From octopedingenue, 5 reasons I am a supreme dork

I am a supreme dork because:


1. I sleep with a Vash pillow. I bought a large black square pillow with a professionally spray-painted portrait of Vash The Stampede on it in silver for 40 bucks at a con three years ago. I still have it, and I still use it. As a pillow. I sleep with Vash every night. And I clutch it when watching emotionally traumatizing things-- like every other episode of FMA.

2. in my LSAT prep class last monday, during the class break our instructor/teacher mentioned how Tom Cruise and what's her face need a name like "Bennifer" and how "Bennifer" was a such weird name... and I led that into a discussion of how/why people on the internet splice names together to designate a couple as a single unit. I didn't mention fanfic, but as an example to expand upon "Bennifer" I did mention Bangel and...you guessed it...Spuffy! I actually feel kind of proud I was able to educate him on this totally-useless-in-the-real-world fandom practice. During this whole discussion I had to bite my tongue from randomly saying "Every fandom wants to be Spuffy," because I know he wouldn't have gotten it and there's at least 20 minutes of explaining behind that statement.

3. due to my deep Naruto dorkishness, I've started adding "no jutsu" to everyday things. On the couch watching tv: Remote no Jutsu! At work at Albertsons today: Sweep no Jutsu! At home tomorrow afternoon: Chili Cooking no Jutsu!
And my favorite... Automatic Double Door no Jutsu, with hand seals.

4. I saw my high-school-senior-now cousin for the first time in over a year last night, and in less than three hours I had him sitting nearby while I sat at my computer and wrote him a Word document file with step by step instructions on how to use Bitorrent, livejournal trading communitings, and what little I know of IRC and FTP. Complete with website links and suggestions for titles/shows he should download. My mom came to tell us we were wanted in the living room and I told her "Give me another four five minutes, I'm teaching Cousin how to be an internet pirate." All she said was "You have fifteen minutes, then dessert is being served."

5. I got into an argument once with my family on why it was wanky behavior for the Hotel de Coronado to be playing the movie "Some Like It Hot" on the televisions in their main lobby. Then I had to change that statement to "masturbatory" because my family didn't get what "wanky" meant. And it is masturbatory of them, I still maintain. In fact, there's no better description for it than meaningless self-gratification.

Gargoyles, Inu Yasha

Left the computer and have gone back to the tv to finish previously mentioned Gargoyles episode. The pleasures of DVR! I can pause tv; I love it!

I also love this episode. This is the one where Demona tries to recruit Brooklyn into her antihuman hate-on. Aaaaah, Demona. I shall forever love your character.

Actually, now that I think about it, the whole Goliath/Demona relationship has a lot in common with the whole InuYasha/Kikyo relationship of IY. Both couples started out in love and happy, then were separated by a betrayal, a curse, and time passing. Both couples' history is threatened by the appearance of the new girl. Except Kikyo was never as interesting as Demona. Kikyo as she was when she was first revived as demon, full of hate and vengeance... that's what Demona is like all the time. Except unlike Kikyo, who spends her days wandering around or hunting Naraku, Demona had much grander ambitions which involved lots of pain and death and subjugation of the human race. And really, from where she's standing, 90% of it is totally justified, because she really got screwed over by humans and by destiny. I really sympathize and I dug the depths to which she would go to achieve what she wanted.

Also, Demona and Goliath actually fought each other in battle when a conflict (usually started by one of Demona's sinister and misguided schemes) came up, instead of him staring longingly at her while she strings him along or puts him under a spell some absurd reason. Of course Demona did string Goliath along a number of times... but then Goliath was an adult and leader of his entire clan, not a 16 year old immature halfbreed, so he saw through that crap eventually.

Know what else I loved about Demona? She was so relentlessly manipulative. Clever, clever, clever, with her only flaw being that she can't let go of her anger enough to correctly predict the behavior those who can.

the new Serenity trailer is out

SERENITY MOVIE TRAILER #2

I uploaded it for you guys, you can also get it from somewhere on aintitcool.com.

This trailer makes me want to go see it even more. Waiting sucks.



p.s. River is made out of chocolate! I know, it's totally weird!

Gungrave 12

This whole Harry love life thing still creeps me the fuck out. ( Read more... )

Gungrave - episode 14

::smack dab in the middle of episode 14::

I'm cracking up. I'm seriously laughing out loud as I watch this.

It's fucking awesome. Harry and Brandon are dancing around each other's words and body language like a tango.

I stopped liking most of these characters as people a while ago, Brandon included, but I can't say that this rising tension and build toward conflict isn't very, very enjoyable. From a plot perspective. Who's gonna blink first?

And that SONG as they're driving along... Dude, am I supposed to be laughing? Am I supposed to find this as insanely funny and ironic as I do? Because I do find it funny. It's just too funny for words, the facades they're both putting up.

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I spent most of this episode laughing. I know, I know, that's horrible of me! But right up until the elevator ride I was cracking up. You can tell in my episode 14 response a few posts back.

I was laughing because it was like they were both thinking "Is he going to turn and shoot me any second now? ....hhhhnn....how about now.....hnnnn...Hey, let's go reminisce about clouds!"

Harry's smiling and chatting while thinking "If I stopped talking about our childhood and told him about my misuse of company funds, would he shoot me right now right here?"

And Brandon's thinking "Harry's getting really tense. He's acting like a cornered pit bull...is he going to go for his gun? If he draws his gun I'll have to draw mine too."

The conversation dies and a tense moment drags on. Both narrow their eyes. Moment drags on more.

Harry: Hey, wanna go joyriding in my car and check out girls?
Brandon: Sure.

They don't talk about their many personal problems, instead they go joyriding.

Harry: Remember how we were best friends as kids and suffered horrible mistreatment but loved life anyway with that carefree happy way that children do?
Harry thinking: You totally wouldn't shoot me. You're my bitchboy.

Brandon: Yes.
Brandon thinking: Don't go doing' anything that would have to make me shoot your sumbitch ass Harry.

Harry: *smiles fakely* Want to look at the blue clouds and pretend we aren't both murdering gangsters?
Brandon: *smiles fakely* Sure.

Harry thinking: You would shoot me, wouldn't you, you prick?
Brandon thinking: I haven't decided yet. Gimme a minute.

Anyway, it had me laughing. Rolling on the couch laughing.



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End of episode 14

Okay, uh... a little less funny now. But right up to the elevator ride it was freakin' hilarious, you gotta admit. The irony! [JohnStewartvoice] Oh, irony. Dear, dear irony...why must you be so... ironic? [/end JohnStewartvoice]

Of course, the end, where I was just kind of numb and sad and shocked. I knew it would happen (the tension was so well-built into the episode you could practically hear it singing in your ears by the time they go to the elevator), but I was shocked by the violence of his death. So very brutal. Harry didn't have to be brutal... but he was.

You know, cosmically Brandon deserved it because we'd already seen him kill dozens of other people the exact same way. And it's inevitable that it would happen to him too. But it was still more violent than I was expecting. No single shot in the back or being pushed off a roof... it was 4-6 shots to the chest and a shot through the freakin' eyeball.



Now if I were the anime producer and it were me calling the shots, I'd drop the first episode and stop after this episode, label the whole a 13-ep half-season and leave it at that. Zombie army subplot? Unnecessary. The mafia tragedy will do just fine on its own.

Speaking of anime mafia tragedies...( explicit spoilers for episode 14 of Gungrave, and ep 26 of Cowboy Bebop )

Gungrave

Episode 20 - Brother

The dub VA for Harry's older voice is pretty cool. He's especially good at doing the insane cackling. I have to say it again: Harry, you are so fucked in the head it's funny. ( But who cares about Harry when it's an episode about Bunji! )

Episode 21 - Duty

Yay! ( Read more... )