Aleph Ersatz

Finally finished The Talisman.  Was a pretty good book, very interesting, and I can see how the styles of King and Straub converge, but generally had a  good idea of when King was he predominant writer.  His work just burrows under the skin of one’s imagination, creepy as hell, but absolutely fantastic.

With that is done, I’ve been pounding away and the local libraries’ manga collection.  Found a few interesting ones, and updated my otaku list to match waht I’ve read recently.  Insert sigh here. It grows, always growing…

Got my hands on The High End of Low.  Jesus fuck, was that ever a load of shit.  Not that I expect much from a Manson album, but that was pure, uninspired, crack induced crap. Not even worth a once-over listen too.  Couldn’t do more than three songs at a time, at most.

Gladly, though, a couple other good albums may be coming out soon from artists I enjoy alot more than Manson.  VNV nation has a new album on the 23rd, and are touring.  Now if I could only get to Seattle for July 1st!  30 Seconds to Mars may also have a new album soon, which will also be pleasing.  There are a couple more, too, I just cannot remeber whom!

Well I’ve had a busy month.  I’ve been working crazy hours due to a deadline, and a bunch of other stuff has been going on, so the few hours I do have to blog, I’ve been too damn tired.

I did managed to do alot of stuff in the last month though.

Saw Start Trek and Wolverine, but missed Terminator Salvation.  From what I know, Star Trek was the only one really worth watching.

Knowing more about Wolverine from the original Origins series, I was whole unimpressed with it.  They really twisted and diverged in ways that forced the script into lame-leaping jumps just to fix giant plot holes.  Had they stuck with the original, I would have been much happier.

Star Trek, however, I know little about, and actually thought was pretty good.  Using alternate universes was a good way to totally diverge and reinvent Star Trek, and yet keep the same rough feel.  However the overacting and constant borrowing of lines and plot devices was indeed cheesy, and somehow fitting for the film.  Not sure it was worth the $10 I paid for it, but was still pretty good.

Got my eye on The Hurt Locker, even if it came out a while ago.  Saw a preview in the theater, and looks damn good.

Also managed to see Lucky Number Slevin.  Fucking awesome, head trippy, witty, and the strangest role I’ve ever seen Lucy Lui in.  Brilliant, just brilliant!

Been reading alot.  Need to update the Otaku list a bit, but not much.  Managed to read Fullmetal Alchemist #18 and Kurosagi #9 recently, but that’s about it.  The rest of the time I’ve been plowing through The Talistman and The Zen of Zombie.  The Zen, of course, is an excelent self-help book with some actually real and good ideas for improving your life.  The rest of it is just good old fasioned, brain-eating humour.  Go try it for fourself! Braaiiiiinnnsssss…..

Also have the new Red Dward 3-part mini-series to watch.  Yay!

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On the other side of things, I’ve been working alot lately.  Did a 6-day, 65-hour week last week, and looks like I have another one ahead.  Damn deadlines are killer, especially so when you are two weeks past.

Going to be missing Anime Evolution again this year, and for the second year in a row too!  But will be at the Thunder Rally fund-raiser dance on saturday instead.  Still going to that this September at least.

Have been trying to help and update the Thunder Rally website while the main webmaster is off in Germany, but all I have is read-only access to a SFTP site.  Such a pissoff too, because if I had shell access I could easily fix what I needed.  Now I have to try and contact the webhost, via the webmaster, to get the access I need.

Not sure what else to write, but that’s what I’ve bene up to lately.  Been a lot more I’ve wanted to write on, but been so busy and tired, I always forget.  Hope to get back to it, though.  I hate abandoning projects half way through!