Thought for the day: "I hate Mondays." - A very famous cat.
I, like so many of us, have little love for the first day of the week, especially Monday mornings. This is spite of the fact that I was, in fact, born at 8:23 a.m. on a Monday. Or, perhaps, because of the fact. After all, there's the old belief that babies cry out at birth because they hate to come into such a terrible world as this; mayhap Monday mornings shall always bear negative connotations for me.
Far more likely, of course, is that I Am Not A Morning Person, and Monday means back to the grind.
But that's not nearly as much fun.
In all seriousness, today I was SUPPOSED to go Christmas shopping, but opted to declare that Mornings Are Things That Happen To Other People instead. Later this week, then, possibly tomorrow if the weather holds.
Instead I've been watching Eden of the East on Funimation.com. I also decided to become a Funimation subscriber, because I'm thinking of dropping Netflix for a while. The reason for this is pretty simple: Netflix costs me $8.59 a month, after sales tax. Funimation will only cost me $7.95, and I mostly used Netflix to watch Funimation stuff anyway. Normally I'd just keep Netflix and watch the occasional movie. But I recently switched to Ubuntu, a Linux OS.
Fun fact: Netflix Instant cannot run on Linux. Why, you ask? It's not actually Netflix's fault, this time. Netflix Instant uses a software called Microsoft Silverlight to prevent piracy. There is, of course, a Linux equivalent software called Moonlight. But there's one tiny catch: Moonlight has no DRM, digital rights management, the entire reason Netflix uses Silverlight. It will probably be quite some time before it does, because Linux is built on the idea of Open Source, which is very much not into DRM. But that also means that, legally, Netflix can't touch it with a ten-foot pole. The minute Netflix enables a software WITHOUT DRM, the companies that own the movies will rip their material off at the speed of Lawsuits.
So, I'll probably drop Netflix until I have something new I want to see, and come back for a while then. Maybe. It depends on how this two-week free trial of Funimation Membership goes.
But I've severely digressed. I was talking about Eden of the East. I actually rather like this one. Which, in fairness, I like an awful lot of anime, and I'm hardly a critic, but still. I like the themes of Power, and the proper use thereof. The arc words "Noblesse Oblige" are also something of a personal credo of mine. There's not as much Romance in the series-proper as the cover art would have you believe; that, I understand, mostly comes from the movies, which I will get into after I finish typing this up and tomorrow. Which, now that I glance at the clock, is Today. I really shouldn't keep going to TV Tropes for all my links...
I digress again. The main character is Akira Takizawa(sort of). We meet him naked and in front of the White House, holding a revolver and the Noblesse Phone that the plot of the series turns around - Oh, did I mention he has no memory of who he is, much less how he got there?
I rather like Akira. He's my kind of hero - sneaky, snarky, cheerful, a little goofy, gets by on his brain and sense of Style. As Lauren will attest, I am a firm and devout believer in the power of Style.
His distaff counterpart and eventual love interest (Maybe. Possibly. Ross and Rachel got nothing here, is what I'm saying) is a nice young college grad named Saki Morimi, who was in Washington for her graduation trip.
Thus far I do have to say I have one problem with Saki. She's the Quiet Type, not something I'm interested in from a heroine. I know, I know, it's my personal preference because I like girls as deeply egotistical as I am, but still. She's mostly reactionary as a character, and while it certainly works for the series, I prefer a proactive character like Akira. On the other hand, maybe one of the reasons Akira works so well is that he has Saki there to balance him out.
There first meeting goes...pretty well, actually, given the circumstances. They become fast friends and get in a bit of flirting, too, before they end up back in Japan, and the plot begins in earnest. Because Akira has the phone, labeling him IX, and on the other end is a girl named Juiz, who claims to be his concierge. And he has a little less than $130 million dollars to spend in order to be the victorious Seleção and save Japan.
Which makes aforementioned amnesia rather inconvenient.
But seriously, folks. EoE is great, and I highly recommend. You can watch it for free, with commercials, on Funimation and Hulu(really one-and-the-same for freebies) or subscribe and watch in HD, along with all three movies.
That's all for tonight, folks. Later!
Bill
I, like so many of us, have little love for the first day of the week, especially Monday mornings. This is spite of the fact that I was, in fact, born at 8:23 a.m. on a Monday. Or, perhaps, because of the fact. After all, there's the old belief that babies cry out at birth because they hate to come into such a terrible world as this; mayhap Monday mornings shall always bear negative connotations for me.
Far more likely, of course, is that I Am Not A Morning Person, and Monday means back to the grind.
But that's not nearly as much fun.
In all seriousness, today I was SUPPOSED to go Christmas shopping, but opted to declare that Mornings Are Things That Happen To Other People instead. Later this week, then, possibly tomorrow if the weather holds.
Instead I've been watching Eden of the East on Funimation.com. I also decided to become a Funimation subscriber, because I'm thinking of dropping Netflix for a while. The reason for this is pretty simple: Netflix costs me $8.59 a month, after sales tax. Funimation will only cost me $7.95, and I mostly used Netflix to watch Funimation stuff anyway. Normally I'd just keep Netflix and watch the occasional movie. But I recently switched to Ubuntu, a Linux OS.
Fun fact: Netflix Instant cannot run on Linux. Why, you ask? It's not actually Netflix's fault, this time. Netflix Instant uses a software called Microsoft Silverlight to prevent piracy. There is, of course, a Linux equivalent software called Moonlight. But there's one tiny catch: Moonlight has no DRM, digital rights management, the entire reason Netflix uses Silverlight. It will probably be quite some time before it does, because Linux is built on the idea of Open Source, which is very much not into DRM. But that also means that, legally, Netflix can't touch it with a ten-foot pole. The minute Netflix enables a software WITHOUT DRM, the companies that own the movies will rip their material off at the speed of Lawsuits.
So, I'll probably drop Netflix until I have something new I want to see, and come back for a while then. Maybe. It depends on how this two-week free trial of Funimation Membership goes.
I digress again. The main character is Akira Takizawa(sort of). We meet him naked and in front of the White House, holding a revolver and the Noblesse Phone that the plot of the series turns around - Oh, did I mention he has no memory of who he is, much less how he got there?
I rather like Akira. He's my kind of hero - sneaky, snarky, cheerful, a little goofy, gets by on his brain and sense of Style. As Lauren will attest, I am a firm and devout believer in the power of Style.
His distaff counterpart and eventual love interest (Maybe. Possibly. Ross and Rachel got nothing here, is what I'm saying) is a nice young college grad named Saki Morimi, who was in Washington for her graduation trip.
Thus far I do have to say I have one problem with Saki. She's the Quiet Type, not something I'm interested in from a heroine. I know, I know, it's my personal preference because I like girls as deeply egotistical as I am, but still. She's mostly reactionary as a character, and while it certainly works for the series, I prefer a proactive character like Akira. On the other hand, maybe one of the reasons Akira works so well is that he has Saki there to balance him out.
There first meeting goes...pretty well, actually, given the circumstances. They become fast friends and get in a bit of flirting, too, before they end up back in Japan, and the plot begins in earnest. Because Akira has the phone, labeling him IX, and on the other end is a girl named Juiz, who claims to be his concierge. And he has a little less than $130 million dollars to spend in order to be the victorious Seleção and save Japan.
Which makes aforementioned amnesia rather inconvenient.
But seriously, folks. EoE is great, and I highly recommend. You can watch it for free, with commercials, on Funimation and Hulu(really one-and-the-same for freebies) or subscribe and watch in HD, along with all three movies.
That's all for tonight, folks. Later!
Bill
I personally testify to Bill's slavish devotion to the religon of Style, as well as his intense dislike of the AM period of the day.
ReplyDeleteStop Troping when writing your blogs Bill. There is no such thing as "fashionably late" in the religon of Style.
Let's see... if you were born on a Monday, then that means I was a... Thursday? It's difficult to remember - I was born at nearly the same time as a counsin in Germany. I think the date line made me technically a day earlier.
I would like to point out that I do produce at least a post a day, so far, late or not.
ReplyDeleteAnd you've gotten better at commenting too. I'm so proud of you :P
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