Sailing to Castletown

[avram]

I dunno, I’ve been kinda mopey recently, but today felt great. I know the exact moment it turned around: I was getting ready to do some shopping, and I wanted some music. I managed to find my CD player (which had been eluding me for several months), and I popped in Mark Knopfler’s Sailing to Philadelphia, and the moment the opening notes of “What It Is” hit my ears, I felt like all was right with the world. Thanks, kent_allard_jr! It didn’t hurt that the day was sunny and (relatively) warm.

After shopping, I went to Ground. Chatted a bit with the cute new barrista. Coffee with Splenda is starting to taste good to me. Finished off the Jack Staff book, and man, that was just great. It’s like reading a British Astro City, but more condensed, with the stories all tightly packed and interwoven. And, as I mentioned, with a great sense of design. And that shaded-nose thing he goofs up in Kane? He gets it working in Jack Staff

I also read the second (and, I think, last) volume of FLCL. There’s an intriguing visual drive to it — that’s what attracted me to the book in the first place — but man, it’s just sloppy and incoherent on both the plot and storytelling levels. I hope the anime is better than the manga. The art seems cleaner, anyway.

Comments

FLCL

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

I was hoping the manga would be more coherent than the anime, actually. The anime was enjoyable, but totally a mess in the same ways you describe the manga to be. The end credits are better than most US shows are in entirety, however.

I have the entire dubbed run (as aired on CN) on my TiVo, but I haven't voided my warranty enough to be able to extricate them by any method other than an analog dump to a VCR. That being said, I could dump them to tape for you sometime in late March. (that being roughly when I'll have 3 hours of free time I could devote to such a project)

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

You realize that FLCL has the most coherent ending of anything done by GAINAX?

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome! I think you'll like Golden Heart and The Ragpicker's Dream too.