Birthday • 1982-12-17 Gender •
Male Location • Chicago Member Since • 2006-01-30
Personal
Achievements • In grad school! WAO Anime Fan Since • Early '90s. Favorite Anime • Musashi Gundoh. Goals • A university teaching gig! Hobbies • Reading Heidegger. Talents • Not really.
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Good Anime Alert!!
EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET! Go and see Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo ("The Girl Who Leapt Through Time") as soon as you possibly can. High school drama plus time travel, done following the best of both traditions. It dropped last year without me hearing so much as a peep about it, and it's really one of the best anime flicks I've seen in a long time. There are subbed torrents up as we speak, and I trust you know where to find them. SHOO. GO. RIGHT NOW.
Addendum: about an hour into the movie there's a piece of music that lasts quite awhile. I don't know who did the score to the film, but I know what the director was using for the temporary soundtrack for that scene: Arvo Part's Fur Alina. I know because I sank several weeks of my life into that piece. It's only about two minutes long, depending on how it's played, but it marks a clarity that even Part has never surpassed. The CD versions (which I actually don't like that much) are actually improvisations on the basic score, and that's what got used in the film. So go watch the movie, and then listen to this (do not pay attention to the snowboarding footage, it is not important):
Second Addendum: Claymore has suddenly become INCREDIBLY GREAT. Who knew?
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