elaby | Productive day, strangely enough

Today, I've...

- completely finished one paper
- finished the first draft of another
- read summaries for books I won't get completely read by tomorrow
- done dishes
- watched Caitirin make bread
- put my laundry away
- watched Advent Children (squee to follow)
- posted Auber

Hm. Not bad for a Sunday.

I'm tagged!

terse_scribe tagged me for the five random things meme. Let's see if I can think of any that are entertaining.

1. Whenever I eat Hershey's kisses, I ball up the tinfoil wrapper so that you can only see the color on the outside, and none of the silver insides. Then I collect them on my desk and arrange them symmetrically until I finally manage to throw them out.

2. My first CD was The Smashing Pumpkins' "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness." People at school (this was around 6th or 7th grade) reacted disbelievingly when I said I had music with swears in it.

3. My first fanfic was Pokémon, written over a Christmas break while I ate lots of Hershey's kisses and walnuts. The fanfic was my attempt at an episode-like adventure. I submitted it to an archive, where they said you could have swears if they were appropriate (the example I remember was Ash saying "Fuck!" if he got shot.) I told them all mine had was an "oh my God", and they rejected it. At the time, it did not occur to me that they were being sarcastic.

4. For some reason, I tend to like all of the literary works that the critics traditionally don't; examples are Titus Andronicus, The London Merchant, The Conscious Lovers, the works of Poe...

5. I'm really bad at games involving strategy. I enjoy playing them, but MAN, do I ever suck at them. I'm better at "random knowledge" games.

Now, about Advent Children. OMFGSQUEE.

First of all, the animation was incredible. It was like one long movie sequence (hah, fancy that) from a video game. Everyone was gorgeous, they moved gorgeous, they talked gorgeous... *_* I'm going to have to go find out who did the voices and what they've been in, because a lot of them sounded familiar. I also really liked watching something that was anime-style in action and plot but that looked like real people, so that I could sort of lip-read along with the Japanese. The subtitling was really awesome too - a whole ending credits thing in English, done really well. And it was almost completely literal, which at times made it hard to understand, but which I really prefer to when they colloquialize it too much. The whole thing was just so visually captivating. Everyone was so beautiful and the action scenes rocked (fight in a forest of glowing white trees! Eee!). I was glad I had

caitirin to explain who people were from the game, which I haven't played much of.

Reno and Rude were hysterical and adorable. I loved the silver-haired brother types.

And yeah. The Sephiroth. Addawibba.

It was SO good. I'm going to have to watch it again to catch things I missed, and watch all the interesting things that went on.