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Alright. Due to too many incomplete drafts piling up I hate emb-ing photos, this list is there just so it'll be easier to refer to previous events which I took my own sweet time over are finally finished.
Note: It'll not be done in chronological order since they're all in varying stages of (in)completion.
**Note: THE CANCELLATIONS ARE CLICKABLE! THEY ARE LINKS! CLICKY-CLICK!
1] S'pore StreetFest 2008 - D'J Party *DONE 03/04!* 2] NOMAD Preview 3] S'pore StreetFest 2008 - Hidama *DONE 06/04!* 4] S'pore StreetFest 2008 - WoW! Band Finals 5] NOMAD Fringe Festival 6] Superheroes Songs @ Esplanade Flipside *DONE 04/04!* 7] Miyuki Red White Animation Song Battle 8] S'pore Toy & Comic Convention *DONE 06/05* 9] NOMAD @ AMKSS 10] Cosfest @ D'Marquee 11] End of O' Levels 12] Prom Night! 13] TPRAWKS 2008 14] Bitch Rant of DOOM 15] First Job Ever 16] Farewell Assembly 17] Anime Festival Asia 2008 18] Project Breakout 2: A Japanesque Christmas 19] SOYA 2009 20] Ongaku Avenue 2009 21] Haute D'Horreur Camp *(PARTIALLY DONE) 22] Licensed to Play event 23] S'pore Streetfest 2009 - D'J Party 24] JCC Camp 25] SPP Camp
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Although I couldn’t make it for the cosplay event yesterday, I decided to give License2play 2009 a shot anyway. It wasn’t anything like AFA (Anime Festival Asia) or even the S’pore Toy & Comic Convention. Not to insult it, but it seems like a really scaled-down event meant for heart-land gamers. Especially considering online games such as World of Warcraft (WOW) & Maple Story had made their presences known in the hall.
Not surprisingly, there was an (alarmingly) large number of KIDS present. When I say kids, I refer to brats ranging from those still being pushed around in prams to the pre-pubescent mummy boys. Of course, that meant everyone and their grandma came along (I swear I’m not joking. I saw more than just a few grannies hobbling along in there). This made the atmosphere feel more like a pasar malam than an actual event.
Yukinko Akira. Looking at his sheer exuberance made me feel exhausted.
Finally, the movie about what's arguebly the most hardcore good guy on the X-Men is OUT. Ever since the comic series about Wolverine's origins was published, I was kinda excited about the movie. Bryan Singer made X-Men awesome =)
*SPOILERS AHEAD Now Wolverine is not exactly my fave X-Men here. Partly because of his part in the love triangle with Scott Summers & Jean Grey. As well as the numerous other mutant and non-mutant females he has been romantically linked with thoroughout the X universe.
Anyway, the movie had plenty of action and some cool fight scenes. Action as in, extensive property damage. Seriously. Even in that short scene where Scott Summers got captured, the school building was wrecked beyond repair (because he lost his sunglasses). (THIS IS NOT THE ABOVE-MENTIONED SCENE BTW)
So imagine the kind of destruction whenever the main lead comes in. Whenever Wolverine fights, it is without any of the sleek moves of typical martial arts experts. No clever manipulations, no acrobatics. Just pure brawn and the rough, brutal blows which are more like those in real life. Of course, he destroys a whole lotta things which happened to be in his way while fighting. That’s real (property damage) for you.
The best fight? The one where Deadpool kept teleporting at a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speed and had all but pwned Wolverine & his brother left me gaping. That was wicked awesome!
This guy is not any sleeker than Deadpool, but he will be, if you get what I mean/watched the movie. ;-)
The best part, nevertheless, was the sound effects. I don’t know how on earth they generated such sounds to begin with. But whatever they did, it was a stroke of sheer genius. They made the fight scenes so much more real. I don’t ever recall the sound of bones breaking more vividly than in this movie. It’s this indistinguishable mesh of the cracking of hard bones splintering against the soft but firmer flesh and tearing it beyond repair. In an instant. Like a squelch and a crack. I don’t know how to describe it. But honestly, it is this sound which made one wince from the brutality of the onscreen blows.
The other X-Men cameos didn't make much of an impression on me. Since they didn't have enough lines and all. But I guess the casting was okay if the whole point is to make them fade a little into the background and focus on Wolverine. Gambit was boyish-looking though. And while he does some cool card tricks (LEVITATION), I don't really see the Cajun charm which this Prince of Thieves possessed in the comic universe. I suppose it's because Gambit is kinda young here. But since Gambit & Rogue had both appeared in X-Men movies...I wonder if they'll be matched up (like their on-off romance in the comic) in future movies?
*LOOK AT THE BLACK GUY AT THE RIGHT CORNER LOL!
Then Gambit's 'fight' with Wolverine wasn't quite what I expected. Gambit can change potential energy in any object into kinetic energy. Hence the cards can fly and all. But his most notable move is to use the cards as explosives. He did a variation of it in that fight by charging a STAFF then swinging into the scene like Tarzen and banging it on the ground causing a massive shockwave. I'm not particularly impressed. While the move's kinda cute, I still want to see how he makes use of exploding poker cards to win a fight. By the way, he didn't stand a chance against Wolverine.
To be frank, I was kinda disappointed with the other X-Men cameos. Scott Summers probably had one of the larger cameos, aside from Gambit. At that time, he was in high school and got captured by then William Stryker for his mutant-torturing Weapon X program. Gambit appeared because he was the only one to have escaped the hellish island facility where they did the experiments, and thus had to aid Wolverine into finding it. Hell, even Professor X appeared at the very end to whisk them all to safety.
Yeah, and Emma Frost appeared as the sister of Wolverine's beloved. Who got captured. And coincidentally became the automatic leaders of the young mutant escapees along with Scott Summers. It sorta resonates with the comic. Because the two 'leaders' were involved at one point. But I highly doubted their future dallience started with this. (When Jean became the Dark Phoenix thing and supposedly died but actually was in suspended animation somewhere because a small part of her consciousness wasn't destroyed with the Dark Phoenix persona) Confusing, right? This Jean Grey transmorgification into the Phoenix thingy made me ignore the comic for a while.
I heard Storm was suppose to have a cameo too. You can see a brief scene of child Storm in the unedited trailer ARRGH. Why did they cut her out anyway?
Yeah, that was pretty much how they were weaved into the main plot. While the whole movie is supposed to tell how Wolverine came about and all, just slotting the other characters in like that just…ruffles my feathers. I mean, Cyclops & Gambit played key roles in the X-Men universe and having them regulated to minor placements (damsel damn man in distress and helper respectively) in this manner doesn’t quite do them much justice.
I’m a comic fan in a way and thus comparisons between the original comic and the movie adaptation is inevitable. For all the fuss about Wolverine’s origins in the comic, the movie is an understatement of sorts. The mystery surrounding the Weapon X program was stripped away completely. The truth was laid bare. Perhaps a little too bare.
I know again that the point of the movie was to reveal the truth about everything, but I’d prefer if they hinted at a greater conspiracy hidden within the exposed truth itself. I usually don’t like being kept in suspense, but I feel that they should keep some of the dark mysteriousness that shrouded Wolverine’s origins for years in the comic. Making everything crystal clear in one fell swoop lets down the fans’ expectations somehow.
The part about him losing his lover then wasn’t as heart-wrenching as I thought it’ll be. All the heart-stopping action (and mass destruction of the surroundings) probably destroyed the mood for that kind of romantic scene. When I watched that, I just thought it was a great pity. That’s all.
But one thing though. I don't know who this guy is, but he has that near-perfect wide-eyed look of the innocent. He plays young WOLVERINE.
Which made for a good comparison if you want to take note of the whole lost innocence thing. It's like mutating from a lamb to a...Well...Wolverine. See here. He went from this: to this
Wolverine's brother is named Victor. Victor Creed, I think. The name rings any bells? SABRETOOTH! WTF RANDOM CAMEO AGAIN!
The movie was fast-paced and cut straight to the point without any long conversations and other distractions to take your attention away from the hardcore battles. One might have to possess some knowledge of the issues concerning Wolverine in order to fully appreciate the movie (and understand some parts). Yet, if when a comic fan watches it, he/she might be somewhat disappointed. The ending was a little unsatisfactory (as with most movies). But tis good nevertheless. So go watch it!
We had the official first marketing lecture today. By this guy called Rajah. Our whole class was late by 5 mins for the lecture. He was still there despite his earlier warning about abandoning lecture if a certain number wasn't on time.
But as it turns out, he did walk out of the theatre. Except that an encounter with some student smokers (and the resulting conflict) somehow enabled his return into the theatre. Funny guy, the lecturer.
The lecture was filled with little anecdotes and mentions of other seemingly unrelated topics which made things interesting, of course. Like this Chinese restaurant in London where customers are attracted by the service (or lackthereof actually). It kinda makes me want to visit the place myself one day. Then maybe than I wouldn't be so pissed with the service standard here in Singapore, if I had something worse to compare to.
I spent the better part of the lecture trying to keep up with the slideshow speed since I didn't buy the notes and forgone bringing the textbook. Only to find out later that the lecturer would UPLOAD the damn slideshow online and he wouldn't "allow our writing speed to dictate his life". I just wasted 4 pages of notepaper there. T_T
Overall, the lecture was kinda fun. Even if there were more personal recounts than literal readings from the text, he got the point across anyway. Am definately looking forward to the next lecture =)
The next ICP lecture though was kinda dry. I wasn't bored but the energy level somehow dipped a little. If her lecture had been first, I would say she's good enough. But she paled in comparison to the previous guy. To her credit though, she involved real-life applications and included these funny vids (about miscommunication) as well. I LOL-ed at the Bush one.
A funny take on why Learning English is important.
Dialodge Session with George Bush *WATCH THIS ONE!* This was actually a parody of a older comedy skit. The original one is below.
I had to watch this more than once to understand it. The rapidfire conversation makes it hard to catch. This skit is, by the way, about baseball. Hence the first base, second base and so on.
Btw, here's another commercial on Learning English. It's BANNED though for obvious reasons.
NOTE: You might want to lower the volume coz this is kinda NSFW (Not Safe For Work)or NSFH (Not Safe For Home) for that matter.
Later in the day, we got to enter studio 19! It was kinda small but they had some cool (and very costly) equipment. It makes me a little edgy to be together in such a cramp, accident-prone area with millions of $$$'s worth of equipment. WHAT IF. WHAT IF one of them expensive cameras went thunk against the wall?
Finally took a nearly complete class photo though (short of Grace who was still on LOA). (No, our class is not deprived of clothes to wear. We just chose to coordinate an uniform look (White SP shirt) that day.)
This has got to be the first time I reviewed before watching the whole movie first. But that's coz Repo! The Genetic Opera is so freakin AWESOME that I can't even wait for it to appear on free video sites to watch it.
Repo! The Genetic Opera takes place in 2056, where human organ failure has become a global pandemic. In such times, a biotech company GeneCo had risen to meet the new demands for organ supplies. It comes up with easy organ payment plans (like installments). However, should payment not be made on time, GeneCo sends out its masked RepoMen to repossess the financed organs. Which roughly equates to ripping out the organs while their owner is still alive.
The main character is seventeen year old Shilo (Played by Alexa Vega of the Spy Kids franchise) who is infected with a rare blood disorder (courtesy of her late mum). Her overprotective father Nathan tries his best to protect her from the outside world by confining her in the house. Meanwhile, he juggles another night job as a Repo Man (doing the dirty work of GeneCo).
GeneCo's ailing boss Rotti Largo is troubled with the problem of a successor, even though he has three children. The eldest, Luigi Largo, is an ambitious psychopath while demented second son Pavi Largo who wears the skin of other people's faces. The only daughter of the family, Amber Sweet, is a drug addict to the painkiller Zydrate (which is extracted from the brains of corpses) and to the surgeries which follow. Shilo, having reached the rebellious stage, sneaks off to explore the outside world and ends up catching the attention of some particulary unsavoury characters but finds the truth about her family entanglements. What happens in the rest of the film is for you to find out.
Trailer
Basically Repo is like the Rocky Horror Picture Show meets SAW with bits of the Phantom of The Opera & V For Vendetta thrown in. Yeah. It makes no sense when I say it like this. But seriously. It mixes so many genres together and it's so crazy, it actually works.
The awesomely outlandish array of characters all hold your attention. The cast was brilliant in terms of acting and singing. They got Sarah Brightman to play the talented soprano superstar Blind Mag. She was formerly blind, but had biogenetic eyes implanted by GeneCo. In exchange, Blind Mag must endrose the GeneCo company and perform in their great publicity stunt, the Genetc Opera. Blind Mag has this lovely, ethereal beauty and with Sarah Brightman's superb vocals, made this small character very memorable.
But there were a few surprises too. PARIS HILTON plays the role of spoiled princess Amber Sweet. But at first, I didn't even realise that Paris Hilton was even in the movie to begin with. But don't let this put you off the movie. Paris Hilton did quite well in her role this time. She proved that yes, she can sing and it was nothing like the Stars Are Blind crap. Even though her singing parts are small. But it was enough to tell she has some potential left. She is the one in the black Domatrix!leather outfit and flanked by two muscle men in Zydrate Anatomy.
However, one of the more fascinating characters was the Zydrate supplier known simply as GraveRobber. He looks like the love child of Legolas (Lord of The Rings) and the Joker (Batman). He's the maniacally grinning guy with the glowing blue Zydrate injection gun. This drug lord is the on-off lover of Amber Sweet but does not interfere with the power struggles within GeneCo. In fact, the half-sing,half-speak manner he performs Zydrate Anatomy reminds me of Sweeney Todd. Or the Emcee of the Cabaret musical. And the actor (Terrance Zdunich) is also the co-producer and co-writer of Repo. Pretty multi-talented eh? A minor character actually scoring one of the catchiest songs in the whole rock opera.
"Zydrate Anatomy" performed by Paris Hilton, Alexa Vega, Terrance Zdunich
Alexa Vega fits the role of sickly teenager Shilo pretty well. She shows off her singing mettle in "Infected" whereby she wallows in teenage angst and rages against her mother for passing the accursed blood disorder to her and again in the punk number "Seventeen" where she proclaims her supposed freedom at age seventeen. I didn't like the latter song though. It sounded too much like Avril Lavigne and did't quite fit in with the rest of the movie soundtrack. But it was utterly random. The room just suddenly burst into a glowing pink bordello-like place and a hot pretty boyJoan Jett just appears out of nowhere and provides the rockin guitar sounds. The randomosity and the pretty guitar boy were just about the only thing(s) that I liked about that track.
"Seventeen" performed by Alexa Vega
One of my favourite songs was the duet between Blind Mag & Shilo. Apparently Blind Mag's Shilo's Godmother. In this scene, Blind Mag stops by Shilo's house to speak to her before she goes to perform her final aria for GeneCo. What I liked was how the song was part-conversation and manages not to be too cheesy despite the whole reunion-and-parting concept. The high-pitched Chase The Mornings was rather nice to listen to as well.
"Chromaggia" by Sarah Brightman [SPOILER!]
All in all, Repo! The Genetic Opera is an imaginatively original movie. I think it'll be this generation's cult classic (like The Rocky Horror Picture Show back in the '70s). The entire surgery-oriented setting doesn't seem that all far-fetched when there are surgery addiction has already taken root in our world and plastic surgery is easily available to the masses. And then there is the omnipresent threat of new and potentially deadly viruses which often borders on becoming an epidemic. So the massive human organ failure thing? Possible. I'm a sucker for dyfunctional movies with dyfunctional characters like this. Although the gruesome organ repossession scenes (Repo Man RIPS the bloody organ from the LIVING victim) did startle me at first, it sorta added to the whole appeal of the movie. I mean, how often can you find a gory sci-fi movie with a Gothic setting and Opera Rock as the soundtrack?
I don't know much about some of the other characters but their appearences alone are enough to pique my interest. Such as Pavi Largo here. As of now, I'm patiently waiting for the wave of fanfiction and fanart to appear (as they always do with phenomenal films like these) while scouring the Internet for leaked movie clips. This is a rock opera, with minimal dialodge spoken and is a visual spectacle that simply takes your breath away. it's not as grandoise as Moulin Rouge, but makes up for it with the almost plausible bleakness felt throughout the movie. I don't even know why I'm writing this since Repo is a movie you have to experience for yourself. It may not cater to the tastes of the conservative and narrow-minded though. So if you're one of them, beware.
I really really want to watch this movie (but it's not released worldwide) simply after listening to the soundtrack alone. But the OST doesn't cover all 57 songs in the movie. Only 22 of them are in the soundtrack and has since yesterday, been played a grand total of 128 times on my computer already. Yeah, I'm rather obsessed with it now.
I reccomend trying out "At The Opera Tonight" which features the whole cast or "Let The Monster Rise" by Shilo & her Dad. Or "I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much" which is a raw ballad sung by Shilo to her Dad after their misunderstanding (This is an understatement actually) was resolved. Or maybe "Needle Through A Bug" which is an intense conversation-like piece between the GraveRobber & Shilo. If you like opera, there's "Chromaggia" which is the swan song of Blind Mag. Then there is the already mentioned "Zydrate Anatomy" & "Chase The Morning" which are damn addictive and...
I wanna rant about the exams today and what woes Mother Nature & Fate bestowed upon me and so on and so forth. But amazingly enough, I'm actually sick of being an angry emo writing so much about nothing much.
There aren't many interesting things happening in my life. Unless you want to count me breaking a chair for the first time simply by sitting on it, then ya. I broke my tutor's chair yesterday. I swear it ain't my fault. The base just splindered. And no, this incident is of no indication of my weight in any case.
Winston & Joled was talking about some song on Youtube. From the bits of lyrics I heard from them, "I can ride my bike with no handle bars" "I can split an atom with a molecule", "I can end the planet in a holocaust"...I thought it was another crappy lame song like the Roxas song here.
Then I watched the vid myself and hey, it has MEANING to it. Well, some meaning anyway. Just observe the two guys at the start riding bikes with no handle bars when they come to a road junction with two signs - A Dove representing Peace & A "C" sign representing "Corporation". One chooses the path for money and the other goes for a free life. Just let the chain of thoughts go on from there and you'll get it. And watch the video. =)
Choosing a place so far from the heartlands for study sessions does have its benefits after all...On one of my many trips to the Esplanade library, I chanced upon their free performances programme @ the Concourse. It was at first, this duo playing acoustic guitars (whose names I can't remember) and covering pop tunes. They made me look more closely at acoustic music in the end.
Because of this, I returned on the 20th of June (Before my birthday) to check out Jack, Rai & Alvin and their superhero-themed performance. Which lasted three days btw.
By now, I'm sure most people (in Singapore at least) should be familiar with the names Jack & Rai already. But this was before the Fa La La song played on radios.
They covered songs related to superhero shows (e.g. Kiss From A Rose by Seal from some Batman movie/show) and their own spoofs. These vids are from different days of their performances.
Spiderpig [Spiderman parody]
...Ok, so this was kinda lame.
Hero Songs in E Minor (Transformers/Captain Planet/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
They actually brought out an Optimus Prime plushie ("SOFTimus Prime!") and started advertising the transformability of it.
One Week [Barenaked Ladies cover]
Crazy speed singing! This is probably the only song which sounds better with speed. I was gaping at the speed at which he sung at 1.00.
It's a bit faster than usual, but didn't lose the innate wry cheeriness of the song. That I like =) And Jack is not singing backing vocals for once!
Towards the end of their 2nd set, the boys tried (in vain) to distract the audience with an age-old trick ("Hey, look over there" *points in opposite direction*). Jack then ran off to nowhere. Which gave them some room to make up a story about how Jack got kidnapped and how they need to call on various superheroes for help. They used that as an opening to sing some superhero-related songs. Like the next one.
Superman (Five For Fighting cover)
This was the Smallville theme song. Jack's soulful rendition of this song lulled me into a somewhat peaceful mood i guess.
In the end, Jack still didn't appear. Shame though. I was half-expecting him to suddenly burst on the scene in some cheesy cape+external underwear suit.
Throughout the show, they kept making references to that line from Spiderman ("With great power comes great responsibility"). Somehow, their show had a really casual atmosphere. It's like a small gathering amongst friends with the boys clowning around (hence, the lame jokes) and just...having fun. They didn't seem to worry about showmanship or anything in front of the public. It's cool that way =)
(This is my scrappy Streetfest booklet which got trodden on by accident, hence the shoeprint at the corner)
I arrived there late (as usual) and so, missed out on quite a number of bands.
And then I was running around taking photos and ended up missing a couple more bands. But thus far, these are the ones I've paid attention to.
It wasn't such a good idea to hold a cosplay/music event in such a small area of Suntec City (Where the CONVENTION HALLS could be used instead). To make things worse, the D'J Party clashed with some Canon promotion event. Which resulted in a lose-lose situation for both D'J Party peeps and Canon. The latter gets pissed off by the photography of cosplayers (takes up space) and the rest of us are peeved by them stopping random people to hawk their wares (takes up space). As you can see, this is the crowd AFTER the cosplay competition.
Despite a large no. of people leaving after the cosplay competition, the place was still considerably crowded.
Quis
Quis is relatively new on the scene (3 months old!). Did you know the vocalist was a former child actor? He played the character "Luo Tou" in the 1990s' mandarin drama "Tou Fu Street". In addition to that, he was a finalist in the first generation of Campus Superstar. I was kinda surprised to see him performing in a J-rock band because of all the Mandarin-related work he did.
Anyway, the videos don't do the band justice (Youtube never does). They were certainly much, much better live.
ALONES [by Aqua Timez] (Bleach)
The first cover of ALONES I've heard. These guys are pretty updated loh. At that time, ALONES was the latest Bleach opening theme.
Driver's High [by L'Arc~en~Ciel] (GTO)
Skyler
The vocalist had this uber-strong voice which is easily identified too. However, they seem to have a knack for choosing songs by artists with uniquely different voices (hard to emulate). It's great that they are challenging themselves to cover this kind of songs but they don't always work out though.
Jam [by YUI]
I like Skyler's cover of this. The vocalist's voice doesn't take your attention away from the music (which is actually pleasantly laid-back in a way) but manages to stand out anyhow. =)
YUI has this high-pitched, whiny-ish voice which sets her apart from other J-Pop songstresses, but it tends to grate on my nerves sometimes (That's just me though).
Ooh, I like the flute (Is that a flute?) solo at 2.43. And also the scat thingy she does before that. While it's a little faster than normal, I think it turned quite nicely.
Shiina Ringo (original vocalist) has one of those love-em-or-hate-em voices (with the occasional screeching and all). Just to note.
God Knows...[by Aya Hirano] (Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi)
I think this is a pretty decent cover (I've seen worse ones out there). Though it's kinda clear that the vocalist is quite tense. I'm not used to hearing this song being sung in a lower pitch(?). Aya Hirano has the typical Anime girl voice (a.k.a. High-pitched, squeaky-ish & annoying after prolonged exposure) and she did this song with much aplomb. So "God Knows..." is arguably a difficult song to cover. Kudos to Skyler for trying though.
This very performance led me to discover one of my all-time fave J-Rock songs. I'm partial to this cover since I saw it before the original. But once I got to know about X Japan's one, this cover version was quickly forgotten even though it is the only FEMALE cover version I've seen so far. Because once again, Skyler chose a song which is so closely tied to its original artists that anything else would pale in comparision.
X Japan is practically legendary and their vocalist Toshi had one of the more unique voices in the history of J-Rock. Attempting their songs is a whole new class of "difficult" regardless of whether you're keeping to the original style as much as possible or trying to imbue it with your own style.
Still, I like this cover enough. It's definately one of the better ones.
Although there were many Gothic characters around that day, this lady here caught my attention. She really stood out with her wild white tresses (complete with mask) and slender profile. For some reason she reminded me of Death from the Sandman comics. It's not the physical appearences, but the...mysterious charm they both possess.
Now this is one classy Gothic Lolita. Or should I even classify her as a lolita? She seems so much more mature than the others. The masquerade-like mask added a really nice touch to her poise.
Suzumiya Haruhi (Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi) CHIO!
Lavi (D. Gray Man)
Near (Death Note)
This young cosplayer was unfortunate enough to be the target of a teenage stalker. >_< I'm not kidding here..>_<...Fortunately, said teenage stalker didn't put him off cosplay permanently.
Reborn (Katekyo Hitman Reborn). This guy was with the KHR jumpsuit team. He's perched on Adult!Lambo's head (as seen by the turf of hair there).
Watching the team have fun makes me want to cosplay myself.
....Alright. It appears I fail at keeping schedules. It's been more than three weeks since Rotation #1. And I have no motivation to put up a 2ND one. Well....I shan't make any more promises then.
AS AND WHEN I LIKE, I SHALL PUT UP ANY RANDOM RECOMMENDATIONS THAT CATCHES MY FANCY.
Now, Youtube Recs. I spent a good amount of my time chancing upon videos there. Yes, chancing upon them. And my obsession then changes every other time (Meaning I can't infect share the addiction videos within that period of impulsive craze.
First up, D.GrayMan Crack!
Crack is basically a sub-genre of fandom in which lame references, nonsensical happening and character-mocking takes place. It is not meant to be taken seriously since it consists of parodies (Read you goddamn "Purists": PARODY).
Nevertheless, Crack continues to survive in every Anime. After all, we all need a good laugh (senseless or not) every now and then. A word of warning though; Crack might lead to brain-breaking and a whole new (Not neccessarily awe-inspiring) perspective on your fave Anime Idol. But so ahead anyway.
The very first D.GrayMan Crack videos were of the Channel Surf series. Created by Clefiea, it basically subs in the voices of random TV shows on random channels into the mini clips. I don't know if Clefiea herself actually channel-surfed to get all this, but either way, the series is a masterpiece. I reccomend Channel Surf 3 for its WTF moments!
Channel Surf #1
Tyki's name is horribly abused here. The steep cliff on which The Black Order HQ stands has been transformed into a pedophile's candy trap for kids. Allen & Lavi aren't wearing pants. 'Nuff said.
Channel Surf #2
One of the Fangirl triggers is at 2.53 (Priceless!). This is where Daisysa thinks he's a woman, Kanda finally decides to show off his hotness and Allen spends 25s cursing his Master nonstop.
Channel Surf #3
Komui had me riveted from the first line uttered. But my fave was this: "Ladies do not start fights but they can finish them" This has the most WTF moments with someone channeling Chewbacca and one of those irritating songs which gets stuck in your head (The more you hate it, the longer it stays). Here's the link: Annoyance Level 2
There are others as well, but I'm not going to put it up here. Feel free to explore though. Perhaps you may find something in them to laugh about.
