In the mood to update...

[tallulahgs]

Have had a nice relaxing day, spending nearly all of it:
- carrying on with my Akira script (I was pleasantly surprised by first-dub Kaneda delivering a line that made me want to hug him. I also wanted to hug Kai, but then I generally do)
- working out with Nik how the Battle Royale kids could perform Frontier Psychiatrist by the Avalanches, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, and Yellow Submarine by the Beatles.
- planning fanfic. I think I actually have a balance between angst and canonical events, woohoo!

My cousin got married on Saturday - it went very well despite the rain and I rather enjoyed it despite the fact that I have become rather cynical about both religion and love.

The home computer is still rather unpredictable and still won't let us access Hotmail.

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[sashwizzled.livejournal.com]

And your journal is in even more pretty colours! ::marvels::

Do the different dubs have different lines, then? I was under the impression that they were the same, just with different voice actors, although I'm not sure where I got that idea. ^^

And you know how much the BR orchestra thing makes me laugh (enough to make me snort Coke out of the wrong orifice) - please tell me all about this part sometime! XD

Ah, was it one of the big church and vicar and massive crowds affairs? Lovely. ^^;

[tallulahgs]

Yes! ^_^ Despite the computer locking when I'd put all the HTML code in the first time...
Oh, no, they're extremely different. I think the most random is Kai saying 'You mean fish' in 2001 and 'I've got a bike' in 1988.
If you want me to I'd be happy to! I don't want to bore you with it, though ^_^
Yeah, well, it was only a little village church, but they had a band up in the choir stalls. I want a band if I get married (or a bandchestrombo. Hmm...)

[sashwizzled.livejournal.com]

Hmm, strange. Still, very pretty.

... O_o;; What? Bike... fish... does not compute...

I'd absolutely love you to if you've got the time. ^^

Me too... and especially a bandchestrombo! Complete with tambourines and dancing. (Hey, wait, did you two make that word up? You did, didn't you?)

[tallulahgs]

Well, in the first dub, Yamagata's girlfriend says 'And how about bikes? How are we meant to get home? [Cos we're storming off and leaving our boyfriends]' and he chimes in hopefully with 'I've got a bike.' In the second she says that the guys are just 'tailchasers out of water' and he corrects her 'you mean fish'. Gotta love those crazy translators.
Sorry. End Akira geek mode now.
And begin BR geek mode. Well. We decided that Shuuya had challenged the Gorillaz to a play-off, in which the conditions were:
- no rap
- all members of the band(chestrombo) must participate
- no one can play 'Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear' or 'Happy Birthday' (in a sneaky attempt to put Keita Iijima out of the running)
So Nik and I sat down and thought 'what songs can accommodate a tuba, shamisen, gong, mixing decks, etc?' and came up with those three. Last night we were playing the tracks and working out how it would sound.
Mitsuru was doing the Bohemian Rhapsody solo, actually ;)
Ah, the joys of post-exam freedom...
Yes, we did.
Band from 'band' (Nik: obviously)
Ches from 'orchestra'
and Ombo from 'ombo' (Nik swears blind that this is another word for band, and 'bandchestrombo' sounded so great I didn't want to start an argument about it ^_^)

[sashwizzled.livejournal.com]

There's just not much I can say to that, really! So strange. ^^;
(I wonder which one he used in the Japanese - do you know?)

Shuuya v Gorillaz... ::snigger!snort:: I like that, I really do.
Great, now my mind is full of Shou's tambourine dancing and Mitsuru singing 'is this the real life? Is this just Battersea?' (I know what the lyric is, honest, but that's apparently a very popular mistake people make with it and it's one that I find insanely funny)
People already think I'm strange because I keep randomly giggling while sitting on the bus thanks to you two... (I always listen to my iPod and I keep thinking 'how would the BR bandchestrombo play this?')

... And Filthy/Gorgeous by Scissor Sisters just came on and sent me off into peals of laughter. ARGH!

[tallulahgs]

No - my DVD of Akira just puts the second-dub subtitles on when I set it to do Japanese, which is very annoying. (Still, it's fun to watch it in Japanese when they use honorifics - like Tetsuo calling Kaneda 'Kane-chan' at one point. Hee hee.)
*snicker* I like that mishearing.
Eh, random giggling is good. And yeah, I'm starting to do that too (imagine how the bandchestrombo would play such and such... imagining Sho dancing to Filthy Gorgeous is just... very, very scary.)

[angrychemist.livejournal.com]

Frontier Psychiatrist = HOW?
Bohemian Rhapsody = Sure, it works with everything.
Yellow Submarine = It's a good song, but please...no.

[tallulahgs]

You'd be surprised what two bored tone-deaf young adults can do...