This seems a bit early to be returning

Spent last day of *my* winter break hanging out and playing Naruto 3 with Billy, then going to see a movie for the second time. Three guesses which one.

Some favorite quotes from us during the film:
1. Billy-"Did he just date rape her through song?">
2. Billy-"I love how the candles rise up with his voice."
Me-"Yeah, like the visualizers on Windows Media Player."
Billy-"That's old school."
3. Billy-"That has got to be the most bad ass theme music for any character anywhere!"
4. Billy-"For the first five minutes of the movie I was bored to tears but the second that chandelier went up and I heard that music, I knew this was going to be good. If the whole movie had been nothing but that opening instrumental scene, it still would have been a great movie."
5. Billy-"Something about this is not wholesome."
6. Billy-"Tell me why the Phantom is far too pretty for that mask."
7. Billy-"Did he just slap her through song?"
8. Me-"Can you blame her? How can you resist a guy that has theme music like that?"
Billy-"If some dude appeared in my window, lead me through some secret portal connected to waterway that I didn't even know was related to my room, put me on a horse, and boated me to some creepy lair full of candles, *I* couldn't resist that."
9. Me-"Both of them are crazy. They deserve each other."
Billy-"I just feel sorry for the normal guy. He doesn't stand a chance."
10. Billy-"Do you feel sorry for the Phantom?"
Me-"Of course! Look at him with that rose and that face and the...Don't you feel sorry for him?"
Billy-"I feel sorry for all the people who are going to die because of this."

After movie, we went to diner as usual and stayed entirely too long "geeking out." Billy decided to create his own perfect ending to the Buffy/Angelverse, beginning with the end episodeof Angel and involving the surprise arrival of Willow and an army of Slayers and Angel versus his dragon. ( You think you're scared now. Just wait. )

Drove to campus for the second time ever. The trip there was uneventful but some asshole decided to honk at me for no reason on my way back. Class is...interesting. We are expected to write a research paper on the third week, which blows, but we do get to watch movies or listen to music for over half of the three hours of each class. It would be better if the class didn't meet EVERY day of the week but whatcha gonna do. Our professor seems fun and I get to hang with Gaelin again.

Picked up Banana Fish 4&5 and the first Yugioh at the comic shop today. Let's see when I'll get around to reading them since I still have to reread Angel Sanctuary 5 and am also now reading my book for class (yes, an actual reading book not a text book) called "In the Country of Country." I'm a country music dork and I know about 50% of the names mentioned in the book so it's not such a hard read. Though, it did keep me from hanging out with Billy today. It was either that or the fact that when I got home at 1 pm (class starts at 9 am), I passed out until about 4:30.

Stupid CN Yugioh skipped the Kaiba/Yugi duel against the mask brothers and went straight to the Malik/Bakura team-up. That pisses me off. I wanted to record the joined duel this time. >< Now I'll probably have to find a DVD and buy it.

Deep Thoughts from the Restless Mind-Pt. 1

I. Purists: Elitism and Ownership

When I was younger, I used to laugh at all the anime fans who would watch dubs and insult them, saying how they watered-down the messages, insulted the original seiyuu, or butchered the story with cuts. Some of these statements were valid because anime in years back was heavily censored. The same arguements exist today with things shown on Adult Swim and I continue to laugh at these "purists" who throw fits over changes in dialogue, unfit voice actors, or slightly altered animation scenes. Not to say that I don't mock dubs a little on my own. But when I was in Waldenbooks the other day and a bunch of girls were scrambling around Fruits Basket and DNAngel and Gravitation, I couldn't help but feel slightly possessive. These girls had never spent months trying to find fansubs of anime either through mail order or digital fansubs, these girls had never fought through convention lines to acquire original Japanese versions of the manga, these girls had never known the agony of finding out that the only translations of a certain manga had been lost in some information disaster or discontinued, and they most certainly didn't know the horrors of having to order from Japanese manga bookstores. Why should they get such easy access? They hadn't earned it. This was *my* Gravitation. I liked manga before it was a best-seller. Before commercials showed it on TV. Before TokyoPop. I recall a famous debacle a couple years back about the Tokyo Babylon music video and casting a judging eye on the fans who resented their secret treasure being shown with the populace. Now I begin to understand their view. Am I now one of those "purists" I used to snub and say they weren't being fair to the new fans?
Is it really possible for dubbies and subbies to get along? ( Let's explore this concept more fully. )

Stay tuned later this week for Pt 2. Relgion and Mythology, unrelated of course.