Edshugeo The GodMoor

C-SPAN Video Player - Cato Institute Discussion on States and the Right to Bear Arms

A fascinating presentation/discussion related, but not limited, to the current Supreme Court case looking at Chicago's gun ban.

Watched most of it yesterday on C-Span and watched quite a bit of it today as well. Must See TV!

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New video from Maja, from his great album, The Amalgam Project. Would like to see a new record, though.

February 23rd, 2010 - Turns out there is one. Been out for a while and is free at Reverbnation. Registration required. Bleach'd Out is inspired by the popular Anime (and Manga), Bleach. Haven't listened to it, yet (I have downloaded it), but the previews sound nice.

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Japan first, of course, then the U.S. (hopefully this year). Ponyo will be out in a couple of weeks. I'll get it if it's cheap enough, but it's my least favorite Miyazki film (not counting Panda Ko Panda). Totoro No Tonari (My Neighbor Totoro) is probably my favorite movie of all time, but it won't bother me to get some of his other classic films on Blu-Ray before that one. As long as I know they're coming.

Labels: Animation, Anime, Awesome, DVD, HDTV, japanese, movies, youtube and other video

The performance from last week including the full encore (without commercial break).



The album, The House That Dirt Built, is available on eMusic. 6 download credits for 11 tracks (as of this writing). Just got it now as I had to wait till my download allowance refreshed. I don't think this deal existed last week, so I dunno how long it'll last.

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I haven't finished watching it, yet (Done with side A, started side B). Been watching its short segments individually, while occupied with trying to figure out why the computer is so slow, lately, and other stuff.






My favorite scene so far is titled Buck Naked and the Panda (or something like that) which ends with the Hot Springs Girls in a pillow fight. But I can't find that on Youtube.

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had they shot and included this scene in Star Trek (2009).

I can be a little sensitive sometimes.

As per Ain't It Cool News.

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This is the same (well, in name more that personnel, I guess) Geinoh Yamashirogumi that created the soundtrack to Akira which is among my favorite albums of all time (the movie and comics are also among my favorites). I recently managed to find a some of their non-Akira recordings online. While I haven't given much of it a thorough listen just yet, this (partial) track from their first album (from 1976) is a bit of a revelation for me.
It evokes past, present and (their) future by conjuring the spirits of Hazel era Funkadelic (Maggot Brain) as well as the relatively recent Godspeed! You Black Emperor (though I've tended to think of Godspeed! as not too early Pink Floyd minus a some funk). There's very little there that suggests what the group itself would become, but it's brilliant nonetheless and almost makes me wish I smoked "trees" or ate funny mushrooms.

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A French Television performance streaming on the show's website. Man, that dude can whip ass on guitar! And I speak more on the rhythm licks than on lead. Not that he isn't great on lead, just that he has more of a unique voice on rhythm.

Part one: Dance 4 Me (seems to start with the song already in progress)
Part two: No More Candy 4 U
Part three: 1999, Controversy w/ just a touch of All Day, All Nite (These songs are where his playing really shines)


Hopefully a Hi-def capture emerges on usenet. I don't expect Prince to be putting out Blu-Rays anytime soon.

Bonus - Yoko Ono w/ Sean Lennon on piano looking a little like Jim from The Office. Not bad, considering what she's capable of. Though I thought Thin Ice was kinda decent back in the day.

I dunno how long any of these links will last.


Oct. 15th 2009 - forgot to credit Prince.org

There's a 1 gig-ish file on alt.binaries.boneless. Usenet is kinda difficult (for me) to explain, so if one is unfamiliar, maybe bittorrent is best, otherwise read this or Google for more info.

Speaking of usenet, that douche, Andrew Cuomo has been discussed as a potential candidate for NY Governor in 2010, due to Patterson not being Mr. Popularity right now. I've already mentioned why he'll never get my vote. I'll either vote Republican or third party.

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Way of the Mantis - thesis film from joe daniels on Vimeo.

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As seen on : Byron Crawford

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First of all, this is just brilliant...




Secondly, his album, Guns Don't Kill Pepople...Lazers Do is on sale at Amazon (today) for $4 (also available at eMusic).

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A classic by They Might Be Giants interpreted visually on the greatest show on television (at the moment).

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My only complaints? Ray Liotta wasn't cast as Capt Pike, who also wasn't as badass I remember him to be. Everything else? Awesome. Oh, forgot that some of the action scenes were nearly incomprehensible, visually. Normally, I'm not one to complain about quick edits (which I think were the problem here), but damn. Maybe the director intended to make the audience feel like we were being thrown into complete chaos. I dunno. I'll give it another look on Blu-Ray when that comes out.

Saw it at the Imax screen at the Cradle of Aviation Museum here on Long Island. It's not one of the fake ass Imax screens popping up all over the country, but it is curved. Domed. The theatre probably doubles as a planatarium or something. This causes some image distortion and the top corners of that image were faded out. Still, not a bad viewing experience. I'd go there again, but I obviously prefer the Lincoln Square Imax.

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Cool interview about the remastered version of the first Star Trek pilot (pre-Kirk), The Cage, which is airing this weekend. It's probably my favorite episode out of the original series, so it bothered me that it didn't appear on the first season Blu-Ray set just released. Nice to know that it hasn't been left out of the remastering of the original series. I might even be able to download it.



Also of interest in the comments following the article, is the interest showed by some fans who are down for a re-animation of the original Star Trek cartoon from the seventies, which utilized the voices of much of the original cast, and if I remember correctly, had some pretty decent stories. The animation, however, was a bit shitty. Filmation was good for stuff like The Archies, The Groovy Ghoulies, Josie and the Pussycats and all that, but not for Star Trek. I've always thought that new animation (particularly the CGI sort) would be a great idea for the show. I won't watch the old cartoon the way it was.

Labels: Awesome, Capt Pike was a bad MuthaFucka, HDTV, nostalgia, tv

I'd been looking forward to The Spirit since the first trailer hit. There was a lot of grumbling about it being more Frank Miller than Will Eisner, but that didn't bother me at all, despite being somewhat familiar with the source material.

I haven't read The Spirit since some Kitchen Sink black and white reprints like 20 (or so) years ago, including a "jam" issue that included one or two pages drawn by Miller himself.

Since then a number of color reprints have appeared in hardcover, and a newly created series by Darwin Cooke was published by DC. I haven't yet sampled any of those. Not high enough on my to do list.

When the movie came as was universally panned (by critics - most people I know don't care about The Spirit or know who Will Eisner was), I decided to wait for video.

Maybe it was the lowered expectations or my enthusiasm for this new genre which doesn't have a name, yet, but which I'll call the "Kinda Psychedelic Live-Action CGI Cartoon" until a better and shorter name comes along. The only other film in this genre* so far (that I know of) is Speed Racer, which is also not beloved by the masses (Yet). Anyway, I quite enjoyed the movie. The dialog was as ridiculous as people said it was, but it seemed to me that everyone involved was having fun, and the longer I watched the more fun (and crazier) it got. And no, I was not under the influence of any mind-altering substances. Really, with a movie like this you could probably just skip the drugs.

Though not outright successful in the laughs department, The Spirit is Frank Miller's first decent attempt (my opinion) to bring out his inner Harvey Kurtzman, something he seems to be struggling with since his horrid sequel to The Dark Knight Returns a few years ago.

Looking forward to buying the Bluray when it's priced at the 15-20 dollar range.

*I don't think 300, Sin City, Sky Captain or Cashern fit into the same category with The Spirit or Speed Racer except in much broader terms (despite Miller's connection to the first two).

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Non-cipher!

Used to hear 5-percenters say that at the mention of any pork product.

Here's a bunch of things I did not know about the 5 Percent Nation (which is to say, just about everything). Knew some in Middle and High school. Didn't seem all that deep. Then again, we were all kids, and none of us were all that deep.

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Available as D-Addicts Chinese Drama Series Of The Month (torrent) and also through Netflix (DVDs, not streaming).

I rented it through Netflix and found the forty episode series to be among the best in it's genre, so far. Based on Louis Cha's novel, also called Smiling Proud Wanderer and a few other things, it's way more faithful than the movie versions from the nineties ( Sworsdman, Swordsman 2 (U.S. title - Legend Of The Swordsman), and sequel/spin-off, The East Is Red. I base this only on a few chapters of an online (uncompleted) translation. The book, like most of Cha's (AKA Jing Yong) work, is unavailable to the English speaking world save for TV series, and movies like these.

The story's mostly about the hypocrisy of those who would proclaim themselves righteous, and also that friendship (like righteousness) transcends partisanship. It's interesting that the word party is used in the subtitles (on the DVD), where sect, or clan would traditionally be used for groups like Shaolin, Wudang, Hua Mountain, and others portrayed in this series. Gives it what I would imagine to be an unintended relevance to modern political situations, considering this show was produced on the Chinese mainland.

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Today's Amazon MP3 Deal, and not an April Fool's Joke.

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Maybe when I get home later, I'll try to participate.

Maybe not.

Happy Birthday, Capt. Kirk.


As seen on Ain't It Cool News.

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A re-discovered lost proto punk classic from a trio of bruthas from early seventies Detroit? Sounded like a hoax to me at first, but apparently this is legit. To paraphrase something I read somewhere else (in relation to this band), "How could something this cool, remain hidden for so long?"

Some music and part of the story at MySpace.

I haven't bought the album, yet. Waiting for a lower price or eMusic.

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Huzzah, and kudos to Criterion for bringing one of my favorite movies to Hi-Def. Not that I completely understand the film, but it was a trip to watch back when Bravo mostly played foriegn movies with no commercial interruption. Not so much on DVD. The Fox Lorber release was an abomination, even on my old 19" teevee. Still, I managed to sell it on eBay for just over a hundred bucks maybe about a year ago.

Criterion is also releasing the film on DVD. The edition mentioned above is long out of print.

Also mentioned in the Bluray.com story, is the guy playing chess with death movie, The Seventh Seal. Never saw that one, though I think the death character was the same that appeared in Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure. A most awesome movie, I must say.

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As reported on Ain't It Cool News.

Here's the first episode:



Now to find a way to download these....

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I commented somewhere that The Daily Show has probably had a negative effect on news organizations. That's true not because the show is bad or silly, but because they (CNN, all the rest) have learned all the wrong lessons. Let's make the news funnier Vs. Let's get some actual news/info up in this bitch! And then make it funny.

The one sided (unedited) smackdown between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer.

Stewart schools 'em all, but will they learn?
Will. They. Learn?

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Awesome! Gonna be looking for this. Twitch explains.

Meanwhile, some French Hip-Hop from the film's star, MC Jean Gab'1:



More International Eye Candy, highlighted by Twitch over at Ain't It Cool News.

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Don't know how long that'll last. This price drop follows Best Buy who had it on sale for this price. I've already placed my order (and also added Chocolate).







update: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is also on sale for $14.99. I haven't seen it before, but know it through it's reputation. I'm not fond of movies that take place in asylums, I Am A Cyborg, And That's Okay, being a recent example, but I'll try this.

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I think that's how the line went, though I can't remember what song that was from. Run used to talk about DMC's drawing skills in one interview I read back in the day, with DMC admitting he might've taken a shot at drawing comics if he hadn't been a successful rapper.

So when I saw there was a video on Newsarama with the man talking comics, I got my hopes up thinking we may finally see his artwork in a project. Doesn't seem to be the case (though there is some sort of comicbook on the horizon), but it was still fun to watch.

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Imagi Studios, an HK based CGI company that has made a recent version of Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles (didn't see it), and the upcoming Astroboy and Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, has produced a proof of concept teaser for a movie they aren't officially set to produce, yet.



Tetsujin 28go is a classic comicbook created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, later animated and shown on U.S. television as Gigantor. Gigantor was one of the first cartoons (and Anime, though I didn't know Anime at the time) I really got into as a kid, along with Speed Racer.



I hope they get to make this one. Though excited at first, I never got around to watching the last attempt at a Tetsujin 28go (Iron Man #28) movie, and will probably continue to avoid it.



One of my favorite cartoons of all time was a 1990s version of Giant Robo, a concept created by Yokoyama that was very similar to Tetsujin. The series had a very old school feel that was reminiscent of 60s and 70s anime even down to the English dubbing, except maybe towards the end. I tend to watch the last episode with English subs, normally my preference except for old Kung Fu movies and most of this series.
Highly recommended, particularly to fans of Gigantor and Anime fans 35 years and older, though I imagine younger fans will like it too just on the basis of it's quality.

Giant Robo on YouTube (Japanese w/English subs)


AICN and Twitch on the T28 trailer.
Official T28 site

Shameless Amazon affiliate link;



Should be noted that the desired "Manga" English dub from it's initial VHS release (In the US) is on a hidden track not on the menu, but accessed via remote.


A Gigantor related prototype (?) - His nemesis, Black Ox.



I almost missed this one!

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Now this... is an Obama action figure. It's close to a hundred bucks. I'd get one if I didn't have other priorities, though.


I read about it at Kaiju Shakedown. Followed the link but it was dead when I got there. Then found this at Gizmodo (that's where I stole the image from), which led to A Rinkya Blog, where it can apparently be purchased for 8090 Yen. I'm guessing the dolls are sold out, hence the dead link. If they make more, I'll eventually get one. For sure.

Labels: Awesome, fun, funny-ass shit, That's what I'm talkin' about, The President Is A Bad Muthafucka, Toys

Today only (I think), then it goes up to whatever 99 MP3s might normally (?) cost in a single deal.

I dunno much about classical music, but Beethoven is some good shit, so I'm on it like flies.

Would be cool to have a similar set (with a similar price) for Mozart, to tide us over til Amadeus comes out on Blu-Ray in February.

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More here. This is some brilliant shit.

As seen on James Hudnall

December 2nd, 2008 - Looks like Milholland's site is experiencing bandwidth issues (not due to traffic from here, I assure you) at the moment. I happened to save the image of the strip I wanted to link, so it's down here. Click twice to enlarge properly.

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Love this movie. Sure, it's like about 80 or 90% of all Pixar films, which are some variation or another of an epic journey to get home, but it's still great. Had me tearing up from laughter and..., um, that's it. Occasionally, I get something in my eye. It's just a great movie.

I don't know if I've seen a 3D film before. 3D comics, sure. Those viewfinder things from back in the day, yeah. But I don't remember ever sitting through a 3D movie. I was mad impressed. We were instructed to put our plastic grey polarized glasses (no red and blue) for the last two trailers to show before the feature started; Monsters Vs. Aliens, and Up. I was floored by how incredible the 3D effects were. I'd seen both trailers previously, as quicktime videos. I continued to be impressed throughout the movie, though not to the point of having it overshadow the story and characters.

I kept the glasses, but I understand they cannot be used in watching 3D content at home. For those, the traditional differently colored lenses (not always red & blue) are required. Plus, at the moment, there doesn't seem to be a lot of 3D Blu-Ray available right now, and what is, isn't interesting to me right now. Naturally, the process used in the theatre isn't really available for the home, which makes sense, as the whole point of it is to draw audiences to buy movie tickets and I know two movies I'm looking forward to seeing like this.





November 25th, 2008 - I'd forgotten that the trailer for Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs was also in 3D and also impressive.

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A new trailer for a film I've been waiting half a year for. This one appears to be a different film than the one for which a trailer appeared back in June. Similar dialog and ideas, but different footage. I'm guessing that the original trailer was shot specifically as a proof of concept, to get the financial ball rolling on the actual production. Or maybe we're gonna see a bunch of these, different trailers for different versions of the same concept. Either way, I can't wait for this and I hope this actually surfaces as an actual movie.




As seen on Ain't It Cool News

The official Black Dynamite Site

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My sister sent this to me the other day. I think it's hilarious, and a creative get out the vote inspiration. It can be customized for the person you're sending it too.

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Spoiler alert! This scene is from the end of the movie.




The two Princes are Ti Lung and Derek Yee. Yee's a fairly well known director nowadays and has an upcoming drama with Jackie Chan coming up, The Shinjuku Incident. I don't know his stuff, though I have a copy of Protege around here somewhere.

This movie, Shaolin Prince is awesome, though I haven't seen it in almost (more than?) a decade, on a VHS tape called Death Mask Of The Ninja. There are no Ninja in this film, though there is a scene of a guy sneaking around dressed in black. Aside from the sedan fight, the highlights are the antics of the Three Holy Fools. Kinda like the Three Stooges but Buddhist, and Chinese. Also a great fight with a bunch of monks with large brass rings.

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There's a number of things to complain about Cablevision, a local (?) provider of cable, broadband internet, and phone service; High prices, loud ass commercials which make it unsafe to leave the TV running in the background while doing other stuff, high prices, occasional issues trying to access my bill online, the DVR which every now and then forgets to record The Daily Show on Mondays. My brother lived in a building in which many people were using Cablevision for internet, and that severely slowed down his online access, forcing him to switch to Verizon (not a problem in my building).

They do get some stuff right, which should be noted.

Kung Fu HD - which I keep mentioning around here. Cablevision sees their competition coming from satellite and now from phone companies. Many of their HD channels were added with them in mind. Kung Fu HD is a far better channel than I used to fantasize about. Hi-Def, a decent selection of movies (including a lot of Samurai flicks and some vaguely related genres), a whole load of Shaw bros. films, no commercial interuptions (as of this writing) and best of all, no episodes of Kung Fu, the slo mo western series starring David Carradine. I assumed any 24 hour Kung Fu channel wouldn't be able to avoid that shitty ass show. I'm glad to be wrong (as of this writing), but I would've put up with it for the good of the cause. Not all the movies are good (Bruce Li), and they play about 3 films play per day, to be repeated throughout. That's fine. I only have so much time to watch and so much space on my DVR.

Note - Kung Fu HD is long gone. Bastards!

Free Wi-Fi - Long Island was supposed to build an island wide free wi-fi network. I don't know what the status of that project is, but in the meantime, Cablevision has stepped up and waived the $30 (I think that's what it was) monthy fee it used to charge it's customers to log in when outside. Hotspot access is still somewhat spotty, but continues to grow. It's even available in my neighborhood (though not when I'm inside). I have limited use for this currently since my PSP has barely enough internal memory to go online before I get a "not enough memory" error message. Sony won't allow the PSP to use the memory stick for such purposes. Newer versions of the PSP has more internal memory, but I don't know how well they fare online. In any case, this is pretty cool. I have audio issues with my current PSP and instead of upgrading to a newer model, as I was considering, I may get some other gadget altogether...

Usenet Access - Andrew Cuomo, son of one of New York State's favorite Governers, recently convinced a number of internet providers to drop usenet service so he could pretend he was doing something about child pornography. Any action taken that does not end up with child molesters/pornographers in jail is actually no action taken against child pornography. It's just a pretence that will be repeated during Cuomo's inevitable run for the Governorship or some other high office in the near future. Not getting my vote, Andy.
Cablevision has so far continued to provide usenet access, to my surprise. While many usenet users responded to this news, noting that their ISP had sucky usenet service (and their preference to commercial usenet providers), I feel that Cablevision's usenet service is actually pretty good. Not as good as commercial usenet servers (which are unaffected by Cuomo's pretentions), but I happen to think that approximately 90 days retention (based on a couple of recent downloads) is more than adequate. Of course, it may be that they've outsourced usenet access, and are continuing service until a contract runs out, like at the end of the year or something. Until then, I can continue my own illegal activities of downloading movies, television shows, and music. Yay.

All three of these things add value to Cablevision's service, and would make me reluctant to go to the competition. I might be inviting a fare hile by admitting that in public, though.

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The story of Hung Sei Quan (Hung Hei Goon)! The fate of Abbot Chi San! Pai Mei (The White Brow Priest) and his receding balls! The marriage and offspring of Tiger and Crane!





I neglected to mention that 8 diagram Pole Fighter was on last night. There's always re-runs.



This bit wasn't part of the broadcast;

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The schedule

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I didn't know I could embed tunes from Vox. Convenient for songs I can't find on Songza.

Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本龍一) and Latasha Natasha Diggs, from his 1994 album, Sweet Revenge; Interuptions.



10 Interruptions from http://edshugeothegodmoor.vox.com/

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Quoting George Jefferson.

Jack Thompson, 2 Live Crew and Grand Theft Auto nemesis/publicist is disbarred.


'Bout time.

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The Kid With The Golden Arm, in hi-Def, on Cablevision. 8pm EST

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I've been waiting for some of these classics to hit the Kung Fu HD channel, since getting this service on Cablevision. This made sense as James Dolan, who was (is?) owner of Cablevision at the time was apparently involved in the Miramax aquisition of a fraction of the Shaw library a few years ago. Miramax eventually gave way to The Wienstein Company and a number of Shaw Bros. classics have been released on their Dragon Dynasty label. A number of movies on Kung Fu HD (and a few other Voom HD channels) still sport the Miramax logo, which again made me wonder when they'd get to some Chang Cheh goodness.

Now.

Tired of whatever was on CNN (last night), I flipped channels to Kung Fu HD. The info bar said I was watching Seven Samurai, but I clearly wasn't.* I was watching The Water Margin, an early seventies epic directed by Chang Cheh. Odd thing about this was that, it isn't among the Dragon Dynasty releases. Image Entertainment put it out. Hmm. Wonder what's going on here?
The picture quality was quite good, but HD cable isn't as good as Blu-Ray for the most part. I compared the picture to the Image DVD and found the cable version to be a significant enough improvement.

According to the TV listings (which may or may not be accurate),* We'll see more Shaw pics on Thursday, Sept. 4th;

Shaolin Handlock



Shaolin Abbot (dunno if I've seen this one, but Lo Lieh is Pai Mei again and something unfortunate is gonna happen to Fung Sai Yuk/Fong Si Yu).



Kung Fu Vengence



The aforementioned Water Margin (aka Seven Blows Of The Dragon) and hopefully more to come.



I don't know if my DVR can take this (assuming there is more to come). I might have some difficulty in erasing some of this content, especially as none of it has been even announced for Blu-Ray, yet (that I know of)
(I can't seem to link to a specific day, so after a while it'll be just the current 4 day cycle after a few days)

*there's some incompetence at Cablevision that causes either the wrong programing, the wrong info, or both. It doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen often.

Sept. 6th, 2008 - KungFuCinema.com posted the press release yesterday. Sixty movies. Holy shit! Way to go Cablevision.

Films include;

THE WATER MARGIN (1972) - Rated R
U.S. HD Premiere on 9/1 @ 8PM ET

This sprawling affair based on the true legend of how 108 rebel heroes successfully defeated invading Sung armies on their mountain headquarters stars David Chiang, Lily Ho and Ti Lung.

VENGEANCE (1970) - NR
U.S. HD Premiere 9/2 @ 8PM ET

In the first of Cheh’s Blood Brothers movies pairing the deadly duo of David Chiang and Ti Lung, a brother seeks justice against a crime boss who killed his brother. Vengeance was a watershed movie of Hong Kong martial arts cinema that defined Cheh’s cinematic approach for years.

THE BRAVE ARCHER (1977) - Rated R
U.S. HD Premiere 9/5 @ 8PM ET

Following his father’s death, Kuo Ching (Fu Sheng) is raised and trained during the Sung dynasty by a group of kung fu experts. This film, the first in the Brave Archer series, was one of the first to usher in Cheh’s “Venom Mob,” a group of actors/choreographers/weapons experts who would go on to star in many of his films.

GOLDEN SWALLOW (1968) - NR
U.S. HD Premiere on 9/13 @ 8PM ET

Golden Swallow (Pei-pei Cheng) finds her peaceful life shattered when an unrequited suitor starts a killing spree in her name. As she tries to clear her good name, the two men in her life also race towards a final showdown. Hsin-yen Chao and Lo Lieh also star in this swordplay epic, a follow-up to King Hu’s wuxia classic Come Drink with Me, which was originally known as The Girl with the Thunderbolt Kick in the U.S.

THE BOXER FROM SHANTUNG (1972) - Rated R
U.S. HD Premiere on 9/15 @ 8PM ET

After heading to Shanghai for a better life, a boxer quickly gains fame and fortune and falls into a ring of corruption and gang warfare. Ching Lee and David Chiang star in this film, one of the first on which John Woo served as assistant director.

BLOOD BROTHERS (1973) - NR
U.S. HD Premiere 9/17 @ 8PM ET

Blood Brothers tells of one of the most sensational scandals in Chinese history, the assassination of a provincial governor (Ti Lung) by his lieutenant and sworn brother (David Chiang).

THE NEW ONE ARMED SWORDSMAN (1973) - Rated R
U.S. HD Premiere on 9/23 @ 8PM ET

David Chiang and Ti Lung star in this sequel to Cheh’s classic The One Armed Swordsman. Here, the revenge plot which forms the basis of nearly every Cheh film receives particularly vivid treatment, with the crippled Chiang out to avenge the murder of Ti, who has been viciously murdered.

THE ASSASSIN (1967) - Rated R
U.S. HD Premiere on 9/26 @ 8PM ET

Yu is a two-armed swordsman who is betrayed by a jealous rival, but initially seeks a life of simple pleasures until an accidental meeting with another patriot sets him back on the road to bloody, brutal vengeance.

FIVE SHAOLIN MASTERS (1974) - Rated R
U.S. HD Premiere on 9/28 @ 8PM ET

Shaolin renegades fight against their Manchu oppressors and traitorous collaborators. David Chiang, Ti Lung, Meng Fei star.

Other Shaw Brothers films premiering in high-definition during the month of September include SHAOLIN HAND LOCK (9/3), SHAOLIN ABBOT (9/4), THE BRAVE ARCHER 2 (9/6), BRAVE ARCHER 3 (9/7), SHAOLIN MARTIAL ARTS (9/8), THE DUEL (9/9), SHAOLIN MANTIS (9/10), FIVE ELEMENTS NINJAS (9/11), ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS (9/12), CHINATOWN KID (9/14), SHAOLIN TEMPLE (9/16), INVINCIBLE SHAOLIN (9/18), THE KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (9/19), THE HEROIC ONES (9/20), HEROES TWO (9/21), MEN FROM THE MONASTERY (9/22), THE NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (9/23), THE DEADLY DUO (9/24), LIFE GAMBLE (9/25), FOUR RIDERS (9/27), DISCIPLES OF SHAOLIN (9/29) and THE DELIGHTFUL FOREST (9/30).

As with all films airing on KUNG FU HD, these premieres will all be presented uncut, in high-definition, and commercial-free in their original aspect ratios. KUNG FU HD is available in the U.S. Cablevision’s iO digital cable service (channel 776).

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Tokyo Gore Police

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Some dude who wished stand up at his own wake got his request fulfilled. I hope this starts a trend.

Full story at the NY Post.

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Recently finished watching this anime sci-fi adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' Count Of Monte Cristo. It's quite good. I haven't read the novel (though I have it), so I can't say how it stacks up to the original. Couldn't help but notice that with all the technology on display, there was almost no telecommunicating between the characters, which was probably a direct reflection of the original story, written in the 1800's.

The series is 24 episodes long and took me maybe about two weeks to watch (if that long) on my PSP.

Didn't care too much for the opening song, parts of the melody, as sung, sounded a little off to me. Other than that, Gankutsuou was great. Well written, well performed and well animated (lone exception for the CGI).

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Another piece of gold uncovered by The Undercover Black Man.

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Didn't notice the similarities til reading the comments on YouTube.

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I've been watching the fifth season of Alias, and came across this mash-up (but not this video) during a club scene (in episode 13?). I think it's kinda nice.



Never been a huge fan of The Doors (Jim Morrison's overrated), aside from Moon Of Alabama Alabama Song, which is greatness. But Blondie? How could one not love Blondie? Still, I'd a liked to hear more of Riders Of The Storm on that mix and less of Debra Harry's rhyming skillz. Don't think I heard the "killer on the road" line, or did I miss it?



Didn't know this before, but I know it now dept: Alabama Song wasn't written by Jim Morrison, but by Kurt Weill. Well, how about that?

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Tip o' the cap to The Undercover BlackMan

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A history of one of Vega's two "hits" from the artist herself. Cool story.

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This shit is gonna be epic! Too early to tell with under a handful of movies (seen by me), but is Thailand gonna be the next 80's era Hong Kong?




I saw Chocolate the other day and loved it. A story about an autistic girl who has nothing but kung fu, and a mother with a gangster past (along with other issues).

Crunchyroll has the entire movie on their site (in four parts), though a fansubbed DVD can be "found" on usenet, and possibly other online resources. Neither option is legal, though the site appears legit. The DVD is PAL video (European), which won't won't play on many NTSC (U.S. & Japan) players. XBox 360 will, PS3 won't. Funny, that.

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Also features Arsenio Hall and Tommy Davidson as Tasty Freeze and Cream Corn.
I'm assuming this is an indie production.
Can't wait for this.

Busy time for MJW. A role in The Dark Knight, a new Spawn animation, it seems, and also playing a guy named Ali (surely not Mohammad?) in the new Bruce Lee TV series coming out of China. All of which I am looking forward to.

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Very, very impressive. I envy them.
More stuff and info here.

Official page and one for Loose Cannons.

Even more strange and fun stuff via Ain't It Cool and Twitch.

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Yeah. There's a pun that won't be used a billion times today.

Anyway, new NIN album, The Slip, being given away as mp3s, lossless and even high def wav files at 24/96 (larger files via Bittorrent).

EW quotes that
Reznor has been in a ''prolific phase and we didn't want 'business' to get in the way of getting the art in the hands of the fans.''

NIN says;
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.

the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.

for those of you interested in physical products, fear not. we plan to make a version of this release available on CD and vinyl in july. details coming soon.

Go get it, if you haven't already...

It's also licensed under Creative Commons

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Iron Man was great! I'm not good at writing reviews, so I'll leave it at that. It was awesome. Can't wait to buy the DVD or Blu-Ray. Though if I buy the Blu-Ray, I'll have to wait till I have a player to watch it.

Had to wait over an hour in line for my free comics at Midtown Comics (near Times Square). Not exactly local, but that's where I liked to go for comics before I started relying on Amazon.com for just about anything.

Even though purchase wasn't required, it seemed quite a few people shopped in addition to picking up their freebies (a good thing for the store) which is one reason the line was slow in moving. Another reason - a lot of fucking people on the line.

I too, made a few purchases; The Batman/Grendel compilation (didn't know this was out till recently), the latest Black Panther trade (Little Green Men), first volume of Y: The Last Man (trying something new), a 50 cent preview of Grendel: Behold The Devil, a 50 cent (given free) preview of the new Crisis mini-series called DC Universe 0, which I read on the way home (it sucks, of course) and Giant Robot magazine #53. Hadn't read that in a little while.

I won't go into the free titles except to say I got 27 free comics, which was already compiled by a store worker. Should keep me busy for a little while.

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What is this world coming to? I dunno, but I like it. Celebrity porno, even if they were fakes (lookalikes) is a category that deserves to be a genre unto itself, ...or is it already? At least, if it wasn't for the fact that porno producers are generally lazy. And lookalikes rarely look that much like the celeb they impersonate.

The Marilyn Monroe film is reportedly authentic (it better be for 1.5 million), but will be kept out of circulation. The Jimi Hendrix video has at least one doubter, but will be made public.

Yay!

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The Remix:



The original (AKA Worst Rap Battle Ever):



Overdue credit where credit is due dept. - Byron Crawford

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But I do.

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Last week I finished watching Real Kung Fu, a 20 episode TV drama series starring Yuen Biao, Gordon Liu, Leung Kar Yan, Lo Mang, Yuen Wah and Lee Hoi Seng.

The story seemed to revolve around an unambitious middle age man (Yuen Biao, who I assume is playing his age) who gets caught up in a murder mystery. When Leung Kar Yan (who used to be nicknamed "Beardy") appears as an effeminate ex-opera performer (and kung fu expert) with asthma, I figure it's just a nod to a character played by Lam Ching Ying in Prodigal Son. Even knowing that Yuen played the lead in Prodigal Son, I thought nothing more of it, since the lead character here seemed completely different.

It wasn't until an article on Kung Fu Cinema about a newer series called Wing Chun, did I start to make a connection. I was still in the middle of Real Kung Fu (from 2005), when I read that Wing Chun (2007) was a direct sequel to Prodigal Son that re-united Sammo Hung, the film's director with Yuen Biao who played Leung Jan.

Soon I'd figure out that Leung Tsan from the series I was watching was the same, though the story was different.

Leung Chan (spelling varies) was a Wing Chun expert from the 1800's/1900's. He taught the man (Chan Wah-Shun) who taught Yip Man who was Bruce Lee's teacher in Wing Chun, which I guess makes him Lee's Grand teacher. Had I not been a kung fu school drop out, I would have known this and not had to find this out on Wikipedia, but there it is.

Here's the trailer for Prodigal Son:



The opening theme for Real Kung Fu:



and a scene from Wing Chun:



The article says that Wing Chun (a 40 episode series) will be released on DVD in May by Tai Seng for a suggested retail price of sixty bucks, but it's available now from YesAsia for about forty eight bucks. Of course, it can also be found online, *ahem*. I look forward to watching it.

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From The NY Times;

Time Warner is no longer the sole proprietor of Superman.

A federal judge here on Wednesday ruled that the heirs of Jerome Siegel — who 70 years ago sold the rights to the action hero he created with Joseph Shuster to Detective Comics for $130 — were entitled to claim a share of the United States copyright to the character. The ruling left intact Time Warner’s international rights to the character, which it has long owned through its DC Comics unit.

And it reserved for trial questions over how much the company may owe the Siegel heirs for use of the character since 1999, when their ownership is deemed to have been restored. Also to be resolved is whether the heirs are entitled to payments directly from Time Warner’s film unit, Warner Brothers, which took in $200 million at the domestic box office with “Superman Returns” in 2006, or only from the DC unit’s Superman profits.

Still, the ruling threatened to complicate Warner’s plans to make more films featuring Superman, including another sequel and a planned movie based on the DC Comics’ “Justice League of America,” in which he joins Batman, Wonder Woman and other superheroes to battle evildoers.

If the ruling survives a Time Warner legal challenge, it may also open the door to a similar reversion of rights to the estate of Mr. Shuster in 2013. That would give heirs of the two creators control over use of their lucrative character until at least 2033 — and perhaps longer, if Congress once again extends copyright terms — according to Marc Toberoff, a lawyer who represents the Siegels and the Shuster estate.

Wow! That is awesome. Assuming it's not reversed on appeal.

The whole article at the NYT, plus another at Newsarama where I first read this news.

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Saw this at AfroNerd and laughed myself silly. Adult Swim is some sick shit. I don't watch that much of it cuz I don't smoke weed, but every now and then something brilliant happens over there.

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