Good Weekend
Mar. 31st, 2003 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksThere was one. We went to Chinatown for Eredien's birthday, and had a great deal of extremely good food; there is a new Malaysian restaurant there that simply rocks. Cheap, fast, good, clean, food you don't see every day... pretty much the perfect restaurant. And bubble tea has moved into Chinatown. There's a little place now that sells amazing bubble tea and huge pastries for sums of money that caused me to feel that we were robbing the people. I mean, a slice of cake, as in major slice of cake, for sixty cents? We also went to a store Weyrlady knew about called Trendy World. Be afraid. Be very afraid. More insanely cute plastic tchotchkes than your average Sanrio store. These people do not sell Hello Kitty. These people sell nauseating cheap Hello Kitty knockoffs from Korea. These people sell chibi-Spider Man keychains in neon hot pink. These people sell little plastic animals that you're meant to attach to a cell phone-- and they're scented. These people sell journals with a little puppy dog on the front that read, in English, 'If heart grow lonely, just think of noise of barking'. There was running away. I haven't been that terrified by a store in years.
On the bright side, we then found the only truly tasteful gift shop in Chinatown, which sells clothes that I will be owning just as soon as someone gives me a fortune that I have nothing better to do with than buy clothes.
And there was the puppy picnic, in which Adreyan got to see Gavrin and Quetzle, whom he had been missing. Adreyan turned up as an adult wolf, mostly, and consequently had to act like a responsible adult, when what he actually wanted to do was harness all that energy the puppies seem to have in such exuberance and zombify, say, the population of Las Vegas. But Quetzle, with his usual perceptiveness, kept jumping on Adreyan every time the thought of doing this even went through Drey's head. I thought the whole thing was hilarious.
And there was anime watching Saturday night, because A. wanted to see some hentai, so we watched the director's cut of Kite. J-chan, I know you like this anime for some reason, and I'm sorry, but ew. It got to the point where people were sitting there making comments like 'Can this *go* any farther beyond gratuitous? Oops, silly me, it just did. Don't worry, A., that is something *well* beyond not physically possible, so you can stop wincing now.' I mean, someone asked A. if she was traumatized, and Alys and I said in unison 'I'm traumatized.' So in order to clean out our brains we watched the outtakes of the Weiss dub. Bwahahahaha! Go find these, people. The American voice actors had too much fun. 'I'm going to... forget my line here, and just keep talking even though your character's mouth has already started moving, hasn't it?' 'Weiss! Today's target is... my god, that looks like John Travolta.' 'The yellow ray makes people go berserk (now available from Media Blasters on DVD and VHS, folks).' It was truly brilliant.
And P. was kind enough to give me her spare copy of the hack://Sign soundtrack. Happy.
Recreational Reading: Herodotus, the Histories
On the bright side, we then found the only truly tasteful gift shop in Chinatown, which sells clothes that I will be owning just as soon as someone gives me a fortune that I have nothing better to do with than buy clothes.
And there was the puppy picnic, in which Adreyan got to see Gavrin and Quetzle, whom he had been missing. Adreyan turned up as an adult wolf, mostly, and consequently had to act like a responsible adult, when what he actually wanted to do was harness all that energy the puppies seem to have in such exuberance and zombify, say, the population of Las Vegas. But Quetzle, with his usual perceptiveness, kept jumping on Adreyan every time the thought of doing this even went through Drey's head. I thought the whole thing was hilarious.
And there was anime watching Saturday night, because A. wanted to see some hentai, so we watched the director's cut of Kite. J-chan, I know you like this anime for some reason, and I'm sorry, but ew. It got to the point where people were sitting there making comments like 'Can this *go* any farther beyond gratuitous? Oops, silly me, it just did. Don't worry, A., that is something *well* beyond not physically possible, so you can stop wincing now.' I mean, someone asked A. if she was traumatized, and Alys and I said in unison 'I'm traumatized.' So in order to clean out our brains we watched the outtakes of the Weiss dub. Bwahahahaha! Go find these, people. The American voice actors had too much fun. 'I'm going to... forget my line here, and just keep talking even though your character's mouth has already started moving, hasn't it?' 'Weiss! Today's target is... my god, that looks like John Travolta.' 'The yellow ray makes people go berserk (now available from Media Blasters on DVD and VHS, folks).' It was truly brilliant.
And P. was kind enough to give me her spare copy of the hack://Sign soundtrack. Happy.
Recreational Reading: Herodotus, the Histories
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Date: 2003-03-31 11:45 am (UTC)I'm told that the director's cut of Kite is a whole lot more squicky than the regular release (which probably explains why HoA has the director's cut on the wall o' hentai while the other is out with the non-restricted tapes and DVDs). I was also told that I shouldn't go near the director's cut.
And I did adore most of the WK outtakes. I just couldn't quite get my head around Omi's dub VA. I'm so used to hearing Yuuki Hiro (And how wierd is it that RealJukebox just hit my block of Yuuki Hiro songs? Wai!) that Omi with such a deep voice sounds as wrong to me as the Guushoushin brothers as baritones in the YnM dub. Is that bad of me?
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Date: 2003-03-31 01:14 pm (UTC)And yeah, stay away from the director's cut of Kite. Apparently the edited version is merely horribly gratuitously violent, and not horribly gratuitously violent and nastily sexual. Kite has gone on my list of worst anime I have yet seen. We couldn't even laugh at it. It was too squicky. In fact, I think Kite takes it as worst anime I have seen thinking there was a chance of its being any good-- the worst anime I have ever seen remains and probably always will be Battle Royal High School, the only release I have yet seen in which the licensing company apologizes to the buyer on the package (literally), but that was at least really, really funny (exploding giant teddy bears, anyone?) Whereas I had the reaction to Kite that everyone told me I ought to have had to La Blue Girl and a lot of other tentacle-hentai-type stuff that didn't bother me at all. Kite in fact takes it for nastiest and most over-drawn-out rape scene I have yet seen in anime. Most tentacle hentai has rape scenes, yeah, but the sort where, as my girlfriend always says, 'You can tell that they hired animated actors for this and that in between takes the girls and the monsters sit around and have lemonade together and gossip about their voice actors'. (That's what she originally said about La Blue Girl, and I so believe it; the show has that feel to it.) Kite, well, um, squick, squick, ew, and I was glad when she shot the bastard in the crotch, but not enough to make it all worth it, and no matter what the disclaimer said she is so underage, and this one was just a loser on all counts.
So avoidance is probably best.
Lila
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Date: 2003-03-31 05:33 pm (UTC)*sigh* I miss the guys at HoA... *g*
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Date: 2003-03-31 11:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-31 01:05 pm (UTC)L.
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Date: 2003-03-31 01:10 pm (UTC)If Gordon comes to visit next year, he'd just ADORE to see this place, if for no other reason than to flee in terror.
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Date: 2003-03-31 09:10 pm (UTC)Batshua: you do not want to go to Trendy World. There are two things that will happen:
- you will buy everything in the store and be broke
- you will give the store the widest berth possible and never ever go back again.