catching up: animu

The list of anime that I’m going to start watching started out overzealous lengthy.

I’ve watered it down as it’s always daunting and I never get around to watching any of it; it’s like this machine of unintentional avoidance, fueled by my post-otaku jadedness and lubricated by general disinterest. There’s also the availability issue, normally a non-issue, but my access to a few of these shows is dependent on where I am.

Anyway. Durarara, Katagatagari, and Sora no Woto are priorities right now; I will try to blog about them as much as possible, as anime is really the only thing I can muster the effort to talk about with any real zest ease and consistency. Maybe I’ll get roped into THAT blogosphere again, who ka-knows.

3.29.2010

Made a new header, I like it, so should you. Here’s the old one, I don’t love it anymore..

Final Fantasy XIII – Music

I’m very impressed with what Masashi Hamauzu has done with the FFXIII score, he must have learned a lot working with Nobuo Uematsu; it’s certainly paid off. Naturally the battle theme has to be good, it’s what you hear the most of, and elegant violin segments really round out intense darker violin segments that prevail throughout much of the song, it all blends nicely to make a perfect loop. There’s also a really ambient, subtle-drum-&-bass-y song that plays during some exploring in Cocoon a few hours into the game, it’s one of the more impressive songs I’ve heard in a Final Fantasy to date. It’s also got a great melodic female voice accompanying it. I’m working my way through the OST now at work and I haven’t run into the aforementioned song yet, so I don’t know the title! Erg!

These soundtracks are half the fun of a Final Fantasy game for me, which might explain the last incarnation’s failure to impress me, but I won’t make a final judgment on that one just yet.

Cymmers

Made a lot of buttons for a client today..

aaaand I feel like a big nerd for indulging the Melty Blood soundtrack again.. It’s not that great with the exception to a few songs, maybe my body associates the hours I spent hearing the songs as BGMs to the muscle memory of destroying my mates at the game and the general warm fuzziness of it all.

music & weather

Hay guyz.

Ahh the weather here in Plain-o Tejas is getting warmer, it’s at that medium where I can tolerate it and *gasp* enjoy what I believe people refer to as ‘nice weather’, ‘pretty out’ and ‘sunshine’. Add to that it’s a Kate Miller-Heidke and Nellie McKay music kinda day, no boys allowed.

I also made that image yesterday, I believe ‘duna nuna’ in some other variance describes the second level of the original Super Mario game as well. The power of the onomatopoeia..

Nellie McKay – Food

Kate Miller-Heidke – Can’t Shake It

leave this page

Headed home! Thanks daylight, for everything you’ve shown me!

strange veatures

Doodled this simple creature to make a vector, but got distracted by in Photoshop.. This transition to Illustrator is going to take a while.. Anyway, I’ve found a lot of drawings I want to scan in and play around with, so wait patiently, my timid, singular audience (me)…