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My Hometown

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Today’s my first full day back in Pennsylvania, and one of the things I wanted to do while I was home was to visit my old home. Where my parents live now isn’t where I actually grew up. I grew up in a small town called Downingtown which is a few miles south, down a mountain and across the otheside of business Route 30. All my buddies where there. As kids, we used to ride bikes recklessly and pop wheelies on the curb, but after 2002 we didn’t live there anymore. Through some circumstances, my family had to leave and I haven’t seen my childhood home since then. I still remember when my parents told us that they were losing the house. I remember lying in bed knowing that this was the last time I’d see this house again. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though. The house was also filled with spiders that grew bigger with each passing year so I was glad to leave them behind. Also, the backyard was a bitch to mow. Continue reading →

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Art Work in Progress: Kamiko Christmas Dress

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I finished this painting about mid-December, but I wanted to share with you the steps I went through to create it. I think a lot about how to build something form nothing. To me, it’s one of the coolest things … Continue reading →

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Minecraft and Minecon

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I had to go and celebrate Minecraft. Of all the games I’ve played that one’s held my interest the longest. Fallout 3 and Final Fantasy 7 may be next in line but that’s by orders of magnitude less than Minecraft. I spent 200 hours in Fallout 3 over a month and that’s roughly 8.33 days of game. I don’t know my tally for hours spent in Minecraft, but since my friend Emmy introduced it to me last September, I’ve logged countless hours, took up running a Minecraft server, created a blog for it, posted timelapse builds on youtube, and made 3D renderings of our multiplayer world. I can sit down for a session and 10 hours will pass. If there was a pie chart of my time spent during the last year, frighteningly, Minecraft would probably be a sizable wedge. Continue reading →

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Anime Figure: Diabolus Inclinatus

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Even if her bewbs do poke out at you, her sex appeal isn’t so much her ample bust but rather her expression and body language. Her pointed-inward toes suggests she’s embarrassed. Maybe wearing next to nothing wasn’t the best of ideas. Her eyes, based on how you look at her seem to beckon you closer or makes her seem a bit fearful and hesitant. Maybe it’s a ploy. Will she be naughty or nice? You won’t know until you’re within her grasp and then it’ll be too late. Continue reading →

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Painting: It’s Dangerous Tonight!

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I haven’t done colored art in a long bit, but that’s mainly because it’s really time consuming to do, but since I’ve been slowly getting back into the habit of drawing again, I started to draw with my Cintiq. Here’s the result.

She’s my original character, Catherine. You’ve seen her tons of times on this dA site dressed as a kitty cat or a dominatrix and in other scandalous attire. Continue reading →

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Aishiteru, Natsume Yujin-cho ED

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I love this Japanese song from the end of Natsume’s Book of Friends (Natsume Yuujin-cho season 2) called Aishiteru. Here’s a youtube video of the ending:

I can’t claim to understand the song, since it’s in Japanese, but I love it nonetheless. Sure, I’ve read the lyrics and the translation, but it’s still Greek to me.

Usually I’d like to find out more about the artist if I like a song or I like to find the original music video, but for some reason this artist, Kourin, eluded me. I actually always thought it was one woman, but they’re a duo. Her singing is haunting and achingly beautiful, especially in this song.

It’s been three years, but the song is still on my mind (and in my playlist), and I was looking around Youtube for various music videos and I searched for Aishiteru and came across the PV:

Kourin’s blog. There are a bunch of other live performance videos on there so I can get a sample of more of their work. I’ll have to pick up the CDs.

Also, if you’re looking for an anime to watch, I recommend Natsume’s Book of Friends. I found it on Crunchyroll years ago and immensely enjoyed it. The stories are a nice mixture of light humor and melancholy. They’re ghost stories without resorting to scares to elicit an emotional response from you. There was recently two more seasons. They’re not what I remember the show to be, but there are a few gems in the newer seasons. Regardless, it’s good to see one of my favorite animes return, although now it’s done and over.

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