IKASATU>SOUL The Soul of Ikasatu Kirasawa: Composed of Eight Recognized Items Sa10012004v4 |Mecha| |Pizza Rolls| |Computers| |Swords| |Music| |Architecture| |Link| |Stand-Up Comedy| Mecha: I don't know what it is about giant robots that floats the proverbial boat, but it invades my dreams, my shoddy art, comics, bedsheets, etc. I love Armored Core. Seriously... there isn't much that would make me ever stop my obsession with Mecha. (A blunt object invasively altering my brain patterns, perhaps?) I have the action figures! The action figures for chrissake! I collect all kinds of interesting things, but all my action figures (as of yet) are all mecha. That says something about me... It says "I <3 robots." "My other car is a giant robot." Pizza Rolls: Allow me to be shallow, and say that no drug addiction has yet been invented, that rivals my habitual abuse of these delectible little bastards. They sell them in bags of forty, and that's just not enough! I could literally go through five bags of them. I need to get dealer-grade pizza rolls. The secret kind you buy with an entire mortgage, where a handful would put you on a three day minature- pizza bender. The sort of pizza roll that they sell by the ounce. I want to eat three or four of them, and wake up weeks later, feeling full; my gruesome thirst for miniature food products completely slaked. Computers: I'm not a technocrat, I don't know everything there is to know about them, I certainly haven't got them completely figured out. Yet I'm drawn to them in a nearly erotic fashion. I'm feel like a technosexual. Having to leave them someplace is like leaving a girlfriend in ancient Rome. Naked. With a sign that says "Please Fondle!" I have desires about them. I dream about them. I call home in the middle of a date to leave messages for my tower-system. "Io? This is daddy. I'll be home soon. If you get bored, I left some Seti@home in the Storage folder for you. I'm bringing home some 52x CD media for you. I love you, sweetheart." No, seriously. Similarly, if someone's got a nasty computer, it's like having to deal with someone's nasty girlfriend. "No really, she's not that bad." Swords: I think an M4A1 is sexy, but a Claymore is sexy and honorable. It's like having a toothpaste that also includes mouthwash, or a license to kill and eat. Gleaming metal, the swoosh of blades, the tuning-fork vibrations of high carbon steal striking a target... It's got to be in my Scottish blood, somewhere, little proteins that look like tiny swords. "Yes," the doctor would say "this explains it..." You've got basket-hilted-saber-celled-excitosis. There is no cure, but we can put you in renaissance festival therapy." Music: "Music is the wing and the updraft" - Ikasatu Kirasawa Since my very earliest days, perhaps even before that time, music has been integral to my person, to deny beat, melody, or harmony, is to hold my breath interminably. Drums light a fire within me, flutes send a chill down my spine, don't even get me started on the string section. I cannot deny music, I must listen. There are a lot of popular "hits" which I don't strictly hear as fitting that category, but there is not a "type" of music for which there are not songs of redeeming value, in my humble consideration. Folk music is a favorite, and within that category, Japanese, Russian, Irish, Scottish, African, and the American Indian songs speak to me most favorably. I'm sure there are others that don't come readily to mind. I call myself a music lover, because I can't categorically reject any music. Except that of Celine Dion, who cannot use a beautiful voice to make music, she must bolster it with backup choirs, synthesizers, and all manner of superfluous gadgetry, to make each tune a Celine Dion Epic. She destroyed "God Bless America", the same as someone would destroy a Van Gogh by covering it with multi-colored glitter and strobe-lights. The point at hand remains. I love music. Architecture A good building is a terribly difficult thing to plan. So many buildings have already been created, it seems an impossible feat to design something that is original, but doesn't look like an obscure paperweight or perfume bottle. I love cathedrals, and castles especially. The complex interweaving of space leaves me awe-struck. Russia, was a mine of stunning churches (to call them something so pedestrian feels vulgar). I enjoy a fascination with a good buttressed dome, or gothic archway, and video game "dungeons" give me goosepimples. I am constantly struck by the human feats of engineering, when it comes to shelter. Link: The Zelda series of games, and the idea of Link in general... A wanderer, doing good works in a land of magic would actually be enough for me. That Nintendo saw fit to make it the story of a swordsman/archer doing these good deeds in a land of magic, accompanied by beautiful music... Well, it's like Christmas, really. Additionally, the temples in Ocarina of Time are master-works to behold. The whole land of Hyrule is magestic, but each "dungeon" is a scuplture of highest art. To be Link, is to be and have everything of which I can dream, with the exception of the following things: giants robots, race cars, computers, or pants. To be Link is to appeal to the highest ideals of humanity; Power with responsability, Wisdom with purpose, and Courage without fail. I have been, for the last few years, accumulationg the parts of a cosplay (costumed player) outfit, so that for short periods of time, I can be The Hero of Time, the Waker of Winds, the brave and honest Hylian swordsman. To think that I would pass, if only for a moment, as Link, is to fulfill my deepest wish. (Also: girls dig a guy in tights) Stand-Up Comedy: The mark of a good comedian, is that they know what you're thinking. A good stand up act uses that to its advantage, usually to boot you from behind while you're waiting for the other shoe to drop. A good laugh helps to lighten the soul, and living kind of requires that. Stand-up comedy is the interveinous form of humor. Not a quick shot, like a good joke (or a bad one you enjoy, I suppose), and not the long-term intake that is a good book; a solo comedy act is the best thing one person can give to the world. "If you are going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you." - George Bernard Shaw All contents © Copyrighted

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