Wonderful Days Are Coming!

There's little so nice as mixing beautiful music together with jaw-dropping animation. Wonderful Days, an upcoming movie, lives up to the first word of its title.

Official website.

On the official website, you can download a three minute preview of the movie. I've watched it more than twenty times between last night and this morning. (And I'm downloading the whole movie now, woo woo!) I'd highly recommend you get one of the higher resolution ones -- this thing has so many details, you'll need the larger image to enjoy them all.

I seriously debated including screenshots with this post or not. The problem is, the screenshots do the trailer no justice at all. The textures in it are so real, and the backgrounds so realistic! It looks like anime characters slapped onto real life settings.

I saved the files at the highest quality I could, but they still lost tons of texture and details:

* Stormy weather, distant city.
* This one lost the most of all of them. The golden shells were so shiny and pretty in the trailer! They look dead and flat here. Bah.
* Lots of details were lost in this one, but you can get an idea of how much goes on in each shot.

So download it and enjoy it! You'll be happy you did!

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Boy, am I tired of being sick! This is my third day of having serious pain on one side of my throat when I try to swallow. Hurts to turn my head in that direction as well. And yawning? For some reason, opening my mouth wide produces so much throat-pain it makes me want to scream. Luckily I have a doctor's appointment on Monday, so if it's still hurting then, I'll ask her to look at it as well. Assuming I live until Monday. :p

Wonderful Days Are Coming!

There's little so nice as mixing beautiful music together with jaw-dropping animation. Wonderful Days, an upcoming movie, lives up to the first word of its title.

Official website.

On the official website, you can download a three minute preview of the movie. I've watched it more than twenty times between last night and this morning. (And I'm downloading the whole movie now, woo woo!) I'd highly recommend you get one of the higher resolution ones -- this thing has so many details, you'll need the larger image to enjoy them all.

I seriously debated including screenshots with this post or not. The problem is, the screenshots do the trailer no justice at all. The textures in it are so real, and the backgrounds so realistic! It looks like anime characters slapped onto real life settings.

I saved the files at the highest quality I could, but they still lost tons of texture and details:

* Stormy weather, distant city.
* This one lost the most of all of them. The golden shells were so shiny and pretty in the trailer! They look dead and flat here. Bah.
* Lots of details were lost in this one, but you can get an idea of how much goes on in each shot.

So download it and enjoy it! You'll be happy you did!

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Boy, am I tired of being sick! This is my third day of having serious pain on one side of my throat when I try to swallow. Hurts to turn my head in that direction as well. And yawning? For some reason, opening my mouth wide produces so much throat-pain it makes me want to scream. Luckily I have a doctor's appointment on Monday, so if it's still hurting then, I'll ask her to look at it as well. Assuming I live until Monday. :p

Flame Of Recca? (A)

I downloaded Flame Of Recca when I did my last "download random series looking for something interesting to watch", but I didn't get around to checking it out until today.

Did anyone like it? Watch it through to the end? Is it worth it? I watched about 10 minutes of the first ep, and I'm seriously "eh" about it. I know that's not a fair chance for the series, but... The animation is really blah and looks old, and so along with a story that isn't grabbing me, that's a pretty big hit against it.

There is one good/odd thing about Flame Of Recca: Years ago, before I was into anime and back when Napster was in its best days, I downloaded and watched at least the first ep. I knew I had downloaded and watched ...um, what's it called. Ranma? The one where the boy turns into a girl when someone throws water onto him. I remember watching that one, but I totally forgot I saw Flame Of Recca as well.

Bit Torrent is nice, but nothing will ever be as great as Napster was. Plus I was working at a company where they didn't care what you did or what you downloaded, so I had the company's fat T3 line to play with. Of course, that was back when Internet companies didn't need to actually make money, either... Gods, I miss those days. I had one of the best jobs of my life during that time, and at a company I loved. Now I have the opposite. Bah. :p

We miss you, Napster! Healthy Silicon Valley! Internet company haydays!

Flame Of Recca? (A)

I downloaded Flame Of Recca when I did my last "download random series looking for something interesting to watch", but I didn't get around to checking it out until today.

Did anyone like it? Watch it through to the end? Is it worth it? I watched about 10 minutes of the first ep, and I'm seriously "eh" about it. I know that's not a fair chance for the series, but... The animation is really blah and looks old, and so along with a story that isn't grabbing me, that's a pretty big hit against it.

There is one good/odd thing about Flame Of Recca: Years ago, before I was into anime and back when Napster was in its best days, I downloaded and watched at least the first ep. I knew I had downloaded and watched ...um, what's it called. Ranma? The one where the boy turns into a girl when someone throws water onto him. I remember watching that one, but I totally forgot I saw Flame Of Recca as well.

Bit Torrent is nice, but nothing will ever be as great as Napster was. Plus I was working at a company where they didn't care what you did or what you downloaded, so I had the company's fat T3 line to play with. Of course, that was back when Internet companies didn't need to actually make money, either... Gods, I miss those days. I had one of the best jobs of my life during that time, and at a company I loved. Now I have the opposite. Bah. :p

We miss you, Napster! Healthy Silicon Valley! Internet company haydays!

What the heck?

What the heck is happening to the world this country?

Georgia Bans Genital Piercings

No woman may get a genital piercing in Georgia or she'll face 2-20 years in prison. Doesn't matter if she consents to it, doesn't matter if she's an adult. And please notice that I'm only using "she". This ban only applies to women. It passed in the Georgia house 160 for it and not one person against it.

Sigh.

And on the same sort of note, US Senate passed a bill defining a fertilized egg/embryo/fetus as a human being. Yes, with rights. But no worries! They promise this won't be applied to abortion debate! For serious!

I wouldn't get a piercing anywhere and I doubt I'd ever have an abortion, but isn't it nice that people are deciding for me that I won't have to!

To quote Yakov Smirnoff: "What a country!"

What the heck?

What the heck is happening to the world this country?

Georgia Bans Genital Piercings

No woman may get a genital piercing in Georgia or she'll face 2-20 years in prison. Doesn't matter if she consents to it, doesn't matter if she's an adult. And please notice that I'm only using "she". This ban only applies to women. It passed in the Georgia house 160 for it and not one person against it.

Sigh.

And on the same sort of note, US Senate passed a bill defining a fertilized egg/embryo/fetus as a human being. Yes, with rights. But no worries! They promise this won't be applied to abortion debate! For serious!

I wouldn't get a piercing anywhere and I doubt I'd ever have an abortion, but isn't it nice that people are deciding for me that I won't have to!

To quote Yakov Smirnoff: "What a country!"