Vote Early and Often
From Preston Sturges’ great political satire, The Great McGinty.
Hoot for Girls’ Generation
Who doesn’t like cute girls running around your computer screen in the morning? Is this better than coffee?
I had always thought that those asian girl groups where too big. I still do. You can barely tell the girls’ voices apart in this song. It’s tough to put faces to verses. They’re all starting to look the same: cute!
Korean always sounded harsh on my ears. Looking at these girls while they sing, now it doesn’t.
Recorder my torrents
The second OP from K-ON!! I find this pretty hilarious and awesome at the same time. That bass recorder!
Hereafter
Before the spooks come out, let’s put down my thoughts about Clint Eastwood’s latest cinema effort, Hereafter. Appropriately released close to Halloween, it is a movie about living with the dead that is how we, the living, approach death, dying, and the dead, and how we think about the afterlife. If we think about it at all.
I’m amazed that Eastwood played it straight. He cast no judgement against any of our beliefs be it for an afterlife or not. Even he didn’t make judgement on those who believed or didn’t believe in communicating with the dead. Straight, right? The movie states that there is something after death.
And you can talk to them. Can we? Eastwood plays it straight and let’s Damon actually communicate with the dead. Then throws us a curve and in a crucial moment, makes it seem like he didn’t. Did he? Hmm.
It was an alright movie. Not creepy. But nice to know. It’s a pragmatic film about what could happen after death.
3 of 5 stars.
YuiAzu in full effect
Aaargh! Kawaii overload! During episode 10 of K-ON!!, YuiAzu wasn’t able to finish their duet. Now, we find it out on YouTube. And Azusa is singing. We never heard her sing any song. Gah! So Kawaii.
Let me look for this CD or torrent.
UPDATE: Replaced video because YouTube removed it.
Tasked With The Rip
Spent the first CPU cycles of the MacIntelMini converting MKVs with softsubs into MP4s for the iPhone and for the big trip to the HI. The conversion process didn’t work out as well as the subs were getting dropped at times and I then had to rely on my lack of Japanese skills. It’s like when I try to figure out tagalog: all things in context. Yet, still I’m missing things context be damned.
What I converted was the first season of K-ON! I finished watching them tonight. Let me say that it works better after watching the second season. All the cuteness is there, but a little bit rougher on the edges. When I first watched the first season, it wasn’t as fun. There was some slowness to the season that made it slightly disappointing. Loved it but it was a chore at times. The comedy and Yui hard to come by. Mio and moe all the time. Good, but not too great.
The second season of K-ON!! is plain awesome. Then watching the first, again, so it is also.
Let’s go convert the next season….
Monday Morning Musings {part 00!5}
Boo!Scared you, right?No? But that's what I was thinking about this morning: spooks, frights, and scares. It's the last week 'til Halloween, and my thoughts always turn towards the scary around this time of the year. I love the feeling of being spooked. I think that it's most likely the slight shot of adrenaline you get when things creep you out. I am reminded of this whenever I ride my bike alone into the woods. It's slightly creepy on the backroads. You have to be aware of your surroundings when riding on the road. If you aren't careful, you may be hit by a car, so your senses are heightened. Look around. You look around and when you're in the woods it gets dark and creepy. Your cadence picks up and your elevated heart rate jumps slightly. Are those shadows in the woods just shadows? Are the dark, dank areas around you empty? Of the living? What's that noise? Is it just you, alone or can you feel the presence of an paranormal entity? I'm reminded of Ichabod Crane whenever I ride alone in the woods and get creeped out by my surroundings. Will the headless horseman come after me, throwing pumpkins, to lop off my head? The only thing I can think about is "Am I faster than his horse?" Sadly, the answer would be no.But the creeped out feelings occur lots. At home, what's that creaky noise coming from upstairs? Is there something wandering downstairs? Are there zombies wandering the field out back in the night as I pull into my garage? Did I leave the light on? Why's this door ajar? Just looking at creepy old houses excites the creeped out feelings. The old Rosewood institution in Owings Mills is creepy. It can substitute for many of the deranged hospitals you see in horror movies. Even its purpose lends itself to that milieu: it was a hospice for the serious developmentally disabled kids. Yes, that is somewhat disturbingly creepy.What do you think is creepy? And have you experienced anything real?
2 Too Many Nendos!!
Courtesy of Layou~ with his all rights reserved.
I’ve unpacked one of my Black Rock Shooter nendoroid! What’ll I do with the other?
Nendorid in the Evening
Cuteness provided by hgl_765. Sorry for snatching this with your all rights reserved!
I so want this nendoroid, but you can’t find it for anything less than $150. Yeah. It’s probably one of the most sought after ones. Damn you, Good Smile! Can’t you re-release one of the most kawaii nendoroids ever. EVER!