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I was reading the bio for Sarah Brightman on last.fm, and read that not only did she once lead a “raunchy” disco group called “Hot Gossip”, but they had a hit song in 1976 called “I lost my Heart to a Starship Trooper”.

Now… how can a title like that NOT make you giggle with geeky joy?

A few seconds of google-fu later and I found a youtube video of that very song being performed.

Here are some highlights from the lyrics:

Hey, Captain Strange, won’t you be my lover
You’re the best thing that I’ve ever discovered
Flash Gordon’s left me, he’s gone to the stars
An evil Darth Vader has me banished to Mars

Tell me, Captain Strange, do you feel my devotion
Or are you like a droid, devoid of emotion
Encounters one and two are not enough for me
What my body needs is close encounter three

*snip*

Space suit is lying on control room floor
Pulse rate increasing as the heat factor soars
Take me, make me feel the force
Ignore the computers, we’re locked on course

*snip*

Chorus goes like this:

I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Flashing lights in hyper space
Fighting for the Federation
Hand in hand we’ll conquer space

Isn’t that awesome?

If you’re on last.fm, you should add me to your friend’s list. :)

Just ignore all the Nightmares on Wax and Animal Collective I apparently listen to. Back when I had no idea what I was doing (like a year ago), I left a music player on loop for a while… oops. Can’t edit it now apparently. I still love them, just not as much as last.fm thinks I do.

Anyway, I’m stoked about the open source client, all the plugins that will scrobble anything from pretty much any player out there, and the suggested 3rd party apps like Yamipod for uploading tracks you listened to with an ipod. Haven’t played with that too much yet, but it seems really great.

For the record, I’m also a fan of pandora, but for different reasons. I love pandora for being minimal and for being a pretty intelligent recommendation/radio system. On certain days, I’ll use both last.fm and pandora–one to find totally new music based on what their database picks (pandora), and the other to learn more about my friends’ tastes and to explore tagged music (last.fm). Last.fm is becoming highly addictive, but on days when maybe I just want to chill and take a break from omg! social networking! web2.0! rounded corners!!11!!, pandora rules.

Different monsters, both awesome and world-rawking. :)

I scored the battlestar galactica soundtrack today.

I rule. And so does it.

I also scored an awesome collection of sound files from Firefly. Every single sound and music clip from the DVDs apparently. I love thepiratebay.org. :) So far, my favorite clip is the 19 seconds called “Reaver Theme”. It’s got Jayne at the end going “god. oh god. oh god.”

In Other News: mood swings suck. badly. But I went for a nice long bike ride… and then made the mistake of sitting down and resting right afterwards, so now my legs are really really sore.

Body is sore for other reasons too, which is related to the mood swings. But fuck if I’m going to get into that.

*sigh*

I have to go feed Cody’s fish now.

I’m feeling really bitter right now. About the US government… about how most of my Big Values are unimportant to the vast majority of those in power and how that filters down to the masses of under-educated people on the internet and leads them to hate me because I express a certain view that they can’t understand. I’m bitter about how education doesn’t have the emphasis it should. I’m bitter about this rumor about the draft being reinstated.

I have this theory. Education has been de-emphasized because people in power know that if the general public were better educated, they wouldn’t have been elected in the first place. My raising cost of tuition is all part of Bush’s re-election campaign.

In Other News: I just got back from Seattle/Mill Creek. I went and saw Paul Van Dyk. It was fun, but not as fun as the Armin one… not nearly. This show was completely sold out… the club was at full capacity, and it would take a good 15 minutes just to make your way across the fricken bar. The peole weren’t quite as friendly either… a little more snotty. And the guys who tried to dance with me were just dirty. (I had to turn around and shove this one guy off my ass because he didn’t seem to understand that moving away from him meant I didn’t want to dance with him). I did dance with one soooper hot guy, but he dissapeared soon after, and never said a word to me.

Paul’s music was awesome. But the two djs before him were… boring, or something. I don’t know how to describe why I didn’t like their mixing. two repetitious…? too much of a certain tempo? It was just boring, and my brain was like “ok… is this all the song does?”

I honestly had more fun at the Armin show, mostly because of the people there… Armin also liked to play with the crowd… waving his arms around, gettin’ all intimate and shit. Paul was pretty blah, performance wise. Granted, everyone I talk to says that Armin is the only big dj who actually performs. Everyone else just makes music.

Ok… gonna go make food.

This song makes me feel fuzzy. :) In a good way. Read the lyrics and feel fuzzy with me. If you ask really nicely I might send you the mp3.

Hundreds Of Sparrows

every hair on your head is counted
you are worth hundreds of sparrows
the tree you planted has become fecund
with kamikaze hummingbirds

wings of hundreds of beats per second
of people whose wings are just a blur
afraid our eyes might become impaled
by their sharp and tiny beaks

I’m so sorry
my spirit’s rarely in my body
it wanders through the dry country
looking for a good place to rest
your head upon my chest
and I can feel the pillow of your breast

you are worth hundreds of sparrows

I like being exposed to cool new music.

In Other News: Did I mention I feel fuzzy? It’s that big crush kind of fuzzy. :) *sigh*

I think I’ll always have a little hidden corner of me that remains a Country music fan. It’s because of songs like Trace Atkins’ Then They Do that get me just sobbing in my living room watching the video.

Simple. Warm. None of that scank or scandal to sell the music. It’s a relief. And I have this respect for it that I don’t have for any other genre or even band, including the Pumpkins.

In Other News: Last night: training mode, B4U (little), speed: 5/5. Dancing Score: B!!!!!! Uwaaaah!!! :)

I finally own more non-Smashing Pumpkins cds than I have Pumpkins.
*pause*
Should I be proud or ashamed?

Comment Topic of the Day: Do you think terrorists are going to attack today?

I’ve decided that this could quite possibly be the most beautiful song in the world.

*sigh*

If I could, I’d find some way to get the music out here too, but… I’ve always thought that this song was beautiful… but now that I have the translation… and after I saw Tomo’s reaction to it when I insisted that he listen to this “really pretty Escaflowne song” it holds much more meaning.

No one probably cares… but that’s ok. :) This isn’t for you, it’s for Tomo anyway.

Yaaaaaaay!!!!! Starla is a HAPPY Chara-fan. God I wish I could remember how to speak in Japanese. I used to be able to say ‘I am obsessed with [noun]’. But I can’t remember. Maybe I should dig out my notes. It’d be great to say something nice about her music… in her own language. How about this: Chara-chan wa dai kirei na onna dayo. Well, it wasn’t quite about her music, but it was still true. I’m such a dork. lol.

Thank you thank you to Dean sama for the cds. The Great Chara Puzzle in my head is almost complete… the only missing piece is that Ai Eye issue featuring Chara and James Iha. whoo hoo!!

Dakishimetemo   sagashiteru
Kakegae no nai   uso da
Akirameta you ni nagare   ochite
…Sono onaji yuuki ni furete?

Subete tsutsumu kimi no kodou mo tojite iku no?
Unmei to nigete ku
Nanimo shiranai   kimi no ano tsumetai me wo
Kowashitai no ni
Kowashitai no ni
Kowashitai no ni

Ai no ao   mitasu deshou…
Afurenaide

Subete tsutsumu kimi no kodou mo
Unmei to nigete ku
Nanimo shiranai   kimi no ano tsumetai me wo
Kogashitai dake
Kogashitai no ni
Kowashitai no ni

Michita   hikari ga   wakareta

I’m a much more peaceful mushroom now. Today was a good day. Work was “average speed”. Class this morning was pretty intense though. It was a “good” intense though. And it was only intense because I stayed 20 minutes afterwards and did ab-work with the other pain seekers. Sifu worked with me during part of the class… which was really great. He hardly ever stays to help just one student for any lengthy period of time. Maybe it was to make up for the fact that he never showed up to work with me last Saturday. Actually, I was… um… honored to have his attention for so long. I got almost everything signed off except for the wrestling take-downs and some memorized technical stuff…

God I hope I can be ready for the test… *worries*

“Cats” was amazing. Absolutely amazing. I’m still in awe from the show… you know that sort of tingly contented shock feeling. “Cats” was awesome. Or as Christian would say about other things “OWWSOME”.

The play was a stylized commentary and feline interpretation of life. God it was beautiful. So many feelings erupted inside of me as I watched the play… intense longing for friendship. The kind where you can put your head on his/her shoulder without feeling obligated to kiss them later. To be held or hugged without the chemical reactions. The adventures and memories the Cats on stage re-lived made me think of things I cherished in my life… and made me look forward to the other great things I’ll remember.

The play was full of feline nostalgia… and it spread into me. It was an experience I’ll never forget.

Maybe sometime I’ll talk about the emotional value that song has for me… and has always had for me since I first heard the melody a few years ago coming from a ceramic cat figurine… a gift from my grandmother.

Maybe some day I’ll be able to talk about the people who mean the most to me in my life… in a way that might mean something to them… and in a way which isn’t impersonal or public.

Some of you out there already know that I love you. And you know this message is for you. I want to extend my deepest gratitude to you who have been there for me. My dearest friends and family. Someday I’ll let you know how much you mean to me.