December 20, 2014
Timewaster Delayed!
I've been working on the next First Episode Writeup for the past week after having found a good BD rip of it. It's been a slog, however, as the episode has a bad ratio of unexplained-action-to-explaining-dialogue. That makes a coherent writeup difficult to create since I often wind up worldbuilding at the same time. However, I've made it about a third of the way through, and the second half is flashbacks. Yay, I guess.
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Have you ever had something force its way into your awareness in such a way that you couldn't ignore it? Let me give you an example. Back in 1991, I was driving up to Minnesota to get an apartment and tour the town I'd be going to grad school in. As I crossed the Mississippi River at La Crosse, a saxophone-led song with a funky backbeat came across the car radio. Catchy, I thought, but the DJ didn't say the name of either the song or the artist. Later that night, as I was out driving around the town, seeing the sights (such as they were), same song came on. Again, no name, no artist. I woke up the next morning, turned on Good Morning America or one of those shows, and wouldn't you know it? The live musical guest for the day was a blonde saxophonist named Candy Dulfer, with Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics on guitar, playing a tune called "Lily Was Here."
I bought the cassette before I left Minnesota. I felt like I couldn't not do so. What's the point of this story I hear you asking? Well, it's happened again. There's an anime series that forced me to watch it, just by showing up everywhere I looked for a couple of days. Didn't know anything about it, but it kept forcing itself upon me... I felt violated, yes, but it'd be a while since that had happened. As I rolled through the first episode, I realized it'd be perfect for a writeup. It was just begging for one. As a result, I've put the original writeup that I'm a third of the way finished with on hold and will now be doing this mystery show instead. With luck, it'll be up tonight or Sunday!
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Look forward to it. Or not. Whichever.
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Have you ever had something force its way into your awareness in such a way that you couldn't ignore it? Let me give you an example. Back in 1991, I was driving up to Minnesota to get an apartment and tour the town I'd be going to grad school in. As I crossed the Mississippi River at La Crosse, a saxophone-led song with a funky backbeat came across the car radio. Catchy, I thought, but the DJ didn't say the name of either the song or the artist. Later that night, as I was out driving around the town, seeing the sights (such as they were), same song came on. Again, no name, no artist. I woke up the next morning, turned on Good Morning America or one of those shows, and wouldn't you know it? The live musical guest for the day was a blonde saxophonist named Candy Dulfer, with Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics on guitar, playing a tune called "Lily Was Here."
I bought the cassette before I left Minnesota. I felt like I couldn't not do so. What's the point of this story I hear you asking? Well, it's happened again. There's an anime series that forced me to watch it, just by showing up everywhere I looked for a couple of days. Didn't know anything about it, but it kept forcing itself upon me... I felt violated, yes, but it'd be a while since that had happened. As I rolled through the first episode, I realized it'd be perfect for a writeup. It was just begging for one. As a result, I've put the original writeup that I'm a third of the way finished with on hold and will now be doing this mystery show instead. With luck, it'll be up tonight or Sunday!
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Look forward to it. Or not. Whichever.
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Nanatsu no Taizai, eh?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 20, 2014 03:31 PM (+rSRq)
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Nope, that's your gig, Steven. I have a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a long career, and they are not needed for that show.
Posted by: Wonderduck at December 20, 2014 04:13 PM (jGQR+)
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