InsaneJournal

Current mood:	nostalgic
Current music:	A Shoggoth on the Roof--Tentacles!
Entry tags:	bizarre cartoons, brain splinters, shit involving me

it's not easy, having a malevolent, shapeless monster like that hanging over your head
(Don't miss the last post--snark ho!)

Sweet mothering truck, someone finally uploaded A Journey Through Fairyland on YouTube! Awesome!

If you're a friend or long-time reader of my journal, you'll recall my mentioning JTF before, as yet another one of Sanrio's utterly insane feature films. Sanrio was also the driving force behind both Unico movies, A Mouse and His Child, Sea Prince and Fire Child, and something else that escapes me at the moment. It's a hell of a track record, and JTF is no Nightmare Fuel exception. Unlike the others, I actually saw this movie as a small child. It was the source of my most enduring imaginary friend (Tribble the Black Squiggly Thing, as Treble the Clef Note was lost on me), and it was one of the first anime movies I ever saw. It was also the source of Baby's First Tentacle Scene. While it was my favorite scene, it was out of morbid curiosity as to what the inexplicable thing WAS, not out of interest in what it was doing. My, how things change...

Creepy fetish content aside, the quality's a bit of a wash, but it's still well worth a look if you like old anime, weird cartoons, or, well, tentacles. Really cute in parts and utterly insane in others, this remains one of my bizarre favorites and I've been wanting to share it for years.


In other "bizarre things Del was obsessed with as a kid" news, I found a slime mold today! When I was a kid, I read an article and pictured something akin to the Blob, and spent months trying to find one to keep as a pet. While they're not quite like I pictured, they're almost as amazing--a creature that's not quite plant and not quite animal, with amoebas and spores and all kinds of cool shit in. I actually noted its movement of about a centimeter from where it was before class to where it was after, and it left a red trail in its wake. Possibly it was upset that I poked it with a stick. In short, he's the coolest thing I've ever seen, his name is Archimedes, and I love him. I told the Bio lab tech about him and she was happy to take a look, but vetoed my suggestion that he could be a class pet on the grounds that they're difficult to maintain. That's okay, Archimedes is a ramblin' man.

This one's for you, Archimedes. In several months, you may have managed to amble off, but you will always squish along in my heart.


ETA: wtf the school just went into lockdown? more later
ETAA: Lifted. Freaked out now. Update from home.
ETAAA: I have no idea what that was about. They herded us into the center of the library and turned off the lights--no one knew what the lockdown was for and they were afraid of someone seeing us and shooting at us. Tensest fucking five minutes of my adult life. If I died because I spent an extra two hours at school hugging Pokemon eggs and downloading YouTube videos, I would be so pissed at myself as a ghost. Guess I'll find out later what happened, assuming for now that Archimedes grew to epic proportions and attacked the city. Need vodka now.