5 posts tagged “entertainment”

How are you spending New Year's Eve?

Not working, apparently, like I thought.

Since I've been working nonstop for so long, I have no idea what to do with two entire days off.  I didn't make any plans for New Year because I thought I'd be working and all my friends and family live back in New York.  I finally came up with an idea I thought was brilliant--get one of those microwavable caramel desserts from the market, crack open that bottle of white wine I've stashed in the fridge, and drink till I'm creative.  Then, when I wake up the next morning with broken machinery and tiny chirping togepis in my head, I'll pick up my Ronin fic and my sketch books and see what I came up with.  I think that sounds like fun!

What was the best movie you saw this year?

Okay, so maybe it was the only one I managed to see in the theater due to lack of funds, but it was so worth it.  Mmm, Johnny Depp.  Mmm....meat pie.  XD

Sweeney Todd

What work of art (film, book, record, whatever) changed your life?
Submitted by bodhibound.

*wistful look* It was Halloween, 1997.  It was an anime movie called Project A-Ko.  It was a typical anime film as anime films go--two high-school friends face-off against a jealous rival who's still mad about something that happened ten years ago when they were all in kindergarten; the silly sidekick turns out to be a princess and she doesn't even know it; drunken cross-dressing aliens interfere--that sort of thing.  It was funny and utterly insane, and not to be taken too seriously.

The reason it's so important, of course, is that it showed me that cartoons weren't just for kids--they could be pretty and violent and funny and grown-up and artistic, too.  It was just another way to tell a story.  And in 1997 when I was thirteen, it came at the perfect time, when I was presented with a very important decision: be a boring, cookie-cutter teenaged little grown-up, or not.

Luckily, in partial thanks to A-Ko and what she taught me, I chose NOT.

Ako_Swrd_02_a

Which TV show never "jumped the shark"?
Submitted by healthypanda. 

 Law and Order. 

It doesn't matter which incarnation of L&O you watch.  The cases are still interesting, and while you get to know the characters personally, the focus is always still more on the crimes and on justice than on them.  It's neat.

What movie did you expect would be terrible, but was actually really good?

Ghost Ship (Widescreen Edition)

I love movies with a good message, and this one is a great one: the ultimate reward of avarice is death.