Destiny

i haven't really felt like being a blogger lately (though i have been spending almost as much time over at the other life as i do here, which is more time than i have in a while, which i suppose is something--utterly meaningless if you're reading this on multiply but, ah well, it's probably meaningless anyway, and there you go), and i haven't been into anime in a long time (think Gunbuster and Akira, if that tells you anything, though i did see the Appleseed movie reviewed on the AICN page i'm about to link to) but this found here on AICN made me smile and, i felt, needed to be shared:



right. as Dwight would say: That is all.

(Creed has a blog too. and, as part of my friend E.Cross Saltire's "Creed for Governor" campaign, i post this link:

http://blog.nbc.com/CreedThoughts/2007/07/creed_thoughts_10.php#more)

er. ok. now that i've started writing, no, i guess that isn't all.

i know this is late, but The Daily Show is back. (hurrah!) if you click the link, you might catch a T-Mobile ad featuring Of Montreal i'm really digging right now.

oh, hey, whaddayaknow, it's on youtube, here:



(please note this is in no way to be construed an endorsement for T-Mobile. unless they send me money. it may, however, be construed as an endorsement for Of Montreal. from whom, in lieu of money, i will accept lots and lots and lots of free music.)

The Mars Volta's The Bedlam in Goliath is still on the spinner. closer listens have given me more to say about it than i apparently did here.

still reading J-K Huysman's The Damned, though Tariq Ali's review of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time over at Guardian Books has me wanting to return to it soon:

I was travelling with Perry Anderson from London to Mexico (an 11-hour hop) to attend a conference. He was sitting next to me rereading Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, the fifth book in the series. At one point his laughter became so infectious that an American passenger came up and said: "Hey, guy, what's that you're reading? It must be really funny." My friend held up the book and said, "It certainly is", then carried on.

(here: http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2247086,00.html)

much hilarity indeed.

The Damned isn't without its own rather dark, occasionally slightly rancid sense of humor, but it has me wanting fresher air soon. and so to bed and book.