upcoming and recently percieved media, potential revelation, soup

[comix64]

brief, because im about to shower and typing on my phone is a little tedious...

im copying The Tatami Galaxy to Mnemosyne so i can watch it on my TV later. i saw maybe 3 seconds of it to check for corruption, and it looked pretty cool. i got Earth 2 by Earth, the droning album w/ 3 tracks, and its some nice bull of heaven type of rock.

im going to bed early so i can visit the buddhist temple tomorrow. i feel a little less excited now, but im sure itll go fine. i hope to have some kind of realization about something, but i guess i do that all the time.

i find myself craving the wild rice soup-inna-bread-bowl from panera bread. its so delicious. always comes with a free slice of baguette and the cut off bit of the bowl to dunk in the soup too. i crave it often. its soooo goood....

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[f0rrest]

The Tatami Galaxy, have you read the book? It's weird you mention it because I read the book for the first time a few weeks ago. I considered writing about it but couldn't muster the motivation, which maybe sums up could my thoughts of the novel.

[comix64]

no, i thought it was in JP only, but i might read an english translation if there is one. i think it would be nice to have your opinion on it as a kind of foreword before i watch/read it :D

[f0rrest]

Maybe I'll write something about it, then.

In regards to an English translation, there certainly is one: I read it.

On my most recent journey to the corporate bookstore, when I saw the novel on the shelf, I was immediately drawn in by its stylish anime cover depicting the profile of a young woman wearing bobbed black hair. I bought the novel on the spot, without knowing anything about it, not even reading the summary on the back.

I don't know if it was just recently translated or what, but that would explain why it had front-and-center shelf-space at the corporate bookstore.

I don't know if you know anything about the story, but it's about a college kid trying to attain the perfect college life, particularly trying to find the perfect girlfriend, pretty much, "a raven-haired maiden," in his words. He gets cursed by a fortune teller and is forced to repeat his college year over and over, making different choices each time. As you might imagine, the novel is very repetetive, sometimes whole sections are just copy/paste of previous sections, until it veers off into a different direction.