A Few Memories

Normally whenever i write a blog entry i have a song title that fits the mood or theme of what i'm writing. In this instance i've decided to just choose the song title that's been on my playlist recently - a song from the 2nd RahXephon OST. This song caught me off surprise because normally animé songs aren't actually that trippy and the reverbed out acoustic guitar compliments the pianos quite gracefully. It actually does give you the feeling that you're going deeper and deeper into a few memories of the past - the gentle piano sound giving delicate touch into memories whilst the guitar giving that touching sense of nostaligia. It's a good track in all honesty but memories is oddly and ironically enough something i've not been thinking too much about. Actually the biggest thing that's been preying upon me is idleness. The more this year passes by, the more i think about the disgust of idleness. Im starting to really see how much of a lazy guy i am! it's kind of scary in that i know what i have to do and start to feel it but don't have the will to actually do it. But I think T-mans right - you think too much when you're idle and I think im thinking too much not just about why i don't have the motivation but also about things in general. What I need is 2 things: first is a job, and second is a routine (which the job will provide, but for other more health related aspects - such as jogging and etc). 

One thing that has been keeping me away from pure bumness is trying to hook the old xbox to this pc. I took it from my bro and basically spent a long time trying to set up a network where the internet could still work yet i could connect my xbox to the pc and transfer files. I have to admit, Vista is a completely crap OS for doing this stuff in since I had trouble looking for ways to making a wired LAN connection. inevitably though I had to use a FTP program to create a session for the xbox but before that had to set up an IP for the xbox that was different to the PC so that they didn't clash (the pc has a dynamic IP and i didn't know how to set a static IP for the xbox so that they didn't clash and disconnect from the internet). However, somehow i managed it so i've got some animés off the pc and onto the xbox for some rather peaceful viewing =D. One thing I noticed though was how the quality of RMVBs improve when you use a CRT tv screen in comparison to the LCD pc screen i was using. Like when i was watching RahXephon on the pc i could see the rather pixelated form that RMVBs usually have, but on the tv screen it was alot less noticeable for one and the colours were actually much better. In fact although there was a difference compared to AVIs, it didn't grant the size difference between the two file formats. All in all though, i've got some animé series to watch + some films.

The most recent series I have seen - after a long animé hiatus - was RahXephon. Man, at first I wasn't that impressed, it was quite slow after the first episode until around episode 10. The first episode had alot going on so you were immediately sucked into this struggle between the two races. After that it was like every episode had a Dolem that had to be fought and so felt rather repititive. However, once episode 10 rolled in the whole structure of each episode seem to change and you got to see the build up of certain relationships (i have to say the love triangles and god knows what other shapes you could use to describe the relationships was next and was decently handled). Then the more artistic side of the story started to pop out. I think one of the highlights was the romance. Normally im not a fan of romance, but i think in this series it was so well handled i was surprised. The shots used to describe it and the facial animations really painted this slow but steadily increasing intense relationship between two of the main protagonists. The actual story though was kind of interesting although one watch through isn't enough to actually give you the whole story and i was still confused about certain aspects until i went online and actually saw the timeline written out for it. once i read that it made a whole lot more sense and made me appreciate it more. If i was going to give it a verdict, it'd have to be:

4/5 - it loses a point for the rather boring first few episodes.

Definitely watch it if you don't mind a bit of a headscrew that doesn't try and be too pretentious about it (although i hate using that word) and good romance.

Peace!