Edshugeo The GodMoor

The 2006 agenda continues. The 2nd of 52-ish songs. Inspired by a friend.

Download the demo here.

Continue To Believe (In You) by George Isaacs - copyright 2006

I don't think you realize
just how proud I am
Just how impressed I've been
You've got the drive within
you're so long overdue
and you've long paid your dues
no one here gets an apology

sorry won't cut it
It's not in the budget
they want regrets
but they can forget it
you're doin' it your way
your way is the highway
blazin' on down the only road that gets you home

and that's why
I continue
to believe in you

and
you
should
too

takin' it underground
like you're fighting Manchus
showin' off your skills
as though you're good at kung-fu
The Five Deadly Venoms
couldn't get through your defences
forget the seven sins
your top priority is

You but not for you alone
for your strength will set the tone
and lift the hearts
of all of those around you
even those who put you down
and would see your failure crown
the doubts they've always bowed down to

and that's why
I continue
to believe in you

and
you
should
too

you rock well
and nobody does it better

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The 29MP4 Video Store is offering full length movies specifically for the PlayStation Portable @ $2.99 a pop. Closer to what I'd like to see as far as pricing is concerned for this sort of thing. I still think it's 99 cents too much. Ideally, portable video content would be approximately 50 cents per half hour, maximum. Still two-ninety-nine doesn't seem so bad compared to what's being offered on iTunes, so I decided to give this service a test drive.
The selection is very limited and features movies that aren't very well known. For the moment I see this as a plus. I don't need to spend an hour browsing through the site, especially as it's my first time there and also because my tastes can be a little weird, I'm more likely to be curious about something relatively obscure than I would be about anything starring Jennifer Aniston.

So what did I pick? Immortal. A comicbook adaptation directed by the creator himself, writer-artist Enki Bilal. I'd been somewhat familiar with his work published in Heavy Metal back in the eighties. I found it not very comprehensible, but partially attributed that to the nature of the magazine at the time) of serializing longer works (which I normally came in at the middle). I've glanced at a few recent reviews after viewing the film and apparently that wasn't it.
Oddly enough, I found that after downloading the film, that I couldn't view it on my computer. I still don't know why. I normally convert various video files with 3GP_Converter, and the resulting files play well both on my PC and my PSP. I dragged and dropped the files (the mp4 and the thm) into the proper folder on my PSP and nope... didn't work there either. The site suggests using Sony's Media Manager but I didn't realize it was a pre-requisite. Luckily I happened to have that program. Using it I managed to transfer the file and it played fine. The video looked better than I expected, considering 364 mb for a 102 minute film.

I found the movie to be quite good or at least interesting. A sci-fi film about an Egyption god trying to get some so that he can regain his immortality or something like that, a fashion model type who doesn't remember who she is, a hero (?) fresh out of suspended animation, and some crooked politician/corporate types who panics when one of his legs show up. The movie is partially filmed with live actors while some characters are fully CGI animated. The actors are rarely filmed alongside the cartoon characters, though most of the backgrounds are artificial ala Sky Captain or Cashern. I wonder if this was deliberate or if this was a situation like that French director once played by Benny Hill, who "brilliantly" switched from color to black and white because he ran out of color film? Anyway I liked it, though it would've been much better if it had some kung fu in it.

The verdict for 29MP4? I'll be going back for more, though I'll continue to "find" other content online. Possible future purchases; Don't Tempt Me (I love Penelope Cruz), In The Soup (w/ Steve Buscemi and Debbie Mazar), and Miranda (w/ Christina Ricci).

A lot of companies are afraid to sell content that isn't bogged down by DRM, which is too bad, because that content can almost as easily be had as it can be bought. Another problem is digital content sites that only provide to a certain region. 29MP4 only provides to the U.S., iTunes Japan only sell music to people with Japanese addresses, etc. That shit makes no sense in the modern world. More on this some other time...

January 4th, 2008 - The site is still there as of this writing, but there isn't much content for the PSP. A couple of things labeled as French films from the late 50s and 60s, Elevator To The Gallows and The Battle Of Algiers, but which are either dead link or a mis-labeled 7 minute documentary called The Healing Sport.

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Okay, Family Guy isn't funny, but The Assimilated Negro is. Click on the title above to find out for yourself. And categorize this as "funny because it's true".

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I just don't.


January 4th, 2008 - Okay. Sometimes I do.

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