My little confused world
I just saw on JapanCast That a live action version of grave of the fireflies is coming to japanese cinemas on saturday.
The original anime is amazing, and the easilly the most depressing thing I have ever watched, hopefully the live action film will just as good.
The masters of anime that makes no sense but remains fun, entertaining and incredibly cute are releasing a new film, Ponyo on the Cliff by the sea (崖の上のポニョ Gake no Ue No Ponyo) which seems to be about a gold fish who wan’t to be human who meets a five year old boy.
The cynic in me thinks that from the trailer this is going to go over the threashhold of cuteness that I can handle. The theme music in the trailer is sickeningly cute to say the least.
The jaded cartoon watcher in me thinks this is going to a japanese version of the little mermaid meets Finding Nemo in the same way that spirited away was Alice in wonderland on Acid.
But all in all I cant help looking forward to this, maybe it’s because I just like everything that Ghibli have come up with. I do however with they’d do more serious anime like the amazing but incredibly depressing Grave of the fireflies… Although thats not by Miyazaki, it has to be my favourite Ghibli film, even if I have to watch My Neighbor Totoro after it to cheer myself up.
I snapped this photo while I was in Japan a couple of years ago.
I’m sorry but given the definition of enema:
enema noun (enemas or enemata) medicine 1 the injection of a liquid into the rectum, eg to clean it out or to introduce medication. 2 the liquid injected.
source Chambers Online Dictionary.
I’m just flabbergasted… The Icing on the cake is the banana on the box, just what is that supposed to imply…
Not quite as good as the pacman cake Jennie made for me this year, but given the response the pacman cake garnered yesterday I figured I’d post this.
Last year Jennie made me a transformers cake in the shape of Optimus Prime (I can’t really think of a good pun for that caketimus prime just sounds lame).
The cake is a mixture of carrot cake (My favourite cake) and chocolate cake (everyones favourite cake), the wheels were made from sugar icing and were ludicrously sweet.
Contrary to what many people seem to have inferred Jennie is not my girl friend, she’s my girl friends ex-flatmate, who just happens to be obssessed with making cake.
If people are still interested in Jennies cakes I’ll see if I can’t get her to dig up some more. Maybe even set up a cake blog for her.
I had a look at my website statistics and while I’ve had this site for a good while it seems that posting cake to it has brought it to life.
Ok I was looking for a way to use that Eddie Izzard Quote as a title for a post, but it’s amazing what one post on boing boing can do for your popularity.
I saw on Joystiq a site with a countdown clock for a project called ctds… it can only be Chronotrigger on the DS! I almost wept for joy (Thats really sad isn’t it).
Especially after square shut down Chrono Resurrection which looked quite promising. I’ve been meaning to drag out my SNES for months to play chronotrigger, now it’s looking like I might be playing it on my way to work.
Cant wait…
My friend Jennie made me this amazing pacman cake for my birthday.
It’s a banana cake with yummy butter icing.
The Ghosts were banana, whitechocholate and cherry cupcakes covered in sugar icing. Everyone felt guilty eating them they looked so cute.
Of course that didn’t stop Annabel…
Shee looks a bit manic in that photo…
I’m not actually moving blog, but as of… “soon”, I’ll hopefully be starting a more professional Blog as Bang Equals or !=.
I aim to talk about professional issues in software development and to cover other stuff as well such as interface and game design.
Heres hoping it works out.
I’ve only just registered the domain so it will take some time to go live, and for me to install everything, and get it all running. But in the mean time I am banding about ideas for articles.
Omar.
[Update 05/11/2007 - Omar]
It’s Live just need to get rid of the Service provider banner and write some content for it…
[Update (2) 02/07/2008 - Omar]
Despite it being live for a good few months now, I’m experiencing an issue with wordpress that I’ve not had the time to resolve. It seems to just point back to here. Oh well I’ll try and resolve it soon, it’s not like I have any readers to piss off by not posting anything.
[Update (3) 02/07/2008 - Omar]
Fixed it! not sure how I set the siteurl and the home entires in the options database to be http://www.bangequals.net which I’d tried previously but for some reason hadn’t worked…
Oh well it’s workign now.
In my costant quest for entertainment i have been mucking about with my phone. This post was authored on a nokia n80 which is suprisingly easy to do.
maybe this will lead to many other many other fabulous posts on cheese and biscuits and the life of albatross’s (albatri?).
meh. Going now.
Soon www.avarinne.net will be live.
For now you can see it Here.
It is a gift from me to Annabel.
Update: www.avarinne.net is alive! (kinda like Johnny 5?).