Cat Shit One

Umm...

Vexille.

It's all kinds of bad ass!!

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Seriously, I really enjoyed this. The animation was bang on, and the story was strong enough to keep me caring all the way through. What a pleasant surprise this one was.

Paprika.

Have you seen this movie? Its anime on acid!!

I watched it last night and LOVED it.
Now I have to watch it again...
so I can figure out what the hell happened.

Ponyo on a Cliff.

Is the tile of Hayao Miyazaki's new film due out in 2008. Once again it will be an original story and drawn in that wonderful Miyazaki way.

The basic premise revolves around the story of Sasuke, a five-year-old boy , and a Princess Goldfish (Ponyo) that wants to become human.

An official blurb from Ghibli studos said,

"the film will deal with themes of "father," "mother" and "cliff," which I'm sure is all the specifics you were looking for, right? "Cliff" makes things ominous, but the president of Studio Ghibli, Toshio Suzuki, has said that "Almost 70 to 80% of the film takes stage on sea. It will be a director's challenge on how they will express the sea and its waves with freehand drawing."

Anyway I look at it though a new Miyazaki film is definitely something to be excited about.

Avatar: The Last Airbender.

I'm a little slow on this, but I just started watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I'm about 6 episodes deep into the the first season and I got's ta say I'm really enjoying it. Its nice to see that we are capable of producing a show (that is well done) that is anime inspired. So well done in fact that I think I will be buying the box sets. :)

"Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Only the Avatar was the master of all four elements. Only he could stop the ruthless Fire Nation from conquering the world. But when the world needed him most, he disappeared. Until now... On the South Pole, a lone Water Tribe village struggles to survive. It's here that a young Waterbender named Katara and her warrior brother Sokka rescue a strange boy named Aang from a cavernous iceberg. Not only is Aang an Airbender--a race of people no one has seen in a century--but they soon discover that Aang is also the long lost Avatar. Now it's up to Katara and Sokka to make sure Aang faces his destiny to save the tribe--and himself."

Random...

Its getting cold. Like almost shiver cold. Bye, bye summer. Its not that I hate you, its just that your to damn bright and stifling.
I brought my plants in from the balcony for the season today, so now I gotta find something to put them on so Oy doesn't eat em. Speaking of Oy, the little bugger bit my lip the other day. I didn't bite back...but very seriously considered that as a possibility.

Its fun when your not supposed to know stuff...but you do...and nobody knows you do. Its like a dangerous, drunken, lustful power that you want to drink deeply of even though you know the road could lead to destruction. Or...its not? either way, people are funny.

I'm overwhelmed with the amount of game information flooding the streets right now. What with all the late summer/fall game shows (E3, Pax, TGS, X06) and Christmas coming I guess it reasons to make sense. I guess its just even more exciting as there are three new next gen consoles to play said games on so that doubles the fun factor. Still...not even pixies bearing platters of magic mushrooms whilst flitting about my head has excited me as much as what is coming in the next few months for gamer folk.

I'm in the middle of a shwack of double shifts right now and its killing me. In fact I don't have a single day off until next Friday. Granted there are a few days between now and then that I do only have to work one job for the day - and that in itself is almost like a day off right? Right? Speaking of work - I won the title of best 2nd cook out of all our restaurants in our city. A whole whopping 3 of em. Yes...2nd cook. Not 1st. I wasn't even nominated to win for 1st cook lol. Still, I got a $100 gift certificate for Best Buy outta the deal so that's kinda cool.

My new Bong works freaking amazingly! prolly to good even...but who am I to complain. Every hour or so I find myself needing to 'test' it to make sure that its still functioning as it should. :P

The book I'm reading, The Crooked Letter by Sean Williams, is incredibly awesome and perfect and wonderful and brilliant and astounding all rolled into one. I picked it up on a whim more or less. I saw the cover art and was impressed, read a few reviews and was even more impressed and then found myself one day months later spotting it in a bookstore and picking it up before buying any of the stuff that I had intended on getting. Very glad I did. Its horrific, its full of deities and demons (or what we would call demons at the least) and things that lurk in the night. You get to tour through the darkest levels of hell and the wastelands of what was once our earth. I'm not even halfway through it yet and already I fear I am reading to fast. I want this one to last. Luckily the second book (I believe) is due out on our shores very soon.

And that's that. Currently I am 36% complete on my 42 episode download of Flame Of Recca. Its been going for a day and a half now. I figure by the time I wake up Saturday it should be finished and I can start watching! Been meaning to give this one a look see forever it seems, and finally now it'll be one more I can cross off my list. :)

And that's it.

I have to go now and 'test' my bong agin! Cant be to sure if its still working properly...

Howls Moving Castle

If you haven't yet managed to see Hayao Miyazaki's (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and more) latest project then thats a real shame. Luckily though the street date for the DVD release has just been announced. March 7, Howls moving Castle will be available to bring home.

Plot Synopsis: "A love story between an 18-year-old girl named Sofî, cursed by a witch into an old woman's body, and a magician named Hauru. Under the curse, Sofî sets out to seek her fortune, which takes her to Hauru's strange moving castle. In the castle, Sophie meets Hauru's fire demon, named Karishifâ. Seeing that she is under a curse, the demon makes a deal with Sophie--if she breaks the contract he is under with Hauru, then Karushifâ will lift the curse that Sophie is under, and she will return to her 18-year-old shape."

Its going to look oh so fine sitting on my DVD shelf. :)

Casshern.

Blue screen films seem to be becoming more and more popular as time goes on. Sky Captain, Sin City are two that come immediately to mind.

There is however another film that I saw some time ago that completely blew me out of the water with its beautiful cinamatography. The plot line was fairly simple, but the overall tone of the film just left me sitting there with my jaw hanging open. Casshern at the time was something really special to me, and I am happy to say that finally Amazon has a release date on the DVD. April 25 2005! Sadly this was on Amazon UK and the American Amazon still doesn't have a listing on it yet. Still...Now its just a mater of time.

its the closest I have seen any live movie come to having the feel of an anime feature...And I highly recommend checking it out if you happen to have the chance. I myself download it off of one of the many Bit Torrent websites out there and know its still available that way, still...It wont be long until I can get the DVD in my hungry, oh so greedy little mitts. :)

Steamboy.

Just a heads up for the new film Steamboy this Friday by Katsuhiro Ôtomo (Akira, Metropolis).