So tonight is the first time I've hosted at my new place here in Hollywood, Florida. All my ol' college friends came over to check the place out and my tech guru Drummage hooked my incompetant ass up! I have my PS3 online, my computer, my server and tv all up and running. This means that I'll have a much better way to get up to speed on this website and make you love it all the better. Dan gave me a full several hour tutorial on how to use Joomla, so I can get youtube videos and stuff up insteada boring simple pictures and there's so much video I wanna put up here.
So this coming week, I'm going to dedicate more time to learn this software, in which I know little about, to better serve this here website. Meanwhile, I'm live blogging the Oscars over on my Facebook page. Can't wait to not have H1N1 anymore and get back to my day job and start my life over from scratch at this place. Check back regularly and I'm so glad you've stuck with this place!
Sorry for the lack of updates everybody. I don't want to give some bullshit excuse but I've been moving since this past Saturday where on the exact day of my move, I caught the flu. 103.1 fever at the end of moving day and caughing up blood. In fact, I only found out yesterday that I didn't just catch the flu, I caught the goddamn H1N1 Swine Flu!!!
So, ATT sucks and screwed everything up and I won't have full working internet until March 3rd but I have temporary access through a kindly neighbor. I still have a lot of stuff to do in the meantime like get all my comics and anime and DVDs and books out of storage. That will be Saturday. The people at work DON'T want me back at work until at least the middle of next week because of my cooties but I'll make it over to the library to have full internet to catch up on this website, which I really do love so much.
So I hope you'll stick with me as I try to get uncootied and finish up moving. I love it here, seriously! And now that I'll be living 4 miles from work and my gym, I'll have a whole lot more time to devote around here to making it better. I'll be in touch. For further updates on my going ons, look at my facebook page as I have no privacy protections on it, so you can all see the deep recess of "My So Called Life."
Se y'all soon!
[update: Still don't have internet at my new place yet, but by the time I get home tomorrow (Thursday), I should have the hook up. Still a little sick still, but no more coughing up blood, so that's good. Sorry about the lack of content but you'll see a big push coming up straight ahead. This means that column I started a few weeks ago will return and there's another type of column I have still brewing. Been catching up on Chu-bra!, Seikon no Qwaser, Bakemonogatari, Sora no Woto, Dance the Vampire Bund, and Durarara! So I have lots to talk about. Hope to start fresh tomorrow and from then on out! Thanks for all your emails about my swine flu, they bring a smile to my face every time. ;)
The Cartoon Art Museum located in San Francisco California is currently showing the exhibition “Drawing the Sword: Samurai in Manga and Anime.” This exhibition showcases the evolution of traditional Japanese art of the 19th century to that of modern 21st century cel style animation. Evolving alongside the art work is the Japanese Samurai, whose image has become rather iconic around the world largely in part due to the worldwide acceptance of Japanese animation and manga. Some of the titles displayed include Afro Samurai, Bleach, Evangelion, Gundam, Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai Champloo. The exhibit is currently running now and scheduled to continue until May 2, 2010. For more on this and other exhibits, check out the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco’s website http://cartoonart.org/
Totoro makes a cameo appearance in the movie trailer for Toy Story 3! It's about time that we see more anime characters in US movies!!
NIS America, best known for their localization of Japanese videogames, has just announced their first anime title for the US, Toradora! (とらドラ!). Good choice! Which just goes to show us that the gap between games and anime is VERY small indeed!
Kadokawa has announced that The Vanishment of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの消失) movie has generated over 200 million yen in it's first week in the theaters in Japan. Along with the running success of the One Piece movie, it seems that we'll be seeing more full length anime movies in the future.
Narumi Kakinouchi (垣野内 成美) and Toshiki Hirano (平野 俊貴) are back with a new Vampire Princess manga series, simply called “Vampire Princess” (吸 血姫). It looks like both Miyu and Yui are back! The first volume or this horror, romance manga was released on February 12, 2010.
Sanrio's Jewelpet (ジュエルペット) is getting it's own anime series. This is definitely a title filled with cuteness, and merchandising.
From February 26th to March 14, 2010, the Cure Maid Cafe in Akihabara will be hosting a Baka to Test to Shōkanjū(バカとテストと召喚獣) cafe event. A special menu and coasters, and other collectibles will be available for fans who enjoy the new anime series about school and SD battle!
Blogger Muza-chan has compiled a list of 33 different hot-spots for Japan bound travellers to highlight through your travels. The ex-wife and I wound up at almost all of these during our honeymoon and I notice one major exclusion and that's the Miyazaki Museum and that truly is a must see. Also found in a different post was about 6 great giant mecha displays around Japan. The beaches are really interesting too, although we only drove past one and didn't stop. Too bad really, maybe we could've seen that giant crab. Also too bad was that although we did see Tokyo Tower, it was from a dozen miles away as we were entering Tokyo from the airport. Trying to navigate the J-Line proved far too difficult and we just gave up after 15 miles of walking and hit Akihabara instead, whereby the ex-wife proceeded to drop hundreds of dollars on really heavy bag bursting art books. Guess who was the mule? FML! At least the ex-wife didn't get eaten by a raptor!
Sometimes people are miscast in life. They may appear to be dentists or clerks, but deep down they are actually fierce swordsmen or goddesses with devastating sex appeal. These true selves can emerge in the world of cosplay, the practice of impersonating characters from anime, manga, Japanese video games, and other realms of fiction. When shooting this series of photographs (published in Fandomania: Characters & Cosplay), Elena Dorfman asked her subjects to momentarily stop role-playing and reveal their real-world vulnerability. "They had to come out of character so that I could see a bit of who they were through their costumes," she said.
To see the whole set of pictures of cosplay nerds in striking poses then CLICK HERE. Risingsun.net it is not but from an outsider's perspective, some of the pics are unique.
Sailormoon: Sailorstars Opening (148)
