Tuesday, June 26, 2007
1 of 25!
After tearing myself away from ouedan, peeling my eyes away from dark aeon hunting and recovering from Nick's 2 splendid parties, I miraculously slotted in enough reading to finish 1 book! Yes, ONE book.
1.
The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key FitzgeraldA short read, and partially inspired by a Gatsby craze (the hair product, you know, guy with ridiculous hari singing until he became a skeleton ad?). That was quite some time ago, and that's how long I've been holding on to this book.
Anyway, American literature from the jazz era of decadence and extravagance, which resembles much the Victorian era's rich oritaganists with too much time, enough to bore them into challenging human bounds. Wild parties, adultery set the dark undertone, bolstered by fictional identities serving only to highlight the dreams of Gatsby and the friendship be forged with the protaganist.
The title itself, "the Great Gatsby". Irony, or sarcasm, because at the end of the book, Gatsby is neither great nor aactually Gatsby. The conclusion, the climax was expertly crafted, alas I was given the ultimate spoiler. Nevertheless, it did little to detract my enjoyment of the book.
That aside, I can't beleive how ridiculously randoma dn quirky those PVs for the original songs use in Ouendan 2 are! Watching them just brings a smile and much laughter.
Zhenryoku Shonen had really quirky costumes, especially that afro guy.
Go My Way was initially really really meanigless, but that random twist made it so wth that it was funny.
Bambina was plain outrageously funny! What the heck was it with that random bulldog! Not to mention the really cute lady in the video.
Zoku is another cool one done in Kamen rider, fighting the bad guys with super power baseball style. Kamen baseball which is friggin vioent and gruesome in a really fun way.
And how can we forget Sekai wa sore o ai to yodundaze? Whenever someone listens to the song, the trio appear! The whole trio squeezing into places to play their song, balconies, rooms and even cars! It's hilarious seeing them in the car! Spread the cheer!
OMG! I think I'm going to die from laughing!
Gavin
pondered @ 11:46
