October 25, 2008

• Better Late Than Never?

  That seems to be a reoccurring theme in my life.  Procrastination has become an everyday concept.  I don't really know whether this is really acceptable.  I do understand that nothing good has ever come from putting things off until the last minute, but that doesn't seem to curb this incessant laziness.  Most likely this can be attributed to my ADHD-laced daily ritual.  This lack of sleep lately is not helping either. lol Well, on to more interesting matters!

  A short time ago I was riding with my friend Adam on our way to do some anime figure shopping at Anime Palace and as we rounded the corner he exclaims, "oh sh!t".  I was, of course, too busy admiring the pretty shiny things out the side window and generally drooling absentmindedly (what am I a toddler?! lol) so I didn't catch the event that made Adam start speaking French all of a sudden, but I quickly turn to see.  Sitting in the intersection in front of us was a '50s Dodge and a tan, dime-a-dozen Camry that had seen fit to head-butt like a couple of angry, territorial rams.  Adam pulls the car over at the intersection and we look to see if both parties are uninjured, which they appear to be.  The first thing that runs through my head?  "Weird how the windshield-wipers on all these cheap cars get turned on by smashing into something headfirst."  Perhaps then I noticed that I should've been more interested in the occupants rather than the pile of scrap metal with two little black antennae sweeping back and forth across a spiderweb-patterned glass plate, and I called up the proper authorities.  And thus ended our encounter.  Sometimes I wonder why my brain is wired backwards lol.

  On the note of strange wiring in the brain, recently I had a debate with several friends about fictional physics.  We were trying to figure out whether it was feasible to throw known laws of physics into the food processor and churn them up into a tantalizing smoothie.  Of course I was on the side of, "you can only stretch a viewer/reader's suspension-of-belief so far before something becomes ridiculous."  We threw around a handful of anime series that tended to mess with physics but ended up being unable to come to a conclusion either way.  As long as the pseudo-physics in a sci-fi story are backed up with a good plot and used properly in the story, even ridiculous aspects can become compelling simply because the viewer/reader wants to see a positive outcome.  I remember when the subject of Gurren Lagann came up I quickly pointed out that any object, super-awesome mecha or not, that became as large as a galaxy would have huge gravitational effects on matter around it, and would probably collapse under it's own gravity.  The people on the other side of table were equally as quick to point out that in this story it doesn't matter to the viewer that these things are completely impractical because the story up to that point has been solely about doing the seemingly impossible.  I have to agree that if you can persuade your audience well enough through the story to make them believe anything you throw out there then you are obviously doing something right.  So, I came out of this debate still clinging to my belief that things should be physically plausible, but I feel that this rule, like many others, can be bent infinitely and thus is of little concern in the world of fiction.

  Well, now that I have probably alienated my last three faithful readers (you know who you are! lol) I guess it's time for me to end this post.  I hope to have some story material to post soon.  When I do get it up I expect some thoughtful reviews from all of you subscribers, or at least those that still care lol.  This is quickly becoming a very negatively-sentimented paragraph isn't it?  Well, Shana is calling to me, and I cannot resist XD.  Till next time, PEACE~!

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