Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Out of the Loop

As usual, writing an entry on this blog these days is a leisure.  Today happens to be one of THAT days that I have extra time to do something aside from work.I've missed a lot of movies lately and only rely on other people's opinions about these movies I've  failed to catch:1. 3002. The Holiday
3. Pathfinder

Aside from movies, I don't know what's going on with Gil Grissom and Dr. Gregory House since I've ignored the boob tube for quite some time in favor of SLEEP.The only thing updated in my life is my precious I-Pod ... which I think is not that updated too.  Current songs on repeat are:
1. Hideaway - The Delays2. Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin (actually this is quite old, but I love it)3. This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race - Fall Out Boy4. Look After You - The Fray5. Just Say A Word - Josh KelleyOne pal is dying to upload Relient K songs, but I haven't seen him for a month either.
The only update I have is this:
For 103.5 K-Lite TheBlade fans (you know who you are) ... he's back on the air.  He's DJ-ing on jazz music these days (hehehe). You can check him out at Dream FM 106.7.  Don't have his on-board schedule, but I will get it from a very reliable source (A die-harder fan - I'm just a die hard fan, hehehe, she's THAT worse).

Saturday, March 10, 2007

The Wheel of Time Anime Series?




If JRR Tolkien is still alive, LOTR's breadth and scope will be that of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time.

The fact that Robert Jordan is alive and kicking (even health issues such as amyloidosis can't stop the non-tiring author --> Godspeed, man!) only means expansion of his universe is of daily construction. There are 11 and counting THICK books (other accompanying books not included)to prove this.

I've been stuck to Book 4: The Shadow Rising for almost 2 years now. And it's not because the book is bad. In fact, it's so darn interesting. But the inevitable circumstances such as work, movies, other books, and sleep, keep delaying me from finishing the thing.

The book is filled with so much detail that if you forgot about those details, you have to go back and read again so that you can catch up where the story is heading to. And that's what has been happening to me for the past two years.

Anyway, I'm a fan of anime and God knows how overworked my Full Metal Alchemist VCDs are. I also love Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Girl from Hell, and now my current fave is Blood +.

One afternoon while I was retracing my steps back to the Jordan's world, I was thinking that this series would make a very wonderful anime.

Why anime? Well, it's so impossible to make this into a movie due to the details and the length of the story. It's like making Tolkien's Silmarillion into a movie too (not a thick book but filled with so much detail). It's possible to make this as a TV series, but then i fear it might be done cheesily and that will be a big waste.


What makes this attractive as an anime is that the capabilities of the characters and the settings would be unlimited. You can make anything unimaginable in reality possible here.

There are wonderful anime directors out there who can make this one hell of a series. After all, anime directors are no strangers to magic, demons, magic swords, strange creatures, and virtual unknowns turning into something like a Dragon.

And besides, I'm too tired of re-reading this again and I want to move forward. If I only have a DVD copy of this (if it will ever exist)my journey with Rand Al'Thor wouldn't be as long as his.