UP

We saw UP yesterday. In 3D.
And for those of you not inclined to read my reviews I'm gonna start of with a youtube version of the premovie. The latest short film from Pixar.
I present to you Partly Cloudy=D



I seriously think all the "bad" babies are much cuter than all the good babies. I mean, look at that porcupine!!!=D=D


Now to the review.
I cried. No movie has ever made me cry. Ever. It wasn't hulking, but there was certainly at least on tear rolling down my cheek at the start sequence.
It was the sweetest movie I have seen in positively years. If I have ever seen something so heartfelt and fragile that manages to be funny at the same time, ever.
Most often with these movies it's the side characters, the ones that just is there, but doesn't have that much influence on the movie or the plot, that saves them from being sappy and dreary.
With UP that was not the case.
Carl, the main character, was one of the sweetest old men you can think of, complete with the grouchiness and the sad past and the sweet and sappy core that makes him instantly loveable. The kind of man that just annoys you, until you get to know him and why he is that way.
Russel, the little side-kick boy was also believable, and absolutely lovable.
As I mentioned I saw it in 3D, which I have never done before. And it was awesome.
And Pixar do make beautiful movies. And this one really was.
When the light streamed through the balloons, and all those vibrant colours, I just... oh....

Moral is: Has to be seen. In 3D if possible.
Trailer time=D

I have been proven wrong

Up until now, every single anime I have ever watched has been full of shrieks and super duper shrill voices. I'll probably never get why the Japanese think that ear-splittingly shrill voices are cute, to me all they mean is that if I don't turn it off immediately I get a migraine.
This has held true to all anime I have ever bothered to watch. Some very few are bearable to watch (these include Pokémon, Digimon, and Bottle Fairies), most I simply can't stand.
This has forced me to swear off just about all anime, not even bothering to try.
However today I sampled Michiko to Hachin, just because it was there, and I needed to practise my listening skills. The conversation turned out to be too complex for me, but the anime was simply awesome.
There were no shrieks and no super-duper-ultra-happy-kawaii voices. They all sounded like normal people, and the story line is tragic enough to be interesting, even thou it thus far seems a bit cliché.
I have thus far watched 1 and a half episode, and I am pretty sure I will make it through all 22.

So if you are tired of cutesy, noisy anime, and would like something calmer, more realistic, and more adult, I really recommend sampling this one^^,

I think I'll pass the JLPT

I did some self-testing for the JLPT test, since I bought a book with all the questions and answers from the 2007 test.
And you know what? I think I'll pass the test with a reasonable grade. I didn't do all the questions, and I noticed getting fewer right answers the further out in the test I got, but still of the about 25-30 questions I did, I got about 85-90% right, and I think that's pretty good.
I noticed the biggest issue I have is that my vocabulary is a bit small. The questions I got wrong was mostly because I didn't understand the question right, and just gambled on an option.
So I will just keep cramming my vocabulary until I can understand everything that happens in my test books^^,
がんばってよ^^,

I just might as well stop eating

So some fellow eating peanuts on the same plane as me will kill me, okey? Not to mention what eating one myself will do. Just about all other nuts will make me insanely ill, in a variety of ways. Beans will make me ill to my stomach in the toilety sense of the expression, meaning I can't have soy sauce on the my sushi among other things. I can only eat chocolate in tiny amounts, which will in any case usually cause me to sneeze. Chili will cause my mouth to have open soars.
Have you any idea how many kinds of food contain either nuts, beans or chili, or a combination of the three.
I can't even eat caramel pudding!
I can't eat Indian food, I have to me extremely careful with Asian food, I have to read every freakin' label of every kind of food or candy I ever buy.
The latest on my list of foods I can't have is milk. Raw milk that is, not boiled or cooked milk. Not yet anyway. I had milk on my cereal yesterday, and I was glued to the toilet more or less the rest of that day.
I just might as well stop eating!

OMG! It's Giles!!!

So my pal D is making me watch Repo (click the title).
And there is Giles, and he looks young and is singing, and there's gore. I WANT this on DVD!

And just in case you did not know, Giles' real name Anthony Head. But to me he will always be Giles^^,
Just like Nathan Fillion always will be Mal, and Sean Gunn always will be Kirk.^^,

I will have to borrow Repo from D or S, so that I can watch in full. It's a little hard to catch all the is going on when you are having a conversation at the same timeXP

Things are sucky today

I got a mail today. From FU Oslo where I take my Japanese classes.
My Japanese class has been cancelled because there were too few who had registered to take it.=(
I feel like crying right now. I had counted on the training to help prepare myself for the JLPT test. And I love those classes.
Oh well

All new art will go here

I am leaving DeviantArt.
I have been using DA for over 3 years and lately the site has lost all my trust. They have added share buttons, and due to the TOS (terms of agreement) the sites the share buttons belong to have, I don't want them.
And not only will they not remove them, they are being very childing about it. Calling us who want them to be optional all sorts of thing, including childish, paranoid, narrow minded etc.
They keep telling us that removing them will only hurt ourselves, but if it was that way why won't they give us the option to choose for our selves? I believe that they way they see it, if we get to choose not have our art linked to on sites like FaceBook and Reddit, they will loose the free PR it is for their site, and that is why they are taking away our control.
So I am leaving DeviantArt.

I don't really want to start in a new art society, just to have this happen to me again in three years.
So fom now on, this blog will be my art site. All my new art (I won't backlog) will be posted here. Can't guarantee it will be often or at all, but that is the way I will do it from now on.
My poetry won't go here thou. I will make a new blog for that=j

And while we are on the subject of art: I have bought colouring books today^^, And coloured pencils.
I have decided that I enjoy colouring more than actually drawing. I like colours, and I am actually good at that. It's the outlines and proportions and such that I suck atXP
So there might be some showing off of my (hopefully) awesome colouring skillsXP

And just BTW, I will still be keeping all of my DA accounts. (Partially 'cos DA doesn't allow you to delete your actual accounts.) So commenting and faving of other people's art will still occur=D

They did WHAT to the song?! (otherwise known as the Disney rant)

Remember I told you about Ponyo? The adorable and deep new Studio Ghibli movie? Yeah.
A movie like that needs no help in being the wonder that it is. Obviously Disney thinks otherwise.



Can someone please explain to me how taking that beautiful, whimsical song and turning into THAT could make it better? (It's the Japanese version first and then the American one after.)

You know, I am really starting to loathe Disney with a passion! Honestly I am starting to detest them down to the deepest reaches of my soul. (Note: I am here talking about the Disney media conglomerate here. Thou many (not all) of the actors and artists they employ may be awful in their own right they are not the ones making Disney the horror that it presents itself as today.)
Not only do they feel the need to control the copyright law, effectively making it so that nothing ever made by Disney will be public property. Ever. This is utter hypocrisy of course, seeing as at least 75% of their material was used from public property (Snow White, Hercules, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame to name a few), and now they are doing their very best to make sure no one enjoys Disney for free.

Lets name a few examples to make the horror that is the Disney Law department known throughout the world shall we?

First example:
GummiTarzan (Rubber Tarzan in English) is a Norwegian book written by a Norwegian author. It has no connection in any way shape or form to Disney, or the Disney movie, except ofcourse for the second part of the title.
So when a Norwegian school class wanted to make a scene production of the book of course Disney has to shoot them down. Disney claimed copyright violation and to my better knowledge the play was never performed. Because of the name Tarzan. Which as far as I know Disney doesn't even own. But then again I could be wrong.
I actually met a Disney lawyer once, a Norwegian one, and told her about this. She told me she did not know of this particular case (which I a valid point of course), but that of course they would not be allowed to produce the play of they used any of the songs from the movie. (Mark that I had already told her it was based on a book.) To which I repeated that it was produced on a book and had nothing to do with the movie, music or otherwise.
The only answer she could come up with was to repeat that they could not use the songs.

Example two:
I can't tell you where this took place, but it was probably in the states.
A kindergarten wants nice pictures on the wall. So the kindergarten aunties paint Mickey and Donald and other Disney characters on the walls. How very awful of them, don't you think?
I don't, but Disney did. The not only sued the kindergarten for damages, but also made them take murals down.
I unfortunately can't find the article where I read this, seeing as it happened years ago, but just google "Disney sues kindergarten" and you get no less than 120.000 hits.

Want more of these facts.
Visit here:
The truth about Disney

Mark that I did not write the content of that site, and therefore cannot voach for all of the facts being actual facts.


My point being is Disney is getting too big, and to self righteous. They should be made to understand that they can't control the world.
Also I have no idea how I got from the song to the rantXP

And just one more thing.
When Warner had a similar case on their hands, with a kindergarten paining their characters on the walls, not only did they express that they thought it was cool, they sent some of their own artists to have them paint the walls so that it would look just right. Still think Disney is better?