i watched some FuriKuri (FLCL) today... its that new (current) anime by gainax that only the really cool anime nerds know about. i've seen all of them except 4... (out of 5 episodes so far). i think episode 3 is my favorite. basically the plot of the series is: there's this kid, and some girl drives up on a scooter and hits him with a bass guitar. then he starts growing weird horns out of his head. after a while, the horns pop out into robots. in the first episode, two robots pop out of his head, fighting each other. later one of those robots (Canti) starts living at his house, and when other robots pop out of his head, Canti eats the kid and they combine into this red mecha and beat up the other robots.

BUT SERIOUSLY, you can't really understand this show from any sort of synopsis. it gets more insane progressively. locke says episode 2 is at his perfect insanity level (it's kind of a semi-serious episode), but my favorite is 3, which has the kid growing cat ears, then the cat ears pop out of this girl for no reason and a big robot comes out of her head (but she's still dangling from its ass) and there's this huge fight at the school. it's beautiful and demented.

the other side of my nerd factor is the constant playing of FF9... i'm on disc 3 now. i gotta say, FF9 is more consistently interesting than FF8, not to mention that it makes me nostalgic for the old, pre-FF6 ones...

on a non-nerdy note, i went by the King Crab again today, and it was filled beyond capacity. there were people waiting to get in. then i noticed that it was the same at every other asian restaurant in the area. do all asian people go out for dinner on saturdays, or what? i've never seen this shit. it was crazy. and shit.