Curiosity Killed the Cat

Kino is the Doctor?!?!

Now wouldn't that be trippy.

Speaking of phonebooths (well, phones), I got a new phone finally! My old phone started giving up the ghost and would shut down at random times, so I decided to get a new one. The best part about buying was seeing the sales rep go ".....that's old" at my i90.

Got Kino v1 today. I wrote about it here. In summary: I love it. Need more.

Also, ONE MORE DAY. GIBBORZ ME MOVIE INFO DAMMIT.

And Kino run next Saturday to pick me up a copy of Kino 10.

Maybe I should make another Kino wall.

It feels distinctly wrong to glance at the display of toilets at the Mitsuwa Center and go, "Hey, that's the same brand of toilets we have at work."
Also, I have the latest Ego-Wrappin' disc, Vermouth Flowers which is a collaboration with Katteni-Shiyagare which is apparently a bit of a jazz/swing band, and whose vocalist has a deep raspy voice. Only the title song on the disc is a collab, actually, the other two are Katteni-Shiyagare songs, but I like their sound. I'll probably be looking into their stuff more in the future.
Also, as I predicted, I was able to pick up Gakuen Kino from the SJ Kinokuniya, since they have an extensive selection of Dengeki Bunko, compared to SF's rather tiny (1 shelf) collection.

Posted in the Kino no Tabi LJ comm, but anyone here who's a Kino fan might be interested.

Survived day 1.
Here's to many more ahead.

If you're Californian, and you're registered, vote tomorrow. Unless you've already voted absentee.

Also, I always forget just how fucked up Sigsawa's world in Kino no Tabi is. I mean, I always get suckered in to what appears to be a decent, normal country and he just blows everything up in your face. Take "Country of Diaries -- Historians" -- which is a really short chapter in novel 9. It starts out all cute and stuff with three students writing in their diaries about their day: a traveler named Kino visited their school. Each person has their own impressions of her (obviously), ranging from Emily's, which is fairly mature, to Gene's (who thinks her guns are really cool) to Carrie's, who rambles and rambles and complains she wants short hair like Kino's but her parents won't let her. All's well and good, yes? Then the next page, we hear a speaker whom I assume is some sort of principal or other authority, because he/she is telling all the kids to write Emily's entry as their own in their diaries, because they're all in the same class and thus should be sharing the same thoughts. But they don't; Gene is brave (foolish?) enough to try and speak out and gets punished for it. The last part of the chapter is a diary entry nearly 75 years later by Hans, Gene's grandson. He apparently read his grandfather's diary and came upon the entry about Kino, which the reader will recognize as Emily's entry. Hans then observes, "Sometimes my grandfather uses "watashi" and sometimes he uses "boku". It's mysterious."
Dude, wtf. Censorship and brainwashing and whatnot. Double-yew tee eff.