Or: I Aten't Dead
It seems to have transpired that if I apologized for long periods of inactivity, this blog would be filled with nothing but. So instead adding one more to the list, lets instead get severely depressed as it approaches October and none of the things in This list have been done. Hooray!
Admittedly, I do have an excuse; my complete and utter ineptitude. It seems that the JESUSSHITFUCKPANICPANICFUCKFUCKARRGH period was partly for naught, as I managed to fail two of my assessments. So I ended up spending a few weeks re-doing them, and failing. Again. Thankfully, I haven't been booted out of Uni - I just had to re-pick my modules which I never chose anyway (because of the aforementioned JESUSSHITFUCKPANICPANICFUCKFUCKARRGH period), proving that dark clouds can have a silver lining. Unless you're a meteorologist, in which case it's just a really inaccurate turn of phrase.
In the meanwhile, it seems that I picked up two new addictions - TV Tropes and anime (the latter of which can be blamed on the former, along with everyone who's ever uploaded stuff onto Veoh). At the moment, I seem to be watching Trigun, along with the three shows most people mention when they think of Gainax - FLCL, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. The last two are pretty interesting, mainly because of their contrast - while they both involve large robots pounding the crap out of various things, the shows are practically opposites. While Evangelion is fairly dark, Gurren Lagann is the equivalent of mainlining Brian Blessed.
A good example of this is early on in both shows - the protagonists, for different reasons, both snap and perform a gung-ho attack. Simon's (from Gurren Lagann) is treated positively - sure he's gone a little nuts, but he's fighting at his best and gaining a Crowning Moment Of Awesome (told you I was addicted to TV Tropes). Meanwhile, Shinji's attack on the Angel is disturbing as all hell. Mind you, the whole series could be described as such, up to the point where there's rumours that the hyperactive FLCL was made as a respite for the production team. Despite this, all the shows I've mentioned are well worth watching.
In other news, Jack Thompson's been permanently disbarred. \o/
