Archive for the 'movies and anime' Category

fast food and coyotes

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Watched Fast Food Nation yesterday. It was …. interesting. I was sort of expecting it to go somewhere, and really it kind of sat still and festered. It was … graphic, interesting, and built some decent storylines and character depth, but also pointed out idealism and how the harsh brutality of the [...]

firefox, ie, truths, jackasses, pumpkins, blood, claws, frustrations, exams, and being a jerk

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Ugh. Craziness. Where to begin. Guess I’ll just go in topic-order. One big nasty blob of random goo to puke out all over the place. Guess I’ll keep the front page clean by hiding it all behind a “more” link though ;).

Suzuka

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

I’ve been watching this new series “Suzuka” … a pretty standard issue high-school romance+complications thing (mostly because it’s made it to torrentbytes, so I see every release of it roll by twice on the rss reader).
It’s not bad, as far as the genre goes … rather than being total harem bs like Hina and Mahoroba [...]

Netflix: American History X

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

American History X … wow, what a movie.
Yeah, it was pretty freaking great. I don’t know what to say, other than that it really was amazing.
I grabbed this on a whim, wanting something to balance out the crazy foreign film lineup it’d come with, and I wasn’t disappointed.
American History X is about a skinhead [...]

Netflix: Zatoichi: Festival of Fire

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

Zatoichi is a blind Japanese swordsman. Despite being blind, he’s quite dangerous, but has a whimsical air about him most of the time.
He generally does goofy things, hits on attractive ladies, and is overall comical … but for some reason people try to kill him, and end up in piles of corpses on the [...]