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Kate Bush has been awesome since the 1980s, but I only just realized this. I'm sometimes slow. Yes, this is all I've read (cover to cover) since last time. But I've done a hell of a lot of crossword puzzles.

Novels/prose books:

Snicket, Lemony: A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning.

Graphic novels:

Kibuishi, Kazu, editor: Flight, vol. 5.

Manga:

Tsukaba Sakura: Penguin Revolution vol. 6
(The cross-dressing is still implausibly successful, and there is something weird and awesome about all of these actor characters playing their parents and managers and whatnot in their silly movie).

Tanaka Meca: Omukae Desu. vol. 5
(I dig the anti-climactic finale. I think this is maybe one of the more consistently low-key enjoyable things I've read this year).

Takaya Natsuki: Fruits Basket vol. 21
(why is everybody getting along so freakishly well? What happened to the death threats and people getting beaten up and traumatized? And why is it, that when everybody is getting along so freakishly well, everybody is still so miserable?).

Urushibara Yuki: Mushishi vol. 5.

Tezuka Osamu: Dororo vol. 1
(As always, it's cool to be able to recognize in Tezuka the precursors to all kinds of shit I've read in manga over the years).

Shiratori Chikao, editor: Secret Comics Japan
( Jason Thompson, Carl Gustav, et al, had great taste in comics eight years ago, too. Big surprise. )

Nakamura Yoshiki: Skip*Beat vol. 15
( Boo! Where has my unfazeable Kyoko gone? )

Yazawa Ai: Nana vol. 13
( Uh. )

Current Music: Kate Bush - King of the Mountain

My pantry is infested with indian meal moths (this seems to happening to a lot of my Boston friends and neighbors, brought on in part by our recent humid, warm weather). I am deeply freaked out, only a little less so than when I had that infestation of black flies in my last apartment, and there were dozens of large, buzzing flies clustered on the inside of every window in the place for several weeks. The good news is, unlike flies, indian meal moths don't carry disease, and if god forbid I ate something contaminated with their eggs or larvae, it would do me no harm. The bad news is, they still freak me the fuck out; I'm terrified that every speck of dust will turn out to be an egg, that every itch is an egg that got on me, suddenly hatching. Plus, these little bastards can apparently eat through plastic and cardboard, and crawl up under the caps of sealed bottles, so if it's not canned, it might be contaminated and ready to spew forth hundreds of little insect larvae to re-infest a shelf that looks clean.

'Scuse, I need to get this out of my system: FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK FUCK FUCK OH MY GOD OH MY GOD BUGS CRAWLING ON ME FUCK FUCK FUCK.

IT'LL BE A BIT BEFORE I'M PSYCHOLOGICALLY READY TO CATCH UP ON MUSHISHI, THAT'S FOR SURE.

Current Music: Emiliana Torrini - Lifesaver

For

m00nface, who asked me for some recommendations.

First of all, sorry this has taken so long. I had a hard time remembered what came out when, and what I've recommended before, and the list kept getting longer, and then mikke asked me if I could recommend some stuff for someone else, and I'm incapable of recommending something without trying to describe it, so it kept getting bigger. I'll probably keep adding to the list as I think of things, but there's no reason not to post what I've actually written so far.

Everything in this post is a show I think is so wonderful that I recommend it with any qualifiers, except that with the possible exception of Mushishi, they are all licensed for release in the U.S. (edit.

telophase points out that Mushishi is licensed, and the first DVD is available for purchase, so for heaven's sake, go buy it)--Seirei no Moribito is ongoing, so it hasn't been released on DVD yet, but I watched most of these shows via Netflix, and they are a little bit older (I've only watched them in the last two years, though--actually, on this particular list, I've watched it only in the last eighteen months). But if you haven't seen them yet, and you can, you won't regret seeking them out.

( Princess Tutu )

( Kaleido Star )

( Samurai Champloo )

( Mushishi )

( Honey and Clover )

And now, the current darling of my heart.

( Seirei no Moribito )

*_*

This is the sound of my aesthetic sensibilities imploding from sheer joy.

Why why whyyyyyyy did no one recommend this to me last year.

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April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers

to what purpose do you return again?

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