SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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daidoji_giseiOH MY KAMI MY COPY OF ADVENT CHILDREN ARRIVED TODAY AND I'VE ALREADY WATCHED IT ONCE AND I TOTALLY WANT TO REWATCH THE SCENE WHERE CLOUD AND SEPHRIOTH ARE THROWING DOWN BUT THAT WOULD REQUIRE ACTUALLY FIGURING OUT HOW THE DVD PLAYER ON MY MACBOOK WORKED AND THE BOX FROM AMAZON ALSO HAD THE COPY OF THE PARADISO BY DANTE AND I CAN'T READ AND WATCH A MOVIE AT THE SAME TIME. WOE! WOE IS ME!
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Oh, hey, my keyboard does non-caps. I guess I'd forgotten about that for a minute.
So, my box from Amazon arrived today, two days earlier than they said it would. I was impressed. And giddy, as it had my long-desired copy of the Advent Children dvd. AC is based on the world of one of the Final Fantasy games (VII, I think, but don't quote me) and I only know it because my friend Brent showed it in our hotel room at Gencon a few years back because he thought I'd like it. Brent knows me entirely too well, though admittedly you don't have to know me that well to guess that a movie involving sword fights, motorcycle chases and guys with long hair would make me happy. It actually has a decent plot as well (though at one point it makes no sense whatsoever) and it deals a bit with redemption and friendship (two themes that will almost always meet with my approval) but honestly I tell people about the sword fights first. I have shallow tastes in entertainment and I've mostly given up feeling embarrassed about it.
So next I'm going to make myself some dinner, and then I'm going to take a bath and start reading Dante's Paradiso. I'd first read the Inferno about twenty years ago after reading an X-Man special issue where a sorceress wanted to get revenge on Nightcrawler and imprisoned him in a pseudo-hell modeled after Dante's version but I'd never gotten around to reading the other sections of the Divine Comedy until recently. I'd found a copy of the Puragtorio at a used bookstore in Madison WI by the same translator as my copy of the Inferno, and since I was already on Amazon ordering AC I decided now was the time to complete my set. Sadly, its cover does not match the other two's, but at least now I'll know how it ended.
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Oh, hey, my keyboard does non-caps. I guess I'd forgotten about that for a minute.
So, my box from Amazon arrived today, two days earlier than they said it would. I was impressed. And giddy, as it had my long-desired copy of the Advent Children dvd. AC is based on the world of one of the Final Fantasy games (VII, I think, but don't quote me) and I only know it because my friend Brent showed it in our hotel room at Gencon a few years back because he thought I'd like it. Brent knows me entirely too well, though admittedly you don't have to know me that well to guess that a movie involving sword fights, motorcycle chases and guys with long hair would make me happy. It actually has a decent plot as well (though at one point it makes no sense whatsoever) and it deals a bit with redemption and friendship (two themes that will almost always meet with my approval) but honestly I tell people about the sword fights first. I have shallow tastes in entertainment and I've mostly given up feeling embarrassed about it.
So next I'm going to make myself some dinner, and then I'm going to take a bath and start reading Dante's Paradiso. I'd first read the Inferno about twenty years ago after reading an X-Man special issue where a sorceress wanted to get revenge on Nightcrawler and imprisoned him in a pseudo-hell modeled after Dante's version but I'd never gotten around to reading the other sections of the Divine Comedy until recently. I'd found a copy of the Puragtorio at a used bookstore in Madison WI by the same translator as my copy of the Inferno, and since I was already on Amazon ordering AC I decided now was the time to complete my set. Sadly, its cover does not match the other two's, but at least now I'll know how it ended.
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Date: 2009-05-13 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-13 03:03 am (UTC)Also pretty wallpapers are pretty! I look forward to seeing them. :)
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Date: 2009-05-13 03:42 am (UTC)The literary-educated part of my mind is trying to throttle the pulp-educated part of my mind. Dante (yay, says the catholic school boy who likes weird religious stuff too much), Advent Children (argh, says the part of me that hates Japan for their video games, yay says the part that has actually PLAYED all the FF games), and never before have the two subsets of knowledge met.
ARgh, you have killed my brain, or at least would have if the pitcher of beer I had didn't do that first :).
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Date: 2009-05-13 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-15 12:23 am (UTC)But oh my gosh I loved it so hard, regardless of how vague and flimsy the plot was. The casting was so perfect (homg Maaya Sakamoto (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=maaya+sakamoto&aq=0&oq=maaya+saka) as Aeris) and the characterization so delightful. It is the greatest 101 minutes of fanservice ever. So I am very happy to hear that you loved it, in spite of having never played FFVII.
I have to say this to Square Enix, though...
YO DAWG, WE HEARD YOU LIKE COOL BLONDE GUYS IN SUNGLASSES RIDING MOTORCYCLES SO WE TOOK THIS COOL BLONDE GUY IN SUNGLASSES (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05fcf8m4E9M) who appears to have inspired (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/lmh42/ffcompare-thumbnail.jpg) a lot of your characters already AND TURNED CLOUD INTO HIM.