The smallest posibile inifinite immitation of nothing…
I have found a wodnerful site for tracking one’s anime and manga lists: http://www.myanimelist.net
I have disabled the Otaku List subpage off of this site and am switched over to using hat website instead.
You can check out my new pages here:
Updated the Otaku List again. Been far too long, had tons to add.
Found one of the best metal music videos ever. Meshuggah is this really talented experimental metal band, with crazy math-metal esque licks, and they made the following their OFFICIAL video for their song.
Yes that is the real band in the video.
So I didn’t even hold out six months before I’m back on the “no-posting” wagon. For a while there, I actually contemplated switching to Twitter, but really, I don’t want to be a twit. And the concept is stupid. I hope it dies, just like that stupid AYBABTU. That didn’t last long, right? I mean, who even remebers it?
I have been up to alot, actually. Working, tons, been doing 200+ hours a month again. Reading tons and tons of manga. The otaku list needs a major update as I’ve read at least 10 - 15 different books and novels in the last while. Found a bunch of new good stuff, and some of the worst mangas in existence!
I’ve begun the long and arduous process of learing Japanese. Not only am I horrible with spoken languages, but this one also involves re-learing how to read. However, I’ve managed to nail down most of the Hiragana table, so all I need to do is learn Katakana, practice, and start learning the grammar structures. Sounds so easy doesn’t it? Been practicing my reading on vaious things around - maily mangas - and actually I’m doing pretty well. Plus I’ve found a variety of very useful and informative websites.
I’m actually really enjoying being able to read it. It seems like such a huge feat, but I know there is much more to come.
Lastly, I wrote a letter to a newspaper and got it printed. While not hugely exciting, I’m kinda happy. It’s in today’s Now Newspaper. If you can read it. I’m not readily posting a link because it lists my name on the letter. But if you know me, send me an IM or email and I’ll send you a link.
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!
Got the otaku list updated. Added a couple of things I tried, and finished the first 9 volumtes of the Trinity Blood manga. Really damn good. Not as good as Hellsing, but a somewhat less brutal and more love-story driven plot.
It’s up, and it’s renamed!
My Otaku List is updated and running, check it out!
I still have a couple of issues with teh table setup (IE no lines and a gigantic gap before the header) and I need to fill in the details, but the list is full and has all the main items I can remeber. It’s a pretty damn long list and I hope to make it much longer in the future!
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In other news….holy shit it’s snowing again! Big freaking snowing! So not fair!!!
I’m sure the bigs news today has been Obama’s Inauguration, but really, I have nothing to say about that. I’m excited, I’m glad, but it explains itself. Now we sit back and find out just how much of that was true. (Albeit, I beleive almost all of it was.)
Around here, things have been very odd. I tried to get some decent pictures of thee crazy fog we’ve had for almost two weeks, but no luck. Each night it seems to get thicker, to the point that it becomes almost Silent Hill-eque. My crazy co-worker, (the partner-in-crime on the desk wrapping), wants to make a Pyramid Head costume and wander around with an air raid siren blaring. I’d love to help, but the fog will (hoepfully) be gone before this can come to fruition.
I finally found out what “The Gift” from NIN was. 405 gigabyes of raw unedited footages, torrented and hosted for editing and fan-made DVD creation!
They included data from three shows, Sacramento, Portland and …. Victoria! I do not have the ability to edit, but I am anxiously awaiting the many DVDs and videos that will come. I ranted and raved about the Lights in the Sky concert when I saw it, and it truly is an experience that deserves a recording to immortalize it in the digital era of cheap pop music. I am vastly excited, and knowing how the fans are, I’m sure at least one DVD will be made!
Oh, and 320 kbps rips of the Victoria audio! Getting it now as I post. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X2OTDDIW
In the year 22 H. C. (Holy Century), Humans are an endangered species, and Shinjuku is now a town populated with demons, goblins and monsters. Crime runs rampant, and so together with the national police force, private police forces have been founded to maintain public peace and order.
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