I might just be the world's laziest artist. I never get around to scanning/coloring my work. Just so happened today I sat down and just started doodling out an idea that has been bouncing around my brain for awhile.



Basically this is my idea of Death in relation to the Four Horsemen. On a personal critique, I fudged up her legs a bit and I think her arm is too long. If you are wondering what she is sitting on, its suppose to be a statue of an angel in a graveyard. You can see where I sorta puttered out while drawing and got distracted by KIGO comics on DeviantArt. ;D

I know I had some other art stuff around here... lemme see if I can find them again and put them back up. ^^;

I can't remember where I was in 2006 and I can't believe that I had completely missed seeing Paprika when it was first released. I highly recommend this. A friend had rented the movie out last night by recommendation from her brother and well I was completely hooked within the first few minutes.

Story: Protagonist use a device to look into the dreams of other people in order to help them... of course if it fell into the wrong hands... ^^

The music is another thing that I'm absolutely raving about. Like the animation, the music sucks you in and sends your heart racing.

Had I seen this in 2006, I would have said that TEKKONKREET is similar to Paprika. But since I didn't I can't only make a backwards comparison. Not to confuse; the storylines and style of animation are completely different. But what I am saying is that both movies definately appealed to me in the sense of "pure imagination". I'm a sucker for things that inspires my creativity to unleash itself.

Another quick blurb Paprika was directed by Satoshi Kon, who also has done Tokyo Godfathers and Millennium Actress two other movies that I would also like to recommend. The music was scored by Susumu Hirasawa, who also did the music for Millennium Actress.

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A friend asked me last night, if there was one thing I could get rid of in the world - what would it be? My reply was - MONEY.

What would your answer be?

Not feeling too "with it" right now... but here are somethings that managed to get me to smile.



The Last Supper : I have to say my favorites are; The Battle Star Galactica and the Zombies.

And I know I've mentioned TED here before. But apparently there is now a PDF book of sketches and notes from this years gathering. I highly recommend checking it out!

Man am I ever on a roll... Prolly just making up for not posting during February.

ANYWAY! Those that prolly have TV, a frightening curiosity for infomercials, or have seen something of this on the web...

The Hawaii Chair.

In all honesty... Ellen's 3 min experience with it was by far the best!

I have become addicted to Mnemosyne. There I said it; I'll also admit that I'm rather picky when it comes to anime. Actually I'll pretty much watch anything but there are a few gems that my inner fangirl will go completely nuts over. Mnemosyne is one of them and has just been recently released in 2008 (with following releases happening once every month till June).

I stumbled upon this OVA via a review from the Okazu and well the rest is history. Heh.

Mnemosyne has not be slated for a US release yet, but when has that ever stopped a fan. There has also been a light novel adaptation written by the writer of the OVA. Perfect. Now to find where I can get my hands on a copy.

Now your thinking WTF? Right? Well lemme dish it out this way without giving away too much of the over all plot. We have Rin the main protagonist a woman who can't be killed, is excellent at hand-to-hand combat, wears awesome clothes, and let me just say it again... She can't be killed (at least by normal means *wink*). We also have a sidekick, Mimi, who is a lot older than she really looks, loves her alcohol, and apparently has a rather 'familiar' relationship with Rin. Its safe to say that these two women who work together in a private investigator office know each other well. From here one you get a guy clone that joins the team, an assassin woman who has it in for killing Rin, someone named Apos who loves to play chess with bound and bleeding women, men who turn into angels who make immortals like Rin and Mimi horny then eat them... literally, AND there is a Tree. (I'm not going to say anything more about the Tree... so ;P)

Let me also mention that this anime isn't well... for the faint of heart. There's blood, lots of it (especially the first episode... it still makes me, well, cross my legs. If you watch, you will know what scene I'm talking about.) There is also moments of nudity and sex... which ALMOST reminds me of Speed Grapher and I'm going to kick myself for even making that comparison.

Let me remind you... Mnemosyne is SO MUCH better.

So I love it... so watch it. This anime is so good, I blogged my own review. Something I rarely do.

I don't think I'll ever be able to see Swan Lake the same ever again. [Favorite moment... somewhere around minute 3:50]

Warning: Complete absurd story follows...

Did you know that cows can lactate lemonade? No seriously, they can and do. Research into an obscure cult in the southwest has uncovered this phenomenon. According to observations acolytes of the cult soak cows in a salt bath after they come in from pasturing. After a certain period of time the cows begin to lactate lemonade. The use of this lemonade is still under speculation, due to further observations regarding ingestion and ceremonial baths in relation to the suspected liquid.

Background on that story; complete and utter bullshit. That was inspired last year during a bout with fever and "Spider and Scorpion" by Phillip M Jackson. The key to the telling of this story is the delivery, do it good enough and people will believe.

Why am I sharing this? Well apparently if people can worship teapots, then my story isn't too far fetched, neh?

Okay... as usual I do my daily cruise through the internet to see what tidbits catch my fancy. And well... I suggest reading the links in the order they are listed.

New York Times - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Scans Daily LJ - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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First off Xander's reaction was priceless! Though I haven't been a fan of Buffy for a long time, good lord I can't even remember what season my interest sorta fell out. (I have commitment issues, ask Heros they understand.) But once a fan... well always a fan. I have to say from the New York Article Whedon definately achived what he was going for, at least IMO. He brought up a good point concerning lesbianism in media, it IS a double edge sword and well the masses will take things which ever way they want. If this makes Ellen I might just start laughing till I cry.

Buffy I think had the most ideal reaction, (no doubt all of us would like to have this reaction instead of the 'deer in headlights morning after awkwardness') What was it she said... "...Tomorrow I'm gonna think about what we did. And I'm going to blush. And I'm going to smile." Pathetically enough the fan girl in me just 'Squees' its rather sad; but that response is priceless. To me it alludes to that things are going to get awkward but will remain good if not stronger between the characters. Lord knows what Whedon will make of what is to come out of this, but hey as a fan its what I look forward to.

Now about Firefly... *snickers*