- 1/23/2009 -
.: Still :.
Still can't find a job. I've been searching relatively actively for about a month now. The only positions people are trying to get filled are management. Or people with 6 years of experience. I haven't even been out of high school six years. Sigh.
I watched Kujibiki Unbalance first, Genshiken 2 is next on my list. KU was rather bland. Not at all random like the OVA that came with the first one was. Not really as entertaining either. It got a little better as the show ended, but even the ending was bland. At least I learned a new word out of it. Kujibiki means lottery. At least the title made sense; the plot revolves around a school where the class president (and the other class positions) is picked by lottery, and that year a rather odd team was picked. Thus, unbalanced. Or something like that. Hmmm. Taking a look at what I rated the OVA on anime-planet it seems I didn't think it was anything special then either. I thought I remember it being better... Oh well.
I found a group that has completed subbing Wangan Midnight and I started watching that, but the tenth episode has the audio about two seconds off the video--basically unwatchable. In a couple days I'll have downloaded another group's tenth episode and watch that one before going back to the original group probably. Nobody else has subbed past 17 of a 26 episode show though. Hopefully no more mistakes that bad. So far it's been pretty interesting, and I guess I feel like I need a bit of a break from all the slice of life I've been watching. It's about a guy who sees a car on the street one day and apparently the sight of it never was able to leave his head. He thought about it off and on for two years and decided he was going to buy that kind of car when the boss at the car shop he works for tells him he saw that model at the junkyard. They go over and buy it, against rumors that it is the "Akuma no Z", the Devil's Z. This car supposedly has been in countless accidents, always being rebuilt and ends up back on the Wangan, which is a highway that goes up the coast of Japan. Well rumors turn out to be truth, and the show focuses on the main character getting into crashes and rebuilding the car, along with other minor characters that end up racing him and so forth. A written summary doesn't do it much justice, I feel. Could just be a niche that I happen to be in though.
I've been getting slowly back into WoW. For a while I got bored with it because I felt doing some of the things I was doing was such a chore, and I didn't have much time to play it but needed to get those things done in order to maintain a good level of efficiency, really. Hard to explain. But now I've mostly completed all that junk and am back on the road to getting 80 again in a couple weeks tops. Not looking forward to getting my Death Knight's professions up...
I finished reading a really good trilogy of books I got the first of for Christmas. I guess I finished that like two weeks ago now, actually. Hmm. Not sure why I didn't post about it then. It's called the "Night Angel" trilogy, by Brent Weeks. Now starting on one the authors he used for inspiration, I'm seeing a wholeeee lot of parallels between the two. Kinda makes me feel sad, because I thought most of it was original. I guess it still is. Nothing is the same by any means, it just... seems to draw heavily. I almost feel that Brent's storytelling is almost childish now, having read half of the first book (of 9) that he drew inspiration from. They were still excellent reads, I probably finished all 1900 or so pages in a total of 4 days at most. I stayed up til 6 am reading it once before noticing what time it was when my dad opened my door 'cause the light was on. Good books.
Other news, other news...
Nanimo nai.
Adion is currently listening to: the pillows - Our Love and Peace [4:12]
I watched Kujibiki Unbalance first, Genshiken 2 is next on my list. KU was rather bland. Not at all random like the OVA that came with the first one was. Not really as entertaining either. It got a little better as the show ended, but even the ending was bland. At least I learned a new word out of it. Kujibiki means lottery. At least the title made sense; the plot revolves around a school where the class president (and the other class positions) is picked by lottery, and that year a rather odd team was picked. Thus, unbalanced. Or something like that. Hmmm. Taking a look at what I rated the OVA on anime-planet it seems I didn't think it was anything special then either. I thought I remember it being better... Oh well.
I found a group that has completed subbing Wangan Midnight and I started watching that, but the tenth episode has the audio about two seconds off the video--basically unwatchable. In a couple days I'll have downloaded another group's tenth episode and watch that one before going back to the original group probably. Nobody else has subbed past 17 of a 26 episode show though. Hopefully no more mistakes that bad. So far it's been pretty interesting, and I guess I feel like I need a bit of a break from all the slice of life I've been watching. It's about a guy who sees a car on the street one day and apparently the sight of it never was able to leave his head. He thought about it off and on for two years and decided he was going to buy that kind of car when the boss at the car shop he works for tells him he saw that model at the junkyard. They go over and buy it, against rumors that it is the "Akuma no Z", the Devil's Z. This car supposedly has been in countless accidents, always being rebuilt and ends up back on the Wangan, which is a highway that goes up the coast of Japan. Well rumors turn out to be truth, and the show focuses on the main character getting into crashes and rebuilding the car, along with other minor characters that end up racing him and so forth. A written summary doesn't do it much justice, I feel. Could just be a niche that I happen to be in though.
I've been getting slowly back into WoW. For a while I got bored with it because I felt doing some of the things I was doing was such a chore, and I didn't have much time to play it but needed to get those things done in order to maintain a good level of efficiency, really. Hard to explain. But now I've mostly completed all that junk and am back on the road to getting 80 again in a couple weeks tops. Not looking forward to getting my Death Knight's professions up...
I finished reading a really good trilogy of books I got the first of for Christmas. I guess I finished that like two weeks ago now, actually. Hmm. Not sure why I didn't post about it then. It's called the "Night Angel" trilogy, by Brent Weeks. Now starting on one the authors he used for inspiration, I'm seeing a wholeeee lot of parallels between the two. Kinda makes me feel sad, because I thought most of it was original. I guess it still is. Nothing is the same by any means, it just... seems to draw heavily. I almost feel that Brent's storytelling is almost childish now, having read half of the first book (of 9) that he drew inspiration from. They were still excellent reads, I probably finished all 1900 or so pages in a total of 4 days at most. I stayed up til 6 am reading it once before noticing what time it was when my dad opened my door 'cause the light was on. Good books.
Other news, other news...
Nanimo nai.
Adion is currently listening to: the pillows - Our Love and Peace [4:12]
