Went to visit my parents yesterday, and I always like seeing the current status of the tree frog.
They have this Japanese maple on the side of their house, the kind with the tiny leaves. It was originally in a little pot on the deck of my grandparents' apartment, it was planted in this garden and just exploded into a massive size that now needs to be trimmed annually, lest it crush the power lines when it gets too wet.
My dad had this pair of little concrete frog decorations, in a sitting position. He put them up in the tree, just for fun. One of them fell down, but the other stayed put, and has been there for several years now. The tree is starting to swallow it up, you can see the bark forming around it. He thinks it's gonna break it at some point, but I think it'll just be completely absorbed.
Anyway, man, I feel like shit. Woke up super early this morning, couldn't get back to sleep. God I hate this heat, it's the worst. Got out to the grocery store, picked up some stuff for lunch and dinner, and some coffee, since I was completely out.
I feel like I can't catch up, these past couple months. Always running out of food, doing things at the last minute. I can't get into a good groove, y'know. Moving from one desperate crisis to another, always finding another thing to feel shitty about. A vicious cycle, trying to find excuses to cast myself as the victim so I can give up my responsibilities, which feel so very suffocating.
Alas!
Started back up listening to the Mobile Suit Breakdown podcast, mostly because I felt like watching some Zeta Gundam, I love that show. Left off a little past halfway through, when they're on the moon getting up to some spy shennanigans.
That podcast is good, but... frustrating, at times. I love the in-depth research they do, it's fascinating, but I find myself disagreeing with them about the show almost all the time, haha. They're people who watched the original MSG first, and so nothing can ever live up to that, drives me nuts. Also they never, ever talk about the designs of the suits, which seems odd? Like they'll research the inspiration, but never if they like... like them or not. Very bizarre thing for a show about any giant robot anime, least of all gundam.
I've listened to two gundam podcasts cover Zeta, and they both stubbornly refuse to pronounce "Scirocco" correctly. They say his name ten thousand fucking times in the dub, I cannot hear it any other way, I don't care how the original word is pronounced. In general, there is also a strain of like... appealing to the original as the One True Vision, which always rubs me the wrong way.
A true and perfect translation is impossible. Nobody will ever have the "intended" experience of a piece of art, least of all the artist themselves or the people who experience it first, in its original context. It feels like a setup for failure, grasping at something you cannot possibly attain.
Bah, it's one of those things where I have trouble engaging with criticism of it passively, because I care about it and want to discuss my own interpretations.
Aaaaaanyway, also I'm pretty sure I got food poisoning from this salad kit I had for dinner. Hope it clears up by the morning.
