88 Miles Per Hour!! - Jun 21, 2007 - 07:08pm
I love how TV producers are always complaining about having to appease the viewers "shrinking attention span"/"Attention Deficit Dissorder" when I'm convinced THEY play a big part in the creation of the problem in the first place. 5% of the pubic probably have the real A.D.D the rest of us just have the symptoms (difficulty focusing). Hundreds of people are flashing images and sounds at us trying to get our attention daily! so NATURALLY we have difficulty focusing, it'd be like trying to concentrate in a room full of screaming kids except that instead of telling the screaming kids (ithe tv series/movie producers, advertisers) to quiet down and re-think their approach, we live in a bizarro world where the doctors say "nonono since you can't focus when they're screaming at you, YOU must have A.D.D so we'll prescribe you medication". I wonder if your newer = louder, faster and less coherent only applies to animation? I can think of one example in the live action world off the top of my head, the Colbert Report's theme music vs The Daily Show's. But I think Colbert might have done that consciously for exactly that reason. Look at me, I'm louder, faster, less coherent than my predecessor Stewart! heh. Good article Oxford.

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Snyder on WATCHMEN - Jun 19, 2007 - 02:30am
Zack Zack Zack thwapt! doesn't he know better than to talk about commercial concerns in an R rated "art" movie? (comics are art right? well some of them are and Watchmen is one of them imnsho) I loved his Dawn of the Dead remake but really, who wants to hear that the Director of one of the most beloved intellectual comic books of all time is mainly thinking about -- how to make money. Uhg. Dumbest Interview Ever.

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Feeling Buggy - May 12, 2007 - 08:14pm
How come this is the only manga review this weekend? oh well Elemental Gelade is ok but if you want to read something that does a little bit more than kill time give "The Time Guardian" a looksie. no pun intended heh. I love the premise of this book! First you have to discover The Time Shop, if you do you can then "borrow time" from the store. You trade your memories or future blocks of your time for some borrowed time. Miu (works there) is paid a few extra seconds of time, a day. There are fantasy elements obviously, including an assistant frog but the stories are not juvie fantasy, they're wonderful. As you can imagine they're about the reasons people need to borrow time and they range from the frivolous (running late) to the touching and thought provoking (people that don't really want to borrow time, they want to forget someone that hurt them or something that happened to them, so they sort of use the shop in the reverse way it was originally intended to be used) I LOVE this book! The Time Guardian written by Daimuro Kishi and illustrated by Tamao Ichinose. Hey mXm! I've heard of most of those but what's dead ringers?

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