Despite Neon Genesis Evangelion being my wife’s first exposure to anime she took a liking to it. I watched some anime in high school but I never got into it on the same level as some of my friends. So when I heard about Neon Genesis I thought I’d give it a go.  It started well, got a lot better in the middle and ended in a jumbled mess if confusion.  My wife enjoyed it as I did right up to the end and even though the ending sucked we persevered and rented some more anime.

That was almost 9 years ago. Since then we’ve watched a few complete series but we haven’t watched anything in quite some time.

What I am looking for is some suggestions on what to get. Something that’s complete with a decent ending, not too long (no more than 30 episodes) and preferably along the lines of Cowboy Bebop, or Trigun (our two favorites).

Thanks.

Does anyone have any thoughts, either good or bad, about this? I’m thinking of buying it to fulfill my dreams of creating a comic book… right after I fulfill my dreams of becoming a rock legend F1 champion quarterback golfer.

I don’t have cable.  I get my TV from the internet and I like it that way. We used to have cable and we used to watch TV when it was on but then we had kids.  Kids don’t understand time, let alone that they are supposed to stay asleep so we can watch Heroes, plus, cable is really expensive.

We don’t watch many shows and for the kids we just buy DVDs or use Itunes to get their favorite shows.  I also get some shows from usenet.  This system works well except when it comes to sports.  Watching House a few days after it aired is no big deal but watching the playoffs a day or two after is like walking through a minefield.

For example, waiting for a meeting to start today I was waiting in Tim Horton’s at work and they had a TV set to a news channel.  Before I knew it my eyes had drifted to the TV and I saw a Saint’s jersey.  Luckily I looked away and didn’t see anything but that’s just a sample of my day.  I didn’t read any news, I didn’t use Twitter, I didn’t check Facebook and I didn’t listen to the radio. That’s all easy enough but on top of that I also had to make sure not to overhear anything about the games from coworkers, students, or other staff standing at the many entrances to buildings talking about football and smoking.

My wife and I talked about getting cable again, but it’s just too expensive for what we need which is quite literally for the TV to work during football games, and F1 races and then turn off again when they are over.  Unfortunately, Rogers doesn’t offer a Football, F1 pack.

I’ve linked to this because I don’t want to move any of this content to Tumblr. But I still want to have it available, reason unknown.

It was time.

My old blog felt, dusty and old… oh yeah, it sucked too.

Like my switch to Apple this just feels right.

I doubt this will make me famous, or rich, or get my wife to, ahem… nevermind. But it should at least be akin to getting Guitar Hero.  I played that every night for weeks and it was good.  If switching to Tumblr gets me off my ass, even if just for a few weeks then I guess it’s all win.

Plus, all the cool kids are doing it.