current selection | fantastic plastic machine – take me to the disco
u kno, i havent had an interesting dream in a while til last nite. they’re usually ridiculously boring….im sitting around eating raisin bread. or theyre ridiculously disturbing, and if i were to actually write it down for ppl to read i might be committed. last nites tho was weird, but interesting. i was a spy (?) i think, for the us government. me and my female counterpart (gf? she was a redhead tho…mmm) had to meet some south korean informants. yea, im describing this as it was….its pretty straight forward, right? nothing weird like bunnies hopping out of my ears. anyhoo…we dress up in scrubs b/c i guess the rendezvous was at a hospital or something. the informants double-cross us and my cute redhead gf is taken away. i get smacked and thrown into a fountain, a “to be continued” sign pops out of my ear, and i wake up. jk. no sign…but wow, what a straight-forward dream. wonder what it means. i guess ill have to wait til tonite to find out.
woo…so ive jus been informed one of our offices was broken into last nite. go east williamsburg! one of our offices on the far end of the street (above a hardware shop) was broken into…apparently to try and get into the shop below. i dont necessarily condone theft, but shit…these guys were stupid. first off…why a monday? what shop has excess money on a monday?? second off, they tried punching holes thru our floor-plate to get to the shop below. a floor plate…good job. they then knocked out a wall instead in our stairwell to get into their store and made off with what someone told me was in the excess of “some coins.” good job boys. then when they tried to get out, they decided to try and tear thru some more walls (as opposed to jus going back upstairs and out where they came in) and fucked up our downstairs bathrooms and storage closets. so lets assess their take. minus 1 ladder (how they crossed from the adjacent building to ours)…abt $100 (mebbe stolen). minus alot of back-breaking work…future back problems. plus “a few coins”…enuf to pay for tomorrow’s coffee. this adds up to….a whole lot of stupidity. super.
woo rock. nothing like a refreshing round of cowboy bebop. wasnt sure i would make it in time…i was working this morning on presentations and things took a little (alot) longer than expected. i didnt leave my office til 3:10. i sprinted to the subway and got back to union sq jus a little past 3:30 to meet up with fish. we made it down to the angelika jus in time to both meet up with pho and troche and get in line jus as it started forming. ah…bebop. i saw it on vcd over a yr ago (thanx greg!), but seeing it on the big screen is def more worthwhile. not only is it a coo movie (yea…its a movie) but it has one of the coolest intros ever. what you gonna do, lil buckaroo?
ass beating me and fish hit up yokochos after the movie…and then hung around cosi for dessert. we hadnt had a round of chess in a while, so we whipped out my trusty chess board. lil did i kno i was gonna get a dirty beat-down. twice! ack..im pretty much out of form. i pulled out blitzkriegs in both games…but they dun work with fish anymore…and i usually get beaten with an ugly stick after the blitz fails. we were also pretty on par with each other b4…but if we dun play for a while, he retains his skills while i get worse. ick.
current selection | yann tiersen (amelie) – les jours tristes
friday…rock. cant wait til tomorrow…me, fish, pho, and troche are gonna go see the bebop movie at angelikas. i went fanboy and reserved the tix in advance…jus to be on the safe side. last yr when i tried and do the walk-up during its limited release, i was left standing at the box office. grr. sunday gonna go visit my sis in nj too. we’re gonna do familial things. like…nothing, and sitting around. in the meantime tho, i got this happiness to fill me up for the morning. its the newest animatrix…by shinichiro watanabe (bebop, baby!) its one of the best stylistically so far. its retro-tech 20’s look is pretty amazing to watch. oddly enuf, its not listed on the animatrix site yet. i got the link off of aicn. anyhoo…heres some trinity goodness. (its rockin’ 100+ mgs…so save as)
i got home this evening and my roomie wasnt around. my comps on (since she uses it)…so i hop over, fire up the monitor, and notice she left internet explorer on. wait…whuts that in the google search bar?
yea…www.nytimes.com. she searched for the address of www.nytimes.com… awesome.
addition since im so easily distracted from work (as exciting as it is) i found this linked from design is kinky. u haveta check it out. cogs away!
current selection | they might be giants – birdhouse in your soul
woo! i luv this song. u kno…there will always be a place in my heart for they might be giants. so this week has been booty left and right. we have an upcoming trade show, so theres alot of material to prep. me being the only graphic designer, i get to shoulder a company’s worth of work. woo. and it gets better. they like to leave things to the last second. doesnt that rock? so this week all this work has been crawling onto my desk from all corners of the company. super. anyway, so im now safe at home, where i can continue with my ways….of…doing stuff…and stuff.
rahxephon anyhoo…ive had this series for a while now, and ive been meaning to write a review for it. so since i have nothing else interesting to write abt, ill write this instead. this is jus from my initial viewing of the series btw…since marisol currently has it, i cant go back and check stuff. anyway, here it goes. id been tracking this series for a while now…prolly since it first started airing in japan. the first american dvd of the series was jus released…but im impatient like that. i went ahead and grabbed the full japanese collection. who wants to wait 6+ months for the set to come out anyway?
the quick run-down is that ayato, a teenager from tokyo, is unwittingly thrown into a war between tokyo (the last surviving city on earth) and alien invaders. he eventually comes to be linked with a powerful mech (dolem) called the rahxephon, and it seems the rahx is capable of alot more than jus tearing aliens in half. the two themes that are prevalent throughout the series are music and time. when ayato pilots his rahx, he is referred to as the musician playing the instrument. all the dolems use sound for both offense and defense. time also plays a crucial role, since ayato eventually learns that outside of tokyo, time travels faster. many characters he encounters are also representations of time, in a sense. u’d have to see it to understand…im trying to avoid spoilers here. everything unfolds around ayato slowly, revealing to him the nature of his existense, and what part he can play to ultimately shape his future.
i read alot of reviews incessantly comparing it to eva, saying it ripped off this and that…so ill start there. upon my initial viewing, alot of similarities did strike me. but even tho eva is fresh in the minds of american otakus, it is nearly a decade old. so lets quickly run thru the comparisons. boy discovers self…sure its in eva, but its also in a hundred other animes. robots are actually the enemy’s being used against them….another similarity, but its been done too….its jus a really coo plot device, k? hmmm…this third one i was abt to point out was a spoiler…so lemme jus skip that. anyhoo…overall, yea, there are similarities. some overt. but if theres jus one similarity that one should point out, its that both series set out to subvert the normal conventions of the robot genre….so thats the way ill see it. rahxephon is unique in its own way…with its play on time, sound, and real cool looking mechs. the characters that inhabit this world are nicely fleshed out…each playing their own small crucial role in the overall anime. alot of care is taken to fully realize jus about each and every character. so when the shit hits the fan, you’ll kno why. one negative tho that i have to point out. the anime is confusing as hell. especially towards the end when everybody’s shit is hitting the fan. what the hells up with the ending?? (i kno, btw…but even knowing doesnt help when u actually watch it) every small detail counts, and if u missed one sentence that was uttered 4 episodes ago, u risk losing track of things later on. its that minute. i backtracked a few times jus to refresh what someone had said, when what they said resurfaced in a later episode. ick. but density such as this should be appreciated…it shows the great lengths the producers put into the anime. watch rahx and judge it on its own merits…not on another animes. ull prolly like it more.
current selection | justin timberlake – cry me a river
im sure alot of ppl at this time are thinking of clever april fools jokes. i was too…but then i realized it would require this thing called effort. i was going to do this whole story abt how i lost a bet and had to shave my head…and was even gonna photoshop a pic with me and a slick dome. actually, i did the pic. but it looked pathetic. or actually, i looked pathetic….with no hair anyway. yea….theres a reason why i have hair.
anyway…heres some more lines to fill up space. blah blah blah blah blah blah. i think my mind is breaking down. and yes, the aforementioned justin timberlake is a joke. dont harass me abt that.
where did spring go? you kno, i couldve sworn it was 60ish out last week. crappies. ar well. my old college roomie miller came down from boston this weekend. huzzah! we met up for brunch with a friend of hers, and then hit the met. we initially wanted to see the da vinci exhibit, but then we saw the sign for the exhibit with the words 2, 1/2, and hours…followed by the word wait. so then we decided otherwise. i hadnt realized how long its been since i actually went to the met. somewhere in the vicinity of a decade. oops. anyhoo, it was fun…and it was good to see miller again. sunday rolls around….and me and pho were supposed to go shopping for spanky new spring clothes. but since it sucked outside, we went thrift store hunting around chelsea instead.
anyhoo…off to a tangent. langa jus emailed me this link. and even tho its dated march 19th, i fig’d its still worth sharing since its pretty coo. its abt a wall street trader who made millions from jus $800 in 2 weeks. when he was arrested for supposed insider trading, he claimed he was from the future. keep in mind its not april 1st yet, and the articles actually from 2 weeks ago. u kno…ive always wondered abt time travelers…and how in the hypothetical sense if they were around, one would inevitably fuck up and get caught. so is this it? is he the one that fucked up and had to reveal to the masses the existence of time tourists? my sci-fi geek side is gonna believe his story….i mean, anythings possible.
yea…i kno it has the barest of things to do with bttf, but i was lazy and didnt want to make a pic.
note. it was pointed out to me the other day how i refer to (almost) all my friends only by their last names. i guess i subconsciously knew i was doing this…but didnt really notice til it was pointed out that i did it with jus abt everybody. fish, langa, miller, pho….all last names. hmm….fascinating.
goddamn playlist. i swear…it jus plays the 3 songs it likes over and over. theres currently 50 songs on my playlist, and it plays 3! winamp doesnt like me…grr. ahem…anyhoo, found this link over on giant robot…word. presenting…the mind of the illmatic…
my friend fonz mentioned this to me last week…how some badass national guard member in ohio legally changed his name to optimus prime. how cool is that? albeit in a slightly geeky way…but nobody can deny the coolness that was the transformers. best quote…
“I got a letter from a general at the Pentagon when the name change went through and he says it was great to have the employ of the commander of the Autobots in the National Guard.”
boo-ya. someone go find voltron and mazinger…the iraqi army* would crumble beneath the combined might of beam sabers, flying fist-missiles, and um…stan bush. you got the touch….
