NAN DESU KAN 10 (2006) REPORT!!!!
This stuff down here is A LOT like the rant page on the main Lobster Assault site, but I am going to try to give this a much heavier slant on the realms of anime... much like the last few updates on the Lobster Assault rant (which I should really delete 'cos it's stupid)... heh heh heh...
WELLY WELLY WELLY WELL! I really ought to organize this better. Maybe put the NDK reports in their own lil' pages/sections. Anyways, DREAM TIME:
6-20-05 ---> THESE ARE DREAMS THAT I HAVE HAD SINCE MARCH AND NEVER GOT AROUND TO PUTTING THEM UP HERE... UNTIL NOW! No particular order and may not have good paragraph structure...
1. Mark, Nate and I went to an anime convention that was at Fairview Highschool (our old HS). We were all dressed up as charas from Hellsing...uh, except I was dressed up as Robin from Witchhunter Robin, but in a tan trenchcoat and blonde hair... and we kept on asking aloud "hey, weren't we just at an anime convention? Has it been a year yet?"
2. First we go to anime club. The room is totally different: much more spacious. At the bottom of the ramp from the entrance, that one Comic Book Guy'esque guy (you know who I mean) is standing, cracking a nasty whip and ordering people to get inside. We sit in the back right. For some reason, Tom Baker dressed in his Doctor Who attire is sitting down infront with the Elite. For 10 minutes or so, the VP singles us out and makes fun of us... then we end up watching some bizarre Doctor Who ep. It had Romana II walking around alone in the Tardis... we never got to finish it, but I think it had something to do with either the Dr. or the Master stalking her around the Tardis and was some long lost episode or something. So I try to talk to Tom Baker.. but he ignores me, and then some nerdy kids start teasing me with rare guitar effects pedals attached with leads to a car battery (or something)..... then I woke up.....
3. I had to coolest dream this morning! I was walking down Pearl St. and next to that Guiry's Art Supply place, there was an ARCADE! I was so excited! The place was wicked sketchy on the inside though... man, there some wicked insane games that I can't remember... most of 'em were just Nintendo games stuck in the big cabinets... I'm pretty sure they had the NES Superman game... Oh, and Kasumi Ninja for the Jaguar... Uh, they had a skee-ball dilly and you could get frakin' Drum Machines with the tickets you got... hehehehe!
4. in my dream I was involved in a Dr. Who LARP! hahahaha! a couple people I don't remember and I were Sontarans! We had the suits and mr. potatohead masks and the big helmets! It was soooo awesome... all I remember is running around on a farm, shooting what seemed like real laser blasters, my helmet not fitting well over the rubber mask and I guess whatever the LARP equivilent of a DM would be giving us all a big speech at the beginning... and maybe the best part was I flipped through the player's manual thing, and they had pics of Godzilla-Dalek/Davros hybrids!!!! Like the bottom part of a dalek, and then the upperbody of Godzilla... some kid told me that was "mecha-godzilla in this game", or something.. baahahahah!
3-26-05: Two Dr. Who Dreams in Two Consecutive Nights!!!!!
Well, first dream consisted of me running through featureless grey corridors, which could've been from practically ANY Dr. Who story... I was running into and running away from tons of Daleks. The funny thing is that I somehow knew it was a show or something 'cos I recognized that there were only two types of corridors that kept on looping (or something), like they were film sets... So I was actually anticipating where Daleks would be and stuff... thankfully, they could never catch me, or shoot me... then somehow, I managed to hide inside an empty dalek machine and was now going around pretending to be one; trying to shoot random people who had now suddenly showed up. One thing I remember is that people would only "die" (in perfect Dr. Who poor acting spirit, unconvincingly groaning and falling slowly to the floor) if I made the whooshy, swirly dalek gun noises and pretend that the "screen" was flashing positive and negative. So eventually, as I am gliding through corridors, I come across a group of people sitting in a semi-circle on little stools. I notice they have a kind of UN insignia on their jackets... so for some reason, I try shooting the, but they won't "die"... they just look at me and I am sure one says something like "do you mind? we're busy". So I jump out of the Dalek shell and somehow, without any kind of transition, I am running with one of the girl UN folks, and No. 6 from The Prisoner across some big rocks and such... we begin to climp up a slope and I remember saying to No. 6 "watch out, that rock is loose!".. and I woke up...
My second dream involved me being in some dunes/desert place. The ground has a seemingly endless, parallel series of narrow trenches dug very close together. Swarming in the trenches are, of course, DALEKS! They're shouting "EXTERMINATE!" and "EXTERMINATE!" a lot, and I am jumping across the trenches trying to get away. Finally after a little while of that, I come to a trench that has a larger pit attatched to it. this trench and the adjoining pit are free of Daleks, so I jump in. Out of nowhere, some random guy comes running from the trench into the pit being followed by the Black Dalek! The pit walls have a series of alcoves that we try to nestle into. The guy is "killed" in much the same was as my last dream, and as I am so well hidden, the Black Dalek leaves. I jump back into the pit and notice a table off to one side completely covered about two deep in guitar FX pedals (most of them ones that don't really exist)! I start frantically grabbing ones and trying to find rare ones like the Buzz Box and the Meat Box.. I hear daleks coming, so I scramble to grab as many as I can all the while thinking "I can't wait to test these out and see what cool sounds I can make!" and from there, I think I start running, and somehow get out of the pit... I pretty much wake up then. YAAAAY!
It's a lil' fuzzy, but if I remember right, the Lobster Assault boys, Metostopholes, some other people I know and I somehow got ahold of a Time Machine, and rather than do something worthwhile with it, we went back in time to the late 80s to see Anal Cunt play. The thing was the gig was them and Mike Watt (funny thing is I've never heard any songs by him) and it was at some lodge at the top of a mountain. Well, yeah, the lodge was like a Holiday Inn on the inside. And the gig was somewhere deep within the twisty, dimly lit halls. Finally, at the gig, there was a small stage and everyone sat in a semi-circle around it, like it was story time in grade school or something. Seth from AxCx was milling around in back of the semi-cirlce and once the band started he screamed, but then handed the mic around to everyone. I remember Ethan screaming awesomely, and I did a rhyming spoken word thing about bitches or something... well, Mike Watt turned out to be droning noise stuff... when we were getting ready to leave, Mark and I noticed an arcade.. FULL OF GAME.. there had to be around 30 games. Some Street Fighter II game with Chun-Li dressed in punk attire... man, a bunch of stuff! AWESOME
THIS IS OLDER RANT STUFF I AM ASHAMED OF, but won't delete now.
RANDOM STUFF! YOU SPAZMO!!!--------> Evangelion... it's hailed as the BEST anime series ever... There's lots of junk that could support that... it's the first anime i know of that really stood out as "deep"... I know there were things before, but when people talk about "deep and meaningful anime".. Evangelion is the first thing to pop up. But I find there a lot of elitest kids who don't like Evangelion 'cos it's popular and full of this "meaningful" stuff... like, what am i trying to say --
--hey, i am gonna finish the Evangelion rant later... 'cos i think it's pretty worthwhile
I changed my mind completely... I am giving up on writing about Eva... too many sucka's have written stuff about it already... if i am gonna try to write about an anime that is "meaningful" or could be interpreted as "meangingful", it'll be FLCL... 'cos that show can kick Eva's ass any day... but I am not doing that now... I have to document possibly the weirdest/unnerving(?) dream I have had in a while now... alright, last night, my friends amd I rented the live-action La Blue Girl... needless to say, it was exceptionally awful... I have already likened it many times to a softcore version of Power Rangers... so I am thinking... that a combination of watching that and then staying up till 7:30am attribute to the content of this dream.. for the most part.. the dream was just kinda standard dream fare until in the end... I was in Japan (presumably while on an exchange program deal).. at some Karaoke Competition.. it was in a huge auditorium with little groups of people at random spots doing karaoke... The details on that are fuzzy... I remember that in my dream I fogot my backpack somewhere that looked like Sakura Square (in Denver) so I got my backpack and then ended up in some dank subway place... where a guy I used to know was practicing target shooting with an m16 or some kind of machinegun... he almost shoots that ska-chick from my Japanese class... but she just says something like "hey! you almost shot me!" and then walks up the stairs outside... then while the guy is shooting, a bunch of elementary school-kids ran down the stairs and almost get in the way of his target practice... but the teacher gets them outta the way.. and I am standing there being all nervous somebody is gonna get killed... then somehow I end up with some cute japanese school girl.. she jerks me off.. then I pull down her panties and she's a dickgirl.. and I whack her off... and that was it.. (sorry for any tense changes back there!) I dunno... I think that the reigning opinion on dickgirls (at least anime ones?) is that you can jerk off to them and not be considered gay... i mean, they have a dick, but they're still girls... I dunno... personally, I don't think it's something to debate.. it's pretty futile.. they're girls with a male-appendage... so one can say either viewpoint is valid... you're a flaming homo 'cos it's got a penis.. or it's still a GIRL! so yeah, I dunno... it was a dream.. and they have no real meaning... still.... I consulted the wonderous internet to find some Freudian Psychoanalysis pages... with dream interpretations, psychosexual development banter and a lot of other complicated concpets... well apart from his Penis Envy deal, he didn't have anything to add... I guess girls back in the early 1900s didn't run around with big honking schlongs swinging around.. they wish they did though.. heh heh heh...
basically, I think this whole dream summed up means "I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT TOO MUCH HENTAI!! ha ha! Next thing I know, I'll be having erotic dreams about Uziga artwork... so yeah, like most dreams, it might have a vague interpretation about me feeling inadequate or something stupid... but I'll chalk it up as being both silly, pointless and something that stems from watching bad softcore power-rangers and playing DDR... and don't think I am gonna stop looking at hentai or anything... ha ha ha ha! so well, that's that... see ya later! I hope no one I know reads this! HA HA HA!
probably not even worth mentioniong now... but many months ago, I had a sexxxy dream about the girl cosplaying as Ruri in the pics section.. THAT'S very strange indeed... daaaaaamn... okay.....
I dunno... is it 'cos she's dressed as my favorite lil' character, Ruri? Or is it 'cos she really is cute in real life? Or a wonder combination of them both? Hmmm... well, if you're out there, mysterious Ruri cosplayer, I profess my undying love to thee! HEHEHEHE!
3-31 -- if having a dream about the Ruri cosplayer wasn't enough, this morning I had a dream about the cute cosplayer on the top row in the blue with the fake blood (repost of the picture with lil' lame ass word balloon soon). Kinda weird, since she was in my Japanese class and all, but still, she's helluva cute!!... not only did I have this sexxxy part with her, I also got to shoot a machinegun that shot red ballpoint pen caps, AND play a drum set that sucked ass and had a bass peddle with 4 beaters! and about 10 cymbals all set up way too close so it was like a big sheet of bronze and whatnot... oh yeah, and Collin was there too! hahahaha!
Another dream! ---> I was in some classroom trying to tape paper up on the windows with some other random people. The paper had old Tenth Planet era cybermen printed on it... and after a while, they come alive and come out of the paper and start attacking us... weird... then somehow I end up in some school building that has a store called something like "authentic WWII surplus" and the sign for the store has tons of swastikas and Jewish stars around it... and when I go in, it's nothing but brightly colored children's clothes. And then there's some jello monster who's making a bunch of jello cups multiply in a refrigerator... so I start tossing these jello cups out the window and they start piling up on the sidewalk below... eventually I run away.. and end up in the Humanities Building.. and there's this wicked cute girl who comes up to me and says something like "I've always had my eye on you"... and gives me a kitten and we go to my place.. and somehow I lose the cat and think she won't make out with me anymore, so I run outside trying to find it... she finds it (though I had just found a similar looking cat) and we go back inside and I wake up.
More dreams: this past Saturday I had a dream where the Daleks invaded and for some reason, they dropped an A-bomb on Boulder... okay, I remember when the bomb first explodes and I hide in a culvert (or however ya spell it) while all the debris flies past... and yeah, I survive and then wander around a quarry'ish place while Daleks chase me... awesome!(?).... and on Sunday, I dreampt that I was in that band Mudhoney (okay, I saw two of their music videos the other night on PBS) and we were practicing for a gig and we were playing the best sounding improv ever... but once we got on stage (which was in the hallway of a pizza restaurant) we sucked so bad... and after we finished, Marduk got ready to play and we made fun of them....
ANOTHER DREAM - This rant section has quickly become "read about Kelly's my dreams".. but what the hell, my dreams are probably better reading material than my poorly executed attempts at rants on stuff. Any ways, I am at my old middle school from when I lived in Washington DC. School just got out and I think I am a super-clever by waitng for the buses at a different part of the school (don't ask me how that logic works). So I miss my bus home and decide to walk down the street to find a phone or something. I end up in some Youth Center type place. There's some art exibit that I can't remember. Though I remember being in the gift-shop area looking at an Excel Saga poster that has a huge tear in it. A cute girl steps up next to me and picks up a copy of New Type which has a horrifying looking picture of Excel on it. She says something like "I've heard this show is really good, but haven't seen it yet!". I remember being this --> ____ close to saying "you should come over to my house sometime and watch it with me!"... though I don't.. I say something like "it's a good series... I would buy this poster here if it weren't ripped up". I end up sitting on on of those couches that wrap around corners of rooms. There is some guy sitting near me... he starts talking to me about something. The girl hangs around for a while, then leaves. I say "man, she was wicked cute!".. and then somehow these soldiers are in the youth center, crowding the place up...they don't do much though. I sit on the couch for a while.. the soldiers mill around and then leave. There are some other people sitting around the couches too.. and on the floor infront of them. The cutest girl ever arrives. I remember she had short'ish hair, she was very small and petite (super lolita to the MAX). She comes in and gives me a big "HELLO!" and starts talking to the people sitting nearby. As I remember one guy gives her a kiss and my heart sinks, 'cos I was ready to try talking to her. The original cute girl comes back for a while. I can't remember what she does though. The really cute lolita girl walks off to some oak (or some kind of big tree) that just happens to be in the Youth Center, and starts making out with some shadowy figure. I am feelin' pretty down as I remember, and as night sets in, people start leaving.. I am left alone pretty much, and I start listening to my walkman.. it's got Princess Army in it.. but it sounded so bizzare, like weird embedded samples in the music and more melodious. That part of the dream pretty much ends there. The next part, which was fairly short was I am flying... blue sky and fluffy clouds.. I can't even see the ground. I am flying up to some kind of landing platform which reminded of both the game Tribes, and Bespin from Empire Strikes Back, which is fitting 'cos on the platform, Darth Vader is waiting for me. So he chases me around with a sword (a regular sword, not a light-saber) for a while, then I decide the only way to get away is to fly away. So I do something silly like flip him the bird and jump off the side of the platform. Rather than fly though, I start falling. I see Vader jump off as well in pursuit. He falls fast enough to catch up with me and slashes me in the leg with the sword. I have blue blood (I guess I come from Tokyo Jupiter). And as I keep falling, Vader pulls out an umbrella and I assume Mary Poppins himself to safety... and that's it! Not very awesome like making out with girls from my Japanese class, but that one lolita girl rocked my dreamworld so hard.
< Now for everyone's enjoyment: TORGO! as played by my pal, Nate...
coming probably never: "my life as an analog otaku" ?????
coming sooner, maybe: "uh, can't think of a title, but it'll be about lolicom"
