Anime on DVD has a bunch of news from Anime Central that made me happy. Newly licensed series include Noir and Angelic Layer. Yay! I was hoping for news like this. I have high hopes for ADV giving Noir a good treatment.

Voltaire. “God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

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Another snap of time in Audiotron shuffle-play:

• The Medicine Show – Big Audio Dynamite

• God O.D. (Part 2) – Meat Beat Manifesto

• Walk Away – Sisters of Mercy

• Heresy – My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

• The Leopard – Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians

• Surprise Me Again – Haircut 100

• Temple of Love – Sisters of Mercy

It feels like the start of an odd day.

I didn’t get around to it yesterday, so here’s my answers to the Friday Five this week:

1. What’s your favorite TV show and why? Farscape. I love sci-fi shows and I think Farscape is one of the best written and produced ones ever. Last night’s episode was stunning.

2. Who is your favorite television star? Hmm. That’s a good question. I don’t know that I could narrow it down to just one.

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child? Oh. I remember a few I loved (though they probably sucked and I’d hate them these days). Let’s go for something wacky like ‘Voyagers’.

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by name? Any of the various ‘reality tv’ type shows. Fear Factor would be a good first choice.

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season? I haven’t really been watching any new shows except Enterprise. And I don’t really care that much about it, but I guess I would rather it stick around for another season.

You can find the Friday Five at http://fridayfive.org/

One year ago today. I’d just gotten my laptop bag, which is still holding up amazingly. It still looks almost new.

So this morning I woke up really early. I didn’t sleep well last night at all. I’ve been up for about 15 minutes and I’m sitting my couch and suddenly I feel like I’m moving. I look around and am like “what the fuck?” Then I hear my building itself creaking a little.

I wasn’t sure what it was at the time. I figured I was still half asleep and maybe my equilibrium was a little off. Then, on the way home from breakfast I hear there was actually a quake! It sounds like it happened in New York (I think they said around Plattsburgh?). It figures, I live out in California for years and never feel a tremor. I move to Boston, and I get an earthquake.

Updated: I found the report on CNN about the earthquake.

I was skimming my logs and found that today someone got to my site by searching for ‘Cardcaptor Recipies’. I really wonder just what they were looking for. Lyn suggested that people were wondering how long to keep Sakura on the broiler or that maybe people wanted Kero-chan kebobs. Ever notice how Sakura’s always feeding him all kinds of sweets? She’s just fattening him up for the slaughter!

Of course now I want to search for that too and see what comes up.

All but one of these was bought used, so quite cheaply!

• Duran Duran – Rio

• My Lie with the Thrill Kill Kult – Kooler than Jesus

• Quadraphonia – Cozmic Jam

• Malcolm McLaren – Fans

• General Public – Classic Masters

• Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche ’85

Quite a nice haul if I do say so myself. I was really psyched about the Malcolm McLaren one because it has Madam Butterfly on it. It looks like a bunch of his stuff has been rereleased lately, so I may have to grab some more stuff too.

Mozilla 1.0 release candidate 1 has been released. There are even binaries for OS X on the download page. I’m downloading it right now and figure I’ll give it a bit of a try for a week. I’ll report back when I know what my feelings on it are.

Groucho Marx. “It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

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