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Feb. 15th, 2009 09:29 pmSo, there've been a couple things lately that I just keep thinking of, and no matter what, they just keep making me laugh anew. Even out of context and repeated many times, I'm still amused.
Actually, there's four things:
1) My sister works at and animal shelter, and one day she told me about a guy who came looking to adopt, but left without an animal because, "You don't have any puppies, and you don't have any cats who look like Garfield." I LOVE THIS MAN. This is a man who knows what he wants. He went into that shelter looking to adopt either a puppy, or a cat that looked like Garfield. Otherwise, they had nothing for him.
2) Amazing Screw-On Head animated thingie. First off, totally awesome and so much of it just cracks me up. But one moment in particular is a real winner, and that is when the crazy elder god demon thing has been released from the turnip where he's been held a prisoner, and he goes "I am free of my veh-gie-tuh-ble prison!!" I keep thinking of that moment and the way he says "vegetable prison" and it keeps cracking me up.
3) There's a bit from the first episode of 33pun Tantei that keeps killing me. Yeah, I'm watching it, and pretty much enjoying it - despite my dislike of Tsuyoshi. It's quite funny! Katie told me about a fair amount of the first episode but not this scene, because it's impossible to describe, but it made me laugh so hard when we watched it and it keeps on just amusing the hell out of me. I gotta give him credit, Tsuyoshi sells it hardcore, 100%. Perfect expression, perfect timing.
4) An MSN conversation I had with Susan about a month ago where I started to say "Dammit, I just. . ." and then interrupted myself to ask her about something she'd said. The conversation went like so:
Susan says: what hat did you choose
Laura says: dammit, i just. . . what?
Susan says: what happened!
Laura says: i drank some slightly off milk and then banged my head
Maybe it was the timing, which won't come across, but I find this exchange strangely hilarious. I have NO CLUE what she meant about the hats, we got distracted by my bizarre tragedy and then the rest of the conversation was commentary to Good Will Hunting, which we were both watching on TV. Yeah, I see nothing else in that conversation to indicate what hat is being discussed.
Veggietable prison. ^_^
Speaking of funny, I read the first TPB of the Giffen, DeMatteis, Maguire Justice League the other day. Finally. XD It was pretty cute. Blue Beetle had a lot of good moments and got Batman to make a Star Trek joke. Man, Batman would never do that these days - he talks a lot here and is really a lot more human than he became later, I think. I wonder if that's a Frank Miller thing?
And I discovered the first three panels of Katie and my favorite comic book story! It's a little 10 page thing in a 1998 JLA 80-page giant. 1998 to about 2002 are my favorite years of comics producing. . . presumably because that's when I started. I've discovered I'm such a child of the modern age. I also discovered I'm just not hugely crazy about a certain number of art trends in modern comic books (which I personally am calling the post-modern age but I should probably wait a bit).
Anyway! I didn't quite realize that the events in this story were actually tied to canon - obnoxious asshole Green Lantern Guy Gardner hits his head and becomes super-sweet and nice. The reason he hits his head is because he saw a mouse in the JLA's HQ. This story tells of Blue Beetle and Booster Gold's attempts to catch that mouse. And it is magnificent. It's so silly but so hilarious and just really worked for Katie and I - maybe because we hadn't read that run of the League and were desperate to see comics that didn't take themselves too seriously. Anyway, I just found that comic, as well. It's very familiar - Katie and I basically memorized it. Still funny, though! XD Jokes about mouse poop and wharf rats and lots of grown men screeching like little girls. I actually hear it in our voices when I read it, cos we read it out loud.
In other comic book news, am discussing whether Superman or Clark Kent is real. I believe my conclusion is that both Clark and Superman are real, but only Batman is real and Bruce Wayne is a lie. Now, I don't read a lot of either of their titles (or rather, any of the titles of either of them. Not sure what it's like now but when I started they each had four monthly titles, I think) so I'm not an expert. But. . . it's not that I think that Clark has beautifully integrated the different aspects of his personality - it seems maybe more like there are real and fabricated aspects of both Clark Kent and Superman. But compared to Bruce Wayne the playboy, who is pretty much a lie, Clark is the man raised by Ma and Pa Kent. So he's what allows Superman to be Superman?
What brought this up is that someone told Christopher Reeve in the movie to play it as if he's always Superman, just sometimes he's Superman pretending to be Clark Kent. I see what they mean, and Clark certainly has gotten exaggerated with his insecurity and clumsiness and bumbling. But I think. . . I think Clark is more real than Superman, perhaps. At any rate, there's a hell of a lot more Clark in Superman than there is Bruce in Batman.
Watched New Frontier special features - a thing about the history of the JLA. Notable people interviewed include Darwyn Cooke (of course), Len Wein, Mark Waid, Marv Wolfman, Denny O'Neil (all of these names have come up in my previous few entries), also Stan Lee, Bruce Timm, Joe Kelly, Dan Didio, and a bunch of people I hadn't heard of. It was largely very entertaining! (not enough Flash but I could say that about everything. Like this episode of Psych.) But there was this one guy, Phil Cousineau, who just kept saying that absolutely everything was just a reflection of Greek myths. These myths are apparently the source of every single aspect of, I don't know, American pop culture? Or just comic books? Yes. Wonder Woman was an Amazon. Yes, Jack Garrick's look was inspired by Hermes. I don't need to have written a book on myths to be qualified to say this. And it doesn't mean that the entire cultural form is modeled off or based on Greek myths. It was MADDENING. At one point I literally wrote "Such a little shitter. It's not a 'perfect counterpart' for Hermes/Mercury just because he makes reference to Mercury. I'm going to punch you in the face. I'M GOING TO PUNCH YOU." in the word document where I was noting down interesting people who spoke. They just should not have used that much of his footage. If he'd spoken less, I would have been less enraged.
Hey, so, soon-to-be new roommate is coming by tomorrow to meet my landlord. And then moving in in a week. WHOA.
Also I bought a couch.
And failed to buy groceries. D: I will try again tomorrow.
Actually, there's four things:
1) My sister works at and animal shelter, and one day she told me about a guy who came looking to adopt, but left without an animal because, "You don't have any puppies, and you don't have any cats who look like Garfield." I LOVE THIS MAN. This is a man who knows what he wants. He went into that shelter looking to adopt either a puppy, or a cat that looked like Garfield. Otherwise, they had nothing for him.
2) Amazing Screw-On Head animated thingie. First off, totally awesome and so much of it just cracks me up. But one moment in particular is a real winner, and that is when the crazy elder god demon thing has been released from the turnip where he's been held a prisoner, and he goes "I am free of my veh-gie-tuh-ble prison!!" I keep thinking of that moment and the way he says "vegetable prison" and it keeps cracking me up.
3) There's a bit from the first episode of 33pun Tantei that keeps killing me. Yeah, I'm watching it, and pretty much enjoying it - despite my dislike of Tsuyoshi. It's quite funny! Katie told me about a fair amount of the first episode but not this scene, because it's impossible to describe, but it made me laugh so hard when we watched it and it keeps on just amusing the hell out of me. I gotta give him credit, Tsuyoshi sells it hardcore, 100%. Perfect expression, perfect timing.
4) An MSN conversation I had with Susan about a month ago where I started to say "Dammit, I just. . ." and then interrupted myself to ask her about something she'd said. The conversation went like so:
Susan says: what hat did you choose
Laura says: dammit, i just. . . what?
Susan says: what happened!
Laura says: i drank some slightly off milk and then banged my head
Maybe it was the timing, which won't come across, but I find this exchange strangely hilarious. I have NO CLUE what she meant about the hats, we got distracted by my bizarre tragedy and then the rest of the conversation was commentary to Good Will Hunting, which we were both watching on TV. Yeah, I see nothing else in that conversation to indicate what hat is being discussed.
Veggietable prison. ^_^
Speaking of funny, I read the first TPB of the Giffen, DeMatteis, Maguire Justice League the other day. Finally. XD It was pretty cute. Blue Beetle had a lot of good moments and got Batman to make a Star Trek joke. Man, Batman would never do that these days - he talks a lot here and is really a lot more human than he became later, I think. I wonder if that's a Frank Miller thing?
And I discovered the first three panels of Katie and my favorite comic book story! It's a little 10 page thing in a 1998 JLA 80-page giant. 1998 to about 2002 are my favorite years of comics producing. . . presumably because that's when I started. I've discovered I'm such a child of the modern age. I also discovered I'm just not hugely crazy about a certain number of art trends in modern comic books (which I personally am calling the post-modern age but I should probably wait a bit).
Anyway! I didn't quite realize that the events in this story were actually tied to canon - obnoxious asshole Green Lantern Guy Gardner hits his head and becomes super-sweet and nice. The reason he hits his head is because he saw a mouse in the JLA's HQ. This story tells of Blue Beetle and Booster Gold's attempts to catch that mouse. And it is magnificent. It's so silly but so hilarious and just really worked for Katie and I - maybe because we hadn't read that run of the League and were desperate to see comics that didn't take themselves too seriously. Anyway, I just found that comic, as well. It's very familiar - Katie and I basically memorized it. Still funny, though! XD Jokes about mouse poop and wharf rats and lots of grown men screeching like little girls. I actually hear it in our voices when I read it, cos we read it out loud.
In other comic book news, am discussing whether Superman or Clark Kent is real. I believe my conclusion is that both Clark and Superman are real, but only Batman is real and Bruce Wayne is a lie. Now, I don't read a lot of either of their titles (or rather, any of the titles of either of them. Not sure what it's like now but when I started they each had four monthly titles, I think) so I'm not an expert. But. . . it's not that I think that Clark has beautifully integrated the different aspects of his personality - it seems maybe more like there are real and fabricated aspects of both Clark Kent and Superman. But compared to Bruce Wayne the playboy, who is pretty much a lie, Clark is the man raised by Ma and Pa Kent. So he's what allows Superman to be Superman?
What brought this up is that someone told Christopher Reeve in the movie to play it as if he's always Superman, just sometimes he's Superman pretending to be Clark Kent. I see what they mean, and Clark certainly has gotten exaggerated with his insecurity and clumsiness and bumbling. But I think. . . I think Clark is more real than Superman, perhaps. At any rate, there's a hell of a lot more Clark in Superman than there is Bruce in Batman.
Watched New Frontier special features - a thing about the history of the JLA. Notable people interviewed include Darwyn Cooke (of course), Len Wein, Mark Waid, Marv Wolfman, Denny O'Neil (all of these names have come up in my previous few entries), also Stan Lee, Bruce Timm, Joe Kelly, Dan Didio, and a bunch of people I hadn't heard of. It was largely very entertaining! (not enough Flash but I could say that about everything. Like this episode of Psych.) But there was this one guy, Phil Cousineau, who just kept saying that absolutely everything was just a reflection of Greek myths. These myths are apparently the source of every single aspect of, I don't know, American pop culture? Or just comic books? Yes. Wonder Woman was an Amazon. Yes, Jack Garrick's look was inspired by Hermes. I don't need to have written a book on myths to be qualified to say this. And it doesn't mean that the entire cultural form is modeled off or based on Greek myths. It was MADDENING. At one point I literally wrote "Such a little shitter. It's not a 'perfect counterpart' for Hermes/Mercury just because he makes reference to Mercury. I'm going to punch you in the face. I'M GOING TO PUNCH YOU." in the word document where I was noting down interesting people who spoke. They just should not have used that much of his footage. If he'd spoken less, I would have been less enraged.
Hey, so, soon-to-be new roommate is coming by tomorrow to meet my landlord. And then moving in in a week. WHOA.
Also I bought a couch.
And failed to buy groceries. D: I will try again tomorrow.
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Date: 2009-02-16 07:11 am (UTC)But I am plauged... WHAT HAT DID YOU CHOOSE, LAURA?!
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Date: 2009-02-16 11:55 am (UTC)But, um... I wanted to spaz about yesterday's DASH at you but I don't know if you're the type to dislike spoilers about variety TV.
And good luck with the roommate!
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Date: 2009-02-16 03:34 pm (UTC)Yeah! No more peeing with the bathroom door open!
Oh man. . . I can't even imagine what you were thinking! I have no theories, no guesses. . . could hat be a typo?? You would have said, though.
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Date: 2009-02-16 03:36 pm (UTC)You can tell me! The biggest problem is that it might not appear and I will end up yearning to see it! Although I did just see one recent episode of DASH (and it was awesome! And gross). So go for it! :DDDD
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Date: 2009-02-16 10:56 pm (UTC)I'm conducting my own apartment search. It's really scary, but I'm also very excited to move.
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Date: 2009-02-17 08:59 am (UTC)But fun stuff! This DASH was about saunas and onsens and other hot places, which meant a lot of Yamaguchi being sweaty in a towel which even I can kind of appreciate. I could hear the cameraman thinking, "Oh, we'll just zoom in on his chest now - for the sake of science!"
Maybe I'm a geek but I loved that they had heat-sensing-goggles, and compared what their bodies looked like before and after, and compared between the different locations.
They put Yamaguchi in a box - shaped like a convenience store pre-made sandwich, I thought - filled with hot steam with just his head sticking out. The absolutely huge guest with him - maybe an ex-sumo wrestler - looked sadly at the boxes and said, "Guess I won't fit in there" and went to float melancholy but impressive in a tub.
They also got buried in some kind of sand with large, round grains - Yamaguchi complained, "It's heavy, it's heavy!" but when time came to leave he shook if off like nothing. ; P Whoever covered them up had a sense of humor - I think they exaggerated the difference - because there was tiny-Yamaguchi-hillock next to GIANT-FUJI-SAN-GUEST.
My favorite part was Leader at an onsen with some sort of special gray mud at the bottom, which he got completely smeared in until only his eyes showed <3 (I might be alone in thinking Leader has nice eyes;) Because the main pool was too hot - predictable reaction, of course, when he dipped his foot in of "It's hot! It's hot!" and hopping around - they filled a hole to the side just for him. Well, I'm sure people do that all the time and that's what it was there for, but it struck me as a rather sweet/pathetic (his usual) image, Leader-in-a-hole! And then he made some poses and faces that just reminded me of Gollum.
I wish the rest of TOKIO had been there - if only because I want to see Taichi coated in mud <3
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Date: 2009-02-17 05:18 pm (UTC)I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT YAMAGUCHI BEING SWEATY IN A TOWEL!! :D
Maybe I'm a geek but I loved that they had heat-sensing-goggles, and compared what their bodies looked like before and after, and compared between the different locations.
Well, I know I'm a geek, and I love the village segments and all that sort of thing just as much as the segments where they jump around making fools of themselves, but that sounds awesome to me!!
hahahaa, I'm so excited to see Yamaguchi tucked into weird places. It sounds both adorable and highly entertaining. Aaagh I hope it gets uploaded!! O_O
Awwwwwwwwwwww, Leader. He is just great. ::cuddles::
What are the rest of TOKIO doing? Their absence is highly mysterious. Taichi at least has the excuse of hosting about a bajillion shows but even he manages to appear from time to time! The absence of the younger two is particularly conspicuous in the village segments. I'm telling myself that it's because Yamaguchi and Leader love the village so much they never let anyone else come. XD
Imagine how tiny the Taichi-hillock would have been! ^_^
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Date: 2009-02-17 05:21 pm (UTC)And if it doesn't, she's not actually on the lease so it'll be easier to get rid of her.
Apartment searching is almost as exhausting as roommate searching. XD It's fun finding your own place, though! Good luck. :D
I watched the Grand Prix finals yesterday! Of course I didn't see the pairs. D: I'm not sure they even aired it! But no surprises - Chinese teams top the pairs, and then of course Asada Mao (I've seen her on Japanese television and now I think of her as "Mao-chan", which I never do) for the women. I was disappointed that Brian Joubert didn't compete in the long program, he's a gorgeous piece of man-meat. >.> Not that I watch skating for shallow reasons or anything.
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Date: 2009-02-21 03:52 pm (UTC)I've been horrible about figure skating this year! I forgot all about nationals until the ladies free skate already started. So I haven't seen any of the international competitions and I don't know how the other countries' skaters are doing. But I'll have to catch up next year (especially because of the Olympics!). I'm really curious about which Americans go. Alissa Csizny finally learned how to skate well, but I don't want her to represent the US next year. Rachael Flatt is almost a sure thing.