Why? Why not?

Well, the time at work is now coming to an end, and it’s time to jet off to the mysterious land known as America. If I get the chance, I’ll try and post while away, but don’t count on it (hah! as if you would!).

In other news, Trang gave me my birthday present early, as it’s my birthday while we’re away, and now I have the sweet sweet super duper collector’s edition of The Two Towers extended Edition DVD, with funky Gollum statue and extra DVD. Yay! And lots of thanks to Trang for such an excellent present.

As regular readers would know, I cosplayed at the Sydney anime convention, Animania, this year. The organisers of the con are now producing a DVD of highlights, and they’re made a trailer. Funnily enough, the trailer features me in a key bit near the end, which I thought was pretty cool. So I thought I’d share the joy: Grab it here.

Well, I just got back this morning from a night spent in Wagga Wagga. Yesterday, I went out there to do what should have been a one-and-a half hour job. Unfortunately, it was a six hour job, and meant that I missed the last flight out of Wagga. So I spent the night at the lovely Lincoln Cottage Motel. Which I was not happy about.

Oh well, c’est la vie.

Oh, and it’s less than two weeks until we leave for the States. That really crept up on me…

Well, I’ve seen Matrix Revolutions now, and it’s interesting to compare and contrast reviews of it with my experience of it.

Reviewers seem to be either disappointed by there not being enough exposition, or excited by the action sequences, and happy that there is less ‘overblown philosophising’ than in Reloaded.

Personally, when the credits rolled, I was pretty happy. There were some quite big things that were left unexplained, and I thought the really, really big Zion action sequence was too long, but I was pretty happy with the way the themes were pulled together for the end of the trilogy. Some quotes from reviews:

The special effects are a lot better than the second film, yet when I saw the sentinels attacking with tentacles and the long tubules of snaking plugs sneaking up on neo I thought to myself, ?These brothers sure watch a helluva lot of Hentai.?

filmrot.com

…the cold truth at the heart of the matter is that what the Matrix films take almost seven hours to tell, Alex Proyas’ Dark City told in less than two, and with more poetry besides.

filmfreakcentral.net
On a wholly different note, I stumbled across Defend America: US Department of Defense News About the War on Terrorism today. Looking at the site, all I can say is that I’m grateful that the US military’s propaganda team is still living in the fifties or sixties.

Woohoo! Only a few more hours until the Matrix marathon. Eight hours straight at the movies. It’s going to be sweeeeet.

‘A night in Fantasia’ the Infinity8lue Ghibli/Final Fantasy concert was great! Although I would have paid the $35 just to get the chance to hear ‘Liberi Fatali’ (aka the FFVIII opening sequence movie) live, everything else was great as well.

I’ll post something about Revolutions tomorrow when I get up.