Punktaku Blog

Happy New Year everybody! Here’s my top 5 album’s for 2008.

5. Mindless Self Indulgence – If

MSI refer to themselves as an “Industrial Jungle Pussy Punk” band. Confused?

At first I was dissapointed, but after I realized I was comparing it to their previous album too much, I started to like this album. It’s their second best album after “You’ll Rebel To Anything”.

Highlights: Never Wanted To Dance, Lights Up

4. Teenage Bottlerocket – Warning Device

Contagious Ramones “Three Chords” style pop punk. A simple album which is short, fast, loud and a lot of fun.

Highlights: In The Basement, Social Life

Read the rest of this entry »

I’m so happy to see Obama win the election. This is a historic day for us all, it’s so great to not only see someone of a racial minority get elected for leadership in a country that has had such a long history of racial conflicts, but also to see such a progressive, inspiring man for president. I hope to see Obama hold onto his ideals and his promises during his term in office, and hope that he doesn’t get corrupted or have to compromise on his core beliefs

It’s nice to see so many Americans realizing how important this election is and actually going out to vote. It’s important to get your voice heard and you can make a difference. Surely even the cynics can agree that Obama couldn’t possibly be worse than Mccain, so at least have the attitude of voting for who sucks the least. I sort of lost faith in American voters when Bush got re-elected, but I can say now that my faith in you guys has been restored.

I watched Obama’s victory speech live on TV today, and the man certainly knows how to make a brilliant speech. I actually cried, and I’m not even living in America.

Dude, that’s not what I meant at all. In any case I gave myself a bad name because I misinterpreted my own point, and got confused and acted like an idiot. Of course non-white people can be Oztaku if they’re Australian citizens, for example I extended the word to describe Blissmo from Yukan Blog, who is Asian by the way.

I’m not helping myself at all and I should probably make my article die in a fire. As if I haven’t got enough things to be depressed about.

- NewGeekPhilosopher on “What Is An Otaku?”

I don’t know whether I should be angry at you or not….
Which makes me angry!

Do I give a shit about you already having enough things to be depressed about? How am I supposed to know you have other shit going on? This is about your stupid article and nothing else. Don’t go looking for pity.

“Oh, Punktaku! Please don’t criticise me because I’ve got enough shit to be depressed about”

And you expect to hear – “Oh I’m so sorry, I never realised. How careless of me” well, don’t expect anything like that from me. Now I’m really pissed.

Read the rest of this entry »

Response to NewGeekPhilosopher’s article “What Is An Oztaku?”

1. An Oztaku is someone from Australia who is a fan of anime and manga.
2. Oztaku don’t consider themselves complete losers like Otaku, because they aren’t obsessed and anti-social.
3. They believe that Otaku is a derogatory term and people may discriminate against them, despite the fact that we don’t get biased media attacks on Otaku in Australia, and your average Australian doesn’t even know of Otaku.
4. An Oztaku wouldn’t want to scare away his Anglo Saxon friends with some weird Japanese word, so they feel the need to add “oz” to the title so it doesn’t feel too multicultural and far away from home.
5. Race plays a big part in the Oztaku scene. Being an Anglo Saxon Australian automatically gives you credibility.
6. Oztaku don’t use their hobby as a counter-culture unlike Otaku who show their distaste for the system by consuming endless amounts of figures, games, DVD’s, plushies, manga and wallscrolls. Otaku also protest for the freedom to marry their favourite anime characters. Viva La Revolution!

NewGeekPhilosopher should reconsider his name. People discriminate against geeks all the time.

“I bet you spend hours of your time playing Dungeons and Dragons and reading fantasy novels you geek! You seriously need to get out more”

But do you really care what those morons think? Do you really?

What is with Aya Hirano’s title for her debut album ‘Riot Girl’? I always thought of Riot Girl as a radical feminist movement related to independent DIY punk. What exactly makes Hirano a radical feminist? It must be all those suggestive photo shoots of Hirano, clothes all wet, lying in a bathtub with bedroom eyes. Or maybe her radical feminist agenda is portrayed in her swimsuit publicity photos? I don’t see a girl with a great personality, I don’t see a girl I can idolise and respect for her artistic integrity. I see a sex object.

Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I went shopping for various posters to decorate my place for my upcoming 18th birthday. I found myself walking into a few wannabe Hot Topic places which I don’t normally shop at.

I had a look in Planet 13, some new ‘punk’ chain store in the city. The moment I walked in everything looked clean cut and well organised. The place lacks any sort of character. There’s no local tour posters messily posted all over the walls, no graffiti and no crudely designed and half torn advertisements for wanted musicians. Over the speakers I don’t hear noisy hardcore punk music scaring away potential customers, but instead I hear some popular ’scene’ music.

Read the rest of this entry »

This is my first figure and photo shoot. I think I might have found a new hobby. =D

You can read the review here.

I’m back in action and made some changes to this blog. As you can see I’ve changed the banner and changed the theme to the version with a sidebar. I’ve added reviews of anime in an anime reviews section which you can find under pages. I’ve decided to remove all my previous posts to get a fresh start because to be honest – I wrote a lot of bullshit posts. I plan to stop writing episode by episode reviews and now I’ll stick to writing full show reviews. Keeping up to date with shows can be stressing at times and I would rather watch shows at my own pace.

Read the rest of this entry »