Gotta Catch 'Em All

It’s funny really. One gets to a certain age and begins to reflect upon the things that once were, and, perhaps more importantly, the things that once were better.

As such, I find myself in my late twenties, back in the house that sheltered my teenage years, out of pocket and returning to a profession that frankly, I’m not all that excited to be returning to, wondering what happened to those simple bygone days that, at the time, seemed so very stressful and downright awful and yet now reveal themselves to be more carefree than I could ever have imagined than to be.

So it’s time for a new blog. As any of my Instagram followers will know, I’ve been doodling a lot lately. Pokemon mostly, inspired by my recent viewings of the anime that was so very capitalistically spewed from the Nintendo game of the same name.

Right now I’m watching it in Japanese in order to try and re-hone my currently waning skills in the Niponese tongue, but let’s face it, who wouldn’t, given the choice, go back to those Saturday mornings of the late nineties and get lost for a blissful twenty minutes in the adventures of Ash, Brock and the annoyingly alluring Misty? What my thirteen year old self would have given to have been a Togepi at young Misty’s blossoming bosom…

But there is something beautifully innocent about Ash (or Satoshi as he is known in the original Japanese) and his quest to “catch ‘em all”. There’s a dream there; a longing to take on the world that we all hold in our late childhood and yet so few of us take into adulthood. Granted, we don’t all have a cuddly mouse by our side (and unfortunately those of us who do tend to find them toddling off this mortal coil once returned from extended travels), but for the most part, if we’ve played our cards well thus far, we’ve managed to accumulate a merry band of travelling companions that will remain stalwart and true throughout our battles.

I digress in the most sentimental of ways.

That said, that’s what this blog is about. Not so much the reviews of Silver Screen Lining, but rather a sometimes sentimental, but (hopefully) oft thought-provoking reflection on nostalgic tosh that perhaps you may have forgotten and might just get a hint of a smile for drudging from the depths of your RAM.

I hope you enjoy.

Pokemon geto da ze!