Saturday night randomness...

[senoritafish]

I'm amazed. Star 98.7 80's Saturday is actually playing a Boingo song that is NOT Dead Man's Party! Hell hath frozen over. Especially considering the month. But Richard Blade works for them now, and maybe he has just a little more eclectic taste.

I was watching Justice League Unlimited and there appeared two new superheroes I was unfamiliar with, Hawk and Dove, who appear to be brothers, maybe. I wondered out to runsamuck why the bigger, more aggressive guy had the higher pitched voice. He replied, "More Spandex in his tights?"

I'm sorry. Megas XLR just makes me sit and giggle. I'm easily amused, but I love the parody of mecha anime. I keep hearing Lieutenant Worf's voice playing various evil aliens, although you'd think he'd rate more than playing the underlings. And then the recurring baddies get completely destroyed... by a Slurpee. Inadvertently. Hee. And even though they're still showing new episodes, I am dying for The Venture Brothers come out on DVD. "What kind of a jackass leaves all the doors unlocked? I'm not flushing! Let them feel the wrath of the Monarch!" I don't think CN has ever shown something that's been that pixelated and bleeped before; I wonder if any other stuff is cut out? I noticed in the credits one of them was based on an original story by Ben Edlund, Tick creator, and indeed some of these remind a lot of the Tick. Especially all the villains, and the head of the Think Tank (wonderfully poking fun at The Fantastic Four) rubberily bouncing around, challenging Brock to come at him. Race Bannon has even showed up, although he died messily, shortly into it.

Gareth just came up and told me, "Avalon is drowning her misery in peanut butter spoons." Sure enough, the three year old, though not at all miserable, is carrying around the peanut butter jar and a spoon. She has been playing with Angus's washable markers, which tend to get all over her hands. Then she wipes her face and between the green and the blue, she looks a bit like those t-shirts that used to make fun of a certain televangelist's wife - I Ran Into Tammy Faye At the Mall....(splat!)

Make spaghetti -I swear I'm the only person in my family who likes to wind the pasta up on my fork; everyone else has to have it cut up. Where the fun in that? The kids are fascinated by the cooking process and I have to lecture them about staying away from hot stuff on the stove, pointing out the scars on my neck and my scalp, that I got when I was younger than they are. Now the radio is playing The Church - Under the Milky Way. That was popular when I was an exchange student in Brisbane, and brings back some memories of concerts at the Expo and taking the bus along the river from Uni to downtown - for some holiday, the local radio station advertised a river parade and Quantas would have "Jumbos" over the river - everyone thought they meant low flying jets, and it turned out to be a pair of elephants wearing Quantas banners on a barge.

I'll have to wait for the second showing, but they'd better not kill off anymore major characters on Wolf's Rain (although I think it inevitable for Jezza. It's inferred she's an ephemeral). I will be pissed.

Edit: sigh. Not pissed. Just heartbroken.


Since I'm majorly behind in these things and only just read the latest, I read some complaints about too much detail in this one, but it didn't really bother me. I guess I'm just an uncritical reader, for most things.. However, did the person who got killed off there die from the attack by his cousin? Or falling through the arch? Not that it really matters, but I just wasn't clear on what went on the death certificate.

Comments

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

Under the Milky Way. A kiwi band called Strawpeople have done a great version of that song.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Cool - I have to keep an eye out for it!

Re Harry Potter...

[megthelegend.livejournal.com]

It's unclear, which has sparked a LOT of fanfiction!! We don't know at this stage whether Rowling left it deliberately unclear to perhaps pave the way for him coming back in some fashion (not necessarily as a proper 'live' human) or if she missed it, or if fans are just reading way too much into it.

Re: Re Harry Potter...

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Guess we'll just have to wait for the next book, hmmm? I just asked my dad, and he sure it's the arch and that character will be back, but only in his other form. Ahh, Patience, patience...

I haven't gotten into any HP fanfics yet, or much of any lately. Everyone wants to make a phone call the minute I start something....grumble, grumble.

megas xlr

[tenbones.livejournal.com]

I love that toon!...those guys remind me of Bill and Ted from the Bill and Ted movies.

Re: megas xlr

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

When they first aired the pilot a year or so ago, it was called LowBrow. I loved it then because it was like the animated Clerks meets Gundam Wing.

It's also neat that two of the voice actors (Kiva and Jamie) are also in my other favorite, Cowboy Bebop.

Kiva and Jamie dislike each so much, they're going to wind up falling for each other, I'm sure of it.

I'm so silly. ;p

[bakayaro-onna.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was wondering if anyone else saw last night's Wolf's Rain ep. I found grumpy's talk with the kid touching. The yaoi fanfic kiddies will have a cow, though.

All this death and destruction pretty much tells me the end of the series should be near.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not pissed, but I was pretty heartbroken. I think I cried through almost the whole thing. I wished I had watched the earlier airing, so I could've watched Venture Brothers after to cheer me up a little. Poor Tsume, losing Toboe and unable to save Hubb. Only wolves left now. Sigh.

The schedule posted in adultswimfans is calling these ending episodes an OAV, which means it was originally only on video, right? I also remember reading they weren't orginally planning to air them. But I'd rather have the closure, even if it's terribly sad.

I would love to see this unedited. I haven't bought an entire series yet; maybe this will be my first.