The Chaos Show

Journal reworking in progress.

It will probably not exist in any way shape or form as my old blog, and there will be something new attached.

For the two of you who still pay attention and actually wonder where I've been, long story short I have no computer and am slowly working my way up from ground zero. I also lost a hell of a lot of data, so I ended up having to scrap a lot of stuff too. No idea when I'll be finally up and running again but until then this space will remain pretty much blank.

unrelated: Mai-HiME turned out to be good, I hate you world

It's the time of year where I get to shoot off my opinions on the media of last year as a study on the development of modern visual culture, as a whole. 2007's been a mad, mad year, and as a university student with free time, as usual I'll find some way of wasting said free time, whether it be on the internet, on an IM, or marathoning an anime/playing a videogame until my eyeballs start to pop and dribble out the cavities in my skull, the microwaved organic spheres dangling around by thin strands of nerve tissue - I digress.

( Part 1 of God knows how many )

( rough translation )

Song: Airman Ga Taosenai (Can't Defeat Airman), TEAM NEKOKAN
Translation: Sparx1

Hello boys and girls -

( I'M BACK )

Miss me?

When we are young, we think ourselves invincible.

When we are old, we know ourselves to be mortal.

If we are caught between the two, we live on the edge, knowing one day that we will inevitably change with the times, and eventually get old and die. It is this edge - of knowing the taste of mortality but holding on kicking and screaming, clawing at those last remaining fragments of thinking you can do anything, even kick the moon out of orbit if you merely believed in it enough - which I now stand on.

( life in rewind\\fast forward\\play\\pause )

I love it when I'm wrong.

Simon, you've not only broken through heaven, but all my expectations after the episodes leading up to the finale slowed down a little, had slight pacing problems, and your team started dropping like flies. But you've always thrown caution to the wind, kicked reason to the curb, and carried on making your own way with your drill.

That's what Tengen Toppa means.

That's what Gurren Lagann means.

Your drill is the drill that breaks through heaven.

I finished Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. I feel proud to have been witness to the glorious final moments of the best anime this year, and definitely a benchmark of post-2000 anime. Gainax, y'all some bad dudes. Respect.

I picked up a GAMEWAVE mag the other day for $10HKD after something on the cover caught my eye.

I go out and the world goes to pot.

Kingdom Hearts games for DS and PSP.

Ninja Gaiden 2 trailer and Dragon Sword spinoff for the DS.

Shin. Sengokumusou 5 (Dynasty Warriors 6)

MGS Portable Ops Plus.

Archaic Sealed Heat SRPG for DS.

NightS: Journey into Dreams confirmed for December 13.

Infinite Undiscovery (?) for X360.

Final Fantasy IV remake for DS.

Just something short because I felt righteous flames of fury rise up in me over something I saw in Racewing's eljay, and just for five short minutes my shriveled husk of a soul wanted to make something in direct opposition to that.

That something?

Yes, it's fanfic. Shut *up*. I know.





( water meets rock )

LAIR sucks.



Not that it doesn't look good. Holy crap the game is GORGEOUS.

Not that cool shit doesn't happen.

It's just impossible to WHOA CRAP WHAT'RE YOU DOING AUGH CAMERA FLYIN EVERYWHERE READJUST IT READJUST IT MOTHER F- PULL OUTTA THAT TURN, FOR CHRISSAKE-

Sometimes I really, really wish Nintendo could have gotten their hands on this game. It might have had a chance to not suck with a Wiimote+chuck quite as much as it did with the Sixaxis.

On the other hand, Bladestorm is entirely too good for a game that just basically boils down to slash slash slash bam bam bam, move units there slash some more bam bam bam same thing koei have been doing for years

Is Nintendo the only company that can do innovation in videogames these days and have it not suck? Metroid Prime 3 Corruption is freaking incredible... and I don't even like the Metroid Prime series.

chaos_r: ...You know - a lot of Canadians I meet are really polite.
chaos_r: I think it's something in the water.
big_wired: Well, we grow up right next to the Americans... so we gotta distinguish ourselves from them.
big_wired: But basically, in the Canadian Parental Guide, we're all raised to be polite.
chaos_r: Quiet, subdued, polite, kind...
chaos_r: It's like the way people normally describe stalkers.
big_wired: *snort*
big_wired: Come on, you must have met some mean Canadians.
chaos_r: I've seen them on TV and in picture books and in educational programmes, but never in real life.
chaos_r: Unless by "mean Canadian" you mean "American".
big_wired: I asked a fellow English teacher what the Canadian accent was. He said a softer, politer American.
So I asked what an American accent was, and he said LOUD.
chaos_r: I always thought it was sharper.
chaos_r: More grating.
big_wired: And I can be mean too!
big_wired: Here, I'll insult your clothing...
chaos_r: ...
chaos_r: ...which you've *never seen*.
big_wired: You have a... ... a... You have a bad tie!
chaos_r: That's not an insult! That's a goddamned fact!
big_wired: Sorry... I'm not so good at this.
chaos_r: It's okay. As long as you're in Canada.
chaos_r: The rest of the world is like one big warzone.
chaos_r: The day Jolt insulted me shall be forever engraved into memory.
big_wired: But I thought you said I was merely stating fact. Wouldn't that be lying?
chaos_r: Conveniently my internet lie detector is broken, isn't it?
big_wired: Is it?
chaos_r: Would you rather I call this the day Jolt TRIED to insult me?
chaos_r: And failed like a snowball in hell?


...I think work makes me fill up to the brink with snark since I can't let it out on customers.

See, it's past the mid-way point of the year, fast approaching the ninth month of the seventh year of the second millenium after a particular kid was born on Christmas. And it is with a sad realization that I have not immersed myself in anywhere near enough media this year to do a completely biased and unfair personal favorite list. It's a tough year to do so -entire slew of next-gen videogame releases, a lot of shiny new anime series that don't suck, a few mangas... So I'm asking for help and some advice.


Got any series (manga, anime, videogames) at all that came out in 2007 so far that I should seek out (while I still have torrent)?

Categories/nominees so far (list updated as we go)

( still taking nominations, bitches )

In return I shall write the awards up properly. With images! Submissions ongoing until end of November. Disclaimer: I'm biased, bitches. Get over it. =D

First up if you haven't seen the July trailer for Resi Evil 5/Biohazard 5 you need to. Sadly we're not getting it until 2009, awesome as it looks.

Second, Gurren Lagann is still awesome. Don't let me down in the home stretch, please; Episode 15 counts as one of the *greatest* things I have ever seen, I shit you not.

Third, I'm gonna drop this summer job like a man caught humping his Bridget by all his friends as soon as I pay off my folks for my plane fare to and from HK, not to mention my living expenses. I miss the time I normally get to *write* - and maybe, I'll - yanno - play a videogame every now and again.

INTERNET =/= AMERICA


Thank you. That is all.

Also work sucks.

Now that is all.

Man oh man it's been a while since I last posted. Just checking my friendspage and seeing What I've Missed On The Internet (multiple cases of ADD, probably an internet death or two, cockfights over E-penis, fangirls going on holy wars) and it's like coming back to a whole different world.

( ANYWAY. )

( But this post is about ROBOTS! )



AND BONUS MEME LAWL

Reply to this with your name and I'll tell you what I think of you - no punches pulled, all honesty.

Afterward, post this in your journal so I can see the same about me satisfy my insecurities.

;_)))



omg snape.

I could try and put the experiences of my past week into words. I could spin these little symbols into connecting phrases that have meaning; I could write a blow-by-blow synopsis, and it still wouldn't even come close to capturing what I've seen and experienced.

This doesn't mean I won't try.

( don't even dare click this if you're on dialup )

NOW FOR REGULAR CHAOS SHOW NEWS

-Disgaea PS3. Holy hell it EXISTS!
-Harry Potter review incoming (book + movie soon)

What happened to summer being time off?

MIA to mainland China, Hubei, until the 21st of this month, for a teaching thing. Ciao.

So much to do, so little time. Thanks to all those peeps that took up space in their blogs wishing me this thing called a birthday. Hopefully I'll get time to watch a movie or two sometime - I really wanna review the new HP movie, Die Hard(er)(er) IV, and god forbid the final HP book. It's going to be interesting watching everyone's reactions.


Chaos out-

GEHNKEE DESS

Only six hours before I leave for my hometown. Hearts out to Jolt, who still has another three weeks. Hang in there, man - you're a rock.

It feels odd, packing all this stuff away. I feel like I should be more desperate about it, seeing as I should have been ready to go *last night* and I still haven't packed away my laptop and speakers. It's been a slow process. I am constantly amazed by how much crap I manage to accumulate over the years... some books I bought I only read once, some old notes from ages ago hidden under the bed. Dust and fond memories. And I was struggling hard this year to make sure I didn't *have* this much crap to shift.

( MOETOE YOUKOOREE HANAHHSHETEH KOODAHSAE )

Transformers movie *incoming* as soon as I get home. I can't believe the UK gets that movie a month later than anywhere else. I've been hearing good things about it, so I hope I'm not disappointed.

Been musing a lot lately. My year at the U of Y is over, and just a few days left to lounge around, brush the dust off the case, pack away stuff that's been sitting in this room I've made my own for this year. In terms of actual accomplishment... well, I have to say I'm not too happy about the way my university work has gone. What I've actually learned in class amounts to the following:

1) I am not good at English Lit. What I am is, and only *possibly*, slightly better than average. There is nothing more disheartening than being faced with - and getting looked down at - by people who are so much better than you in their fields. People who are published authors, people who have doctorates in English and look at you as if you're a small bug.

2) Trying to force your own view on others is part of class. If you don't do it, you don't belong.

3) "-ass" cannot be tacked onto any adjective you want. It should not be used as an honorific either. The amount of looks I got from everyone... sigh. You'd think with the amount of angry opinionated tension in the room people'd appreciate some levity from time to time... but still. Shakespeare does not write "awesome-ass" characters, and I am not to refer to them as such in a scholarly-oriented piece of criticism.

4) Don't argue with militant feminists if you are male. Extremely important and oft-overlooked - if you disagree with anything they say the sheer fact that you are male will be used against you in an argument. Just smile, nod your head, and let it slide. It's not worth it. Really.


I have sort of noticed that I get a lot of free time, though. Time I fritter away on idle talk, internet, videogames, and anime far too easily... and in terms of actual writing productivity this year hasn't exactly been fruitful. Which is a shame since this writing was what I wanted to spend a lot of my free time on. Hopefully that will change for next year; I've got stuff planned and even if it hits rock bottom and fails miserably at taking off the plans are on a vast enough scale that I can't simply just sit back and do nothing with them. Rock.

And now, in the spirit of livejournal itself...

( AND NOW FOR THE STANDARD ELJAY MEME LAWL )

Trax of the Mo feature will be back soon.

A meme I found. Rather than do it the standard way because memes make head and LJ friendslist sting a little, I'm just going to answer some questions about some series that the FW crew will probably take interest in if they don't know already and basically mean that I won't have to blog about it for the next year at the very least. Oh, and some of this goes for *writing* as well.




( on characters )



Aaaaaaand that will be all. It's 8AM, and Chaos, like all owls, must seek the safe confines of his own bed.