Day Of Errands

Just another quiet, pleasant day in the Annex. Bank stuff was done, groceries were picked up, walks down the street occurred, advice was dispensed about how best to play God of War II (I loaned to the Upstairs Neighbor, he’s no longer getting any work done) and dinner was had in the backyard with all the neighbors to welcome Upstairs Neighbor.

Also, while walking down Bloor, we happened to walk past a used CD/DVD store and saw, brand new, in the window, this:

It was pretty much a foregone conclusion that we would pick it up, since the Wife is a huge fan of Go/dzilla/jira, and at $17 for a brand new DVD of the remastered version I’d heard about, this was impossible to resist. I don’t think I’m going to be seeing this on Blu-Ray anytime in the near future anyway, so bring on the rubber-suited, model busting goodness.

I’m pretty happy with this particular version, since not only did they remaster it–as best they could, considering the deteriorating, surprisingly NOT archived state of the original–they also include the original 1956, bastardized American version with Raymond Burr as a reporter commenting on the carnage, and there is a pretty in depth commentary from some “Godzilla experts” and give a fairly detailed account of not just the production of Godzilla, but the post-war society and mindset of the Japanese that created one of the most famous rubber-suited monsters of all time.

Now to settle in for a busy next few days. The animated series requires some gearing up for writing scripts, the magazine still has one last article owing, there’s the monthly installment of the comic book to crank out, and IGN has suddenly written in to pretty much say yes to ALL the article ideas I’ve thrown at them, so it’s time to get some more game writin’ in.

Damn, when did I get so busy?

But first, more Persona 3.