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Despite the fact that I spent almost six years in Japan I've never grown fond of anime or manga. Sure there are a few I've seen or read, but I'm no way a fan. When it becomes more than simple fandom however...
summer ends by ~Pennae on deviantART
Due to my inability to match month names and numbers I forgot to mention that the site's 9th birthday was on 4 August. Still flying.
Yesterday I started running and I did not stop.
I was looking for a full text of The Cat That Walked by Himself story by Rudyard Kipling published in the Just So Stories when I stumbled upon a Wikipedia article on this Russian animated film called The Cat Who Walked by Herself. If it's anything like the screenshots suggest, I want to see it.
All because this has been my Facebook about description for a while now:
"I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me."
I've been liking Vera for a while now, especially her electronic project called Bin-Jip. Also this summer I had the opportunity to listen to this song from Quimby live at EFOTT. Now I wish it was a collaboration like this:
I suppose the moral would be: nothing is as critical and potentially life-changing as it might seem for the first time. Need to let oneself go.
I think I was first really disappointed when I didn't get into the program of my first choice at university. I applied for International Relations and ended up having to major in Economics. This took a considerable amount of time to live down, even though in retrospect it was probably for the better.
Then there was the fiasco in Kobe of not getting enough credits to graduate. It wasn't much fun coming back to Hungary afterwards.
Regardless, I'm still alive.
Asking random people on the streets of Budapest with headphones on what song they are listening to - based on the idea of Tyler Cullen @ NY
Tracklist:
To contradict all the melancholic and sorrowful content of these past... weeks (?), here's a post that is bound to make anyone at least smile a little bit. There will be cake as well.
Rocky and Balls are two girls from Leeds who sing sweet ditties about the most mundane things and still manage to be funny. They are also known to bake, watch this:
This May they released a 10-track full-length album titled We Like Cake And Beards And Stuff which costs only ₤6 on Bandcamp to own. Alternatively you can listen to the witty lyrics and ukulele here. (If you buy the whole album you get an ultra special otherwise impossible to acquire version of Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" called "Spit Spot".)
For me the best act of this year's Sziget Festival was definitely Marina & The Diamonds. On her 2010 tour she covered 3OH!3's Starstrukk and subsequently offered it as a free download as a little present.
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There have been several highly unpleasant experiences pouncing on me these past weeks, most of which were totally out of my control to avoid. Also - all hail Monday - they still seem steadily coming.
To make matters different this time is the fact that I know precisely what could instantly evaporate all my worries. However, if I achieve or not this said nirvana is also out of my hands (and - for now - reach).
Regardless: I will never let it go.