Link of the day [4.15.08]

broderic on April 15, 2008

Happy tax day. At least that is what my iCal is telling me today is.
Hope you got a refund.Anyway I'm starting a new item which I'm calling "link of the day,"
which is a link I think you should visit. It may be cool. It may be
interesting. It may be thought provoking. Or it may be none of these.
All I want you to do is click on the link. (I should just join google
ad words.)Today's link is to my googleReader shared items. I keep trying to get
you to use a RSS feed reader. I use googleReader and it allows me to
denote a good blog item from my regular reads as well as share them with
others. http://www.google.com/reader/shared/13986059648041625896

Not delish

broderic on April 14, 2008

Currently watching Rachael Ray make some kind of shrimp scampi dish. She doesn’t sound so good. She doesn’t look to good. What happened to the energetic girl we know and love?

She’s burning out.

5 cm/s

broderic on April 14, 2008

5 Centimeters Per Second is a short film anime about love and separation. The characters grow close, but slowly drift apart. They love, but can’t make a lasting relationship. They are.

This so captures many of the feelings I have in my dreams. That, when I was young, I had fallen for a girl. That we had some sort of relationship that was. That as I never told her my feelings, they and her drifted away over time. Then we grew up and became older, mature, adults. And these dreams and feelings of love could not be expressed again because of their childish nature. Then I wake up wondering where she is, what she’s doing, and wish to go back to those younger days. Yet, all that is left is the present and the future coming with no hope of re-establishing those days. And I feel sad.

The anime is divided into three stories following the character, Takaki Tono, as he ages. It shows the first blossoming of love and its end as it just started. Then it moves a few years to show him inspiring a surfer gal to love him, but not express that love. Finally, he is a programmer in Tokyo who may have seen the love of his life pass by. Regrets they have, but life is meant to be lived and only if.

5 of 5 stars.

#269 E La Nave Va

broderic on April 12, 2008

Post send off finds our gang, and in particular, Yakumo, adjusting to life with out Tenma. Seems that alls well that ends well.

Except for Harima who acts the loner.

Good for him. Good for Itoko-sensei for trying to knock some sense into him.

With this turn of events, does it feel like this series will last another several years?

queue myQueue;

broderic on April 11, 2008

Netflix queue is stuck.

I’ve been too busy watching School Rumble or The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Plus maybe I’ve reached my limit for wanting to watch a movie. I should just change my subscription to the cheapest one they got. I wonder what that is.

Melancholy

broderic on April 9, 2008

Here's my latest anime viewing: "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya."
Nothing can compare to School Rumble, for me, but this one isn't so bad.
It's science fiction and a very light touch. I seem to be drifting away from mecha. Big robots are starting to bore
me. I like the romantic comedies or even some kind of comedy or even
some stuff. But the robots are getting played out. Luckily, for me this one is just a plain anime. It's a novel in Japan,
so I don't think they'll try to translate it for the English audience.
Yet, it's going through as much change as other manga. It's like one of
young adult fiction stories you see in the bookstore. Too low for my
station? Yet, it's a fascinating tale. The first DVD is somewhat
boring, but the second disc delivers some bangs like a kiss. Nice.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melancholy_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya

Leatherheads

broderic on April 6, 2008

George Clooney acts and directs the roaring twenties football rom-com, Leatherheads. George Clooney in a film set in the twenties should remind you of “O brother, where art though?” And that should remind you of his work with the Coen brothers and their love for staging an exact simulacra of a period in America. Then you find out that Renee Zellwegger plays a fast talking career gal reporter and this may be some kind of screwball comedy homage.

Then you watch the movie.

It’s nothing like this.

Leatherheads completely missis the point of all that. Clooney, you would think, could’ve captured the magic of the Coens and served a throwback to screwball comedies, but decided to mix and match story and tone of the show. It was a mess. A romantic comedy that had no laughs. A grid iron story that lacked oomph. A sad spectacle as the final big game in the mud. It was 3-0 until the end. And it was a boring game. Same for the movie.

2 of 5 stars.