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timerippleMy faithful iPod, which has accompanied me on many adventures over the past four and a half years, finally died a sadface iPodly death this week. The cute geeky Apple staff were kind to me in my distress. I'm probably the only person in the country who bought the 20 GB model, and it never gave me any trouble that couldn't be fixed by charging the battery and then restarting. It was a good iPod. Requiescat in pacem computorem.
Yesterday I got so fed up with my hair that I walked into the salon down the street and got it cut. This actually went better than most of my spur-of-the-moment haircuts do. The stylist managed to salvage more than I'd expected, and she knew stuff about curly hair and said I should totally dye it red. (It has long been a secret wish of mine to have redder hair.) She suggested that I start out with some highlights to see how it goes. Apparently my (very boring brown) hair has a lot of gold in it, so auburn is kind of out and full-on red-gold might be in.
Also we had an excellent conversation about vampires. (The place was called Twilight Hair Salon, although this was not the conversation-starter.)
Then instead of doing my reading for class, I watched Death Note 3: L Change the World. Short version: the savior of the world is a hunched-over skinny kid who's a computer genius and also addicted to sugar. And it only gets better from there.
So, basically, at the end of Death Note 2, L wrote his name in the notebook and therefore has 23 days before he dies of a heart attack. Which turns out to be a good thing, because there's a plot to kill off the world's entire human population with a scientifically improbable virus. So L can come into contact with the virus without worrying about dying of infection. There are some plot point kids, I dunno, but mostly it's L being wonderful, bizarre L.
IT WAS AWESOME. In a totally different way from the first two, which also had some interesting moral issues and stuff going on. This one was pretty much pure L. I flailed so much OMG L!!!! You guys, he saves the world with a hot pink Angel Crepe truck! OF COURSE HIS SEKRIT GETAWAY VEHICLE IS A FULLY FUNCTIONAL CREPE TRUCK. And I love how L is totally awkward with the kids but learns to be kind of affectionate, and tries to comfort them with his donut shish kabobs, and how the Thai kid is obviously his successor, and how they go to a maid cafe when they’re on the run, and how the girl is all BE CIVILIZED YOU SAVAGE! SAY “ITADAKIMASU” AND WALK UPRIGHT!, and how the FBI dude fanboys L and caters a birthday party with the crepe truck! And I loved the end, with L walking off into the sunset with one more day to spend however the hell he wants. I. Just. SO MUCH LOVE. AND FLAIL. AND WAHHHH L DON’T DIEEEEE!
I wonder what he did on the last day. Part of me says he went to an amusement park and walked around in the sun eating cotton candy and junk food and taking purikura, except that’s something you do with other people and he’s kinda alone at this point. Which is why it ends where it does, I suppose, and that makes a lot of sense and I’m okay with that as the ending. But...
Well, I guess he could take Ryuk along. They could bond over caramel apples, or something.
Yesterday I got so fed up with my hair that I walked into the salon down the street and got it cut. This actually went better than most of my spur-of-the-moment haircuts do. The stylist managed to salvage more than I'd expected, and she knew stuff about curly hair and said I should totally dye it red. (It has long been a secret wish of mine to have redder hair.) She suggested that I start out with some highlights to see how it goes. Apparently my (very boring brown) hair has a lot of gold in it, so auburn is kind of out and full-on red-gold might be in.
Also we had an excellent conversation about vampires. (The place was called Twilight Hair Salon, although this was not the conversation-starter.)
Then instead of doing my reading for class, I watched Death Note 3: L Change the World. Short version: the savior of the world is a hunched-over skinny kid who's a computer genius and also addicted to sugar. And it only gets better from there.
So, basically, at the end of Death Note 2, L wrote his name in the notebook and therefore has 23 days before he dies of a heart attack. Which turns out to be a good thing, because there's a plot to kill off the world's entire human population with a scientifically improbable virus. So L can come into contact with the virus without worrying about dying of infection. There are some plot point kids, I dunno, but mostly it's L being wonderful, bizarre L.
IT WAS AWESOME. In a totally different way from the first two, which also had some interesting moral issues and stuff going on. This one was pretty much pure L. I flailed so much OMG L!!!! You guys, he saves the world with a hot pink Angel Crepe truck! OF COURSE HIS SEKRIT GETAWAY VEHICLE IS A FULLY FUNCTIONAL CREPE TRUCK. And I love how L is totally awkward with the kids but learns to be kind of affectionate, and tries to comfort them with his donut shish kabobs, and how the Thai kid is obviously his successor, and how they go to a maid cafe when they’re on the run, and how the girl is all BE CIVILIZED YOU SAVAGE! SAY “ITADAKIMASU” AND WALK UPRIGHT!, and how the FBI dude fanboys L and caters a birthday party with the crepe truck! And I loved the end, with L walking off into the sunset with one more day to spend however the hell he wants. I. Just. SO MUCH LOVE. AND FLAIL. AND WAHHHH L DON’T DIEEEEE!
I wonder what he did on the last day. Part of me says he went to an amusement park and walked around in the sun eating cotton candy and junk food and taking purikura, except that’s something you do with other people and he’s kinda alone at this point. Which is why it ends where it does, I suppose, and that makes a lot of sense and I’m okay with that as the ending. But...
Well, I guess he could take Ryuk along. They could bond over caramel apples, or something.
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Date: 2008-09-29 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-09-30 05:20 pm (UTC)totally! I thought about the dye option for years before taking the plunge. and I've only put on the dye myself a few times, because it's a pain in the butt & my hair needs more than one box & the dye/gunk is less healthy than what's at the salon. hence dying = expensive. ah well, my hair is my indulgence.
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Date: 2008-10-01 12:49 pm (UTC)And rightly so. :)