Final Fantasy Versus XIII looks amazing. Take a look at the latest screenshots here. Wow.

Heath Ledger’s dead. Fortunately, he completed filming of The Dark Knight before he decided to kill himself. However, one negative aspect of his death is the stupidly increased popularity of Seb’s blog. I imagine it should overtake Sakuranbo within days. Sad times.

It was Blue Monday on Monday. I remember last years Blue Monday…we were told about it during Maths. We had an ecstatic time.

I wrote a short story called Marionette. It’s received numerous rave reviews. However, it is, in essence, my interpretation of Ayumi Hamasaki’s song “Marionette”, and this photo:

I’m going to see Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem later. Yeah…

WHAT I’VE DONE:

• Made a MySpace page.

MY ULTIMATE GOAL

• To bring MySpace down from the inside.

Yes, you lucky bastards, you can now visit my MySpace by clicking the link in the Blogroll. I find MySpace incredibly annoying. Partly because you have to say “my MySpace” in order for people to understand what it is, otherwise, hell, they may think it’s just a link to the main MySpace page. This comic, one of many great comics from xkcd, just about sums it up:

Indeed, I’ve put Hikki’s Easy Breezy as my song. I’ve also set it to start as soon as you load the page. Just to annoy any potential visitors.

Another thing I hate about MySpace are the stupid generic display photos people use. By holding the camera above your head, not only do you look thinner and cuter, but it also gives a good view of your bosom (note: not applicable to some boys). I have bucked this tradition (although, truth be told, I am not a girl) by putting the picture of me holding a magnifying glass with a vest over my head as my main pic. Also, my background is Hello Kitty, and very pink. The information you can gather from visiting my page is that I like Hikki, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children and I’m a Virgo. My only friend is Rebecca, who commented on my page, asking me how I was. Naturally, I replied to her, on my page. But apparantly this isn’t the MySpace way. I have to go to her space and leave my reply there, away from the original question. Surely that must get confusing. Another thing about MySpace is…what is it actually for? I can put my pictures there…just as I can put them on Flickr. I can have a blog there…just as I can have a far superior blog here. I can meet new people. Only I can’t. Can I put videos up there? Really? Oh…well, I guess I’ll never have to visit YouTube again! (majuh sarcasm) Essentially, I hate MySpace because it’s popular. I hate anything popular. That’s why I have a PS3.

It took me an hour to make my MySpace the way it is now. An hour of my life, wasted. I could send friend invitations to people (or…whatever it is you’re supposed to do on MySpace), but I really can’t be bothered. I guess I’ll leave it up, checking it every now and then…see if anybody in my “extended network” dies…

In other non-MySpace related news, Heart Station (Hikki’s new song, remember?) has leaked onto the net 4 days before going on the radio. I can’t tell you where you can get your hands on it, naturally. Of course, I couldn’t tell you what it was like. But if I were to hazard a guess, I’d say it was a steady ambient song, not mentioning the words ‘Heart Station’ until the final climax. I’d also say it fades out, instead of having a definite ending.

I got 30% in first Phyiscs test. I think it’s a U. I got 51% in Biology. That’s a D. Also, the History external source was from 2006. I mentioned how the person writing it may have been influneced by Wales’ Grand Slam Six Nations win in the beginning of that year. I today found out the Grand Slam was in 2005, not 2006.

Other Stuff

• Jamie has made a new video. It’s called Twiiterbird.
• Hmm…a 150 tonne plane, with no wheels, on a runway…that’ll be a laugh moving that. Pfft, in Japan they got all the passengers out, then the plane exploded. Efficiency FTW.
• Torchwood last night featured the best gay kissing/glass fighting scene in television history.
• Why is The Daily Show now A Daily Show? What’s that got to do with The Writer’s Strike?
• Flavor Of Life (Ballad Version) and Boku wa Kuma have more or less been confirmed for Hikki’s as-yet-unnamed album.
• Apparantly, I’ve been spelling apparently wrong all my life. Apparently.

Here’s a comic. It’s sweet.

The song of the day is sweet too. Oh I think I’m living a dream come true, one more kiss and I will fall through…

Song Of The Day: Rie fu - Until I Say

Wikipedia-ing names FTW.

Yuna Ito and Celine Dion have put their bilingual abilities to the test by doing a duet together. The video is funny. It’s them staring at each other, occasionally making strange gestures.

Meanwhile, Avril Lavigne, the poor misguided fool, has started sneaking Japanese into her songs. Take a look at the Japanese version of Girlfriend… Awww….she didn’t bother translating “I’m the motherfucking Princess.”

Which cars do you never see on the road? I’ve never seen a Dodge Nitro, or Avenger. The Audi A5, Alfa Romeo Brera & Spider, or the Vauxhall VX220 all remain extremely rare. Which is a shame, ’cause the Vauxhall VX220 is awesome. I want a yellow one.

So…yeah…Physics….I didn’t bother to revise, and so had already accepted my fate. But hey, I was watching News At Ten.

My right arm inflamed massively. It, like, got really big. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s filled with air. But it’s going down now. Perhaps push-ups caused it? I’m gonna do star jumps from now on. Star jumps rock.

I haven’t bought anything from eBay for a while. Maybe I have a disease. Brian Sewell on Big Brother telling Amy her art was worthless was awesome, and very right.

PS: Square-Enix have confirmed a “Spring” release for Crisis Core in Europe. Also, Final Fantasy X-2 is the funniest game ever made.

Mysterious voice: “Uh, good, now tell me…what is the meaning of life!?”

Yuna: “…monkeys?”

Song Of Tne Day: Yuna Ito x Celine Dion - あなたがいる限り~ A World To Believe In

I just broke a plate. Smashed on the floor it did. Y’see, I was holding a knife and a plate. The knife was falling, so I moved to stop it. The plate then fell instead. It’d probably have been a good idea just to let the knife fall, as knives don’t break. Ever.

I haven’t posted for a while. This is due to a combination of things. 1) Norton AntiVirus stopped working. It kept popping up, shielding my view of other screen-based things. 2) HD gaming is awesome. 3) Revising for tests.

However, now that the computer is fixed, I’ve realised that I’ve only actually got one game to play in HD, and that the only test remaining is Physics, I have come back.

Hikki’s new Japanese album will be released on March 19th. With my amazing powers of guessery, I shall now imagine what will be on the album: Heart Station, Stay Gold, Beautiful World, Kiss & Cry, Flavor Of Life, Boku Wa Kuma. Yeaaaahhhh….that’s an accurate list. A HQ version of Stay Gold is also now available…somewhere.

At the Detroit Motor Show very little happened, apart from a surprise Lexus LF-A Roadster Concept.

I think John will win Big Brother. It’s a fix, I say.

YouTube went down….but now it’s back. Yay for us. My latest favourites are three Alex Parks songs, Beautiful by Christina Aguillera (”Christina Aguillera, what are you doing here!?” - “Burning ants with a magnifying glass!”) and an old Sweetbox song. Yeaaaahhhhh…

The new Lara for Tomb Raider: Underworld looks terrible.

Song Of The Day: Sweetbox - Everything’s Gonna Be Alright

Jun Jun, the food stealer, rude finger gesturer and altogether angry-at-being-kidnapped girl, has raised her bar to a whole new level…

Bah, my arms still ache. Stupid exercise. I think I’ll start squatting instead. Zack squats, and he looks mighty fine. I wonder what squatting actually does for your body though. All the choccies are almost gone. Good.

Today was Biology test, for which I was immaculately prepared. I lie. I didn’t know the process of mitosis well enoguh, it seems. It went better than Physics though. Tomorrow afternoon is History. 45 minutes. And it’s an external exam. Yay! I’m gonna be adding stuff to a revision sheet all night and reading through good answers to questions as practice.

Tata, the Indian car manufacturer, owner of Tetley Tea, Corus (the British steel people), and possible future owners of Jaguar and Land Rover, have unveiled the “people’s car” that they’ve been threatening to make for a while now. The Tata NANO costs the equivelant of £1200, making it the cheapest (supposedly) car in the world.

In fairness, this is a pretty terrible picture of it. It looks much better in the live shots, when Mr. Tata was driving it onto the stage. Although, not the interior though. That’s not a place you want to…go to, really.

I completed FF Tactics: The War Of The Lions. It had quite an abrupt ending. All the heroes died. All the bad people in the Church died. The Lucavi, who were controlling the bad people in the Church died. And Delita married Princess Ovelia and became King. The last scene of the game is Ovelia telling him he’s manipulated everyone, and is quite angry. He then punches her in the stomach, she collpses. The End. Like…what the hell. Ramza, the real hero, dies, along with everyone else, and the bad man becomes King. Pfft. Although, Ramza and his sister do come riding past on chocobos when they’re supposedly being buried. But this may just be the guy who’s telling the story going crazy. Although, I wouldn’t rule out the guy telling the story actually being Ramza. Poor Ramza.

Virgin Media came today. They put a V+ box in this room and another in the other room. I’m not making this very clear. Anyway, the big-ass Samsung is now connected to a V+ box with a HDMI cable which they very kindly provided. I think standard definition looks better on standard definition telly, but there is no denying that on HD (BBC HD being the only thing actually in HD)  it looks friggin’ awesome. I’m gonna get another HDMI cable on the weekend and put the PS3 in there.

Other Stuff

• The Tokyo Game Show will this year last from October 9th to October 12th.
• I downloaded an old English radio interview with Hikki from 2004. It’s good.
• In Japan, the PSP is now available in Mint Green.
• “Fridge” is up. Ah! Another triumph!
• I’m slowly scanning all my work into the computer. I can put it on my PSP then, thus making it portable.
• The woman who sings the the song featured in the FF Versus XIII trailers sounds a lot like Risa Ohki.
• YUI’s releasing a single on February 27th called Namidairo.
• Lost: The Videogame is coming out on February 29th.
• A new Morning Musume single will be released on March 5th.
• Sony’s GPS thingy for the PSP will be released in Spring, for €119. That’d be £99 then. Or, if they really wanna take the biscuit, £119.
• LittleBigPlanet comes out in September. Although, I don’t really care. No-one cares, really. It’s just that people have been indoctrinated into believing that it’s awesome.

Song Of The Day: Ami Suzuki - FREE FREE