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| 06 - 09 - 03 |
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Nine Parts Desperation 10:08 pm Reports of my employment were greatly exaggerated. In fact, I still have no job after three weeks of being home. This is very troubling considering a sizable chunk of Wittenberg tuition still remains to be accounted for. I started off my job search by applying to jobs that I felt like were interesting enough: Media Play, Office Max, Blockbuster, EB, and so on. As the days continued to pass, the applications started going out to Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Circuit City, and UPS. Now I've collapsed to the point where anything would good, anything at all. My best chance now rests on delivering pizzas. Why yes, I would so very much enjoy some cheese to go with my whine. The delay with updating does not have anything to do with internet access; in fact, I convinced my mother to install Roadrunner cable modem service a week and a half after getting home (it's the same price as dial-up, at least for the next three months). I've been taking advantage of the speed and ease of access every since it was officially turned on. How much advantage have I actually been taking? Specifically, 88 CDs worth. For those of you keeping track at home, that's over 53 gigabytes of information downloaded. For those investment-savvy readers out there, I'd buy a few shares of Sony stock as I do not plan to stop downloading any longer than it takes me to burn another blank (Sony) CD. In any event, you may have noticed the new banner at the top and the slow loading speeds. This is a direct result of my moving the site over to Angelfire. Presently, I'm not allowed to access the Wittenberg servers with a cable modem, and my web space was filled to the brim anyway, so this was overall a Good Move. If you have any suggestion for better web-hosting though, be sure and drop me a line. New stuff? Finally loaded the Xenosaga review which you can read over in the handy Review section. Over the coming days and weeks you can expect me to make some updates and changes to a bulk of the reviews I have written, especially the Anime ones. Simply put, I don't like the job I've done with them; they feel rushed, shallow, and otherwise unhelpful. Besides simply changing them around, I'm also going to try and upload as many new ones as I can as I continue to watch a fraction of this Anime I have downloaded. Expect that section of reviews to explode here shortly. Also of note: I have completed a partial script for The Matrix: Reloaded. I did it after a few friends of mine were discussing the movie and its philosophical musings. That will be uploaded to Features the next time I officially update the site. As to when that will be, your guess is as good as mine. Probably even better. |
| 06 - 22 - 03 |
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25th Hour 2:16 pm If you are fans of either Edward Norton or Spike Lee films - possibly both - then you owe it to yourself to check the most excellent movie, 25th Hour. It's kinda crazy, like most of Spike Lee's films actually, but it very enjoyable nonetheless. It deals with the choosing how we live our lives and the results and repercussions of such choices; a more in-depth review can be found here. Highly recommended. This is one of the more substansial updates in quite some time. Another game review is up (Dark Cloud), another anime review is up (Azumanga Daioh), and a new feature is up (partial Matrix: Reloaded script). The Azumanga Daioh anime review is going to be the last review in that sort of format; all future anime reviews are going to be much more substansive and much longer in much the same way as the difference between, say, the revised FF7 review is with the one for Ogre Battle. In fact, I was almost planning on not posting the Azumanga Daioh review because of the impending change-over, but it would take some time before I could revise it and it was already done so...there you go. The next anime review revisions will probably be done to Berserk and Perfect Blue, as they represent two anime which I do not think I was entirely unbiased to the first time around. Besides that, I have finished a number of other anime which can be potentially reviewed for next time: Metropolis, Escaflowne, DNA2, Evangelion: Death and Rebirth, Ghost in the Shell, Mezzo Forte, Puni Puni Poemi, and Ninja Scroll. Whether any of those reviews are actually going to be ready to go within the next week or so is unknown, especially considering I've had several months already since I've finished watching a few of those. But, since most of my friends are working/going on vaction at the present, who knows what can happen. Until next time. 
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