Edshugeo The GodMoor

Man! These Cats Are Talented As A Muh-Fug!

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:58:00 +0000

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.

How Does Hillary Clinton Feel About the White Racist Vote?

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:47:00 +0000

Good article by Richard Kim. I'm swiping the ending though. The whole thing can be read here.

I only read the first bunch out of 200+ comments. It's like those people have no idea what they're responding to.

Are white working-class voters really racist? How many and where? If a significant number of them are, should Democrats really court them on the terms of their racism? These are questions worth asking since, apparently, a lot of Democrats think they're valid. But as long as the Clinton campaign continues to code the fact that it is counting on a base of white racist support, we'll never have this conversation. And as long as the mainstream media indulges the euphemism of "electability"--one that makes white racism seem like a personal deficiency of Barack Obama's--we'll be stuck mucking around in diffuse fears and anxieties that nobody, least of all Hillary Clinton, wants to name.

So here's my final suggestion: as long as Barack Obama is called upon to explain, denounce and reject black racism, let's have it both ways. Let's have George Stephanopoulos ask Hillary Clinton how she feels about the white racist vote?

Hat tip: SubRealism

May 14th, 2008 - plus an SNL clip as found on Assault On Black Folk's Sanity;

Tokyo Gore Police

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:38:00 +0000

Warning - It's fucking disgusting! Can't wait to see it.

Hat tip: Kaiju Shakedown

Nine Inch Nails Gives Us The Slip - For Free

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:37:00 +0000

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

Iron Man, Comics Free and Otherwise

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:21:00 +0000

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.

Free Comic Book Day, Iron Man, and a Dead 360

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:05:00 +0000

Around this time for the past few years, participating comic book shops have given away free promotional comics to capitalize on the potential for new customers generated by big budget superhero films like Spiderman, and now Iron Man.

I always, always, always miss it, and I'm always, always, always pissed when I get home that Saturday and find out it was Free Comic Book Day. Except for one or two times when I knew about it, and just had other concerns or things to do.

Well not this time. Grand Theft Auto IV killed my XBox 360, or maybe it was a co-inky-dink that the inevitable (for about 33% of 360 owners) Red Rings Of Death just happened to follow an increasing number of freeze ups I experienced while playing that game. I then put in San Andreas which froze up, and upon re-starting the machine, gazed in horror, upon the three flashing red lights.

It's going back to Microsoft after talking to what sounded like a thirteen year old boy over at support. Now that I think about it, I better make damn sure it's actually going to Microsoft and not some teen-aged hacker who's somehow manage to redirect XBox calls to his house. If he had an Indian accent, I'd be less suspicious. I dunno what their child labor laws are like over there.

Anyway, the point was, I've nothing better to do* so I might as well get some free comics and maybe check out Iron Man, which I was looking forward to seeing for a while now.

*Okay, "nothing better to do", doesn't include a number of things I ought to be doing, but it's gonna be interesting to see how much more productive I become in the next 3 or 4 weeks without the 360. I still have a PS2 and a bunch of unfinished/unplayed games, but I know I won't spend as much time on them. Then again....

Free Comic Book Day

Another casualty of GTA IV/RROD

Marilyn Monroe? Jimi Hendrix? Attack Of The Retro Sex Tapes!

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:39:00 +0000

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!

Deed It

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:28:00 +0000

The Remix:

The original (AKA Worst Rap Battle Ever):

Overdue credit where credit is due dept. - Byron Crawford

Grand Theft Auto IV and Gub'Mnt Cheese - Soon!

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:40:00 +0000

Less than 26 hours from now. I'm torn between picking up GTA IV at midnight tomorrow (@ the local GameStop) or getting it on the way to work on Tuesday morning. I'm currently leaning towards midnight. I was hoping to finish San Andreas before this game was released, but that ain't gonna happen.

I've barely touched Call Of Duty 4, or Blazing Angels 2, though I have played a li'l bit of Rock Band (w/drums). I was mostly trying to get through GTA: San Andreas (XBox version) on the 360. Got farther than I did on the PC version, in which I got stuck at the mission where I had to intercept a jet with a propeller powered plane, and kill the hit men inside. The XBox version was much easier and I caught up with the plane on all attempts. I just kept forgetting how to activate the landing gear at the end. I'm now up to the point where everything is setup for the casino heist, but I didn't do any of those James Woods airstrip missions, so I gotta do those before the story can move along.

Taxpayers are expecting some gub'mnt cheese within the next coupl'a weeks or so, and for a little while, I actually thought I might blow mine on a PS3. I'm having second thoughts, though. I don't really need it. Would be nice to have for the Blu-Ray, now that it's safe to buy movies, but there aren't any PS3 games I have to have at this point (and I have plenty on the 360 to keep me busy for a while). Their Second Life knock off, Home looks intriguing, but is just another one of Sony's promises right now. I might buy it (just because), but it looks like I won't. Maybe there'll be a price drop soon.

Prince On Jay Leno Tonight

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:43:00 +0000

If you have good taste in music, set your DVRs, VCRs or whatever. If not, please disregard this message.

Source: Housequake

Addendum -
The performance, courtesy of Hulu (hat tip: Undercover BlackMan):

Some People Don't Think This Is Funny...

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:02:00 +0000

But I do.

Killshot? Where? When?

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:43:00 +0000

I wanna see this movie! Like yesterday. Caught the trailer at the beginning of the DVD for Lucky # Slevin (great movie), and assumed it was made for cable cuz I'd never heard of it.

Also assumed it would already be on DVD considering Slevin isn't new (picked up the DVD cheap at the supermarket a coupl'a months ago). It hasn't been released, neither theatrically (for which it was filmed), nor to video and the flick is like two or three years old. Could it be just be bad? Maybe, but that hasn't stopped 90% of the shit that does get released.

It's been through some audience testing, which means it has been dumbed down at some point and that isn't good, but that can be remedied on a "director's cut".

I'm starting to look underground, but so far, nothing.

Killshot features Micky Rourke, Diane Lane, and this guy, Thomas Jane, who looks and sounds enough like Christopher Lambert, that I almost wonder if he really is The Highlander, and that he changed his name to continue working in Hollywood. Hmmm.

Warriors Two

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:02:00 +0000

Another Leung Tsang* related movie not mentioned in yesterday's post, probably cuz I've never seen it, believe it or not. I'm aiming to fix that. I think Leung Kar Yan is playing Leung Tsang this time. Here's the trailer...

*Spelling varies.

Yuen Biao As Leung Tsan

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:39:00 +0000

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.

Wushu

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:57:00 +0000

Here's a new film premiering in July in China. Starring Sammo Hung and introducing some impressive young talent.

And more about it at Kung Fu Cinema...

Ha Ha!!! Sony Busted Using Warez

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:05:00 +0000

From ars technica:

Sony BMG is no stranger to piracy. As one of the most vocal supporters of the RIAA and IFPI antipiracy efforts, the company has some experience hunting down and punishing consumers who don't pay for its products. The company is getting some experience on the other side of the table, however, now that it's being sued for software piracy.

PointDev, a French software company that makes Windows administration tools, received a call from a Sony BMG IT employee for support. After Sony BMG supplied a pirated license code for Ideal Migration, one of PointDev's products, the software maker was able to mandate a seizure of Sony BMG's assets. The subsequent raid revealed that software was illegally installed on four of Sony BMG's servers. The Business Software Alliance, however, believes that up to 47 percent of the software installed on Sony BMG's computers could be pirated.

These are some pretty serious—not to mention ironic—allegations against a company that's gone so far as to install malware on consumers' computers in the name of preventing piracy.

Read the rest of it.

Superman Returns To Poppa - Maybe...

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:02:00 +0000

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.

Sharpton, NAACP Allied With Evil

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:17:00 +0000

This is fucked up.

These details are swiped from Electronic Village;

Villagers remember the horrific story of ten youths that forced their way into a Black woman's home in Dunbar Village housing complex down in Florida. For several hours,they not only gang-raped her repeatedly and viciously beat her young son, but they forced her to have sex with her own child. The teenage boys then placed the two of them in a bathtub and poured nail polish remover in her son's eyes, blinding him for a period of time. They attempted to set them on fire, but couldn't find a match. So instead, they violated them with ammonia and threatened to kill her family if she told anyone.

Only four of the suspects have been apprehended, there are six others on the loose. There is conclusive DNA evidence on at least one of the boys. There is no manhunt for the rest of the criminals, they are running around loose as you read this.

Fast forward to today. It seems that the NAACP and Al Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) both refused to help this woman because it was 'outside the scope of their mission' ... however, both groups found time to send lawyers down to Florida IN SUPPORT OF THE RAPISTS. The lawyers are claiming that it is 'unfair' to not offer bail to these four rapists.

Barack Obama spoke on the rage that exists in Black America when it comes to race relations. That rage burns especially strong when sexual crimes are committed against Black women and children ... even if the criminals involved are Black!

I encourage all like-minded villagers to join in collective action against the NAACP and Al Sharpton's NAN as a result of their misguided criminal advocacy in the Dunbar Village case. Perhaps it is time for right-thinking villagers to stop fueling the NAACP and NAN with our money and our volunteer activism until they stop trying to hinder the successful prosecution of this heinous crime down in Dunbar Village.

Perhaps it is time to ensure that the safety of Black women and children are non-negotiable. Here are some specific steps you can take:

Share this post with others so they might have their conscience and concern raised as yours as been today.
Demand an explanation from your local NAACP and NAN chapter about the Dunbar Village case.
Cancel your membership to these organizations
Write a letter explaining that you will return when they prioritize the public safety needs of Black women and children.
Stop donating your time or money to these organizations; instead invest in other organizations that take the lives of Black women and children seriously.

Even if you do not belong to these organizations, call or write them to express your displeasure:

NAACP National Headquarters
4805 Mt. Hope Drive
Baltimore MD 21215
(410) 580-5777

National Action Network
Rev. Al Sharpton
106 W. 145th Street
Harlem, New York 10039
(212) 690-3070

You can obtain more information about the direct action against NAACP and NAN from the Dunbar Village blog (BBR #494).

Network Solutions = Douchebags????

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:17:00 +0000

Geert Wilders has had his website, which promotes his anti-Islam film, Fitna, shut down by it's host, Network Solutions. While I don't agree with some of Mr. Wilders views*, I don't like what's going on here. Of course, he can move to a different host, though they aren't the only providers with clauses about "hate speech".

What I like even less is this story (from January) that Network Solutions is registering domain names entered into their search site, to force interested parties into purchasing said domains from them instead of from a (less expensive) competitor.

However, when trying this myself with a couple of bullshit names (soundofnmnmnm, jesusisgoogly), both remained available after leaving and returning to the site. Either they've changed their tune, or have become good at filtering out bullshit names. The latter is unlikely since so many domain names sound silly to begin with (including my own).

Jesusisgoogly might have a couple of decent uses, but I'm gonna pass. As of this writing, though, it's up for grabs.

* www.fitnathemovie.info is still online and was linked above. It appears to be a mirror to www.fitnathemovie.com, though I never saw the offending site, so I guess I can't really say. Supposedly, the fifteen minute film will be viewable there.

HD VMD Not Dead Yet?

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:30:00 +0000

I was rooting for those guys back when there was a format war, but now it's a little bit late for them. They're sounding somewhat optimistic. Perhaps they've simply come too far to turn back. I dunno. I don't care.

I'm waiting for either the price of full profile (2.0) Blu-Ray players to come down significantly, or a compelling reason to buy a PS3 (I already have an XBox 360).

In the meantime, I get my HD fix from the occasionally pixelated fare on Cablevision's Voom HD network, and also from downloading WMVHD encodes of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD releases. These look fantastic, and I've noticed no pixelation at all, watching Mr. And Mrs. Smith and almost no artifacts during Appleseed Ex-Machina. This quells my fear that the pixelation which occurred during fast motion scenes on the HD cable channels were due to a limitation of my moderately priced 37" screen. I now know that isn't the case, based on those downloads and from renting Ratatouille on XBox Live marketplace.

The WMVHD downloads are obtained from usenet (alt.binaries.movies.wmv, alt.binaries.HDTV), saved on a USB hard-drive formatted as HFS+ using Macdrive 7 (I'm not a Mac user), 'cause the 360 doesn't recognize NTFS despite it coming from the same company (Microsoft), and FAT 32 has a 4GB file size limitation (most of what I've downloaded is 8+GBs). The 360 is compatible with HFS+ which is an Apple file system. Hmm.

The only problem I'm having so far, is I can't copy files of folders to this drive if they have Chinese characters in the names, which is the case for some in my music collection.
03/16/08 - easily rectified by right clicking on the drive, selecting "Mac File Names" and "International".

#9

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:30:00 +0000

D-Addicts: Return Of The Condor Heroes 2006

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:07:00 +0000

D-Addicts Chinese Series Of The Month for March is the excellent 2006 version of Louis Cha's (Jin Yong) Return Of The Condor Heroes. It's available on DVD in the U.S. as Condor Hero.

I eagerly await the long delayed update of Legend Of The Condor Heroes, which may show up this year.

The Unofficial Wuxia Series Of March are two shows: Young Zhang San Feng and Young Warriors Of The Yang Clan.

Young Zhang San Feng is also known as Taiji Prodigy. This looks promising. Plus, it's Dicky Cheung.

I may skip Young Yang Warriors. I just finished Warriors Of The Yang Clan, and while I thought there was a good story or two there, I was generally annoyed by how badly those stories were told. It was still enjoyable enough to watch and the cast, led by Ti Lung as General Yang Ye were pretty good, as were most of the fight scenes.

The movie Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (starring Gordon Liu and Alexander Fu Sheng) is based on the same legendary family, but was centered around a different son, than that series.

Nah. Actually, I'm gonna check out Young Warriors, too.

Behold Balactus!

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:57:00 +0000

Minoriteam

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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.

New Nine Inch Nails Album: Ghosts I-IV

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:27:00 +0000

Ghosts I-IV at NIN.com

Haven't heard it yet. Just downloaded the FLAC version. I initially opted for the CD priced at ten bucks, but the deal killer was the seven dollar shipping and handling fee. I went for the five dollar download instead (which include DRM free mp3s as an option).

Open Message To Hillary Clinton

noreply@blogger.com (Edshugeo The GodMoor) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:08:00 +0000

Just Be A Woman.

Not to be confused with "Iron my shirt" or anything like that. But if you can't show your human side, you might as well be content to do your thing behind the scenes.

Kinda like Dick Cheney.