Good Weekend
Mar. 31st, 2003 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksThere was one. We went to Chinatown for Eredien's birthday, and had a great deal of extremely good food; there is a new Malaysian restaurant there that simply rocks. Cheap, fast, good, clean, food you don't see every day... pretty much the perfect restaurant. And bubble tea has moved into Chinatown. There's a little place now that sells amazing bubble tea and huge pastries for sums of money that caused me to feel that we were robbing the people. I mean, a slice of cake, as in major slice of cake, for sixty cents? We also went to a store Weyrlady knew about called Trendy World. Be afraid. Be very afraid. More insanely cute plastic tchotchkes than your average Sanrio store. These people do not sell Hello Kitty. These people sell nauseating cheap Hello Kitty knockoffs from Korea. These people sell chibi-Spider Man keychains in neon hot pink. These people sell little plastic animals that you're meant to attach to a cell phone-- and they're scented. These people sell journals with a little puppy dog on the front that read, in English, 'If heart grow lonely, just think of noise of barking'. There was running away. I haven't been that terrified by a store in years.
On the bright side, we then found the only truly tasteful gift shop in Chinatown, which sells clothes that I will be owning just as soon as someone gives me a fortune that I have nothing better to do with than buy clothes.
And there was the puppy picnic, in which Adreyan got to see Gavrin and Quetzle, whom he had been missing. Adreyan turned up as an adult wolf, mostly, and consequently had to act like a responsible adult, when what he actually wanted to do was harness all that energy the puppies seem to have in such exuberance and zombify, say, the population of Las Vegas. But Quetzle, with his usual perceptiveness, kept jumping on Adreyan every time the thought of doing this even went through Drey's head. I thought the whole thing was hilarious.
And there was anime watching Saturday night, because A. wanted to see some hentai, so we watched the director's cut of Kite. J-chan, I know you like this anime for some reason, and I'm sorry, but ew. It got to the point where people were sitting there making comments like 'Can this *go* any farther beyond gratuitous? Oops, silly me, it just did. Don't worry, A., that is something *well* beyond not physically possible, so you can stop wincing now.' I mean, someone asked A. if she was traumatized, and Alys and I said in unison 'I'm traumatized.' So in order to clean out our brains we watched the outtakes of the Weiss dub. Bwahahahaha! Go find these, people. The American voice actors had too much fun. 'I'm going to... forget my line here, and just keep talking even though your character's mouth has already started moving, hasn't it?' 'Weiss! Today's target is... my god, that looks like John Travolta.' 'The yellow ray makes people go berserk (now available from Media Blasters on DVD and VHS, folks).' It was truly brilliant.
And P. was kind enough to give me her spare copy of the hack://Sign soundtrack. Happy.
Recreational Reading: Herodotus, the Histories
On the bright side, we then found the only truly tasteful gift shop in Chinatown, which sells clothes that I will be owning just as soon as someone gives me a fortune that I have nothing better to do with than buy clothes.
And there was the puppy picnic, in which Adreyan got to see Gavrin and Quetzle, whom he had been missing. Adreyan turned up as an adult wolf, mostly, and consequently had to act like a responsible adult, when what he actually wanted to do was harness all that energy the puppies seem to have in such exuberance and zombify, say, the population of Las Vegas. But Quetzle, with his usual perceptiveness, kept jumping on Adreyan every time the thought of doing this even went through Drey's head. I thought the whole thing was hilarious.
And there was anime watching Saturday night, because A. wanted to see some hentai, so we watched the director's cut of Kite. J-chan, I know you like this anime for some reason, and I'm sorry, but ew. It got to the point where people were sitting there making comments like 'Can this *go* any farther beyond gratuitous? Oops, silly me, it just did. Don't worry, A., that is something *well* beyond not physically possible, so you can stop wincing now.' I mean, someone asked A. if she was traumatized, and Alys and I said in unison 'I'm traumatized.' So in order to clean out our brains we watched the outtakes of the Weiss dub. Bwahahahaha! Go find these, people. The American voice actors had too much fun. 'I'm going to... forget my line here, and just keep talking even though your character's mouth has already started moving, hasn't it?' 'Weiss! Today's target is... my god, that looks like John Travolta.' 'The yellow ray makes people go berserk (now available from Media Blasters on DVD and VHS, folks).' It was truly brilliant.
And P. was kind enough to give me her spare copy of the hack://Sign soundtrack. Happy.
Recreational Reading: Herodotus, the Histories
