When Gundam attacks
When Gundam attacks
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When Gundam attacks
Originally uploaded by mckibillo.
Posted by daniel at 11:42 PM 0 comments
Ok, so it has cool mecha animation. Yeah, there's a lot of blowing stuff up. But the Gundam franchise offers so much more. In displaying combat between heavily-armed "mobile suits" piloted by gifted youngsters, it takes us on a journey that explores almost every aspect of war. The kid in me can appreciate it when Kira, one of the protagonists in the Seed series, gets to trade in his beat-up Strike Gundam for the new and improved Freedom Gundam. It looks cooler, and it rocks harder. All the glorious visuals are there to reel you in. And now that you're hooked, they can hit you with the history and political science lessons. At least I can hope that's what's happening for kids that watch the show. It's satisfying to see a cartoon demonstrate how people can be manipulated by their leaders into fighting war after war after war. Exploiting our differences to build up hatred, igniting the spark to fuel that hatred, revenge, profiteering-- it's all there. And it's all packaged in a wonderfully animated and melodramatically scored series. That's anime for you. I'm no anime expert. I just really enjoy this show.
Gundam Seed Destiny
And don't forget the rest of them:
Official Gundam website
Posted by daniel at 11:26 PM 0 comments
I made more Vis pics available for non-friends and non-family.
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I just read about it at Pitchfork. I like Cat Stevens almost as much as Mr. Smith, so I'm definitely looking forward to hearing his studio version of "Trouble." I'm not too into Big Star, but if you're going to play a BS song, it's gotta be "Thirteen." And Elliott has been known to deliver beautiful solo performances of that one. Let the Tupac-ness continue.
New Elliott Smith Recordings Surface on Soundtrack
Posted by daniel at 12:34 PM 0 comments
Everybody needs something to do that keeps them from breaking free from society/reality and falling into a realm of psychotic futility. Lucky for me, I have a few friends that know how to make music. We make music together, and we're still here. It's amazing really.
Magna
Posted by daniel at 6:24 PM 0 comments
I'm a huge energy freak. So I get off on this kind of stuff.
Experimental Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 Mpg - Yahoo! News
Posted by daniel at 7:34 PM 0 comments
It's been around for a while now (a week). It's like an on-demand local-access channel. Join the podcast revolution and subscribe.
ComeOnInMyKitchen.com
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