- KUSOYARO! 2002-10-31 14:54:07 You realize that it's probably your fault our server went down, right? :P
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Noir
2002-10-30 12:23:51
I started watching Noir yesterday, got through episode 7.
I like it. The first episode seemed overdramatic to a fault, which was kind of annoying. The fact that the main characters are so plain looking is good and bad, good because it adds to the realism, bad because it's hard to really like them that way for some reason. The action is great, although it mostly consists of one of the two main characters standing with their gun pointing sideways after the screen pulled away so as to not show any blood. People are being killed left and right and there's no blood, no bullet holes. They keep showing this one flashback, like 2 times per episode, which annoys me. And there's this one song that they keep playing over and over, which is driving me nuts.
I guess that's the "bad paragraph," so I'll talk about the good now.
It's very stylish, and very well animated/drawn. The scenery is beautiful, very detailed and pretty. The action is good, and interesting, despite the lack of blood and bullet holes which would naturally result from having been shot. The way the story moves reminds me of The Professional, which of course, is only a good thing. Older pro travels with underage sidekick, moving from hotel to hotel avoiding The Man. It's good. It's also pretty easy to get into, I've found. I did, after all, watch 7 episodes straight, which I've never done with any show before. It's realistic, although I keep thinking to myself on this flashback they keep showing, "how did those two guys get shot at the exact same time?" I guess that's the only thing that was out-of-whack. Despite how many complaints I have in that first paragraph, they actualy aren't very bad and don't take away from the series very much at all. It's definitely worth watching the whole series, I just dont' know about buying it. -
Woo-yeah.
2002-10-29 13:11:32
Awesomeness.
I went on a shopping spree and bought:
Now and Then, Here and There DVD box set
Grave of the Fireflies
Serial Experiments Lain DVD box set
Ok Go's CD
Hot Water Music's CD
It's been a while since I've bought something just because I wanted it. Go me. -
Yeah.
2002-10-28 00:10:52
I miss my site. I really do.
Sometimes I click the now dead quick link on IE and get the error page, and wish I was in my site's forum. :( -
Jason's Woods
2002-10-26 03:04:44
Dynamite Hack - "Boyz in the Hood" 'Tis the song of this trip. For every big thing I do with Carl, we have a song. Graduation was "Evil Dick" by Body Count, this trip is "Boyz in the Hood" by Dynamite Hack, which, incidentally, brings back back sweet memories of AWA. Good ole' Fluxmeister made a Big O video using that song, and it was great. I'm downloading the video now.
Well, this trip, oddly enough, was a spur of the moment switch from seeing The Ring in the theatres to going to Jason's Woods in Pennsylvania. Pencil Veiny. I have to admit, Buskirk, Carl, Carter and I make a neat little group. Buskirk is like the doofy goofball we all make fun of, Carter is the lady's man, I'm the quiet smart guy and Carl is the leader (combining the qualities of all). Buskirk picked me up at 6 and we went to the gas station and met up with Carl and Carter. Oddly enough, once we were there, Joey started looking all nervous. After interrogated, it turns out that his first lay was in the store. More questioning revealed that it was the very overweight 30 year old woman waddling about. We forced him to stick around until she started talking to him, just to torture him. :) We also saw Buskirk's NEWLY DUMPED EX at the exact same time at the same place. How crazy is that? Both of his most recent ex-girlfriends at the same time. ALSO, we saw Jessica, someone I haven't seen since graduation. She's a great person, and quite pretty too. Turns out she was on her way to apply for American Idol in New York but missed her train. I feel bad for her.
The trip to Jason's Woods was hilarious. We got lost so many times. How the fuck do we get lost with PERFECT INSTRUCTIONS/DIRECTIONS!? Simple. We let Buskirk hold the directions and tell Carl where to drive. Bah, kind of hard to describe how we reacted. There was many insults similar to "Buskirk. SHUT THE FUCK UP. YOU FUCKING MORON." and "FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK! Don't tell me where to drive anymore, just shut the fuck up." "BUSKIRK. YOU STUPID FUCK. Do I make a fucking right turn or a fucking left turn!? WHAT THE FUCK? Don't give me the history of PA, GIVE ME THE FUCKING DIRECTIONS, goddammit, you fucker!" Or, in Carter's words, "You motherfockler!"
Well finally we arrived at around 8 and were directed to a parking spot. Then we went in. It was really well done, more so than I remembered 2 years ago. Some really nifty stuff was in there that I hadn't seen before. For example, we had 3d glasses and were walking in a... 3d haunted house. We went into a room full of glowing 3d circles, and to our surprise, a guy popped out wearing a costume made of the 3d circles. He blended into the wall perfectly.
Walking around the haunted maze thingy, we realized that about 3 groups of giddy girls were following us around and letting us lead the way. It seemed like, at every turn, another group was added and began following us. After some time we noticed that we had been cut off from the group and suddenly some guy in a cowboy hat thing appeared out of nowhere. I said "hey, it's some guy!," which he was known by for the rest of the night. Then Freddy popped out of somewhere and Carl said, "Hi Freddy." I said "Hey, where the fuck are we?" and Freddy responded "go in here" and opened up a curtain. Wow, he scared us. Uh huh. He's the most helpful horror flick guy I've ever seen, that's for sure.
That's about it for the attractions. After we were done, we walked about for a little while. We went to get some funnel cake and some freaky guy with half his teeh missing and a large beard started talking to Carter. Carter was really upset because he missed the guy who played someone in a horror movie, I forget who he was (I had a picture signed by the guy who played Leatherface, but someone else had been there earlier). So the scary guy says, "No, I don't have a poster he signed, but I have something much better!" After a couple minutes, he returned with not one, but TWO POSTERS. Unsigned posters. Hahahaha... The look on Carter's face was priceless as he said "Um... Thanks?" We were directed to find someone named Connie about having the poster signed, who we found, and got no info from. Then we saw Some Guy again in front of the stand Connie was in and talked to him for a while. He worked for the place, apparently. So we ended up spending a large amount of time talking to employees. Then we left at 10.
The trip home was just as confusing as the trip there, except some freaky guy in a huge van was bearing down on us the entire time we were trying to find our way around.
We went back to the gas station we met at earlier, at 12, split up, and I went to Buskirk's house after getting tacos at Taco Bell. We watched Road Trip, which oddly enough, related to our newly completed road trip. We also watched the video footage of his party on the 29th that I missed while at AWA. I got to see Jen Finn's naked boobs. She's like one of the hottest girls that I went to high school with, and I got to see her boobs. That was pleasant.
I got home at 3, started washing the mud off my shoes, downloaded the current song and the video by Fluxmeister with that song, and started writing this. And now I sign off around 4 to a much-needed night of sleep.
We're all going to the college's dance on the 8th of November. Wow, I'm just on a social roll, aren't I?
Quotes for the night:
"It'th a thimple thing, motherfockler." (Carl making a mistake by saying "It'th" and continuing with it)
"Hey, it's Some Guy!" (meeting Some Guy for the first time, and every time afterwards)
"Oh, c'mon guys! Geez guys!" (some woman harrassing us every time we made a mistake)
"Get behind these guys! We'll follow them!" (I swear, I heard that 10 times on the trip)
In the haunted house:
Carter: Hey, did you touch me?
Carl: No...
Stagefreak: BUT I WILL!
Us: AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!
Carter: That's not a person, it's a doll.
2 seconds of staring later: BOO!
Carter: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
After me reaching behind myself and grabbing Buskirk's arm in the maze...
Buskirk: AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
Carl after walking into a teeny confined black corner of the maze and being greeted by a freaky costumer...
Carl: AAAAHHHHH!!!!! AH! AH! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! RUN!
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