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Re: What made your day?

Postby Mothra Freak » Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:42 pm

SuperSaiyan4Godzilla wrote:I'm starting work on my American Romanticism paper that is a comparative analysis between the Heisei Godzilla series and Moby Dick.

Its rare that I write about Godzilla, so this will matter.

Interesting.

I'd actually love to read that when you're done, if it's all right.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby TheSecondComing » Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:56 pm

SuperSaiyan4Godzilla wrote:I'm starting work on my American Romanticism paper that is a comparative analysis between the Heisei Godzilla series and Moby Dick.



I wrote a paper once about how A Streetcar Named Desire was a work of science fiction. It didn't go over well with the professor (got a C), but I liked it.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby SuperSaiyan4Godzilla » Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:06 pm

TheSecondComing wrote:
SuperSaiyan4Godzilla wrote:I'm starting work on my American Romanticism paper that is a comparative analysis between the Heisei Godzilla series and Moby Dick.



I wrote a paper once about how A Streetcar Named Desire was a work of science fiction. It didn't go over well with the professor (got a C), but I liked it.


Heh.

There's a funny story behind the topic of my paper.

It was the day before the proposal was due and I had nothing. I am not a fan of Romanticism (I'm a minimalist) and I wasn't interested in anything. Well, Ive been working on personal project that catalogs the history of giant monster fiction. I traced the modern genre all the way back to Moby-Dick. With that in my mind, I wrote the proposal about how Godzilla and Moby-Dick disrupt the "Great Chain of Being" and how they are not the Other but the Self, albeit the repressed side. I just sort of BSed the proposal.

My professor emailed me after the proposals were submitted, saying that he was excited about my paper and that it was the most interesting proposal he's seen in awhile.

Surprisingly, there is a lot of work out there that deals with monsters and such concepts...

While researching for this, I discovered that the Heisei series presents probably the best examples for this paper. There are many Pequods and some amusing examples of Ahabs floating around. Godzilla's characterization is also at the hands of the humans we encounter. Very little is shown of Godzilla's true self (besides Miki's random spouts here and there). He is very much like the great white whale.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby SpanishBulldog63 » Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:56 pm

Godzilla Roll for dinner.

Skreeonk.The Hell.Yes.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby TheSecondComing » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:05 am

SuperSaiyan4Godzilla wrote:
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SuperSaiyan4Godzilla wrote:I'm starting work on my American Romanticism paper that is a comparative analysis between the Heisei Godzilla series and Moby Dick.



I wrote a paper once about how A Streetcar Named Desire was a work of science fiction. It didn't go over well with the professor (got a C), but I liked it.


Heh.

There's a funny story behind the topic of my paper.

It was the day before the proposal was due and I had nothing. I am not a fan of Romanticism (I'm a minimalist) and I wasn't interested in anything. Well, Ive been working on personal project that catalogs the history of giant monster fiction. I traced the modern genre all the way back to Moby-Dick. With that in my mind, I wrote the proposal about how Godzilla and Moby-Dick disrupt the "Great Chain of Being" and how they are not the Other but the Self, albeit the repressed side. I just sort of BSed the proposal.

My professor emailed me after the proposals were submitted, saying that he was excited about my paper and that it was the most interesting proposal he's seen in awhile.

Surprisingly, there is a lot of work out there that deals with monsters and such concepts...

While researching for this, I discovered that the Heisei series presents probably the best examples for this paper. There are many Pequods and some amusing examples of Ahabs floating around. Godzilla's characterization is also at the hands of the humans we encounter. Very little is shown of Godzilla's true self (besides Miki's random spouts here and there). He is very much like the great white whale.



That's sort of similar to the concept I was going for, that "the drink" took control over Stanley Kowalski and turned him into a monster of a man, and used examples like the Xians controlling Godzilla, Rodan and Ghidorah in Monster Zero to show how similar the concept was. I thought it was pretty brilliant myself and it's one of my personal favorite papers I ever wrote. Now that I've got my degree, I guess I could publish it if I wanted to.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby Hellspawn28 » Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:32 am

Well it looks like I won't be failing my class and the Daziex forums (Now Kanzenshuu) are back up.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby Kaiju-King42 » Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:43 pm

My amazon order arrived in the mail today! Pretty fast too. It only took a week and a half! Now I finally can watch The Mysterians, Atragon, Dogora, Latitude Zero, and Orochi.

Yeah, big order, I know. I usually save up my money and buy multiple items at once when ordering something online.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby HikizuruBeat » Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:38 am

SpanishBulldog63 wrote:Godzilla Roll for dinner.

Skreeonk.The Hell.Yes.

What's that even?
There was a sushi place that served "Godzilla Rolls" near my house.
It was a deep fried california roll with some hot sauce on it.
Believe it or not it's actually really good.

Also what's making my day is I feel less burdened with school work now I got that paper done.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby SpanishBulldog63 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:16 am

HikizuruBeat wrote:
SpanishBulldog63 wrote:Godzilla Roll for dinner.

Skreeonk.The Hell.Yes.

What's that even?
There was a sushi place that served "Godzilla Rolls" near my house.
It was a deep fried california roll with some hot sauce on it.
Believe it or not it's actually really good.

Also what's making my day is I feel less burdened with school work now I got that paper done.


hmm,i guess different restaraunts have different ways of making rolls with the same name?

But it's oyster,shrimp,a bit of avocado,and cream cheese on the inside,topped with shredded crab meat,topiko, and spice sauce
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Re: What made your day?

Postby zilla103192 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:26 am

I just made the best breakfast I have ever had.

A peanut butter sandwich. With Oreo Pop Tarts for bread.

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Re: What made your day?

Postby HeiseiGodzilla117 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:07 pm

Scored a chick's number in the computer lab today without even lifting a finger. Never met her before. We were just chatting about our respective majors and right when she leaves she wrote her cell number down on my notebook with a Semicolon-P face. She wasn't terribly attractive, so I probably won't take her on a date (does that make me a dick?... nah), but it makes me feel good anyways. Hell, if I score a new friend out of this I'll be happy.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby godzilla898 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:12 pm

Skreeonk's ever-growing Hedorah vinyl profile and FM's interview were both pretty neat.
Also Revoltech Gigan arrived today.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby GodzillavsZilla » Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:17 pm

I saw godzilla898's avatar, it literally made my day :lol:
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Re: What made your day?

Postby HikizuruBeat » Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:09 pm

HeiseiGodzilla117 wrote:Scored a chick's number in the computer lab today without even lifting a finger. Never met her before. We were just chatting about our respective majors and right when she leaves she wrote her cell number down on my notebook with a Semicolon-P face. She wasn't terribly attractive, so I probably won't take her on a date (does that make me a dick?... nah), but it makes me feel good anyways. Hell, if I score a new friend out of this I'll be happy.

No not really. I mean if you want to be someone you should be somewhat physically attracted to them.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby GodzillavsZilla » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:49 pm

Another thing that made my day was beating my high score at Brisksaber, one of the only good Star Wars iPod games.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby omgitsgodzilla » Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:03 pm

I spent pretty much the entire day with my girlfriend, during which we saw Titanic, I got eyeliner'd (looks pretty nice really) and other great things occurred. Best day ever.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby Dash 7 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:42 pm

Girl i just broke up with told me she still loves me.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby wataru » Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:10 am

Dash 7 wrote:Girl i just broke up with told me she still loves me.


They always say that. It's called pity love.

BTW how old are you two?
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Re: What made your day?

Postby Dash 7 » Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:09 pm

wataru wrote:
Dash 7 wrote:Girl i just broke up with told me she still loves me.


They always say that. It's called pity love.

BTW how old are you two?


Both of us are 20.
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Re: What made your day?

Postby wataru » Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:01 pm

Dash 7 wrote:
wataru wrote:
Dash 7 wrote:Girl i just broke up with told me she still loves me.


They always say that. It's called pity love.

BTW how old are you two?


Both of us are 20.


She's 20 and her mom made her break up with you?

Sorry, Im calling BS on that. She's lying to you. Just let it go, man.
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