Drive-By Post Before I Vanish To Do Laundry

[redbrunja]

Someone online mentioned a Beauty & The Beast Castle that I need to go see while I'm in France. Is this ringing anyone's bells?

Also...

-What does Gojyo's shampoo smell like? I assume, with his hair, he probably using something fairly quality, but I can't think of what. I'm tempted to go with Tea Tree Oil Shampoo, which smells minty and green and tingles pleasantly, but since that's what I use, I'm not sure it's allowed.

-During the summer pzb, my mother, possibly renegadekitsuneand I had a conversation about the ikkou's musical taste, which is notable for the way every single person said immediately, 'Gojyo listens to rock.' Which is kind of a gimme, but still, aren't we sympathico? So my question is, what are the ikkou's musical guilty pleasures? What is the music that Gojyo plays that Hakkai actually likes? For Gojyo himself, I think he wouldn't admit to liking Ray Lamontagne, but would because that artist  has this wonderful sense of romance combined with the doubt that love even exists. (Go listen to "Jolene" - it's gorgeous and totally on my 'Forget Me Not' playlist, and only smillaraaqis going to know what that means.) 

Also, I went to Giverny today, which is where Monet painted and it was utterly gorgeous and so, so peaceful, I just wanted to stay there listening to music and looking at the flowers, in this lovely, hazy misty morning, with a truly lovely dove-gray sky and the birds chirping.

What was less fun was that while I was walking to Monet's house I had my head turned and walked straight into the lamp post that was for some unfathomable reason in the middle of the sidewalk. Seriously, it was a total slap-stick moment; I expected to see Charlie Chaplan hanging around. Almost as painful as it was embarrassing.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*snort*

What do the lyrics really say?

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I've never actually gone looking for Onmyou-za translations, and I'm too crampy and bleary-eyed to hunt right this second. But the band basically sounds a bit like what Nightwish might be like if they were Japanese, and performed in Heian-era formal wear for extra visual appeal. "Kappa Dance" starts out like one of their usual songs, showy metal with dual lead vocalists, one female...but then it just randomly turns into this huge goofy audience-participation bit that looks like it's maybe based on some kind of folk dance. (I know there's at least one town that has a shinto kappa festival with associated dances, but haven't been able to find clips to compare.) It just seems like the sort of thing the guys would all tease him about, to go with all the canon jokes about antennae or the fanon where folks delve into various bits of kappa folklore like the cucumber thing.

(What can I say, easily amused here...kappa maki's always been one of my fave types of sushi, and now it makes me giggle uncontrollably too.)