Binary Bonsai

Rikke recently gifted me this poster. We had it framed and are now trying to figure out which wall in the apartment is actually strong enough to bear it.

At first I was confident it would hang nicely over our bed. Unfortunately it’s a cardboard room-divider more than it is a wall, and so I question whether or not I really want to wake up one night with a framed pixel-art poster of New York embedded in my skull?

So the search continues.

I don’t mean to be an ass about these things, and I really wish I could just sit back and enjoy it when it’s released, but I’m going to tell you up front, just so you know, that the live-action adaptation of Akira will suck, teh balls.

Let’s forget the fact that it is one of the best comics ever written.

Let’s forget the fact that it cannot be adapted properly in full, even for two ‘epic’ movies and that even the animated movie, while interesting, doesn’t make a dent in the manga.

Let’s forget the fact that it breathes post-WWII-Japan, and that replacing ‘Tokyo’ with ‘Manhattan’ for ‘Neo-Manhattan’ is so retarded, not to mention ironic, that I can’t even begin to describe it; and that the film, if it were to be made, could only be made in Japan and still make sense.

(And let’s forget that it will undoubtedly become a post-911 discussion seed… Yeah, like we need more of those).

Let’s forget that Leonardo Dicaprio is 33-years-old playing Kandea, 16-year-old leader of a bike-gang, when he’s not being reprimanded by his gym-teacher…

Let’s forget that it’s a first-time director.

Let’s just forget the whole damn thing.

I don’t give them all the love they really deserve, so I thought it was time again for me to drop some love for the Media Temple servers, on which Binary Bonsai is hosted.

I don’t believe in marriage at such, but if I was forced into a marriage, I would want it to be with Media Temple.

Media Temple is a good kisser.