Wednesday, January 10, 2007

tis wednesday, and in a small room in a house south east of London, a tall young man with a hairy chin decides to see if he can return to his regular updating schedule...
hiya folks. this post entirely depends on whether my net holds out long enough for me to hit the "Add Post" button. my network has been kinda iffy lately, so we shall see....



anyways, how is everyone? hope y'all ok.

Its been a fairly quiet week for me so far. On sunday i spent most of the day trying to reaarange my shelves so i can fit all my recently acquired books and dvds on to them. ^^ i got rid of a lot of old books that i dont read anymore....

i also made up my Dreadnought Gundam, which is the smaller one of the two i picked up...i have to say, its looking pretty sharp. ^^ still have to make up my Eva-02 when i find the time.

On monday i was meant to do the late shift at work, but i got a call on Sunday asking if i could do the early instead. So i said yes, didnt make much difference to me. But when i got to work on Monday, they said i had to do early AND late shifts, which really pissed me off. but i couldnt really do anything about it cuz if i left early, there would be only one person left to do the late shift, and its not possible to do all the work with one person.

but anyways, i got yesterday off, and made up for the long shift by going up to London and blowing £145 (thats one hundred and forty five english pounds) on manga and anime in ONE GO. ^^ havnt done that for a while.

i got:

Ghost in the Shell : Stand Alone Complex OST 1
GITS:SAC Be Human CD (the Tachikoma OST)
Volume 3 of Gundam SEED Destiny DVD
Vol 10 of Getbackers DVD (the final volume! w00t!)
Vol 7 of GITS:SAC 2nd Gig (The final Volume also! w00t!!!)
Vols 6 and 7 of Full Metal Alchemist DVD
Vol 3 of Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days manga
Vol 1 of a weird manga called Q-ko-chan (more about that in a sec)
Devil May Cry 2 novel

and "The Harsh Cry of the Heron" by Lian Hearn which is like a three inch thich hard back. (well, maybe about 2 inch) and is the sequal to the "Tales of the Otori" trilogy.


so i did pretty good for myself i think. ^^

i had lunch, then met up with my brother at the British Museum. we were gonna go do something, but couldnt find a film or show we particularly wanted to see, so we split ways again, i went home and he went off to dance class. ^^

i also found out yesterday that my dad has managaed to get a new job! hooray! his new offices are over looking Leicester Square which is a pretty major point in London. its where ALL the major film premiers are held of Great Britain and also holds the broadcast stations for some of Londons major radio stations. so my dad will be working in a pretty cool place! ^^

Oh yeah. That Q-ko-chan Manga. its by the same person who did FLCL and its pretty hard to follow, possibly due to Del Ray's poor translations, but possibly due to the basic yet chaotic art style. ^^; but i got the gist of it, and its kinda interesting. As far as i can tell, its the future and there some kind of war going on. and in the midst of all this there are aliens also trying to invade/land on/explore/do something on Earth. there are alines which kinda look like a weird cross between the Encounters style alien and a jellyfish. and there are some other Alien robots called "Dolls". The japanese military seem to have control of most of the Dolls, whilst some of the apposing sides seem to have a semblance of control over the other aliens. and in the midst of all this, an escaped Doll called Q-ko-chan has tracked down a young lad called Kirio and asked him to pilot her.

its a mecha type manga, but its got a lot of the surreal bizarreness that FLCL is famous for. The Dolls, which can also turn into Human-like girls, are kinda cute, and very basic, not like typical mecha at all. and theres a mysterious group called Black Hare who used to have control of the Dolls, but now they have all escaped, including the renegade Haneko-chan, which seems to be more dangerous then Q-ko-cha and her sisters.

i cant really explain it. if ya see it in a book store, take a quick look, see what you think. or read the first chapter HERE .
i kinda enjoy it. ^^

well thats it for me. Im going to go listen to "Be Human" now. yay for Tachikoma themed songs! ^^


ciao for now.



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