still cybersquatting alone here.  awesome, because i knew the reason why, forgot!  -- and then remembered again. but it is 'value added' now.

there was a experimental cable channel for a while - not TAN but something else. but they would have exclusive anime and that was where i first saw, about five years ago? the episodes of Parallel DUAL! Trouble Adventure "from the creators of Tenchi Muyo!"

i liked the few eps that they had before that experimental cable channel went away.  But i didn't know it was from Pioneer.

got the DVD now, and it's a DVD made of an OVA.  in the show the main kid says "where's my stuff! where's my VCR!" and i almost laughed because i HATE EMOTICONS. so crappity smacking DISTRACTING useless little crappity smacking smiley faces.  WATCHMEN.

UGH, there are a LOT of pretty dated "web sites" that use those emoticons. it's just a crutch to help people not put their feelings into words. computers are bad enough.


rorshach's smiley is pretty good. anyway - -the kid says 'where's my VCR!?" and i had to laugh. he might have said "where's my atlatl!?"
but yet, VCRs are hard to come by weirdly.  things...become fakely obsolete because someone invents some new crap and wants to push it.  pretty soon your cool cassette collection is "obsolete" even though it works.

my grandma was basically thrown on the trash heap by society.
i'm really pissed by the superficial wasteful way people view "old" things.  like, uh, our EARTH.  duh.  it's a small thing in a huge thing.

anyway i am so psyched to have the Dual! Saga --
i thought i knew a lot when i first saw those few eps. that was years ago.

someone said to me at hongfire? maybe?> somewhere else? "i don't know how you can call yourself an anime fan if you say that you don't like perverts."

what is that? is it just retarded?  i think differently. the mentally retarded who are honestly retarded can be some of the nicest most sunshiny people.  i think that is like SPIRITUAL retardation, or emotional?  

also, i guess there are alot of perverted people in the world, and different interpretations of what is and what is not perverted.  to some people everything is perverted, and their is no innocence...



i remember also being first exposed to Gundam Wing.  for that to be someone's first Gundam anime could be a shock when they learned how HUGE the Gundam storyline is, how many stories and storylines and characters and different series...most of them are NOTHING like Gundam Wing which became popular during the original Toonami, just like Tenchi...

i remember that one line stuck out so much, i can't even remember the rest of the episode and what was going on.  The character was Trowa Barton, great sufferer, and the line?

"...that's what Heavy-Arms has taught me."

it's so profound, especially when i realised i could say that and insert anything and it would seem wise and profound and sometimes absurd.

"...that's what extreme pyroflatulation has taught me."
"...that's what getting mugged for my bus money and left to slowly bleed out in Philadelphia on sunday morning has taught me."
"...that's what Nixon has taught me."  you can say it with anything.  and seem like you have learned something deep.  that's what making fun of otaku has taught ME, anyway.