February 17, 2004
Oooh! Now you too can own actual video footage of an alien encounter! Really! It’s on eBay, so it must be true! And the video only costs $1.3M. For the first bid, y’know. Here’s the auction. Including a puff of smoke that’s actually a “preSumer Naggas.” There’s a role-playing scenario in here somewhere, I just know it…. Okay. I’m feeling better today, thanks to the support of my Monday Group last night. Katsucon […]
Monday, February 16, 2004
Tog has a great new article titled “Top 10 Reasons To Not Shop Online,” which highlights all the ways that internet buying can be inferior to brick-and-mortar retailing. That’s it from me today, alas. I had a relatively good time at Katsucon, though I’m still dealing with a pretty strong case of loneliness blues. I just can’t bring myself to write today.
Friday, February 13, 2004
Steven points out that he prefers iTunes to Magnatune. I understand why; iTunes is a great solution, too. I just can’t get used to buying music through an application. I prefer buying music off of a website. It seems less restrictive, somehow. I’m…well, yesterday I was having a really bad time. A number of bad things have converged to suck the happines out of my life. I wasn’t horribly depressed; just low. But […]
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Magnatune is a new record label with a simple catchphrase: “We are not evil.” Here’s why the label was founded; essentially, it’s an attempt to create a sane, good record label for the New Musical World. Half of all music revenue goes to the artist. You can buy and download the music directly off the site (in MP3, OGG, WAV, FLAC, or MP3-VBR), and you choose how much you want to pay for each […]
February 11, 2004
New poll. Do you read the VR story? I watched Jungle Emperor Leo last night, which is a brilliant film with a tortured history. After kicking off the anime genre with Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka created the first color anime series, Jungle Emperor (known as Kimba the White Lion in America). In 1966, they even retold several major events of the series in a feature film, Jungle Emperor Leo. […]
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The difference between a bad blog and a good blog lies in commitment and purpose. Some bloggers blog daily, and it seems to be natural for them to do so (see Lileks’ Bleat). Some blog at least a few times a week. But most bloggers are wildly inconsistent. Why? I think it’s partly a matter of commitment. Most people aren’t committed to their blogs. That’s fine; bloggers don’t have to be committed to their […]
Monday, February 9, 2004
What separates good entertainment from great entertainment? I pondered this as, this weekend, I watched Animation Runner Kuromi 2, which is a comedic anime about the production of anime. It’s by the brilliant director Akitaroh Daichi, who also created the fan-favorite spastic comedy Kodomo no Omocha and the powerful SF drama Now and Then, Here and There. In ARK2, Kuromi is doing her best to juggle three production schedules, […]
Saturday, February 7, 2004
Quick update: the Rintaro lecture was great, and a little surreal; one of anime’s greats talked about anime and Japanese art for 2 hours, right there in front of me. Wow.
Friday, February 6, 2004
Well. After feeling rather down yesterday at work, I got home and had the best evening I’d had in weeks — cleaned dishes, did a load of laundry, wrote 300 words, added a feature to Cronan, and watched more of my MST3K collection (“Hamlet,” in this case). There’s one unfortunate aspect to the MST3K collection, namely, each movie is introduced by Mike Nelson. But each introduction is about fifteen seconds long […]
Thursday, February 5, 2004
I’m in a bad place right now. I don’t know why. I think my cold set everything up: I’m constantly tired, and I can’t stop an annoying cough. This has left me without the energy to write, which depresses me every time I think about it. On the other hand, I only woke up two hours ago, and I’m still not quite awake yet (again, I blame my cold). Last night, I stopped […]