Yuki Kaori - Godchild, vol. 07 (Eng. trans.)

Woe! This is the penultimate volume, which means soon, I will have no more new Godchild to read! At least Fairy Cube has been licensed, else I wouldn't have any new Yuki Kaori to read, which would just be tragic.

All I will say outside of spoiler-cut is that there is one scene in here that nearly made me lose the breakfast I have not yet eaten, it is that disgusting.

( Spoilers of gothic DOOM! )

DOOM!

Actually, not that much DOOM. Um. Well, at least compared to all of rachelmanija's previous DOOM.

So, the shower is still not draining, and there's a good few inches of water in there. Thankfully, though, I fixed the toilet! I rock! I feel having a working toilet is much, much, much more important than having a working shower.

I also managed to get Rachel back on Hotmail, albeit via a rather roundabout process (the redirect doesn't work for some reason, but if you go from the link on the MSN homepage, it will work).

In return for my virtuous deeds, I now have about six flea bites on me. Rachel's curse strikes back!

Rachel's got another report on what we did all day yesterday.

( Cut for length and possible DOOM )

On the non-cracktastic side, we have been listening to a lot of good music. I burned her My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade (my favorite album of the year so far, though it's getting some strict competition now), and she played a lot of Leonard Cohen for me in the car. We both melted over his voice, which sounds like he has smoked innumerable cigarettes and downed who knows how many shots of whiskey. We also listened to Lyle Lovett (the opposite of Leonard Cohen, in that he keeps thinking he will get the girl and doesn't) and Nick Cave's Murder Ballads.

So far, my favorite Nick Cave line is in "The Curse of Millhaven": "Well, I'm a wicked young lady / But I've been trying hard lately / Oh, fuck it, I'm a monster, I admit it" which had the both of us howling. We didn't listen to Murder Ballads on the way back from Yoon's, as we had just seen Sweeney Todd and thought that was quite enough murder and cannibalism and insanity for the night, thankyouverymuch.

And today, the Museum of Jurassic Technology (steampunk! Whoo!), much lurking about cafes and reading cracktastic manga, the La Brea tar pits, and Amoeba Records, as I must acquire more Leonard Cohen now.

(Oh, Mely, we also listened to your twice-told tales mix from the airport and agreed that it is awesome and we love the cannibal song, "The Queen and the Soldier" of course, and the "she loves a stone" song, among many others.)

Oh! Last note, I swear. Nick Cave has a wonderfully deranged cover of Leonard Cohen's "I'm Your Man," which I introduced Rachel to last night. It is the melding of two geniuses!