Interest: September 2005 Archives
This week has been a relatively relaxing week compare to the drinking binge that was last. Though the Wang recent work situation has made Wang, a) more important in the office, b)more loaded with work. But still this week has been a fun one. Due to the broken video card on the Wang’s main gaming computer, WoW-ing has been an all time low. Thus allowing Wang to go back to the roots of TV, and catch up on some DVDs and Battlestar Galactica.
But the definite high-light of the week is Live Journal’s Audiography Community. The audiography Community is a cool LJ music lover group that post songs based on a theme a week. This week’s theme is “5 ATM," which stands for 5 favorite songs At The Moment. And this week the community members have posted some great stuff, the Wang has been going through 30-40 something songs a day. It might be a little late to catch up on the postings of the community, but do go and check out if u have the time and the mood to sample random songs. This week the Wang has sampled everything from Elvis, to Mercury Rev, to Kayne West. Not to mention posting of old time favorites like Rilo Kiley, Big Pig, Tegan & Sara, Cibo Matto, Corrs, Nirvana & way too many to name. This also give the Wang a outlet to learn about ppl like PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, The Chieftains, and many classic artist the Wang did-not grow up with.
Amongst the media that was bombarded to the Wang this week, was a DVD title called Samurai 7. This is an odd anime adaptation of Akira Kurasawa’s Seven Samurai. Some scenes in this anime go word for word to the original. Cept the anime takes place in some sort of futurist Battle Angel Alita-esque word, with guns, cyborgs, and flying ships that look like the Tokugawa Castles. But the opening of the anime does have a cool, Exalted-level samurai vs. armies of mechas + ships. Then we get drawn back to the human level of the Seven Samurai plot. Some how this anime even catches the “feeling of peasants" that Kurasawa seems to portrait in his movies. Of course lacking in Kurasawa’s filmic voice, the Anime relies on the typical anime cuteness and action to carry it through. So far, it’s a very interesting anime, I just hope it doesn crap out like all Anime these days. And The Wang hopes that they release more DVDs, faster. Plus adding a female character in the seven samurai plot is always a bonus, specially a cute priestess. Speaking of which, Kurasawa didn’t have many memorable female characters did he?
