I'm sure I didn't eat broth today

[taotrooper]

First things first. I revamped my domain despite the fact I haven't worked in any sites forever. Mostly because it had been so long with the same layout and most images were broken and that's sad. So here it is, a little dull but at least it's clean and a fairly good practice to some CSS3.


mercury-retrograde.net

If I ever get less lazier, I'll make the avatar-ish image in the sidebar a random image of fandoms I like. And maybe make skins in different colors. But so far it's enough as it is.

Fandom-wise, I haven't been up to a lot of stuff. I've kind of been really active on plurk but mostly because a lot of friends from the RP are over there. I've been limiting my time on Tumblr because it's a fucking black hole for visual magpies, but I still check the dash and update my blogs at least twice a day.

So, new anime season! I'm only following Natsume Yuujinchou San in all seriousness. And I'm still watching Tiger and Bunny despite of the flaws, because the characters are so engaging. From the new shows, I checked two so far. Mawaru Penguindrum is hella weird and you can fucking tell the Utena director is behind it from any moon of Jupiter. I don't know how I feel about that shit beyond EEEEEEEEEE THE PENGUIN MINIONS EEEEEEE squees, perhaps I'll keep watching because it's so going to be this season's memetic trendy mindfuck show. Which is kind of the reason why I watched Madoka. I also tried No. 6 and I got bored from it. I have no idea what else to try, but then again I should retake some of the stuff I started on previous seasons anyway. Suggestions are welcome, still.

Now some live-action. I finished Pushing Daisies and it was cute and quirky. I also spent some days watching particular episodes of the Ten era of Who that my friends recced me. I have some other series and movies downloaded, mostly comedies or mythology butchery or cartoons, so I have issues deciding what to watch next.

I tried Assassin's Creed 1 while my family was on a trip (home alone as the catsitter FTW) and the 360 controller + too many moves scared the shit out of me. So I ran off to play Okami in my beaten PS2 instead because I'm lame. And I missed it badly. I also have too many stuff in my gaming backlog that I don't retake for some goddamn reason.

ETA: I did buy a HDD in the end. It's a 1TB electric blue WD which I named TARDIS.

Comments

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

I've only seen the first episode of Baccano so far, but I really liked what I did. Durarara I am about halfway through right now and enjoying. It strikes me as the kind of series that is better marathoned then watched as it is released.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

It was the other way around for me when I tried Baccano: all those people confused the crap out of me on that first episode, and everyone urged me to try more episodes. I'm glad I retook it because it was so much fun. Durarara I thought it was okay and marathoned half of the series in one sitting, but tiny annoyances and twists I didn't care much for kept building up.

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

I watched eight episodes of Durarara last night and was really pulled in by it. I'm curious to see how the rest of it plays out. It's quirky and weird which I like. The only thing that really throws me off is the Dullahana. That fact that she speaks without a head as well as the stuff that keeps pouring out of the stump is off putting a bit.

Baccano puts me in mind of a good mystery with all the players being introduced at once and you have to read/watch to find out how they are related.