I know what really bites!
Let’s just say its poison ivy from an unknown source, because I wasn’t in the forest lately.
So I spent the day away from a marathon, which was a good decision, because doing so I was able to let myself catch up. I was able to get in the latest episodes of Minami-ke, ef, Shion no Ou, and all were great; also decent were Shana II and Dragonaut 11 I suppose.
I’m in a bit of confusion about Dragonaut, not that I care because I’m not riding the season on the series, but were the episodes cut back? Previously I thought it would be a double-season length (24-26 eps), but I have doubts now. Oh well. Here’s something nice:
Futami <3
I was also able to listen to Sunset Rubdown’s Random Spirit Lover in full album perspective.
Tomorrow, and possibly this evening I will marathon Darker than Black. I’m really short on time though, since I’ll be leaving Saturday to visit a farm in Connecticut; where they raise tube-boys like me but first I have to get to Boston, and well… the weather outlook is quite grim at the moment. Anyway, DtB may accompany me on the notebook in case I find myself tired after experiments breakfast.
Thankfully, that Random Spirit Lover I mentioned above, while an experimental pop album, has many Christmas-ish tones; things similar to Nightwish’s Walking in the Air or Vangelis’ work on the Blade Runner OST. Perfect stuff for being in large amount of snow.
Also! … alsoooo, companioning along with me will be a recently acquired copy of Kawabata Yasunari’s Snow Country. A good enhancement for a trip into a storm. So yes, I’m going to be in the middle of nowhere for about a week. O_o
… but I’m not gone just yet.
Ryan A
I read Snow Country. He’s a great author, and I’m sure you’re going to enjoy him. Be prepared, though. His writing is depressingly good. :p
I feel Beauty and Sadness is a better work, but Snow Country still ranks among his best (and it is his most known).
Did you know he /wrists sometime after he won the Nobel Prize?
I did know that, I was stunned by it. I felt this man must have seen something, realized something, about life.
The other day, I came to the realization of when to do such an act, in a proper manner (jokingly). I was debugging something that painstakingly took 16 hours… but it was completed. Upon realizing the errors, I said that it was be a good time to suicide; after the accomplishment… A strange feeling, but it wasn’t in the sense of fighting for understand or “giving up” as many see it, but the realization of such simple things… and that was only a web application… so I wonder about Kawabata. May be it was nothing at all, but… that’s life.
Haha! Have fun I guess. Darker and Black is pretty awesome. It’ll make for a nice marathon.
I still have to pack, and I’m getting mixed up in some good DtB arcs… D: my time slips away.
Ryan:
Woah.
I was thinking like that, too. After you’ve done everything you could have in the world - be a fountainhead of Japanese literature, write excellently, and win the Nobel Prize …
What is more to life? Maybe he thought like that. He was old, and he could probably not see himself useless. So he took his own life away.
If that’s true, woah …
Snow Country was an interesting read, but I think a lot of the impact was lost on me because I had to read it for class and not to leisure. I’ll go and re-read it though, since I have the book and some free time now. :3
Michael: Desho!? ^^
TheBigN: Yea, when there’s pressure to pursue it just isn’t as fun, but it is a quick read so far, and I’m trapped in a snowy part of the country. Unable to watch anime, or even spend much time on the computer… not just the internet… discouraging and saddening, but fitting…