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Manga and other picture books
May. 23rd, 2004 01:58 amI decided I was going to make icons tonight, lots of them, to fill up my 30-plus empty slots with some to spare for friends and passers-by. This noble resolution foundered for the same reason as all previous instances when I'd decided I was going to make lots of icons; to wit, I frittered away several hours reading the picture books I planned on scanning. Books! They destroy productivity, and I keep buying them. >_> Got some Akutagawa, and Nana #8, and Le Pierre et le sabre which is what they call The Musashi Novel in French. Nana makes so much more sense in French. T_T Of course I'd skimmed the Japanese pretty fast (and never bothered to read through it slowly because the plot made me go WARGH), but wah. What business have I translating when I can't read a comic book nominally for grown-ups? It's not a fluke. I don't understand Trigun Maximum either. In both instances it's colloquial speech that does me in, unlike PMK where I can at least resort to the dictionary.
( Recurring non-spoileriffic rant on Nana )
Have said that I'm going to - am making - a FST for Nana. But the standards to which it has to live up are daunting. Not to mention slightly nonsensical. (I mean look, right off the bat, bless Yazawa-sensei's soul but Blast is supposed to sound like the Pistols? OKAY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN KTHX. And what about Trapnest? Some sort of cross between Evanescence and the glossiest j-rock on the market?
...I can do better than that. All right, that's the proper attitude. XD)
Went (biked!) to a party and saw Shrek II, by accident as it were, in a very pirated home edition. ^^; Totally worth the money I didn't spend on it. Am also as impressed with Samurai Champloo as everyone else (though I may have known about it for longer than most? XD), but cannot talk more about anime as have spent most of the evening reading books about Kay Nielsen and Modernist Chinese calligraphy, as previously intimated. Also, must to bed or sororial unit will be up at unholy hour to practice piano. Rather, she will be whether I get any sleep or not, so the rest is up to me.
( Recurring non-spoileriffic rant on Nana )
Have said that I'm going to - am making - a FST for Nana. But the standards to which it has to live up are daunting. Not to mention slightly nonsensical. (I mean look, right off the bat, bless Yazawa-sensei's soul but Blast is supposed to sound like the Pistols? OKAY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN KTHX. And what about Trapnest? Some sort of cross between Evanescence and the glossiest j-rock on the market?
...I can do better than that. All right, that's the proper attitude. XD)
Went (biked!) to a party and saw Shrek II, by accident as it were, in a very pirated home edition. ^^; Totally worth the money I didn't spend on it. Am also as impressed with Samurai Champloo as everyone else (though I may have known about it for longer than most? XD), but cannot talk more about anime as have spent most of the evening reading books about Kay Nielsen and Modernist Chinese calligraphy, as previously intimated. Also, must to bed or sororial unit will be up at unholy hour to practice piano. Rather, she will be whether I get any sleep or not, so the rest is up to me.
