When Gundam attacks

When Gundam attacks
Originally uploaded by mckibillo.

GUNDAM SEED DESTINY

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

More Croatia

I made more Vis pics available for non-friends and non-family.

Croatia

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Originally uploaded by scartoe.

I uploaded a few pics I took in Croatia last year. This is the only one I've made public, so I guess I just got you all excited only to disappoint you.

And here he is

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Originally uploaded by Dan Lin.

Dan L took this one at the Henry Fonda a while back.

New Elliott Smith recordings

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

MAGNA

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

Experimental Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 Mpg - Yahoo! News

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

ComeOnInMyKitchen.com

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