Abandoned, thus AppleTV and anime
Sara and the boys left for Florida (Grayton Beach) last night for week. Safa isn’t with me until Monday. She and I were supposed to join them for the last half of the week, but things got complicated, so I’m home alone. Abandoned. The upside: All day I’ve been blasting music from my Mac Mini (via my MacBook Pro) to the 5.1 speaker system I have connected to my AppleTV. Awesome.
Last night I finally watched the very intriguing anime film Tekkon Kinkreet. It’s directed by ex-pat American anime man, Michael Arias, who has been hanging with Studio4°C for a long time. It’s based on the manga Black and White and features a superflat style of character design set against gorgeously imagined and realized settings:
Since it features these two orphaned street urchins (White and Black, above), it seemed fitting that abandoned Gray me take comfort in it. I won’t bother to try to recount the plot; I’ll only say it’s worth seeing. Kinetic, eye-grabbing, off-beat, colorful (in all senses). As his directorial debut, Arias did pretty damn well.
After a little blogging and reading tonight I might watch something else, not sure what.