Ergo Proxy

I just watched both Ep. 1 and 2 today. I have two sets of three words:

OH. HELL. YES.

also,

PARANOID. EFFIN'. ANDROID.

Seriously. When Ep. 2 ended and I heard that familiar guitar pattern start, I was ecstatic. It's too perfect.

And as for this anime, it is so badass. Ep. 1 made my head spin, and that's hard to do, though I think I'm starting to get a lot of it now. I think the animation is fluid, the action stylized just right for jaw-dropping sequences (such as the mall), and characters and organizations with obvious secrets that we don't know.

Spoiler:

So, what up with Vincent? Any theories? He's got a secret, clearly, and I don't think it's that he's fast wtih a gun and friends with some dope named Cloud.

Also, my sincerest thanks to everybody with Ergo Proxy av/sigs. That's a lot of why I checked it out. You guys are awesome.

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"Paranoid Android" is one of Radiohead's best, and I've grown to love the lyrics (having listened to the whole song many, many times), which are pretty much nonsense out of context. Maybe even in context. They didn't do the song justice, but then again, it's a six-minute, multi-part Alternative masterpiece, so there was no way they could, but it's a fitting song, I think, and you have no idea how happy I was that first time I heard it start. I smiled nice and big.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Enkidu: Because it's a well-known fact that Thom Yorke (Radiohead) has carefully developed a singing technique in which he simply produces a series of moans, and accelerates those moans instantaneously through process of practiced caterwaul to specific pitches, and our ears attempt to recognize the various moans and such as words. The karaoke is the closest that linguists could come to analyzing the moans for what words they seem to represent, no matter how haphazard and thrown-together the lyrics may appear.

Just kidding. It's unnecessary, even for Thom Yorke singing the very strange lyrics of that song. It's also hilariously out of context, save the Macintosh Voice program bits; all of the lyrics are part of a larger whole that I regard as brilliant after about, oh, 500 listens. Again, sarcasm. I do love that song, and it really does feel a bit awkward to only play that much of a more than six minute song.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.