Past two days of cleaning-up was tough. The dust was expected, but the heat made things worse. Head hurts like hell. Good amount of progress, though. It’ll probably take a while longer to actually complete the cleanup, but now I have space. When I start re-sorting the stuff I took out, that’s when the real pain begins. Let’s see if I can actually part with those books.
A little side-project I’ve finally gotten around starting is the Metro Manila Geek Map. As this post’s title implies, it’s a work-in-progress. Pretty basic right now, a link to a store’s official site (if any), and maps to the locations of the branches. For now, I’m cataloging the places I’ve actually visited, hopefully it’ll be of some use to others.
Let’s see where it goes from there. Check it out here.
After a long decision period and a little flipping through, I decided to finally get the following graphic novels:
Martial Law Babies by Arnold Arre
I loved Arnold Arre’s The Mythology Class; even bought it when it was first published in single issues (and lost all of them -_-; ). Flipping through this in the store brought back quite a few memories from the 80’s; guess I’ll need to set aside some quiet time for this to get the full nostalgia effect.
Love is In the Bag by Ace Vitangcol and Jed Sipoy
Browsing though gave an impression of manga type humor with some pinoy flavor, much like hearing someone speak perfect English with a distinctly pinoy accent, and I meant that in a good way. I’m curious to find out how this kind of mix would work, and how the material compares to the sources of its inspiration.
Mind you, these things aren’t new. Martial Law Babies was published on 2008, and Love is In the Bag is already on Vol 4 (I think Vol 5 will end the series?). Better late than never, eh?
After an epic Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace review, Mike Stoklasa is back with a review of Avatar. It’s a more manageable 20 minutes now, and given that Avatar has fewer… “inconsistencies” compared to the subject of his previous review, it still manages to exhibit the same humor and level of film-making analysis as before.
Mike Stoklasa’s review is really long @$$, but seems to fly faster than Anakin’s pod-race sequence! It’s a bit like Film Making 101 meets Yahtzee. The humor can get disturbing at times, but it is brutally honest with an eye for the structure and purpose of film.
The whole thing is thankfully broken down into 10min chunks. Watch the first, however, and one simply must finish the remaining 60 minutes (parts 2-7 after the break).
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