I'm SomeGuy, 29 years old, residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I've studied English Literature, Chinese Martial Arts, and am currently pursuing careers in writing - possibly even in the anime industry itself.
And I work for this site.
And you should be watching Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.
Or watching Ranma 1/2.
Or learning about the Shinsengumi.
Or planning to visit Vancouver, The Best Place On Earth (actual marketing motto).
Here at the "Smallville" page, I have my personal blog where I'll post about anything and everything. If ya need me or otherwise need to know anything from/about me, here's where I'll be.
If you're really looking for my more professional, site-type stuff, you wanna head over my "Metropolis" world.
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So, um . . . I've been working on a project for my buddy who's doing the Assassin's Creed cosplay for Sakura-Con. I also missed his birthday a couple months back.
Also, I made a few random period-esque pouches with the leftover pants fabric. 'Punzie needed something to put her money and effects, so I made one for her as well (though I'm of the understanding I'll be carrying it for her anyway). Those are also in the picture above.
Further, of interest, the pants were made possible by that beautiful little Singer sewing machine also in the picture. $135 at Walmart, "Handpicked by Martha" no less. So yeah. I has sewing machine.
Finally, also of interest in the photo: Rock Band Keyboard!!! That thing is seriously more fun than it should be. I'm liking it! Normal keys (where you have 5-button note highway) is pretty easy, but pro keys (where you have actual keyboard highways) is seriously challenging - funny enough, despite the actual ratings on the songs, I find that the true difficulty of playing pro keys is the same as playing actual piano: comes down to what key the song is in.
So yeah. I'm committed. And this is good.
Finally, I am thoroughly amused that in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi's love interest is a Mandalorian dutchess named "Satine". Ahh, meta references . . .
So, apparently that 10 year old girl that covered Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" on YouTube is from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Go fig'.
Not gonna lie, this whole Maria Aragon story is kinda blowing my mind. Girl uploads a cover of herself singing a very, very new song. Within the day the pop song's singer finds it, retweets it, and suddenly in the span of 24 hours the girl is now a YouTube celebrity.
Another 24 hours, she's on radio shows talking about it, singing a little, and then having call-in conversations with said singer. Singer in turn invites her to come sing with her in Toronto when she tours there.
And then about a week or so after Ellen, girl is in Toronto in what may or may not be the country's largest arena, sitting on the lap of the singer in front of a piano, singing the song.
Of course, singer is totally in love with her ascended fangirl and pulls her out for another encore later in the night. And Toronto goes apeshit for her.
All in the span of about a month.
Such is the power of YouTube. And a 10 year old Filipina from Winnipeg with some serious pipes. Good on ya, girl.
How many weeks has it been since just talking about what's been going on in my world? Too many. I think . . . this will be a very erratic post today. Let's see what's happened in the past few weeks . . .
First off, Chinese New Year perfo...
