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  • What Gregory Likes

    I thought I’d write a bit about what types of anime I like to watch. Then I realized it is almost everything. I seem to have a little bit of a towards shoujo stuff, though I’m a fan of good fun action too. Recent shows I’ve enjoyed include Fruits Basket, Ai Yori Aoshi, Full Metal Panic, and Saikano.

    Currently, I’m watching RahXephon, Tenshi ni Narumon!, Heat Guy J, Azumanga Daioh, Witch Hunter Robin, Spiral, Gundam Seed, GitS:Stand Alone Complex, Getbackers, and Haibane Renmai. There’s some other random stuff in there, but that’s the bulk of it. And I’m sure some of those will get dropped after I see a few more episodes.

  • Two quizzes in one day!

    Because I’m bored:

    hell%20raiser
    what fucked version of hello kittie are you?
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  • Enter the Third… er, Young Adult

    Hello! I’m David , the third blogger here. Stay tuned and witness my thrilling struggle against the encroaching menace of fanboy Japanese! My desperate (and losing) battle to retain what little masculinity I have left! My fight to create a… no, wait, making a Utena cosplay outfit for myself would probably fall under the subject of my eroding masculinity, wouldn’t it? Damn, there goes my momentum.

    Oh well, on with the intro. Let’s see… my full name is David Schwager and I am a freshman at Cornell. I want to go back to high school. I have an extremely neglected website and, like Lyn, am a ficcer. Unfortunately, the only thing I’ve written recently is unfinished (but it will be soon! I swear! Just another month!), and pretty much everything else is a little… shaky. Putting it mildly. Recently I’ve gotten into AMV creation, but have only made one so far. It’s only up for download if you catch me online on AIM or DC (I go by RikaFirst in both, message me and I’ll send it). As for anime, my tastes are pretty varied, but I lean heavily towards Shoujo and slightly towards mech shows and 80s cheese (which is a bit odd, since I was born halfway through the 80s, but whatever). That’s about it for the basics, but maybe I’ll toss up a top 10 list later.

  • Ripping a new one

    I’ve really really slowed down on the CD ripping. Here’s the latest batch:

    • Jeff Mills – Lifelike

    • Meat Beat Manifesto – Armed Audio Warfare

    • Meat Beat Manifesto – Storm the Studio

    • Meat Beat Manifesto – 99%

    • Meat Beat Manifesto – RUOK?

    • Messiah – Temple of Dreams (CD Single)

    • Malcolm McLaren – Fans

    • Sarah McLachlan – Rarities, B-Sides, & Other Stuff

    • Manufacture – Voice of World Control

    • Mandalay – Solace

    • Mandalay – empaty

    • Lush – Split

    • Lush – Lovelife

    • Lush – Gala

    • L.S.G. – Into The Deep

  • That last one, Into the Deep has one of my favorite tracks to spin out when I’m DJing, Into Deep (Medway Remix).

  • Lyn’s First (But Not Last) Uncreatively Titled Entry

    Helloooo, baaaabyyyyy….

    This is Lyn, one of the bloggers who will be showing up here to ramble. A little about myself and my tastes: I’m eighteen and a college student experimenting with an all peanut-butter-sammich and ramen diet. I’m a equal fan of both mechs and shoujo bubbles, and most probably will represent the yaoi faction in its entirety of this merry band. Escaflowne is my greatest love, and I am yet another ashamed Clamp fan. I write fanfic (yeah who would have thought). But the most important thing to remember is that I will use this space to let the blithering fangirl in me stretch her legs. Consider yourself warned.

    Anyway, hope you stay tuned, because next entry will be me wailing about Saikano, just as soon as I finish downloading episode nine. Goddamn capped college bandwidth.

  • I feel hungry

    So you should go here to feed me.

    (blame zannah)

  • Wish list for Mail.app

    I’ve been using Mail.app for OS X for a while now. I switched when Jaguar came out because I was curious about its spam filtering. For the most part it works amazingly. One thing I want though is a bit more control. I want to be able to have a white list of people that are by default not spammers. I do have a number of newsletters from companies like CDJapan which it seems to really like to think of as spam. And, I’m afraid marking those as not spam will let through other stuff that is.

  • Roomba!

    A post over at BoingBoing got me pointed to the Roomba home page. The Roomba is a robot that vacuums for you. It looks pretty cool and seems to work. I would love to have something like this that I could just let roam around my apartment daily. I’m so bad with vacuuming. And for this kind of gadget it’s actually reasonably priced. I expected it to be at least 3 times that (as toys like this usually are).

  • I know I’m going to regret posting this…

    Chibi
    What Type Of Anime Character Are You?
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  • More on RahXephon

    [Picture from RahXephonI’ve been slowly working my way through RahXephon. It is definitely one of the more nicely animated shows that’s been broadcast lately. On first glance it felt like just another Eva clone, but I think it’s a better in lots of ways. The characters are likable (and less whiny then characters in Eva). The storyline also feels a little bit more cohesive, my one hope is that it has a better ending than Eva did. And, the soundtrack is amazing, one of the best I’ve heard since Noir. I’ve got it playing as I type this and it’s just got this really funky kind of jazz feel to a lot of it. I can’t wait to load it into my iPod.

    I also just found out the same studio that produced this, Bones, was the studio that did Angelic Layer (mmmm CLAMP).