OK so today I woke up and ROOMMATE was not around! It was good times, I danced around naked in the apartment for a while to 90s music like THE REAL MCCOY and HADDAWAY until I remembered that people can see in through the windows, so I washed some clothes and put them on like a normal human being!

I went on the inter-net but I got bored, so I decided to go to Everything2 and type in “Robotech.” I was enthralled for hours and then I found out they MADE A SEQUEL THAT WAS ACTUALLY ANIMATED AS AN ACTUAL ROBOTECH CARTOON. In case you have a life and did not either grow up in the 80s or smoke pot and watch Cartoon Network in the late 90s Robotech is an awesome show (when you are stoned or a small child) about aliens who invade Earth to get a ship they lost and who apparently like J-Pop a whole lot! Also there are lots of mechs and space fighters that transform into robots (those sequences were most of the budget…of the show they came from!). The show was actually three shows stitched together from Japanese TV to make one show for America! Hahaha wtf.

ANYWAY I decided to go buy that movie! TOUCHING, my mind said, YOU NEED TO GO NOW AND BUY IT AND ALSO A JUG OF CARLO ROSSI TO HELP WITH THE MOVIE!

So I went out! I drove to Berkeley, which is basically the worst thing you can do in the Bay Area (aside from letting your truck melt the highway!) I somehow found parking close to RASPUTIN’S and AMOEBA and went into both, hoping to find the movie. NO LUCK but I did find a whole bunch of Hentai which was exactly next to the “R” section in the “Japanime” <---hahaha that is seriously what they called it--->and that sucked because girls already do not like you if you are looking at anime, if they think you are looking at tentacle schoolgirl pr0n and being all picky about it they probably want to call the police or at least take a pic of you and post it to “Don’t Date Him Girl.com”!

So neither of those places had it! I went ughghgh and went into a Moe’s Bookstore and SOMEHOW FOUND A COPY OF “MARTIANS GO HOME” (which was right next to the “John Brunner” section, double awesome!).

Anyway, this left me with one option: I had to go…to….EMERYVILLE. DAMMIT. Well I forced myself to go, I ended up at the Borders or Barnes and Noble or whatever big giant corporate bookstore that is there near Trader Joe’s! I looked it up on their video thingie and it said —>whoah touching look at that beautiful Indian lady over there *swoon* I should go over and say hi and maybe try to WAIT MOVIE —> and then the video search thingie said NOT AVAILABLE YOU CAN ORDER IT AND IT WILL GET HERE IN ONE WEEK!

Well THAT WILL NOT DO! I screamed, the Indian lady looked over at me when I did that, I smiled and said “Hi!” and she looked creeped out and walked away, dangit! I make more irritated nerd noises and walked out and thought, TOUCHING< maybe you can just go to the other bookstore? The other bookstore is in the worst place on Earth though, it is in the faux-small-town brick "Emery Bay" chamber of horrors, so I said NO! to my brain and suggested I download a backup copy in the inter-net instead!

TOUCHING, my brain said, Good idea!

SO now I have been waiting one hour, it says "57 minutes until completion" so while I could not buy a DVD I ended up saving twenty or thirty bucks! THANK YOU ISOHUNT.COM!

Physical Media Review: poor
Internet Review: three and a half stars (half a star is taken away because downloading it was not completely instant, but was only like two hours probably!)

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