All good suggestions, naturally, although Blue Submarine No. 6 is indeed slated for the first part of the semester.
Hey, “Dead Leaves” is genuinely good (and definitely really interesting from an artistic perspective). My sister liked it. I mean, she claims it scarred her permanently and made her the bitter and twisted psychopath she is today, but she liked it.
Yes I agree you should spare us from Dead Leaves. If your looking for other suggestions of what to watch I would recommend Blue Submarine No. 6 (think last exile underwater, although I think we may be watching this during the semester), Macross Zero, or the Ah! My Goddess movie (if everyone hasn’t seen it already). I’m sure I would be down with anything Goseett would bring as well, and then we could make a vote when everyone gets here like the decisive group we all are, see ya all tomorrow!
-Matthew W
Nate can’t make it after all but i’ll be there and i’ll bring rice balls. if i don’t have time to make rice balls, i’ll bring rice balls materials and come early and we can all make them together 
Alex
Quoting Matthew Fisher :
> Hey all– > First of all, I bow in an appropriately light-hearted yet earnest > manner to poor Liz, who lives far too far away. We wish you could be there! > Secondly, I was kind of hoping for a final headcount on this thing, > so that everyone knows how much food to bring. In my head I’m > remembering myself, my sister, Jordan (my roommate), Matt, Melissa, (The > Other) Liz, MiniMatt, Jack Waas, Alex, Nate, and Dr. Gossett as for-sure > attenders. What about Sara and Dan? And are there any other friends or > rivals coming along? > Thirdly, I wanted to mention that I went on a shopping trip today > and cathartically cleared my coffers–and among my new acquisitions is > “The Castle of Cagliostro,” which seems like just the kind of > lightweight thing we’re looking for (and is good clean fun for > MiniMatt… although also among my new acquisitions is “Dead Leaves,” > which I think earns me one “go straight to Hell, do not pass Go, do not > try to make any excuses” card). > Finally, I just wanted to say again that if anyone’s willing to make > a banner–or gang up and make a banner–for our table at the Opportunity > Fair on the 4th, it would be an enormous help to me. All it has to say > is “Bethel Anime Club” or something of the sort, but it would be nice to > let people know what our table actually is. I can do videos and > pamphlets, but arts and crafts are not exactly my forte (read: I can’t > draw a straight line, or even a curved one, and I can’t use scissors or > glue without seriously injuring myself). > I’m really looking forward to the party–I’ll see you all there! > –Matthew > > PS: I now finally have “Grave of the Fireflies” and “Millennium > Actress,” so my existential crisis about not even owning two of my > favorite films is over. Thank you Central Park Media and DreamWorks Home > Entertainment! And may the Overpricing Trolls at Suncoast Motion Picture > Co. be smitten with festering boils! >
Hey all– First of all, I bow in an appropriately light-hearted yet earnest manner to poor Liz, who lives far too far away. We wish you could be there! Secondly, I was kind of hoping for a final headcount on this thing, so that everyone knows how much food to bring. In my head I’m remembering myself, my sister, Jordan (my roommate), Matt, Melissa, (The Other) Liz, MiniMatt, Jack Waas, Alex, Nate, and Dr. Gossett as for-sure attenders. What about Sara and Dan? And are there any other friends or rivals coming along? Thirdly, I wanted to mention that I went on a shopping trip today and cathartically cleared my coffers–and among my new acquisitions is “The Castle of Cagliostro,” which seems like just the kind of lightweight thing we’re looking for (and is good clean fun for MiniMatt… although also among my new acquisitions is “Dead Leaves,” which I think earns me one “go straight to Hell, do not pass Go, do not try to make any excuses” card). Finally, I just wanted to say again that if anyone’s willing to make a banner–or gang up and make a banner–for our table at the Opportunity Fair on the 4th, it would be an enormous help to me. All it has to say is “Bethel Anime Club” or something of the sort, but it would be nice to let people know what our table actually is. I can do videos and pamphlets, but arts and crafts are not exactly my forte (read: I can’t draw a straight line, or even a curved one, and I can’t use scissors or glue without seriously injuring myself). I’m really looking forward to the party–I’ll see you all there! –Matthew
PS: I now finally have “Grave of the Fireflies” and “Millennium Actress,” so my existential crisis about not even owning two of my favorite films is over. Thank you Central Park Media and DreamWorks Home Entertainment! And may the Overpricing Trolls at Suncoast Motion Picture Co. be smitten with festering boils!
Perhaps you can come a day earlier and stay overnight with someone in the club?
Elizabeth R. Schlaupitz wrote: > Oh sure yeah, have the party the day before I get back. I can totally feel the > love there. hurmph. > > Liz, the forgotten member of anime club. > > > > (j/k of course) > > >
Oh sure yeah, have the party the day before I get back. I can totally feel the love there. hurmph.
Liz, the forgotten member of anime club.
(j/k of course)
Hey all– Gaah, I just realized that I forgot to send out an e-mail last night (too busy alternately cursing and praising VirtualDubMod)… well, what Matt said pretty much covered it all: –”On time” is about 6:00 (when we start eating), but people will be there starting at around 5:00 and we’d love to see you there early if you can make it. We’ll start the contest about 6:40 or so; remember that this is possibly your only chance ever in Anime Club to win a real, valuable prize! After the contest we’ll go down to the theater room (yes! a real, live theater room!) and watch our main attraction. –That map’s a bit misleading; where it shows a bunch of blank space between 39th and 37th is actually where you go through a series of parking lots from Silver Lake road to “The Landings,” where I assure you that no matter how close to a certain abandoned hotel everything might LOOK, the elevators have not and probably never will be full of blood. I think. –We’re watching some stand-alone thing; exactly what is not the point. I will bring along a batch of different items and we’ll have a vote; since we’re there to have fun I wouldn’t even object to watching something we’ve seen, or independently viewed, before (or something we watched in a slightly older incarnation of the Club, like “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds” or “Castle in the Sky” or… or… good grief, I don’t think we’ve EVER officially viewed “My Neighbor Totoro”). OK, the point is that we’ll have what can only be described as a “butt-load” of stuff to choose from, and in keeping with the theme of the party you’re welcome to bring your own DVDs and suggestions as well.
That’s all I can think of for now… I’ll see you all at the party! –Matthew
PS: Minor vulgarities make no sense. Who was the first guy who thought of using the phrase “butt-load” to describe a lot of stuff? Wouldn’t “arm-load” or even “back-of-the-knee-load” make more sense? Well… whatever.
Hey all– The final episode of Tide-Line Blue is now available on the Anime Club server; it represents an uplifting and charmingly naïve ending to an uplifting and charmingly naïve show. The last two Mushishi will be uploaded when/if C1 actually releases the things. I’ll e-mail you details about the party on Monday… look forward to it! –Matthew
Sorry you were unfortunate–our Japanese student left on Tuesday, at exactly the same time as the President’s plane AND that thing where the leftover pepper spray sent 19 people to the hospital, but he miraculously made it out not only unscathed but actually on time. Luck o’ the Nipponjin, I guess…
Well, if we’re on the subject of airline travel….
Two weeks ago I went to Houston and back. In fact, I turned on my radio on the way to MSP to hear the news about the foiled terror plot. (Great. Fabulous. Now I won’t get there until 2011.)
Oddly, I didn’t have much trouble at MSP, and I had even less trouble at IAH upon my return. Nor did I lose my luggage (and I am sorry to hear about my esteemed colleague Dr. Gossett’s problems). But you will all find it funny that, while I was going through security at MSP, my shoes “failed” during their trip through the X-ray machine.
I knew something was wrong when my carry-on bag (containing at least 150 pounds of metal — my keys, my glasses, my PSP (yes, Waas owns a PSP), my cell phone, etc.) came through immediately, but not my shoes. “Please step this way, sir, we need to run some further tests on your shoes.” So they took a piece of gauze, swabbed around the area my feet go in, and dropped it in some machine. The machine beeped after about five seconds, and I was apparently pronounced clean. “Here are your shoes, sir, have a nice day.”
But if I’d been arrested for unclean shoes, one of you would surely have come to bail me out, right?
Right?!
Anyway, I’ll try to make it tonight, but if not, though I have failed to find a recipe for cookies as good as I once knew how to make, I will come to the party with the best store-bought alternative I know of! — JW
Quoting Matthew Fisher :
> Yeah, but as expensive as the tracking would be for the airlines, > purchasing a piece of luggage made of sapient pearwood would probably be > even more expensive… > > See, I think that they should get some actual use out of the > drug-sniffing dogs: train different dogs to sniff different drugs and > then associate each major airport with a different substance. (Each > continent could fall under a different category: Asia could be > aphrodisiacs, Europe could be hallucinogens, and North America could be > painkillers, for example. Within those London could be, say, > Phencyclidine and Amsterdam could be LSD.) When each bag left its origin > airport they could stuff some of the drug associated with its > destination in an outside pocket, and then no matter where the bag ends > up they’ll know where to send it just by checking which dog barks. > Brilliant, right? And the best part is that they could make remembering > things easy by simply naming each dog after its associated city: > “Cairo’s sniffing crack, time to send that bag to Egypt!” > > PS: Of course the stalwart and untemptable nature of airport baggage > handlers would ensure that this system would never be abused in illegal > and unBethical ways… >
— Jack R. Waas Assoc. Prof. of Chemistry Bethel University College of Arts and Sciences 3900 Bethel Drive St. Paul, MN 55126 http://cas.bethel.edu/dept/chemistry/jwaas.html