Scott Pilgrim vs. My Brain Cells

Those reading my blog should know for future reference that I am highly prone to becoming hyperfixated on random things. After I find one of those random things, it occupies the entire space of my brain for about a month, causing me to space out randomly while my brain cells scream about the aforementioned random thing to each other.

And right now, the random thing my brain cells keep screaming about is this:

I'm currently in the middle of the third book and I'm almost done watching the movie for a second time. I keep drawing the characters and listening to the soundtrack. Every sentence I hear in real life just makes me think of Scott Pilgrim quotes ("Bread makes you FAT?!?"). This is what obsession looks like.

The basic gist is that there's this slacker bass player named Scott Pilgrim who falls in love with this girl named Ramona and then has to fight her seven evil exes in hyperkinetic video game-style battles in order to be with her. I know it sounds like a sexist dude-bro-gamer power fantasy, but it really ingeniously subverts its own concept and fleshes out its characters really well. It's really about relationships and emotional maturity. It's kind of an Annie Hall for the Wii generation (that has to be the first time that sentence has been written). And the movie? It's a great action flick. It's a great comedy. It's a great romance. I highly recommend it.

So in case you want to know exactly what it's been like inside my brain for the past couple of weeks, now you do. Intriguing and lightly horrifying, no?