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| Angel_Bob (profile) wrote, on 6-16-2004 at 6:10pm | |
| Current mood: geeked Music: Omohide PoroPoro Subject: Yay! Oriental goodies! |
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| My dad came home from Taiwan, as always, with a truckload of goodies for us all. I'll start with the music. - Omohide PoroPoro Soundtrack I've never heard of the anime but it's got a nice "music to listen to while riding in the car" feel to it. The first two tracks sound smooth and classical. The third sounds like a Jewish wedding song and the fourth sounds like a mariachi song. So the anime has to be very interesting. - Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) Soundtrack GLEE! - Hoshi no Koe (Voices of a Distant Star) Soundtrack My favorite anime. It's one episode, 28 minutes long and I cry every time I watch it. The music is just beautiful - Animage Singles Soundtrack This has songs from Nausicaa, Laputa, Totoro and Kiki on it. I haven't listened to it yet. - lemonjelly.ky (Compilation Thing of Lemon Jelly) I don't know. My dad says they're pretty awesome and I have the same eclectic taste of music he has so I guess I'll check it out really fast. The first things I notice upon opening the CD case are the psychedelic swirls on the CD and some guy in a luchador (am I spelling that right?) mask on the booklet. Hm. Wow. The first songs starts out and I'm amazed. It's like The Flaming Lips but softer and a little more classical. Great bass going down. I think the floor's vibrating. I'm sure you'll hear me rant and rave about these guys pretty quick. New obsession. It's like techno I don't know. Their songs range from about 7 to nine minutes long. Great background party music. I got this Ghibli DVD, the title of which is in very complicated kanji. There's an exclamation point in the description along with the number 17. I'll scan it in later to see if anyone recognizes it. I hope it's region 1. *crossing fingers* It was made back in 1993 by Saeko Himuro if that sounds familiar at all. I'm digging deep here. I put Harry Potter in French on my Christmas list and my father returned with Harry Potter à l’école des sorceiers (Harry Potter at the school of sorcerers). It says it's a "folio junior" so I don't know if it's the entire first book but since I can understand most of it so I'll keep you updated. I got these cute little "book make" bookmarks ("Your truthful page maker") with the phrase "live" on one and "life" / "look forward to an interestin anecdote". They're cute but I'm not sure if hillbillies made them or someone just typo-ed. I have this "OPEN The... Doing your own thing." blue spiral notebook thingy. It's cute and small. Perfect for me pocketses. Now to the assorted things. I have, on my lap, a cat shaped pillow thing that my father says is good luck during the dragon festival or something. All I know is that it's cute, soft and smells like the orient. In my bag of goodies, (it has multiple pandas on it playing various sports with the phrase "lucky to you" placed sporadically on it) I have.... - A very Open Mind-ish purse thing with a lotus and some words that look like Sanskrit in a circle around some Hindu symbol thing. It's pretty. - A very big but very cute greenish shirt with the typical oriental clasp things on it. They go down to the left (my left, if I'm wearing it) which, I do believe, is only worn that way when someone's dead or something. Jackie, can you confirm, expand or disprove that? - A Fung Shui compass thing. I don't know how it works or what's up with it but it has a compass and two levels on the side. It reminds me of an alethiometer and I do believe I'll call it that from now on. - Three Hindu stickers of random gods that I think will grace my naked CD player with their presence. - A cute orange change purse-y thing. It's cute. I heart it. I have about 40 of these or purses in this style. - One shirt, black, has monkeys on it with "o (some kanji) ra (I think)" above the monkeys and "omamori na saru" which means something about monkey. Any ideas, Jackie? I think the "omamori" is an adjective. Mamori means something about protection or a talisman so now I'm lost. - My other shirt, also black, has monkeys and some comb-type design on it. Under the symbol (be prepared for massive Engrish and I'm not making this up) are the words: "with POWER'S ROCK". Under those seemingly random words are seemingly random letters: "let7sldpnvdxcizjkeifkdsk". And that's just the first row. I've heard people say that the Japanese wear shirts with random English words on them and I think this shirt is a fine example. There's this random book called Marionette’s on Taiwan in Majesty. It's in French and Chinese. It has pictures (Glee!) and a map of the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris on the back. Crazy. Hannah and I received some dangly bracelets like always. I let her take four since I'm nice and I felt sorry for her having to be tortured by some new dental appliance today. I have three earth toned ones and they make a pretty noise when they all cling together. So yeah. That's it really. Oh, we did get a spiral incense burner. One of those ones that you see at temples and shrines. The incense burns for 24 hours and smells like the incense at church. I'm going to see if that Ghibli DVD works. I love you all. |
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burn667 | 06-16-04 8:39pm yay!
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Shinigami | 06-17-04 10:54am For the kimono, the the left should go over the right so you can place small fans or napiks there if you're going to a tea cerimony. If the right is on top that is to signify a dead person. Doing....something.
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