Current Mood: Chill

Sorry, I’ve been letting my laziness get the best of me. Figured I should make at least one post before I disappear for a month.

God this trip is gonna suck. We are planning to hit up Vegas though so that’s a plus. Gonna try to go see Cirque De Soleil and Penn & Teller. Maybe Cheech & Chong, not positive yet. Other than that I plan to stay holed up in my room the entire time. Biggest problem will be trying convince people I actually like being alone. It’s not JUST a “fuck family” mentality. People in general just aren’t big on my list of things I like. Oh I have a list. Number one on the list…Me being left the fuck alone a good portion of every day. Of course that doesn’t work too well now that we have she who shall not be named’s kids. My weekends are shot, but I’m getting used to the idea…I guess. Anywho, I digress…this trip is gonna suuuuck.

Been watching some TV…shocking! Mostly The Cleaner on A&E. Really decent show starring Benjamin Bratt. About an ex-drug addict who made a deal with God and now is doing “god’s work”. Whatever the hell that means. Well for his character, it means, helping other’s kick whatever addiction they have. No matter what, when, how, or why. I’m enjoying it.

****FMA Spoiler Alert for Allen****
Also, Tre and I finished up Fullmetal Alchemist. Really good fricken’ anime. Ended about as good as it could. Pussed out on some deaths. Mustang should have died. I think it would’ve been fitting. I generally hate overly sappy, nice, perfect endings to shows and whatnot but I would’ve really liked to have seen FMA end that way. With Ed & Al getting their bodies back, retiring from the military and moving back home. Just would have been a nice way to end it after all the shit they went through. And they went through a lot of shit. My 3rd favorite anime behind Cowboy Bebop and Trigun. We’re watching Outlaw Star now. Having a had time getting into it. The English voice acting is atrocious. Way too childish sounding.
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Hmm, what else? Went to my cousins football game last Friday. They won huge, 45-0 or something like that. Drew’s the kicker, punter, Wide Receiver, and Free Safety I believe. He’s pretty good. Their best Wide Receiver easily imo, yet they rarely pass it to him. We’re going to his game Friday the 26th as well. Sally(my Aunt) is gonna take the kids then to give my mom a chance to get everything together for our long, shitty trip. Hope things go okay. They(the kids) get discipline here, but we’re pretty lax. They don’t really have to do much. As long as they’re good, they get to pretty much do whatever…within reason. Sally on the other hand is very strict. I mean, maximum security prison strict. Should be an interesting first couple weeks, what with Tay’s epic stubborn streak. Not too worried with Tre. He’s a pretty good kid.

Hmmm, haven’t been doing much reading since getting Rock Band 2. I’m still a vocal God.

That’s really about it. She who shall not be named already “quit” her job. We think she was fired. The job was too hard for her…that job…stocking shelves…*le sigh*. Of course no visitation this week. Wish this would all just end so the kids(and us) could move on with our lives. Well, I’m out. Hope to have kept mildly entertained with this long, pointless, meandering, unfocused, boring post.

PS: My worst fears realized…The Chiefs are worse than the Raiders…The RAIDERS!

Current Mood: Bored

Nothings really going on in my life right now so I figured to shut some people up about my lack of posting I’d post some ringtones I made. One quick note of annoyance first…

She who shall not be named got a job and works evenings. Because of this, the people in charge of this whole mess wants to take Tre out of school once a week so he can have visitation still. I mean I get it…sorta, but is that really the best solution. He’s already behind other kids his own age thanks to she who shall not be named and her propensity to be too tired/lazy/drugged/fucked up to get him up to go to school last year. And now they wanna take him outta school to go see her!? Even without custody of her kids she continues to fuck shit up for them…though this isn’t really her fault…I’m just saying.

Now onto the ringtones…
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Crossroads
Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch(edited)
Merideth Brooks - Bitch
The Doors - Soul Kitchen
K-Ci & JoJo - How Long
Mai Yamani - Real Folk Blues(Cowboy Bebop)
Cowboy Bebop Theme as sung by Ed #1
Cowboy Bebop Theme as sung by Ed #2
Flight of the Conchords - Business Time
Flight of the Conchords - If You’re Into It
Flight of the Conchords - Leggy Blonde
Flight of the Conchords - Muthauckus

Somewhat of a follow up to me being a Rock Band God, my cuz Allen will be excited to hear Rush’s album Moving Pictures will soon be coming to Rock Band. Me, not so excited. The song YYZ will be frustratingly boring to me and I’m just not a huge Rush fan to begin with. In bad news, my mic has a short in it…noooooooo!

Breathe Jamaal, breathe. Ok, moving on. Been watching a lot of Olympics coverage and Usain Bolt of Jamaica is ridiculously fast. That fucker can fly. Won gold easily in the 100 and 200m and broke the world record in both. He won the 200 by like 5 body lengths. It was crazy to see. I’d be embarrassed to come in 2nd.

I watched the woman’s soccer gold medal match this morning and Marta of Brazil has got to be the best woman’s soccer player by far. She was beating double and triple teams consistently all game. So talented. Of course all that talent goes for naught as the U.S. women won in overtime to defend their gold medal from the 2004 games.

That’s really it as far as standout performances. The “Redeem Team” is looking very good but I’ll hold judgment until it’s all over.

I also was shocked to see WALKING is a fuckin’ Olympic sport. Fuckin’ Walking. They was talking about the “competitors” last night and one of the announcers actually said, and I’m paraphrasing “The Russians look really strong. They’ve been walking very well this year.” Are you fuckin’ kidding me!? Really, they’ve been walking well this year? Ridiculous.

In positive news, Tre’ is a fan of Fullmetal Alchemist(my 3rd favorite anime). Which shocked me as there isn’t a whole lot of action. Though it deals a lot with death and morality issues and trying to explain a lot of the things going on to a 5 year old is damn near impossible.

In vacation news, I’m still not looking forward to it. Though it got a little better as we’ll probably take a day trip to Vegas. Little over a 2 hour drive from where we’re staying. Likely check out a couple shows. I’m thinking Blue Man Group. Not big into gambling. Seems like a huge waste of money and time to me.

One last small note.  R.I.P. to Julius Carry III better known to most as Sho Nuff from the movie The Last Dragon.  One of my favorite/fun movies of all time.  Now bow down and kiss his converse!  Rough week for us black folk.  First Bernie Mac, then Isaac Hayes, now Julius Carry III.

And I’m out!

Current Mood: Indifferent

This post is to get all 3 of you who read my blog up to speed with the goings on in between my drama filled life.

Firstly, and most importantly, I am a Rock Band GOD! We bought the game a little over a month ago and I rock the vocals. I’ve spent about 80 bucks on songs with The Who pack easily being my best purchase. I love singing all those songs. The worst purchase easily being David Bowie’s “Heroes”. As a quadriplegic with very little if any diaphragm control, this song kills me. I literally damn near passed out. I had to lay down in the middle of the song while singing it. I haven’t sang it since. Hate that fricken song.

Only other songs I don’t really enjoy singing is “Epic” by Faith No More and “Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys. Then there’s the songs…well song I can’t sing while anybody(Cody) is in the room cuz he laughs his ass off while I sing it which in effect causes me to laugh thus ruining any chance of a good score. It really is quite comical. Oh the song is Jukebox Hero by Foreigner.

Next up is some celebreality TV. I won’t bore you with details, but right now I’m watching I Love Money and The Two Coreys.

Watched some anime. In particular Captain Herlock(crap), and the first 3 discs of Noir. Herlock was garbage. No redeeming qualities. The jury is still out on Noir. It’s not bad, but the story is taking a loooong time to develop. But it’s interesting enough to keep me…well interested.

In almost anime news, the Avatar wrapped up, and it was sweet! The final fight between Zuko and Azula was fantabulous. Oh I said fantabulous. The music made it even better, epic even. And Azula’s quick descent into madness was great to watch. Very believable. Possibly the greatest character development in an animated series ever. Easily the greatest thing to come out of Nickelodeon.

In related news, I fear for the live action version being directed by M. Night Shyamalamdingdong. Apparently it’s gonna be a trilogy with each movie based on the 3 “books” of Avatar. I hope he(M. Night) can regain his touch from his first few movies. Most would say “what touch?”. Well I personally enjoyed Unbreakable and Signs. Since then, things have gone downhill fast for him.

In semi-related anime news…fuck Keanu Reaves…that is all.

This is already a big post, so I’ll finish it on my next post.

One last note. Thanks to all who sent their prayers, thoughts, and condolences. It really meant a lot. More than you’ll ever know. Again, thank you.

Current Mood: Tired

Today I watched the final 3 episodes of Miss Rap Supreme. I’m glad Reece won, but man do I have a serious attraction to Byata. I can’t explain the attraction, but I find her extremely sexy. So feeling her.

But anyway, I love Reece’s fire, and flow. I could easily see her with Busta Rhymes crew when they’re doing their grimier more street songs. She’s just so raw. Unfortunately I see Byata going the way of Fergie and Gwen Stefani(as Ms. Cherry pointed out). Never liked Fergie, just horrible. And I liked Gwen when she was with No Doubt, but her solo stuff is garbage. I doubt we see Ms Cherry again, and pray we don’t see Chiba’s fake ass. Enough of that.

To continue my lazy day, I watched 2 episodes of Ghost Hunter on Sci-Fi. Unimpressed. I just don’t believe in ghosts and that show did nothing to change things. Boooooring. Moving on…

Next up is more reality schlock with Celebrity Circus. Meh. Didn’t finish it due to the station fucking up. I’m sure I’m not missing much. I can’t believe how incredibly hot Stacey Dash still is. In her 40’s and looks exactly the same as she did in Clueless. Hell, going back even further, she looks the same as she did in Moving w/ Richard Pryor. Unreal.

To finish off my exciting fun-filled day, I finished up disc 2 of Captain Herlock. An anime recommended to me…Unimpressed. I’m gonna finish it up quickly so I can send it back and never think about it again.

Oh, also kicked Drew’s ass in NBA2k8 a couple times and played about 3 hours or so of Lost Odyssey.

And that is my exciting day. Now I’m off so I can play a quick game of NBA2k8 with Tre so he can go to bed.

Current Mood: Tired

Just some random musings on things I’ve watched, read, and plan to watch, read.

I’ll start with Thursday night on NBC. A nice return of the Office we all know and love. Michael’s odd form of crazy, Creed’s awesome one-liner’s…”Then I’ll have 2, only one more to go.” lol. The sweet relationship between PB&J. Just good stuff last night. My favorite line/moment of the night was Michael’s conversation with Oscar. When he called Oscar, “Oscar Meiner Wiener Lover” and referenced his homosexuality as “your condition” I was rollin’. And of course the end with PB&J was great, and love those little moments in the show.

Earl had one of it’s better shows of recent. Funny and touching. Really, really enjoyed this weeks episode.

Scrubs has yet to be watched, but it’s almost guaranteed funny.

Next up is movie time! First up is Transformers. I was a HUGE Transformers freak as a kid. My favorites being Soundwave, Starscream, and of course Optimus. So initially I was excited as hell when I heard there was a live action version coming out…then I saw the character designs and my excitement was gone. I loved it when Megatron would transform into a gun for one of the Decepticons to fire. Anyway, so I decided to boycott then new movie. I was sick of Hollywood raping my childhood with half-assed uninspired remakes of things I loved as kid. Then I suddenly had a munchkin(Tre’) to entertain and had just bought the HD-DVD add on for my 360. So I broke down and bought Transformers in HD-DVD. I figured it’d at least be pretty and you can’t go wrong with giant fuckin robots beating the shit out of each other. So I watched it, and was pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t a Transformers movie as I knew it, but it was a fun action movie. Not gonna lie, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Needed a little more robot on robot action, but what can you do.

Also watched Stardust. Originally a book written by one of my favorite writers Neil Gaiman. I had a longer post concerning this movie but something fucked up and I lost it, so in summation, I will be buying this movie in the near future. Great fantasy movie.

I read The Secret Garden for the first time in like 20 years. Great book…for tweens. Next up in the literature department is The Eternals by the aforementioned Neil Gaiman or Live Wire by Jay MacLarty, the third book in the awesome Simon Leonidovic series.

In more pressing matters, is the sudden relationship between anime and Hollywood. We’ve already got Speed Racer coming. And according to Attack of the Show, Steven Spielberg is doing a live action version of Ghost in the Shell, M. Night Shyamalamadingdong is doing Avatar, and in the biggest head scratcher is Leonardo Dicaprio producing and starring in Akira. Fuck you Hollywood! So little creativity, so many greedy suits. I do however have a small interest in a live action Avatar, though finding someone good enough to fill the title role will be a bitch. He’s so damn likeable in the series.

That is all.

Current Mood: Indifferent

Well, I finished Escaflowne, and I gotta say it was pretty damn good. I wasn’t let down in the end, and the little twist with Allen’s sister was unexpected. I had thought that maybe Hitomi’s grandma was Allen’s sister thus Hitomi’s strong ties to Gaea. The age is all wrong but I also was assuming that maybe time on earth wasn’t the same as time on Gaea, thus Hitomi’s grandma being much older. Anyway, well worth a looksee.

As for “stuff”. I got my 360 back from repair today. So I am now the proud…and skeptical owner of two Xbox360’s. Now we and Tre can play at the same time and I won’t be bored to tears as I watch him play. Also received my new case for my Archos Media Player. It is mucho nice. Very snug fitting. Well made. I got it from NoreveUSA for I think $49. Well worth the cash. Never any need to remove it from the case as all the buttons and connections have spots. I don’t own the DVR but I’d imagine it’d need removed from the case to use it. But the USB cable for the computer works fine, headphone slot is fine, and the optional battery pack all connect just fine while in the case.

Valentine’s day is tomorrow and just like the previous 14years, I haven’t a care. I’ve been thinking of my last Valentine’s where I actually cared and for the life of me, I can’t remember if I did anything for the woman in my life at the time. I know I was in lockup, and I know it was 14 days before my life came crashing down, but that’s all I remember. Said woman is back in my life but in a totally different way. We’re now good friends and talk about once a week. It’s nice to have her back in my life and to know she’s doing well. Even if I am a bit jealous. I’m slowly getting over that aspect, and one day hope to be able to think of her as “just” a very good friend. I’m getting there. Dysfunction is faaaantastic!

Current Mood: Indifferent

Bought some shit. Mostly stuff to further cement my position as nerd extraordinaire. I bought two anime series. Outlaw Star and Vision of Escaflowne. I also have a framed cel from Outlaw Star. Continuing with the anime theme, I also bought a Vash the Stampede zippo. Also finally completed my Full Metal Alchemist series by buying the last 2 dvd’s in the series.

Bought a spiffy case for it from Paul Champagne. He makes custom DVD cases for movies, TV series, anime, and other stuff. For example, he made me a custom case for all my urban drama DVD’s. It holds Menace II Society, Boyz N the Hood, Juice, New Jack City, South Central, & Fresh. I also bought his Terminator, and Kurosawa case’s awhile back. The Kurosawa one holds Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and Hidden Fortress. I’m trying to get him to make one for the Zatoichi films now.

Continuing with my purchases of nerdocity, I also bought 4 graphic novels. Bought Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman: Endless Nights, Death: The High Cost of Living, and Death: The Time of Your Life. The fourth GN is a pre-order of The Killing Joke(hard cover) by Alan Moore.

To round out and finish off my purchases, I got Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman, Vol. 11 - Zatoichi and the
Doomed Man, and Lost: Season 3 on DVD…Allen already hijacked it.

Here’s pics of my Fulmetal Alchemist and Kurosawa cases.

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Current Mood: Indifferent

I usually make a full post on the monthly UFC PPV’s but I’m just too lazy today. Which is unfortunate, because it was a pretty good show, despite the lackluster card. Kendall Grove continues to bring the suck by getting knocked out again in the 1st round. Lambert dominates the first round, only to get floored by one punch, 30 seconds into the second round against Wilson Gouveia. Gonzaga’s a 1 kick wonder and B.J. Penn is SCARY good at 155.

Kansas basketball still kicks ass. Now ranked number 2 behind Memphis who is number 1 for the 1st time in school history. Big HA! at North Carolina and it’s crying ass fans. TO called and he wants his spotlight back.

Unlike the aforementioned Kendall Grove, Escaflowne continues to bring the awesome. 2 more discs to go. Hope it doesn’t lose it’s steam.

I shaved off my ’stache and it is not a pretty site. It’s downright frightening. Never happening again.

That is all.

Current Mood: Happy

My nephew is awesome. He loves him some Vash the Stampede. Tonight we watched the 2nd and part of the 3rd disc, and he loved every bit of it. He was giggling his ass off at Vash’s antics, while I enjoyed the awesome story. We started on the second disc, cuz I had tried to introduce him to Trigun about 6 months ago, with moderate success. Of course he thinks I’m awesome as well cuz he has an Uncle with cool shit. lol

Now I gotta try to get him into Full Metal Alchemist(FMA). Gonna be a hard sale as he’s not much into cutesy shit. FMA is all kinds of serious, and deep, and all that too, but it’s way too cute. I smile during that damn series way more than a 30 year old man should.