Not another post about Bump of Chicken.

I keep saying I don’t have anything to update about except Bump of Chicken. Last month I heard “Hybrid Rainbow” for the first time and seriously, you guys, I nearly made a post that was five feet long. It’s one of the most beautiful fucking things I’ve ever heard in my life. How are they so phenomenal? How?

That was a hint for you to download this song and listen to it fifty thousand times, by the way.

This post might turn out to be that way too, honestly. It’s like every time I hear them something happy explodes in my chest. I got Becky to listen to them, too, which pretty much made my week. Bump of Chicken will take over the world, one song at a time.

I love them so much, guys. I don’t really get into PVs at all but I saw the PV to “Snow Smile” for the first time recently and it nearly made me cry. I have no idea what the literal translation is but after seeing the PV all I can think is:

Once upon a time, Fujiwara Motoo was talking to his guitar.

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so tonight i’ll sing a song for all my friends

ways in which i am cheating my livejournal ban:
- continuing to use semagic to write entries in because it’s endlessly better than a browser script of any variety
- answering people when they ask stupid questions on rackets, it’s like i just can’t stop myself even though i handed the group over to Wonapalei and company. :/
- uploading pictures to my picture account, because Semagic makes that easier than anything else on earth. And someone told me it would just be depriving LJ of bandwidth because I’d only be hotlinking from other sites anyway.
- RSS feeding ljs even though this is still confusing and scary, and even though commenting is out.

I think I forced myself to leave LJ because I needed a disconnect and I wanted one. And now I have one. It is making me restless and fidgety. To say that I am feeling avoidant is a major, major understatement - I have 59 unanswered emails in my inbox and at least 3 communit - no, 4 - fandom projects i’m deliberately hiding from.

This all looks, on the surface, like so much immaturity and emotional distress. I know that. But it’s not. It’s turbulence, rather - a change happening inside me for once rather than being done to me. At some point this will all straighten itself out and I will know where to go from here, and what I want.

In the meantime, PICSPAM :D.

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stupid gifs for stupid people

can i backdate this? skladfs i should probably backdate this.

i like tribbles! do you like tribbles?

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