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Oct. 9th, 2006 12:47 pmPart 2 of my look at doujinshi is up on Tpop now - this time looking at the legalities.
Oct. 9th, 2006
Saiyuki Reload 5
Oct. 9th, 2006 03:12 pmAfter getting about 4 hours of sleep last night due to coughing, it was time to phone the doctor and go in and get my every-other-year nonworking dose of codeine cough syrup. (It never works. But I live in hope.) She also gave me this pill that looks like a vitamin E capsule for the daytime - it's a non-narcotic cough suppressant for the day. I can't say that it's stopped my coughs altogehter, but so far I haven't had any of those coughing-horribly-and-can't-stop jags, so maybe it's at least somewhat effective. (It's benzonatate, if anyone's interested.*)
Anyway, if I leave work in the morning and try to go back before noon, I can't find a parking place, so I dropped by the bookstore and picked up Dramacon 2 and Saiyuki Realod 5, then ate lunch and read SR. Loved it, as always, especially Minekura's taking the time out to put in funny character business, and the whole Sanzo/Hazel rivalry.
And ... Zakuro, Zakuro, Zakuro. You are just so manic and so, so, ineffective. I think I love you.
* Symptoms of overdose include, I find out, death.
Anyway, if I leave work in the morning and try to go back before noon, I can't find a parking place, so I dropped by the bookstore and picked up Dramacon 2 and Saiyuki Realod 5, then ate lunch and read SR. Loved it, as always, especially Minekura's taking the time out to put in funny character business, and the whole Sanzo/Hazel rivalry.
And ... Zakuro, Zakuro, Zakuro. You are just so manic and so, so, ineffective. I think I love you.
* Symptoms of overdose include, I find out, death.
Watched Aeon Flux last night, and since I was watching it for the sets and costumes and art direction and not for what it laughably called a plot, I was well satisfied. And was happy to find the mini-documentaries on the sets and costumes etc. on the DVD extras, so all was well. and I could almost ignore that for the plot to work you had to assume that clones are second-generation copies with genetic memories of their original's life and not, say, twins. All you identical twins reading this? NOT REAL PEOPLE!
I did find it laughable that at the first, when Aeon was on a nighttime hush-hush Seekrit Mission to break into somewhere and do something-or-other (never quite figured it out), she found it necessary to wear a pure white outfit. Like you do, when you're trying to remain unseen at night.
And the twenty- and thirty-somethings on the council running the city? Were all too young and good-looking. I kept getting the unnerving feeling that the future was being run by male models.
But, as I said, if you're a costume and set geek, well worth watching.
I did find it laughable that at the first, when Aeon was on a nighttime hush-hush Seekrit Mission to break into somewhere and do something-or-other (never quite figured it out), she found it necessary to wear a pure white outfit. Like you do, when you're trying to remain unseen at night.
And the twenty- and thirty-somethings on the council running the city? Were all too young and good-looking. I kept getting the unnerving feeling that the future was being run by male models.
But, as I said, if you're a costume and set geek, well worth watching.
Emergency art reference!
Oct. 9th, 2006 07:04 pmNever mind. Reconfigured his leg after all.
Death Note anime...
Oct. 9th, 2006 09:54 pmWatched all of ep 1 - man, the sequence when Light was writing all the names down was cool. XD
And in other news, yup, the codeine is doing zilch other than making me sleepy - had another scary coughing spaz. I can't catch my breath during them. OH FUN.
And in other news, yup, the codeine is doing zilch other than making me sleepy - had another scary coughing spaz. I can't catch my breath during them. OH FUN.