"But -- cowbells are for --"

[phosfate]

Mom has permanently borrowed the Superbankie. Fortunately, Jo-Anne's had fleece marked down, so I spent Saturday night making a new one. Cowgirl Hello Kitty. That'll teach her.

We watched the first episode of The Lone Gunmen last night, for the first time since it originally aired. (For those who have never seen it, it involves a terrorist plot to slam a passenger jet into the World Trade Center, and aired in the spring of 2001.) In the end, the best attitude to take was one of cold-humored aggression: "ONE plane? You pussies!" As a demonstration of how much the world has turned upside-down in the last five years, two characters board a plane unchallenged carrying bomb-detecting equipment, and one of them bursts into the unlocked cockpit unannounced.

Finished the first arc of Utena (Oh dear Jesus CLIP SHOW!), have moved on to the Black Rose. Cracklicious!

Have seen my very second episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion (Oh dear Jesus CLIP SHOW AGAIN!). As near as I can tell, the show seems designed to encourage the viewer to commit suicide. Also, shut up, Asuka.

I regret to announce that a terrible accident has resulted in the loss of our beloved butter dish, which was interred in the garbage can out back, and subsequently relocated to the Lancaster County landfill. After a suitable mourning period of two days, it has been replaced with a flaming blue Fiestaware butter dish. No flowers, please.

Comments

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I refer to the first Utena story arc as richly demented. And the kangaroo? OMGWTFBBQ

Sorry to hear about your dear departed butter dish. After work tonight, I'll make a donation to Kroger's in its honour.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Utena has more in common with Cromarite High School than one might think at first glance.

New butter dish is (shhhhhh!) a great improvement over the old. It has a handle on the lid. Who would ever have thought of such a thing, and how it would change lives? This must be how the first generation to get a polio vaccine felt!

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Utena has more in common with Cromarite High School than one might think at first glance.

And there's a comparison I never would have thought of, and yet I can't argue. The creators of Utena were ahead of their time. Or on drugs. Or both.

[teapotgirl.livejournal.com]

My feelings about Neon Genesis Evangelion (and I used to own the boxset) can be summarized thusly: if it were a person, I would stab it in the face, set it on fire, and watch it flail about.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

You're watching EVA? Oh dear lord. Teh snark--I can't wait.

(We ♥ Misato. "I'm a purple-haired, beer-guzzlin' super sekret 4-star general in a minidress, yay!" But, that show has like the highest percentage of characters you wanna STRANGLE....)

[eyemage.livejournal.com]

Re lonegunman...

The pilot ep was why i was so sure that it would never ever make it to dvd.

It is indeed extremely eerie about the timing of the plot points mere months before the actual events.

I just wish the mgguffin they used in the ep actually worked.

I watched the Eva dvds i got from the library...yes the entire show is a trial...i could only watch with the commentary tracks to make it paletable.
However its the end movies that really set the bar...just whoa.

oh noes not the butterdish!!!11!!!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I figured it'd come out eventually, but felt it was even money whether or not the pilot episode would be 'disappeared.'

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

It is said that the mastermind behind Evangelion was battling severe depression through most if not all of the series.

Judging by the ending of the second movie, depression won handily.

JSM

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

I have a few eps of The Lone Gunman on tape, including the pilot. All those newscasters on 9/11 who were calling the attack on the towers "unimaginable" obviously never talked to Chris Carter.