Oh...hello!

I've totally let my self indulgent little blog go the wayside since moving to Seattle! Luckily, no one cares since it's just for me! Even so, out of some strange compulsion I am going to do a quick catchup.

A letter to the Michishige's~

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Michishige,

Thank you for getting married and creating Sayumi. She's fucking adorable and hilarious and awesome.

Love,
Deanna

PS: Please make more.

PSS: Happy Birthday Sayumi!!

I dont think I have posted about SNSD's new single? If I have; oh well, it bears posting about twice! First of all, we love this song. We listen to it eight times a day. And often I find myself humming it. The video is really cute and DAMN THEY HAVE LEGS.

Furthermore, I just wanted to point out that this video solidifies that I totally have a crush on Sunny. She's the best. Don't deny.

I am now also in love with these two doods cuz they fucking rock.

Kanna goes Bye Bye Bye!!

AAhh...so. UFA has announced that Arihara Kanna has left H!P, effective immediately, to return to life as a normal school girl. Oh ok! Well she was already gone so it's not too big a difference I guess? I hope she's happy in her new life!
Now, Hello!Online is reporting that an "inside source" has revealed to them that Kanna is now being kicked out of H!P because of her boyfriend, and some more photo's of her with him that have not been published (as apposed to the ones from like a year ago that were). Well..ok. Sure? Thats plausible. But now I am seeing people going nuts and crying conspiracy. That Kanna did not have medical reasons for being suspended and that UFA was just "trying out" her expulsion from the group? Err? Haha..this is very funny to me. Whenever UFA has wanted to expell someone, they have. There is no reason that they'd start coming up with big elaborate stories of epic bunions knocking a member off her ass for months on end just so they can then say, "Oh yah btw, she's quitting forevs!".
Hello!Online forum member, Sa-Mantha, gave a bit of an explanation last month about why her recovery might take longer than others. She even found pictures to illustrate how bad her deformity had become. So I'm gonna have to go with this not being some crazy conspiracy from UFA. In fact, what I imagine is that Kanna just plain realized she was enjoying her life more without the hustle and bustle of being an idol. Maybe she does still have a boyfriend and she'd like to date him without that crazy contract hanging over her head. If so then I've gotta say more power to her!

On a side note, I don't really care that she is gone. It's not that I hate her or anything, I'm just indifferent :3

jooorrrb stuff

I have accepted a job to work at La Petite Academy! I am only going to be making a little bit over minimum wage but they have a good benefits package. Plus I am still waiting to hear from the software company that is perhaps interested in paying me to doodle :3

In the meantime...I look all around for a good site to make an art portfolio. Alas...the best option? Blogspot.

>>>>>>> http://russodjv.blogspot.com/ <<<<<<<<<>

oh gods...a smudge...

Shit is in.sane.

We're moving to Seattle and everything is moving so fast and yet not fast enough. I'm utterly terrified and excited. I pretty much just feel like I'm going to puke all the time. I think I'm going to be offered a good job working at a Preschool. The interview went really well and the manager seemed to like me. I'm also hopefully going to possibly be getting an interview for my sort of art field dream job. It's sort of like twilight zone. And not the fun and giddy cute vampires and werewolves kind of twilight, the bad scary black and white twilight full of awkward scenes, cheesey acting and plot holes! It's totally stomach churning.

Anyway...

Morning Musume IS IN LA!!! Aaahh how friggin cool. Especially considering I'm in that time zone right now. Yes...I am in the same time zone as Morning Musume. Mind boggling! I'm so happy for everyone who is at LAX and experiencing Momusu's first American events. Please impress them, fellow fans, so that they may come back time and time again! I was really happy watching the video's of the girls arriving at the LA airport. I like to think they weren't expecting any sort of welcome, and instead they got a very hearty one if I do say so myself!

This weekend will be fun but stressful. I actually think I might be extremely stressed out for the next month as we move across the freakin country =_=.... But things will be better for it!

The newest member or Hello!Project...

Jang Dayun

I didn't actually watch any of Meet Tokyo Girl, the Korean TV show competition/audition aimed at picking one girl to be the newest member of Hello!Project and thus shipping her off to Japan immediately. Nonetheless, the winner has been announced as 14 year old Jang Dayun. I'm going to figure out how to say her name and then support her! She seems very cute and sweet from the small amount footage available from the show. I wonder if they will put her in a group? I know a lot of people are vehemetly against her joining Morning Musume, but personally I think that it's an awesome idea. Morning Musume is very popular in Japan, China, and Korea. So why not have members that are from all three countries? Hell I think that'd be awesome. As for beling a soloist? I have no idea how good she actually is...so I'm not sure if she could handle it. There are certainly several soloist spots open I guess what with Mano Erina being the only current one. Or who knows, maybe Tsunku will throw out something totally random and have her join Berryz Koubou or C-ute.

Now on another note. Wasn't it stated in Tsunku's blog that the so far unannounced members of the new Minimoni, Pucchimoni, and Tanpopo would all be present on the new wedding songs album coming out in Jully?

Well the cover of the album was released yesterday and how about that it looks like everyone singing on the album is pictured on the cover! Now I can obviously see all the full members, Momusu, Berryz, Cute, Mano. But at the top on either side of Mano (who I think is Mano, anyway, damn small ass picture) We see some eggs! Now I'm not good with eggs, but on the left side we have what is pretty clearly the members of S/mileage. On the right side of her we see some new faces! Now I'm sure someone out there knows all the names and faces of the eggs but alas...not me! So are these some of the mysterious new members of the soon to be resurrected sub-groups? Also there is only three of them! We know Lin lin and Fukuda are in Minimoni, and that Tsunku stated the rest of Minimoni would be eggs. So are two of these girls in Minimoni? Furthermore, if we expect Pucchimoni to have 3 members and Tanpopo to have 4, that leaves only one egg to go between both groups. Unless of course all the S/mileage girls will be taking part in one of the 3 sub-groups. This still begs the question if all the sub groups will be made up of 1 Momusu + 3/2 eggs = Sub-group. Personally, I like the inclusion of eggs in these groups but I'm less interested in a bunch of groups that just shuffle eggs around. I think it would much more entertaining to see some of the less used members of Berryz, Cute, and Momusu get involved as well, and not just one of each per unit. Well I guess we'll find out soon enough.