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taotrooper) wrote2005-09-30 01:16 pm
taotrooper) wrote2005-09-30 01:16 pm
The joys of magazines. Nnnng.
Some lists.
Things I have to do TODAY:
- A Clow/Yuuko kiss
- Change Lovegood.net's layout for Toshi's FMA marathon
-![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fma_awards's weekly icon. I'm done with the other icontest ones
Urgent and not so urgent things to save money for:
- $35 (around 29e) for renewing my paid account. I just decided that not only I can't live without one, I also absolutely crave the 100 icons add-on.
- 22e for a cheap Final Fantasy VIII PSX copy I saw... somewhere ¬¬
- 24e for that RG Veda artbook, although it's going to be gone when I get the money.
- Fruits Basket #6 (8e), CLAMP no Kiseki #5 (16e), XXXHOLiC #5 (8e), Tsubasa #8 (8e) [I deeply hate you, Norma]
Ever since I was a little girl, I loved magazines. I've always been attracted to the images plus text combination. The colors, the layouts, the photographs, the particular contents. I can't pass in front of a stand/kiosk without glancing at the magazines they have. It's some conditional reflex. Sometimes I can't help but buying one, if it's important for me to buy it, no matter how broke I am (like this month, when I'm supposed to be saving up, and I spent 5 euros in a magazine just because it includes a DVD with some polar bear documentary...)
The first magazines I used to buy (well, actually, they were given to me) were Barbie ones *shudders* I was very young at that time, and I liked cutesy things. If there was a Sanrio magazine, I would've read that one as well. The phase wore off, thankfully, and it was replaced with Club Nintendo (Latin/Mexican equivalent of Nintendo Power.) As I was more of a gamer when I was 10-13 years old, I loved the gaming magazines. This was before Playstations existed, and currently I'm still more devoted to Nintendo and Miyamoto's creations.
Then high school. And I started reading teeny-bopper+fashion magazines imported from Mexico and Spain for two reasons. First, everybody else was doing that. Second, and this is the main one, it had hot guys. Hormones got the best of me, and so did Leonardo DiCaprio. Shut up. No, really, shut up, I bet you went through the same with some celebrity(ies) once in your lifetime. And currently, I still like him as an actor very much. He got better after Titanic. Er, in acting, I mean.
Back to subject. The next phase, coinciding with my college freshman year, was all about "otaku" magazines. I discovered Dokan, Minami and Shirase (all of them were Spanish magazines about anime) in a kiosk. It was just on the moment I started watching anime more actively. I didn't have internet, so reading about all those strange animes and mangas, and having a CD with multimedia, was like heaven. How did they bleed me, those magazines. Of course, at the time -2000, 2001- they were better, the editors weren't so wanky, and Dokan had those cute Japanese lessons.
Now that I live in Spain, by the way, I don't buy that kind of magazines anymore. They're not only lower quality now -fuck, I wasted my money on the Dokan CLAMP special, and it was utter CRAP-, they also kind of tell me things I could google and get even more info about it. The CDs are not even any good anymore.
Right now, I'm pretty much random. Apart from National Geographic, which I buy almost every month, I tend to buy magazines if the content mentioned on the cover interests me. Star Wars special edition? I'll buy it. Photoshop tips? I'll buy it. Mythology dossier? I'll buy it. Ancient Egypt? I'll buy it. A travel report about London? I'll buy it. And so on.
It's not a good thing, considering this, just glancing at the news stand near the supermarket after buying cornflakes. I had to bite my tongue and run the hell away from it after seeing an Historia special on Ramses II and some second volume of a DVD collection on European cities -this one about London. Nnnnnnnng.
Things I have to do TODAY:
- A Clow/Yuuko kiss
- Change Lovegood.net's layout for Toshi's FMA marathon
-
fma_awards's weekly icon. I'm done with the other icontest onesUrgent and not so urgent things to save money for:
- $35 (around 29e) for renewing my paid account. I just decided that not only I can't live without one, I also absolutely crave the 100 icons add-on.
- 22e for a cheap Final Fantasy VIII PSX copy I saw... somewhere ¬¬
- 24e for that RG Veda artbook, although it's going to be gone when I get the money.
- Fruits Basket #6 (8e), CLAMP no Kiseki #5 (16e), XXXHOLiC #5 (8e), Tsubasa #8 (8e) [I deeply hate you, Norma]
Ever since I was a little girl, I loved magazines. I've always been attracted to the images plus text combination. The colors, the layouts, the photographs, the particular contents. I can't pass in front of a stand/kiosk without glancing at the magazines they have. It's some conditional reflex. Sometimes I can't help but buying one, if it's important for me to buy it, no matter how broke I am (like this month, when I'm supposed to be saving up, and I spent 5 euros in a magazine just because it includes a DVD with some polar bear documentary...)
The first magazines I used to buy (well, actually, they were given to me) were Barbie ones *shudders* I was very young at that time, and I liked cutesy things. If there was a Sanrio magazine, I would've read that one as well. The phase wore off, thankfully, and it was replaced with Club Nintendo (Latin/Mexican equivalent of Nintendo Power.) As I was more of a gamer when I was 10-13 years old, I loved the gaming magazines. This was before Playstations existed, and currently I'm still more devoted to Nintendo and Miyamoto's creations.
Then high school. And I started reading teeny-bopper+fashion magazines imported from Mexico and Spain for two reasons. First, everybody else was doing that. Second, and this is the main one, it had hot guys. Hormones got the best of me, and so did Leonardo DiCaprio. Shut up. No, really, shut up, I bet you went through the same with some celebrity(ies) once in your lifetime. And currently, I still like him as an actor very much. He got better after Titanic. Er, in acting, I mean.
Back to subject. The next phase, coinciding with my college freshman year, was all about "otaku" magazines. I discovered Dokan, Minami and Shirase (all of them were Spanish magazines about anime) in a kiosk. It was just on the moment I started watching anime more actively. I didn't have internet, so reading about all those strange animes and mangas, and having a CD with multimedia, was like heaven. How did they bleed me, those magazines. Of course, at the time -2000, 2001- they were better, the editors weren't so wanky, and Dokan had those cute Japanese lessons.
Now that I live in Spain, by the way, I don't buy that kind of magazines anymore. They're not only lower quality now -fuck, I wasted my money on the Dokan CLAMP special, and it was utter CRAP-, they also kind of tell me things I could google and get even more info about it. The CDs are not even any good anymore.
Right now, I'm pretty much random. Apart from National Geographic, which I buy almost every month, I tend to buy magazines if the content mentioned on the cover interests me. Star Wars special edition? I'll buy it. Photoshop tips? I'll buy it. Mythology dossier? I'll buy it. Ancient Egypt? I'll buy it. A travel report about London? I'll buy it. And so on.
It's not a good thing, considering this, just glancing at the news stand near the supermarket after buying cornflakes. I had to bite my tongue and run the hell away from it after seeing an Historia special on Ramses II and some second volume of a DVD collection on European cities -this one about London. Nnnnnnnng.
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On more important topics - are they still releasing HOLiC, after all? Or is #5 the last one?
(Second version, because the first one had a million typos.)
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Nobody knows. I think they also bought #6. It seems the Kodansha issue will only affect the new mangas they license on Spain, but I'm not sure. Haven't seen more news, but at least it's official a bit more of HOLiC and TRC is coming up from October.
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I hope it's that and we still get HOLiC. *crosses fingers* It was kind of depressing to hear those news right when I'd finally bought #2...