Here's another recycled LJ picture meme for the masses. This one entailed me allowing commenters to request one (or two) photographs they wanted to see of me, my environment, etc. -- frex, Greg asked me to post a picture of my front door. And then at the end I tacked on a few extra photos just because. It was kinda fun, so if there's anything you especially want to see, do let me know in the comments. Anyway, here are the pics from that meme along with the attendant explanations. (more...)

Okay, so since occasionally I post memes and games and such to my otherwise neglected LiveJournal, last week I did a thingy in which I posted miscellaneous non-DVD screencaps and asked readers to guess what media the images were from or make up their own humorous titles a la the faux answers people come up with at trivia nights. Naturally, the real answers proved terribly elusive (one person did get the Japanese Dark Water and another had some pretty funny joke answers), but that was expected. 🙂 Anyway, I'm reposting the screencaps and answers here for fun. How many would you have gotten? Read on to find out! (more...)

ECW -- Extreme Championship Wrestling -- is not science fucking fiction.

Alex Garner draws a fantastic Illyria.

What the title says. I don't have a whole lot to add, so here are a few words on a couple of things I've seen recently...

X-Men: The Last Stand was pretty lame. Like, lame in that really general and boring way that precludes me from saying anything really interesting about just how lame it was. Unlike X2, it wasn't insulting to my intelligence. (By the way, I find it pretty amazing that so many critics have said it pales in comparison, since it was waaay better than that film -- but then, a 2-minute short film depicting a dog taking a shit would be more engaging and less idiotic than X2.) So with the notable exceptions of the exceedingly pointless and lackluster back-to-back "deaths" of two major characters, the totally uncharacteristic assholishness displayed by Professor Xavier, and Halle Berry stinking up every scene that featured her, I can't really pick it apart for anyone's benefit or amusement. I probably would've been able to if it'd been longer -- and admittedly the film did feel somewhat unfinished -- but the shorter length and according lack of extended shitty scenes were probably the only things that kept it from being as bad as X2. Still, I kinda hate you if you liked this movie. Please have better taste in films in the future. 🙁

And then, in addition to some pretty strange and obscure animes (one of which I fully intend to review on Scary-Crayon very soon), I started watching "Ayakashi ~ Japanese Classic Horror" yesterday. It's an eleven-episode horror series based on a few tales from Japanese folklore. In addition to being neat and engaging stuff, the fansubbing is exceedingly thorough, to the point that the group that subbed the anime even included pdf files full of historical notes and explanations with the download. Very impressive. A lot of details in the show remind me of some of the stories I read during a Japanese religion course I took in college, which is also cool. Kinda makes me want to try my hand at rewriting some classic myths myself... if I ever finish this memoir and other current projects, that is. 🙂

All for now, then. Until next time!