Drift scene in MI and Sora no Otoshimono

First I'm gonna bitch about the total lack of enthusiasm for drifting in MI. At a website I frequent, there was a posting about the interest in a drift test-n-tune at a local short track in Oct. Because there's nothing other than drifting in my eyes, I was all for it. However, a few people said they were done for the year. How is it possible that you could decide, "you know what?, I think I've had enough for this year". What The Fuck! I have to give them points for atleast trying to drift, but sometimes I think some of the people in the scene in this state are in it for the life style. At work, I think about drifting. At home, drifting. At school....you guessed it. Drifting. I would do that shit in the dead of winter so long as the surface was clear of snow and dry. And I don't even have a heater in my car anymore! It doesn't faze me. I seen a few documentaries on drifting and they interview all these drifters who just eat, sleep, live the drifter life. Total die-hards. It'd be cool if we had interest like that here. Then, maybe we wouldn't have events being cancelled for lack of entries........
Granted, it's the fair-weather drifters life to do what he wants with it and I don't have any say in it, but what bothers me is that I have to rely on them feeling up to attending an event so I can go drifting. If I had a private place to go practice at, I probably wouldn't give a damn. But since I don't, the only way I can get seat time is to wait for them or do some street drifting(VERY illegal). What else can I do? Hell there was an event on the schedule for last sunday, but it never happened, it wan't even promoted. The Drift Battle 2009 event a week ago almost didn't happen as well, because of low entry count. I want to drift, but half-assed mother fuckers aren't as into it as I am and it affects my ability to get seat time. I definately need to try and doo something about my situation. I'm not sure what, but something's gotta change.

On a better note I started watching a new anime "Sora no Otoshimono". I've only watched the first episode so far and it's rife with cliches. It has the typical annoying male douche bag lead(who I'll refer to as "the idiot"), the hot female childhood friend, named Mitsuki, and the ridiculosly hot girl who fell from the sky, named Ikaros. Of course Ikaros calls the idiot "Master" and wears a collar that has a chain connected to it and the other end wraps around his hand. Did I mention the Ikaros has wings? No? Well now you know. I see a lot of simillarity to DearS in this one. I noticed that Ikaros has a sad look on her face at all times. Hmmm. One momment Ikaros feels like a slave of sorts, then the next it feels like there's something more to her. I'm gonna have to focus on getting a better read on her. I bet Mitsuki will end up having feelings for the idiot at some point. I'm going to give it a chance and see where it goes. Here's a shot of the characters. We've not seen the little blue haired girl yet, but I bet you can make the other three pretty easily.....