Follow-up, books on the way

[foxinthestars]

Following up from yesterday; I haven't gotten to the last 4 episodes of Haibane Renmei yet (although I intend to do that today), but I did watch 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was, by turns, richly bizarre, painfully slow, and inevitably quaint*, and the sound and music were on some kind of crack. I wouldn't call it so much "bad" as "artsy," though, and it's definitely worth seeing for its place in sci-fi/cinema/cultural history (especially if you're a MiSTie; I get jokes I never got before, including the opening sequence of the MST3K movie and the Comedy Central Finale).

I also meant to mention yesterday and forgot, I decided to treat myself at Amazon and have a few books coming. I always enjoy Gabor Mate when he's on Democracy Now!, so I got one of his books (When the Body Says No), got the first Jaime/Locas volume in the Love and Rockets Library Series, and the first volume of A Bride's Story (I let Emma go out of print on me; I'm not letting Mori-sensei get away again).

Sunday I'm thinking of going to the indie theater in the old college town to see Cave of Forgotten Dreams.


*Yes, they predicted space travel and highly-advanced AI but did not predict the VGA monitor or the cultural rejection of plaid business suits; that stuff is always quaintly amusing.

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[quicksilver_ink]

Seeing as it's not available except for $80/volume on eBay and such, let me know if you'd like me to send you the scanlations I have of Emma.

I am happy to report that volume 1 of The Bride's Story has OMG PRETTY WOODCARVING. Another later volume (I don't know which) will feature OMG PRETTY EMBROIDERY.

Hope you enjoy(ed) the last four episodes of Haibane Renmei!

[foxinthestars]

Actually, I already did and you already did; got 'em on a CD here. I still regret missing the print volumes, tho. I've been reading A Bride's Story on Mangafox, so I know how totally gorgeous it is, and it won't be anything I haven't read, but some things are just so good I want to buy them anyway (two more volumes of FMA to go!).

And I did really enjoy the end of Haibane Renmei. In the car today I had to forcibly stop myself from thinking about it because I didn't want to tear up while I was driving. ^_^;