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Welcome, if you want distractions this place has got it all XD

I am an extreme procrastonator as well. Last week I started one of my assignments the day it was due...1 am in the morning, the day it was due o_0. It was a 1000 Philosophy assignment. lol. I got it done though. I work better like that believe it or not.

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WOW! Thankyou so much! Now I have most of their albums...I can't download them all today though. Not enough time.

With the metal panels I was trying to bring out more of the futuristic part of bebop. I also thought that they looked like the ships hull...heh heh I probably should have put that in the comments ^_^; But thank you for all the tips, I will try session zero next time.

I saved it as a jpeg with the highest quality.

[quote]Hang on...you get to wake up in the afternoon? Wow...I'm jealous.

Only in the holidays, but my mom always gets pissed of when I wake up that late.

Hahaha even on the holidays (which are now) my Mum makes me get up at 8am. So I can help her get my little brothers ready. So I am staying up until 2am and waking up at 8.....I have no energy :P Plus even if I wanted to I can't sleep in that late because it is just too hot. It is about 35 degrees Celsius in my room at 9:30 am. GAH I hate summer sometimes.

MOVIES -the Terminal, Moulin Rouge, the Hole, Donnie Darko, a Clockwork Orange, Pirates of the Caribbean, Napoleon Dynamite, De-Lovely, A Few Good Men, Hardball, Pricilla Queen of the Desert, Save the Last Dancem 10 Things I Hate About You, Harry Potter 1,2&4, Italain Job 1969, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure-Perfect Blue- Lord of the Rings 1,2,&3-Cowboy Bebop Movie-Battle Royal-Narnia-Annie Hall-School of Rock-Vertigo-

I loved loveless. It is such a great series and Ritsuka and Soubi are wonderful characters. Soubi was definitely my favorite character.

The ending to me wasn't really an ending and they had that stupid filler right before the end when they could have had a decent ep. Apart from that though the series was one that I will watch again *get an idea*...*runs off to re-watch it

I've seen up to ep 60 and I am loving it. Although the eps do repeat themselves I like the stuff they repeat. I adore the relationship that inuyasha and kagome have and it only gets better when Kouga appears, Miroku and Sango are cute as well.

The music is fantastic and I LOVE Naraku. He is definitely my favorite character

Any anime where Yoko Kanno has been involved as soundtrack/music composer wins in my book.

YES! I agree. The Wolf's rain music is just fantastic. My favorite song would have to be Shiro Long Tail. That song is just amazing. The music from the Escaflowne movie is great as well. Black Escaflowne has such a wonderful composition. Of course no one can forget Bebop, one of the best music tracks around. So yes, basically anything with Yoko Kanno.

I also adore the music from Inuyasha and FMA. There is such variety and some songs just feel...right. Hellsing is right up there as well, oh and fruits basket, Gantz, FLCL, Evangellion, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, Samurai Champloo, Gravitation, Trigun and Loveless.

Another musical score that just does it for me is the one from Howl's Moving Castle. When I first got the OST I listened to it for 3 days straight. My family was a little sick of it :P

Being a musician myself I personally think the music makes the anime. If I don??t like the music I won??t watch the anime. However that is just me.

I would want to be Tohru from Fruits Basket. I want kyo :P

I watch more anime than free to air shows and movies. Mainly because a lot of the movies out at the moment don't interest me and my family is banned from every single video store we live near. lol. Talk about late returns.

Also many characters in anime are so original and the story lines are as well. You just don't see that in many tv shows or movies at the moment. Except for Will and Grace, I love that show. I prefer the humor as well. I just don't like slapstick, it is not my thing.

Plus I get a sense of pleasure watching anime because of the art and music. Some scenes just feel...right. The way that some characters interact with each other is great as well.

The hotties aren't bad either :P

I was in grade um...4 when pokemon was big. I was into it big time.. Only my family wasn't that well off so instead of buying things we used to make them. The only pokemon thing mum ever bought us (my brothers and I) was a book with the original 150 in it. I spent HOURS tracing and coloring in those pictures. Eventually they covered my entire wall. lol. Good times. I stopped being obsessed in grade 6 but I would still watch the shows :P

heh heh.. I like them both. Both Loveless and Gravitation are such amazing series. Both of them are only 12/13 eps too. I wish they were longer but what can you do? Apart from those two and a couple others I haven't really seen any anime where yaoi is more than implied. *tear* I really need a bigger hard drive.

As for yuri, I like it. Truth be told not as much as yaoi but it is still more than watchable. The second set of Zeros in Loveless were gorgeous. I wish there were more pairings like that.

My favorite character is definitely Hatsuharu Sohma. I love how he has two sides...and the way he dresses :P Um.. my second favorite is Uo. I love how she interacts with kyo. I want her coat!

My favorite pairing would have to be kyo/Tohru. Wow they are so cute together. Kyo is absolutely adorable...so it tohru for that matter.

Favorite episode is the one where kyo punches the wall *dies* and the thing with hatsuharu's hair. WOW he is so great.

I agree with ibby and Silove definitely another season of Fruits basket. They have the manga and the fan base for it. The anime was really open ended as well so it wouldn't be hard. If only they had the funding.

Um another series I would like to see a second season of would be Genshiken. That series was great and once again ended in a way where a second season could be easily do able.

Hahaha I have 3 younger brothers 14,11,6 and all male cousins. I am the only girl in my generation of the family *sniffs* So it can get a bit rough when the family gathers :P

One of my favorite memories of my youngest brother was when we were watching the finale of Australian Idol and they announced that Kate won (we were going for Emily because we know here). Mum was really disappointed and asked Dominic if he though Kate would win. He replied with "Yes I knew she would we because she was FABULASH!". Hahaha just goes to show you how even the marketing of mascara can mould young children :P

yes I think it exists. in world history class i learned about a enlightenment thinker called thomas hobbes, he thought that all humans were naturally selfish and wicked and i totally agree. with the selfish part mostly.

I think people can be but mostly because you can only really see the world through you own eyes. Thus it takes effort to see other people??s point of view and to consider their emotions. A lot of people do not make an effort to look through the eyes of someone else.

For e.g. when YOU have had a crappy day YOU snap at other people. You never know of that person has just lost a loved one or failed their exam. You just don't know because you don't know what they are thinking or feeling unless you take the initiative and effort go up to them and ask.

I think this lack of effort is the basis of selfishness. In my opinion it is also the cause of racism because some people do not take the effort to see how other people would feel, or to try and see their own and others actions through another cultures perspective. They also do not take the time to find out about different cultures and religions beliefs and customs. This means that they do not understand when someone reacts in a way that would be different to their own.

The absence of effort in all aspects of life I believe lead to 'the seven deadly sins'. If you look at each of them you can attribute the lack of effort to most of them. On the flip side if you look at the good people of the world like say...Mother Teresa and their effort TO DO GOOD the two and two go together. But effort in the wrong areas can lead to death and destruction, like all things. So maybe human nature really does exist.

I joined AP because (yesterday) I was looking around for a Blood+ wallpaper and found a link on another website to AP. So I came, looked around and the skill of most of the people here blew me away. It opened up a whole new level I have to reach in my wallpapers. Which is great, I love challenging myself and the talent of the people on this site allows me to do that. The paper system is also a great idea.

Now I have become stuck into the forums. I like the diversity of the people and their opinions. I think everyone will be seeing a lot more of me. I don't know of that is a good or a bad thing :P

There ARE geek gangs, we can be found in the basements of various residents on fridays from 8 to midnight, our leaders are typically called "Dungeon Master"

Hahahaha or the Local Anime Screening Club. But it's more like a gathering of like minded individuals for the sole purpose of watching and discussing those extra-curricular pursuits that are deemed of the 'geeky' nature. I don't know if I would call it a 'gang' exactly but I wouldn't want to mess with any of them unless you wanted your ear theoretically chewed off by the unstoppable arguments of an infuriated nerd. Hahaha no thank you I have been on the recieving line of that and it's not pretty.

I think if a 'geek gang' was to exist it would be more like the mafia. The 'geeks' would be at the top of the pyramid of power and they would be the people who freeze bank accounts, hack into peoples private investments and plot the kidnapping of family pets. While the hired thugs would maintain the territory with a mighty force. It would be muscle hired by brains. I think it would be a force to be reckoned with...but that??s just me.

Trying not to stay that long behind the computer, so that I can go to bed earlier and not have wake up in the afternoon, like I was doing last year.

Ahhhh that too. But for the worst of us this is wishful thinking.

Hang on...you get to wake up in the afternoon? Wow...I'm jealous.

One of my many New Years resolutions is to actually study this year :P Seeing as it is year 11 it probably would be best.

I am really bad at resolutions though because at the end of the school term I said to myself "right, these holidays I am going to practice my Japanese and Violin EVERYDAY!". Pfft as if that??s happened it is now 6 weeks into the holiday I haven't done either. I have two weeks left, I should start moving. I think joining this community was the step in the wrong direction, if you know what I mean.

I would also like to update my live journal more and build on my basic HTML knowledge as well as learn CSS. Well there goes the remnants of my life down the theoretical tube.

Hahaha thankyou! I made both my ava and signature :D

This is a list of Anime and Manga I like. I am looking for new things to watch so if anyone had any suggestions.

ANIME -Bleach, X, Escaflowne, Getbackers, Haibane-Renmei, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Hellsing, Samurai Champloo, FMA, FMP, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Monster, Chrono Crusade, Perfect Blue, Naruto, Trinity Blood, Fruits Basket, Azumanga, Ghibli Films-Blood+-Black Cat-Last Exile MANGA -Raxephon, Legal Drug, FMA, NGE, Naruto, Hellsing, FMA, Maramalde Boy, Escaflowne-Kenshin-Get Backers-Fruits Basket-GetBackers