Humans are interesting.

Day off today. I spent it even less productively than I had planned. I spent the morning mucking about with a program I found to make songs sound like they're being played in an 80's video game, before watching the first four episodes of the Death Note anime. Having read the manga series I know the plot, and the anime is definitely sticking pretty close to it so far. There's a lot of stuff that happens so it is very fast paced in the program but that doesn't really bother me. I had heard it had a high production value, and this is definitely right: I love the way that many scenes have been made to look as though they were filmed with an actual camera, with sweeping shots going over people's head, around rooms and dramatic scenes having a strong shakiness to them. On a side note, I always complain about shaky camera, but that is when it is unnecessary; in Death Note they use it when it adds something to the mise-en-scene. Also the general animation is of a very high standard, remaining on par with the more technical elements of the appearance. I'm hooked to it again and will try and work my way through the whole series; according to the box it's 14 hours...

This evening I ventured into unexplored depths of the Internet: I plugged in my webcam and entered chatroulette. It is a terrible place. For those unfamiliar with such depravity, it is a site where you randomly connect with another used of the site; there's no logging in, moderation or "accepting" your chat partner; when you click connect you immediately connect to anyone anywhere before you have the opportunity to click "next". Due to this being the Internet it has horrible results. From my half-hour visit my estimated tally of "chat partners" would be as follows: 50 fat men masturbating, 30 bored young men who instantly clicked "next" as I am not an insecure 15 year old girl they can convince to strip; 1 hot Swedish girl who I spoke to for most of my time on the site about metal. I would say that this made it worth it, but I'm not so sure as there are certain things still vividly embedded into my mind; images that I should not be going to sleep with. However, I am extremely tired so that's what I shall have to do.