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July 25th, 2008
correctjapanese
[savage_dream]
 | 10:42 pm - Translation attempt again.
Sorry, but it's me again. It's the same novel as in this post, http://community.livejournal.com/correctjapanese/429087.html.
This time, a person feels that his lover is being kind to him out of sympathy, not love.
So he says:
同情なら、同情でもいいよ。けど、それなら俺のこと 「愛してる」 言ってっちゃ駄目じゃないか 。好きって顔、しちゃ駄目じゃないか 。
My try:
同情なら、同情でもいいよ。
It's fine if you do it for pity's sake.
けど、それなら俺のこと 「愛してる」 言ってっちゃ駄目じゃないか 。好きって顔、しちゃ駄目じゃないか 。
But in that case, you shouldn't have said, "I love you" to me and shouldn't act like you love me.
I'm really not sure about it since it seems that he ends the sentences with question word か.
Help me please. D:
Thank you so much.
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jetjapan
[3valve]
 | 12:06 am - TTP Wiki
Hi guys, a JET in my area is putting together a Wiki site called 'Translate That Packaging!' to make shopping in Japan easier for English-speakers. You can find the facebook group HERE, and the wiki site HERE. The more contributions there are, the better it will be, so go ahead and share it with your friends! This could be a great resource. :)
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jetjapan
[silleefox]
 | 09:48 am - Packing woes (whoa)
Hello everyone! I'm that person who waits until a week before I leave to start thinking about packing. I'm usually pretty good about packing light, so at least I have that going for me. :)
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone can advise me on the following. For your reference, my US sizes are: Height 5'4", Pants 6-8, shirts usually M, shoes 7.
- Indoor shoes: I was thinking about buying a pair or two of ballet flats for school, but I'm pretty sure I can get them in Japan. Any advice?
- Shirts: I was planning on bringing 2-3 dressier tops for both warm and cold weather (4-6 shirts total). I'm usually about a medium in the tops department owing largely to my boobs- I'm about a C cup. Should I buy more shirts because of my breast size, or is it possible to find button-up shirts/nicer tops that'll fit in Japan?
- Jacket: I don't have a warm/waterproof dressy jacket- mostly I just wander around in my snowboarding-style jacket since I take it off as soon as I enter a building anyway. Since jackets are fluffy, will I be alright just bringing a sportier jacket, or should I invest in a dressy one? Are dressier jackets available in Japan for people my size?
-General advice would also appreciated!
Thanks so much :)
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jetjapan
[destroyingangel]
 | 10:37 pm - Nippon Express (Pelican)
Heeeelp meee... has anyone had to set up re-delivery with Nippon Express' Pelican delivery service? They tried to deliver an Amazon package to me while I was out and unfortunately, I can't just scoot to the next city over to pick up a package (whereas with JPost I can go get it at the local post office).
The re-delivery scheduling site is--I think--here. But it seems to want some kind of keyword and/or is convinced that I am already registered on the web site or something. Can anyone walk me through rescheduling this stupid thing?
The irony? It's a package of study materials for the JLPT. --;;; I need them in order to read this bloody delivery notification slip.
Thanks in advance, kids!
[EDIT] Ok.... it took me a bit but I think I have it sorted. Maybe there's hope for me yet. But man, it really doesn't like people using romaji names to register...I had to use katakana entry for both the regular name fields AND the furigana fields. :D Stupid gaijin names.
Current Location: apaatochan
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/angry.gif) I want my kanji flashcards...
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knish
 | 12:08 am
book read:
unaccustomed earth, jhumpa lahiri: jesus, but she can write. it's not so much that this book is full of luminous sentences, it's not that the stories - if they were told to you over a dinner table - are so wrenching that they can stand on their own. it's merely that she always picks the perfect word, and that perfection stacked on itself into sentences and paragraphs and scenes and then finally stories, makes for remarkable reading.
-jpz
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crochetcrochet
[mythrana]
 | 12:53 am - Looking for Patterns....
Hello everyone. I have really enjoyed seeing the amigurumi that everyone has been making. I am just getting started myself but I am wanting to make some based off the Fruits Basket anime. If anyone has any patterns or knows where I can find them I would be most appreciative. I am especially looking for Momoji (rabbit), Kyo (cat), rice ball, Tohru, or Yuki (rat). I hope to find patterns for them all eventually.
Thanks and have a Great Day!!
xposted to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) weloveamigurumi
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) optimistic
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July 24th, 2008
mordicai
 | 09:51 pm
gestapo! they wear boots in the shape of the moon, they've got special hats on & all the special spikes & epaulets. blue veils & hooded trench coats. the dream police! secret officers of doodles & scribbles. fresh as the smell of grass bleeding. so what about them! i don't mind them; they have a captain & he plays the organ, wears a half-mask & holds a rose bleeding crude oil from its thorns in his teeth. the pedals of the organ are made out of skulls! he comes from a mom & pop & mom family. he has a special way of drinking his coffee! he had a special way of drinking his coffee. he was executed by an electrical golem just a few hours ago. a golem from a flesh dimension! i think about. also: i can tell you about all the other positions on the tree besides "hanged." i can do it but i won't. a warlock has his secrets!
Current Mood: so much stronger.
Current Music: crown me king- one too many
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mordicai
 | 09:27 pm - the alchemical wedding.
 doom patrol volume five (5): magic bus by grant morrison & brian bolland.
hey, does doom patrol get the attention it deserves? unlike the invisibles, which, i'm sorry, is a little too masturbatory to count in the end run, the doom patrol comics have a consistent narrative. in other words, there is something rubber to stretch. the exploration of the negative man is, for instance, an important work that figures in the past of the character & impacts the future. part of the fun of the serial medium is that you don't own the characters-- they own you. a lot of the craziness is pure fun, & a lot is pure drama, but the character piece on rebis is far & away the most stand out.
Current Mood: singing electronic bloops.
Current Music: crown me king- the robots marching up the square, conquering
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feminist_lit
[athenia45]
 | 07:24 pm - Twilight
So, have you hear the Twilight buzz? You know, the book about vampires and stuff? Anyway, well, since it's so popular, I though I'd take a stab at it (hahaha, pun completely intended!!). So far, it's alright (I'm a sucker for vamp books), but damn, the book is starting to piss me off. The guy, Edward, is your standard eloquent protector with a temper. Everything is "you have to be safe, bella" "I'll protect you" blah blah blah.
I'm just really sick of books and movies where, yes the main female character is strong, but at the end of the day, the boy still needs to be the protector and save the day.
Excuse me while I go watch some Xena.
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jetjapan
[ayu_mi_kay]
 | 03:23 pm - Questions
Hello! I'm new to this community and I have a few questions about the JET program. Since this is a rather lengthy explanation as to my situation, future plans and questions I will post this under an LJ-cut.
( My many questions... )
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Any advice would be appreciated!
Kay
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nihon
[ocha_no_hanashi]
 | 01:14 pm - ニューズ
Yomiuri News Podcast
Daily news reports in easy to download Mp3 format.
Just load it onto your MP3 player and away you go.
http://podcast.yomiuri.co.jp/
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crochetcrochet
[olliekitty]
 | 10:18 am - new ravelry member
Well thanks to you guys I joined ravelry and have been addicted to it now for 2 days.
Love love love love it!
My name is "chickintheband" if anyone wants to add me!
Current Mood: excited
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mordicai
 | 10:15 am
gonna growl like a serpent. i know my diary has switched from a record of the sublime to the banal. it isn't a hurt, a wound, but the flip-side. instead of needing a redoubt from the world, a safe to crack, a stone table to set out the dark rainbows of my thoughts & put them aside to cope with a jagged bit of world? i've gone right ahead in the opposite direction. i've got a magic ring & a halo; i live in gotham & walk the dizzy streets with arms wide out, all eight of them. i don't need to store away the hurt to remind myself who i am because i'm better at being what i am. & quality is better than identity any day of the week. & pathos? well. if you ever thought i had pathos you weren't paying attention, really. but what am i to bleed over now? other than these two holes in me. & i've got the prettiest jewel to put into those absences. in all the chambers of my heart.
Current Mood: knit from dark wool.
Current Music: crown me king- have you seen 2001?
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destroyerzooey
 | 08:58 am - E.W.Jr quotes from comingsoon.net @ comicon
(link)
Wright: ...It looks likely that I will do "Scott Pilgrim" next and then "Ant-Man" straight afterwards.
CS: You have a great cast that's been announced for "Scott Pilgrim" so far.
Wright: There's some more interesting people buzzing around as well. It's going to be a big ensemble, that film, and there's a lot of fun people we've already been talking to, so there's more to come with that.
CS: [Bryan Lee O'Malley] still has a couple more issues of the story to finish, so have you talked to him about where the story is going to go so you can include some of that in the movie?
Wright: The only book that isn't written is the sixth, but our film takes on a slightly different trajectory after the second book and it includes elements from books three, four and five. In some cases, Bryan has used lines in his books from our first draft of the screenplay (chuckles) which is like strange performance-style transference, and it's been brilliant being able to pick his brains throughout this. On one hand, it's a very very faithful adaptation and on the other hand, it definitely molds events from those books into a three-act movie structure, so that's been interesting.
CS: And you know that Mike Cera has this insane fanbase of women, which you might have seen at Comic-Con last year, but it's gotten even bigger since "Superbad" came out. Essentially, every single woman wants him.
Wright: Michael Cera? Yeah. I know he's got a lot of growing up he can do if he wanted to.
CS: Once you figure out if the strike is happening, do you know where you'll shoot the movie? Would you go back to the U.K. for it or do it here?
Wright: No, it wouldn't be in the U.K. It'll either be here or Toronto. It would be really crucial to kind of shoot in Toronto, so that's what I'm aiming to do.
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July 23rd, 2008
redsouffle
 | 11:11 pm
I was back in the world for a bit, but now I'm in San Diego at COMICON YAY. Adjust your expectations accordingly. Also, if any of you know anyone cool that's at comicon, send them my way. I have a hankering for meeting new people.
Until Monday I am OUT!
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hydrozoa
 | 10:27 pm - the law of diminishing returns
hosting a trivia show is fun on paper, literally, when you are writing the questions. they are shiny little jewel-puzzles--you don't want them to be too easy, but you still want the people to get the questions right, because you know how much you enjoy getting questions right. it will be fun to share little info-bits and be in a little smartyclub with each other. it's a delicate balance, though, between subject matter and sentence structure and general accessibility, and it must be just so. you craft the questions carefully, artfully, excruciatingly at times, and include witty little clues and jokes for your patrons, whom you love. you want them to love you back.
they don't love you. they fucking hate your guts. they are much smarter than you could ever hope to be, and if you've doubted this for one second, you're deluded and deserve nothing but strife, which it is their personal duty to deliver to you. the thing on the poster that says you're an encyclopedia editor is not a qualification but a challenge.
we did geography-themed team trivia this month instead of the regular old geography bee because my co-host thought my questions were too hard last month. so the format shifted from 1. three rounds with one question per contestant and then 2. the bonus tiebreaker to 1. five categories with five questions apiece, 2. an intermission, 3. another five/five, and then 4. the bonus tiebreaker.
i was dismayed to hear the news. i liked the bee format because the contestants, for whom i was still overflowing with hearts, got to come up to the mike and vamp, and we'd ask them quirky little icebreaker questions, and they're usually smart and funny, and the show was much more of a show that way. versus us reading a list of questions to an audience and occasionally editorializing. oh, well. we'll try it on. the tiebreaker round remained the same--we make them draw countries or states or bodies of water on a whiteboard, which is always entertaining--so at least i still had that.
i'm supernervous in the first round because i'm scared the questions will still be too hard and i'll be criticized on stage by my co-host, per the last show, even though i'd dumbed them down by making them multiple choice. i can't think of anything funny to say. the sound of my voice is nauseating--i sound like corky with a valley girl accent. dar dar, like, petrograd leningrad. i am overruled in the state nicknames round--they are read without multiple choices--and that doesn't ease my nervous brains any. mad awkward pauses.
eventually, i warm up, after getting a laff out of "so are people from qatar qatarded?" but soon find that i will be hurried along whenever i try to tell similar asides.
a question about djibouti prompts the same djibouti anecdote that is always told at the geography bee. i think we are four for four now. it is fucking open season on anecdotes if you are not me.
some prematurely gray dude is all full of fabulous sauce and starts yelling shit out. "ah, yes, the country that is home to brooklyn's namesake is the same country referenced in the question about acadia!" all in the voice of Comic Book Guy. i mumble, "mmmmm, i'm pretty sure it's not." grayskull catches this and won't stand for it and snipes something back. i don't want to give the answer away yet cos we haven't graded this round yet, so i reply, "if you say so." he continues his end of the dispute with his teammates.
i am hassled by my co-host for asking a question about the faroes. i maintain that people have heard of the faroes. i am contested. i mention that they eat puffins in the faroes and you can just catch them out of the air and take them home and eat them!, and that distracts the adversary of the faroes. another question about the capital of nunavut is met with opposition because the towns are inuit words and hard to say, although i have included phonetic explanations. i feel as though people have heard of nunavut and it's not unreasonable to ask its capital. it's a province in canada. we live next to it.
people trade papers and we read the answers for round one. i misspeak and say "guyana" when i mean to say "ghana," and grayskull fucking loses it. stands up and yells, "GUYANA. WHAT. NO." there is a bomb in his temple and it's gonna explode.
when the folks turn the answer sheets in, they look pretty good. one team has 16 of 25, three have 15, and one has 9. i feel so happy for my little baby contestants! they know the capital of nunavut! we have a connection!
someone has written "the ferrous," which delights me. faroes sulfate.
a guy approaches the table during intermission to inform me that he has a "minor quibble" with my category on "the middle east and its penumbra," which is that bangladesh isn't in the middle east. i look deeply into his face and say, "that's why we added, 'and its penumbra,' because of that question. remember, we made a joke about it," and my eyeballs say to his eyeballs, "oh, my god, please stop talking right now, because it is very, very bad for both of us and is about to get worse." he asks me what i was thinking.
the first category in the second half is antarctica. the dude who won the last two geography bees takes personal offense at the question about what are the southern lights called in latin and keeps asking for clarification. i say, "the northern lights are called aurora borealis; what are the southern lights called?" he asks what that has to do with antarctica.
nobody gets upset over my question about which country is home to the delicious and very popular soda, guarana antarctica. thank the sweet lord in heaven.
grayskull wants extra credit for knowing what portland, oregon, would have been named if the coin had come up tails instead. "i've BEEN to portland," he says smugly.
several people don't understand the category "in which city is this TV show set?" they're like, wait, but "the X-files" was FILMED in VANCOUVER for the first six seasons before moving to LOS ANGELES. is THAT what you mean?
i'm like, "yeah, the answer for all five questions is 'an L.A. sound stage.' . . . no. it isn't. where do the characters in the show live? that is what i'm asking you."
when we read the answers for round two, grayskull argues that babylon and the tower of babel are the same thing. he and another guy piss their pants about "the X-files" being set in washington, D.C.--they insist the FBI is headquartered in langley, virginia. i say i always thought it was quantico and have never heard of langley, but i'll take it, it's OK. it's not OK with them. they are upset.
for the bonus round, we make representatives from each team draw a borough. grayskull draws a kickass staten island and i praise it highly. the next girl draws a pretty shitty bronx, but what the fuck, who can draw the bronx. all in good fun. the champion guy is given queens and throws a BALLS-OUT CONNIPTION FIT.
"no. i'm not drawing queens. that's too hard."
"it's harder than the bronx?" i ask.
"queens is the hardest one! that's not fair! i was hoping for manhattan because then, uh, you know, i'd just--"
"everyone was hoping for manhattan," i say.
my co-host tells him that he can send up another representative from his team if he wants. he's like no, but queens is too hard, give me something else. she tells him we can't change the question because we only have three borough-shapes printed out for reference.
so he stands there and draws a fastidiously detailed queens, bitching the entire time about how hard it is. i remind him that a puzzle of the united states is what's at stake, and we're not expecting him to be a closeted cartographer. we're playing trivia in a mall here.
he is not comforted. he names the neighborhoods as he goes and draws the coastline all ragged, with inlets and shit. it looks very much like queens. it is a totally legit queens.
"did we just get sharked?" my co-host asked. "watch him bust out with a fucking to-scale replica of queens."
i still don't quite know what getting sharked means, but i love that. shut the fuck up before you get sharked.
the team who ate shit on the bronx wins by half a point. they are friendly and nice, and i am relieved it's them who win. the queens-drawing champion hangs around the table to whine about it because his queens was so awesome compared to their bronx. he has lost his title. the guy who was upset about bangladesh not being in the middle east comes up and tells me that we have to get rid of the drawing round because "it is horrible." i say it's the best round, what are you even talking about, it's funny and silly and creative. he repeats his assertion, unsmiling.
some motherfucker from grayskull's team wants to chew my ear off about the geography bee book that i have tucked under my arm. i'm like, it's for fourth-graders--i don't really use it. i just brought it for emergencies. he's like, dude, i'm gonna buy that book and memorize it! i was like, knock yourself out, because i don't actually use it. he was like, dude! let me see it!
champion has something to say to me, but i get the fuck out of there before he can say it.
Current Mood: pls don't answer the questions
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mordicai
 | 10:43 pm - curios & object d'art.
 the cabinet of wonders: book one (1) of the kronos chronicles by marie rutkoski.
i am happy to report that i enjoyed this very much. it was a concern! what if it was awful, what would i say to marie? as luck, or really skill, metis, would have it, the question is dodged. i happened to find the book quite lovely. i say that with very little bias, too. so, enough ado & all that rot. to the meat & the drink. cut to the chase. license to kill.
cabinet... is a ya book set in hapsburg prague. you know i don't like prague, so that was a hurdle! i do like fantasy yarns, & this is a pleasant one. petra kronos is a competent young girl with scoundrel friends who gets in & out of trouble. i won't dither on with a plot summary or any such nonsense. suffice to say: smart girl +1. mechanical spider +1. gypsies +1. so on, so forth. the relationship between petra & her tin spider, astrophil, is a little bit shades of pullman, but not in any way other than they were sipping from the same well, if you follow.
the big selling points for me were a variety of details. most i won't go into, since i plan on biting her style & cribbing them for my own use. we share an interest in invisible fingers, which i call ectoplasmic fingers. a marble with a wasp in it. names for things. john dee! the redheaded queen in a dress made of eyes & ears (a real painting)! & there are selling details-- the sick horses really impressed me. motives outside the scope of the narrative! there is a broader tale at work. that always pleases me.
a quick note: a reviewer for the book said there was "no coherent system of magic." okay, listen you dried up prune of the worst sort of gamer. systems of magic is one of the great millstones of a rule system. as soon as you make magic a reliable, codified, practical schema, you loose the wonder. magic should be incoherent. what are you, a wizard, who can tell it like it is? eff you.
Current Mood: high marks!
Current Music: crown me king- the sword is the shape of the relation of blue to sapphires
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nihon
[kuroloki]
 | 07:15 pm - Japanese copyright
Hey everyone, I have a question concerning Japanese copyright laws...
In short, from what I understood, the US has a fair-use policy that allows us to duplicate images for the sake of review or commentary on an artist's work as long as the image stays small. I have not been able to find out if something like this exists in Japan?
What I plan to do is make an independent fashion magazine and include some images of clothing made by popular Japanese lines. I think in the US you're allowed to do this without first obtaining permission, but I was wondering if this is the case in Japan?
And I'm also not sure which country's laws should be followed in this situation, since I will be publishing this in the US.
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