Good morning everyone. It appears that the new Dumbledore has been chosen. And it wasn’t who everyone was saying it was going to be. I’m not sure I’ve seen anything with this guy in it. I’m going to have to do some film watching research.

Last night I finally got around to putting away my replacement K.O.R. DVDs. When I got to the 6th case I discovered that I was missing disc 6. I looked around, making sure I hadn’t dropped it or anything and came to the conclusion that I never actually got it.

This morning I woke up and fired an email off to Animeigo saying ‘Help! What do I do?’ In under 30 minutes I got back an email apologizing and saying they’d send out a new one today. Now that’s how customer service should be all the time.

Just wanted to post a reminder that TechTV’s Anime Unleashed starts tomorrow night at 1am Eastern (I guess that is officially Tuesday morning). Starting off this new anime block is Crest of the Stars. This show is one of my favorites. It’s one of the better scifi animated shows I’ve seen. It’s got a really good space opera feel to it. If you have cable or satellite that gets TechTV, check it out.

So this coming week, we get the start of TechTV’s Anime Unleashed. Starting off the lineup is Crest of The Stars.

As is usual with most anime on US television it is dubbed. My first reaction is ‘bleh’. Though, as I think about it more I’m starting to wonder if this is actually necessary as a first step. While anime has a growing audience in America it still doesn’t have the pull of US animation (in general). There are also a lot of people who just change the channel the moment they see subtitles. My personal feeling is that once more people start watching shows, there will be more of a demand for subtitling. I know I’d personally love to see them do a dubbed block, then maybe a subbed block really late that I could grab with my TiVo.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Beyond just the whole ‘dubs are evil, subs rule’ type arguments.

watched more Witch Hunter Robin yesterday. mm…. so need a Robin
cold-cast figure. oh yes!!! ^^
jayme and i *sparkle* just thinking about it.
so need the cd soundtrack, too. the music almost sounds like a mix
between Noir and Read or Die. i wonder if any of the same musical
directors involved in Robin were involved in those two…

i’ll finally have more tshirts, anime themed ones that is, once i start
getting my anime dvd vol. 1 boxes with tshirts. well, that and the two
i still have sitting at emerald city comics in eugene ~sweatdrop~
i really do need to get those some time. demo, first gotta pay off the
rest of my tab there.

gyah! the first Chance Pop Session dvd is out and i don’t have it yet?!!
must rectify that lil problem, yesindeed. better shrink my BCC box
dvd collection some more first though ^_^;
for those who are interested, a complete 3 year anime dvd checklist.
find those titles you missed and simply must have:

Anime 2K checklist
http://www.animeondvd.com/releases/checklist2000.php

Anime 2K1 checklist
http://www.animeondvd.com/releases/checklist2001.php

Anime 2K2 checklist
http://www.animeondvd.com/releases/checklist2002.php

see how the 2K2 list has exploded in size compared to 2000, and 2001
somewhat. i tremble in anticipation to see how 2K3 fares. more is g00d,
just not necesarily for the ole pocketbook }:D

Oscar Wilde. “Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” [Quotes of the Day]

Lyn said that I really should let people know that it is Hobbitsex Day today. I really am not quite sure what that entails, and I’m not really sure I want to know (let alone think too much about it). But anyways,

a happy hobbitsex to you and yours.

So I’d been wanting to see a bunch of my friends lately, so sent out some random emails to people to come by and have some pizza last night along with watching a sampling of anime. It was pretty cool, the group ended up being Ethan, Sean, Emily, Brian, and Selma. I kinda wish I could invite more but my place is kinda tiny and I think we had just the right amount of people before getting claustrophobic. We had some good pizza, some good beer (including one from PA that I really like), and amazing brownies that kicked my ass.

Shows watched (first two episodes of each): Full Metal Panic, Fruits Basket, Naruto, and Azumanga Daioh. I think people liked the first three a bit and the last one broke some folks. That one does tend to be a bit more on the wacky side. I think if I do this again I’m going to show more of Full Metal Panic and Fruits Basket and just do two episodes at a time. (And don’t worry Sean, I’ll find you some of that stuff with tentacles since you seem so fixated on it.)

Now I just need to get Lyn to watch the first four episodes of Azumanga Daioh with me before she goes on her trip.

Slightly expanded from the post on my blog…
So I’d been wanting to see a bunch of my friends lately, so sent out some random emails to people to come by and have some pizza last night along with watching a sampling of anime. It was pretty cool, the group ended up being Ethan, Sean, Emily, Brian, and Selma. I kinda wish I could invite more but my place is kinda tiny and I think we had just the right amount of people before getting claustrophobic. We had some good pizza, some good beer (including one from PA that I really like), and amazing brownies that kicked my ass.

Shows watched (first two episodes of each): Full Metal Panic, Fruits Basket, Naruto, and Azumanga Daioh. I think people liked the first three a bit and the last one broke some folks. That one does tend to be a bit more on the wacky side. I think if I do this again I’m going to show more of Full Metal Panic and Fruits Basket and just do two episodes at a time. (And don’t worry Sean, I’ll find you some of that stuff with tentacles since you seem so fixated on it.)
I talked to one of the people and he said he was getting overwhelmed a bit by the end, which fits what I was thinking. I’ll hopefully give more reports (or maybe have them post some here as to what they thought about it) soon.
Now I just need to get Lyn to watch the first four episodes of Azumanga Daioh with me before she goes on her trip.

Thanks to some dinos, we have a News Flash!

BERGENFIELD, New Jersey (AP) — Two youngsters who wanted to sing along with Barney the Dinosaur opened a music book and discovered a photograph of a man and woman in a naked embrace.

The photo, which ran under the words “Wilder Sex,” was in a “Sing-Along Songs Barney” book a couple bought for their 4- and 7-year-old children.

See yet more proof of how evil Barney is! Of course, the most telling sentence is the last one of the article.

“They want some sort of apology and maybe reassurance for the children that Barney is pure,” Arnold told The Record of Bergen County for Friday’s editions.

Yeah, Barney is Pure. But pure what?