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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Random
The city was beautiful last week
The streets of San Francisco were sunny & chill
quiet Tuesday afternoon in the city
I raided my mom's fridge for some left over ham & a couple of eggs fried it all up last Saturday asa gohan desu wheat toast with butter & obachan's home made strawberry preserves fried ham & a cheese omellette
My homie Ollie in front of the spot Manila Garden Cuisine
Sisig was the kill
Filipino fiesta food man, learn about it new kid -the shit was bomb
I must be depressed because I literally have no desire to do anything that normally makes me happy. I've just been laying around. I have been doing some surfing on the web. Beyond that I haven't been doing anything this week.
Kreva "Success" goddamn this is a banger, I could roll around Nihon Machi in the xterra with the bass bumping scoping the fly honeys all day playing this song
So last weekend I watched the GSP/BJ Penn rematch. I really don't have anything against GSP, he's impressed me pretty much every time I've watched him. He seems to be a class act as well & he always conducts himself in a sportsman like manner. I picked BJ Penn to win the fight though. BJ impressed the HELL out of me in previous fights & I felt he had extra motiviation to win this fight because he wanted so much to avenge his loss.
I'm a casual fan of MMA so I didn't catch alot of the pre fight shit talking. Apparently BJ was talking mad shit before the fight & even went so far as to say that GSP was a bitch. I guess that shit talk lit a fire under GSP because he came into the octagon & handled BJ.
GSP looked to be in better shape than BJ overall, & from what I could see he was just stronger physically. If GSP wanted to switch positions, he did, he simply moved BJ's body around almost at will which is a testament to his strength. Before the vaseline controversy came to light I did take notice at how ineffective BJs ground game seemed to be. I knew BJ had stand up skills but being a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu expert I know he has sick ground game. It just seemed really wierd that he couldn't get his ground game going & put handles on GSP.
Then the whole controversy about GSP being greased up with vaseline on his neck, shoulders, & back was brought up. I will say this, if GSP was greased up BJ's ability to lay the ground game down would have been jeopardized, plain & simple. I will also say that GSP appeared to be stronger in the fight. I'm not an MMA expert but does GSP's strength cancel out BJ's Jiu Jitsu? If not then the grease would have made a difference, if GSP's strength cancels out BJ's Jiu Jitsu then the outcome of the fight would have been the same.
The greasing subject has come up many times & you can even catch Dana White talking about it IMMEDIATELY after the fight while he is ringside, do a search for Dana White's video blog on youtube, I'm too lazy to post a link.
You be the judge. I'd love to hear opinions & serious MMA fan observations & insights.
I happened upon a copy of The Clone Wars in HD. I heard alot of people bashing this film. Alot of people whose opinions I respect... Since it did not cost me a dime I decided to pop it in my PS3 & give it a whirl. I heard this was meant to introduce the new animated series. Let the record show I have not watched any of the animated series.
One of the first things that hit me was the art style of the character designs. I did not like it. I remember thinking how cool it would have been to have a more realistic edge to the characters as opposed to a cartoony look.
I remember when Count Dooku was introduced & I was like yo this is the best they can come up with? An old guy for a villian? When Darth Maul was introduced I was like "DAAAAAMN!"
The story I guess at it's core was not all bad but I was really irritated at Asohka Tano, Anakin's new padawan. I cringed every time she referred to Anakin as "Sky Guy" or r2d2 as "R tooey" or as the baby hutt as "stinky". I was equally irritated when Anakin referred to Asohka as "snips". Also some of the the dialogue that the battle droids had was just plain dumb.
I guess this stuff was all added to appeal to kids, the new animated tv series was meant for the kiddies right? Hardcore fanboys can bite it, it's all about squeezing as much money out of this franchise as possible. I'm not naive & it is what it is. I wont be spending any money on buying a copy of this film, I'm sure Warner Bros. & Lucasfilm can give a rat's ass about my dollars anyways. I wish them the best & hope this all works out for them...I guess.
What I would spend my hard earned money on would have been a more serious story within the Star Wars universe, with edgier more realistic characters. Using CG would have allowed the story tellers to create a truly awesome experience. But uh, yeah.
My opinion is that this flick is not worth a rental or a purchase. If you can view it for free go for it. **********
I picked up a copy of My Japanese Coach over at Game Stop, I ran through the placement test & the game has me starting with lesson 6. I was killing it until it got to the Kana portion. I have no skills in Kana or Kanji. I do have a decent vocabulary going for me though. I look forward to having this study tool around, maybe this is just what I needed to give me the edge on my written shit.
I had an action packed day yesterday. Headed out to Nihon Machi so Langdon could pick up the latest Mummy Boy release in the Skulletor colorway at Super 7. Langdon tried to convince me to pick one up which was tempting but I just couldn't bring myself to open up a new can of worms & add new things to collect. That figure is awesome! FYI this pic is not of the Skulletor colorway, click the link to see him if you're curious.
Next it was on to Kinokuniya where I picked up the latest Ollie magazine. Browsing the book store I found a selection of cool radio controlled trucks done up to look like the crazy customized trucks in Japan called decotora. They were super cool & I wanted one but they were $25 bucks each & not in the budget!
Next it was across the bridge to Berkeley where Samuel Weinstein, Langdon Alger, Son of Gigan & I met up with YODC's founder Freefall Jones for lunch at Angeline's Kitchen for some down home Louisiana cooking.
I had swamp water to drink, which is a fancy way of saying an "Arnold Palmer". For starters we had hushpuppies served with honey butter. I ordered up some fried oysters & Langdon ordered the grilled Boudin sausage. It was all delicious. For my entree I went with the safe pick of the Jambalaya which was great. To round things off we ordered up to servings of begnets to share.
I highly recommend the place, the food was great although it seemed like our order took a bit longer than everyone else's...
After lunch Langdon & I went to Kimono My House. Since this historic Bay Area landmark would be closing it's doors soon we figured we'd make one last pilgrimage there before it was gone. Oddly Yuki was either pre-occupied or just felt like being a dick that day because I said hello & asked if it would bother him if I took a little vid footage inside the store & he seemed annoyed. Or maybe that's just what happens when you get old...sometimes you're just a dick. Oh well. Sorry I didn't buy the Japanese release of Wingblade but I have an og release of it AND the TRU exclusive re-release of it which was $40 cheaper than what you were selling yours for! Geez! I do buy things there on occasion, they do have some nice things in stock but they do price their items on the higher end of the spectrum. I can't remember the first time I went there but it just seems like we've always been going there. Too bad it's going to close but they will still be around at cons & they have their online store & from what I hear they will be selling stuff out of their storage space too.
After Kimono My House we started the drive home, with short detours to Target for the toy aisle where I picked up the Transformers Universe 2.0 Dinobot figure (don't mind the pic of smokescreen) & on to Best Buy to pick up a copy of Tokyo Gore Police on dvd
Music for the afternoon was a mix cd of classic Hip Hop from the Native Tongues.
Man I have been stressed the fuck out! Work is kicking my ass. I swear to god if I don't learn how to channel this energy correctly I'm going to drop dead of a heart attack by age 35 or younger! I can already feel it, a pressure in my solar plexus...or was that the Nation's cheeseburger & order of chili cheese fries I ate for dinner?
********************* I have been training on the opening procedures in my department. I have been going in to work at 4:00 am & getting off at 12:30 pm. Getting off early is fucking rad, I have time to cruise the stores for toy releases before most of the toy speculators strip the shelves clean of the short packs & rarities. Oddly enough my quest has not yielded any great results.
I was hoping to find the Transformers Mighty Muggs but nothing...I did find a Transformers Universe Cheetor figure. I never owned an original Cheetor & I wanted this figure if only to complete my Transformers Universe collection. I got it home & transformed it, I was not terribly impressed by it, the beast mode by far is it's best looking mode. I do like the fact that it's tail detaches to become a club weapon. I also like the fact that the ninja star looking weapons have blades that retract & you can store them in Cheetor's leg. I can't count how many of my action figure's weapons & accessories got lost because they were small & there was no place to store them. The cons to me were the fact that the figure's limbs were disproportionate.
I don't envy the designers & engineers that have to make these things work & go. It must be difficult for them to come up with a toy that looks clean & transforms without stressing mutherfuckers out like a rubik's cube puzzle.
I also picked up a Spider Man Mighty Mugg, it looked too cool to pass up. I was trying not to buy anything that didn't fit in to my Japanese/Transformers/Mecha collection. But Some of these Muggs were just too awesome for words.
I'm not going to pick up all of them, just a select few. So far I have Storm Shadow, Snake Eyes, Boba Fett, Jango Fett & Spider Man. They look great sitting next to my Munny & Dunny figures. ******************* On the upside Monday is a holiday. I just may be able to finish Heavenly Sword on the PS3. I'm on chapter 5 & oh so close to the end. ******************* I love Zombies! I saw Planet Terror on tv last year & thought it was well done. I wondered why it got a bad rap in all the reviews, I got Death Proof recently the second half or whatever to the Grindhouse Double feature. While I liked Planet Terror better Death Proof was pretty cool. It kept my attention the entire time. That's more than I can say for the latest Mummy adventure or Superman Returns... ****************** I was making some headway in Heavenly Sword last night when it hit 9:00 pm. I have to get up at 3:30 am for work so I took a quick shower & hit the sack. I like to let the tv play in the background while I fall asleep. I put the channel on PBS last night & there was a great show on about how the London underground is haunted. I wanted to sleep but I couldn't because I was so into this show. Hey Craig, next time you're riding the subway around London keep your eye out for some ghostly spectres.
