Current Ramblings
Sunday, November 14, 2004
JUST TOUCH HIM
Some meaningless ramblings here, bear with me...
After glancing at an article on IGN's Nintendo DS site about some stores getting their demo models in, I made a point while I was hunting for toys with Graham tonight (Found Beachcomber and Mega-Dinobot, but I have no money so I'll play with his. :) ) to check the electronics departments for it. It was the third store we went to, the shiny new Wal-Mart on Georgesville Rd, that actually had one out to be touched. I TOUCHED IT. *drool* They had the Metroid demo that comes with it set up, naturally, and I got to poke at it for a little bit before Graham got tired of standing there with nothing to do. But I NEED. The graphics were impressive, the display really does benefit from being backlit instead of frontlit like the SP, and OMG IT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING...
*pant* *pant*
I did actually start writing my Universe story after the previous post about writer's block. I feel an unquenchable need to write the next part of it with an actual pencil and paper, though. I don't know why. It just needs to be written that way. Maybe on Tuesday when I'm off work and Graham's in school I can curl up on the couch with my notebook and take care of that business. I'd be sorta tempted to use that need for really paper interaction to work on it during lunch breaks at work, but, well, I'm in the middle of a book.
Said book being the novel version of the notorious Japanese action-horror-teensploitation movie Battle Royale. We watched Ron's import DVD of the movie (after Nate hacked his DVD player to be region free) at our New Year's party a couple years ago, so when the book popped up at work I snatched it up for a good gory read of the source. (The novel came first.) The translation is loyal to the point of being slightly awkward, which isn't much of a surprise since it's published by Viz, but if you're used to dealing with translated manga and the like the going won't be too rough. And it's a really intense read. For those who aren't familiar with it, the concept is that, under a totalitarian Japanese government, each year a few classes of 15-year-old students are picked at random for something called "The Program". The class is taken to a remote location, each student is given a random weapon ranging from an Uzi to a kitchen fork, and they are released to kill each other. Only one is allowed to survive; if there is more than one student remaining when time is up, all survivors are killed. It's a really hard book to put down. I find myself milking every second out of the end of my lunch breaks to get to the end of whatever battle I'm in the middle of. Will the unsuspecting student realize they can't trust Mitsuko in time? Will Shinji's plan work? Will Shuya find Noriko and Shojo? Will Kazuo show up and kill everybody? I recommend it, assuming you're not squeamish. And I gotta finish so I can concentrate on my fic.
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