Gubaba

My Japanese professor from UCLA is good friends with Mari iijima, and introduced me to her. And my best friend taught ESL in Monterey Park, and had a student who was friends with Yoko Kanno. She (the student) gave her (my friend) a bunch of Seatbelts memorabilia. I was jealous.

"Listen to my f@#!in' song, M&^@#?f*&@ers!" "Oh, shut the f%^# up, Basara!" Actually...as I said before, I'm in the middle of rewatching M7 right now, and the thing that REALLY bugs me about it is not the goofiness or the lack of intense mecha scenes, or the cartoonish villains...but the fact that the animators seem to have no idea how to play a guitar...really blows all the concert scenes for me. I have no idea why that has become my ultimate M7 pet peeve, but it has.

I looks like onemanga.com has English scanlations of the first 80 chapters...I'll check it out after I finish the novel...since I'll probably want a little break before diving right into The Water Margin... (And yes, I'm going to read all Four Chinese Classics, but it'll take me a while...)

You read it in Chinese? Wow...was it modernized, or was it all in 13th Century Chinese? Either way, I'm impressed! As for the Ravages of Time, I've heard of it, and I'd like to see it...but I'm still about 20 chapters away from the end of the novel, and I'm already thinking, "Thanks, I've had enough." So it may be a few years before I get around to looking at it. I saw the Japanese manga that the anime is based on, but it was done by the guy who drew "Iron Man 28," and was a little too cartoony for my taste. Plus, it didn't look terribly Chinese...

You mean the human body isn't filled with forty gallons of highly pressurized blood...? Man, Hokuto no Ken LIED to me!!!

Finally! The perfect film to pair with Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies as a double feature! I am so there! (If you haven't heard of Stacy, it's a must-see: Enjoy.)

What did it do...set fires to trap telemarketers?

Bah, that won't be half as frickin' amazing as "Snake: The Motion Picture." It keeps eating and eating... And the only thing that can stop it... is itself.

Ah. Never mind. (That should teach me to speed read through a post...but it probably won't.)

They should've gotten Patrick Swayze to play Gort...

Agreed. Dune is a great BOOK. But the depth and richness of it that make it great book are exactly the reasons it will never make a great film (or even miniseries). Most of the greatest scenes are very...interior. I'm thinking especially of the banquet scene where everyone's jockeying for power and sending hidden messages under the guise of innocuous small talk...how the hell can someone film THAT? Most good books aren't merely screenplay adaptations waiting to happen. Most good comic books are not well-colored storyboards. Most good older movies are not springboards for a remake. *sigh*

Dammit! They give us the crappy Fire Bomber voice actors live album, but they don't give us the concerts with the actual singers???

Well, I can't speak for Ginrai, but I was more or less joking...I've always said that the Mac7 love triangle would have been more convincing if Basara had shown even the slightest interest in Mylene. Hell, he doesn't even seem to have any interest in Rex, and she's hot AND sassy!

You know, it never seemed to me that Basara was interested in sex in the slightest, and his bored expression there confirms it! He really would rather be singing...

I have both and I never really noticed any difference. The subs are a different translation, and the English audio is (obviously) very different, but the picture quality and Japanese audio are, I believe, the same. I've never done a thorough comparison, though, so I might be wrong.

Is it just me or is this proof that the Macross 7 love triangle eventually gets resolved...?

Well, I'm no Egan Loo, but I plan to translate Macross Classic as soon as I can get my hands on it...

Hmmm...maybe this should be moved to the games section...

IIRC, in the Move Edition, Millard very strongly implied that would cover for Dyson. So I figure he did. But, then, Isamu and Guld wrecked a large part of a city (I hope everyone was out that day), which is kinda hard to cover up... OK, I see your point. Me, I like to think that Isamu formed a search party to go find the Megaroad-01...a story that will be told once "Macross Sentinels" makes it's debut.

I hope you got a good grade on it... (And I wish I'd thought of that...I never played Three Kingdoms, but I really liked Nobunaga's Ambition...could've done the same thing, mumble, mumble...)

I wish my Japanese was good enough to read those supplementary books...I can't even read the manga in the original (It's easier than Shirow, however). And yeah...I'm sure the story is deliberately unfinishable...every time I think I've grasped where the story has to go next, he widens the scope...first with the "Beyond the 7777" chapter in Traffics1, and then with the AD Era stuff in "The Chvalries." At the rate he's going though, as long as he finishes "The Magestic Stand," I'll be happy...

I don't care if it was real or not...it was still thoroughly awesome! Cripes..."I haven't read the book but I've seen the movie" is pretty common, but how many times do you hear, "I haven't read the book but I've played the game."? And yeah...too many characters. After I finish Three Kingdoms, I'm moving on to Outlaws of the Marsh (AKA The Water Margin), the story of 108 heroes. 108??? I'm simultaneously looking forward to and dreading that one...

I probably would've been better prepared if I had played the games first...Even now, I was struggling to remember who Dian Wei was...one of Cao Cao's general's, IIRC. That's one of the more difficult aspects of the book...there are HUNDREDS of people mentioned, and sorting out who's who really seems like a job for the specialist, rather than the general reader. The middle of the book, though, is amazing. Especially the Battle at Red Cliffs. THAT's something I'd like to play a game of...but only if you could play out the hysterical scene where Kongming taunts Cao Cao's army in order for them to shoot arrows at him and his men. He then collects all the arrows, has his men bow and say , "Thank you," and goes back to camp.

You really want to spend $80 to $100 on that? Ah well, to each his own...

That is one grimy Valk...but it still looks gorgeous!