man in the video too...
Yuki-chan - Nino-kun wa mecha kawaii des ne?!

sometimes

sometimes i've been at home all day and then i have to go out, to get food shopping or whatever and put my shoes on and a jacket and then I look down and i think "maybe this is a bit weird looking" but then I just think, fuck it and walk round tescos looking a little bit crazy and getting so engrossed in j-pop that the lady behind me had to tap me on the shoulder to tell me it was my turn at the self checkout. Also I had a near miss when the pom poms on my socks got tangled together just as I was leaving, luckily i realised before I stepped and managed to disguise the embarrassing incident with some fake shoe adjustment. I reckon one person noticed.



also, yes thats a 3D jigsaw of the moon.

wrestle section.

we watched raw yesterday and it was slightly better than I had expected. but donald trump? meh.

also trips & randy, again? AGAIN? zzzzzzzzzz

in a more exciting moment:

MATT HARDY OBSCURES JOSH MATTHEWS AND APPEARS TO HAVE A TINY ARM



funtimes.

TAKE ME BACK TO JAPAN!

TOP 10 THINGS IN JAPAN I AM MISSING TODAY:

(in no particular order)



1 - Vegetable burger from Freshness Burger. Tofu, Avocado, no fear of hidden meat. They decided to release this amazing new vegetarian delight especially for me just in time for the duration of my holiday. It was so good, I think I had 5 or 6 during my 3 weeks there. mmmmm.



2 - Gacha Gacha vending machines and any kind of vending machines containing everything you could ever need conveniently situated everywhere you could ever want them. These should be really EVERYWHERE in every country by law, i'd like to suggest the streets of Brighton & Hove would be a good place to start, if we could get those set up by tonight thanks, and preferably ones containing lemon calpis.



3 - Rilakuma. And large displays of Rilakuma goods. Why didn't I buy the Rilakuma floormat? why? and why did I have to nearly miss my plane and get zero airport shopping time and no chance to buy a final large plush Rilakuma? Oh well I can make do with my Korilakkuma tracksuit, plush toy and assorted Rilakuma stationary goods for now, I suppose.



4 - Blythe and the opportunity of Blythe purchasing. New Blythes, secondhand blythes, making a pilgrimage to Junie Moon, finding Blythe bargains I never knew could exist. Looking at all the Blythes I can't afford, seeing Velvet Minuet inches away from me.



5 - Walking around Shinjuku (or anywhere) at night and looking at neon lights.

6 - Walking around anywhere at anytime. EXPLORING.



7 - Purikura booths. Even on my own and especially when consecutively 5 days in a row.



8 - Johnny's. Johnny's merchandise shops, Johnny's advertisements, Johnny's on Tv, general appreciation of cute Japanese pop idols. If only I had realised my interest would become an obsession I could have stocked up. Next time I will be prepared.



9 - My brother. He's totally awesome.

10 - ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING ELSE*

*with the only exception of smoking in restaurants/bars/clubs and the inclusion of meat and or fish is 90& of foodstuffs.

:(

note to former employer.

Dear Am Ap,

In 10 hours ill be free! Thnx for the memories....

so long, goodnight.

love from Bunny Bissoux.

I thought I was good at this again

look its almost a week with no post. tut tut tut.

recently i've been having trouble going to sleep, or wanting to go to sleep and then yesterday and today its like I just wanted to give up and go to sleep as soon as possible. uggh "give up" is such a lame thing to say, but that's how it is. I'd like to crawl under the covers and stay there until... umm i'm not even sure until when, like maybe until i have a more positive outlook on everything? or until I am financially secure for life and can eliminate 90% of my worries? or until I wake up and find i've been offered a lucrative career as a wrestling valet and part time dog groomer in tokyo and my boyfriend and 2 houses of stuff can come with me? well no, more like, today didn't work out so great, tomorrow will be better, lets just go to bed and make it be tomorrow. hey that's optimism right? I've still got it!

In two days I will be free from the torment and stresses of my evil second (or third) job and I have high hopes of my general happiness and lifestyle improving a great deal as soon as this happens. It seems naive to try and pin this all on quitting that job, but i'm looking for a scapegoat or at least some kind of significant monumental turning point. so lets go with that.

A few other things on my mind:

- did the wrestling just get really really dull lately (with a FEW minor exceptions) or is it just dull because i'm out of the loop? I blame ric flair. keep him out of it.

- have I now committed solely to writing possibly future embarassing heartfelt snippets of insight into my personal life after a couple of years of superficial nonsense about european tv dancers and witty wrestling critique?

- why did they have to RUIN sherbet fountains by updating the packaging (most likely for health and safety reasons). I want a paper wrapper not a fucking resealable cap.

- what is up with me? no, really.

Final note:

advance warning, prepare yourself, coming soon is a LENGTHY blogpost about these 5 guys and their healing properties:

lifetime goal accomplished

After 4 hard years of desperation, I am finally the proud owner of an all in one skeleton pajama playsuit as seen worn by Mr Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance.

Gerard Way - boy oh boy, what a dreamboat. I don't really think i've spouted my overwhelming love for MCR so much on this blog so much so I want you all to catch up and recognise me having a major fangirl moment here.

Ever since I first laid eyes on Gee in the skeleton suit I knew I had to have one of my own, I knew that one day, 4 years later, I would be staying up til 1.30 am constructing a purikura based photo tribute to me and Gerard in our matching skeleton suits... and as I sit here typing to you now, with my skeleton hooded head held high, I can tell you it's all been worth it:

better late than never - EUROVISION

In previous years its been like a second christmas for me, but this year I almost missed the entire thing. Fresh back from Japan, I missed both semi finals, I hadn't even heard our entry and I was just leaving it all to the big night, at a eurovision mini party chez Sally (a gracious host as always). This year it also coincided with our mandatory visit to the annual country and western themed car boot sale, fun fair and animal attractions in Moulscoombe, so the excitement was almost unbearable.

To cut a long story short, I fell asleep. Only right at the end when the winner had been announced, but even so, I fell asleep during Eurovision !? How did this happen? I don't fall asleep in front of the TV, I rarely fall asleep in front of other people, even close friends, and I NEVER miss a moment of (in my own words) "the highlight of my year). whats up with that? You could blame "jet lag" or exhaustion from our big day out and extensive exploration of the Wild Park, but the real party at fault here is Eurovision itself. It really wasnt so great this year, I know the semi's will have contained some gems, but the big show its self, left me .... cold, blank, empty. :-| zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I have no enthusiasm for this years unspectacular spectacular and i'm busy praying for next year, so I am handing you over to the very capable hands of my dear brother, who has managed to extensively guide you through both semi finals and the the final, complete with all the screencaps, embedded videos, links and witty wisecracks you have come to know and love from the siblings Williams. so check check check them out part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. Or just head over that way anyway, tell 'em Bunny sent ya.

KUMABOSHI BLOGSPOT IS AWESOME

Before I feel asleep I did manage to doodle along through all 25 performances so here's those drawings scanned for your delight, thats pretty much what I would have written here anyway:



That's all you get this year.

FLICK STATS MIRROR MY EMOTIONAL STATE.

Dear John Waters 2

Dear John

Firstly I'd like to apologise for missing your birthday this year, I celebrate it every year, sometimes with a party and some little cupcakes with "asshole" iced onto them or sometimes just a movie in your honor whilst I meditate on your genius, but this year i'll admit I completely forgot. I was in Japan with my mind full of giant plush toys and purikura booths and neon lights and cute japanese pop idols but since I returned it only took a few days for me to realise my mistake. I hope you can forgive me, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO YOU. You're creeping up in your 60s now John so if you want to reconsider my marriage proposal, the balls in your court.

Yesterday, out of the blue, an opportunity arose to make it up to you. Yesterday was the general election here, time to VOTE. You're words echoed in my head “I love to cruise when I vote”, I replayed This Filthy World in my head and remembered your views on how people dress so badly when they vote, how we should all make more of an effort to make it a little sexier, the finale of Pecker replayed in my mind and I new what I had to do. I almost gave up when I had lost my polling card and didn't know where my polling station was, but it turns out that living so close to the town hall has advantages and so I put on short dress, heels and lipstick, fluffed my hair and sashayed over there.

It didn't really go down as I had hoped, the moment I arrived I noticed the unwelcome presence of the local neighbourhood crazy guy all too close behind me. I ignored him, took my card and took my time ticking the box and elaborately folding the paper until he was out of sight, as I left the room I saw him lingering in the lobby, so I stayed put, took out my phone and did some fake texting until he moved on. five minutes pass and I cant see him so I make my exit through the automatic door, and from out of nowhere he appears and simultaneously exits, at this point i'd like to describe this guy for you, he has thick dirty looking grey/black hair in a sloppy pony tail, some baggy flares frayed at the bottom worn with flip flops, and a denim jacket with the sleeves removed to make a vest, worn over his bare slightly flabby and pale torso, he has thin wire framed glasses, always carries a thing crumpled carrier bag (containing unknown items) and mumbles to himself. By this time I am becoming concerned, my outfit is really not that outlandish or provactive but I recall how Mr. Crazy has tried to strike up conversations with me on days when I have made far less effort than this, and is he waiting for me or is this just a strange and egomaniacal paranoia I have imagined. Terrified at the prospect of being followed home and him discovering my very close locality to his own home (i was unfortunate to see him a few days ago exiting some flats very close to mine), I walk in the opposite direction away from my house, to throw him off the trail. I don't want to walk this way, there is nothing but houses so I slow down, I still feel he is nearby so I take out my phone and call my boyfriend "I think I've made a mistake, I just went out to vote and that local crazy guy is following me and I can't go home because he's watching me, and i feel kind of stupid because I'm sort of dressed up..." or words similar to those. As I am talking McCrazy saunters past mumbling and about 20 ft away feigns an urgent interest in a parked car, inspecting its windshield and hubcabs. He swings his bag and turn to look at me, I look away immediately. I fear that we may be stuck forever in this game of pretending and so I take my chances and skip to the crossing, cross the road with haste and scurry home, checking for the lurker at the last corner, all the while relaying events to my beau. Back in my flat I feel deflated and creeped out. Voting was not fun, and I did not feel sexy, I felt scared. Time passes and I realise McCreepy probably did feel sexy, partly thanks to me, and the whole episode has a distinctly John Waters feel about it, like it was scene from one of your films. I settle with the idea that I somehow helped the greater good.

Well that's my story, Happy Birthday. Still waiting to hear from you as ever..

Kind Regards,

Bunny Bissoux

xxx





AFTERTHOUGHTS:

dressing up is always fun. I recommend we all do it next year.

this particular guy would have followed me even if i was wearing a tracksuit, I have the worst timing.

no one else looked at me twice.

mom & dad if you're reading, please don't worry, it was about 7pm in broad daylight in a heat wave when every brighton girl on the street was showing more thigh than I was.

wrassle update

I'm out of sync with my wrestling addiction, I left the country and missed all this.

I dont know where everyone's gone, HBK, Taker, Trips, all gone on holiday at the same time? I missed MR Kenedy Kenedy's return, and then I missed him being released. I missed CM Punk feuding with Umaga ... wait, that's still going on ?! ... I wish I had missed that one.

*BANG*



on the other hand I did managed to keep up for a while with my boys in TNA and catch some shining MCMG moments like "we were just backstage playing Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter 4 and..." and (to Mick Foley) "You have a nice day" or Sabin shoving Daniels the mic "dude he already has a mic" "i just wanted to hit him" . textbook guns right there. also I liked that match with amazing red, he was ... amazing. but what the heck is up with this: guns side with lethal consequences, guns & sheik abdul bashir (?!) vs lethal consequences, and now sabin & creed team up VS god knows who. Whimsy? I'm just confused. and I read a match listing big Kevin was up to wrestle, WRESTLE? like in the ring? oh no no keep him backstage flirting with that lady off survivor, he's got bad knees!! i'm warning you!

keeping going

Hi kids, i'm still here, the clouds are clearing.

Tonight I went to the private view at the university I graduated from (unbelievably) 2 years ago (unbelievable that it was 2 years ago, not that I graduated...). Last year I went and felt weird and awkward and had a pretty awful time, so I was kind of freaking out and not sure why I wanted to subject myself to hot rooms full of semi familiar faces and awkward conversations I never want to have and people I generally try and avoid. This year I wanted to go to support a couple of friends who are graduating this year, plus I was curious to see the show and wanted to hang out with my favourite ladies. Well, good company can make anything fun, and although I was a little on edge, I was in general about 89% more relaxed than I have been lately and 150% less freaked out than I predicted, so hooray for that. Better yet, we went to the diner and I had nachos and milkshake.

Am I turning this blog into more of a diary than it used to be? I promised myself i'd post something today and somehow, it turns out to be 3.50 am and so I decided to tell you what I did today (the private view, which came after a hard days sweet selling and before a few hours time wasting in the depths of the internet whilst enjoying the comfort of my all in one skeleton fleece pajama suit). This is what happens to me when my boyfriend goes away for a week, I forget to eat proper meals and I forget to go to bed, and just end up online until the sun comes up. and I always thought I was the one who kept us organised, so weird.

well this was really a post about nothing, how about I give you a teaser about when i'm going to write a post about something, like rememember when I went to Japan for 3 weeks? It was incredible.








ps. BWRH I miss you, Boize Kubbe came round for a pizza party and we stayed up til 4 watching dirty movies off the top shelf, I had too much faygo and it made me feel dizzy, Guacho looked after me but I wished you were here. i'm so glad you're coming home tomorrow x o x o