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I still had a little bit of birthday money left and with it I bought a few DVDs on the cheap. Why they were so cheap I will never know, but for me they're of great value. You see, I'm very nostalgic about the series that I've bought, the first of which is pictured to the left. Anyone who's watched the BBC during the eighties will probably know it:
The trap door.
It's a silly claymation show about monsters living in the dungeon of a castle, trying to take care of a bigger monster while trying to keep other monsters at bay. Yes, that's a lot of monsters ^_^ Each episode only lasts for a few minutes and it's all very light hearted. I used to love it as a kid and I'm sure that our future offspring will be at least amused by all the bright colours :D I've included the show's opening at the bottom of this post.
The other two shows are
Ulysses 31 and the classic anime
Nils Holgersson. The first being a French/Japanese retelling of the Greek epos in a sci-fi setting. We -loved- this show as kids and I've been on the lookout for good DVDs for at least ten years now. And it only cost me ten pounds for the whole box! The latter is a Swedish folk tale that ran on Dutch TV when I was very young. Some folks may remember it for the young boy who got shrunken by magic to travel with a flock of geese.
TheTrapDoor.flv
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Nostalgic for Japan (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach
Back in february I was a bit homesick for Japan, if one can be "homesick" for a country that one hasn't spent more than three weeks in. Since then I'd gotten over it, mostly just being excited about ideas for a next trip should the day ever come.
However, this week I'm filled with the desire "to be there" again. The guys from
Shiranai are getting ready for their August trip and their enthousiasm is infectuous :) I helped my good friend
Kaijuu with the editing process of the travel guide, making sure that there weren't any bugs left in there.
When i came to the page that describes our apartment building in Osaka the homesickness struck ^_^; Upon reading the subway station names that line the way home, I could hear those names resounding in my head again. Shin-Osaka, Hommachi, the Chuo-line and of course Tanimachi 4-Chome. *sigh*
I hope all of you will have a great time in Japan. Come back safely! I'll make a small shopping list of crap that you'll need to pick up for me :)
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I just read about this at
Dark Mirage's blog. I love this idea!
Many of us were in our late teens, early twenties when Nintendo first burst onto the scene with Pokemon in the nineties. Many of us loved the games and some of us (like me and my brother Mistoffelees) also rather enjoyed the TV series and movies. These days we tend to look back on those days with a hint of nostalgia, longing for the days when there were only 151 Pokemon. I had the same with
Magic: the Gathering: at one point in time things get too popular and all of a sudden there's a bajillion different cards/characters and the original romance has been lost.
For people like us, Nintendo's come out with a line of t-shirts for the game geek in his twenties/thirties, called
Pokemon 151. For now, there's four different shirts but I'm hoping that they'll come out with a few more. I'd really love to get my hands of a few of these shirts though! Maybe I'll commission them from Kaijuu or Niels-sama on their next trip to Japan.
EDIT:
Darn... As Kaijuu points out, even the measurements of the XL shirt are way too small for most Eurofolk and USAdians...
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