o/` It's all been done~ o/`

[nekokoban]

rivendellrose, if you see this, please IM me or e-mail me or something~ our birthdays are next week, and while I've got a test on yours-proper, it's been Heavily Suggested we try doing some kind of gig on the weekend. XD I know that shadawyn has Sunday off, but we've got Saturday morning brunch, so hey. Gimme a buzz, okay? ♥

Next chapter in Bioscientific Termiology, I think we start having to memorize suffixes as well as prefixes and bases. SUCK ASS. Watch as this is the final that completely kills me dead, and not because it's difficult, no, but because I have to remember stuff. I suppose I should be grateful that my strongest point in languages is vocabulary moreso than grammar. XD; On the other hand, I get to sleep in tomorrow (Thursdays were sucktastic spring quarter, but my bestest day this one, so far♥), my Ochem lab TA is cool, and roomie procured tapes, so that we can tape our shows and watch them later. X3 No more missing Iron Chef! XD

And, idly, whose brilliant idea was it to bundle QuickTime so that you can only get it with iTunes? _o_ I've got a LOT of friends who swear by that program, and have sung its praises to me many a time, and I just ... don't like it. XD;; It's clunky, it does weird things to my playlists, and it constantly lists the songs in my library twice, which makes me feel like I've got two copies of a song floating around, when I know I don't. o_o Maybe there's some magical iTunes-fu that I'm unaware of; as it is, it seems kind of sad that I had to download the entire package, install it as iTunes, and then UNINSTALL just iTunes, so I can have QuickTime. XD;

I also like how it was brilliant and sunny and nice while I was walking around to go to classes, and now that I'm done for the day and chilling in my room, it's turned gray and cloudy. XD

So, today in the club, they caught me and made me watch the first episode of Bleach, subtitled. XD (Chiraluv, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?) And it's interesting, in a sense, because it's like duuuude, it's the same old story all over again -- but it is and it isn't. And then I wonder, well, if there's no such thing as a truly original idea any more, what is it about certain cliches and reused plots that give them staying power? (For example, the continuous popularity of porn. Or vampires. And even vampiric porn, since I've heard the Laurell K. Hamilton rant before.)

It's a person-to-person thing, certainly; I've argued this point with Jesse a few times, especially since his tastes in stuff tends to run opposite of mine, and he's now the club librarian, which means he's got something not quite unlike ultimate power when it comes to the showings. Unless he doesn't, and I've been cruelly misled all this time. Me, I like a good friendship story which I can totally misinterpret have fun reading about; I like stories where the uber-powerful knowing savior of the world actually grows up knowing themselves, rather than the "OMG WE MUST KEEP THIS PERSON IN THE DARK!", and I like the whole theme of overcoming your mistakes and making a better person/life for yourself. (Hellooooo, FMA, is your movie out yet?)

Once upon a time, I was going somewhere with this. But roomie's out till 6:30 tonight, so I'm torn between taking my shower or trying to find where the *##%*(#&! I put my notebook so I can see if my old NaNo ideas are still pinging at me. >_> It's a long time till supper~

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[harukami]

Hey! I'll be on in a few, just doing some homework. <3 Ehhh, bleach is subbed already? XD Wow.

omgstuff.

[nekokoban]

Wheeee~ I gotta call my parents in something like fifteen minutes, and then I should proooobably mosey down to see what foodstuffs there are available, so I will see you in, at most, an hour or so~ ♥

And yes, Bleach is already subbed. They were debating about a potential subbing war for it today at lunch. XD;

Yaystuff♥

[angrybabble.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the bleach anime yet, but I love the manga. I think you're right and that after time, all the popular things that run in major magazines tend to look alike and have similar themes, especially as trends get popular... but, I guess I look for the unique qualities? (Of which I think manga/original versions tend to be more interesting and have those little weirdnesses.) For example, Get Backers, which I like, is filled with random cliches and whatnot, but when I look at the overall picture, like the things they do and the storylines, it's damn weird. And I like it for that.

Bleach is one of those series with enough original action that I don't mind the cliches -- I think it does them in a good way. Much like FMA, to me -- FMA just doesn't grab me the way it does a lot of people, but I like it okay. I think it handles a lot of its cliches well, and its original qualities are interesting, but for me, not obsession-worthy. ^^; But Bleach, well... as you may or may not know, I'm mad about most anything that has shinigami in it. XD I'm just hoping the anime makes me as happy as the manga did.

[nekokoban]

It's also a case, I think, of bigger-name studios that have a consistent style in their animation, so even if the styles were different in the manga, they're not so MUCH so, in the anime? Because I've got friends who rave over the mangaka's artstyle in Bleach, but in the anime, the designs seem almost generic, for anime characters?

Chira's pimping the manga at me every chance she gets, and the general consensus, I've heard, is that volume 3 is the clincher for most. Just from the tiny bit I've seen, Bleach hasn't done anything for me in the way FMA does, but I'm hoping I'll get more into it, as time goes on. ♥ Because these days, I'm finding myself drawn more to original executions, if not so much original concepts, yanno?

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

I can probably make the Saturday brunch, and I have Sunday and Monday off.

But it's YOUR birthdays, so...

[nekokoban]

We're thinking dim sum on the Sunday after; gotta poke Dora and/or Myra, since they seem to know where more of the places are. XD

At least there'll be Saturday brunch, though. :3 IHOOOOOOOP. /sparkly-eyed

[sharky-chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought iTunes was annoying and was determined to keep using Winamp, but then I realized how bloody simple it is (so simple it's complex) and began to share music, and then just gave up and joined the cult that is Mac o.@.

But Quicktime...ick. Most horrible piece of software I've ever used. Mplayer and VLC can play *most* .mov formats and are about fifteen gajillion times better (and yeah, that's a technical term XD).

And I think you're right about plots. There are only so many in the world, so it's all about execution, not necessarily originality. Especially when "originality" means doing crazy-ass things that don't really make sense just to confuse the viewer/reader >o>.

[nekokoban]

Yes, but see, the so-simple-it's-complex bit that bugs me. XD; Because I really don't like its setup, period -- I'm just too fond of WinAmp, I think. XD But Quicktime is a necessary evil on my part, since my class listenings all require it. _o_

Speaking of bizarrity that seems to be passing itself off as originality -- check out the preview for the movie "Primer." XD; It was one of the previews when we went to see "Shaun of the Dead," and dude wtf. XD; I didn't get it at all. /dumb

[emmling.livejournal.com]

Fuck you all. ;P It's so NOT FAIR that I'm here in frickin' Japan and I don't get the television station that carries Bleach. Hate. Hate hate hate. Stupid TV nazis.

[nekokoban]

o____________o

There's a certain huge sort of irony in that. Does your connection not let you get the torrents, then? o_o

[emmling.livejournal.com]

I don't have internet in my apartment yet. Right now I'm reduced to internet cafes or stealing my friend's broadband when I visit her (like now). But when I get it, oh when I get it..... life will be good. :)