rushthatspeaks | The Generic Anime Character Quiz

AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

You're a
villain!

...though you prefer to
think of yourself as misunderstood. You
know the world would be a better place
if they'd only let you be in charge of it,
and if they don't appreciate your genius
by themselves you're willing to make
them. You've got good hair, a secret
base and an ambivalent relationship with
the bishounen hero. You've got the
money, the women, the best mecha and
your own private army, but you
still lose in the end to some
jumped-up kid with spiky hair. There is
no justice.

Which
generic anime character are
you?

May I just say how wonderful I find it that this picture is of Il Palazzo from Excel Saga? Il Palazzo is, in fact, watching you. Submit or you will be crushed, possibly, given Excel Saga, by the Space Butler. Thank you all and have a nice day.

in other news, the people who made the snow sculpture in the Cloisters that is a scale model of the famous Mycenaean Lion Gate, popularly presumed to be the entry to Agamemnon's palace, are insanely cool. Even the back looks like fake stonework. I wonder if they are the same people who did the very lifelike snow squirrel on Merion Green.

Ruth was here this weekend. She left three hours ago and I miss her already. We had a good time, though. We got to go to lunch, and, since the Bryn Mawr Theatre has inexplicably turned into an artsy movie theatre, we went to see Frida, the Julie Taymor biopic of Frida Kahlo. Lovely movie. Great to stare at, great to listen to, great to think about, and a heck of a lot of very pretty women without very many clothes on, which is always a plus, especially when they are talking about philosophy. There was a preview of Chicago in front of it that made me want to see that very much too, as it would appear that I also greatly approve of the costuming, or basic lack thereof, in that one. Also, it would be worth the price of admission to me to see Cellblock Tango no matter how they did it. Frida, though. Great. Consistently witty movie; witty, sexy, and fun. And Julie Taymor's art style and Frida Kahlo's paintings mesh scarily well together. I have spoken to people who found this movie deeply disturbing; while it was by no stretch of the imagination a big silly grin movie, it was in my opinion a work of art of sufficient complexity to leave out the possibility of an easy redemption, and yet find redemption anyway. I always approve of that, and I like biopics that don't attempt to leave out or tie up all the messy bits of a person's actual life.

And Frida Kahlo in this movie is a messy bit. She boozes, she womanizes passionately, she throws crockery at her husband every so often when he really deserves it, she lives with appalling physical pain on a daily basis, and she thinks and paints and paints and paints. I know enough about Kahlo's life and journals to know that it's a fairly accurate biography, and I came away from the movie respecting her and her work a lot more than I had and liking at least this version of her a great deal, although glad to be at a safe distance. So I recommend this one, although Ruth and I are about the only couple I can think of for whom it would be a good date movie.

Angst-O-Meter: 5 or so but falling.