Forever & A Half
Yeah - it's been quite a while since I've updated anything. I've been writing a few entries, but in paper form and have yet to upload them. Right now, I'm kinda sick, so I'm taking the day off from work. Usually, I go stoic when I am, but in my job where I'm talking to people all day, I can't work when my throat is sore. Therefore, day off. I'm going to try to use my time wisely, though. This could be the perfect timing to gather the paperwork for the cabbie position that I'm looking at. Also, I did manage to get most of the stuff I was hoping for for the holidays:
- Air Gear DVD box set
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (aka Dexter)
- Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (aka True Blood)
- Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (X360)
- Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core (PSP)
- Naruto: The Broken Bond (X360)
- Nintendo DS: Limited Edition Pokemon Pack
- Speed Grapher DVD box set
- Speed Racer: Mach Go Go Go manga box set
- Wii Fit (Wii)
- Captain America vs Red Skull baseball cap
- Gintama Vol. 2
- Gun Blaze West Vol. 1
- The Punisher MAX Vol. 5: The Slavers
I just rediscovered Netflix through XBL, and that's pretty cool. The first thing I watched was an episode of ProStars. PROSTARS!!!! For anybody that's too young to remember this show, it was a 90's cartoon that put together three of the biggest names in sports (Bo Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Wayne Gretzky), and had them helping kids with various problems:
Click to viewYes, it was as bad as you might imagine, but it was HILARIOUSLY bad. And THEN, I somehow came across Wish Kid episodes, which HAD to be watched. Once again, for those that may be too young to know, Wish Kid was a cartoon show that came out when Macaulay Culkin was still huge from his Home Alone days. Why do I mention him? Because he played the main character, Nick McClary, a kid who became the owner of a magic baseball glove. Think Fairly Oddparents, but older and no fairies:
When did THOSE get put on DVD? What I was also surprised to find was Mummies Alive!. I'd never met anybody who had ever seen that show. Here's the thing about Mummies Alive! - I saw this as a teenager. I KNEW it was a bad show. It was one of those low-budget cartoons that came on in the morning. The plotlines were bad, as was the general premise (Pharaoh reincarnates as present-day boy; Sorceror that killed him resurrects to finish the job; and mummy guardians rise to protect boy), and not only that - the dialogue was incredibly cheesy. So why couldn't I stop watching it? Well, the opening theme was catchy, but more than that, the art was pretty good, and therefore, the henshins were absolutely VICIOUS. For an American series, anyway:
...and last on the list of awesomely bad is the fact that I also managed to find the Fist of the North Star live action movie on Netflix. Note that for once, I didn't use the Japanese name, Hokuto no Ken. That's because it was made in America. In '95:
Yeah, it was bad. But it was good, too, surprisingly. For one thing, I have to give props to them for keeping a lot of plot true to the original story. Yeah - some details got messed up (Lynn was blind, Shin killed Ryuken, Jackal looked & acted like Jagi, etc), but there was a lot of accuracy, too (Ken vs Zeed, the Shin/Ken/Julia flashback, Shin's whining to Julia). Not only that, but DANTE BASCO PLAYED BART!! And that (to me) was a good enough reason to see it.