I'm worn out from Christmas shopping, just got back about an hour ago and it's like 7:00AM here now, so I'll get right to the good stuff.
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Kout3uka
I write from the heart, it's as simple as that. Length is not something I dictate to myself before I begin, I let the communication flow.
Yeah, I like
Porco Rosso, it's a good movie, everything I've seen with the Ghibli logo on it to date has been exceptional.
On dragons, what do I believe? I think it's highly possible that the creatues we call "dragons" did in fact exist, possibly as a species of "dinosaur" or another step in the process of reptile evolution, one that didn't survive to this day. However, we humans either haven't found the magic fossils yet, or we did, but just didn't put them together correctly, as we so often have done in the past with them, to know what we were looking at. There is a saying about urban legends, "where there's smoke, there's fire." Meaning some thing that actually existed at some point was seen by a human, and his attempt to retell what he saw gave birth to dragon myth and legend. There are still thousands of undiscovered species all across the globe, so it is quite possible that we modern humans have missed observing by a few hundred or thousand years, one of the last species of the larger reptilian evolution to walk the earth. There are many depictions of dragons across the globe too, from Europe, to Asia, and Even the Aztecs, and Mayan people had images of "dragons" in their art. So many people, in so many different parts of the word, are not going to accidentally create similar looking and acting ficticious creatures. They had to know, or see something that we today are just too blinded to fully see ourselves.
Caprice
Porco Rosso is a great movie. If you spot the Ghibli logo when you watch it, let me know in PM, I don't want to spoil the fun of the hunt for everyone else. ~_^ Trust me it's in the movie somewhere.
I'm not scared of flying that I know of, I just never had the need to fly anywhere, nor the money to do it anyway. The Lotto tickets I buy just win enough to cover the expendature on the ticket itself. I break even ^_^; all the time, which isn't really fun for me, so I don't play that often.
Ah yeah, that one, I do remember it. You know it was
Mamma Vash who directed me to your site in the first place when I first posted my Want Ad for dragon artists. I do appreciate your taking the time to send me those links in PM (If anyone asks me for them I'll put them up here).
A lot of that reaction has to do with my being tired this afternoon when I posted here. I get a bit grumpy when I've had no sleep for hours, and am trying to think coherently. Actually, I'm kind of amused that people are impressed by the complexity of the content I post in response to things at times, and since I'm getting it frequently, it must mean my standards haven't declined any.
The Escaflowne movie was very well done visually, I will not deny that. I do think the story was hurt however by the way the subordinating characters, and even Van himself, were portrayed. So I don't spoil anything for you, I'll just say that in the series they weren't all the rough bunch the movie turned them into. Of course the series also had more time to develope the storyline, which probably gives it a little more depth than the movie has. I'll have to sit down with the movie again, it's been a while since I watched it last, and I just got through watching the whole series again. Escaflowne is a lot like the Tenchi saga, every new release telling the story a different way. The Series tells one story, the movie another, the two different versions of the manga (a two volume shojo tankôbon set, and an eight volume shonen tankôbon set), and the Playstation game all tell the story, with the same characters, in different ways, which is kind of a unique way to look at things. I'm sure there are people out there who have their own favorite version of Escaflowne, mine just happens to be the series.
Sounds just like my Windows 98 computer. Do you have an network card installed in it? If you do, all you have to do is get a "crossover cable" and directly network that computer to another one with Ethernet connectivity, copy the files across the network, and you'll be done. Of course, I haven't actually done that yet myself, so it's only a theory that it might work. When I can afford one of those cables, I'll try it and let you know how it works. I've got some files bigger than the 1.4MB 3 1/2" floppies will handle too. Anyone out ther remember Chip's Challenge on Windows 3.1?
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". . .You. . .SQUASHED it. . .?!?!?!" - Zeniba,
Spirited Away
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