Alright, well my collection of Judy and Mary songs now isn't as big as it was about 6 years ago. Judy and Mary was my favorite band for several years, and still is to some extent (in terms of punk/pop rock, this takes it; soulful and rock & roll goes to The Yellow Monkey, though). In my first collection (before I lost my original hard disk), I had every song they made except around 8 songs, if I remember correctly, and except for remixes and alternate versions.

So anyway, since yesterday I've been longing for one of their songs that I remember, called "Goodbye". I just realized that I liked that song so much, and that I missed it, but I didn't have it currently on my computer. So I went around file share programs looking for it, and ended up finding other songs that I was missing too in my current collection, including an awesome strings version of their song PEACE.

Man... I really loved that group. I remember when they performed their farewell concert in Tokyo Dome in 2001. I was watching live on WOWOW (a Japanese channel that we got on cable back then). It was so sad.

Okay now to MMORPG news. Rappelz is a pretty cool game. I finally got to try it now that they fixed the corrupted file that the patcher was trying to download. But as early as level 15, you an already tell that it's going to be a grind game. Even the majority of quests cause you to grind. However, I'm looking forward to dungeon parties later on, which sound like more fun than wandering around killing monsters for mind-numbing hours. Because dungeon parties are supposedly hard, you need a full party with effective strategies, making it far more interesting. I have no characters high enough level yet, but I'm working on it.

As for Space Cowboy, they were having problems with the log-in server. This seems to happen often, where you can't log in.

I've been working more on my drawing style rather than the story, so there isn't much progress to talk about. My drawing style is becoming cleaner, though. I'm going through some minor adjustments with the hairstyles, and I'm also practicing to draw full body quickly. I can only draw them correctly if I spend a lot of time on it, but I'm going to have to learn to do shortcuts: i.e., not drawing a body outline first, then drawing the clothes, then erasing the body outline. I have to learn to draw the clothing directly, and still end up with a correctly-proportioned body. It's actually very tricky to me...