Zack

The best time of my life really. I'm just gonna copy and past my friend Terpsie's description of it, as her description is perfect. Full of pics too.

Dramatis Personae:

- Zack: Whose main goal was to find a KOS-MOS and verily stick it in her pooper.
- Dias: Who lieks teh wimmins.
- Terpsie: The Otakon veteran who dragged Zack and Dias to this in the first place
- Suze: Terpsie's friend, AKA Orange-Haired Girl


Our epic quest began on Thursday when the three of us
meandered down to Baltimore to meet for the first
time. Having stayed up all night previous to finish
their costumes, Terpsie and Suze were not completely
there but were still able to enjoy facets of the trip,
including an aquarium full
of floating cubes and a hotdog vending
machine that blew Terpsie's mind by its very
nastiness.

Dias' trip was uneventful, but he claimed to have
heard the sound of snakes and felt something large
slithering along his pants. It was pointed out that
this could've been his cock, to which he agreed. The
three met up and went for sushi, which would've been
best without Zack given the high percentage of black
people in Baltimore and his previous comments
involving Niggery Nigiri sushi. Zack's flight
came late due to weather but he was still able to
capture the Grand Canyon on the
way over.

Friday morning began with Zack waiting in the hugeass
pre-reg line in his Mikami Teru
costume (note how he's writing George W. Bush in his
DN) while Terpsie showed up in a bastardized Okami costume
with Suze as Waka (not shown) and Dias in his
live-action adaptation of Hellsing's Alucard (straight
from the dungeon, oh yes).

Woohoo!

Woohoo!

Much meandering
through the crowds ensued, with the 22,000 people and
the bad ventilation making us sweat in our leather,
suits and kimonos. The Dealer's room as usual was huge
and full of win (the Bandai exhibit was Hellsing
Ultimate-themed and came with a huge Alucard
chair), as was Artist's
Alley. Breaks were spent not eating and trying
every variety of Ramune we could find (Ramune is a
popular brand of Japanese pop that was sold for
$3/bottle at the con. For about 15 minutes we sat
there going "How the FUCK do we open this", as it's
sealed with a marble blocking the opening, which must
be pushed out of the way with the plastic applicator
that comes with the bottle. To commemorate our
confusion and our eventual victory over the accursed
Ramune bottles, Terpsie bought a shirt which
has instructions on how to open the bottles on the
back.

Zack found a KOS-MOS print in Artist's Alley, and
spent his time looking greedily at the print despite
the fact that he was surrounded by wimmins in skimpy
anime costumes. To his dismay, attempts to find a
KOS-MOS cosplayer failed on Friday.

Following a dinner of Chinese takeout and quite a few
pina coladas, the rave was attended and much jumping
around ensued, and all four of us went back to
Suse/Terpsie's hella-big hotel room to watch DVDs on a
portable DVD player. While Zack and Dias' room was at
a Motel 6 located at a 20-minute drive away from the
convention center, they would not sleep in that room
again for the duration of the con.

Terp: *sprawled on the couch* ...buh?
Dias: You're awake.
Terp: It's... 8 in the morning.
..........where's Zack? Did he go back to Motel 6?
...his jacket and tie are still here.
Dias: ...his shoes are still here. He... he
didn't leave.
Terp: *eyes slowly widen and she runs to the
bedroom, poking her head in to find Suze in the large
bed with Zack next to her, albeit pushed to the far
other side, separated by a large amount of space and
several layers of sheets*
Dias: ...What?
Terp: *slowly puts a hand over her mouth and
runs*

Zack: Hey Terpsie... do you think it would be
okay if I hit on Suze?
Terp: No. She will break you.
Zack: Ah, okay. I think she's cool though, and
nice for offering up the bed like that.
Terp: She will break you.

Saturday, we spent more time shopping, walking, and
crashing in the garden to
chill (note the Sailor Neptune in the background is in
fact a man). Terpsie also ran around
hugging various things. While
shopping, Dias and Terpsie took a break to head to
Barnes and Noble:

Artist on the corner: Hey, how're you?
Terp & Dias: We're good.
Artist: We're a group of artists who live up in
the mountains, making art and protesting all of the
commercial and political crap that's poisoning our
society, y'know? Like our world today is so full of
crap like commercialism and all that, and we totally
need to change it all, y'know?
Dias: I hear ya man.
Artist: Like we totally have this magazine, and
here's some of our prints that we make-
Terp: Oooh.
Artist: And we have these shirts that say "Stop
bitching, and start a Revolution" because we totally
need to act now, y'know? And start changing things and
getting rid of all this commercial and political shit.
Terp: Aah.
Artist: You think you wanna buy some of our
prints or our magazines or maybe our t-shirts?
Terp: I'm sorry, I have no change on me.
Dias: Starving student, man.
Artist: That's cool, that's cool, you have a
good day.
(Dias and Terpsie walk to Barnes and Noble, and blow
their change on Starbucks. They take a taxi back to
the convention center to avoid getting beaten by the
hippies.)

Terp: *seeing a manga button on the ground*
Hey, a button.
Otaku walking by: YOU FOUND SOMETHING!
Terp and Dias: (Zelda item music) DA DA DA
DAAAAAAAAA!
(........they stare at each other, horrified)

All four of us waited in the 4chan panel line (not so
much a line as it is an amorphous blob
of people screaming memes, drawing penises and baby
raep in DS pictochat, and Sieg Heil-ing Seaking. The lineup
MADE the experience. Although the panel had the
occurrence of "internet weddings" by the 4chan priest,
the panel still sucked.

Zack: Y'know, when I get married, I want the
guy marrying my wife and I to be like "I now pronounce
you Trap and Faggot" like in the 4chan panel.
Terp: ....would you be the trap or would you be
the faggot?
Dias: He'd be the faggot.
Terp: He did have boobs for awhile though.
Dias: I'm going to go throw up now.

Saturday afternoon, having a strong hankering for
booze, the four of us made a trek to find a liquor
store downtown. Our quest led us to a seedy small
liquor store in the middle of the westside ghetto.
This is while fully equipped in our newly-acquired Weeaboo
faggottree,
which may not have been the best idea.

Scary Black Man with Crooked Teeth: *wanders up
to Zack* MAN nigga I gotta ASK you, where the FUCK
y'all get that shirt?!
Zack: (in Dias' shirt that has a nintendo
cartridge on the front and the caption "BLOW ME"
underneath) Oh, it's from an anime convention just
downtown at the convention center. ^_^
Dias: (noticing the crazy man has a piece on
him) O__O
Scary Man: EY YO AH GOT THIS JOKE, WHY DON'T
MR. CLEAN DON'T HAVE ANY BABIES? ....CUZ HE COMES IN A
BOTTLE!
Suse and Terp: *start walking away really
quickly*

But, we made an important discovery: that of Smirnoff
green tea. Dias cut himself trying to open one
of them but the truly important thing is, you can't taste
the alcohol in these.

Partying,
spiked-tea chugging and DVDing ensued, and once again
the guys passed out in Terp/Suse's room. Again, all
attempts by Zack to find KOS-MOS had failed.

Suze: Man, I'm hungry.
Terp: Let's get some pizza.
Zack: Oh I don't know, I like pizza, but it
gives me heartburn.
Terp: (inner voice) Maybe we
should go get some bagels. ....*SLAPS
HERSELF* I'M GOING TO HELL.

Sunday, being the casual last day, had us making one
last trip to the Dealer's Room. It was on that day
that Zack had his most glorious moment of the con: He
not only found KOS-MOS, he also found Shion with her.
He was ejaculating
in his pants at the moment this was taken.

While the con ended at three, we left early to engage
in some sightseeing. We went back to the Chinese place for
lunch. We wanted to go to the aquarium plus dolphin
show but it was hella expensive ($24 per person?
Madness! Sparta!) so we ran to the science center just
in time for the 3D Imax about dinosaurs. Afterwards we
wandered through downtown Baltimore, with perfect
weather, sun and a breeze, people milling about, Ben &
Jerry's in hand and bands playing music in the
background. Despite the westside ghetto, the scary
people, the honking and bad traffic even at 2am, and
the foul-smelling smoke that emanated from the sewer
manholes every night, Baltimore is actually a pretty nice place to hang out.

More pizza and booze later, Zack departed to catch his
flight back home at 3am. By the end of the con, Suze
and Terpsie's hotel room was a goddamn mess.
We were exhausted and
practically on the verge of insanity.

Dias was still a
perv though.

We all parted ways Monday morning, with Suze and
Terpsie flying off at noon and Dias left back at the
Motel 6 until his flight later that evening. More
exhaustion upon our return. Terpsie glorified in
finding a Tim Hortons
back at the Toronto airport because there aren't any
real Timmies in that newfangled America. Zack noticed
oddly enough that while he was transferring at the
Dallas airport, absolutely nobody had a Texan
accent. Dias slept for the first time in days.


Cosplay:

Jesus
(There was an Arby's Jesus too, but I didn't get a
photo)
Invader
Zim
Command?
The Bawls
Knights had an epic battle with the Mountain Dew
knights
Initial
D
Dread
Pirate Roberts
ZOMG BABY
NARUTO
Elite Beat
Agents (Suze freaked out when she saw him)
Note:
Seras Victoria is a man
Clover
Yatta!
THIS! IS!
CAKETOWN!
DOMOOO!
HAADO GAI DEEEESU! O-KAAAAAY!
Multi-Okami Epic Battel: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
Freaking
out traffic
Princess
Ruto
These guys
were pretty badass
Dias
came
Hexadecimal
Stabbity
goodness
Lawl
Deadpool!
The
infamous tentacle: Bleach mode
Soundwave
Dark
Link
Epic
battle!
Don't let
any of the WoW people see this
Censored
From
Persona, I believe
Holy shit
somebody actually dressed like this
They did a
better job of doing Cromartie than the actual
live-action movie
Ken and
Ryu had a fight in the middle of the con with special
moves and everything but note the guy in the
yellow sweatshirt with PEDO in big honking letters
(Krelian man, you should've told us!)



INTARNETS:

So i herd
u liek..
O_O
NEDM
Is that
baby for sale?
The Potter
Puppet Pals
These
guys walked around with "If You Think I'm Sexy"
playing in the background, that is until Seaking
busted his horn walking through the front door. Suave,
guys.





....So, who's up for '09? :D :D

Like I said, the best time of my life. Dias and Terpsie are two of my best internet friends ever. After hanging out with them in person, I feel that they're two of my best real life friends too. I wish I could hang out with them on a regular basis. Oh well, at least I can always talk to them through the internet. And I will be going back in '09, so I will see them again then.

Well, as Death Note is my favorite anime of all time (and to me the greatest work of fiction ever), I got myself a few Death Note items. I got myself an L wristband, a replica Death Note that came with a free soundtrack and pen, and a Death Note poster.

From the artist's alley I got a kickass KOS-MOS picture (I am the ultimate KOS-MOS fanboy)

For friends, I got a Bleach plushy of Renji, a Naruto keychain of Kakashi, an InuYasha keychain of InuYasha and Neraku, and a DBZ keychain of Frieza.

The rest of my money I spent on DVDs. If it weren't for the fucking cab fare (I had no idea how much it would cost) I would have bought even more DVDs.

The complete series of Excel Saga, $40... good deal if you ask me.

The rest I bought are live-action.

Ichi the Killer (the single most violent movie ever made, the manga it's based on {Koroshiya Ichi by Hideo Yamamoto} is even more so {as well as more fucked up than the movie described below this trailer}... the DVD I bought is fucking awesome, it came in a collector's blood bag... a bag filled with red liquid, and two little envelopes that the DVDs go in plus a DVD case size plastic case for the blood bag itself)


Visitor Q (the single most fucked up movie ever made, from the same guy who did Ichi the Killer... as fucked up as the trailer below is, the movie is even more so... not much of the movie is actually shown in this trailer, but perhaps it's better that way... it is a movie that must be seen to believe)


Versus (this movie is pure badass, I bought the three disc special edition that came in a collector's metal case called Ultimate Versus, the director was there, and I missed the chance to get it autographed by him >_>)


Dark Water (some of you may remember a recent American movie starring Jennifer Connelly by the same name... it is a bastardized American version of this Japanese horror film, just as The Ring was a bastardized version of the original Ringu, I haven't had a chance to watch this one yet, just the shitty American version, but I look forward watching thise one)


Cromarite High: The Movie (based on the anime Sakigake!! Cromartie High SChool, not as good as the anime, but still damn good and damn funny... Mechazawa's the best part of the movie by far)


Oh yeah, and since I spent over $50 in the ADV films booth (where I bought the complete series of Excel Saga and the original Japanese version of Dark Water) I got a free Rah Xephon T-shirt... I never have seen this anime, but now I feel obligated to do so since I've got a free T-shirt of it). The rest of my money was spent on food and cab fare. To bed I go now, good night!

Well, technically yesterday now.

Otakon is three weeks away. I am cosplaying as Aizen Sousuke from Bleach (for those who haven't seen Bleach it's this guy {also see current Live Journal icon}). I found exactly what I needed at this second hand store in Eugene.

They also had a pretty sweet book selection. I ended up buying five books from them. Two Resident Evil books. Resident Evil: Caliban Cave which takes place inbetween Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil: City of the Dead which is the novelization of Resident Evil 2. I also got a British copy of Hannibal Rising, I know it's British because on the jacket it says it's £17.99. Another book is one of my all time favorites, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Barnes & Noble hard cover classics collection hardcover. The final book I bought was a scifi called Soldier of Light... what caught my eye was who the author was. John De Lancie. John De Lancie played Q in Star Trek. For those of you who aren't Star Trek literate, all you need to know is that Q is the single greatest character in the entire franchise. A being with God like powers (literally) appearing in several of The Next Generation episodes (including the two part series premiere and the two part series finale), plus one episode of Deep Space Nine and a few of Voyager. Brilliant character, one of the greatest in all of science fiction. I Read what the book was about, it sound good so I picked it up.

I also stopped by Wal-Mart to get some food (they're cheap), browsed the DVD section and saw Azumi there. Azumi is one of my all time favorite movies so I picked that up. Under $17.00 Online it's more plus s&h.

Ended the night by hanging out with several friends. Good day today (yesterday).

Well, exactly a week ago today we had to put my dog Dharma to sleep. I didn't really feel like talking about it, hence why I waited so long, but I think it's time I got the whole story out.

About two and a half months ago, my mom noticed that our dog, Dharma (see picture below)...



...wasn't feeling too well. So she tried to take her to the vet. The woman at the office said we couldn't take her in because we hadn't paid off our last vet bill. We've been paying them off monthly for a visit with this same dog, $25 a month. We have been going to see this same vet for years, since before I was born if I'm not mistaken. We have never, EVER once missed a payment with them. But this woman refused my mother with a sick animal to be seen. So my mom was like, "Nevermind!" and she left. Dharma wasn't getting any better. My mom called the vet up. The woman told my mother the same thing, and this time accused my mother of slamming the door when she left the vet. Those are hydraulic doors, they cannot be slammed! It is impossible! When my mom told this woman at the office that, she goes, "Well, you tried to."

My mom tried calling back like three different times because Dharma wasn't getting better. The woman kept giving the same bullshit excuse each time, and brought up the door thing each time. Then on like the third time, my mom said "You have no idea what it's like living on the income we live on." And you want to know what this fucking bitch at the office said? "That's not my problem."

So about two weeks ago, my mom decides to go to the vet and just flat out beg that Dharma be seen, because she's been sick for two months, and seems to be getting worse. She finally allowed it and said my mom could write a post-dated check.

We found out the next day Dharma had kidney failure. And if she didn't get better in like a week, we'd have no choice but to put her down. The vet was unaware of the actions of this bitch who ran the office, my mom made sure he was aware. Hopefully she'll get fired, I don't know... The vet said this could have started out as just a bladder infection. And if it did, and had she been allowed in two and a half months ago, we might not have had to have her put to sleep. There's no way to know for sure now, but there's a chance it could have been prevented it weren't for this fucking bitch who ran the office and I hope dies in a car accident.

She was such a good dog. Great personality, very loving. Impossible not to like. She deserved better than this.

Well, it started yesterday.

A normal day. I watched TV, took a nap because I worked all week.

Got a haircut, went over to my friend Bruce's place, played Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and Soul Calibur III.

So yeah, very normal day.

Then I watched another Takashi Miike movie. I've watched several of his movies since my last LJ post, I just didn't really see the point in talking about them. However, this one I just have to talk about, as it is the single most fucked up movie I have ever seen in my entire life.

Visitor Q.

From beginning to end, "WTF!!!"

It's about this guy who's like a documentary maker, he's been failing though, so he decides to do a new documentary, a very extreme and controversial one. The dude proceeds to videotape himself having sex with his prostitute daughter, this is how the movie opens. Throughout the movie, crazy shit happens.

He invites this stranger who knocked him over the head with a rock (twice) to stay at his house. He also videotapes his own son being bullied, and this same son regularly beats his heroine addicted prostitute mother right in front of his father and this stranger that he invited into his own home.

You'll see milk squirting from nipples in this movie, as well as a necrophilia scene. Despite the way this movie sounds, it's fucking hilarious! I was laughing my ass off throughout almost the entire thing! It's funny!

I'm debating whether I should watch this movie again in the future because it's so fucked up, or forget I ever saw it in the first place because it's so fucked up.

I'll have to ponder on that one.

So, if you're ever in the mood to see the single most fucked up movie ever made, Visitor Q. Remember that.

So I watched this Japanese movie called Versus yesterday. I wanted to watch it as soon as I saw this trailer.



And yes, this movie is every bit as badass as it looks in the trailer, if not more so. From beginning to end this movie had my attention, and I highly recommend this movie to everyone. WATCH IT!!!

Later.

Got quite a bit to talk about here (just movie/TV/game stuff as usual, but lots).

First let's get the shit stuff out of the way first.

I watched a couple Asian movies, both the same night. Both sucked.

The first one was a South Korean movie called A Tale of Two Sisters. I had high hopes for this one because I was told by a few people that it was one of the most disturbing movies they've ever seen. Disturbingly boring maybe. Holy crap, it only had a few creepy moments in it, and even then it wasn't all that creepy. The people who recommended this two me have not seen that many horror movies if they think it's one of the most disturbing movies they've ever seen. I cannot recommend this one.

The next movie I also had high hopes for considering it was a Takashi Miike movie, this guy did Ichi the Killer and Fudoh: The New Generation, to totally kick ass movies. Audition was the name of this one. It was slow, very slow. It didn't heat up until like the last half hour of the movie, by then I was already so bored by the rest of it that I didn't really care. Once again, I cannot recommend this to anybody.

Good, now that the shit stuff is out of the way, I can get to the good stuff.

I finished Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for DS. Amazing game. Absolutely amazing. I've always been a big Castlevania fan, but this one really had an interesting mode of gameplay. A partner mode, one was a warrior and one was a magic user. You had combo attacks, and could switch between them at any given moment, or call them out to help you. The ability to switch characters isn't unheard of in Castlevania, hell, back for NES there was Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. In that you could switch between Trevor Belmont and one of three people. it was improved upon in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow in Julius mode where you could switch between three people at any given time, instead of two like in Dracula's Curse for NES. But that's all you could do, switch between them. In Portrait of Ruin you really work together as a team in that. Not only that, the layout of the Castle was amazing. It wasn't just the castle you went through like in the vast majority of other Castlevania games. The Castle had paintings that you jumped into, and then you played through the area of the paintings (much like Super Mario 64). And then there's the final boss, perhaps the coolest final boss to ever appear in a Castlevania game. It's not two against one, it's two against two. The final boss is both Death and Dracula. Quite an amazing battle. Like most post Symphony of the Night Castlevania games, when you beat it you unlock a character. Well, you unlock two groups of characters when you beat it. One is a duo of Characters from another Castlevania game, and the other characters from this one. The ones from this one, the way they play is awesome! All their attacks are done with the stylus. you simply move around with the direction pad, the stylus is used for all attacks, amazing. A must play for not just a Castlevania fan, but anybody who likes games in general.

Now, onto Borat. Awesome movie. Sacha Baron Cohen is fucking hilarious! As a Jew myself, I would be highly offended by the anti-semitism in it, but Sacha Baron Cohen himself is Jewish, so it's pretty hard to be offended, instead I laughed at the anti-semitism in this movie. Hey, it's like black people and the n-word. Funny if it's from the people who it's directed at, offensive from anybody else. I now must watch Ali G, the show that Borat is from. I'm officially a Borat fan after this movie though. I do have one complaint about this movie though, there's a naked fight scene with Borat and a fat guy, and they did not censor the fat guy's balls, disturbing as hell. I hate censorship, but in this case, mosaicing it out or having a black bar there would have been perfectly fine by me. Still, I recommend this to everybody.

Now onto the season premiere of South Park. Man, South Park's not afraid to go anywhere. I won't spoil much, but it greatly involved the n-word in this episode, and they really pushed the envelope. But hey, nothing is sacred to South Park, so in my opinion it's cool. They make fun of everybody, so they don't single anybody out.

Onto Full Metal Yakuza, another Takashi Miike film. Okay, Miike has redeemed himself. This is his best movie yet (that I've seen, anyway). Basically, a yakuza henchman gets killed, and he's brought back to life by a scientist as a cyborg. OMG! This movie is fucking awesome! I am officially a Takashi Miike fan. I recommend this one to everybody who can handle sex scenes and brutal violence. Awesome, awesome movie.

Well, that's all. Later!

Wow...

Okay, I just finished reading Loop by Koji Suzuki. This is one fucked up book. It's the third book in the Ring trilogy. It wasn't as good as Spiral, the second book (which is also my favorite). It wasn't even as good as Ring, the first book, but the fact remains this is a damn good book and I'm glad I read it.

It blew away everything I had known from the first two books, that's for sure. There's shit in it I would have never seen coming. I doubt Koji Suzuki himself knew that he'd come up with this when he was writing Ring and Spiral. He did come up with it though, and damn.

Loop can best be summed up (as my friend Mai-Mae said) as "The Matrix of the Ring series." I'll be damned, that is a pretty accurate description.

One... fucked up... book.

Yeah, to anybody who hasn't read the Ring trilogy, read it.

Now I need to read Birthday by Koji Suzuki. This book is three short stories. The first story takes place about thirty years before Ring, the second one is a lost chapter of Spiral, and the third a sequel to Loop. It should be interesting.

And, as a wise man once said... "Later!"

So I watched the new Zhang Yimou film today, Curse of the Golden Flower. I didn't know what to expect. I hated Hero, but I loved House of Flying Daggers, so the movie could have gone either way. I loved it.

Beautiful movie, almost as beautiful as House of Flying Daggers. I was hooked from beginning to end. This is a movie that cannot go unwatched. I recommend it to everybody.

House of Flying Daggers is definitely the better movie, but this is still a damn good movie. Sad ending though. Zhang Yimou loves tragic endings it seems.

Well, later.

After all this time... the Naruto fillers have finally ended and it has returned to the official storyline. Instead of just continuing the series, they started a new one. Naruto Shippuuden, taking place two and a half years after the Naruto fillers.

I just finished watching the first three episodes, and damn, I was impressed. If Naruto Shippuuden stays this good, then it will make up for the Naruto fillers without a doubt.

The way it began was fucking amazing! Good right off the bat. For those of you who have stopped watching Naruto because of how horrible the fillers got (I stopped watching back in June), fear not! It has returned, and is better than ever.

Later.

o_O

Well, my birthday was actually yesterday, I was just too drunk to post anything about it.

For my birthday I bought myself Final Fantasy VI Advance, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin and this $5.50 3 DVD set, 9 movies in all. A Bruce Lee/Sonny Chiba collection. Definitely got my money's worth on that one.

I ate over at Chen's Chinese place, great stuff over there, definitely the best food in town. Since it was my birthday I porked out.

I spent the day over at my friend Keith's house. Keith actually has this cabin that's down below his parents' house. There's a sauna built inside the cabin. So we took a sauna, and let me tell you, on a cold winter night, saunas are great. I also got blitzed on some sour apple schnapps and beer.

Came home, watched The Street Fighter with Sonny Chiba blitzed out of my skull, went on the computer and chatted with friends while I was drunk.

Good times. I just relaxed today, I slept in until after 2:00 PM and then went over to the theater at about 4:30 and saw Ghost Rider. Ghost Rider's a pretty good movie, I liked it.

Right now I'm just continuing to chill with my DS by my side, loaded up with Final Fantasy VI Advance and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.

Later yo!

So I just finished reading Spiral by Koji Suzuki, the sequel to Ring. Holy shit, this book is fucking amazing.

I had seen the movie based on Spiral called Rasen (which is Japanese for Spiral). The movie did very poorly in Japan, and now I can finally see why. It's no where near as good as the book. I myself love Rasen and consider it my favorite of the Ringu movies, but had I read the book first I know as a fact I would not feel this way. Japan's answer to Rasen doing so poorly was to create an alternate sequel to the first Ringu movie, Ringu 2. Ringu 2 is not based on any book. I could not understand the logic of making it like that, and now I can. They created a new movie that was based on no book therefore the audience had no book to compare it to. I can finally understand that now (though I still prefer Rasen to Ringu 2).

Spiral is one of the most amazing books I have ever read, and Koji Suzuki is my current favorite author. And that's just from reading only two of his books.

I'll be reading the third book, Loop, next. It's gonna be interesting reading this one, it's the only book in the Ring series to not have a movie based on it, so I hardly know what to expect from this one, I only know from what I've read of the description of the book. I can't wait to read it.

Well, on that note, I go to bed. Good night everybody.

So I rewatched The Grudge 2 yesterday. Just as satisfying as the first time around (though not as creepy since I wasn't in a theater).

The Grudge and The Grudge 2 remain the only good American versions of a Japanese film for two reasons. Takeshi Shimizu, the guy behind the original Ju-On films is directly involved with both movies, and these movies ACTUALLY TAKE PLACE IN JAPAN. Fucking fantastic, fucking creepy, etc. See it if you haven't yet, the plot-twist in this one is amazing.

I also watched Fudoh: The New Generation. It's from Takashi Miike, the same guy who did Ichi the Killer. This movie was even better than Ichi the Killer! I loved it! A true yakuza classic. There's an assassin who's a stripper that can shoot deadly darts out of her vagina! Amazing. There's also a hot lesbian scene. To be fair, one of the women in this scene is a hermaphrodite in this movie, but since the scene is softcore, no genitalia is shown, therefore it's two hot Japanese women pretty much groping eachother, therefore when it comes down to it, a hot lesbian scene. I recommend Fudoh: The New Generation to EVERYBODY!!!

Lost returned last night. For the first time, I was actually able to watch an episode when it was new because I've been catching up since early September with the series straight from the beginning. Definitely a good show, I look forward to next week's episode.

Later kids!

Being the huge Asian cinema fan I am, I rented Suicide Club today.

I heard from several people it was a damn good movie... I thought it was pretty boring myself, and much of the whole movie wasn't even explained.

Basically a whole bunch of people start killing themselves for no apparent reason. And the reason they killed themselves never really was explained in this movie. I can't really recommend this movie to anybody unless they like pointless movies that don't explain everything.

The other night I saw the Bruce Campbell movie Bubba Ho-Tep... I meant to post something about this, but am only just now remembering to.

Very interesting movie. Bruce Campbell is Elvis Presley, and a black guy is JFK (long story). They're at this rest home, and there's this mummy that's going around taking the souls of the residents there. It's up to Elvis and JFK to stop it. This movie definitely had its moments, and this is a movie I can recommend to people.

So to sum things up.

Suicide Club = bad, Bubba Ho-Tep = good.

Okay kids, later!

Okay, so I recently found out that Blood+ was based on an anime movie called Blood: The Last Vampire. So of course I had to check it out, because I fucking love Blood+.

I am so happy I watched Blood+ first, because had I watched Blood: The Last Vampire first, I don't think I ever would have checked out Blood+. Blood: The Last Vampire fucking sucked. Dear God. Saya is ugly too when compared to how she looks in Blood+. What I don't understand is how an anime as fucking awesome as Blood+ could have been spawned from a piece of shit like Blood: The Last Vampire. Different teams I guess.

Well, on a brighter note, tonight's episodes of 24 and Heroes were fucking awesome. Great endings to both of them.

With 24, I was thinking they would never top who they had as a villain for last season... well, they did. Absolutely mind blowing. I'd like to avoid spoilers in my LJ though, so unfortunately that's all I can say. :P

As for Heroes. They revealed who Claire's biological father was today... wow, didn't see that one coming. Once again I can't go into detail as I like to avoid spoilers in my LJ.

Later!

So i just finished watching the final episode of Blood+. My only complaint? Not long enough! And it was 50 episodes long, so that should tell you how good it was.

Absolutely amazing anime, the second best anime I've ever seen next to Death Note. I recommend this anime to everybody, EVERYBODY!!! Seriously, watch it as soon as you can. You will not be disappointed.

My favorite character was probably Haji. It was originally David, because he reminded me a lot of my brother (who just happens to be named David). But in the end, Haji was the coolest character.

So... Blood+ = good. End of story. And on that note, I think I'm gonna go to bed. Good night.

So tonight I watched the finale of Afro Samurai. I guess it was only a five-episode long anime. It was still good though. I'll probably buy the series on DVD. I recommend it to everybody. Episode 2 was the best one though. Later.

Fantastic movie. Violent, brutal, gory and a good movie. I enjoyed it. Kakihara was a great character. Ichi's just fucked up. Not sure why they had to show the opening title in cum though... I mean, I've heard Takashi Miike does some fucked up stuff, but to show the opening title of the movie in cum? What the hell... well, later.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday... what do they have in common for me? I'M OFF ALL THREE OF THOSE DAYS!!! The best part is, on Sunday I don't even work until 2:30 PM so I'm able to stay up as late as I want all three nights. Hell, I got off today at 3:00 PM, so that makes it almost like four days off.

As of now I don't have any real plans. I'm gonna finish watching the rest of Blood+ during the next three days, as well as watch Ichi the Killer.

Later.