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logicbutton) wrote2010-07-21 05:44 am
logicbutton) wrote2010-07-21 05:44 am
Still alive! Plus: Bonus anime recs
I'm alive! Technically.
Unemployment does not suit me at all. Whenever I don't have anything to do for long periods of time, my brain starts warping reality. Sometimes it makes me do things that I normally wouldn't do.* Other times it just makes me kind of depressed and lazy and all I want to do is sit around surfing the internet, rereading all my favorite articles and wiki entries and not making livejournal posts even though I actually have quite a bit to say about all the stuff I've been doing to try to keep from going insane. Such as:
- I saw Inception on Monday. (Speaking of reality warping...) Between this and Sherlock Holmes, I think I'm going to get all my movie recommendations from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clodia_risa from now on, the way I always ask octopedingenue whether she knows anything about a book before I commit to buying it. Which is to say, guys, this movie is really really good. It has both a heart and a brain, and also attractive men in attractive businesswear doing cool stuff. Refreshingly, it also treats the audience as though we are intelligent people.
- I've played Super Mario Galaxy 2 to hundred-percent completion on two separate save files. The original Super Mario Galaxy was a gorgeous, delightful experience from beginning to end, and the sequel somehow manages to make it look amateurish in comparison. The galaxies range from pretty fun to pure joy. But I think I've overdosed on it a bit, so now I'm actually playing around with Wii Music again (it's an awesome game if you just give it a chance!) hoping for inspiration.
- I finished reading Pyramids, which is a book my Phantom Tollbooth-loving, archaeology-obsessed elementary-school self in particular would have enjoyed, so now I'm focusing mainly on The Feminine Mystique, which is both excellent and still relevant today.
- After my last public LJ post, I had three more days of CONvergence. I was definitely planning to write about all the panels I sat in on like I did for the first day, but then I went to like nineteen more of them and decided it was just too much work. But I do want to make a couple of anime recs gleaned from the New Anime panel. I haven't looked any of them up yet (downloading is hard work, guys), so I'm basing this on the clips they showed at the panel. Also, I want to mention that I went to a Know Your Meme panel where they rickrolled the audience and everyone ended up singing along. Oh, internet.
Yesterday evening I decided to stay up all night, for the dual purpose of a) cleaning my apartment; and b) getting my sleep schedule back to normal human hours. The former is especially important, because as I discovered at about 3:00 yesterday, my apartment manager has started scheduling potential tenants to come look at my place.** By happy coincidence, I was wearing clothes at the time. I hadn't brushed my hair and wasn't wearing makeup, though, and I had a zit that actually deadened the nerves in that area of my face for about six hours after I woke up and made my smile lopsided, as though I had just had dental work done. So that was kind of a disaster.
Anyway.
Oh, one more thing before the anime recs: I bought this badass pocket watch in the dealer's room at CONvergence. It's a mechanical wind-up watch, which will be perfect for the post-apocalyptic world in which batteries no longer exist and/or work but I still occasionally want to know the time. Plus, the cover is a magnifying glass, so I can use it to start fires, and it's got some heft, so in a pinch it will also work as a weapon.
Anime
Scans of the handout from the panel: 1 2 3 4
They only showed clips of about a dozen of these, so there might be some really amazing ones in there that I'm not going to mention, but of those I did see parts of, these stood out for me the most:
Aoi Bungaku: The clip I saw was a scene in which a character who has just arrived in the underworld wakes up and looks around him. The music was pretty and the art was stunning.
Arakawa Under the Bridge: It's possible that the scene I saw was just the funniest moment in the entire series, but it got some huge laughs from the entire room, myself included. The characters go to a church frequented by the "under-the-bridge" people and witness a "service" given by the gun-wielding, trigger-happy, space-marine-bodied nun. Also, everyone is in costume. I seem to remember a ninja.
Kuruneko: OMG, guys, this is an anime about kittens. Kittens doing kitten things like hiding loose change in the couch cushions. The episodes are under three minutes long, so we saw one of them in its entirety. It was adorable.
Reform Without Wasted Draws: The Legend of Koizumi: The summary I linked really does not do the epically cracktastic insanity of this anime justice. It's like Excel Saga meets historical fiction, except instead of historical figures, it stars contemporary world leaders. There are fighter planes.
Summer Wars: The scene we saw was a Deep Immersion Gaming sequence, which I am a total sucker for. The art was totally pretty, too. Definitely relevant to my interests.
*Like friend a bunch of people I found on an FMA friending meme during the third week of winter break in 2006. I'm glad I did that, though.
**As I discovered about ten minutes later, my cell phone provider has not been alerting me to my voicemails in a timely manner.
Unemployment does not suit me at all. Whenever I don't have anything to do for long periods of time, my brain starts warping reality. Sometimes it makes me do things that I normally wouldn't do.* Other times it just makes me kind of depressed and lazy and all I want to do is sit around surfing the internet, rereading all my favorite articles and wiki entries and not making livejournal posts even though I actually have quite a bit to say about all the stuff I've been doing to try to keep from going insane. Such as:
- I saw Inception on Monday. (Speaking of reality warping...) Between this and Sherlock Holmes, I think I'm going to get all my movie recommendations from
clodia_risa from now on, the way I always ask octopedingenue whether she knows anything about a book before I commit to buying it. Which is to say, guys, this movie is really really good. It has both a heart and a brain, and also attractive men in attractive businesswear doing cool stuff. Refreshingly, it also treats the audience as though we are intelligent people.- I've played Super Mario Galaxy 2 to hundred-percent completion on two separate save files. The original Super Mario Galaxy was a gorgeous, delightful experience from beginning to end, and the sequel somehow manages to make it look amateurish in comparison. The galaxies range from pretty fun to pure joy. But I think I've overdosed on it a bit, so now I'm actually playing around with Wii Music again (it's an awesome game if you just give it a chance!) hoping for inspiration.
- I finished reading Pyramids, which is a book my Phantom Tollbooth-loving, archaeology-obsessed elementary-school self in particular would have enjoyed, so now I'm focusing mainly on The Feminine Mystique, which is both excellent and still relevant today.
- After my last public LJ post, I had three more days of CONvergence. I was definitely planning to write about all the panels I sat in on like I did for the first day, but then I went to like nineteen more of them and decided it was just too much work. But I do want to make a couple of anime recs gleaned from the New Anime panel. I haven't looked any of them up yet (downloading is hard work, guys), so I'm basing this on the clips they showed at the panel. Also, I want to mention that I went to a Know Your Meme panel where they rickrolled the audience and everyone ended up singing along. Oh, internet.
Yesterday evening I decided to stay up all night, for the dual purpose of a) cleaning my apartment; and b) getting my sleep schedule back to normal human hours. The former is especially important, because as I discovered at about 3:00 yesterday, my apartment manager has started scheduling potential tenants to come look at my place.** By happy coincidence, I was wearing clothes at the time. I hadn't brushed my hair and wasn't wearing makeup, though, and I had a zit that actually deadened the nerves in that area of my face for about six hours after I woke up and made my smile lopsided, as though I had just had dental work done. So that was kind of a disaster.
Anyway.
Oh, one more thing before the anime recs: I bought this badass pocket watch in the dealer's room at CONvergence. It's a mechanical wind-up watch, which will be perfect for the post-apocalyptic world in which batteries no longer exist and/or work but I still occasionally want to know the time. Plus, the cover is a magnifying glass, so I can use it to start fires, and it's got some heft, so in a pinch it will also work as a weapon.
Anime
Scans of the handout from the panel: 1 2 3 4
They only showed clips of about a dozen of these, so there might be some really amazing ones in there that I'm not going to mention, but of those I did see parts of, these stood out for me the most:
Aoi Bungaku: The clip I saw was a scene in which a character who has just arrived in the underworld wakes up and looks around him. The music was pretty and the art was stunning.
Arakawa Under the Bridge: It's possible that the scene I saw was just the funniest moment in the entire series, but it got some huge laughs from the entire room, myself included. The characters go to a church frequented by the "under-the-bridge" people and witness a "service" given by the gun-wielding, trigger-happy, space-marine-bodied nun. Also, everyone is in costume. I seem to remember a ninja.
Kuruneko: OMG, guys, this is an anime about kittens. Kittens doing kitten things like hiding loose change in the couch cushions. The episodes are under three minutes long, so we saw one of them in its entirety. It was adorable.
Reform Without Wasted Draws: The Legend of Koizumi: The summary I linked really does not do the epically cracktastic insanity of this anime justice. It's like Excel Saga meets historical fiction, except instead of historical figures, it stars contemporary world leaders. There are fighter planes.
Summer Wars: The scene we saw was a Deep Immersion Gaming sequence, which I am a total sucker for. The art was totally pretty, too. Definitely relevant to my interests.
*Like friend a bunch of people I found on an FMA friending meme during the third week of winter break in 2006. I'm glad I did that, though.
**As I discovered about ten minutes later, my cell phone provider has not been alerting me to my voicemails in a timely manner.