Ceci n'est pas un fanart

I have a reliable internet again! Have some celebatory Samurai Champloo not!fanart!

( Happy (Late) New Year! )

Hmm, and since Samurai Champloo is really Cowboy Bebop with Outer Space --> Historic Japan, Jazz --> Hip Hop, Bounty Hunters --> Bodyguards, and Spike's Hair --> Mugen's Hair, here's an art project I did three years ago:

Why you bringing up old stuff?

The assignment was print advertisement for a tv show or movie in four or fewer colors; this originally had three (white/black/red) but all I could find was a photocopy, so. Ah, nostalgia. I was a cheater then too.

One last thing!
"Samurai Champloo is da bomb XD"
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Does anyone else read the above as "Samurai Champloo is da bomb ecks-dee"? For some reason XD is the one smilie I always transliterate.

Squawk Box

I never understood the whole shouting while charging into battle thing--wouldn't the fighters be better off saving their breath? But yesterday during the infamous South Quad/West Quad snowball fight I learned that it actually is intimadiading when hundreds of screaming people run straight at you. It would have been more dramitic if we'd had battle cries like the badgers in Brian Jaques' books, though. "Squad! Squad! Back, foul Western Republicans! We shall hold our ground even unto hypothermia!"

I spent my break reading books. I've finally accepted my inability to finish a long, literary, or difficult novels ("I starting reading it, but then I got bored and wandered away" is like, the story of my life), so this time around I only bought manga and Young Adult fantasy books with those inevitable holiday gift-certificates.

( Howl's Moving Castle )

( Trickster's Choice )

I should mention that I've been on a Fastball kick lately and you can find all the songs from their second album at the website. They're packaged together under "Order of the Day" and "Second Order", 20 and 18 Mb respectively. I'm still looking for mp3s from their third album. Minimalist pop with good singing, halfway clever lyrics, and NO GARBAGE CLUTTERING UP THE TRACKS. ♥ I love these guys.