Movies and Life and Stuff
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eredienYesterday spent reading six months' worth of magazines. Happy.
After dinner went out with friends Evelyn and Aaron to get coffee and dessert and talk. Had good conversation, wherein religion, philosophy, foriegn languages, and the benefits or lack thereof of anime and Japanese culture were discussed. Strangely, Evelyn, who is usually up for anything involving TV, seems to fall asleep at the sight of anime, while Aaron seems only to think that perhaps he's been watching the wrong anime and should watch something else. Trying to think of things that might be at the movie store that he'd like.
Although I don't blame Evelyn - Lodoss War is not exactly a sterling example of the genre. And apparently Aaron saw Ghost in the Shell, but hasn't seen anything else. So. Reccommendations, anyone?
After dinner went and rented Waking Life. I have, as some of you know, been wanting to watch this movie for quite a while.
1.) It comes the closest to my dreams, style-wise, I've ever seen. But still not.
2.) It is confusing to watch. Scenery floats around on the screen in the oddest way. Would not reccommend it if you had a headache, for example.
3.) I want to watch it again. (!)
4.) There seemed to me to be some points in the beginning where it lagged, but those parts were okay anyway.
5.) It is the only movie which I have ever seen where I actively wanted to go into the movie, sit down, and speak with the people. All of the people. About what they thought about everything.
7.) It is funny.
8.) It is one of those movies where you cannot be sure, if you watch it late at night and have a long philosophical discussion about art and life and comics after that, that you cannot be sure you have not fallen into.
May I say how much fun it is to be able to turn to a friend and both say, "she needs to read Sandman" at the same time? (Yes, yes, Irina, you can stop bouncing now.) And also, for all of you Transmetropolitan readers, how much fun it is to be able to get the quote, "oww. I guess that's why Spider is a comic book character and I'm not," out of a friend?
I was going to walk to the library but it is now raining. But I have to walk to the highschool anyway to give my sister her sweatshirt, so I guess I might as well walk to the library.
After dinner went out with friends Evelyn and Aaron to get coffee and dessert and talk. Had good conversation, wherein religion, philosophy, foriegn languages, and the benefits or lack thereof of anime and Japanese culture were discussed. Strangely, Evelyn, who is usually up for anything involving TV, seems to fall asleep at the sight of anime, while Aaron seems only to think that perhaps he's been watching the wrong anime and should watch something else. Trying to think of things that might be at the movie store that he'd like.
Although I don't blame Evelyn - Lodoss War is not exactly a sterling example of the genre. And apparently Aaron saw Ghost in the Shell, but hasn't seen anything else. So. Reccommendations, anyone?
After dinner went and rented Waking Life. I have, as some of you know, been wanting to watch this movie for quite a while.
1.) It comes the closest to my dreams, style-wise, I've ever seen. But still not.
2.) It is confusing to watch. Scenery floats around on the screen in the oddest way. Would not reccommend it if you had a headache, for example.
3.) I want to watch it again. (!)
4.) There seemed to me to be some points in the beginning where it lagged, but those parts were okay anyway.
5.) It is the only movie which I have ever seen where I actively wanted to go into the movie, sit down, and speak with the people. All of the people. About what they thought about everything.
7.) It is funny.
8.) It is one of those movies where you cannot be sure, if you watch it late at night and have a long philosophical discussion about art and life and comics after that, that you cannot be sure you have not fallen into.
May I say how much fun it is to be able to turn to a friend and both say, "she needs to read Sandman" at the same time? (Yes, yes, Irina, you can stop bouncing now.) And also, for all of you Transmetropolitan readers, how much fun it is to be able to get the quote, "oww. I guess that's why Spider is a comic book character and I'm not," out of a friend?
I was going to walk to the library but it is now raining. But I have to walk to the highschool anyway to give my sister her sweatshirt, so I guess I might as well walk to the library.
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Anime
21/5/02 12:09 (UTC)Akira (very good)
Kodaichi (amusing)
Ranma 1/2 (amusing)
Tenchi Muyo, Tenchi Universe (anything with Tenchi in it is funny)
Adult swim on cartoon network from 11 PM Saturday night to 2 AM sunday morning. It has 6 shows including Yu Yu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, Gundam 0083, Outlaw Star, and Tenchi Muyo.
Cowboy Beebop (very very good)
Ninja Scroll (good artwork but somewhat silly plot)
I would strenuously avoid Pet Shop of Horrors, Golgo 13, Record of Lodoss War, and pretty much any Japanese take on european knights. They do a really BAD JOB at it. Its embarassing. Also avoid a really bad show called "Battleship Yamato" or anything Yamato related. Its the ugly racist backlash to the USA nuking them twice and sinking their prized Yamato in something like 2 hours after they built it for a couple years as an invincible harbinger of death. Its incredibly racist and americans are the fiendish enemies with a flag showing two mushroom clouds. The Japanese are very fond of apocalypse and manage to work it into just about every anime they do. Somewhere in there, you'll see a nuke-equivalent explosion.
Re: Anime
22/5/02 19:39 (UTC)And I think that Cowboy Beebop would be bad at this point for the same reason - and also because I've sworn off of that series for the time being, until I can deal with EVA and Trigun after I finish those.