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Anime World Order reviews the last decade in anime

Anime World Order (AWO), a great, great anime podcast, is currently reviewing the past decade’s (2000 – 2009) significant anime. As of this writing, they’ve only covered until 2004.

Anime fans will find the podcast a good listen, with occasional comparisons between Western and Japanese takes on anime.  It’s also a good opportunity to see [...]

Avatar movie reviewed by epic Episode 1 review guy

After an epic Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace review, Mike Stoklasa is back with a review of Avatar.  It’s a more manageable 20 minutes now, and given that Avatar has fewer… “inconsistencies” compared to the subject of his previous review, it still manages to exhibit the same humor and level of film-making analysis [...]

70min Star Wars: Episode 1 movie review better than actual 130min movie

Mike Stoklasa’s review is really long @$$, but seems to fly faster than Anakin’s pod-race sequence!  It’s a bit like Film Making 101 meets Yahtzee.  The humor can get disturbing at times, but it is brutally honest with an eye for the structure and purpose of film.

Perhaps Gizmodo’s headline describes it aptly by saying that [...]

Re-Enter the Dragon

Last Week, Discovery Channel (SEA) aired How Bruce Lee Changed the World.

Last Friday, Sole Movement let us know that the Nike Zoom Kobe V Bruce Lee colorway should be available (in BHS?) in around a week’s time (Feb 6).

So, does the following formula hold?

Bruce Lee + Nike Zoom Kobe V =

Nike Zoom [...]

I’m with COCO

Had to do a bit of catching-up as my cable provider hasn’t had the requisite shows for some years now.  I loved both of ‘em long ago when I was still able to watch ‘em, but given what I’ve been seeing/reading, I guess you could say…

『the TV show』 by 椙本晃佑

My pal AnarchyTech brought my attention to 『the TV show』, an awesome indie animated (自主制作アニメーション) music video by SUGIMOTO Kousuke (director) and MANABE Takayuki (music).

[embedded clip is the HD version, the normal version is here]

Check-out Kousuke’s other works at his website.

Want Yoda kicks?

Saw some Star Wars themed Adidas kicks while walking around the mall. There were only 2-3 models on display (Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, and something else that’s… black). Looking through the official catalog showed me this:

Answer to the question above:  WANT!

BTW, the collection’s intro video is a nice mashup of clips from the movie, [...]

Chiptunes, 8bit retro-style music alive in the age of the interwebs

Whenever I try to remember when I started to really pay attention to music, the image (or rather, the sound) that comes-up is always Nirvana.  Of course, the truth is we’ve been bombarded by music since being in utero (pardon  the pun (^^;) ).  Theme songs, commercials, jingles, mandatory music to learn at school, we [...]

June 2009 recap

Busy month, last June was.  A lot of interesting stuff, and not enough time write lengthy spiels about.  Micro-blogging has thankfully allowed me to at least place some of those thoughts on record (which reminds me to look for some means of archiving them properly), but some of them are somewhat significant that I’d like [...]

Voltron: Defender Against Monsterpocalypse!

Think about this…

You are in the far, undisclosed, future.  Far enough that there already exists a “Galactic Alliance” between Earth humans and other humanoid alien races, and sufficient technology for space travel and military hardware designed to withstand the harsh primal elements, travel in space, and equipped with the best tools and weaponry that the [...]