日常生活

I bought three shirts in a "Grab Bag" from TeeFury a while back. Grab Bag means that they're randomly picked and I have no idea what print I get until the shirts are delivered to me.

I wasn't expecting awesome tees; my brother has ordered at least two three-shirt Grab Bags in the past and the shirts have all more or less sucked. But they're pretty cheap, only $5 each, so who's complaining, right?

When I unwrapped the parcel I discovered these three shirts. I'm like, wow, they look like bollox. (Seriously, the first thought running through my mind was "what the fuck, man").. But then I took a closer look at the first shirt, and I noticed some numbers written on it; "4, 8, 15, 16... heeeyyyyy!" I noticed more and more of the detail as I realised the motif was that of Lost. A Lost shirt?? Fucking awesome! :D (I'm currently a few episodes into season 5 as I'm typing this).

The next shirt was of a DeLorean and two scruffy looking dudes. It's not awful, really. I mean, the DeLorean is an awesome Back to the Future reference in itself, which made it badass. But then (actually just earlier today, when I found out that TeeFury had updated their gallery and I went to take a look for links to the shirts) I read the description, and it's not only a reference to Back to the Future. The scruffy looking dudes are Desmond and Faraday from Lost!! *Japanese nosebleeding*

And so, the third shirt. It's not as awesome as the other two. In fact, it's not awesome in any way. It's an Avatar-shirt, which is pretty cool - Avatar was awesome - but it's a ripoff of an American football team's logo, which is pretty lame. It won't stop me from wearing the shirt, however. Cheap stuff is good wearin' and I am a bit of a tshirtoholic. ;)

The Grab Bags seems to happen every two months or so and I'll be sure to order three new shirts when the next one comes around. I'm also keeping an eye on the daily shirts they offer, some of the motives are pure awesome. For serious. :-)

Movies are great, right? I mean, when you get to watch the actual movie.. The graph isn't 100% accurate, but most movies follow this very pattern.

The most laughable part is the FBI-warnings. What. The. Fuck? I guess it's not enough that I paid for the movie? No sir, not at all, please spoonfeed me your propaganda.

And trailers and such crap? Sure, it's fine, I don't mind trailers, I've found several new movies to watch via trailers. That's what trailers are for, after all. But for the love of fuck, stick them with the extras, not as a fucking pre-movie must-see.

Fuck you, movie companies. Fuck you up your stupid asses.

The final episode of Lost aired some two weeks ago so I figured I may as well brush up on the show. I've seen parts of the first season when they first aired it but I don't really remember anything so I borrowed it of my brother and so far I've covered 18 episodes. Tomorrow I'm borrowing seasons 2, 3 (and maybe 4) from a friend. I'm really enjoying the show so far -- I think I've gotten a little...lost.. :]

Edit, June 12th: Yeah, lost indeed. I just got off watching episode 9 of the second season. I'm totally hooked! :]

My workday starts at 7am. On a good day I usually crawl out of bed around 6am, sometimes a little bit earlier, sometimes a little bit later (oops!). The last few weeks my days have started one hour later but I'm still trying to get up and get ready at about the same time as before.

To get me going I've started watching anime while preparing breakfast/lunch for work. I asked a friend for some suggestions on shows and he mentioned Kimi Ni Todoke and Eden of the East. Mornings are awesome again. :3

I'm not gonna lie. I've watched Fucking Åmål over 40 times since its release, back in 1998. I know - I'm a sad, sad individual. But hey, it's a really good movie. The last years as a teenager I (along with a friend of mine) had an obsessive, unhealthy, crush on Elin. We saw the movie at least once every day for a good while there. Drove my family nuts. :D

I watched it again yesterday, together with my brothers and a friend (different from the friend mentioned above). I came to the conclusion that I still absolutely love Fucking Åmål. Very much so. :3

My brothers, a friend and I went to see this hyped-up movie earlier tonight. We sat down with high hopes of getting scared after reading about the test audience fleeing the theater. It ended up not being half as scary as we thought, but I still enjoyed it for the most part.

(Read this first).

The DVD was released on tuesday and it dropped in my mail yesterday. So finally, I got to see the movie! It was pure awesome and both Oskar and Eli were as cute as I imagined when I read the book. Both Lina and Kåre did great jobs with their characters, even though the dialogue felt just a little stiff at times (not at all limited to these two, however).

What bugged me (apart from the -again!- far-too-few scenes with Oskar and Eli), was that they left so much out of the story. So much info about Håkan was lost. Information about Eli's past was lost, only hinting about the "I'm not a girl"-bit. Quality time with Oskars' dad was lost (although there was a kind of a montage [even Rocky had a montage!!1] that kind of covered that I suppose).

All in all though, a wonderful movie. I'd encourage you to read the book before watching the movie. And I'd encourage you to watch it before the Americans destroys it with their upcoming remake. :-]

After running a little low on my anime (I'm not, really - five shows last me a while these days, what with WoW going on and all) I decided to download a few more.

Lucky for me, BoxTorrents are running a Freeleech campaign over the holidays. Woop, that means grabbing a few extra shows while they're free!

Rosario + Vampire - Watched one episode so far. Aono Tsukune accidentaly enrolls in a monster High School, where they don't look too kindly on humans. The artwork and animation is very very nice, and the vampire he befriends is kawaii. ^^

They Are My Noble Masters - Watched one episode. Didn't make much sense at first, but I'm hoping it'll get better. Brother complex, hoooo! (That's out of whack)..

Clannad - ...Watched one episode (hey, I gotta try them!) Tomoya Okazaki is a third-year high school student who doesn't take his studies seriously. However, he meets a lonely-looking girl in the school courtyard, Nagisa Furukawa. Tomoya is rather indifferent at first, but decides that he has nothing better to do and spends increasingly more time helping Nagisa restore the school drama club. Great art (I'm a sucker for the visual) and an interresting story.

Labyrinth of Flames - A two-part OVA, and a strange one at that. A samurai-fan accepts an ancient Japanese sword, unknowing that gift is a betrothal heirloom. Made little sense, but was pretty funny. Gotta love the " O_O;; " expressions.

I also got a few that I haven't begun watching yet: Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk, Sekirei and H2O: Footprints in the Sand.

I'm slowly running out of anime to watch. Not so much in terms of selection, but what I have aquired so far. I recently finished watching Welcome to the NHK, loving every episode. It was a great show with a great story and great animation. Alas that story ended, and I'm now down to the following five shows:

Strawberry Panic - I've watched two episodes so far. The animation is beautiful and the story somewhat intriguing. With a setting of three all-girl schools, there's hints of yuri everywhere. Wohoop!

Strike Witches - Five episodes into this show, and there's still no pants in sight! Seriously. That's pretty rad.. I'm not sure whether I like it [the show as a whole] or not, as it's kind of childish. Concidered illegal in Sweden, because of the apparent loli.. Pft, lame.

Amaenaideyo!! - Seemingly the only one with the aspect ratio fitting our tv (the subs end up too low on the other shows) so every once in a while I sit on our comfy couch, rather than my poor excuse of a chair. But the show isn't all that good. It's pretty slow and boring. Here's hoping it gets better, I really enjoy watching from the couch. ;)

Chobits - Why someone would feel embarrased from looking at someone naked, especially if that someone was a robot, is beyond me.. Chobits is pretty slow, but sweet. And a supposed must-see for any anime enthusiast..

Koi Koi Seven - Again, a crazy school. (Can't get enough of those, I suppose). You wouldn't believe (but then again, maybe you would) how many anime series are centered around a school. This one's particularly crazy; "A series of strange events fall upon him [Tetsuro Tanaka]. Then, 6 girls who are called Koi Koi Seven appear as his guardians. Army combat helicopters and anti-tank guns attack Tetsuro for no particular reason as he tries to survive each day in the academy."

Funny how they're all concidered ecchi.. Hoomm! In case you're wondering about the title, this image might shed some light on the matter. Or not, either way. It feels like this is something I ought to hide away.. :)

So I ran across a list of ecchi anime over at Wikipedia and I instantly thought - "I should try watch all of it"... o_o;

I've watched a few of them already (or at least a few episodes) - Agent Aika, Amaenaideyo!!, Colorful, Ebichu, Futari Ecchi, Girls Bravo, Golden Boy, Ichigo 100%, Koi Koi Seven, Love Love, Mouse, Please Twins, Popotan, Strike Witches and Tonagura....... -gasp- That was a quite a few. What a pervert! :o

Some of these were really good (not necessarily because of nudity) while others, not so much (again, not necessarily because of nudity)... I'll try and watch them all. \o/