Wednesday, July 28, 2004

KBOX Adventure

First off, HI to Gen who found my blog, HI!.

Ok, so today was my first time going to a karaoke. Long story short, nine guys, small room, singing(??) as if they were high on coke (cola).

It was strange for me.  Because I was raised with classical music, or rather, I chose to be engluf myself in real music and occasionally heavy rock for its passion, I tend to stay away from the popular culture and teen stuff.

I was trained to always support my breath,  float the sound and so on. But today, it was different. In fact, it was rather freeing, to be able to blast through songs and to be on the wrong pitch.

It helps knowing that nobody else knows who you are.

It also helps when there are oldies in the song catalogue. It's precious when other people have to sit through, "my girl", "alone again naturally" and "tell laura I love her". That's right, I am an asshole too.

I'm also noticing a growing trend that some of the younger classcical artists are incooperating pop in their repetoir. Not as in separated song but classcical and pop in the same track. I do agree that they complement each other fairly well but in the way that the pop element makes the classical entity stand out much more. It's probably just me.

And remember, rock rocks.

A great disturbance in the order, as if millions of voices cried out to say "oh shit".

Saturday, July 24, 2004

Review: The Whole Ten Yards

The movie is bombarded by paranoia and hormonal disorder jokes, good stuff, just like meat.

Matthew Parry, who was his old Chandler Bing self, plays Oz who brings the word paranoia to a whole new level.

Bruce Willis who plays Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski, obsesses with cooking and cleaning something a real man would not do. (Sorry I didn't really mean that, it just felt fun to say) He also thinks that he's impotent.

Then there is Amanda Peet, who plays Jill, wife to Jimmy and an aspiring hitwoman. She was so precious while she did her line "but I just wanna shoot somebody" right before bursting into an uncontrollable crying frenzy. That's when Jimmy comforted her by promising to take her out to shoot people.

Ok, so the father (Lazlo) of the guy (Yanni) whom they killed in the first movie got out of prison and wants revenge. Kidnaps Cynthia, Oz's wife, then goes around trying to kill Oz and Jimmy. What happens is that while Oz and Jimmy were being shot at, Jimmy was trying to convince himself that he could actually father a child and Oz had to give him the "there, there" speech routine.

People, this movie deserves better than two stars. Bloody critics. Although you would get a better experience if you watched the first one.

A great disturbance in the order, as if millions of voices cried out to say "oh shit".

Thursday, July 22, 2004

Writer's blo(g)ck

I'm currently working on a script for an organization i'm obliged to work for, but I've developed writer's block. I'm not allowed to discuss the content of the script without threatening your life. Since this would be on the net, that would mean a lot of work. Therefore I shall keep this post short, since i've got writer's block.

A great disturbance in the order, as if millions of voices cried out to say "oh shit".

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Sentai fans unite!!

There was this once i walked into this DVD store that sells darn old japanese animes A.K.A. heaven. They even had the first two seasons of Mask Rider (and I'm not talking about that Saban crap).

So I went in, approached a sales assistant and asked if they sell any sentai series.

He gave me a queer look before saying that they don't.

The bugger must have thought that I said hentai. Either that or he doesn't know the difference. DUDE!! GET YOURSELF AN INTERNET CONNECTION DUDE!!

For those who don't know wtf sentai is, visit this website http://www.supersentai.com

Like I mention earlier, I'm not talking about the Saban crap. Haim Saban is the guy who brought the 16th sentai season or Zyuranger into America and named it Mighty Morphing Power Rangers. Although MMPR totally rocked back when I was ten. Then again, I was ten.

As the Japanese Series changes seasons, it always switches to a new plot with new actors. But Saban, no, he wanted a continued storyline which made the story crap.

Take the Megazord for instance, it has to be destroyed as the japanese changes season. Acceptable? I say yes. So enters Thunder Megazord which IS the most powerful force in the universe, that HAS to be destroyed to make way for the Ninja megazord which must be the most-est powerful-est force in the universe, right? 'fraid not, enters Zeo Megazord, destroyed, enter Turbo megazord, destroyed, Space Megazord, destroyed, Galaxy Megazord, went back to their home planet. So the cycle ends. It took him seven seasons to realise that he was being a dumbass.

Then enters season Light Speed Rescue, which seems to be the most boring season of all.
Zero storyline plus zero character development. Time Force and Wild Force were ok cos they were finally following the original storyline play by play.

Then he sold the rights to Disney. Don't know why but i'm not commenting on it yet cos I've yet to see any of it.

The point is if you have a thing for giant robots that merges together and forms a SUPER giant robot. Watch the original Japanese sentai. The girls are cuter.

Is your meat...good?

What is goodmeat? For people who know my secret identity, do the following
1. Negate my sirname.
2. Develope an accent as if you're speaking Chinese for the first time.
3. Read the two remaining syllables backwards.
4. Now think to yourself, "What the hell is wrong with this guy?".