#intellectandromance

omg what a doll

rules: write the first ten songs that come up on shuffle (no skipping) and quote your favourite lyric from each song, then tag 10 people (I tag people who want to do this because it’s been going around and I can’t remember who’s not done it)

1. "O-o-h Child” by The Five Stairsteps 

Some day, yeah We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun Some day When the world is much brighter

2. "Honey Vanity” - Közi

kokoroe...utsushidasu kimi wa temaneki hohoende toki ni odoriko kidori yagate yami no mokuzu to kie karakara saketa 

[Knowledge...it reflects You smiled enticingly And the pretend dancing girl Faded into the waves of darkness parched and torn apart in time

translation via (x)]  

3. "Tragedy” - Bee Gees

It's hard to bear With no one to love you, you're Goin' nowhere  

4. "Hash Pipe” - Weezer

Down on Santa Monica where tricks are for kids 

5. "Working for the Weekend” - Loverboy 

I’m just going to link to the lyrics for the entire song because I am an 80′s baby and this song is the equivalent of comfort food and this post is already too long without me quoting the entire song in it

6. "Skyfall” - Adelle

Let the sky fall When it crumbles We will stand tall Face it all together At Skyfall

7. "MISERY” - hide

Kanashii to iunaraba soro no aosasae mo Todakana imo dokashisani kimi wa nakun darou kimi no chiisana karada tsutsunderu yume wa Itami o nomikomi azayaka ni naru

[ If you say you're sad, then so is the blue of the sky You'd cry over the restlessness of not being able to reach The dreams that embrace your small body, swallow the pain, and become brilliant

translation via x]

8. "So Cold” - Breaking Benjamin

Crowded streets are cleared away One by one

9. “Come as You Are” - Nirvana

Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach As I want you to be As a trend, as a friend As an old

Memoria...

10. "Unfinished” - X JAPAN

I like this. Maybe that'll make my prequels rewatch easier lol. (The last two, anyway. I love The Phantom Menace dearly. Say what you will. :P)

I found I liked The Phantom Menace better once I understood its function in the larger narrative. When I watched it last night I realized it was basically exposition to the entire franchise like a very, very long chapter one. It made me appreciate the movie a little more though it also solidified for me that if I have kids and want to share Star Wars with them, I should probably start with IV.

Actually approaching all of the movies with a kind of goal of looking at the writing and gleaning what I could from it like a re-read of a novel has helped me appreciate all of the movies more and made me appreciate Luke more than I have. Also I think that being older has helped me enjoy the movies more as well because it broadens my perspective. I wanted to do a more analytical rewatch since I've never really looked at the movies analytically before and I though that if I watched them analytically it might give me insight into where VII - IX might go.

I think that's why I love both Star Wars and Star Trek. Star Wars provides me beloved characters and a truly epic storyline, which is something I can always appreciate. Star Trek gives me beloved characters and a universe that I feel I could have a place in if it were to exist along side of me. Star Wars fosters my love of storytelling whereas Star Trek affirms that I am smart, capable, and should exist. I find that when I think about looking forward to Episode VII, I'm looking forward to the story and where my babies are going to go and how they've changed since VI. When I think of Star Trek XIII, I think about my affection for the characters, the amazing aliens we might get to meet and the alien worlds we'll see. They're really two halves of who I am when it comes to science ficiton and fantasy really.

huh...

I’m about 20 minutes in. Since the plot requires the protagonist to take his grandfather’s ashes to a very southern point in India, I suspect like with most nations, things are going to get maybe stereotypey? IDEK. I do know that four big fat guys have come to kidnap the love interest and so the protagonist and she are singing to each other so the kidnappers can’t understand what they’re saying.

omg thanks for the heads-up! might watch.

You’re welcome. I’d have had no clue, but I happened to turn on Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) the other night and there was a commercial for it. They have a whole host of times they’re going to run the movie so you might want to check TV Guide or something if there’s a better time. 

thedoctorplease replied to your post: “You know, given how both Jonathan Strange and Stephen Strange’s hair...”

I literally never encountered anyone else who read that book

The problem is, which is likely why the FCC doesn’t actually have a guideline set about stroboscopics, that it’s widely variable from photosensitive person to photosensitive person. What’s okay for me isn’t okay for other people and there are people who don’t get tripped up by some things that can catch me if I’m not careful like the circulating light during the Doctor’s monologue in “Listen” from series eight. 

From what I’ve been hearing, it sounds like I’m probably not going to know until I watch the movie. The trailers were so overwhelming that I nixed watching it in theaters pretty early on, but sometimes for me what’s overstimulating in theaters (like the Bifrost in Thor when Odin, Thor, and Loki are having their scene on it) can be tolerable on a TV or a computer because the screen is a fraction of theater size. 

i've been told to watch that! tell me what ya think

I remembered that you wanted to know so I was going to message you when I finished, which I’ll still do because who knows how I’ll feel once we hit that hour mark when a lot of Japanese movies have the thing you don’t want to happen happen.

I’m about 56 minutes in right now and there’s about 82 minutes total. What I can say so far is this:

If they don’t screw it up in the next 30~ minutes, I’ll probably rate it a 8 - 9/10 on IMDB. The animation is very mid-90′s seinen, but it doesn’t look it in a dated way. There’s nipples. There’s cursing. I’m thinking the dub also added a random conversation while one of the characters got his gun together, but it didn’t really detract from things. The dub sounds like a standard late-90′s/early 2000′s English dub, so it’s not bad. A little monotone, but that’s mostly because a lot of characters are cyborgs. Not sure of the quality of sub. 

Ooh, you'll have to tell me about Ghost in the Shell, I've been wanting to watch that.