I left home when I was seventeen
Sep. 19th, 2012 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timerippleMy darlings, I have not dropped off the face of the planet—though it sort of feels like it—no, I am in California, and here I stay for the foreseeable future. Mind you, I can only deal with the future about two weeks in advance, so you see the problem with my life planning skills right here.
I have traveled by train and by car from one end of the country to the other, with lots of detouring in between and a brief stint where my friend M and I seriously considered becoming casino waitresses in Reno and then writing a trashy novel about it.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mousapelli took me to a palace of wonders called Chocolate World and let me sleep on her couch and bond with Datte and watch all her con DVDs.
This has actually backfired, though, because now I’m in a KAT-TUN phase, and somebody needs to take all my music away from me, because I keep listening to 勇気の花 and then sobbing every time it gets to Hittori ja nai yo, nakama ga iru yo.
See, I'm crying again. No, stop. A road trip is more than what you leave behind. I have seen little harbor towns and shining cities and also elephants and a whole lot of sagebrush. I have participated in philosophical conversations about the human condition (lasting most of Kansas) and masqueraded as a German tourist (super useful for thwarting obnoxious panhandlers). I have visited the first coffee shop west of the Mississippi and driven past a mountain forest fire at night and seen the Milky Way.
Of many peoples—their cities he saw, and understood their minds;
Many perils his spirit suffered upon the sea.
Because a loose and selective translation of Homer is always relevant. Always.
More soon--I will try.
I have traveled by train and by car from one end of the country to the other, with lots of detouring in between and a brief stint where my friend M and I seriously considered becoming casino waitresses in Reno and then writing a trashy novel about it.
mousapelli took me to a palace of wonders called Chocolate World and let me sleep on her couch and bond with Datte and watch all her con DVDs. This has actually backfired, though, because now I’m in a KAT-TUN phase, and somebody needs to take all my music away from me, because I keep listening to 勇気の花 and then sobbing every time it gets to Hittori ja nai yo, nakama ga iru yo.
See, I'm crying again. No, stop. A road trip is more than what you leave behind. I have seen little harbor towns and shining cities and also elephants and a whole lot of sagebrush. I have participated in philosophical conversations about the human condition (lasting most of Kansas) and masqueraded as a German tourist (super useful for thwarting obnoxious panhandlers). I have visited the first coffee shop west of the Mississippi and driven past a mountain forest fire at night and seen the Milky Way.
Of many peoples—their cities he saw, and understood their minds;
Many perils his spirit suffered upon the sea.
Because a loose and selective translation of Homer is always relevant. Always.
More soon--I will try.
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Date: 2012-09-20 10:57 pm (UTC)Have you seen/heard the new single? I love it, both the pv and all the songs. KAT-TUN, I hope you can be like this from now on.
Glad you made it there safely! Your postcard came the other day. it looked like it had some adventures of its own, haha, but it was still pretty legible!
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Date: 2012-09-22 05:51 am (UTC)The one with the bowling? lol, I was so confused. DID THEY STUMBLE INTO A NEWS PV OR WHAT? Haven't heard the b-sides yet but I'm sure they'll be great.
Haha, that postcard HAS been through a lot. ;)