Comments on: Wish I had this much spare time...

Wish I had this much spare time...

Specklet — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:05:16 -0800

Can this matrixy eye candy be considered bunraku?

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:09:23 -0800

Hmm. The puppets are cool, but I gotta dock you for the double post.

By: falconred

falconred — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:11:09 -0800

We've seen matrix-pong several times before, but the Bunraku stuff is interesting.

By: Specklet

Specklet — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:21:47 -0800

Man, I thought I'd be safe because I'd searched "ping pong" and "pingpong" and combinations with "matrix" thereof. I didn't try "ping-pong". Apologies!

By: dmd

dmd — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:30:31 -0800

I think I'm going to make my first FPP tomorrow. I bet nobody's heard of Zombo.com, Strongbad, geocaching, confluences, or the seven-story jesus. I might follow-up with a compendium of links to albinoblacksheep.

By: Specklet

Specklet — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:56:15 -0800

Hey DMD, don't you think I might already be feeling enough contrition at my double post that you don't need to blow your holier-than-thou veteran horn all over my post? I'm learning, man. Don't be so snotty. Sheesh.

By: spidre

spidre — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:12:27 -0800

Specklet, people generally are much bigger assholes on the internet than they would ever be in real life. He's venting because you're invading on his e-turf, forgive him. He knows not what he does.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:27:49 -0800

He's venting because you're invading on his e-turf I don't see how that can be when dmd hasn't posted any links, ever. Let the apologies stand - the point has been taken.

By: Eamon

Eamon — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:26:31 -0800

Okay guys, chill. Time to talk about bunraku. I'm a big fan of the film Double Suicide, and would love to see the play upon which it is based, . Are bunraku recordings available? Subtitles would be nice, but aren't strictly necessary.

By: Eamon

Eamon — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:33:09 -0800

Ha ha, who's the n00b now? Sorry about that. The play is Love Suicide at Amijima. But really, I'd love to watch any bunraku performance, and I don't know how long it'll be before I get a chance to do it in person.

By: Specklet

Specklet — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:25:18 -0800

Wow, I'll have to check out Double Suicide, looks fantastic. I've never heard of Masahiro Shinoda... Thanks for the links!

By: nightchrome

nightchrome — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:50:47 -0800

Man, people are really obsessed with Japanese crap. If you only knew...

By: Artifice_Eternity

Artifice_Eternity — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:52:10 -0800

Specklet: I missed Matrix Pong until now. Hilarious! Thanks.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:48:17 -0800

Man, people are really obsessed with Japanese crap. If you only knew... I'm really intrigued by this comment. If we only knew what? Japanese crap really is better than American crap; just compare the contents of a dollar store to that of a hundred-yen store. Please, nightchrome, continue.

By: elphTeq

elphTeq — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:27:13 -0800

My introduction to the art of bunraku was through a phenomenal theatrical performance titled The Flood Drummers, where real human beings were costumed as puppets, manipulated by 3 pupppeteers in the banraku style. Still can't get over how amazing the performance was - funny how quickly an audience can suspend disbelief despite being able to see all the "wires" :)

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:52:06 -0800

hey - thanks for the flood drummers reminder! an absolutely wonderful performance by the Theatre du Soleil. would be very happy if they could do a similar performance, but i have some sneaking feeling that it might be a case of "well, that was a good idea and we were the first to do it (?) so let's do something totally different now, just to prove what great artistes we are..."

By: The Perfect Killer

The Perfect Killer — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:08:15 -0800

Specklet: This was the first time I saw Matrix Pong. It was DOPE!! THANKS!

By: jmccorm

jmccorm — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:32:41 -0800

For the comments. [this is good]