I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA!

Also, yesterday (Tuesday), I went on a shopping spree with the money from my GST/HST Rebate cheque, and bought Kiki's Delivery Service and Revolutionary Girl Utena volume 3, "The Black Rose Blooms". I went to Metro Video in the basement of the old Simpson's building (the one with the Paramount Cinema) to get Kiki's Delivery Service and I had mentally rehearsed possible dialogue options in case the cashier assumed I really wanted to buy Spirited Away, since that's the one that most of the critics went goo-goo over and which won the Best Animated Feature Oscar while Kiki's Delivery Service is widely seen, I think unfairly, as one of Miyazaki's lesser films. But the clerk was boring and took my money without challenging me over my purchase. I did, however, get into an interesting conversation with a clerk at HMV shortly after because I had left the store without buying anything and I was trying to get a copy of the Free Montreal Mirror alternative newsweekly which was awkwardly behind the open glass door to check showtimes for Anger Management. I assumed at first he thought I was shoplifiting**, but, in fact, he noticed I was carrying around my Game Boy Advance and just wanted to chat about that, for some reason. (I showed him a tiny bit of Phantasy Star II, since Phantasy Star Collection was in my GBA. Of course, "I Want to Eat a Nut of Laerma!" is a Phantasy Star reference, so you can tell I'm a big fan of those old Sega RPGs...)

Also, I got 88% on a storyboard test!

By the way, I intend to write a review of Kiki's Delivery Service at some point, though I got some animation assignments I need to start complete first.

**Which I wasn't, I was just checking to see if HMV had either the All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku DVD or the first volume of Fruits Basket (which are both anime series), but they didn't, so I left and decided to get the Utena DVD, which I had spotted at the big Archambault store at Sainte Catherine's & Berri 2 weeks back, instead. But, awkwardly enough, the Paragraphe bookstore tote bag I carry around contains several DVDs (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Urusei Yatsura TV vol. 15, You're Under Arrest vol. 1 and Abba: The Definitive Collection, if you must know, plus the Kiki's Delivery Service DVD I had bought a couple of minutes before) I like to watch if I'm somewhere where there's a place I can play DVDs, though the DVDs weren't wrapped in cellophane, so, hopefully he would have figured out that these were my DVDs if he inspected my bag, which he didn't.

posted by Steve Brandon @ 5:03 AM