No Wolfwood in the episode.... but we get Legato instead, and he's funny-scary.

Oh, one of my faovrite Trigun episodes is on right now! #12 - Diablo !

Featuring:
creepy glowy-eyed Vash
sympathetic Meryl
freakishly insightful Milly
a something-possibly-a-severed-head in a paper bag
a jail-break
a disturbing flashback of the city of July
mass murder by the dozens
a cross-town chase scene on foot
a bank safe being blown up
a stand-off at sunrise

Introducing:
Monev the Gale
Legato...Legato Bluesummers...
a complete flashback of Rem
Vash's false arm w/ the second gun
yet-to-be-explained telepathic powers
Vash's "everyone who gets close to me dies" complex


EDIT: "If I shot him now, then you really would die. It would be wrong to shoot him, right?"

Oh, it gives me shivers! I'd forgotten how much I liked this episode. I think it's my favorite, behind episode 24 and episode 23. Which is ironic, actually, because in episode 24 Vash faces the exact same moral question, and his repsonse is so much different, because he has been so far changed by his encounters with the Gung Ho Guns.

Yep, with this episode we have officially left the funny land, and entered the world of space-western supernatural melodramatic tragedy.

Trivia of the day: It is infact unhealthy to live your entire life trying to fullfill the memory of someone who died a long time ago. Break away, Vash, break away.

Fandom Loves and Losses Meme

I remember something like this before a year ago when I first joined LJ, but I never filled it out and I lost all the questions. So here's my version.

Fandom Loves and Losses Meme

The one you gained your soul for, your everlasting eternal:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Your first true love that can still make your heart go pitt-patter, and with whom you can see no flaws:
Trigun

The one you cheated on both of the above with, but know cannot be your long-haul choice:
Cowboy Bebop

The Silent Bob to your Jay:
Lord of the Rings

You very own Captain Jack Sparrow, who loved you madly & brilliantly then left you stranded on a desert island to weep over the lost rum:
Moulin Rouge

The multi-summer romance you had that you'll never forget, cut off from the real thing by the gods of time & circumstance:
Farscape

The one all your friends say you should date:
Angel

The one you're flirting with while your eternal is away, but find utterly impossible to take seriously:
Harry Potter

The one you've always admired from afar, too scared to approach:
The Vision of Escaflowne

The one you missed entirely:
Dark Angel

The one your relative is dating that you find repulsive:
Charmed

The one your relative is dating that you've come to accept in small doses:
Stargate SG-1

The one you had a great breakfast with, who was killed by a bus 5 minutes later, despite looking like Brad Pitt:
Firefly

The jailbait:
Gundam Wing

The cute one:
Inu Yasha

The crush with accessories you obsessed over:
Highlander

That unsucessful blind date a while back:
Nip/Tuck

The one who could have been your eternal love, until you lived with them a while and realized you only wanted a best friend:
The X Files

Your life-long fantasy:
The Dark Tower books

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Showering makes everything feel better. Still not talking, but am feeling clean and ready to deal with the infant.

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It's here! It's here!

MY NETFLIX LORD OF THE RINGS DVD IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Two Towers

There's so many beautiful, eloquent lines in this film. But you know what my favorite line is?

"Wraiths! Wraiths on wiiiiiiiiiiiiings!"

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Dudes, I need a career where every day I can say: "I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside."

The Two Towers post #4

I think the shot wherein the princess Eowyn strides out the castle doors, and looks out over the plains as the horses approach in the distance, and the flag wavers in the wind and rips away... is the single most beautiful scene in this film. And the music! I adore the theme music for Rohan.

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meme poem instructions I'm too late for:

Gakked from nwhepcat:

5:00 p.m. Eastern time -- post a single line of poetry in your LJ.

No mood or title or music.

Then watch a purty poem unfold on your friends page.

(Hoping things don't get busy here at 2:00 p.m.)

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when sun is gone and moon is dead

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From the friends list... oldest to newest

my equisite corpse poem

as in sleeping-drink spices
i sing of Olaf glad and big
love like shrapnel drenched in heart's blood
when sun is gone and moon is dead
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time
Sometimes I swear to god I was not meant to be a mother.


friends' friends:

They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
I have lost a telephone With your smell in it
Trees leaning into the wind, holding back the tide
there are questions you need not answer
Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part.
let the wenches dawdle in such dress
when sun is gone and moon is dead *
And play the mother's part, kiss me, be kind.
I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did
If my eyes are actually more closed than open, why am I still here


*My line was from LotR: The Two Towers, and Gollum.

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An interesting page about how much each of our last 4 presidents has lied:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0309.mendacity-experts.html

Two Towers 5

I love it when Aragorn and Theodin are having their little macho contest, and the camera keeps going back to Gimli, who's sitting there eating and drinking, cool as a cat and quite pleased to watch the silly humans buck it out while he just enjoys his meal.

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Yesssss. Fanfiction.net added "Luna L." to their Harry Potter character filter.

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Music:

I'm listening to Eva Cassidy sing the Sting song "Fields of Gold," and I almost am going to start crying. I never cared much at all for the song when Stine sung it, but this version, which is almost acustic, is moving.

Now I love my savaa icon even more.

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MTV tomorrow:

Justin Timberlake, Kelley Clarkson, Eminem, and Johnny Cash. Someone shoot me now.

Is there any reason I should subject myself to watching the videos I hate win? A Johnny Depp or Ewan-McGregor shaped reason? Anything?

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I think I'd like to make a Buffy/Spike-ish post-chosen icon to these lyrics:

I'll get over you; you'll wonder who I am
And there's this burning, like there's always been
I've never been so alone, and I've
never been so alive

And I would do it. Except, so far I've been dramatically lazy, and all my pictures (and a half-finished songset to "Into the Void") are saved on a disk, not on my comp, and I have yet to upload them. Sad, ne?