Samurai 7 finally came out as a complete series DVD and I’ve been loving it. It’s an extended retelling of Akira Kurosawa’s movie Seven Samurai; a village of rice farmers hires as many samurai as they can afford to defend themselves from a bandit army. And since it’s anime it’s gotta have giant robots.
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A couple of the
Samurai 7 disks have come with episodes of
Mr Stain [
official site], which has now become my second favorite anime. You can see most of them
on YouTube (check out Palvan’s dance at 6:19. It’s disturbingly hypnotic). Mr Stain is a homeless guy living in Junk Alley and most of the shows seem to center on him trying to scrounge up food. It’s the best cartoon bum show in a long time. If anyone finds a translation to the closing credits song let me know.
Embedded video is for clydes (skip past the first thirty seconds, it’s just test pattern)
Huh?
Wanna see the parade of ignorance that is the Creation Museum?
Wanna stay out of Kentucky on general principle?
flickr to the rescue
I learned that “dinosaur” means “Jesus horse“
and I spent Monday and Tuesday at
DisneyLand Disney Resort Complex(r).
Good things:
- Bringing Pirates of the Caribbean in
alignment with the movie didn’t ruin the ride for me
- Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room wasn’t ruined like the
East coast’s Enchanted Tiki Room was.
- I approve of the updated Space Mountain
- They’ve merged Disneyland, the hotel and California Adventure by
building the Downtown Disney District in the middle of it. It’s
grossly commercial the funnel exiting foot traffic through this
mini-mall on their way back to their cars. However, the food in
Disney’s Downtown was far better than
href="http://flickr.com/photos/tone_milazzo/523958493/">anything you
can find in the park and only a little more expensive. Worth the
monorail out and back.
- Monorail!
Monorail!!
Monorail!!!
- California
Adventure was better than I was expecting.
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Aladdin:_A_Musical_Spectacular">The
Aladdin musical,
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soaring_Over_California">Sourin’
Over California and
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet_Vision_3-D">Muppets 3D
shows were especially good.
- The Hotel was nice and there were a lot of
href="http://flickr.com/photos/tone_milazzo/523863078/in/set-72157600293783010/">neat
touches
in the design.
- The company of a Silly girlfriend.
The Bad
- Innoventions, the
disturbing Tom
Morrow’s house of product placement.
- No more Country Bear Jamboree
- Fucking
Strollers. Everywhere we went these hand-powered SUVs clogged up
the walk ways. I know that Disneyland is for kids, but there were
mother pushing around six year olds in these things like they were
invalids. No wonder American kids are getting fatter.
Melissa got photographic evidence that
href="http://flickr.com/photos/tone_milazzo/tags/tallenough/">she is
tall enough for all the rides, I however was
href="http://flickr.com/photos/tone_milazzo/tags/unhappiestplaceonearth/">somewhat
anxious until the last few hours.
It’s been seven years since my last visit to Disneyland. I think it’ll
be seven more before my next. But if I do, it’ll be at a low-kid time
of year.
[full
set @ flickr]
