You know I could totally use a lottery win. I volunteer for that!

Read or Die OVA was awesome.

See, here's what it is about Lost for me.
I watched the first season and most of the second and some of the third, maybe all of the second I don't remember at this moment. The First season was fine because it set up all these questions, like a zillion questions. That's what a first season does for shows like this.
Second season comes around and we got a few questions answered, except that it opened a billion more questions like 'who's Desmond' and 'what's this countdown timer for'! They find out what's in the hatch...and then you're asking what that's about. That's what happens every time: You get one question answered and that answer opens a bunch of new questions up that get explored before answering anymore of the old ones. That was the first thing.

The last straw was when they just started killing people they'd just introduced. That blonde girl with Hugo? Shot. Right after we found out she knew Hugo in the mental ward. Eko? After staring down the smoke monster once, it comes back and kills him. I liked Eko! He had the jesus stick! The leader of the second group of survivors? After such good story development? Just gets shot up by Michael after we find out she knew and worked with Jack's dad. Admittedly the last chick there was an actor deal there, but still!

And now there's time travel, leaving the island and coming back, flash-forwards into the future rather than just flashbacks, and just all this stuff that I just am not going to deal with. Seriously. I don't like enough of the characters left to give that show another try, not this late in the game.

Never. Ever. Watching Lost now. I considered renting it. Now? Never.

Probably not doing anything, really, though next monday may see my first time drunk.

I forget the army spot in Mississippi, but it's supposed to be like the worse boot camp spot.

We can't possibly judge unless we have proof of these videos.

Happy birthday some odd days or so ago.

What was the booty haul?

NOOOOOOOO!!!

Yah. From what I hear a Military guy gets a lot of expenses paid for, things like housing and rent and such, so you'd be surprised how much money they save....when they're smart. I've heard tell from the Army Ranger in Training and Navy Seal guy that once people hit leave they blow huge wads of cash like idjits.

Hell Girl sounds a bit sexy.

Nice. Are you enoying it, though?

I finished watching the English Haruhi and it was good. Except for one part.

The Summer Festival part fails in the singing portion, though really not due lack of Voice Acting talent. This requires explanation.

I'm a bit of a Special Features whore. I love special features on DVD's. Through this, I've learned that, if I recall correctly, an english version of an Anime has "lip flap" that tends to get cut. You're talking about frames of animation that are like one one hundredth or something of a second, and they do this so the english words seem to sync up better with the japanese animation. The Problem with the Summer Festival performance? It was too detailed and high quality in the animation. They could not cut enough "lip flap" to even come close to matching the english voice to the mouth movements, at all, because the Japanese animation team did such a fantastic job animating that sequence it...well it was fantastic. Look at Yuki on the guitar. It's not just generic fingerpicking/strumming animatics. As far as I can tell? It was animated perfectly to the point it seemed IRL accurate in finger placement and such.

Still, Haruhi's singing? Extremely jarring to a Godzilla point. I couldn't figure out why Wendee Lee's words did not match the animation at all until I remembered the entire "Lip Flap" thing.

And Kung Fu. Tron didn't have much Kung Fu.

That would be awkward...