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...I got a brief respite from Christmas Chaos at work. 

On the one hand I have the day off. On the other hand the circumstances are sub-optimal. I suddenly became sick at work...very sick. I actually left work, and went home. However, I became so ill on the way home that I took a detour that allowed for this poorly aimed homage to the age of the selfie.    It looks like I got a noravirus. I did also get an antibiotic for the sinus infection that has been vexing me for weeks. I'm home now and am tentatively testing solid food. I'm also ingesting fluids in a less problematic way. /spoiler]

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Look, I'm a member of the Whitebread Rap Haters Club. I find most of the genre actively repulsive. But you know what? A lot of people probably feel that way about classical music, Finnish heavy metal and/or bagpipes. 

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...have passed since a quiet December morning in paradise was disrupted by the din of 183 planes. They were the first wave of an attack that would turn Battleship Row into an abattoir.  

One of the Battleships, U.S.S. Arizona, remains today on the harbor bottom as a memorial to those that died on that terrible day, which unleashed such fury upon the Pacific. Every year on this date, survivors of that ship's last terrible moments have met to reminisce. 

This will be the last time. Today marks the last official reunion of the Arizona's final crew. 

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Well, it's been out for a week on iTunes but Amazon is still not carrying it (Though I gather that Amazon Canada is) curiously, as I type this, it is not available at the Rooster Teeth store either.

This album is pretty decent, RWBY has always had a good score and getting the full versions of the vocal tracks is nice. Like the first volume, the vocal tracks have a sort of retro feel to them, often giving off an 80's vibe, with disco and K-pop influences. There are a couple of peculiar Euro-dance remixes and at one point a wild rapper appears unexpectedly (though less jarringly than on the first album). Possibly the strangest track is an exuberantly odd multi-genre piece called "Boop!"  Like the first album's "Wings" it focuses on some character development that was not fully explored in the show proper. No points for guessing who it concerns.

With 23 tracks, the album is about half BGM.

In order to give Rooster Teeth 10 dollars of my money, I had to use iTunes, which I hadn't used in well over a year. In the process of reactivating my membership Apple helpfully reminded me of one of several reasons I shy away from their media store....

 

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The first 9 minutes of Ark of the Stars, (the new Yamato movie) has been put up on YouTube for a short time. 

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...when you realize that the UPS building is full.

Art by Yooo.

Blogging will resume someday (I hope).

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I have no idea what broke the formatting in the previous post. 

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Crunchyroll is holding a sale this weekend and while I generally do not do fannish accouterments any more, I figured I'd peruse it and check out their DVDs and look for gifts to....

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1 Which one was $79? They're not NORMALLY that high.

(Japan typically only does one production run for models, and if you don't get one from that, you can expect to pay above MSRP from anyone who still has one for sale, so maybe it was a situation like that?)

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Sun Nov 30 14:38:49 2014 (ZeBdf)

2 It was Yukari from GuP, wasn't it?

Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun Nov 30 17:21:26 2014 (jGQR+)

3 If it was, go here instead... it's about $20 cheaper.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun Nov 30 17:26:36 2014 (jGQR+)

4 Your reasons for watching anime sound a lot like my reasons (and you're still younger than I am...)

Posted by: EdwardM at Sun Nov 30 21:53:20 2014 (0EhFY)

5 Crunchy has English rights to Twintails internationally except U.S., so that Hulu carries it here. At least such is the theory. We could ask Mr. Pixy to check down under if they actually stream it there.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sun Nov 30 23:37:44 2014 (RqRa5)

6 "I found Dr. Who to be decidedly sub par"
I actually--mostly--liked the new doctor best of the new series so far.  They've tamped down on the over-the-top camp and silliness, and been a little less "save the universe of the week".

Posted by: RickC at Mon Dec 1 11:09:58 2014 (ECH2/)

7 I actually like Capaldi, and I enjoyed most of the season, but the bit with the unbridled hatred of servicemen being presented as virtue...well not so much. I thought the season was working up to a refutation of that notion, but the finale not only doubled down on it but threw in a dollop of America hating as well. The finale also pushed the idea that soldiers are tolerable mainly if they are dead. 

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Ah.  Yeah, I agreed with that, but perversely, it annoys me less than a number of things that don't come to mind right at the moment.  Oh, like the fundamental unseriousness of the new show in general, particularly 10 and 11s dilettantishness, and so on.

Yeah, yeah, Moffat hates guns and soldiers, blah blah blah, know what I mean?

Posted by: Rick C at Mon Dec 1 20:34:38 2014 (0a7VZ)

9 So, it's a vehicle for Moffat's hates, just like before it was a vehicle for Davies' er, loves....

Posted by: Mauser at Tue Dec 2 05:29:30 2014 (TJ7ih)

10 The season finale could have been amazing, but it failed to be audacious enough.  Or at all, really.  In the end, it was just okay.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tue Dec 2 07:42:05 2014 (2yngH)

11 Pixy--which show, DW or RWBY?  Either way, what you said is accurate.
Mauser:  I find that with the exception of the almost frothingly-rabid soldier-hatred, I can cope with Moffat's hates better than Davies' loves, apparently.
Most of the rest of the stuff I tend to chalk up to "it's like that in all the handful of modern British TV I watch" and mostly ignore it.

Posted by: RickC at Tue Dec 2 16:38:54 2014 (ECH2/)

12 If they hadn't promoted it so heavily as a Bold New Thing, this season would have passed as a baggage-clearing introduction to a new Doctor, with "throw it at the wall and see what sticks" character-building.  The other big mistake was structuring it around Missy.

-j

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Ugh.  I could completely have done without her, although tbh I thought she worked very well in the mold of the original-series Master.  I never liked the new character--too much of a buffoon for my tastes.

Posted by: Rick C at Wed Dec 3 00:21:18 2014 (0a7VZ)

14 Well, I could have done without the "leaps tall buildings in a single bound super-cannibal" aspect of The End of Time, but otherwise I thought John Simm worked well against Tennant's Doctor. Admittedly, I was looking forward to seeing Derek Jacobi's take on the role until they pulled the surprise regeneration, but they clearly wanted someone with a more contemporary feel.

-j

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...the future is here. 

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Suburbanbanshee is blogging again and amongst her recent posts she points to this gem fragment..

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It's...political...

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In this episode, there was no cake whatsoever.

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