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As soon as I figure out how to restore it. Sorry, I know I said it'd be done by now, but I didn't expect to have to put up with this DNS crap and other issues that popped up.
Or it might be because Bluehost *finally* got around to that server wipe (one week after we'd asked for it) and that wiped out our DNS settings. I'm not sure which and I don't really care. In any case, we've severed our last ties with Bluehost, so this will not happen again.
No kiddin' about that "Finally!", Shadow. I am *so mad* at Bluehost for never responding to our support ticket. I submitted it early Friday morning and they *still* haven't answered it!
On the topic of cereal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vyi7dGyupw
On the topic of Japanese entertainment: FLCL was awesome for me because it was drawn incoherently. Also, it's interesting watching GIANAX taking two whole shows, FLCL and Gurren Lagann, almost as if to wash Eva's presence out of their system.
Meanwhile, Eva's lead writer and Chief Director, Hideaki Anno, went on to film an emotionally raw live-action indy film called Love & Pop, a film about a girl who almost gets raped while trying to earn the money to buy a ring. The man's insane!
I watched all of Neon Genesis Evangelion, including Death and Rebirth and The End of Evangelion in one night this past weekend. I still feel kinda dead inside.
Don't have cable. I've also lost interest in game shows/reality shows. But I like Wipeout, that was fun. Idiots being knocked around for an hour straight, it's awesome!
But who knows, it might be interesting to see people freak out over the dark.
I dunno if MAX was completely fake in as much as he was over blown. (Though, there isn't that much difference.) It's easy to imagine someone having an actual job in the industry and then start bragging about it.
For example, I did talk with one of the music artists involved with Neon Genesis Evangelion, and we did talk about doing a music video together. But she decided to get a crew in London to do one for her instead because that's where she lived. (I live in North Carolina.) We still talk from time to time, but I don't go around anymore telling people "Yeah, I'm totally still doing a video with this chick! Aren't I awesome? Yeah!"
People who don't realize where they are in the industry and what their limitations are don't make it far. At the same time, those who don't push for something greater don't get very far either. It's a fine line between being out-of-the-box, pushing-the-envelope professional, and just being a dick. I don't know if MAX ever found that line. He was just, "Yeah, I draw for a living! I can totally reboot SatAM."
Then there was he-who-is-not-Voldemort-but-also-shall-not-be-named who actually managed to produce a whole trailer. MAX ranked second only to him in un-professionalism.