Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Hello... is it me you're looking for?

Long time, no update, eh? Yeah I've been busy. And by 'busy' I mean lazy. And my 'lazy' I mean I totally forgot. First things first. NerdSense! My podcast with my buddy RetrOtaku aka Bryan! Join us on our nerdy adventures. Even if you have no idea what we're talking about, keep on listening. I'm charming and he's diabolical. What could go wrong? Episode 00 is posted and we're in the planning stages for Episode 1, whose topic will be Pokemon.

POKEMON. Versions Black and White came out this past Sunday! I'm really enjoying it so far, except for last night when I turned on the C-Transceiver or whatever and it froze my game and I lost, like, a hour of progress. That sucked. I know better now. I'll talk more about it on the next NerdSense. But seriously? Lillipup? CUTEST THING EVER. Also: lightning zebra. You heard me. Lightning. Zebra.

I recently rewatched Mononoke Hime, or Princess Mononoke. The first time I watched it, I spend half the movie shouting at the TV. Shouting what? "WHY DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A GOOD IDEA? KILLING THE SPIRIT OF THE FOREST? SURE GO AHEAD WHY NOT STUPID COLONIAL BASTARDS." Being an anthropology major makes me biased against those who move on and in and destroy the land and culture involved with it for their own gain, monetary or otherwise. This time around however, I found myself in love. Princess Mononoke is definitely my third favorite Miyazaki film.
[You might say, wow third out of how many that can't be that impressive. Well, there's like... 6 or 7. And so far it goes 1) Spirited Away, 2) Howl's Moving Castle and then 3) Princess Mononoke.]
Where was I... LOVE. In love with this movie. Ashitaka's english dub voice is the most soothing thing I've ever heard and Joe Hisaishi is one of the best score creators in the world. When the music gives you shivers all over your body, the composer is doing something RIGHT.

I also recently rewatched Labyrinth, which will forever be one of my top movies to just watch because. It's fun and Bowie is awesome and I don't want to punch Jennifer Connolly in the face, which is good. I rediscovered that movie's soundtrack and I R HAPPEE.

Speaking of music!! I got 99 must-have classical pieces from Amazon for $6. WIN FOR ME. Also I got the Princess Bride soundtrack, which is fabulous. ALSO ALSO after much tinkering and converting and wtfing, I managed to procure the Summer Wars original soundtrack which is bloody fantastic. And because I'm really really awesome I bought Dr Dre's album, 2001. Specifically so I wouldn't forget about Dre. Since we were all really worried about that, right?

UM. Oh haha hey. Yeah, so I'm all over formspring.me now and GUESS WHO ELSE. None other than ShadyVox. So I were that type of person, I could ask him all sorts of questions and be anonymous if I wanted. But I'm not so all I asked him was his favorite Eminem song since he credited Em as to how he got his original flow for his rapping. And the answer was a song I've never heard of. Of course. Can't wait for Wha-Chow! tomorrow. Hooray Wednesdays!

What else... I just got the two Golden Sun GBA games off eBay for, like, $34 or whatever. Best bargain ever, since buying them on Amazon is around $200 a piece since they're from a mostly obsolete game console. I started the first one last night and I'm stuck already. I'm honestly such a bad gamer. It can't be helped. SPEAKING OF GAMES Andy and I preordered me the Limited Edition Mario All-Stars game, which should be out this need week, so I'm crazy excited for that.

Today I discovered Goodreads.com. The iPhone app lets me SCAN BARCODES. Made of win all over the place. Add me if you want, chellysaidwhat. As per usual.

I think that's it for now. I have mass amount of reading I probably won't do and much Pokemon training that I most definitely WILL do, so I think I'm off. If I think of anything else, you'll be the [not] first to know. TA~

ETA INSTANTLY: I also rewatched Summer Wars, which is why I scrounged around for the soundtrack, because I was reminded how amazing it was. Much love for Kenji and his nosebleeds. WATCH THAT MOVIE.

Oh yeah! Also! Listen to the NerdSense show so you can hear me talk about seeing Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time last last week! It was fun and you need to hear our discussion on it. CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES! IN 3D! Okay. Now I'm done. Probably.