[filk] Re: Various Filk Notes in Reply to Rhainey

A surprising note....

• Original Message ----- From: "Gary Ehrlich" <hyperion at erols.com> To: <filk at dragoncat.net> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 4:36 PM Subject: [filk] Re: Various Filk Notes in Reply to Rhainey

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> Michael Hopcroft wrote:
> > (Who might be one of the very few anime-watching filkers in the entire
> > world -- whether I should be proud or ashamed of this fact I don't
know).
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> I've watched some here and there; probably would watch more if I had
> more time. I was exposed to a fair number of movies back in college
> days, when a housemate was subtitling them for a movie series. Caught
> things like Project A-Ko, the Dirty Pair movies, and Nausicaa that way.

Nowadays we call these people "fansubbers" and you can find them all over the Internet. The current craze is to do them as compiter files, which I find extremely annoying.

> More recently, I have a friend (and filk listener) who's big into anime
> (piles and piles of DVD's); he's been introducing me to some of his
> favorite movies and series (Utena, Jubei Chan, Lupin). He's slowly
> dragging me deeper... 8-)

The number of DVDs I have compares unfavorably compared to the number of DVDs one of my friends has. He takes me to his house every so often to show me stuff from his collection, so I guess we;re in the same boat. I have somemthings he doesn;t have, like the complete Card Captor Sakura TV series (and both movies), but otherwise he' got quite the collection.

At least Iavoid the truly hentai shows -- the stuff you imagine is bad enough. It's even more popular to write :slash" fiction about anime characters (proportionally,. that is) than it is about Trek characters. Some people just can;t accept the idea that any anime character is really straight, and I know there's a song in that thought somewhere.

Michael Hopcroft Received on 12/21/01