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[Dec. 17th, 2008|08:51 am] |
I wish I knew what I ate last night that made me so sick. Bleh. Though it's just as likely to be stress as anything else--of course, I don't know why I should be stress-sick now, instead of last week when I was dealing with Australia and Robert Burns and fifty panicked pharmacology students studying their brains out 50 feet away from me every day....
Probably need to scale back a little on playing Persona 4. The first thing I thought when I saw the soup-like fog outside my window yesterday morning was, "Gah, I should have stayed up late and finished that dungeon--now it's too late and someone's dead! I'll have to rewind a whole week!" Surreality~ Not quite as bad as the let's-drive-the-car-into-that-mailbox! that comes after playing too much Katamari, but close.
Am amused that I have now seen at least five or six people on LJ openly admit to going starry-eyed over the protagonist's uncle, which means there are probably a lot more out there. I wonder if the game designers would be "???" over the fact that some fangirls are skipping right over the young male characters and heading for the older, drinking, smoking, rolls-his-sleeves-up, scruffy-but-attractive cop...okay, maybe they wouldn't be surprised. XD And they let the MC dream about him, so I have to wonder if they're encouraging the Wrong as well.
Oh, hey! In the spirit of Chrismahanukwanzakah/the solstice/general winter-ness, would someone like an ARC of The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found? Amazon page here. I reviewed it a few months back, and now that it's been officially published there must have been some extra copies, because I received a lovely hardcover version in the mail yesterday. It's nice, but it also means that I really don't need the review copy taking up space on my shelf, so...anyone want it? (I gave it a positive review, so you needn't worry I'm trying to pawn I book I hated off on you. XD ) |
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[Oct. 17th, 2008|09:29 am] |
I realized I forget to go '!!!' about the release of the English patch for Persona 2: Innocent Sin. I know not many are interested in a game that's nearly a decade old, but--murder! Nazis! Lovecraftian horror! The end of the world! Potential canon boy/boy romance! I'm excited, can you tell? :D
Also, uhhhhh, there may be another manga scanlation project occurring. Possibly. With me actually doing some of the cleaning and typesetting.
...this wasn't quite what I had in mind when I was maundering about not having a goal or a project to work on, but I'll take it! |
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[Sep. 22nd, 2008|08:35 am] |
So. Tired. I feel bad about dropping off the planet for so long, but it's not really right to post or comment or try to chat with anyone when your conversation is around the level of "buuuuuuuuh".
Was grumping last week over the "take a photo of yourself RIGHT NOW!" meme, because it assumes that everyone obviously has immediate access to a digital camera/webcam of some sort. And then I remembered that Shiny New Laptop has a webcam, except I had completely forgotten about it because, er, I covered it up right away. (What? Webcams still scare me a bit.) Anyway, I don't think it's fair to do it now, since the point of the meme--the spontaneity--is long gone.
I must have been watching too many video Let's Plays lately, because I had a dream over the weekend about reading Youtube comments full of nothing but time-markers--"0:30-0:33?" "4:26-5:05!"--that were actually an elaborate code that contained the secrets for the destruction of the universe.
Oh! And yesterday, through an odd little sequence of events at the bank, I ended up with some unlucky person's ATM card and $40 of their money. ( in which my life is not a movie )
Listening: the Clockwork Cabaret! ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) katilara, who is a joy, did several posts
recently on steampunk/steampunk-y works and mentioned this. I am not a big fan of podcasts because I find it difficult to actually concentrate on them, which makes a lot of them sort of useless for me, but this won my heart when in the very first show the hosts (in character) cheerfully talked about the "untimely and violently explosive death" of their parents, and then played "O! What A Dream It Was" and another song based on Good Omens. ♥!
Gaming: in chat karose rightly pointed out the aggravating-ness of almost all of the aliens in Mass Effect being bipedal humanoids, which pinged some faint memory in my head: 'didn't I used to play an SF action-RPG that had lots of exploring and chatting with aliens, and some of them were actually spiders and birds and crabs and tentacle-y things...?' Yes, apparently. And there's a port for Windows, too, since everything old is new again.
So I spent a little time replaying it (and realizing that I've lost any skill I may have had at it, good golly) and...all right, plenty of other people have point this out by now, but I would really love to know if any of the ME creators played the Star Control series in their formative years, because--hours and hours of dialogue? Zipping around the galaxy doing lots of alien diplomacy and mineral scans? A race of blue-skinned attractive humanoids that's composed almost entirely of females? (Okay, okay, that's not exactly an uncommon element of the genre, but still...) Really, though, a 1992 DOS game should not be more forward-thinking than a shiny new next-gen game in regard to alien types. I realize there's issues involved with developing character models and movement, but come on.
My goodness, all this text! And yet I have the feeling I haven't really said anything at all. |
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[Aug. 26th, 2008|08:55 am] |
Things I have not been posting about:
--The random conversation I had with a bookstore cashier that ended up with him giving me a leftover pre-release Breaking Dawn button. ("It will take your breath away~" it says, in froofy font.) I like to think that there's some die-hard Twilight fan who'd cheerfully deck me to get her hands on this, but probably not.
--AGD Interactive finished their remake of Quest for Glory II. ♥♥♥ I swear, I thought they'd never finish it, and now it's killing me to wait for the long weekend so I can play it. II and IV were always my favorites, and II wins out because it didn't take forever to get running or crash once every hour or have game-breaking bugs. It always made me grumpy that II never got a nice VGA remake--not that the old graphics'n'text parser aren't charming in a nostalgic way, but, er, shallow!me wanted to see the Arabian Nights setting done up all pretty.
--Volume 8 of After School Nightmare is out. Unfortunately, having spoiled myself for the end to find out if my guess about the Big Secret was
right or not, I...have sort of eliminated the ability to make any comments on the remaining volumes without being influenced by that knowledge. :| On the other hand, volume 1 of Black Lagoon is also out, which means I can finally have an excessive guns-and-actions kinda-fanservicey-kinda-not series to read. Sometimes it's nice to pick up something in which you know there's usually going to be a fistfight or a gun battle or an explosion on half the pages. (No matter how much grim and depressing it gets later, or how much all that violence is meant to be a subversion.)
--Reading comics again is weird. And no less disheartening than it was four or five years ago--for every issue or series that makes me chirp with delight, there are five or six that send me running pell-mell back to the old things I've already read, because at least those don't make me want to stomp around and throw things. Manga really have spoiled me. (Also, my bookstore finally organized and alphabetized their TPB section, and all that did was assist me in learning that they didn't carry any of the TPBs I actually wanted to buy. Nice job, guys.)
--There was a really, really disturbing moment a couple of weeks ago when I was having dinner out with someone, and made an insipid remark about the
effects of depression, and started laughing at the sheer banality of what I'd said, and then couldn't make myself stop laughing. Better than bursting into tears, I guess, and it only lasted for a couple of minutes, but I was scared for the rest of the evening. Dear self, let's not have our first nervous breakdown in a random suburban restaurant.
--No sooner had I finished that Thing I didn't want to work on--well, what I could do of it--when another one got thrown onto my desk. Literally. Printed on neon-green paper. Now I feel like it's glaring at me every time I sit down and glance at it.
There really ought to be a way to help people without...having to interact with them at all. It's not like I can help it if all people make me feel tired and anxious and gloomy. |
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[Jul. 31st, 2008|09:35 am] |
Golly, now I remember why I never could jump all the way into mainstream comics fandom--it's got one of the most abusive canons ever. First it's all, "Guess what? I love you and I'm going to give you everything you ever wanted! And some cookies! And a pony!", then five minutes later it's walloping you across the face and throwing you down three flights of stairs and setting your house on fire. But the good stuff is so good that you stick around anyway.
I mean, every fandom's canon has its going-off-the-rails moments, but at least with manga and indie comics you don't have to worry so much about waking up one day to find that your Most Favorite Series is suddenly under the control of a team that's equivalent to, say, Miller and Liefeld. *sigh* Thankfully I'll always have my DCAU comics to cling to.
...I wish there was a way to leave a comment saying, "I'm sure your fic is lovely, but I can't read it because you're spelling the main character's name wrong and it distracts me" without being rude. I kept trying to find a decent phrasing for it and finally gave up. (But then, I've been doing something like this an awful lot over the past weeks--spending half an hour typing up a comment, and then just deleting it without posting because I don't want to sound like a snotty and overhelpful know-it-all, or I'm not sure of the person's feelings on comments from random strangers, or because I realize that whatever effort I put into writing it is probably going to be wasted and I might as well go read a book or play a game instead. I thought speaking your mind was supposed to become easier as you got older? With me it seems to be going backwards.)
Mass Effect: still amazingly shiny and consuming my life, though at this point I am taking the Plot What Plot approach in favor of running around going "ooooh!" at things and reading all the spiffy worldbuilding notes. And possibly making my xenokink worse...I can't believe I just admitted that. Clearly "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side" did not register properly in my brain.
Car is back and fixed. Yay! Now to get the money settled so I can finally consider this learning experience OVER. |
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[Jul. 28th, 2008|09:49 am] |
How many things make a post, again?
* Finally got to see The Dark Knight last week. ( non-spoilery but cut for politeness )
What else, what else....
* I think this is my favorite story from Comic-Con. My heart did little flips at the sheer perfection of it.
* Kuroshitsuji trailer. Looks nice, though I will still always wonder what an animated version of Godchild would be like.
* Having failed at cataloging items in German, I am now attempting to outdo myself by failing at French, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic (!!) as well. (Well, it isn't so much Failing as Muddling Through--but still! My brain hurts!)
* Got a real haircut. Car is getting fixed. Bought an Xbox so I can finally play Mass Effect. The last is miss_anthropy's fault. (Okay, it's my fault too, since my typical response to spending too much on boring, responsible things is to immediately spend a similar amount on frivilous, fun things in order to cheer myself up. I forsee many meals of Saltines in my future.)
* ...there was a lot of emo here about the current attack of "I'm lonely! But I'm afraid of people! Wah!"--and being unable to handle the thought of even online interaction without my brain curling up and crying--and being stuck in a mean, nasty mood for weeks now and not being able to shake it off--and my wanting to kick people with whom I have never really interacted but who, despite being perfectly decent and friendly people, have inadvertently managed to make me feel insulted--but basically it all boils down, once again, to, "Hi! I have Issues! How about you?"
I miss having exercise where I could punch things on a regular basis, even if I got punched in return. |
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[Jun. 30th, 2008|09:43 am] |
Had the calmest and lowest-key birthday ever--except for the shark-filled nightmares--which for me is really the best I can hope for. Really, anything that doesn't reach the level of misery that was my 21st is fine.
Bidding for livelongnmarry starts tomorrow! I am neither buying or selling, due to lack of money for the former and lack of any sort of skill to offer for the latter, but that's no reason why everyone else shouldn't go spend lots of $.
My father and I wandering into an argument a civilized debate about the current quality of writing in the world. He said that there was less good writing than there used to be, which for some reason rubbed me the wrong way, so I pointed out that, among other things, 1) once you get past spelling, grammar, and general plot and character mechanics, 'good' is mostly subjective and 2) there was plenty of trash and badly-written prose fifty/one hundred/two hundred years ago, and the average person just doesn't run into it these days because it's been consigned to the dustbins of history. (Mostly.)
Then he said that what he'd meant was that people weren't as good at communicating through writing as the once were, and I said that wasn't the same as what he'd originally stated, and we probably would have gone another ten rounds over intellgence of writing vs. intelligence of readers but my mother distracted us both with cake.
After all that, though, I'm not sure that he doesn't have a point, at least about writing being worse these days. When I got home I sat down to start a Book That Shall Remain Nameless which had received all sorts of good reviews. Before the evening was over had to set aside to be tossed, because within the first fifty pages ran smack into painful dialogue, half a chapter of infodump, and a 'protagonist' I wanted to kick in the face for being a skeevy jerk. And I paid money for it, too! *sulk* |
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[Jun. 16th, 2008|09:58 am] |
So, really, no one at all has scanned the Yukikaze manga? Because I decided I might as well order myself a copy for a birthday present, and then under the logic of if no one else has done it, I might as well grabbed another one for debinding purposes. I can't read the novels and I can't write fic, but god knows I can shell out cash and wear out the scanner as a way of contributing to a tiny fandom if it's needed. I mean, it may turn out to be awful but it should at least be awful and available. (I thought about asking insaneneko if I could use her translations and scanlate the thing, but that seems a little...impolite? I really do not know the protocol here, and considering I don't have brilliant image cleaning/editing skills anyway....)
I blame this idea on my sudden craving for old fandoms with human/machine relationships--Yukikaze/Rei, Shion/KOS-MOS, Roger Smith/R. Dorothy, which in turn is probably the fault of Iron Man and jmtorres talking to me about Pepperbot. Summer of machines, I guess. (Speaking of robots, I finally had to toss my Metropolis keychain and was surprised at how much it bothered me. It was just a cheap thing but I've had it for eight or nine years--hopefully it wasn't the secret charm that held all sorts of misfortune at bay. I've still got a Dalek on there, but it just won't be the same without the Maschinenmensch staring at me whenever I pull out my keys.)
Reading: nothing at the moment, yet again. I picked up Jacqueline Carey for a reread, thinking I was in the mood for "fun and overblown", and then couldn't get more than one hundred pages into Kushiel's Dart without my eyes nearly rolling out of my head. Now I have a to-read pile that runs nearly the length of my bed and none of it looks appealing. This makes me antsy! I start to panic if I'm not in the middle of at least one book!
Non-spoilery natterings about anime:
KKM 89: Not that I object to the way things turned out, but gosh, they missed out on a prime opportunity for some "vessel with the pestle, chalice from the palace" hijinx! I will just have to imagine the universe in which that happened instead. KKM is apparently spending their animation budget on the filler episodes--88 and 89 seemed to be miles better than the plotty episodes that came before them. Normally I'd say that someone should point that they're doing it wrong, but since so far it's meant lots of well-drawn young!angry!Conrad and pretty!Anissina...
Nabari no Ou: dear series, please stop making me like all of your female characters. I know this is a shonen story and is really all about the angst of Miharu and Yoite, but I have liked or at least been intrigued by every single girl or woman so far and I'm worried that this will backfire horribly later. (I.e., all the female characters end up disappeared, dead, or evil.) I'm amused that so many people apparently picked this up as an action show and are now dropping it because there's too much talking. If you could sit though Death Note, guys, you ought to be able to handle this.
This is going to be me one day, I just know it. Doesn't help that I'm fairly near an overdue fault line. |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2008|10:19 am] |
Ahhh, now is the pre-travel time when the panicking begins in earnest. I am so boring--I don't think I'll ever understand people who love to do this sort of thing. On the other hand, the print shop sent out my business cards a week early, so I actually have an identity now! Yes, I had to buy my own business cards. The joys of being faculty, I tell you.
(jmtorres, do you want me to...e-mail you my schedule or something? Or will you even have any spare time with work/sickness/whatever?)
Golly, they're making MW into a movie? For some reason I can't see this turning out as anything besides a trainwreck--and yet I'm already eager to see it, if only to find out how much'll get chopped out. (They can't leave the whole thing with the dog in, right?)
This, on the other hand, just makes me want to headdesk. I'm fond of Death Note, but does the world really need more of it at this point? Especially an Americanized version? |
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[May. 20th, 2008|12:08 pm] |
Seeing Iron Man three times in as many days is not the sign of a healthy mind, right? Twice in a weekend is one thing, but when I look at my watch after work and think "hey, if I can get to my car in five minutes, I can make the 4:00 show!", it's getting a little worrisome. I suppose the best defense would be to blame the movie for being so amazing?
Also, it's quite nice to see that people have already written most of the fics I wanted to read. Well done, small fandom!
UnFortunately I cannot repeat the same mad rush to the theater today, as I have a Terrifying Thing after work that will take up my evening. Of course it would happen on a Tuesday.
Oh, hey, Who news. I am suprised that I have absolutely no opinion on this at all. |
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[May. 8th, 2008|11:34 am] |
...why is it that whenever I do cataloging for my old department, there's always random erotica in the collection I'm working on?
If this is TPTB trying to give me a hint, they can shut up. Especially since it's not even good smut this time! |
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[May. 6th, 2008|12:15 pm] |
( nabari no ou, to ep. 4 )
Also, as a shameful fangirl confession, I am weak to any story that gives me canon powers involving markings- or words-on-skin, because I immediately start working out how to mix it with Yami no Matsuei and turn Hisoka's curse marks into something that lets him Kill People With His Brain. (Really, I have two or three AUs of this type scurrying around already, all of them fusions/borrowings from different series. I can't actually do anything with them, but they're lovely shiny things to have in one's mind.)
( KKM )
Soul Eater: What two_if_by_sea said. Standard shounen thus far, but it's wrapped up in such stylish and amusing trappings that I don't care. No idea if it can sustain the cool for 50+ episodes, though--or if it can keep the fanservice on the not-skeevy side for that long, either.
Monochrome Factor: What woodburner said. I should ashamed of watching this, because it's like the series creators cracked open the skulls of a bunch of teenage BL fangirls, rummaged around until they
found the most typical squee-triggers, and tossed them up onto the screen. As a result it's terrible and embarrassing but highly entertaining in its awfulness.
Tried to watch the next season of Code Geass, but I had to take a break after I misheard Rolo's name as 'Lolo' and started picturing the brothers as those two puffball characters from Adventures of Lolo. The show is ridiculous anyway, but that pushed it over the limit. (Which one would have the pink hairbow?)
Someone pointed out a link to a shop taking pre-orders for a gorgeous Princess Tutu figure. Thank god I have no place to display these kinds of things and am thus spared the temptation to order one. Mostly.
Books: Nothing at the moment, but I realized this morning that Project Gutenberg has quite a few selections from the Elsie Dinsmore series. These books are, um, interesting, in that "I really hope this read more innocently in the nineteenth century than it does now" kind of way. It might be fun to spend the next couple of days rereading a couple of them to see if they can still make me goggle-eyed with horror.
Work is busy. New project is keeping me cheerful, but the rest of life (?) is suffering as a result and I don't seem to have the energy or the inclination to fix the problem. I keep wishing that I could stop updating this journal, lock the whole thing down, and only use it for occasional commenting, but people won't keep dead journals friended. *sigh* |
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[Apr. 21st, 2008|10:26 am] |
Would you believe that there are three different Caramelldansen videos with Solid Snake in them? I don't know if this is a sign that the world is insane, or that it's amazing.
So is this the season that fangirls took over the anime studios or what? I am going mad trying to keep up with everything. And for some reason I have fallen hard and fast for Nabari no Ou, which must be TPTB's way of mocking me for years of feeling smug about how I mostly avoided sliding into the Naruto pit--I am fairly meh about ninja series in general, but this one managed to stomp right on some of my literary kinks/favorite cool bits right in the first episode. And by episode two there is already a cute girl character who looks like she will actually be useful in a fight!
Also! I watched Noroi, which perked me right up by proving that there are still some decent, scary Asian horror films out there. (Snowblood Apple review here.) The summary of it sounds fairly gimmicky, as it's supposedly the last work of a documentary filmmaker specializing in paranormal occurrences. The movie is his recorded explorations into a series of strange events, at first mixed together with the bits of evidence he picks up--seemingly random clips from a clairvoyant testing, an 'interview' with a (literally) tin-hatted psychic--and then honing in on the source of the mystery as the pieces start to come together.
In many ways it's like a bunch of J-horror films and the Fatal Frame series done Blair Witch style, and perhaps it borrows a little too much from the last in spots--but it works really well, the acting is terrific, and the best scares (i.e., the moments that made me want to give in to the behind-the-sofa response) are the ones that take full advantage of the shakycam/"omg, this is real footage!" conceit, particularly for people who have been left with lingering fears about misbehaving videos from Ringu and Ju-on. Apparently someone put clips of it up on Youtube awhile back, but they're gone now, which is a pity--I wonder if viewing it that way would have added an extra frission of terror?
Fair warning, though: definitely not a film to watch if animal cruelty squicks you.
Unfortunately, this means I must continue to pick through Asian horror films in hopes of finding spiffy ones like this one, instead of just abandoning the genre all together. |
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[Apr. 14th, 2008|10:02 am] |
I will not get into a snit over minor issues. I have more important things to do with my life.
Instead of being good and cleaning the entire apartment this weekend, I spent too much time replaying Drakengard and since I have nothing else to talk about today, I will babble about that for my own amusement.
Drakengard is a Squeenix game that was released back in 2004, and is a weird mishmash of Dynasty Warriors and Panzer Dragoon. I should say that I do not actually recommend this game--the gameplay is seriously repetitive, the camera controls are wonky and frustrating, the plot (which is full of nonsense about seals and pacts with mythical beasts and a Big Bad Empire) is underdeveloped, and the script was chopped up for the English release and as a result is nearly incomprehensible in places. It's not a great game or even a good one; 'mediocre' is probably the best it can hope for.
However, the reason I have kept this game around for four years, besides the occasional need for something that's pure hacky-slashy, is that it is one of the most depressing and nihilistic video games I have played in my life.
( do you really have to spoiler-cut for a game that's four years old? )
Anyway, it was very good at distracting me until Persona: FES is released next week.
I am trying so, so hard not to write again. I realized this weekend that I miss it, but in the same way I miss swimming or dancing--activities I used to blithely adore long ago and which personal issues now make it almost impossible for me to enjoy on any level. How can other people do that?, I keep thinking. How could I have ever done that?
...maybe I ought to take up knitting or something. |
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[Apr. 10th, 2008|10:11 am] |
It must be spring since
the birds outside my window
refuse to SHUT UP
It's enough to drive a girl to go outside in her pajamas and throw rocks at trees.
My laptop's monitor is going bad--sluggish to move from screensaver to screen and with a funny reddish tinge before it goes to normal brightness. Not it is isn't expected, since the poor thing's almost four years old and I've used it pretty hard, but I was hoping to let my tax refund loll around in the bank before a bit longer.
Also am seriously annoyed that several people have recced books to me over the past weeks and the library does not have them. Or it has them and they're checked out until next month. Or they're at a different campus and I still feel odd making interlibrary loan requests for myself. I just want to read books about spies and feminist noir, world! Why can't you conform to my wishes?
I wanted to do National Poetry Month, but the poem I planned to start off with has two different translations--one by Ezra Pound and the other by someone whose name escapes me--and I couldn't remember which of the two I preferred. So I went to check both versions...and found neither was the one that I'd been thinking about and repeating to myself for months, because I'd subconsciously smushed the two translations together, keeping the essential meaning of the words but producing something that didn't match to either one. And now neither of the 'real' versions has quite the same zing for me as the one that I dreamed up by myself.
This made me feel so dishearteningly stupid that I scrapped the whole idea.
However, in the realm of things that are good: Someone put up the complete Ball of Fire on Youtube, which means I can now watch it anywhere in the house or at work. Especially this scene, which has one of my very favorite misuses of books for romantic purposes. (Good part starts about four mintes in, if you don't want to watch the whole thing. Though I have no idea why people wouldn't want to watch Barbara Stanwyck being bright and flirty and Gary Cooper being adorably awkward and naive.)
Also, a brilliant anon has concocted drink recipes for all the Gundam 00 characters. This needs to be a trend for more series, yes? Some of them look tasty enough to make me regret my No Alcohol in the House rule. |
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[Mar. 31st, 2008|09:20 am] |
dunkle_feuer scanned a Tatsumi/Tsuzuki doujinshi last week, and the cover image has been lurking in my head ever since then, because (and I still don't know if this is a computer screen issue or a funny coloring job or my own bad vision or what) Tsuzuki's eyes look less violet and more blue in that picture. I am much too in love with the fairy tale-esque idea of him crying blood till his eyes turn blue--how many stories are there where someone has to mutilate themselves to get rid of curse or an unwanted attribute? There's "The Red Shoes", and the one about the girl who chopped off her own hands...it'd be wrong to sneak down to the stacks and hunt through all the fairy tale anthologies, right?
There's probably a drabble or ficlet lurking somewhere in there, but I'm not going to be the one to hunt it out. I don't care how tasty you look, plotbunny--I don't do that sort of thing any more. Go be hasenpfeffer for someone else. (Besides, nothing says "I've read far too many vampire novels" like tears of blood.)
Still stuck in the Land of Bleh; the weather isn't helping as it's supposed to be rainy and grey for the next three days. What I really want to do this week is just lock myself in the apartment with the Silent Hill games and The Maxx--did anyone else on the flist watch/read The Maxx? (Besides telophase; I know she's read it becaue she once traumatized me by pointing out how similar the KH Heartless and the Iszes look.) I ought to do a write-up/rec post of the series, since i's another one of those brilliant yet unknown ones, but it doesn't seem right to rec something that is 1) over a decade old and 2) not readily available except in an out-of-print VHS, bad-quality videos through torrents, and hard-to-find comics. And, er, since March/April is still wintery in places, it's probably not the best time for a series in which all the characters have massive psychological problems, even if the gloom is sometimes broken up by things like a digression into Seussian rhyme or a melee with a psychotic hammerhead landshark.
...on the other hand, the comic files themselves aren't that huge, and the low quality of the video files means I could just upload them myself. Hmm.
Website for the Blade of the Immortal anime is up. I have decided not to be excited about this, because I would much rather be surprised and happy if it turns out well than be depressed if my optimistic hopes get dashed.
In terms of completely different subject matter, apparently there will be a Chi's Sweet Home anime this season--apparently the first episode is already out and subbed?--so at least there will be more cuteness and light in the world.
What else, what else...rereading World War Z and reading the letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz; normally this would make me think that there needs to be a story set in 18th century France with zombies, but Chevalier d'Eon did it already, sort of. One hardly knows what to say to that. |
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[Feb. 28th, 2008|08:20 pm] |
Oh! Oh, oh!
Antique Bakery anime in July!
Golly, I guess I'll have to keep living after all.
Also, scanner seems to be unbricked, so scanning of catboy!Yuri will commence this weekend, tho it may not get posted till Monday. I may actually have to shell out money for image hosting on this one. |
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[Feb. 27th, 2008|10:36 am] |
On my way to work yesterday morning I took a spill down half a flight on concrete stairs. Now I hurt in weird places and my knee looks like a horse decided to take a kick at me.
But when I got home yesterday I found that my manga-and-doujinshi order had come in, and so my only concern for the rest of the week is going to be: which dj would be more likely to get me lynched by the conradxyuuri comm if I scanned and posted it, the one where Yuri turns into a girl or the one where he turns into a catboy?
(Well, what else was I supposed to pre-spend a bit of my tax return money on?)
(Also, the scanning question is mostly academic at this point, since my scanner seems to be bricked and the chances of me having the energy
either to haul it in to be fixed or buy a cheap new one are slim. In this way I have once again let fandom down.)
This thread on F_W keeps making me giggle madly, and I've never even played Phoenix Wright.
Have a craving for something with machines and psychosis. Should I pick up Gundam 00, or just re-watch RahXephon and Yukikaze? |
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[Feb. 25th, 2008|11:21 am] |
( slight emo )
I managed to successfuly fill out my tax forms, though, so \o/ for me.
In more pleasant news, we're actually getting Persona 3: FES? And in April, too--should be an awfully pleasant month, if it would just hurry up and get here. |
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[Feb. 21st, 2008|02:14 pm] |
What the...how do you make a movie based on Monopoly? And how did Ridley Scott end up up as the director?
Some poor script writer must have had a hell of a time working this one out--at least Clue had a vague plot and backstory.
(This reminds me, though, that a few days ago I realized one thing I really want to see someday is a story where the two highly intelligent rivals can't find a chess board and have to play Monopoly instead. And then possibly get in a fight over who gets to use top hat piece.)
Have fallen victim to the mental sludge again. Oh February, how can 29 days seem so long? |
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