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Busy day.

Things got underway around noon, when Di came over. We proceeded to Little 5 so she could by kinky fetish clothes. Several hours later she emerged with a pair of shiny black hotpants and a corsetesque shiny black halter top. She looked great, yet insisted in bitching about how her legs were too fat. There is only one cure for 100 pound chicks bitching about their bodies: BOOT TO THE HEAD!

So after Little 5, we head to Highlander for a beer. We make it to the parking lot when Roomie calls. My neighbors, the Pennels, are deathly ill. Mr Pennell was sent to the emergency room last night at midnight with a fever nearing 105. Now he's back after a joyous 15 hour stay and it is time for Mrs. Pennell to go to the clinic. She's not as bad, but has the look of resigned misery you see in the sick and kicked puppies. I fight rush hour to deposit her at the clinic. I'm there for probably 90 minutes before I'm relieved by Roomie and Murphy who will ferry her home. I then take off to rescue Karo, who has locked herself out of the house.

I figure the good deeds of today will keep me off the karmic "Utter Bastard" blacklist for a while.

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After my day's adventures, Brian said he was heading to see Final Fantasy and I tagged along. Well, it was a hell of a time.

First off, the visuals are amazing. Astounding even. This is a computer animated movie where you can frequently forget it is not real life. One of the reasons for this is that they used motion capture to animate the models. They recorded the movements of people and then "traced" them in 3D.

I find this interesting, because Ralph Bakshi used the same technique in the 70's and I consider it cheating. True capital "A" Art in animation conveys the essence of humanity, not just the appearance. The thing is, Bakshi was a poor artist. As an animator his characters looked sloppy. In Final Fantasy, there is an attention to detail not frequently seen outside of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. These people wanted to make the most realistic CGI film ever... and they succeeded.

Which makes it such a shame that the story is SUCH A PILE OF SHIT! When it isn't being a touchy-feelie hippy ecofetish fairy tale, it's ripping off Aliens. You think that over four years and $140 million dollars someone would have the guts to say, "Hey guys! Has anyone else realized that this story sucks?" Someone had to have realized that to make a truly amazing animated movie the characters don't just need to look human. They need to speak, act and feel human too.

Still, all of that being said, this is an amazing flick. Go see it. As eye candy this is a jumbo assortment of Godiva. The story while flawed, is merely silly. If you want to see a really bad movie, Tomb raider is still playing.