Dropped by Best Buy after lunch and saw 2 curious things:

1)  Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Laughing Man:  Is this something new in terms of story(in which case, it'sa going in the Amazon shopping cart) or just a "Files" thing getting more money while the property is still popular(in which case, I likely won't bother unless told it's ( Read more... )

The Black Swan is an old pirate movie with Maureen O'Hara and Tyrone Power that I've had for ages but just now got around to watching.  It was quite fun, and about as far from and Errol Flynn swashbuckler as you can get(not that those aren't extremely fun.  Unlike Flynn's stalwart and true, dashing and noble pirates, Jamey Boy is a rogue with ( Read more... )

Note to self:  Don't watch things that require at least some attention to detail when you're half dead.  Seriously.

Anyway, GITS?  Still about the coolest anime ever. Techno-noir cybernetic detectives/troubleshooters who kick butt.  For a quick rundown on the series, click here.

I'm still too out of it for a proper writeup(at least I've been hungry ( Read more... )

Should finish X tonight, unless I get distracted(which, knowing me, is not only possible but entirely probable) and am pondering my next anime.  Options are:

Ai Yori Aoshi/Ai Yori Aoshi: Enishi: Boy meets clutzy hopeless girl in a kimono, learns she's his childhood friend and his fiance(I guess no one thought to tell him?) and romance and comedy ( Read more... )

I didn't actually sit down and watch the whole series...I've seen the first 16 before, so of those, I just watched the episodes I really liked(not that there are any eps I don't like) and then the ones that were pertinent to the Laughing Man plot(which, in the end, only knocked 5-6 eps off, but hey ( Read more... )