Super Massive Megathon Tuesday Post

- I went with Clint from work to the 24/7 DIY Summit at USC this weekend, which was all about user created video content online. They had a really cool lecture about Anime Music Videos and all the most influential AMVs of the last ten years. (I had previously seen two.) A couple things I brought away from the lecture:

1. I went and downloaded all the AMV Hell compilations. Those are just too much fun.
2. I really need to watch RahXephon.
3. I really need to listen to Frou Frou.
4. I did not know that before the rise of YouTube, THE place to watch AMVs online was http://www.animemusicvideos.org/. Where was this page during high school??

Here's my favorite video from the lecture, which will answer for half of the points above. Bonus info: This is considered the most complicated AMV ever made, and when it came out there was a lot of conjecture that it actually drove people away from making AMVs because the standard kept getting pushed so high.



- That should serve as my first video of the week too. I've been trying to keep on a video posting schedule: 3 a week, Mon, Wed, Fri; so that I post on my blog at least somewhat regularly and get into the habit of writing here. It seems to be working so far.

My favorite day happens to be Wednesdays as that's inadvertently become the day I post J-Pop videos. I have a ton of YUKI videos I'm just dying to post; both for the songs and the videos...

- I started reading Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky last night. It's really a fascinating tale of how the important spice has influenced civilisations over the ages. The first chapter was all about salt in Ancient China and how it affected the change in ruling dynasties, philosophies, and spawned the harnessing and use of natural gas among other things. Very well written too; more a tale than a dry, factual account.

I'd really like to read The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket next.

- The Spitz chicken doner kabob is really just as good as the lamb/beef doner kabob, and I'm glad because it gives me a healthier option when I go there. I love me some spiced meats!

- Having drank Anchor Steam all weekend, imagine my surprise when I heard my coworker had, along with some friends, won a private party at the Anchor Steam Breweries in San Francisco this weekend.

- I'm going into moving-planning overdrive with only two weeks to go. Annnnnd the worrying starts.