Can you figure the kind of fic I'd have to write to this...? =_=

What fanficcers call "muses" are - of course - mental constructs (let's set aside the case of people who have difficulty admitting that they're mental constructs ^^;), but they're mental constructs in the sense that a character played by a method actor is a mental construct to him/her. In fact I rather suspect "talking to one's muses" is an introverted version of method acting, as befits a creative format and culture populated by and geared toward introverted personalities. It accounts for that peculiar sense of non-responsibility - it's-not-me-it's-the-character - that we're all familiar with (which I think we are. Even if you're like me and refuse to use the word "muse" to refer to anything except a minor Greek deity XD). Not to mention the low-key impulse to adopt the character's clothing style, speech patterns, diet choices, et al.

What the hell was this about again...? Oh, yeah, an example of the music Oshitari's been inflicting on me the past couple of days:

Laura Pausini - In assenza di te (In Your Absence)

Admittedly this kind of thing is inherently better in Italian than in English, but...

夢際のＬＡＳＴ ＢＯＹ～

Went to see Ping-Pong at Fantasia. SHOUNEN SPORTS~~ :D :D Seriously, I had a headache all day and this film cured it. Ran all the way home from the bus stop. You'll love it if you like shounen sports manga in general - I mean, movie, but it really obviously started off as manga - right feel, all the classic genre tropes from the Scary Bald Team to the sports-related superpowers to the dramatic injuries to the chibi childhood flashbacks to that damned elimination tournament chart (which I'm starting to realise is mass-produced by the Education Department or something and used for all varsity sports in Japan). And quite a lot of the soundtrack was Supercar, including some of the tracks I posted the other day. A WINNER IS ME XD

I'm going to read the manga~~ but I think the live-ac is prettier~~ and that's a phrase one almost never gets to type out, so in conclusion, you must all rent this film~~ :D

EDIT -- Also, I'm going to play corporate paintball out in the wilds tomorrow (sororial unit: "Like that scene out of Good Omens? >_>"). I've never played paintball before. Advice?

EDIT2 -- According to AICN, Miike is making a film about a Bakumatsu hitokiri whose BURNINATING RAGE allows him to time travel. Clearly this will be the greatest movie of all time.