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Went to lin_lin_lucy's birthday thing. It was much fun. Am always smacking self in forehead for not being better friend and hanging out more often.

My download of Naruto's eps 25-28 is complete! Wheee!!! And the new opening is tres magnific....


Edit- ...and the new ending theme is anoying as all hell. ::is crushed::

I would really appreciate this...

Does anyone have the new Matchbox 20 song "Bright Lights" ?

WHOOOO-HOOOOOO!!!!!!!! SCORE ONE FOR THE CAMPBELL CITY POLICE DEPT.!

Remember my post about my grandmother and the armed robbery on Martin Luther King day?

Those two bitches are going to court and they'll be tried for a possible fifteen year sentence.

::does dance of justice:: "Go Campbell PD, go Campbell PD, go Campbell PD..."


::am very glad that held on to this icon for so long, so as can use it gleefully now::

thanks for the linkage, _green_

This is the letter that I sent here: http://www.moveon.org/cbs/ad/

CBS & Associates,

I am gravely disappointed by your decision not to air the "Bush in 30 seconds" ad for the Super Bowl air time. I feel that by airing an ad for the Bush administration yet refusing to air an ad that opposes it, you stomp on the ideals of free speech, equal representation, balance in the spread of information news, and the public's right to media presentations that are not unfairly biased to one political view. In this decision you are abusing your power as public informants to censor what Americans can see and hear. Shame on you.

I hope in the future that you will make such decisions with wiser mind. There is still time to change this and allow the ad to be aired in a payed for time slot. I urge you to reconsider your decision.

Thank you for your time,

Sara Weir
(19, San Jose, CA)

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So Naruto had 3 slow transitional episodes, and then, WOW! Episode 29 ... very very interesting developments... ( spoilers )

One thing that I have come to realize for certain is that there's not much that happens that doesn't mean something later. I don't know if that's from the original manga creator or the anime writers, but whoever's doing it has a BtVS-like sense of continuity and plot threads and hints.

Which, as some might feel as well, is one of the absolute best ways to my fan heart.


They did some stuff here that I always like to see-- interesting camera angles and perspect shots, especially the ones that zoom in or out over great distances, or circle around. Anime some times has very interesting screen composition, and sometimes has very boring. At least so far Naruto has has consistantly interesting frame composition and perspectives and angles, for both the slow scenes and the action scenes. It's all smooth and flow-y and fast and cool. Whoever is directing the anime gets BIG points for that, even though the writers lose a few points for stretching out some events too long. Still, this episode was fantastic-- so many things have changed in just one episode, that it makes me look back on the slower paced episodes in awed curiousity. The pacing of this show takes definite getting-used-to. And that seems to be all that I want to do with my time. Get as used to it as possible. Get as much of it as possible.

Oh, and Kakashi's so cool. He wasn't even in this episode, but I wanted to say it anyway. Because he is. Probably my third favorite character, after Naruto and Sakura.

And everyone else is cool too. Damn I love this show. And I want to see the opening of season 2 without the text credits in the way of the prettiness...

::off to watch episode 30 and make copies for lin_lin_lucy::

Star Trek Body Count

What's the body count for Start Trek: The Next Generation ?

I don't need a total number, just some specific answers here and there. Like, "they blew up such and such ship here" or "they shot aliens here while rescueing so and so" or "they killed this alien here that one time."

My dad, you see, was trying to convince us that Picard never killed anyone besides the Borg. Which is so not true, as my mother and I have been trying to prove. But I saw most of STNG when I was between 5 and 14, so I'm not good on giving names of actual races/people killed. And yeah, a lot of the time Picard just talks his way out it. But I know they've killed people and blown up ships in fights and stuff.

So far all we can think of are the ugly bug species that took over the crew's bodies and were crawling out of Lt. Barcli's skin and stuff, and the blue glowy aliens that were trying to kill Mark Twain. But I know there were more than that. Heck, whenever they beamed anywhere they had their phazers out and frequently had to escape from places.

So... geeks of LJ unite! We must gather our collective trivia and prove to my father that Picard/The Enterprise Crew did kill more people/aliens/races/entities than just "what you can count on one hand." Whoever's death they were responsible for (self defense counts!), tell me.

This is the kind of debate that I have to win. I have to maintain my undefeated position as the go-to girl for inane movie/music/scifi/actor/showbiz trivia. Help me, help me!

More Naruto. BtVS LJers are probably thinking I'm lost to them now... I'll be back! Promise!

I noticed that the end credits of Naruto have one interesting fact. In the song lyrics that mentione "telephathy" and "can you hear it?" with the image of Ino and Sakura in super-deformed on either side "singing" to the backs three boys-- Shikamaru, Sasuke, and Naruto (all in that order), at the very end, Naruto is the one who turns around and looks.

BWAHAHAHAHAAA! My ship.