Downdates

If I were stuck on an island with only a sack of food, I would not ration well. I'd probably eat it all up the first week and then think of ways to keep myself from starving. Probably dive and catch fish or fashion a spear out of trees or something similarly idiotic, but man oh man I can't ration on good things. 

Case in point all the pending tv series that had collected into a huge heap of virtual gratification during those few weeks I was sunning myself down under. 

There were three episodes of 'The Expanse', three of 'American dad' and two of 'Family guy' and what did I do? 

I downloaded them all within the span of one hour and spent that one whole day watching them all back to back. 

 

No, I didn't think "let's save an episode each for later, until the next ones come out so you won't have a terribly long gap in between"..in fact I did think of that and dismissed it as a fairly silly rational. 

So I watched them all, and by the end of the day I was sitting empty handed, faced with the reality of actually doing some real work now that my excuses for being busy were all exhausted. Ugh!! 

So what did I do? I downloaded another anime I'd been meaning to watch called 'pet shop of horrors' and much to my delight it was not only awesome but fantastically freakin fabulous..and to my dismay it was only four episodes long—each episode not more then 20 minutes (sad face). So yeah that was over before I did dinner..now what? 

My brain feels famished now that I've so much free time on me. 

Strummed on my uke for hours, for a second I thought my neighbors were going to break in and beseech me to stop the music, but then I remembered I have no neighbors so rock on with the foetus guitar.  

In the past few weeks I've finished almost 4 books. I don't know how it came to be, but all the while I was lazing on the beach  or had any spare time be it between eating or traveling, I just read read and read some more. By the gods, I'm done with all the transmetropolitans ( and how much fun were they), a manga, an uber fat novella of horror stories and a book by Terry Pratchett. 

Imagine that, from having a dry reading spell to chomping through a big fat heap of books.

I've started on a new one too..and this one I found in a quaint little second hand store that was right next to my hotel in Sydney.

This one!!!

 Robotech was the first ever anime I watched, and I was but a child that time, and imagine my surprise when I found this. Apparently the author painstakingly incorporated material from the original manga scripts and RPG's to create these wonderful storylines. Being given additional characters details by comic company, these books were created under the Robotech franchise..and man did I jump with glee when I spotted this. So now it's mine, and it's just as much fun to leaf through its musty pages now, as it was watching it as a child. Of course the storyline is completely different, all this happening years after where the series ended..but still. 

The big book disappointment was the collection of horror stories. Man, the front cover was so dark and supposedly scary, but the stories were a fizzle. Just meh. I mean they had no scares, none whatsoever. Most of them ended when I expected to read more. Horror has scaled down these days..from the scary thrills and shocks we seemed to have stepped down into 'let's do something new, born again horror and give chills of a mysterious nature, where the reader is left wondering'..I mean come on. 

This needs to be rectified.

And oh there's more, so much more..and soon.