[an1m3n00b]

ok, so armed with nothing more than a kanji dictionary i tried to translate elfen lied (manga) because i've been dying for some real text to sink my teeth into rather than reading just a dictionary. these are the first two phrases and my translation. if someone who knows how to really do this could give me pointers on how to make a jumble of words into an english sentence. Also, there must be a better way to look up kanji than looking through every n-stroke character.
here goes:
今日はまた嫌機だ悪いですね
Today, I hate that evil machine.
村上が死んだのもこういう時だった
When Murakami died...

I know these are probably totally off-kilter, since that doesn't make much sense to the plot. Who's Murakami? Is it some reference to heaven (village above?)