Some procrastinative ramblings.

I’m not sure if ‘procrastinative’ is a word or not, if it isn’t, it should be.

This is my first post on location (woo hurray). By on location, I mean, in the library, wherein I’m skillfully and adeptly avoiding writing an essay. This is a skill honed through literally years of practise, although I still amaze myself at times with my capacity to ignore work. It’ll all get done in the end, I suppose.

Ok, this is a post where I’m gonna talk about lots of cool stuff that’s been on my mind lately, cos there’s a lot of it going on right now.
First of all; anime. Always floating somewhere around the top of my consciousness
Eden of the East is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long while. In the aftermath of Death Note, I’ve not seen any kind of thriller/mystery-type series to really make me take notice and genuinely think, after watching, about what the bloody hell is going on here. Awesome animation, really good writing, and superb voice-acting, which I can’t say I usually notice, at least in subbed anime, not being a Japanese speaker (yet). Also the theme tune is by Oasis, which is all seven kinds of cool. Check it out post haste.

Um, what else was there? Ah yes. If you know me, it’s entirely possible that I’ve raved like a mad fiend at you about the Scott Pilgrim comic books. If I have, then you can probably skip this bit. If not:
They’re fantastic – somehow managing to hit all the humour bases at the same time, pop-culture references that don’t feel contrived, the whole series just exudes some kind of ineffable cool which makes you feel like a better person for reading it.
Also, there’s a movie of it coming out, and I know everyone likes to be able to say “yeah I read those a while back – the movie’s not as good as the comics” You know it makes sense.

This has been quite a nerdy post so far (surprise, surprise), time for a bit of balance. Music and that.
These are my recommendations for stuff to listen to over the summer, which is sort-of-kind-of here, which is pretty much the best you can hope for in this country (English weather is bad! Oh ho how topical of me)
Anyhow:

Tubelord are an awesome band, fully worthy of your attention. There’s not much I can say to describe them other than ‘bloody good’ so click that link I cunningly posted up there and give them a listen.

Man Factory have an album, which is possibly one of the best things I’ve ever listened to: a rock-opera based on Street Fighter II. It’s just really good music, in a totally non-ironic and also entirely ironic way.

Blood Red Shoes are also great (Jesus, I’m giving Myspace a lot of traffic here aren’t I? They should be paying me.)

I want to be able to provide some kind of link to the Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad soundtrack, but to my knowledge it doesn’t have a myspace music page or whatnot. If you can get your hands on it though, it’s awesomesauce.
Speaking of Beck(s), Guero by Mr. Beck himself is the perfect album for those extremely dry summer days, and makes me want to drive around America in an old car. Which is a pretty high accolade, considering I’d first have to learn to drive.

That’s all for today I think, the word count on this post stands at 590 words so far, if I’d done this much of my essay already I could have gone home by now. Let it never be said I don’t do anything for you eh?

Bye.