Quick Notes

1) It turns out that ep.25 is a horrible place to pause in GitS:SAC. >_> Oh, my poor spider babies. (And Motoko and Batou have like this unexpected naked UST moment, which is... actually, it's pretty cool. XD Given that they'd been exchanging a sort of soldierly-semi-flirt-repartee all the way through, but when push comes to hotel room you know they'd refuse to acknowledge it, let alone do anything. Instead they talk meaningfully about politics and the role of memory in defining consciousness. Good ol' GitS.)

2) Oh boy oh boy, is TeniMyu ever the uncut quality Venus de Milo crack. I figured okay, song and dance and racket choreography, this should be Teh R0xx0r insofar as mindless fangirl entertainment is concerned - and it is - but I didn't expect them to go to so much trouble casting what are apparently the prettiest boy models in all Japan who also look like TeniPuri characters. I mean, with every successive version from manga to anime to this, it's like... like Inui gets exponentially sexier, for one, and Kaidou's incredibly bish and IT'S ALL SO VERY ODD. Is it bad of me I know this is horrible of me, but all I can think is "So where's the RPS for this thing?" I mean, totally in an objective media studies sort of way.

The multimedia marketing strategy for this series (and didn't ReDotPop have a proper word for when they do surround-blitz in Japanese pop-culture?) would frighten me if I weren't so mindlessly entertained by it. XD But y'know, it makes you sit there and think, "Why am I bothering to write fic for this series? There are people out there who get to make a MUSICAL!"

EDIT -- Have just abused McGill Science Students Society's bandwidth like a... well, like an abusive person who's buddies with the SUS Taskforce sysadmins, in order to gack all those TeniMyu clips. (And a couple of mpgs off kekkai FTP, which transfers at 5-10 Mbps on a university line.) Now I need to go grab some food, and possibly give T a call but first food, because I am starving.

Food, and fandom

That and music, and you have this blog in a nutshell. I guess what I like are simple subjects with infinite depth. XD

Post the last note I went to Movenpick's, down the street from McGill campus, and committed fowl murder on a half roast chicken and fries. Movenpick's is designed for one to pick at a smorgasbord of little (expensive) platters of mix-and-match world cuisines, really, but it does have some great hearty dishes, and the roast chicken is one of them. And the fries! When I was pulling late-nighters at McGill I'd go to Movenpick's just for fries. 2$ with tax for a goodly plate, and you can taste the thick-sliced golden potato. Mmm.

( Thoughts on OTPs while eating chicken, in which I eventually end up pointing out how ghei GetBackers is, since you all needed to know *that* )

Dang, that was long. It was supposed to be a short note. >_> Ah vell... Have also been watching those infamous TeniMyu clips, gulping amaretto-and-soda and laughing my head off and all the while thinking that my tolerance for cheesy crack has noticeably increased, as five years ago I wouldn't have been able to sit through the thing. Not with the 80's synths and shimmying and break-dancing through stage tennis matches. Then I realised that it was merely my tolerance for musical theatre that's increased (all the opera I watch but never talk about, after I figured out that I enjoy opera much more if I could see what was happening, even if all the characters were fat - mostly recently Madame Butterfly, in keeping with the Meiji theme).

Then I realised the two were equivalent. :D