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New excerpt which I have written just now in the past five minutes, but I must warn you it is less than fantastic. I am woefully behind. It is kind of exciting.

I have decided perhaps that one of the novel's themes perhaps is (involuntary?) corruption, and I would never want to be friends with any of these characters in real life, ever. Unlike my current novel project, where I think it would be hilarious to hang out with everyone. Perhaps that is one of the reasons I have actually been able to stick with this novel for going on three years now. (I hate admitting I have been working on this one novel for so long because I have mad woman friends who I'm sure churn out twenty-five novels each per year.)

Anyway, yay NaNo, boo PACI which I don't want to go to at all. Haha, I have spent like half of today sitting here in the school computer lab reading MoMusu forums. I am absolutely convinced that one day this is going to get me into trouble. I don't think it's a brilliant move to look at pictures of underaged Berryz Koubou (their 2007 calendar pwns MoMusu's, how distressing) in a place where people can see what you're doing. Ahaha, I'll have to come up with a clever excuse. "But I'm writing an essay on rorikon, you don't understand!"

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I guess one difference between H!P and JE is that H!P only really has one member who is over thirty (that being Nakazawa Yuko, you might know her from the first Gokusen ^_~ ). But she barely even gets to release anything anymore. I think H!P started as a collective with members that were the average ages, for a J-pop group, but since 2002 they have started getting younger and younger. MoMusu now, I think the cut-off ages for auditions is twenty-two or something like that, I'm sure it used to be older.

I like Hikki a lot, although whenever she puts out a new song I have to listen to it over and over and over until I'm used to it enough that I can like it, haha. I do like a couple songs of Namie's, I haven't heard that many. Admittedly I really am unable to tell whether a song sounds more Western pop or more J-pop, unless it has, like, traditional instruments in it or something. I'm really bad with telling genres apart, or so it seems to me. ^^; Yeah, I saw Koda Kumi's audition, too! I wonder what would have happened if she had joined MoMusu? I don't even think she'd be happy there. I remember her talking about how she wouldn't be happy in the back, she'd want to be right up in the front singing all the lines. She would definitely be a lot different if she had joined and stayed with MoMusu. But I imagine she would have dropped out and run off to avex anyway, hahaha. Or what if she had gotten into MoMusu and Maki (who did get into MoMusu at that audition) was picked up by avex? Man, that would be a strange alternate universe, hahahahahaha ...

What do you think of Hamasaki Ayumi? I like a lot of her stuff but I'm always really slow when it comes to listening to her new releases, haha.

Yeah, I know I like really girly music, hehe. :) <3

Yes! The presentation! All I know is that it is to be five minutes long. I'm not even joking, that's all I know about it, and I only know that because

leaf_green told me this morning. I don't recall sensei going over this presentation at all and it is really frustrating. I expect I'll just read a rough draft of my paper, and maybe pass around some pictures to distract everyone from what a junk presentation I am doing. Good idea?

Siiiiigh ...

(Man, this is the first time I've written a comment so long it had to be split into two. You got me talking about MoMusu and when I get talking about MoMusu I write books. For realz.)

On to part 2. LOL

Actually I've heard Nakazawa Yuko's one song ~ It wasn't too bad ~ a friend told me it wasn't a cutsy super girly song. So she sent it to me. (BTW: Apprently she was dating Sakamoto Masayuki from V6 ~ and were rumoured to be getting married but I guess that rumour never panned out eh. LOL)

I liked Ayumi's older stuff but recently i've started to like HEAVEN.

Oh yeah the presentation i asked sensei is between 3-5 min and you just basically talked about why you choose. How you will do the presentation and whether you got any resltus from your "experiment"

ikenai hodo

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