Digibro’s Media Journal (January 2013)

(Warning: most of this was written while drunk.) January got off to an unparalleled start in terms of media—I was handing three-plus scores out the wazoo. This more or less came to an abrupt stop when I started dedicating every waking hour to pony videos (not necessarily on purpose, it just sorta overtook my brain). I keep feeling like I’ve left something off the list, because it felt like I took in more media at the end of the month than I have listed, but it’s likely that I was just so busy with ponies and working on my upcoming Top 100 songs list and watching Game Grumps and shit that I just didn’t see that much new stuff.

Digibro Never Shuts Up Episode 10

Pretty much all about comics this time, with a couple’a Tadanobu Asano flicks at the end.

What’s in this ep:

0:00 – Introduction
0:44 – Revisiting the cultural exchange (also Biomega)
5:05 – I am the master of recommendations/breaking into fandoms
12:12 – Hellboy
19:16 – The New 52
22:24 – How much did we spend on comics this week?
26:24 – Shelf candy and collecting
46:48 – Electric Dragon 80,000v
49:59 – Bright Future
53:20 – wrapping up

Disneycast 3 (Package Films) + Digibro Never Shuts Up Episode 9

The same people listen to both podcasts, right? Well it’s organized enough to skip around if you like. I took advantage of getting a hold of Brandon to cover everything I had in mind, which turns out not to be much.

What’s in this ep:

0:00 – Introduction
1:00 – Package Films intro
1:55 – Saludos Amigos
5:37 – The Three Caballeros
8:26 – Make Mine Music
9:25 – Fun and Fancy Free
11:44 – Melody Time
13:49 – The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
20:07 – Disneycast outro
21:01 – Digibro Never Shuts Up intro
22:25 – Django Unchained (spoilers start at 31:45, end at 33:23, start again at 34:25, end at 34:54)
35:27 – Brandon on Les Miserables and The Amazing Spider Man
39:48 – A really pathetic attempt to round up 2012
46:22 – I have never shut up, ever
47:54 – Fencing!
52:00 – 2012! Kind of a “huh” year!
55:40 – Cccccccomics?
1:02:00 – Outro

Digibro’s Media Journal (December 2012)

This month’s media consumption was definitively characterized by my schedule. For the first two and a half weeks of December, my friends and I were constantly recording videos for our Gamecube Chats series; and as a result, a huge amount of the media I consumed this month was Gamecube games. A lot of them I didn’t get to play in-depth, so they’ll be falling in at the bottom section of this post.

Besides Gamecube games, there will also be an assload of Disney movies, because of Brandon and I running our Disneycast series. There are a decent number of comic books too, thanks to our continued cultural exchange, though not nearly as much as there would’ve been if not for Gamecube Chats. All of this leaves the post feeling like a big advertisement for the rest of my shit.

Disneycast Episode 2 – Dumbo, Bambi, and Cinderella

Apologies for the lack of a non-Disney podcast this week, if anyone actually cares that there wasn’t one. We had a busy week with our friend coming back from Army training and Brandon wasn’t in the mood for podcasts and stuff.

Also, apologies for him sniffling a bunch. I cut out as much of it as I could, but there’s still some in there.

What’s in this ep:

0:00 – Introduction
2:12 – Dumbo intro/history of Disney up through Dumbo
8:02 – Dumbo shows the future of animated movies
10:22 – Analyzing Dumbo
34:02 – Bambi introduction
35:22 – Analyzing Bambi
(At one point I say that I don’t remember the music of Fantasia because I don’t care about it. I forgot that we also had it turned down and talked over it. Still, I don’t think it’s an entirely incorrect statement.)
58:26 – Cinderella introduction
1:00:00 – Analyzing Cinderella
(I think Brandon and I are on two different pages re: gender roles in this part)

Disneycast Episode 1 – Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia

Hey, it’s another podcast! Brandon Tolentino and I have decided to tackle the entire Disney canon, covering every three movies over the course of a great many podcasts. The inspiration came from a combination of hearing about Disney all the time while watching Game Grumps, and the fact that Brandon likes Disney a lot, but I haven’t seen virtually any of it in my adult life.

In this episode, Brandon and I talk about Snow White and Pinocchio while actually watching Fantasia, which we talk about along the way and especially at the end.

What’s in this ep:

0:00 – Introduction
1:40 – Brandon’s way of watching Pinocchio
3:06 – We are watching Fantasia?
5:06 – Discussing Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
12:58 – Mickey Mouse and my past
20:17 – Back to Snow White
26:35 – The phrase “for its time”
28:18 – Snow White’s ending
32:54 – The dwarves
42:19 – The queen’s death
44:36 – Discussing Pinocchio
51:10 – The moral fiber of Pinocchio
(At some points we get distracted by the best scene in Fantasia for a few minutes)
1:00:00 – Plot and characters in Pinocchio
(Continued admiration of the best Fantasia scene)
1:05:56 – Fanboying over the pony scene, and moving on to Fantasia

Digibro Never Shuts Up Episode 8

Another regular ep with me and Brandon Tolentino. We talk about The Hobbit movie at length, and continue to discuss our ongoing cultural exchange. At the end I somehow end up giving a ten-minute history lesson about Noitamina.

What’s in this ep:

Opening: Goblins Dance by Ensiferum
0:33 – Introduction
1:20 – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
16:45 – The past 2 weeks
21:40 – The Cultural Exchange status
22:20 – Describing the Virginia Beach area/Local Heroes
32:46 – Manga issues
34:45 – The bar for entry with comics
38:35 – Shaders everywhere!
40:45 – Runaways
44:00 – Blood: Night of the Beasts
45:00 – Show, don’t tell
48:36 – Money effecting media experience
54:45 – Whole new avenues of anime for Brandon
56:13 – A bunch of facts about NoitaminA
1:12:16 – Our schedules
1:15:30 – Ending: Outrun by Trial of the Golden Witch

Digibro Never Shuts Up Episode 7

In this episode I was joined both by regular guest Brandon Tolentino, and by my cousin Boyd whom I hadn’t seen in a little while and showed up out of the blue. It was recorded a week ago, but it feels like much longer since this week has been insanely busy.

What’s in this ep:

0:00 – Introduction
1:16 – The tale of my giant fence
6:27 – Spoilers for The Walking Dead comic
8:46 – Comics are so expositional
11:13 – Boyd and comics/talking about Iron Man
16:37 – What Darren Aronofsky’s working on
18:39 – Boyd’s and Brandon’s different approaches to film
21:37 – Talking about time travel
24:52 – Boyd’s favorite shows
27:05 – I have an epiphany about Scott Pilgrim/discussing the series
39:58 – What happened last night (also, Paul Robertson) (also, spontaneous beer discussion)
1:00:00 – About the podcast
1:01:09 – We come back with beer
1:01:30 – Antidepressants
1:10:51 – Boyd and directing/our plans
1:35:45 – Outro: Victor’s Room by Trial of the Golden Witch

Digibro’s Media Journal (November 2012)

This was my busiest month ever, with a slam-packed November holiday schedule leaving me at work or asleep way more than I’d have liked. I also did a lot of rewatching and stuff, so in this post I’ll be including media which I’ve already seen, or am continuing to watch, which I didn’t cover before. (For instance: MLP is back, but wasn’t on when I started the journal, so I’ll be talking about it here; but I won’t talk about the still-running Game Grumps, because I talked about it in September.)

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Digibro’s Media Journal (October 2012)

As promised, this will not be nearly as big as last month. I’ve been working full-time for all of October, and in my free time I’ve been focusing more on art and playing Mass Effect than blogging and consuming media. Of course, this didn’t stop me from taking in a good amount of stuff.

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