Edshugeo The GodMoor

The AndyCast became the last podshow to play Merry Christmas And A Funky New Year
in 2005, having played the song on December 28th. Here's a link to the page that has a link to the show's mp3 file. There's a skit on here about Tim Henson and elderly employees at McDonalds. I thought maybe Henson was this guy who used to host Talk Soup on the E! Channel once upon a time, but no, it's some other guy. I just checked and it turns out the guy I was thinking of was John Henson. My bad.

Labels: my music, podcasts, PsychoVoyager

As per one of my New Years Resolutions, I've written the first of fifty-two songs for 2006.

Listen To Reason copyright 2006 by George-Williams Isaacs (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5)

I don't wanna fight you
but you give me no choice
I'm not here to spite you
you can hear it in my voice

Listen to reason
we can work this out
if we come to an understanding
I won't have to slap you

I don't wanna slap you
this has gone too far
you don't wanna slap me
this is tearing us apart

Listen to reason
we can work this out
if we come to an understanding
I won't have to hurt you

how exactly did we get to the point where we have to hurt to express how
we feel by directing aggression towards those who we truly love the most who are the nearest and dearest to our hearts - to our hearts - to our hearts

I don't want to hurt you
Cuz I'd feel it deep inside
nothing to gain if you suffer
or if we give in to pride

Listen to reason
we can work this out
if we come to an understanding
I won't have to fight you

A proper recording won't be made till whenever, but if you must hear what it sorta sounds like here's a link to the demo. Warning; it's very, very rough.

Labels: lyrics, my music, PsychoVoyager, song of the week

Text: The Smiling Proud Wanderer by Jin Yong (AKA Louis Cha) chapter one - I haven't really gotten started on this, yet, but I just realized this is the story that the Swordsman movies were based on. The second one can be found on U.S. DVD as Legend Of The Swordsman or some such nonsense. I don't know if it's a good release or not, I believe it's edited, though. The original HK DVD release of Swordsman 2 has really bad subtitles and pratically ruins what I thought was a great film. I originally saw it on tape with the burned in subtitles from the theatrical print. Swordsman (which I saw on the big screen) is also great and the HK DVD is pretty decent as far as DVDs released a few years ago are concerned. That one starred Sam Hui, who I think retired afterwards. The second finds Jet Li taking on the lead role which explains the US release. Like I said, I haven't really started on this one beyond the first couple of pages.


Comics: MPD Psycho Vol. 1 & 2 - a "scanslation" or fan made translation of Japanese manga. There's a short TV series based on this manga by Takeshi Miike, which I have on disc somewhere, I think. Haven't watched it yet. I have read up to chapter 4 of this comic book about serial killers. Pretty good so far and I'm getting used to navigating the graphics.

Music: NIN: The Downward Spiral deluxe edition - The remastered album plus a collection of B-Sides and demos. I'm liking it.

Video: Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan (Legend Of the Heavenly Sword and the Mysterious Xia AKA Chinese Paladin) episode 4 - Live action Wu-Xia TV series. More of these should be subtitled for the enjoyment of the English speaking world. Tai Seng has started, but they heavily edit their releases. This fan release was found on a Bittorrent site. One of my fears was that subtitles would be hard to read on the PSP, but that has not been the case.

Prince - an eight minute acoustic set from VH1 a couple of years ago.

Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex episodes 15 & 16 - I didn't like the first movie, but this series has been great. GITS: Innocence is pretty good too, as is the comic book which is the source material.

Condor Heroes episode 2 - Live action Wu-Xia TV series from the eighties, based on a work by Jin Yong. There's currently an anime out that I think might be adapted from Tony Wong's comic book adaptaion of The Legendary Couple, the second novel (I think) from the Condor Heroes series. I only have two episodes and they're in Cantonese without subs, but that's fine. The kung fu is good and any Black male my age has likely seen Kung Fu Warlords (Brave Archer) starring Alexander Fu-Sheng back in the 70's or on TV in the 80's, so the story's not hard to figure out. If you've seen Ashes Of Time or Eagles Shooting Heroes (also based on the source material) then you've got good reason to be confused. I've got some of the anime so I'll be watching those pretty soon.

Labels: Anime, comics, dorama, downloads, movies, music, PSP, tv

Found out about this on Newsarama. TCM (Turner Classic Movies) are playing a bunch of films by Hayao Miyazaki every Thursday in January, starting tomorrow. His 65th birthday.

Happy Birthday, Miyazaki-Sensei!!!!

The schedule is as follows;


January 5
8:00 p.m. Spirited Away (2002) – English Dub
10:15 p.m. Princess Mononoke (1997) - English Dub
1:00 a.m. Spirited Away (2002) – Subtitled
3:15 a.m. Princess Mononoke (1997) Subtitled

January 12
8:00 p.m. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) – Dub
10:00 p.m. Castle In The Sky (1986) – Dub
12:15 a.m. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) – Subtitled
2:15 a.m. Castle In The Sky (1986) – Subtitled

January 19
8:00 p.m. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) – Dub
9:30 p.m. Porco Rosso (1992) – Dub
11:15 p.m. Whisper of the Heart (1995) – Dub
1:15 a.m. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Subtitled
2:45 a.m. Porco Rosso (1992) – Subtitled
4:30 a.m. Whisper of the Heart – Subtitled

January 26
8:00 p.m. Only Yesterday (1991) - Dub
10:15 p.m. Pom Poko (1994) - Dub
12:30 a.m. Only Yesterday (1991) – Subtitled
2:45 a.m. Pom Poko (1994) – Subtitled.

I don't have that cable channel. Matter of fact I don't have most cable channels, but I have seen most of the above films save Pom Poko, which I'll eventually get on DVD. Pom Poko, Whisper Of The Heart and Only Yesterday are Ghibli films not directed by Miyazaki, though Whisper contains his input via character designs and whatnot.

My Neighbor Totoro is the greatest movie ever. If you haven't seen it, YOU MUST!!! I recommend the others as well, though I'm not as crazy about Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke as lots of other people are. I thoroughly enjoyed Howl's Moving Castle, though. That one is not being broadcast this month, but should appear on DVD on March 7th along with Totoro and Whisper Of The Heart.

Labels: Anime, Awesome, Heroes, movies, tv

or you can call these my New Years Resolutions. There have been years I chose not to make such resolutions, but this year I've decided to make a bunch. I should be able to keep some of them, no?

In no particular order:

Visit a shooting range, join a 2nd amendment advocacy group such as the NRA or the GOA. I need to do more research. I also plan on getting my first gun (a Browning Buckmark?) either at the end of 2006 or the beginning of 2007, so I'll have to apply for a permit during the second half of the year, I guess.

Join the ACLU. Yes. I'm a bit bothered by the whole spying on Americans thing. I'm one of the few people I know personally, who thinks the war in Iraq is a good thing, but the occasional over-reach of Presidential authority by the monkey in the oval office (and his organ grinders) gets at me. There are legal arguments both pro and con over what the Prez has done, and while I admit I haven't sorted the whole thing out, I do feel motivated to join the one group who isn't going to sit by and just let shit happen.

Clean my refrigerator - eeeewwwww!!!!

Finish the songs I wrote and or recorded in 2005. Had a hard drive crash in September that seemed to be the final straw that killed my creative momentum. Temporarily, of course. This music and it's progress has been logged on my Psychovoyager site.

Write one new song a week. Just lyrics and melody. No elaborate arrangements. Shouldn't be so hard...

Record One cover song a month. Songs written by other musicians that is.

Get my finances in order. *ahem*

Get started on my retro/contemporary Black superheroes comic book concept. My Jewish swordsman epic gets put off till another year.

Getting a new cat. or two.

More exercise. Sure, I look healthy, but I'm forty now. It's not enough that I'm a pedestrian. I need to dust off those weights or something.

Cut down on Altoids consumption. It's an expensive habit.

Finish both pending Black Jesus cartoons by the summer. To be ready as greeting card/DVDs for next Christmas.

Take advantage of my dental plan while I still have one. As an adult, I have never been to a dentist. I shudder to think of the horrors that will be found once I'm examined.

Finish Grand Theft: Auto San Andreas. A few years ago I resolved to finish GTA3, but my brother moved out and took his PS2 with him. He recently got me my own PS2 as well as True Crime: New York City. In the meantime I got San Andreas for the PC. Aside from the PSP, which I mostly use when I'm not home, my gaming agenda is topped by San Andreas, followed by True Crime:NYC, and perhaps when I'm done with those, I'll revisit GTA3. I also have the PC version of Vice City around here somewhere. Never played that one.

Continue to read (when I'm not online) even though I have a PSP that goes everywhere with me (even on the bowl) and plays just about every type of media; comics, movies, games, music and text, which is unfortunately the least glamorous of the bunch*. On the plus side, memory sticks are such that if I were on a really long trip, I'd soon enough run out of movies and music. Games are a good time killer, but could see myself preferring to read some text in the meantime. Provided my batteries weren't dead by that time.
*On the other hand, text is what I spend most of my time on when I'm online. Not porn, not video, music, nor games, though I do spend time on all of those things. Hmmm. And it's unlikely I'll stop reading books or comic book compilations. I do spend less time with newspapers, however.

Organize my CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. That's some shit that's gone way outta hand. This should be on the top of my list.

Learn to play the flute. Got an inexpensive bamboo flute in Chinatown, sometime in mid 2005. Haven't really gotten very far with it, yet.

Resume my study of Japanese. Got sidetracked for two or three years.

That's about it. At some point, I'll make a permanent link to this list on the side of the page, so I can refer to it occasionally.

Labels: broken promises, holidays