Hail underlings

[stubbies]

I figured as the club president It'd be prudent of me to post my introduction sooner or later...

Name: Andrew
Size: Tall/skinny
School status: 3rd year creative writing major
Favorite anime: Too many...top 5 = Cowboy bebop, Last Exile, Kino's Journey, Evangelion, Gurren Lagann *stops himself before he writes more*
Favorite manga: Genshiken, anything from Ken Akamatsu or CLAMP, Monster, Trigun...etc.
Favorite TV: Lost, Arrested Development, Stargate SG-1
Favorite video games: Final Fantasy Tactics, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 4, Katamari Damacy, Shadow of the Colossus
Favorite books: 1984, Paradise Lost, Farenheit 451, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Current classes I'm taking: Metafiction, Shakespeare: Dramas, Japanese (I still suck so don't ask me to translate anything ), Introduction to Poetry

Looks like a decent enough introduction to me. Someone tell me if you want more info.

[gamlin]

Ok Tall Andrew, I now think you are even more awesome. You read 1984 and that directly equates into awesome.

[dreamer]

Sorry if this is rude, but how much do you weigh?? You need more fat on them bones. Also, Genshiken would be a funny anime to watch, an anime about an anime club being watched by an anime club. I liked the first season best though. I woulda automatically joined a club named Genshiken. XD

[stubbies]

I weigh somewhere between 140 and 150, but it's not like I don't eat lol. I'm not sure why I'm so skinny. Given my lifestyle I have no idea why I'm not a fatass; I sit on the couch all day drinking soda (the amount I usually drink would send most people immediately to the fat bin) and playing video games/reading books and manga (when I'm not doing homework...though most of my homework nowadays involves reading hundreds of pages).

Genshiken is one of my all-time favorite series, which is part of the reason why we watched the series in club last year (both seasons). Sorry u had to miss it!

And yes, 1984 does = awesome. It's my favorite book of all time (if you haven't read it yet you NEED TO) and one of the reasons I decided to become a writer.

[dreamer]

Some people have a naturally fast matabolism. My brother's 130 or something but 5'2, 16 years old. XD Me and my other brother are on the chubbier side (180 and 5'5", but this brother is 15) with slower matabolisms, but all three of us love videogames and some anime (they're not as fond of it as I am though). And d**n. I thought 50 pages of our reading book and 10 pages of text book was bad. ;;>_> Although I dont really like reading.

d**n me for not graduating sooner. Did you guys do any of the things they did in the series? (Group model building? Cosplay events?)

The book is called "1984" by George Orwell? Sounds like a book I had to read last year called "Brave New World". We had to read another, crappier, book called "Handmaid's Tale" that was written 20 years ago but predicted some of the things that've currently happened. That was creepy.

[stubbies]

70-130 pages a week is usually what you get assigned when you take upper-division English courses, and I just happen to be taking two of those this quarter (though one of them is technically a comparative literature/creative writing course, but now I'm splitting hairs lol).

From what I've heard "Brave New World" is generally considered the weakest of the three great dystopian novels (the other two being 1984 and Fahrenheit 451). It's the only one of the three I haven't read, but despite what I've heard I'll force myself to read it eventually. How did you like it?

We did a cosplay contest last year but there's no real audience for a full-on cosplay event or I'd be all for it. Group model building sounds like a good idea; I'll consider that in the future. The only problem is that, to my knowledge, we've got no one like Tanaka that's got mad model-building skillz, so we'd all be noobs learning together.

[dreamer]

Hoo-ray for Engrish 1A! I dont think I have to take upper-div english...Or at least I hope not. *Pulls out sample major program* Nope...Just upper-div bio/cbns(?)/or psych.

Well its about oppressing women and forcing a select few (that arnt gay or have criminal records or some such) to breed with sterile army commanders or be forced to work on a radioactive island. I didnt really like it too much...Too much sex. Maybe watch the movie?

We would have to purchase the models too...Well we dont have to get the ones we have to spray-paint and do all of that jazz. I bought one at AX last year (with the instructions being in moonspeak ) and built it in a few hours...And we'd have your laptop to watch youtube videos on it!

I was thinking back to some of the episodes and started laughing at the idea of going to ALA for a group dojin shopping spree. XD That would make for good bonding...But probably not going to happen...

[stubbies]

lol the dojins. We come across those from time to time tho they're not as prevalent as the shop they come across in Genshiken. As for the models, we can set up an excursion next quarter maybe to go out and buy some models and then build the suckahs. Winter quarter is usually dull as it is, so that could help to spice things up.

[dreamer]

They WERE in Japan after all! You cant blame a dojin artist to not send their stuff oversees hoping to break even. There was about a couple tables at AX last year...Half of them red marked...And one of the tables was specifically yaoi.

Would be fun. Are there any model shops or would we go back to Little Tokyo?

[stubbies]

Frank and Son's, the first stop on out shopping trip, has some to look at. We can give them a peak on Saturday and see if there's enough there or if we'll need to hunt down another model joint. I've never looked for models specifically, but from what I saw Frank and Son's had a decent supply.

[dreamer]

Sounds fun. I wonder if Geass has capitalized on the model market yet. Only the Guren II would really interested me...